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Happy holidays to all. It really is the time of year to thankful for your blessings. In my case, I celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving. I'm sure there are lots of ingredients to a good marriage, but we don't hold grudges. Our fights are legendary, but when it's over, it's over. I have a great wife who is my best friend. On another note, I've recently had a spiritual healing of asthma where I've been on an inhaler 3 times a day for about 25 years. Folks, I haven't used an inhaler now in about 35 days. It's a gift from God. which is an incredible story on its own merit. Perhaps one of these days I'll figure out a way to really incorporate it into our market work.
There's one more thing. Some of you might have heard about the rocket attack in a little suburb of Tel-Aviv called Rishon last Tuesday. One rocket hit one apartment building. It's not like a whole area got smashed, as I understand the iron dome did a great job. I saw it on the news and said, "Nah, it couldn't be." What are the chances when about 20 buildings look exactly the same? It was my father's building. That's right. My father's building got shelled by a Hamas rocket. He wasn't home at the time and his unit is okay but now the government of Israel is paying for him to live in a hotel for the time being. Another gift from God? You can look at it that way. So there's lots to be thankful for this year.
So if I can experience a miracle, so can the government. If you watch the media, they are still trying to scare folks into what they think is going to happen if the fiscal cliff isn't resolved. I don't have a crystal ball, but I do think they'll get a deal. Not only that, but I think they get it soon. The market thinks they are going to get it because it's been up since the love fest a week ago Friday. The seasonal factor kicked in early and we do have one calculation that is working in favor of this new move. Here's the chart of the week.
Here we have a range in the NASDAQ at 386 in roughly 38 trading days. That's precisely the kind of thing we are looking for. If EVERY chart had this kind of symmetry I'd call a bottom if the VIX were a little more respectable. But to get one chart lining up its good enough to kick off the holiday season. So if you are looking for something to be grateful for this would be it. I'm not sure how much of this is short covering due to the holiday volume last week but high frequency people are buying this up but you can't count on them to stay with it. Aside from that, the big news is the truce in Israel. So while we are on the subject of miracles let's talk about Egypt. Who brokered the peace? It was the new leader of Egypt who did so despite opposition from his own people. He was hailed as a good guy (I'm not sure this guy will ever qualify as a hero). Which leads us into the geopolitical arena.
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Grand Island Central School District received two member grants from State Sen. Mark Grisanti. They are supplemental grants approved by the New York State Legislature for special programs available through each legislator.
The grants total $150,000: $75,000 received in 2011 and $75,000 in 2012. The funds from these grants will be used for the purchase of equipment for high school students in the planned technology wing. This sophisticated equipment is necessary to complete the course work for the high school's award-winning Project Lead The Way pre-engineering program.
"The district is proud to offer our students the opportunity to participate in Project Lead The Way. This pre-engineering program has proved to be highly successful and we are thankful for Senator Grisanti's support of our program and our students," stated Grand Island School Superintendent Robert Christmann.

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In their first significant policy action of the 2013 Kansas Legislative Session, 68 members of the House of Representatives voted to trample on the right of teachers and other public employees to collectively and freely advocate for schools, social services, and public safety.
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In their first significant policy action of the 2013 Kansas Legislative Session, 68 members of the House of Representatives voted to trample on the right of teachers and other public employees to collectively and freely advocate for schools, social services, and public safety.
House Bill 2023 prohibits public employees from using any dollars collected for any purpose through payroll deduction to be used for "political activities." The bill defines political activities so broadly that not only could the money not be used for electioneering communications to the public, it could not be used even to communicate with members internally.
Some legislators and organizations – notably the state's largest spending political organization, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce – seek to silence all opposition to their message in the political arena. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce intends for this bill to silence public sector workers – they said as much in the Committee hearing. when their lobbyist Eric Stafford responded to a question by saying, "I need you to pass this bill so we can get rid of public sector unions."
Said KNEA President Karen Godfrey, "I have been an active teacher for over 30 years and I have never seen such a deluge of offensive anti-teacher legislation as has been produced in the first 12 days of this session. Kansans are ashamed to be represented in such a vindictive manner. The heartfelt thanks of thousands of dedicated public employees go out to the 56 Democrats and Republicans who stood up for them today."
Prior to yesterday's preliminary vote, House Republican leadership called for extra security, warned Republican legislators to not wear their name tags, and urged the women to take back stairways or seek a male escort through the capitol. Their fear was a massive turnout of angry school teachers who happen to believe they are entitled to free speech rights.
When asked where the "union thugs" from KNEA were, KNEA lobbyist Mark Desetti responded, "Our members put their students first. That's why they are back in their classrooms caring for and teaching our children and grandchildren. They don't have time to be up here in the middle of the week defending their constitutional rights."
In fact, that's where these anti-teacher legislators can always find our teachers – standing in front of their students. We have come to expect them even to put themselves between a gunman and the children but just let them try to express a political opinion and the Kansas legislature will shut them down.


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Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature (formerly Literary Studies) is an interdepartmental program that crosses national borders, transcends disciplines, and bridges linguistic divides. Offering both a major and a minor in Comparative Literature, the Program encourages students to pursue a wide variety of interests while gaining rigorous training in reading, writing, speaking, and thinking critically in multiple languages and literary traditions.
The program draws together faculty and students from different fields and diverse backgrounds, placing Comparative Literature at the intersection of literature, art and music, the natural sciences, psychoanalysis, film studies, gender studies, post-colonial studies, translation studies, and much more. Comparative Literature students explore theoretical, formal, and interpretive issues on literary and cultural traditions throughout the world from a broad range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives.
Initiatives of the program include study-abroad options, global outreach opportunities, and NYC-based service learning and internship opportunities. In addition to sponsoring lectures and film series, each year the program hosts a May Colloquium – a roundtable discussion with invited speakers from inside and outside Fordham – and publishes the student journal Bricolage. The program annually awards the Katie Fraser Prize for Excellence in Comparative Literature for majors, and the Literary Studies Prize for Work in Comparative Literature for minors.
Print copies of the most recent issue of Bricolage are now available in FMH 405 at RH and LL 924 at LC.
If you cannot get a copy at these sites, email email@example.com.


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Lisa runs the company left to her by her father and is all business. She needs to raise cash, and corporate raider Constantine, "Tino", seems interested in buying one of the company's subsidiaries. But Constantine throws Lisa off-balance when he shows up for their meeting dressed casually, cuts the meeting short and then shows up at her apartment to have dinner. Lisa finds herself attracted to Constantine. Unknown by her, Constantine feels thrown b...


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Meet the new Ariel Atom 3.5
When Jeremy first tested the Ariel Atom way back in series 5, it set a painful watershed: never before in the history of TopGear had a car literally tried to rip his face off.
Now, Ariel has introduced a new Atom. It's called the Ariel Atom 3.5. And it is faster. And more face-rippy.
The standard 2.0-litre Honda iVTEC K20Z4 engine still puts out 245bhp in standard, normally aspirated trim, but the supercharged version now kicks out 310bhp - up 10bhp on the old 'charged Atom - thanks to changes to the intake, engine mapping and fuel system. There's more mid-range power too, claims Ariel.
The supercharged, 310bhp version will accelerate from 0-100kph in 2.7 seconds, 0-160kph in just 6.7 seconds, and top out at 250kph. Still cheek-warpingly quick, then.
More good news for face masochists! Ariel has stiffened up the standard Atom's chassis using modifications derived from the bonkers V8 and Mugen Limited Editions. Torsional rigidity is up, with revised engine mountings and new dampers to give "improved balance and traction on track", as well as making it more liveable on the road. These things are all relative.
There's a new set of headlights and LED indicator signals, as well as LED lights at the back, together with a new bonnet, while inside, there's a new LCD display with speed, RPM and a gear indicator with shift lights. Opt for the data logger and you'll be presented with such critical information as lap times and G force. Still no interior as much, though, and as we've said before, if you're generating enough G to log a Big Number you might not want to look at the dash...
Ariel also reckons this is the most customisable Atom ever. "We have become the Saville Row of the automotive world," says Simon Saunders. Not to mention, with the Atom's penchant for impromptu plastic surgery, the Harley Street of the automotive world.
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Robin van Persie facing up to six weeks out
Manchester United's positive week took a turn for the worse on Friday afternoon as striker Robin van Persie was ruled out for "around four to six weeks" with a sprained knee.
The Barclays Premier League champions announced the bad news on their official Twitter page, with the Holland international cut down just two days after firing the club into the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Van Persie's hat-trick against Olympiacos had been viewed as a possible turning point in United's poor season, but he was later carried off on a stretcher with Friday's news meaning he may not play again until May.
He is almost certain to miss the Champions League last-eight tie with Bayern Munich, which he single-handedly set up.
A tweet from United read: "Following further investigation, Robin van Persie has a sprained knee, which will keep him out for around four to six weeks."
Manager David Moyes had earlier suggested that there could be bad news regarding the former Arsenal man.
"We're getting Robin re-scanned again today," the Scot had said.
"We're just not quite conclusive on everything we've seen yet. We want to just check that out and be sure. He won't be available for (Saturday's) game (against West Ham). But we'll try to give you some update when we can on the outcome of it.
"We've got a lot of games coming up and we need all our players fit and available."
As well as the West Ham and Munich games, Van Persie, who has scored 17 goals this season, will sit out the derby against Manchester City on Tuesday.
It is the sort of news that will disappoint Moyes, who on Friday spoke of his shame at the some of the results he has overseen this season.
Moyes enjoyed what he admitted was his best 90 minutes as United manager on Wednesday when his team beat Olympiacos.
His reward - if it can be termed as such - is a last-eight clash against holders Bayern Munich.
Before he starts plotting how to beat Pep Guardiola's team of superstars, Moyes must concentrate on a crucial four days ahead.
United visit West Ham before taking on Manchester City at Old Trafford on Tuesday. If United drop a point in either game, they will be guaranteed to end the season with their worst points total in Premier League history.
However, at least Moyes can go into the double-header with his head held high after Wednesday's win.
''I think the big thing for me was that I could look at the supporters in the face after the game on Wednesday night because I thought we had given them something to shout about,'' Moyes said.
''We had nothing to be ashamed of with our performance. In some other games I have felt ashamed because the team haven't played well enough and I've not got a team out which has got a good result.''
The booming atmosphere inside Old Trafford on Wednesday was reminiscent of the many glorious nights enjoyed by Moyes' predecessor during his 26-year reign.
But one thing which Sir Alex Ferguson achieved which has so far eluded Moyes has been consistency.
Time after time Moyes has seen his team achieve encouraging results but then flop.
United went into the new year on the back of six consecutive wins, but they followed that up with three straight defeats.
It was a similar story in November when Moyes' men won three on the bounce before going three weeks without a league win.
So Moyes was cautious when given the opportunity to describe the win over Olympiacos as a turning point in what has been a severely disappointing season.
''I have been asked a similar question many times this season and I have always said we will build on it but on several occasions we have not been able to do that,'' Moyes added.
''We need to make sure that we get a bit more consistency.
''It's going to take time, we're not going to be able to do everything immediately but my job over the coming years is to make sure that we get rid of (inconsistency).''
Antonio Valencia was another walking wounded member of United's victorious XI.
The winger suffered a huge black eye following a clash of heads with Joel Campbell, and the Ecuadorian is therefore doubtful for Saturday's game.
''Antonio has a real bad eye which is closed over,'' Moyes said. ''It is not quite settled down yet so we will need to keep an eye on it, if you'll pardon the pun!''


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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday suffered a blow when one of its leading candidates for the July 25 general elections was sentenced to life imprisonment by an anti-drug court in a six-year old case. The
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City rezones land to attract med device business
About 33 acres of land in northwest Columbia City is now zoned light industrial.
The move by the city council Tuesday comes as the city tries to show a medical device manufacturer that this is the right place to locate a new operation.
The land, previously zoned general business and located south of U.S. 30 and east of Lincolnway, is among sites a company, whose name has not been released, is interested in for a new building which can be close to Warsaw.
The city's plan commission recommended earlier this month to the city council to rezone the land.
The adjacent property owners expressed concern with current drainage in the area, but the plan commission said a committee will investigate drainage and try to find a solution if the business locates here.
At an earlier council meeting this month, Alan Tió, president of the Whitley County Economic Development Corporation, said the company is interested in Whitley County, but none of the existing industrial parks meet the company's needs.
He said rezoning the land and making it a tax increment financing district, the city could be ahead of other sites the business is considering.
The city also plans to make the land an economic revitalization area so the business could be eligible for tax abatements.
Final public hearings before the approval of the TIF district and ERA will likely be in September.
At the earlier council meeting, Tió also said the company plans for a building with 80,000 square feet to house the new operation, where it may be located.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who said just days ago that he had no interest in playing a "blame game," spent much of a news conference on Friday pointing fingers at Republicans after last-ditch talks with congressional leaders failed to avert automatic spending cuts from kicking in later in the day.
Emerging from a nearly hour-long meeting and taking the podium in the White House briefing room, Obama displayed a combative style that has become his regular approach toward opponents since his decisive re-election victory in November.
Asked why he didn't just refuse to let congressional leaders leave the room until they had a deal, Obama told reporters: "I am not a dictator. I'm the president. So, ultimately, if (Senate Republican leader) Mitch McConnell or (Republican House of Representatives Speaker) John Boehner say, 'We need to go to catch a plane,' I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"
Pressed on whether he was showing enough leadership - something Republicans say he has been lacking in the fiscal showdown - Obama mixed up his sci-fi references but made his point, nonetheless.
"I'm presenting a fair deal. The fact that they don't take it means that I should somehow do a 'Jedi mind-meld' with these folks and convince them to do what's right," he said, while offering no new ideas for resolving the bitter dispute.
Obama combined a reference to the "mind trick" sometimes used by Jedi on weak-minded adversaries in the "Star Wars" films with the "Vulcan mind meld" technique used by the "Star Trek" character Spock and others from his fictional planet Vulcan.
The president acknowledged that "this is not going to be an apocalypse" but he called the cuts "just dumb."
Obama's self-confidence - and his willingness to let things go over the edge, at least temporarily, in the latest fiscal battle - demonstrated what his aides have been saying for weeks.
He believes he's winning the public relations war and that Americans will put the lion's share of the blame on the Republicans for any economic pain and social hardship caused by failing to head off $85 billion in spending cuts due to start taking effect.
Republicans, for their part, insist Obama is exaggerating the potential impact of the cuts, but are seeking to avoid blame. McConnell, after the talks, called it "the president's across-the-board cuts" even though both sides agreed in 2011 to have these "sequestration" spending cuts go into effect if Obama and lawmakers failed to fashion another deficit-reduction plan.
But with lawmakers either heading out of town or already gone, Obama used the presidential soapbox on Friday to hammer home his points. He suggested that Republicans - who accuse him of continuing to campaign despite the election being long over - were driven, at least in part by entrenched hostility toward him still simmering after their election losses.
"I recognize that it's very hard for Republican leaders to be perceived as making concessions to me," Obama said. "Sometimes, I reflect, 'Is there something else I could do to make these guys - I'm not talking about the leaders now, but maybe some of the House Republican caucus members - not paint horns on my head?'"
Obama wants Republicans to agree to eliminate tax loopholes enjoyed largely by the wealthy in order to help reduce the U.S. budget deficit. Republicans have ruled out raising taxes and want spending cuts instead.
Obama also took a shot at New York's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who endorsed the president in the 2012 election. Bloomberg, during a visit to the White House on Wednesday, suggested to reporters that the administration was hyping the warnings of dire consequences from sequestration.
Responding to that, Obama said the Defense Department was trying to figure out how to continue funding schools for the children of military families. He also said Border Patrol agents "out there in the hot sun" were facing a 10 percent pay cut.
"I don't think they feel like this is an exaggerated impact. So I guess it depends on where you sit," he said.
Obama's sci-fi reference caused a stir on the Internet.
His mashing-together of the Vulcan "mind meld" and the Jedi "mind trick" went viral, drawing an avalanche of commentary on Twitter from "Trekkies" and "Star Wars" fans eager to point out the mistake.
The White House, known for its use of social media, wasted little time joining in the fun. "We must bring balance to the Force," it tweeted along with a photo of a gesturing Obama. "To deny the facts would be illogical." "The Force" was a "Star Wars" reference, while Spock often called things illogical.
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock, weighed in on Twitter, saying: "Only a Vulcan mind meld will help with this congress."
(Additional Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland; Editing by Will Dunham)


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St. Patrick's Day on the River Walk
Photo: BILLY CALZADA, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Consider it Fiesta's opening act. St. Patrick's Day festivities happen all weekend along the River Walk, culminating Sunday when the San Antonio River is dyed green and rechristened the River Shannon during the River Parade. Then there's the two-day Irish Festival, a St. Paddy's Day River Run and an arts and crafts show.
Arts and crafts, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11-8 Sunday. Irish fest noon-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; parade/dyeing 3 p.m. Sunday. Fun run starts at 8:30 a.m. in Roosevelt Park and follows Mission Reach. www.thesantonioriverwalk.com.


text: Topically Moto Morini has been in the news lately with its rumored saving from the dustbin by Paolo Berlusconi, and as such Oberdan Bezzi has inked another sketch that sees the Italian manufacturer linking up with Bimota to create the MMB1, the first Moto Morini powered Bimota motorcycle. The pairing seems a bit odd, as Moto Morini isn't exactly known for its amazing motor design, although we are a sucker for a good v-twin here at A&R. Additionally, Bezzi's design reminds of sketches of his that we've seen before, surely in his imaginary world Bimota would find a new vein of motorcycle design to explore Moto Morini with?


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Clinical Care Services & Locations
Hematology Clinics
Einstein-Montefiore's west campus (Diagnostic and Treatment Center) and East Campus (Comprehensive Family Care Center) are specialized hematology clinics where patients are seen by hematology fellows.
Sickle Cell Program
The Einstein-Montefiore Sickle Cell Program consists of several ambulatory clinics specifically created for these patients as well as a personalized arrangement for directed care in the emergency room.
Thrombosis Prevention and Treatment Program
The Einstein-Montefiore Thrombosis Prevention and Treatment Program provides outpatient treatment for patients with acute thrombotic disease through the Coumadin Clinic and Hematology Specialty Faculty Practice at Montefiore Medical Park.
Hematology Faculty Consultative Services
Einstein-Montefiore full-time board-certified hematology faculty members provide consultative services at Montefiore Medical Park and the Montefiore Ambulatory Pavilion.
Division of HematologyAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick CampusUllmann 921Bronx, NY 10461
718-430-2186Fax: 718-430-8855
Montefiore Medical Center3411 Wayne Avenue, Ground FloorBronx, NY 10467
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Indeed, the kind folk at Hotel Chocolat sent me this 'The Sleekster All About Mum Selection' a few weeks ago, so this year I have been well prepared much earlier than normal :D This All About Mum collection contained 28 separate chocolates and came described as being 'created especially for mum to enjoy with their feet up - with uplifting fruit recipes, silky smooth cream truffles and melt-away pralines'. Before anyone ask, yes of course I did share these with my own mother - you may have noticed how her views make it in to pretty much all my Hotel Chocolat reviews anyway.
As you can see from my photo above, this was packaged in the traditional Hotel Chocolat Sleekster style. The gold coloured box and inner chocolates were aesthetically nice on the eye, whilst the inner menu displaying the thirteen different chocolates was accurate which is more than can be said for some of the previous Sleekster boxes I had reviewed before.
Many of the pieces were ones that I had reviewed in previous boxes, with many of them being sourced from the Valentines Day collection boxes. Below are my thoughts on each of the pieces.
The four hearts above were all featured in my review of the Hotel Chocolat Melting Hearts H-Box Selection (See HERE). Going from left-to-right, back-to-front, you may wish to be reminded that these pieces achieved the following ratings. Liquid Caramel - Very Good, Peanut Passion - Superb, Strawberry Love - Superb and lastly Pistachio Praline - Superb. We also managed to eat both Banana Split pieces before I could get a snap of one of them :D Before you panic I reviewed the exact same chocolate HERE - Very Good.
Isabelle - Previously reviewed in Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster Everything Selection (See HERE) - Superb
Blueberry Truffle - My mother absolutely loves blueberries and you may remember she was a real fan of the same sort of truffle featured in the 'Quail Egg' format in my Hotel Chocolat last week (See HERE). Once again she she absolutely loved it in this truffle form, and described the taste as a beautiful concoction of cream and wildberry fruits. Superb.
Caramel Sweetheart - Previously reviewed back in January 2009 (See HERE). I still didn't think much of these pieces. The promised touch of cherry didn't come through in the taste of the chocolate, whilst the cocoa crispies and chopped hazelnuts upset the texture of the melt. By Hotel Chocolat standards I still thought these were pretty sub-standard. Poor.
A Kiss For Mothers Day - Well, what can I say about this piece? The dark chocolate and exterior and dark chocolate ganache filling made for a delicious cocoa rich taste, however there were a few notable mentions about the design of the chocolate. A pair of lips for mothers day? Hmmm ... we thought it was a little odd. Good.
Mother of Pearl - We all thought this was a beautiful looking chocolate. It's marble finish and smooth hazelnut praline filling reminded us all of Guylian Seashell chocolates, just with far better milk chocolate, with the house 40% recipe establishing a creamy sweet cocoa taste. Superb.
Love-Me-Do - This was one of the liqueur chocolate truffles in the selection and combined an exterior dark chocolate shell with a Armagnac brandy ganache. Not being a spirits fan I wasn't the best person to try this one so I left it to my parents who described it as a well balanced, rich tasting chocolate. They also loved the mouth warming sensation it created. Very Good.
Bakewell Tart - This was a new piece that sounded very exciting to me,. so I latched in to it right away despite its cherry brand and Amaretto liqueur content. This chocolate was visually nice on the eye with it's cream coloured centre, and it also tasted delicious with it's creamy, sweet alcohol noted flavours. Most positively both the cherry and the nut element of the Bakewell dessert came though in what was a very authentic taste. Very Good.
Champagne Truffle - This was a piece that silly had to be in this selection, and Hotel Chocolat didn't let us down. My mother is a real fan of champagne and she just loved the Marc de Champagne noted cream ganache centre and said it was a near perfect match for the delicious 40% milk chocolate outer shell. She ate both of them before I could get one :D Superb.
Overall this was a very accomplished selection of chocolates and should be one that you should seriosuly be considering in your mind for gifting if chocolates are your choice of present this year. Apart from the questionable lips design, we all thought the collection was well designed and the pieces offered great variety in the type of fillings included. As you can determine by the ratings, the only disappointment for me was the inclusion of the Caramel Sweethearts. Those aside there are some really cracking chocolates on offer here - the Blueberry Truffle, Liquid Caramel and Isabelle pieces being the ones that spring to mind first. As I said above, I would highly recommend this Hotel Chocolat The Sleekster All About Mum Selection as a fine option for Mothers day this year.
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It's not an exaggeration to say most of America's financial sector is run by men. In the securities and investment banking industries, men hold more than 80 percent of executive positions. And women hold only 17 percent of the board seats on Fortune 500 companies.
Sallie Krawcheck bucked the odds.
As former president of global wealth and investment management for Bank of America, she oversaw more than $2 trillion in assets. But corporate turnovers and personnel changes got her unceremoniously pushed out.
Wall Street lost one of its few women at the top when Krawcheck left, but she's not the only one. During the economic downturn, women lost finance jobs in greater numbers than men. And before that, women had been leaving the financial sector for several years.
Krawcheck is now on a mission to bring those numbers up. Last year, she took charge of 85 Broads, a women's network that's grown to include more than 30,000 members.
As part of Morning Edition's look at The Changing Lives of Women, Krawcheck tells David Greene about her new venture and urges women to negotiate more aggressively.
Interview Highlights
On bringing more women onto corporate boards
Women have been shown to be, on average, more risk averse [than men] ... to be longer-term in their outlook. In fact, I saw a recent piece of research that showed, on average, when men enter a negotiation, they're focused on coming out the other side winning. And when women enter a negotiation, they're more focused on coming out the other side with the relationship intact.
On the consequences of women not asking for money
What I've found over time is that when it would come to bonus time or raise time, I would hear from the gentlemen, "I want to make X." I don't think I ever heard from a woman who worked for me, "I want to make X." And research shows, men ask and women don't. ... Say we've got two employees, Joe and Joanne. They're both set to make $5 in bonus. Joe comes into my office and says, "Hey, Sallie, I've had a great year. I'd like to make $10 this year."
After Joe leaves, I call the head of HR, and we sort of say, "Can you believe this? Joe wants to make $10, he's in for $5, ha ha ha." But we don't want to lose him. So we put him in for $7. And that means Joanne isn't going to get the $5 we had planned. She's going to get $3. Because the bonus pool doesn't go up. She sees her bonus actually reduced.
On her women's professional network 85 Broads
These women have intuitively recognized the research that says the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business is networking. Not schmoozing, but having access to information, knowing people. ... Stuff I want to know that can help me in business and life that my company isn't providing. We do online education seminars on things like: How do you ask for a raise? How do you get on a board? How do you pivot into public service?
And what is really interesting, the women who have joined our network have lower attrition rates from the workforce than the average for the professional woman. So there's something that's happening in the network by bringing together these like-minded individuals, that's helping these women in their careers.
America's financial sector is dominated by men. If we look at the securities and investment banking industries, fewer than 1 in 5 executive officers or managers is a woman. At Fortune 500 companies, women hold just 17 percent of the seats on boards. And of those 500 companies, only 23 have a female CEO.
So the odds can be against women, but Sallie Krawcheck bucked the odds. She was president of global wealth and investment management for Bank of America, overseeing trillions of dollars in assets. Before that, she had a similar role at what was then Smith Barney. But corporate turnovers and personnel changes got her unceremoniously pushed out of both positions. So Wall Street lost one of its few women at the top.
GREENE: As part of our series on women and wealth, we wanted to learn what this former CEO observed about gender and money on Wall Street. Krawcheck told us that she often turns to research, which suggests that a diverse group tends to make different decisions than, for instance, a group of male, Ivy League-educated quantitative analysts - or quants.
SALLIE KRAWCHECK: Those are smart people. But adding one more Ivy League-educated math quant into a room, will that help a team be more efficient, be more productive, be more successful? And the answer's no. And so there is something inherent in diversity of thinking, of experience and of background and indeed, of skin color and of gender. There is something about that diversity that leads to innovation, better returns, lower risk. And for women in particular, a recent piece of research showed on average, when men enter a negotiation, they're focused on coming out the other side winning. And when women enter a negotiation, they're more focused on coming out the other side with the relationship intact.
GREENE: Well, take me into a specific case.
KRAWCHECK: I will tell you my own story. Going into and during the downturn, I ran Smith Barney. We had, as an institution, sold our clients investment products that we firmly believed were low-risk. Well, it turned out they weren't, and that when the market cracked and crashed, these products - which were supposed to, in theory, go down a few cents on the dollar - went down most of their cents on the dollars. I took the stance, for which I lost my job, that we should partially reimburse our clients, and had a fight within the organization for it. We eventually did partially reimburse our clients, but I was stripped of my responsibility.
If you had asked me at that point in time: Sallie, did you get fired because you're a woman? I would have said, what? what? Are you kidding me? Absolutely not. And as I've started to say, my thinking in reviewing the research now is, well, maybe. You know, the research tells me these are characteristics and qualities that a woman exhibits, and I was fired for it.
So look - what I can tell you is that that debate that we had within that company was a very healthy debate. We may or may not have come out to the right or wrong place, but having that clash of ideas where I had a perspective, other folks had a perspective, I think we all want that in business, and we particularly want that on Wall Street.
GREENE: Has there ever been a really big, important financial deal that was brought together by two women?
KRAWCHECK: I'm pausing. I cannot. Well, you know, look. We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall; fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
GREENE: Sallie Krawcheck is trying to get more women into senior roles on Wall Street and in other industries. She's invested in a networking enterprise bringing together high-profile women in business. It's called 85 Broads. The name refers to the address of Goldman Sachs - 85 Broad Street in Manhattan. That's where the women who started the group worked in the late 1990s. Eighty-five Broads is considering a name change now that it has some 30,000 members in industries ranging from investment banking to marketing and law. We asked Sallie Krawcheck why women need this professional group.
KRAWCHECK: These women come together because they have intuitively recognized the research that says the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business is networking - not the schmoozing networking but the having information, knowing people. And I sort of think about it as stuff I want to know that can help me in business and life, that my company isn't providing for me. So we do online education seminars on things like, how do you ask for a raise; how do you get on a board; how do you pivot into public service.
And what is really interesting, and what really spoke to me about the network, is that the women who have joined our network have lower attrition rates from the work force than the average for the professional woman. So there's something that's happening in the network by bringing together these like-minded individuals, that's helping these women in their careers.
GREENE: You wrote, recently, that the best investment a woman can make is to ask for a raise.
KRAWCHECK: I did.
GREENE: And you sort of offered a case study about what happens when they don't make that investment. Walk me through that, if you can.
KRAWCHECK: I've managed many people in my career. I've managed very diverse teams. And it's interesting because what I've found over time is that when it would come to bonus time or raise time, I would hear from the gentlemen, I want to make X. I don't think I ever heard from a woman who worked for me, I want to make X.
GREENE: Ever?
KRAWCHECK: Ever. Ever.
GREENE: That's pretty stunning.
KRAWCHECK: It is. It is. And research shows men ask, and women don't. So, we've got two employees. Let's call them Joe and Joanne, right? And Joe and Joanne are both set to make $5 in a bonus, let's say.
KRAWCHECK: Now, Joe comes into my office, and Joe says, hey Sallie - you know - I really think I've had a great year, I'd like to make 10 this year. After Joe leaves, I call my head of HR and we sort of say, can you believe this? Joe wants to make 10; he's in for 5; ha, ha, ha. Well, time goes by. It's time to put those numbers on a piece of paper. And we start to look and say, look, we don't want to lose him. Let's put him in for 7. Right? OK. So, we've done that. Now, what does Joanne make?
GREENE: She gets the 5.
KRAWCHECK: Wrong. She gets 3 - because the bonus pool doesn't go up. Bonus pool is 10 - 5 and 5. She didn't ask for anything. So, they're both in for 5, he asks for 10; we give him 7.
GREENE: She sees her bonus actually reduced.
KRAWCHECK: That's exactly right.
GREENE: And what does this create over time if this goes on, and women don't start asking for raises more often?
KRAWCHECK: Forget about over time, 'cause it's happening right now. What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women, there is no HR fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it. And so you need to be very fact-based, very clear - just as the gentlemen are - what you're delivering, and what your expectations are. If you're not, you're losing.
GREENE: Sallie Krawcheck is the head of soon-to-be-renamed 85 Broads, a global professional women's network. This has been a real pleasure. Thanks for talking to us.
KRAWCHECK: Oh, I've loved doing it. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.
GREENE: Now, we also asked Sallie Krawcheck to share a lesson that she's learned about money, and you can read her advice on NPR's She Works Tumblr. More from our series tomorrow. NPR's Planet Money takes a deeper look at how women fare when they negotiate for higher pay.
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The I Love You, Man star - the daughter of legendary music producer Quincy Jones - was in Iowa rallying votes for the Democratic leader earlier this year (12) when a male fan dropped down to one knee and popped the question to her.
Single Jones was even presented with a ring to seal the deal and although she didn't say yes, she didn't exactly reject the devotee's proposal either.
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Cisco Live Update on Intelligent Automation for Cloud – The Journey and How Cisco Partners Help IT Shops Get to Cloud
Being at Cisco Live was a very different experience for me this year. Previous years I spent most of my time in the Intelligent Automation booth discussing functionality in the areas of service catalogs, portals, and orchestration workflows. It was mostly a technical conversation of how to build private cloud catalogs and how to provision infrastructure. This year my Cisco Live experience started off in talking to about 80 partners at the Cisco Connected Architecture Forum Summit; a very interesting crowd. It was here that I talked about what Cisco IT and our Intelligent Automation Solutions Business Unit experience was in deploying private clouds for end users. I discussed Cisco's private cloud CITEIS, and our new product release Intelligent Automation for Cloud Starter Edition. I discussed Physical and Virtual Clouds and there was much interest in the concept of a services portal and automation construct for both Physical and Virtual clouds, something that is enabled very elegantly with the UCS Manager API. Partners asked great questions: How quickly can they deploy this starter cloud? How do customers chart out their journey to the cloud? Where do they start and what do they do first? Great conversations ensued…
Service Delivery Partners are a key strategy for the deployment of Cisco Cloud software stack. Watch the following interview with Sydney Morgan of Cisco IT and Dave Kinsman from World Wide Technologies, a partner of ours in this area as we talk about the Journey to Cloud and our experiences on the deployment side.
I spent the rest of Cisco Live talking to some great IT organizations about their cloud plans and journey that they are on. Some interesting examples are:
Financial Services: This customer of ours was focused on the deployment of cloud and the changes to the organization as they were coming off of Mainframe centric workloads, deploying them to x86 architectures on UCS. How the application developers would use the newly minted cloud was top of mind.
Service Provider: Many Cloud Service Providers are right at the intersection of business and technology: what service offers can I offer out of the chute to differentiate my company? Discussions around how our IA for Cloud technology stack and pre-built services and automation can make that easier. We also discussed the need and desire to train up their staff to become service designers and workflow authors.
Manufacturer: This customer is focused on operational efficiency and how automation software can reduce the mundane and routine tasks in operations. Replication of system configuration in a standardized way allows their deep application support teams to focus on differentiating their business.
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I am thanking God for His protection again. On the way to work on Thursday, there was an accident right in front of me. Two cars involved, both crossed multiple lanes of traffice, and one passed right in front of me... As in there were nothing between the car and me. I'm amazed more cars weren't involved. It was during rush hour on a major highway. And it was the second accident that happened right in front of me in the past year.... A bit crazy! I had a co-worker say she wants to make sure she's never driving near me.


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Senators began a preliminary discussion of a comprehensive immigration bill Friday, kicking off what will be a weeks-long tussle over the first sweeping attempt to overhaul the nation's immigration system since 2007.
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro preview next week's political news including a potential 2016 showdown in Chicago, and the immigration vote in the Senate set for next Tuesday.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid repeated Friday morning that he wants a final vote on the legislation before the Senate recesses for the July 4 holiday.
"It is gratifying to see the momentum behind this package of commonsense reforms, which will make our country safer and help 11 million undocumented immigrants get right with the law," Reid said of the bill, which was written by a bipartisan group of eight senators and passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a 13-5 vote last month.
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who is leading opposition to the Gang of Eight bill, argued on the Senate floor that the law would provide "amnesty" to reward law breakers, exacerbate joblessness and prompt more waves of illegal immigration.
"The legislation that's been offered by the Gang of Eight says they've fixed it, don't worry! We've taken care of all that is needed!" Sessions said during more than two hours of argument against the bill on the Senate floor Friday morning. "Well, it won't do that. That's the problem. It will definitely give amnesty today."
Sessions was joined by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who was initially involved in negotiations to help draft the bill but has become one of its vocal opponents.
"This is not the bill to fix our immigration system," Lee said. 'I want to pass immigration reform, I want to debate immigration reform and that is exactly why we should not proceed to the Gang of Eight bill."
"We're being presented with a choice between the Gang of Eight bill or nothing," he added. "Common sense, recent history and the ongoing legislative process of the House of Representatives confirm that that is a false choice."
An initial vote Tuesday afternoon -- to officially proceed to debate on the bill -- will offer a preliminary measure of the most rigid opposition to the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he will not try to block the legislation from coming to the floor.
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Rubio's office has also been supportive of an effort by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, that would put in place more stringent security "triggers" that must be met before undocumented immigrants with provisional legal status can apply for green cards. Senate Democrats say that's a non-starter.
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How fashion and luxury firms will ride out a recession.
Mention the word recession to members of the fashion elite, and you'll get some colorful reactions. Among high-end retailers, a grim optimism is de rigueur. Burt Tanksy, CEO and president of Neiman Marcus, recently quipped: "Remember, when our customer tightens their belt, it's generally ostrich or alligator."
But even the rarified worlds of fashion and luxury are linked to the broader economy—and marketing lavish, often ephemeral goods is brutally challenging in the best of times. With banks tanking, bonuses vanishing, and retailer bankruptcies on the rise, peddling luxury in 2008 is no enviable task.
Here's a quick survival guide for how the American fashion industry will ride out these distinctly un-fabulous times.
1. Accessories will be everywhere.
Like jewelry, for example.
In a paper detailing predictions for the 2008 luxury market, consumer-trends analyst Pam Danziger of Unity Marketing deemed jewelry purchases less susceptible to market fluctuations. "Jewelry is unique among luxury goods because it offers the customer some perceived inherent value," she said.
Retailers and editors are keeping their fingers crossed that Danziger is right.
"We've shot more and more with jewelry," says Sally Singer, fashion news and features director at Vogue. "Jewelry can upgrade any outfit, and jewelry purchase values don't change as quickly as clothes, especially gold."
Other accessories—especially shoes and handbags—will continue to be big business for designers and retailers. Consumers might be skittish about investing in expensive, trendy apparel but will still give themselves a smaller designer fix with these products.
And designers—many of whom already make more money from accessories than ready-to-wear—will be looking for ways to further expand these lower-price-point lines of their brands.
2. Bon voyage, French couture; hello, Americana.
The disastrous state of the dollar abroad has made the importation of European collections prohibitively expensive in America, causing buyers to cut back on purchases from design houses overseas.
"I skipped the last buying trip to Paris altogether," says Erin Crandall, head buyer of designer collections for online retail site ShopBop.com. "The cost of the trip would have outweighed the money we'd have made on the lines."
Which means that enterprising American designers can step up to bat and vie for real estate once occupied by their French and Italian counterparts. Crandall points to wunderkind Alexander Wang and wrap-dress queen Diane von Furstenberg as "recession-proof" designers with perceived long-term value.
Other big American sellers for ShopBop: relative newcomers Derek Lam, Chris Benz, Rachel Roy, and Tory Burch. Expect to see more of them elsewhere.
3. Earlier, increasingly aggressive sales.
You came, you saw, you desired: a gorgeous but hideously expensive Armani dress. You made a deal with yourself: If it goes on sale, I'll buy it.
This might be your lucky season: Designer goods are going on sale earlier than ever. Markdown schedules are moving up and becoming more competitive. For example, Saks Fifth Avenue recently announced 40 percent-off markdowns, which included some of its couture merchandise; the spring sale came a week earlier than last year's. Other retailers will feel obliged to follow suit, since failure to mark down as quickly could hinder sales. In order to keep margins from sinking too low, retailers will likely use techniques like mandating a minimum purchase amount, then giving big discounts on more.
4. Chic downgrade options.
Retailers and editors will provide a variety of lower price options for women looking to spend less but maintain a particular luxury aesthetic.
"Let's say that we have a woman who didn't get her raise or bonus," says Crandall. "She might turn to Theory instead of Chloe, so I'm stocking up on that. I just added Free People, too, to make sure that I had the under-$100 price point covered, too."
Barneys New York—usually home to some of fashion's most elite fare—surprised many in the industry by showcasing the soon-to-be-launched Rogan for Target Collection in its New York and Beverly Hills locations. Lower-end retailers, such as H&M and Kmart, have made enormous successes of their designer capsule collections, such as Karl Lagerfeld for H&M, Stella McCartney for Puma, Issac Mizrahi for Target, and so on. Elite stores appear to be sanctioning and capitalizing on this trend. Magazine editorials will follow suit in showcasing a high-low mix.
"We'll show big labels with H&M tees," says Elle's fashion news director, Anne Slowey. "Ten years ago, fashion was about luxury conglomerations. Now it's democratic."
5. Spare, spare, everywhere.
Fashion oracles declared the trend of the garish "it bag" dead last year, but other gestures toward flashiness are apparently teetering on the edge of the same grave. In the fall collections, showcased in New York earlier this spring, editors and buyers sensed a move toward minimalism and even austerity.
"There's a mood: It doesn't feel right to show things that are overly opulent or steeped in luxury, in light of everything going on in the world," says Hope Greenberg, fashion director of Lucky magazine.
The dress, which has enjoyed a lengthy reign over the market, is losing ground to more conservative, versatile, basic pieces that can blend and carry their owners through several seasons. Retailers report excellent sales in practical items such as blazers, denim, basic separates, and trousers.
As ShopBop's Crandall says: "Classic designs in bad times."
Of course, it's always possible that a downturn will produce its own aesthetic. Uncertain times often produce astonishing results in the fashion world; after all, the dreary early-1990s economy produced Marc Jacobs' now-famous grunge epidemic. Editors and buyers are very curious to see what turns up in the American spring/summer 2009 collections, which will be showcased in New York City this fall.
"We're in very unstable times," says Vogue's Sally Singer. "There's a war going on, and you wouldn't know it in the city. But fashion designers are receptors; they have refined antennas, and it comes out on the runways."


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more on
more off
A = more(state)
more on enables
paging of the output in the MATLAB® Command Window. MATLAB displays
output one page at a time. Use the keys defined in the table below
to control paging.
more off disables
paging of the output in the MATLAB Command Window.
more(n) defines the length
of a page to be
n lines.
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to be a page.
state can either be
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or the number of lines to set as the new page length.
By default, the length of a page is equal to the number of lines available for display in the MATLAB Command Window. Manually changing the size of the command window adjusts the page length accordingly.
If you set the page length to a specific value, MATLAB uses
that value for the page size, regardless of the size of the command
window. To have MATLAB return to matching page size to window
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more off followed by
more on.
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more status.
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'Rock is a verb, not a noun'
For better or worse, rock music's reputation has gone from the reprehensible outsider music of juvenile delinquents in the 1950s to a means of building self-esteem in young people today. One way to argue that is to point to this year's Women of Achievement Awards and see that Cranston's Hilary Jones is about to get one. The YWCA awards bring attention to the accomplishments of women promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity. Jones is being recognized as a founder and director of Girls Rock! Rhode Island.
The parents of the 1950s would have a hard time understanding how one of the dangers to the souls of young people back then has come to be recognized as a way of better integrating kids into the larger society that surrounds them. Jones suspected that learning to rock had therapeutic value as she herself moved through both worlds as she grew up.
"I played piano and clarinet when I was young but when I was around 14, I discovered the grunge rock scene of Nirvana and I was drawn to it," said Jones.
About the same time, there was the Riot Grrl movement and acts like Bikini Kill and Joan Jett that really gave voice to what women felt and did and Jones found it all personally liberating and exhilarating. She put down the clarinet and picked up a guitar. She got up from the piano and sat behind a drum kit and learned how to rock. Aside from being just plain fun, Jones found that playing the music made her feel more confident and assured.
"They were addressing social issues like racism and sexism," said Jones, who grew up in Fargo, N.D. "When bands like Babes in Toyland came through town, I could hear women express themselves."
When Jones started studying behavioral psychology in college, the sense of empowerment she experienced playing in a band and creating music became a part of a core belief that helping other women, especially girls, have similar experiences playing in groups would work toward making them feel better and do better by themselves.
She studied behavioral psychology in college and has worked for years to end violence and increase healthy relationships and behavior as a research and education specialist. She has been a violence prevention coordinator at the Rhode Island Department of Health, and a project coordinator at Healthy Kids Rhode Island. In 2008, Jones received her doctorate in Behavioral Science Psychology and she is a part-time faculty member in URI's Psychology and Women's Studies departments.
But she still rocks and, as a visit to her Pawtuxet home would reveal, she is an eclectic and far ranging musician. She has rows of electric guitars standing at attention in front of her drum kit, with a Martin acoustic just to the right of the drums. A hammer dulcimer she recently acquired dominates the table in the dining area of her slightly cluttered home. She regards it with a mixture of pleasure and anxiety and admits she knew far less about it than she should have before she brought it home. It resembles the inside of a very small piano and sounds like a harpsichord.
"Look," she said, and picked up a pair of mallets as if they were alien artifacts. "You play it with these."
Her own band, Arcing, has a CD out called "Doubt" on Corleone Records and the band plays regularly around Providence. But don't expect to hear some "tribute" to more successful bands or even rock and roll as you knew it growing up. These guys are loud and raw, with songs called "Industrial Trust" and "Life Full of [Expletive]"; its not Simon and Garfinkel in Central Park time and more like Johnny Rotten on the Subway.
But Jones is no missionary of noise and chaos. She wants to see women make up their own minds about what kind of sounds they want to produce. There is no doubt that her belief in rock music to encompass all sorts of women.
"The kids come from all over the state, from all sorts of backgrounds," said Jones. "Some are excited to be there and some of them are a little shy. Some of them have played instruments and some have never had an instrument in their hands before."
That's not the point, according to Jones. She said the biggest boost the girls get is to realize they don't have to play perfectly and that they have the capacity and the right to play rock even if they have never played with people before.
"It's very scary for some of them, but by the second day they are playing and by the third day they are writing outlines of songs," said Jones.
For women who feel that they may have wasted their youth by never having toured with a wasted rock band, Jones offers older women a chance at being good or bad at playing rock and the fun of working with other people to have a rollicking good time.
"One of the first things I try to tell the girls is that, 'Rock is a verb and not a noun,'" said Jones.
Rock on, girl.
YWCA Rhode Island will also honor 10 other women at the eighth annual awards luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln. For more details or to purchase tickets, visit www.womenofachievementRI.org or contact YWCA Rhode Island at 769-7450. For more about Girls Rock! Rhode Island, visit www.girlsrockri.org.


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Algorithm::DependencySolver - A dependency solver for scheduling access to a shared resource
version 1.01
use Algorithm::DependencySolver::Solver;
use Algorithm::DependencySolver::Traversal;
use Algorithm::DependencySolver::Operation;
my @operations = (
id => 1,
depends => [qw(z)],
affects => [qw(x)],
prerequisites => ["3"],
id => 2,
depends => [qw(x)],
affects => [qw(y)],
prerequisites => [],
id => 3,
depends => [qw(y)],
affects => [qw(z)],
prerequisites => [],
my $solver =
Algorithm::DependencySolver::Solver->new(nodes => \@operations);
my $traversal = Algorithm::DependencySolver::Traversal->new(
Solver => $solver,
visit => sub {
my $operation = shift;
print "Visited operation: ", $operation->id, "\n";
This dependency solver is somewhat different to the existing Algorithm::Dependency module.
Algorithm::Dependency creates a heirarchy where each node depends on a set of other nodes. In Algorithm::DependencySolver, there exists a set of operations and a set of resources, with a set of edges from operations to resources (the dependencies), and a set of edges from resources to operations (the affects). Given this input, the module outputs a directed acyclic graph (DAG) containing just the operations as its nodes.
Aditionally, Algorithm::DependencySolver allows for input which whould have resulted in a cyclic output graph to be resolved by means of explicit sequencing. This is done by marking nodes as depending on other nodes. See Algorithm::DependencySolver::Operation::prerequisites.
Returns the dependency graph as a Graph object. Note that only operations are included in the graph, not resources. This is of most use to the Algorithm::DependencySolver::Traversal module, and the
to_dot and
to_png methods.
$self->_remove_redundancy($G); # Ignore the return value
Applied to a graph object, removes redundant edges. An edge is redundant if it can be removed without invalidating the graph.
The fundamental law of the dependency graph is that a node can only be traversed when all of its predecessors have been traversed.
Given some node,
$n, and a predecessor of
$a, then it is safe to remove
$a if and only if another node exists,
$b, which is a predecessor of
$n, and there is a path from
$a to
$b (i.e., traversal of
$b requires that
$a has been visited).
Note that cycles may cause this algorithm to behave unexpectedly (depending on what one expects). Consider what happens if
$n has two successors,
$a and
$b, such that there is a cycle between
$a and
$b (i.e., there is an edge from
$a to
$b, and vice-versa). Suppose that the edge from
$n to
$a has been removed. Can the edge from
$n to
$b safely be removed?
Using the algorithm described above, yes! This is because there is another path from
$n to
$n -> $b -> $a -> b. We can, of course, detect such occurrences; however, I choose not to, because it's not clear to me what the most elegant result should be in these situations. Semantically, it does not matter whether the edge from
$n to the
$a,$b-cycle is from
$n to
$a, or
$n to
$b. Which should it be? Both, or one-or-the-other (presumably decided arbitrarily)?
* This method can be safely called on cyclic graphs (i.e., it will not enter a non-terminating loop)
* This method will not fail early if a cycle is encountered (i.e., it will do as much work as it can, even though the graph is probably invalid)
* If
_apply_orderings is to be called on the graph object, it must be done before calling
Outputs a dependency graph (showing only operations) to the given file in PNG format
Outputs a dependency graph (showing only operations) to the given file in Graphviz's dot format


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The war on Windows 8 continued this week. But there's probably something more to that than an unpopular operating system.
The week began with Dell -- ostensibly one of the biggest proponents of Window 8 -- making bleak predictions about the OS in an SEC filing.
Dell didn't stop there. It had a damning statement about the PC too. "The deteriorating outlook for the PC market [is] a result of, among other things, smartphones and tablets cannibalizing PC sales."
Which brings us to the market-devouring iPad, which, since its release this week, has passed the three-year mark. Business Insider showed how the iPad played a big part in killing PC market growth, contrasting negative PC growth against the meteoric rise of the iPad.
"Apple has sold 121 million iPads, totaling $67.7 billion in sales.... The PC industry is reeling because of the iPad... iPad revenue is bigger than Windows revenue!" the article proclaims.
So, are Windows 8's problems just about an unappealing operating system? I'm guessing not. There are also bigger forces at work. PC growth has slowed (for the reasons cited above) and Windows 8 is collateral damage.
That said, fears of impending Windows 8 doom have not subsided. We have, for example, ZDNet's "Windows 8: Can this OS be saved?" Regardless of the answer, the question, as stated, is rhetorical and clearly makes a negative assertion.
Next we have "Microsoft Windows RT price cuts don't stop the death spiral," at SemiAccurate, a chip-centric site.
"Abandon all hope, ye users of Windows RT" seems to be the message:
These technical problems can be summed up pithily by the phrase, "The OS is awful," and "Devs hate it"...the Win8 app store has very few apps in it. Most of these are not what anyone wants, and what they want is not coming either. This tally is advancing glacially because of one thing, money. No one is voluntarily writing for the Win8 store for both solid technical and financial reasons.
About the only positive news this week was for consumers. Lousy Windows 8 system sales have forced Microsoft and its PC partners to cut prices on laptops and hybrids.
But Microsoft is hardly giving up. We also found out this week that Windows 8.1 is on the way! We'll know later if that's good news -- or not.


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What is The Gathering? It is an effort by the Irish government to make 2013 a great year to visit Ireland by promoting family history, local history, festivals, and happenings all over the country. One man I met recently told me he has found a family reunion, cousins, and local genealogy events through the resources provided by The Gathering. I can't wait to hear his report on his Irish travels!
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March 1, 2018
As the Rio Nuevo has partnered with the City of Tucson and numerous developers, Downtown Tucson has experienced a boom in development over the past year, ranging from new lodging to retail to expanding corporate office projects with companies like TEP, Caterpillar, Hexagon Mining and Madden Media.
Living up to its 'City of Gastronomy' title, Tucson's downtown dining scene continues to explode with now over 85 restaurants to choose from. In fact, Tucson ranks #8 US City for Foodies, making it a true ultimate food destination. In addition to a variety of eateries and local lounges, Downtown Tucson's live entertainment and arts scene continues to grow, earning Tucson the #7 US City for Music spot. From established venues like the Fox Theatre, Hotel Congress and the Rialto Theatre to our newly-renovated TCC arena, there is constant activity and plenty going on downtown!
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Downtown Tucson has experienced significant growth in lodging accommodations, welcoming new well-known hotels like the AC Marriott and announcing plans for the millennial minded hotel concept, Moxy by Marriott. Other new projects include The Foundation of Senior Living's multi-million dollar low-income senior apartment complex in conjunction with the Marist on Cathedral Square. These additional housing and hotel accommodations serve as a huge plus for local businesses.
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Markdown Percent Models - What Percent Are You Paying?
Lesson 2 of 21
Objective: Students will be able to solve discount problems using a percent bar model.
Big Idea: Visualize it! If something is 20% off - what percent are you actually paying? Bar models help students SEE the discount!
Opener: As students enter the room, they will immediately pick up and begin working on the opener – Instructional Strategy - Process for openers. This method of working and going over the opener lends itself to allow students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, which is mathematical practice 3.
Learning Target: After completion of the opener, I will address the day's learning targets to the students. For today's lesson, the intended target is, "I can solve discount problems using a percent bar model." Students will jot the learning target down in their agendas (our version of a student planner, there is a place to write the learning target for every day).
Thoughts from Me! As a way to dive into percents and create a conceptual understanding, students will utilize a bar model (mathematical practice 5). They will use the model to represent scenarios conceptually (mathematical practice 4) instead of just punching numbers. Students will also reason abstractly and quantitatively by analyzing what each model represents (mathematical practice 2). Students will look for repeated reasoning to make connections within percents (mathematical practice 8).
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To see this part of the lesson unfold, watch: Classroom Video: Checks for Understanding
Instructional Strategy - Table Discussion: To summarize this lesson, I will have students have a table discussion on: Without drawing a model, discuss with your table how to 20% off of 80. The purpose of this discussion is for students to start using mental percent – again, using a bar model, we are thinking in terms of 10% sections. So if we take off two 10% sections, what is left? I will ask that all tables have a representative share out how their table solved the problem.


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