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Building your Personal Brand
This is the presentation that I put together for the Travel Industry Executive Women's conference in LA today.
How to build your personal brand online from Chicke Fitzgerald
Labels: #TIEWN, branding, personal brands
Live Your Dash: Make Every Moment Matter- an interview with Linda Ellis on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Linda Ellis. The original live interview was 5/31/13.
This episode is #63 of all time in the top 100 shows on Solutionz Live!
Linda Ellis started writing poems as a child, a talent inherited from her Irish grandmother. She spent years working in the corporate world, but after her first poem was shared on a syndicated radio program in 1994, an alternative career began to emerge and she soon came to the realization that her true passion was in creative writing.
She wanted to write something deeper and even more meaningful about the concept of The Dash. So she wrote a new poem, a sequel to the original. This new inspiration has now blossomed into a 256-page hardcover book filled with original prose, poems and inspirational stories.
Thirty-six lines that have touched millions, Titled simply — The Dash — these 36 lines have touched millions of lives and have literally taken on a life of their own by traveling all over the world. I call it uncomplicated poetry in a complicated world, which became a slogan to describe my inspirational writings and my company, Linda's Lyrics.
To listen to the show click HERE
Linda's website is http://lindaellis.net/
To order her book click HERE
For more information about the Executive Girlfriends' Group see: http://www.executivegirlfriendsgroup.com
Labels: EGG Live!, Linda Ellis, Live Your Dash: Make Every Moment Matter, The Dash
Seal Entrepreneur Series - Part 1 The Compass for Business Survival
Today I am starting a new series on Business Survival. Thanks to my faithful readers who have been patiently listening to my podcasts while I took a short break from writing.
For those that have ever watched movies or TV shows about survival, one of the tools that is most important is the compass. If you don't know the direction that you are traveling, it is pretty tough to reach your destination without one.
In 1982 I moved from Denver to Dallas. For my international readers that are not familiar with either of these places, Denver is flanked on the west by the majestic Rocky Mountains and on the east by very flat plains. Dallas is one big flat plain.
It took me a little while after I moved to Dallas to realize why I was often disoriented.
In Denver, I didn't need a physical compass or one in my car (we didn't have iPhones with a compass app back then). The mountains were my compass. If they were on my left, I was going north. If they were to my back, I was going east. Simple.
In Dallas, everything looked the same, so the sun became my compass. But on a cloudy day, that method of navigation failed.
What is your compass in your business? How do you know you are headed in the right direction? What are the business metrics and are you achieving them? Are they visible?
Today on the plane, I was reading Chris Brogan's book "The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth" and he recounted a story about baseball, where much ado is made about the number of base hits, errors and steals. Chris had seen a movie that talked about a team that figured out that all that really matters is getting on base (not how you got there), as that is a pre-requisite to scoring. Getting on base is the compass. Once you are on base you can move forward. But if you strike out and go back to the bench, you don't ever score.
This is SO true in business and it is essential to surviving everything that you will encounter. You have to have a plan, or you won't know where you are going and when you have arrived.
Make sure your compass is pointing you in the right direction and that you can move ahead from where you are.
Tomorrow, we'll talk about what makes an entrepreneur a "seal".
Labels: @chickefitz, @chrisbrogan, #sealentrepreneur, Business Survival, Compass, Direction, Entrepreneur, Navy Seal
Better Travel Better World- an interview with Barbra Anderson of Sabre on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Barbra Anderson. The original live interview was on 3/29/2013.
Barbra Anderson is Director Global Corporate Responsibility for Sabre Holdings and has a long history of personal and family volunteerism from her youth, to family mission trips to Mexico, to a recent trip to Rwanda.
Travel allows families to connect, businesses to enhance global commerce and travelers to expand their cultural perspectives. By delivering innovative travel technology, Sabre Holdings make the world a better place. "Better travel, better world" — that's Sabre's corporate commitment.
Their annual global employee signature programs Travel for Good, Give Time Together, and Give Together are driven by their culture to give back to not only the communities in which we live and work but to meaningful causes about which they are passionate. As the first global travel technology company to sign the tourism Code of Conduct, Sabre is committed to initiatives that fight against human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children, a US$32 billion trade affecting 161 countries worldwide.
Sabre's goals are to increase awareness and educate the travel industry on human trafficking issues, advocate for legislation change, and provide opportunities for leaders to collaborate. On Thursday, September 27, 2012, Sabre launched Passport to Freedom - so that together, they can help make our world a better place to live.
Sabre's corporate responsibility website is
http://www.sabre.com/home/about/corporate_responsibility/
The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change; Transform Your Business- an interview with Rose Fass on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Rose Fass. The original live interview was 4/12/13.
Rose Fass is the founder and CEO of fassforward Consulting Group, a leading edge business transformation boutique. Rose works with executive teams from fortune 500 companies.
The single factor that determines success or failure in big business today is conversation. Great leaders use public and private conversations to cultivate a common worldview, set standards, and uncover concerns that can undermine the goals of the organization. So what conversations are you, as a leader, having with your organization? Experienced business transformation consultant Rose Fass shows how leaders can avoid a meltdown and instead drive transformation by the way they communicate in a language that all stakeholders can understand.
The Chocolate Conversation takes a light-hearted approach to show how too often we think we're having the same conversation about "dark chocolate," for instance — only to be referring to three different things: milk, white, and bittersweet varieties. Fass helps us establish common ground that leads to an effective discourse for addressing relevance, growth, and productivity.
Rose's website is http://www.fassforward.com/
Labels: EGG Live!, Rose Fass, The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change; Transform Your Business
Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur- an interview with Jane Pollak on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jane Pollak. The original live interview was 7/13/12.
A nationally recognized speaker, certified coach, author, blogger and lifestyle entrepreneur with over 30 years of business experience, Jane loves sharing inspirational, yet practical, lessons with like-minded entrepreneurs.
Art teacher Jane Pollak's career shot to a new level when she was invited to the White House to decorate an egg for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Not long after, this wife and mother was running a full-blown home business, speaking internationally, and appearing on television.
Having transformed her art into a thriving, profitable business, Jane now guides other remarkable women entrepreneurs in their own journey toward uncommon success.
Soul Proprietor is not only inspiring and motivating for the entrepreneur or small business owner, it is a handbook of lessons that one could apply to the business of everyday life. Her anecdotal stories add humor and though-provoking insight into what it really takes to launch a successful business. Jane's practical wisdom and tactical strategies will help you chart your own course for success.
Jane's website is http://janepollak.com/
To order Jane's book click HERE
Labels: EGG Live!, Jane Pollak, Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur
Bill and Hillary: The Politics of The Personal- an interview with William H. Chafe on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews William H. Chafe. The original live interview was 11/18/12.
William H Chafe is Professor Emeritus of History and Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Emeritus at Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. He earned his PhD, at Columbia University in 1971.
From the day they first met at Yale Law School, Bill and Hillary were inseparable and combative. As historian William H. Chafe reveals in Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal that dynamic has remained a constant throughout their remarkable political careers. Always tempestuous, their relationship had as many lows as it did highs, from near divorce to stunning electoral and political successes. "An illuminating glimpse behind the scenes"—Kirkus Reviews.
Chafe is the author of numerous prizewinning books on civil rights, women's history, and politics, including The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II and Private Lives / Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America.
Much of Bill Chafe's professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issues of race and gender equality. Former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Duke University, he is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and a cofounder of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women, the Duke Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations, and the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. A past president of OAH, he is the author of several books, including Civilities and Civil Rights (1979), which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
A site for William is http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/william.chafe
To order the book click HERE
Labels: Bill and Hillary: The Politics of The Personal, civil rights, EGG Live!, politics, William H. Chafe, women's history
Tourism Cares: Preserving The Travel Experience for Future Generations- an interview with Bruce Beckham on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Bruce Beckham. The original live interview was on 11/30/2012.
Bruce Beckham is the executive director and CEO of the travel industry's premier non-profit organization, Tourism Cares. He is a Certified Tourism Professional, the former owner of a travel agency and packaged tour company and a former president of the National Tour Association (NTA).
People travel for many reasons - to learn about old and new cultures, to experience new places or even to revisit favorite destinations. Travel and tourism professionals who appreciate and enjoy the wonderful treasures the world has to offer want to make sure these places are here for their grandchildren.
That is why Tourism Cares exists - to preserve the travel experience for future generations. We award grants to non-profits around the world, provide scholarships to the future workforce of travel, tourism and hospitality, and organize tourism industry volunteer events so we can stop saying "there used to be."
Now in its tenth year, Tourism Cares volunteer activities have marshaled more than 3,500 volunteers donating nearly 30,000 service hours at a value of more than $500,000 in donated services and on site restoration assistance to sites such as New York's Ellis Island, New Orleans, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mount Vernon, Gettysburg and Alcatraz Island.
Tourism cares website is http://tourismcares.org/
Labels: Bruce Beckham, Tourism Cares: Preserving The Travel Experience for Future Generations, Uncommon Giving
SUCCEED: How We Can Reach Our Goals- an interview with Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson. The original live interview was 7/6/12.
Heidi Grant Halvorson is an Expert Blogger for Fast Company, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, as well as a regular contributor to the BBC World Service's Business Daily, the Harvard Business Review, and SmartBrief's SmartBlog on Leadership. Her writing has also been featured on CNN Living and Mamapedia.
Most of us have no idea why we fail to reach our goals. Now Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, a rising star in the field of social psychology shows us how to overcome the hurdles that have defeated us before.
Dr. Halvorson applies real science to the real goals and struggles we all face: losing weight, building better relationships, getting a raise, strengthening willpower, and even just getting up from the couch on those days we feel stuck. Whether one wants to get out of a lousy rut in life or go further faster, "Succeed" presents a comprehensive, step-by-step, scientifically-sound "toolkit" for success.
Dr. Halvorson's website is http://www.heidigranthalvorson.com/
To order SUCCEED click HERE
Labels: Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, EGG Live!, SUCCEED: How We Can Reach Our Goals
Urban Farming Sprouted by Recording Artist and Author-Taja Sevelle- an interview on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Taja Sevelle. The original live interview was on 9/7/2012.
By the time Taja Sevelle was 17, she had lived in the city, on a farm and in a remote forest near the Canadian border with no running water, electricity or access by car. She had studied in her own science lab
complete with microscopes, slides, protozoa and data storage, she had
plowed fields, tapped maple trees, sang in several church choirs including gospel, and learned the Morse code.
Taja has songwriting and singing credits on over 2.5 million records sold including three CDs of her own, Prince, Johnny Mathis, the original soundtrack of the motion picture "Lean On Me" and numerous others.
In her upcoming book Garden Song, Sevelle shares the story of Urban Farming. The book portrays how Sevelle gives back to communities through the organization. She also describes her decision to put music on hold in order to nurture her philanthropic vision to its current success.
The Urban Farming™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, and inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.
Through the creation of gardens, Sevelle is providing an abundance of food for communities around the world. The organization has over 59,000 registered gardens in more than 40 cities, and continues to grow along with each garden it plants.
Taja's website is: http://www.tajasevelle.com/
Urban Farming website: http://www.urbanfarming.org/
Labels: Garden Song, Taja Sevelle, Uncommon Giving, Urban Farming
Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Non-Profits- an interview with Heather Mansfield on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Heather Mansfielf. The original live interview was on 5/17/2013.
Launched by Heather Mansfield in 2006, DIOSA Communications is a one-person company that specializes in social media and mobile technology webinars and trainings for nonprofit organizations.
Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 nonprofit communications and fundraising.
From building your e-newsletter list to finding your "Twitter voice" to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing campaigns.
Heather's webinars and trainings offer practical how-to-advice and demonstrate live, in real time, click-by-click best practices that Heather has learned from spending more than 40 hours a week on social media sites for the past seven years.
Originally DIOSA Communications also offered consulting and social media set-up, design, and maintenance services for nonprofit organizations, but due to the fact that in recent years Heather has become much-sought-after trainer and public speaker, DIOSA Communications has narrowed its focus to webinars, trainings and blogging at Nonprofit Tech 2.0.
Heather's websites are www.diosacommunications.com/
http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com
Labels: DIOSA Communications, Heather Mansfield, Nonprofit Tech 2.0, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Non-Profits, Uncommon Giving
The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook: Winning Strategies from 25 Leaders in the Field- an interview with Susan Schaefer and Linda Lysakowski on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Susan Schaefer and Linda Lysakowski. The original live interview was on 6/7/2013.
Susan Schaefer, CFRE, is a consultant, writer, and speakers who has empowered dozens of organizations to exceed their financial goals. In her twenty years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns, helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 25,000 development professionals in Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Bermuda, and most of the 50 United States.
What if you could sit down with 25 successful consultants and ask them what makes their businesses tick?
In The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook: Winning Strategies from 25 Leaders in the Field, Susan Schaefer and Linda Lysakowski have compiled a first-of-its-kind insight into the everyday lives of consultants to the nonprofit sector. This collection of firsthand articles takes the reader on a journey that spans a consultant's professional life—from the decisions that formed the business to a detailed set of options for winding it down.
The beauty of this book lies in the honesty of its 25 contributors. They write openly about the decisions that guided their business models, their early mistakes, and their lessons learned.
Susan has helped lead the design and implementation of the billion-dollar Gates Millennium Scholars Program, one of the largest private grants in history. This fall, she will teach fundraising at Johns Hopkins University.
Susan's website is http://resourcepartnersonline.com/
Linda's website is http://www.lindalysakowski.com/
Labels: an Susan Schaefer, Linda Lysakowski, The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook: Winning Strategies from 25 Leaders in the Field, Uncommon Giving
101 Ways to Rock Your World: Every Day Activities for Success Every Day- an interview with Dayna Steele on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Dana Steele. The original live interview was 3/29/13.
Dayna Steele is a success speaker, business author, serial entrepreneur, and a social media evangelist as well as a Hall of Fame radio personality, FastCompany.com Expert Perspective blogger, business advisor, and nationally recognized media personality. She is also the author of Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World's Greatest Rock Stars.
Dayna starts with a mantra—not a business plan—that's only three words long: "Create rock stars." Do you want to be a rock star? If so, read this book. –from the foreword by Guy Kawasaki, author of Enchantment and former chief evangelist of Apple.
The search for success is similar to the quest for the elusive Holy Grail: many want it but don't know where to find it, how to achieve it, or even where to start. In 101 Ways to Rock Your World, author Dayna Steele provides useful and motivating tips to help you get started on everyday success with simple everyday activities.
Dana's website is http://www.daynasteele.com/rock-to-the-top/
Labels: 101 Ways to Rock Your World: Every Day Activities for Success Every Day, Dayna Steele, EGG Live!
Head Games: Brain Trauma in Sports; a Public Health Crisis- an interview with Chris Nowinski on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Chris Nowinski. The original live interview was on 1/4/2013.
Sports Legacy Institute was founded on June 14, 2007, in Boston, Massachusetts, by CEO, Christopher Nowinski and Dr. Robert Cantu in reaction to new medical research indicating that brain trauma in sports had become a public health crisis.
SLI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to solving the concussion crisis in sports and the military through medical research, treatment, and education and prevention. The initial vision of SLI was to formalize the groundbreaking neuropathological research, which was a necessary first step in developing treatment and a cure.
"Sports" is the first word in our name because our initial work on the long-term effects of brain trauma focused on those sustained in athletic endeavors. The word "legacy" was chosen to inform the families and future donors that the decision to donate would have a far-reaching, permanent, and positive impact.
In his book Head Games, Chris Nowinski tells his remarkable story - how a former Ivy League football player and WWE wrestler fought the NFL and turned his post-concussion syndrome into a successful crusade that has made concussions one of the most important public health issues of our time. The book was recently made into an award-winning documentary.
What we have learned from men like Tom McHale, Wally Hilgenberg, or John Grimsley has changed the world of sports forever, and for the better. SLI will always honor their legacy and contribution to safer sports.
Chris' websites are:
http://www.chrisnowinski.com/
http://sportslegacy.org/
To order Chris' book click HERE
Labels: a Public Health Crisis, Chris Nowinski, Head Games: Brain Trauma in Sports, SLI, Sports Legacy Institute, Uncommon Giving
From Self-Made to Secret Millionaire- an interview with Steve Kaplan on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world. The original live interview was on 8/24/12.
This episode is #50 of all time in the top 50 shows on Solutionz Live!
In Steve's world, there is no distinction between achieving success in business and in life. He uses the same success principals that led to his success in the business world to succeed in all areas of his life. Whether it's becoming a multimillionaire before age thirty, building one of his businesses from start-up to over 350 million with over 1,500 employees, raising a family, gorilla trekking in the Congo, writing bestselling books, co-producing a Broadway play or pursuing other passions and lifelong goals, his exact same principles are put into action.
In his mid-twenties, Steve hit his first big success with a marketing company called SCA. He didn't have any business mentors or financial backing, so Steve learned on the fly. Possessing street smarts, a ton of passion, a solid work ethic, and of course some luck, Steve lived the trials of the small business owner.
Steve quickly realized that if he were going to make it big, he would need to get a lot of business from Procter & Gamble, the biggest marketing spender in the industry, so he set his sites on P&G. Steve landed his first P&G client, a $10,000 order from Scope Mouthwash. Fast forward 5 years, and Steve was working with over 50 P&G brands and billing them over $25 million per year.
Due to this success approach, he has been able to achieve every goal he's chased, no matter how big or how difficult. Whether it's becoming a multimillionaire before age 30, building one of his many successful businesses from start up to over $350 million or becoming a bestselling author.
Steve's passion turned to helping others achieve the same level of success in life and business as he did. To that end, in 2004, he started Steve Kaplan Inc. where he uses his experiences to assist others.
Today, Steve is the authority on success and achievement whose no-nonsense, hands-on, innovative approach to success has helped empower and teach tens of thousands across the globe. Steve regularly appears on a variety of media (including MSNBC, NBC, CBS and Fox Television) to discuss his experiences and help others achieve success. Steve's books, products, consulting sessions and keynotes are full of proven tactics, tools, and techniques to help foster success in life and business. Steve toured the nation's universities on his Bag The Elephant™ Unplugged University Tour where he spoke with students, faculty and administration on success, and how students can better prepare for success in the next phase of their life.
You can get a glimpse of Steve's philanthropic efforts on ABC's "Secret Millionaire" show by clicking HERE
Steve's website is http://www.stevekaplanlive.com/
To order his books click HERE
Labels: bag the elephant, secret millionaire, steve kaplan, stevekaplanlive, Uncommon Giving
Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare To Dream- an interview with Whitney Johnson on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Harvard Business Review Blogger and TEDx speaker Whitney Johnson. The original live interview was 8/24/12.
Whitney is currently the president and co-founder of Clayton M. Christensen's investment firm Rose Park Advisors (Disruptive Innovation Fund), a former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Senior Advisor to the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, and a TEDx speaker.
Whitney Johnson, popular Harvard Business Review blogger, has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness.
She first encourages us to DARE to boldly step out, to consider disrupting life as we know it. Then she teaches us how to DREAM, to give life to the many possibilities available, whether to start a business, run a marathon, or travel the world. Finally, Whitney's model brings out the businesswoman in her; she teaches us to DO, to execute our dreams. Rich with real stories of women who have dared to dream, DARE, DREAM, DO offers a practical framework to realize one's true potential.
Whitney's website is http://whitneyjohnson.com/
To order Dare, Dream, Do click HERE
Labels: Dare, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare To Dream, Dream, Whitney Johnson
How to Raise $1 Million (or More!) in 10 Bite-Size Steps/ Asking Matters- an interview with Andrea Kihlstedt on Uncommon Giving
The Rock the World Network is a community of uncommon givers. The Uncommon Giving show features the leaders of charities, foundations and corporations rocking our world.
Andrea Kihlstedt is well known as a writer, coach and trainer in fundraising.
Many would have you believe that raising $1 million or more is complex, requires countless meetings, an outsized pool of prospects, and the costly aid of a consultant. Andrea Kihlstedt punctures that notion by showing that intelligent board members, volunteers, and staff have within them the skills and common sense to make it happen. Kihlstedt's 10 steps will and won't surprise you. If you have experience, you already know the importance of a campaign's infrastructure: the need to refine your case, identify the right chair, and adhere to the proven sequence of soliciting.
But what WILL surprise you, and where the strength of the book lies, is the fresh way Kihlstedt, herself a consultant with some 27 years of experience, helps you line up your ducks.
Over the past 28 years, her clients have ranged from tiny start-up organizations to large national institutions. She has guided and goaded each of them to create the culture and context that will inspire people to ask.
Her website is www.askingmatters.com/
Labels: Andrea Kihlstedt, How to Raise $1 Million (or More!) in 10 Bite-Size Steps
Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power- an interview with Jill Flynn & Mary Davis Holt on EGG Live!
This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jill Flynn & Mary Davis Holt The original live interview was 8/31/12.
Jill Flynn, M. Ed., is founding partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL) whose goal is to move women and organizations forward, faster. Mary Davis Holt is a partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL), an executive coach and keynote speaker on business, women, and leadership.
Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations—a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years.
How can women break through? Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or "rules") most women follow that get in the way—then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear that path. For example, the old rule of "Focus on Others" must be replaced by "Take Center Stage," "Hard Work Will Get You There" must yield to "Be Politically Savvy." "Play It Safe" must give way to "Play to Win." "Ask Permission" must be replaced by "Proceed Until Apprehended."
This hands-on guide is for women who are ready to transform their assumptions and join the senior ranks of American business.
Co-author, Kathryn Heath (not interviewed) is Managing Partner of Flynn Heath Holt.
The author's website is http://flynnheath.com/
To order Break Your Own Rules click HERE
Labels: Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power, EGG Live!, Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath, Mary Davis Holt
The Philanthrocapitalism Revolution- an interview with Matthew Bishop on Uncommon Giving
Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist.
From Buffett to Bono, how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists—the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give—it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is leading the way: he has promised his entire fortune to finding a cure for the diseases that kill millions of children in the poorest countries in the world.
In Philanthrocapitalism, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green examine this new movement and its implications. Proceeding from interviews with some of the most powerful people on the planet—including Gates, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono, among others—they show how a web of wealthy, motivated donors has set out to change the world.
Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for the Oxford University Press on subjects ranging from privatization and regulation to corporate mergers. Prior to that, Mr. Bishop was educated at Oxford University.
Matthews websites are: http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/matthew-bishop
http://www.philanthrocapitalism.net/
Read more: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/uncommongiving/2013/01/11/matthew-bishop-the-philanthrocapitalism-revolution-on-uncommon-giving#ixzz36K5wlwEL
Labels: Matthew Bishop, The Economist, The Philanthrocapitalism Revolution, Uncommon Giving
What International Philanthropy Can Do- an interview with David Bonbright on Uncommon Giving
David Bonbright is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone, who's mission is to improve the effectiveness of social purpose organizations.
Over the past three decades, as a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.
While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations that were among the first laws passed by the newly elected Mandela government.
They work with them to develop better ways of planning, measuring and reporting social change.
Their analysis provides an in-depth description of the difficulties social organizations face in measuring and reporting their impact.
Keystones website is www.keystoneaccountability.org/
Labels: David Bonbright, Keystone, Uncommon Giving, What International Philanthropy Can Do
Charity Case: An Apollo Program for Nonprofits- an interview with Dan Pallotta on Uncommon Giving
Dan Pallotta is a builder of movements and one of the original social entrepreneurs. He is the President and Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity, a full service agency of ideas for the humanitarian sector.
Dan Pallotta believes that virtually everything our society has been taught about charity is backwards.
He states that the social sector is denied the ability to grow because of short-sighted demands that it send every short-term dollar into direct services. Yet if the sector cannot grow, it can never match the scale of our great social problems. In the face of this dilemma, the sector has remained silent, defenseless, and disorganized. In Charity Case, Pallotta proposes a visionary solution: a Charity Defense Council to re-educate the public and give charities the freedom they need to solve our most pressing social issues.
Dan is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multi-day AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days and changed the fundamental paradigm for civic engagement in and fundraising for important social causes.
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Sally Helgesen, an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant, is ranked by Leadership Gurus as number 15 in its survey of the world's most influential leadership experts and cited as one of the top 35 authorities in the field by Leadership Excellence magazine.
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Power Moms: The New Rules for Engaging Mom Influencers- an interview with Maria T. Bailey on EGG Live!
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One Size Fits All: Making Healthy Choices, Stepping into a Meaningful Life- an interview with Michele Howe on EGG Live!
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In One Size Fits All, you will discover that much of life and health is about making good choices. What we say yes to, as well as what we say no to, matters in our everyday decisions. Information, no matter how valuable, remains worthless unless we grab hold of its principles and put them to use in our lives. Each one of us determines the quality of life as it pertains to our health. Throughout every chapter of One Size Fits All, discover how much influence you have over your life despite periodic seasons of setback, illness, or injury. As you read, you will learn how every individual's unique lifestyle plan includes making meaningful choices to build a healthy life.
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The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace- an interview with Shaunti Feldhahn on EGG Live!
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Never before has an author gotten inside the hearts and minds of men in the workplace—from CEOs to nonprofit managers, from pastors to factory workers—to discover how they perceive the way women often approach things on the job, what their expected "rules" of the workplace are, what "managing emotion" means, and what factors improve or harm a man's respect for a female co-worker.
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The document was signed at the UN COP27 climate conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh by Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg and the Jordanian minister of water and irrigation, Mohammed Al Najer.
According to the Environmental Protection Ministry, restoration of the Jordan River is a major goal for both countries due to its great ecological value, its rich historical and religious heritage, and its importance as a major tourist site.
The agreement gives practical expression to Annex 4 of the 1994 Israel-Jordanian Peace Treaty, which contains clauses regarding environmental cooperation in the Jordan River. These include the ecological restoration of the waterway, protection of water resources from pollution, control of agricultural pollution and waste, pest control, the creation of nature reserves and protected areas, and tourism and historical heritage.
Gideon Bromberg, the Israel director of EcoPeace, a Middle East environmental peace organization, welcomed the agreement, saying, "The agreement signed today between Jordan and Israel should build on Peace Treaty commitments and the 2014 decision of the two governments that created a sub-committee on their Joint Water Committee, focused on rehabilitating the Jordan River."
As part of Thursday's agreement, Israel and Jordan jointly recognized that the restoration of the Jordan River requires cross-border action, and that rehabilitation will create new opportunities for cooperation between the countries, generate jobs, and improve quality of life for citizens living on both sides.
Both countries pledged to treat pollution in their respective territories, partly by building wastewater treatment facilities and connecting towns along the river to advanced sewage infrastructure. They will also improve the quality of the water that flows into what has become, in many parts, little more than a polluted, trickling stream.
The two sides also agreed to promote sustainable agriculture, with special emphasis on regulating agricultural runoff and reducing the use of chemical pesticides.
In addition to making plans for tourism on both banks, the two countries also committed to examining the creation of a regional research center and academic cooperation aimed at restoring the streams that run into the Jordan River.
In July, the Israeli government approved an ambitious plan to clean up a substantial stretch of the Jordan River, restore its once abundant nature, and develop tourism along its banks.
The segment of river to undergo rehabilitation, all of which is located within Israeli territory, runs from the Sea of Galilee to the point where the river meets the Bezek Stream, around 37 kilometers (23 miles) to the south. The plan was approved Sunday.
Bromberg pointed out that because of the transboundary nature of the river, rehabilitation south of Bezek Stream into the West Bank also required cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and the "full participation" of the 60,000 Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley.
The Environmental Protection Ministry said in a statement that the Jordan River's restoration and protection from pollution were especially important given a climate change-driven decrease in rainfall, which means less water is available to the iconic waterway.
The Jordan River is important to the three Abrahamic faiths, and a particular pull for Christian pilgrims.
Jordan and Israel, together with the United Arab Emirates, also signed a memorandum of understanding at COP27 last week relating to a deal signed last year for the kingdom to supply Israel with solar energy, in return for Israel proving Jordan with desalinated water.
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Cute top from Costco! I always forget to look through the clothing when I'm there, I'm always in such a rush but they do have some great pieces!! Hope your spring break is going well!
Thanks! I don't buy much there for me, but I get clothing there for my boys regularly. My husband is too brand picky usually, but my boys are very easy to please. I'm very happy with the white top! I'm doing a lot of shopping this week! Lol!
I love that white top! I always slop food on mine too,lol. Smart idea to have more than one.
I'm a mess! I went back to Costco but just couldn't make myself buy another one! I will try to be careful! Thanks!
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Q: Difference between Prim's and Dijkstra's algorithms? What  is the exact difference between Dijkstra's and Prim's algorithms? I know Prim's will give a MST but the tree generated by Dijkstra will also be a MST. Then what is the exact difference?

A: Prim and Dijkstra algorithms are almost the same, except for the "relax function".
Prim:
MST-PRIM (G, w, r) {
    for each key ∈ G.V
        u.key = ∞
        u.parent = NIL
    r.key = 0
    Q = G.V

    while (Q ≠ ø)
        u = Extract-Min(Q)
        for each v ∈ G.Adj[u]
            if (v ∈ Q)
                alt = w(u,v)    <== relax function, Pay attention here
                if alt < v.key
                    v.parent = u
                    v.key = alt
}

Dijkstra:
Dijkstra (G, w, r) {
    for each key ∈ G.V
        u.key = ∞
        u.parent = NIL
    r.key = 0
    Q = G.V

    while (Q ≠ ø)
        u = Extract-Min(Q)
        for each v ∈ G.Adj[u]
            if (v ∈ Q)
                alt = w(u,v) + u.key  <== relax function, Pay attention here
                if alt < v.key
                    v.parent = u
                    v.key = alt
}

The only difference is pointed out by the arrow, which is the relax function.

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*The Prim, which searches for the minimum spanning tree, only cares about the minimum of the total edges cover all the vertices. The relax function is alt = w(u,v)

*The Dijkstra, which searches for the minimum path length, so it cares about the edge accumulation. The relax function is alt = w(u,v) + u.key

A: Here's what clicked for me: think about which vertex the algorithm takes next:
Prim's algorithm takes next the vertex that's closest to the tree, i.e. closest to some vertex anywhere on the tree.
Dijkstra's algorithm takes next the vertex that is closest to the source.
Source: R. Sedgewick's lecture on Dijkstra's algorithm, Algorithms, Part II: https://coursera.org/share/a551af98e24292b6445c82a2a5f16b18

A: I was bothered with the same question lately, and I think I might share my understanding...
I think the key difference between these two algorithms (Dijkstra and Prim) roots in the problem they are designed to solve, namely, shortest path between two nodes and minimal spanning tree (MST). The formal is to find the shortest path between say, node s and t, and a rational requirement is to visit each edge of the graph at most once. However, it does NOT require us to visit all the node. The latter (MST) is to get us visit ALL the node (at most once), and with the same rational requirement of visiting each edge at most once too.
That being said, Dijkstra allows us to "take shortcut" so long I can get from s to t, without worrying the consequence - once I get to t, I am done! Although there is also a path from s to t in the MST, but this s-t path is created with considerations of all the rest nodes, therefore, this path can be longer than the s-t path found by the Dijstra's algorithm. Below is a quick example with 3 nodes:
                                  2       2
                          (s) o ----- o ----- o (t)
                              |               |
                              -----------------
                                      3

Let's say each of the top edges has the cost of 2, and the bottom edge has cost of 3, then Dijktra will tell us to the take the bottom path, since we don't care about the middle node. On the other hand, Prim will return us a MST with the top 2 edges, discarding the bottom edge.
Such difference is also reflected from the subtle difference in the implementations: in Dijkstra's algorithm, one needs to have a book keeping step (for every node) to update the shortest path from s, after absorbing a new node, whereas in Prim's algorithm, there is no such need.

A: Dijsktra's algorithm finds the minimum distance from node i to all nodes (you specify i). So in return you get the minimum distance tree from node i.
Prims algorithm gets you the minimum spaning tree for a given graph. A tree that connects all nodes while the sum of all costs is the minimum possible.
So with Dijkstra you can go from the selected node to any other with the minimum cost, you don't get this with Prim's

A: The simplest explanation is in Prims you don't specify the Starting Node, but in dijsktra you (Need to have a starting node) have to find shortest path from the given node to all other nodes.

A: The only difference I see is that Prim's algorithm stores a minimum cost edge whereas Dijkstra's algorithm stores the total cost from a source vertex to the current vertex.
Dijkstra gives you a way from the source node to the destination node such that the cost is minimum. However Prim's algorithm gives you a minimum spanning tree such that all nodes are connected and the total cost is minimum.
In simple words:
So, if you want to deploy a train to connecte several cities, you would use Prim's algo. But if you want to go from one city to other saving as much time as possible, you'd use Dijkstra's algo.

A: Dijkstra's algorithm is a single source shortest path problem between node i and j, but Prim's  algorithm a minimal spanning tree problem. These algorithm use programming concept named 'greedy algorithm'
If you check these notion, please visit

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*Greedy algorithm lecture note : http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/notes/07-greedy.pdf

*Minimum spanning tree : http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/notes/20-mst.pdf

*Single source shortest path : http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/notes/21-sssp.pdf

A: The key difference between the basic algorithms lies in their different edge-selection criteria. Generally, they both use a priority queue for selecting next nodes, but have different criteria to select the adjacent nodes of current processing nodes: Prim's Algorithm requires the next adjacent nodes must be also kept in the queue, while Dijkstra's Algorithm does not:
def dijkstra(g, s):
    q <- make_priority_queue(VERTEX.distance)
    for each vertex v in g.vertex:
        v.distance <- infinite
        v.predecessor ~> nil
        q.add(v)
    s.distance <- 0
    while not q.is_empty:
        u <- q.extract_min()
        for each adjacent vertex v of u:
            ...

def prim(g, s):
    q <- make_priority_queue(VERTEX.distance)
    for each vertex v in g.vertex:
        v.distance <- infinite
        v.predecessor ~> nil
        q.add(v)
    s.distance <- 0
    while not q.is_empty:
        u <- q.extract_min()
        for each adjacent vertex v of u:
            if v in q and weight(u, v) < v.distance:// <-------selection--------
            ...

The calculations of vertex.distance are the second different point.

A: Dijkstras algorithm is used only to find shortest path.
In Minimum Spanning tree(Prim's or Kruskal's algorithm) you get minimum egdes with minimum edge value.
For example:- Consider a situation where you wan't to create a huge network for which u will be requiring a large number of wires so these counting of wire can be done using Minimum Spanning Tree(Prim's or Kruskal's algorithm) (i.e it will give you minimum number of wires to create huge wired network connection with minimum cost).
Whereas "Dijkstras algorithm" will be used to get the shortest path between two nodes while connecting any nodes with each other.

A: Both can be implemented using exactly same generic algorithm as follows:
Inputs:
  G: Graph
  s: Starting vertex (any for Prim, source for Dijkstra)
  f: a function that takes vertices u and v, returns a number

Generic(G, s, f)
    Q = Enqueue all V with key = infinity, parent = null
    s.key = 0
    While Q is not empty
        u = dequeue Q
        For each v in adj(u)
            if v is in Q and v.key > f(u,v)
                v.key = f(u,v)
                v.parent = u

For Prim, pass f = w(u, v) and for Dijkstra pass f = u.key + w(u, v).
Another interesting thing is that above Generic can also implement Breadth First Search (BFS) although it would be overkill because expensive priority queue is not really required. To turn above Generic algorithm in to BFS, pass f = u.key + 1 which is same as enforcing all weights to 1 (i.e. BFS gives minimum number of edges required to traverse from point A to B).
Intuition
Here's one good way to think about above generic algorithm: We start with two buckets A and B. Initially, put all your vertices in B so the bucket A is empty. Then we move one vertex from B to A. Now look at all the edges from vertices in A that crosses over to the vertices in B. We chose the one edge using some criteria from these cross-over edges and move corresponding vertex from B to A. Repeat this process until B is empty.
A brute force way to implement this idea would be to maintain a priority queue of the edges for the vertices in A that crosses over to B. Obviously that would be troublesome if graph was not sparse. So question would be can we instead maintain priority queue of vertices? This in fact we can as our decision finally is which vertex to pick from B.
Historical Context
It's interesting that the generic version of the technique behind both algorithms is conceptually as old as 1930 even when electronic computers weren't around.
The story starts with Otakar Borůvka who needed an algorithm for a family friend trying to figure out how to connect cities in the country of Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic) with minimal cost electric lines. He published his algorithm in 1926 in a mathematics related journal, as Computer Science didn't existed then. This came to the attention to Vojtěch Jarník who thought of an improvement on Borůvka's algorithm and published it in 1930. He in fact discovered the same algorithm that we now know as Prim's algorithm who re-discovered it in 1957.
Independent of all these, in 1956 Dijkstra needed to write a program to demonstrate the capabilities of a new computer his institute had developed. He thought it would be cool to have computer find connections to travel between two cities of the Netherlands. He designed the algorithm in 20 minutes. He created a graph of 64 cities with some simplifications (because his computer was 6-bit) and wrote code for this 1956 computer. However he didn't published his algorithm because primarily there were no computer science journals and he thought this may not be very important. The next year he learned about the problem of connecting terminals of new computers such that the length of wires was minimized. He thought about this problem and re-discovered Jarník/Prim's algorithm which again uses the same technique as the shortest path algorithm he had discovered a year before. He mentioned that both of his algorithms were designed without using pen or paper. In 1959 he published both algorithms in a paper that is just 2 and a half page long.

A: Prim's algorithm constructs a minimum spanning tree for the graph, which is a tree that connects all nodes in the graph and has the least total cost among all trees that connect all the nodes.  However, the length of a path between any two nodes in the MST might not be the shortest path between those two nodes in the original graph.  MSTs are useful, for example, if you wanted to physically wire up the nodes in the graph to provide electricity to them at the least total cost.  It doesn't matter that the path length between two nodes might not be optimal, since all you care about is the fact that they're connected.
Dijkstra's algorithm constructs a shortest path tree starting from some source node.  A shortest path tree is a tree that connects all nodes in the graph back to the source node and has the property that the length of any path from the source node to any other node in the graph is minimized.  This is useful, for example, if you wanted to build a road network that made it as efficient as possible for everyone to get to some major important landmark.  However, the shortest path tree is not guaranteed to be a minimum spanning tree, and the sum of the costs on the edges of a shortest-path tree can be much larger than the cost of an MST.
Another important difference concerns what types of graphs the algorithms work on.  Prim's algorithm works on undirected graphs only, since the concept of an MST assumes that graphs are inherently undirected.  (There is something called a "minimum spanning arborescence" for directed graphs, but algorithms to find them are much more complicated).  Dijkstra's algorithm will work fine on directed graphs, since shortest path trees can indeed be directed.  Additionally, Dijkstra's algorithm does not necessarily yield the correct solution in graphs containing negative edge weights, while Prim's algorithm can handle this.

A:
Dijkstra finds the shortest path between it's beginning node
  and every other node. So in return you get the minimum distance tree from beginning node  i.e. you can reach every other node as efficiently as possible.
Prims algorithm gets you the MST for a given graph i.e. a tree that connects all nodes while the sum of all costs is the minimum possible.

To make a story short with a realistic example:

*

*Dijkstra wants to know the shortest path to each destination point by saving traveling time and fuel.

*Prim wants to know how to efficiently deploy a train rail system i.e. saving material costs.

A: Dijkstra's algorithm doesn't create a MST, it finds the shortest path.
Consider this graph
       5     5
  s *-----*-----* t
     \         /
       -------
         9

The shortest path is 9, while the MST is a different 'path' at 10.

A: Directly from Dijkstra's Algorithm's wikipedia article:

The process that underlies Dijkstra's algorithm is similar to the greedy process used in Prim's algorithm. Prim's purpose is to find a minimum spanning tree that connects all nodes in the graph; Dijkstra is concerned with only two nodes. Prim's does not evaluate the total weight of the path from the starting node, only the individual path.

A: @templatetypedef has covered difference between MST and shortest path. I've covered the algorithm difference in another So answer by demonstrating that both can be implemented using same generic algorithm that takes one more parameter as input: function f(u,v). The difference between Prim and Dijkstra's algorithm is simply which f(u,v) you use.

A: At the code level, the other difference is the API.
You initialize Prim with a source vertex, s, i.e., Prim.new(s); s can be any vertex, and regardless of s, the end result, which are the edges of the minimum spanning tree (MST) are the same. To get the MST edges, we call the method edges().
You initialize Dijkstra with a source vertex, s, i.e., Dijkstra.new(s) that you want to get shortest path/distance to all other vertices. The end results, which are the shortest path/distance from s to all other vertices; are different depending on the s. To get the shortest paths/distances from s to any vertex, v, we call the methods distanceTo(v) and pathTo(v) respectively.

A: They both create trees with the greedy method.
With Prim's algorithm we find minimum cost spanning tree. The goal is to find minimum cost to cover all nodes.
with Dijkstra we find Single Source Shortest Path. The goal is find the shortest path from the source to every other node
Prim's algorithm works exactly as Dijkstra's, except

*

*It does not keep track of the distance from the source.

*Storing the edge that connected the front of the visited vertices to the next closest vertex.

*The vertex used as "source" for Prim's algorithm is
going to be the root of the MST.

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Q: copying from buffer to buffer with a for loop working for all cases except for 0, stumped I am currently trying to write a small program that tests a smaller functionality of a udp socket program. This section of code opens a file, stores the contents of the file into a buffer and then writes every 1024 bytes of the buffer into a section of another buffer (which is going to be sent as packets in the udp application), I also store a sequence number at the beginning of each packet. The file_buffer gets correctly filled but the packet_buffer does not. (at packet_buffer[0], it is all null)
The problem is that this works for all cases except for the 0th place in the buffer. Here everything is null.
My code is below, I have been stumped for hours trying to debug this little error.
Any tips, tricks, solutions?
#include "sendto_.h"

#define MAXBUFSIZE 102400
#define WINDOWSIZE 6
#define THEWINDOW 100

int main (int argc, char * argv[])
{
    /** file pointer to point to file opened by client to be */
    FILE* fp;           /**sent to the server*/

    /** Identifiers for the start and the*/
    int window_start, window_end;       /** end of the window */

    /** window for GBN sliding window */
    char window[THEWINDOW];

    /** buffer to hold the contents of the file to be sent to server */
    char *file_buffer;

    /*set of buffers to be used to send approprate window packets */
    char packet_buffer[100][1024];

    int sequence_id = 0;
    int i, j, size, read_len;

    if(!(fp = fopen(argv[1], "r")))
                fprintf(stderr, "Error opening '%s': %s\n", argv[1], strerror(errno));

    // obtain file size:
    fseek (fp , 0 , SEEK_END);
    size = ftell (fp);
    rewind (fp);

    file_buffer = (char *) malloc(size * sizeof(char));
    /** size */
    read_len = fread(file_buffer, 1, size, fp);
    if(read_len > MAXBUFSIZE){
        printf("file size is too large: %d\n Exiting safely\n", read_len);
        free(file_buffer);
        return 1;
    }

    //printf("file buffer: %s", file_buffer);

    //snprintf(size_buffer, 10, "%d", read_len);

    /******************
      sendto_() sends immediately.
      it will report an error if the message fails to leave the computer
      however, with UDP, there is no error if the message is lost in the network once it leaves the computer.
     ******************/

     //bzero(buffer,sizeof(buffer));

    /*loop that is going to deal with the main functionality of this
      program: sliding window, sending packets and receiving ACKS.*/
     int k = 0;
     int count = 0;
     int temp;

     /*setting up packets to be sent */
    for(i = 0; i < THEWINDOW;i++){
        temp = i;

        packet_buffer[i][0] = i;
        sequence_id = packet_buffer[i][0];
        printf("sequence # of packet = %d\n", sequence_id);
        for(j = 0; j < 1025; j++){
            packet_buffer[i][j+1] = file_buffer[(j)+k];
            count += 1;
            if(count == size){
                j = 1026;

                i = THEWINDOW;
            }

        }
        printf("count: %d\n", count);
        printf("Wrote section of file into array: %s\n", packet_buffer[temp]);
        k += 1025;

    //read info into each set of the packet buffer
    }

    window_start = 0;
    window_end = 5;

    return 0;

}

A: I would think:
char packet_buffer[100][1024 + 1];
...
for(i = 0, count=0; i < THEWINDOW && count < size;i++){
    packet_buffer[i][0] = i;
    sequence_id = packet_buffer[i][0];
    printf("sequence # of packet = %d\n", sequence_id);
    for(j = 1; j < 1025 && count < size; ){
        packet_buffer[i][j++] = file_buffer[count++];
    }
    printf("count: %d\n", count);
    printf("Wrote section of file into array: %s\n", packet_buffer[i]);
    //read info into each set of the packet buffer
}

might be worth a try.  I think you're loops are being overrun, not your main issue, but a confusing point for me nonetheless.
EDIT Everytime I look at it, I see stuff to be pulled out of loop.

A: I see a few problems.

*

*You need to declare packet_buffer as packet_buffer[100][1025].  1 byte for the ID and 1024 bytes for the buffer data.  Total = 1025.

*Your for (j...) loop is looping from 0 to 1024.  It should go from 0 to 1023 so that you transfer a total of 1024 bytes in each iteration of the i loop.

*You need to add 1024 to k at the end of the j loop, not 1025.  Similarly, you can set j=1024 to exit the j loop when count==size.

*You want to use &packet_buffer[temp][1] in your printf since the first char is an index and not from the file buffer.

A: Figured it out, since we were storing 0 in the beginning of the first packet as a char it stored a '\00' character which made the functions we were using to write the file stop as soon as it starts. Thanks for the all the help.


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New Estimates of EU Agricultural Support: An "Un-Common" Agricultural Policy
EU agricultural support to member states is a barrier to development in Africa and elsewhere. Support levels vary by member, and remain high internationally, but neither the EU nor the OECD publish comparable figures on support levels in the 28 members. In this note, we publish the first estimates of agricultural support by EU members. We have assembled these estimates from various sources to enhance transparency and scrutiny of this spend.
With the EU 2021 to 2027 budget discussions about to enter a key phase, our estimates—using the OECD's established measure—show that current subsidy levels are more than four times higher in several eastern European members than in the Netherlands, where subsidies are lowest. Ireland and Poland are mid-table, but support levels are around double those of Denmark. Countries with higher support are clearly at an advantage despite being part of the EU's "Common Agricultural Policy" (CAP).
Our estimates also show France, Ireland, and Luxembourg—who support a high agriculture budget—are actually in the bottom half of EU members in terms of support levels. If these development leaders shifted their position to equalize subsidy levels in a reduced budget, this would even the EU playing field and also support an important reform for development.
Below we explain why EU agricultural spend matters, our approach, and—we think—the first-ever EU member producer support estimates. This is followed by a brief analysis and conclusions.
Does support to agriculture still matter to development?
There's no doubt that agricultural support levels are lower than they were three decades ago. Last year, the EU spent over 37 percent of its budget on agriculture, although the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework could reduce this to between 28 and 31 percent of the total between 2021 and 2027. At over 50 billion euros a year, this is around three times the EU's aid budget, and many times each of migration and environment and climate action, where annual spend is under a billion.
The effect of agricultural support is largely pernicious: it increases EU production, lowers global agricultural prices, and makes it harder for importers. African agriculture—which accounts for over 15 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's total GDP—is disadvantaged by lower international prices and because Africa does not have 50 billion euros per year to support it.
How high are EU subsidies?
The EU's support levels are high by international standards.The OECD's "producer support estimate" (PSE) calculates support as a share of total farm income. The latest figure for the EU is 20.0 percent (2018)—above the OECD average and well ahead of China, the US, Russia, Canada, Brazil, and Australia (see figure 1). The EU's subsidies are not all linked to production levels, and so are likely to be less distortionary than some, though this is difficult to quantify.
Source: OECD Producer and Consumer Support Estimate Database. Link to data here.
These subsidies are known to vary by member state—but which EU members are receiving the highest and lowest subsidy levels? We have collated, combined, and analysed the latest available information (2017) on EU agricultural payments, and have allocated trade-related support by sector, to produce the first member-level estimates of producer support.
EU members support levels
Figure 2 sets out our estimates of producer support expressed as a proportion of farm income by EU member state. (Split into subsidy and market price support (MPS) elements.)
Source: Author's analysis of data from OECD, Eurostat, and European Commission. The full calculations are here.
This highlights that, using the standard international measure (%PSE), there is wide variation in the support provided to agriculture within the "Common" agriculture policy:
Six EU members receive more than four times the support of the Netherlands
Traditional supporters of agriculture spend like Ireland, Luxembourg, Italy, and Poland are all below the EU average
Despite being a vocal critic of the CAP (and receiving a separate rebate) UK support is broadly the same as the EU average
France's support is only just above average, while Germany's is in the bottom quarter
In terms of the "market price support" element—which inflates EU food prices—Belgium, Hungary, Malta, Poland, and UK producers benefit most
The variation seen here reflects a combination of factors, few of which relate to a policy objective. Most payments are distributed on the basis of a farm's size in hectares—though per hectare rates vary and were often based on the historical value of production. Other payments relate to sustainability of farming methods, numbers of young farmers, or how much farms produce.
Method and caveats
We have estimated the two main elements of the PSE: subsidies and market support. On the former, we look at the subsidies provided by the EU under its two European agricultural funds—the Guarantee Fund and the Fund for Rural Development. For rural spend, EU countries match funding, so we've added that. On the latter, market support, the estimate incorporates the benefits to producers from prices above (world) market levels. We've used the EU figure for market support and allocated it among member states according to their share in the sectors that benefit (for example, beef producers benefit from EU-level trade protection, and we've allocated that benefit according to each country's share of EU beef production).
This is not as rigorous as the approach taken by the OECD in producing its estimates, and we reach a slightly different overall EU figure of 18.4 percent (the OECD calculates 19.1 percent for 2017). We've made some simplifying assumptions, in particular in allocating which sectors benefit from market support and assuming all rural spend is matched. Still, we think it is a good guide to what the OECD would estimate (if EU members would allow it to!). We've described our method in annex C, and attached our calculations—we welcome feedback.
Conclusions for EU's Common Agricultural Policy
Within the EU, our estimates suggest an "Un-common" rather than a "Common" agriculture policy which undermines the EU's level playing field.
Countries with below-average subsidy levels like Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden should continue to push for lower subsidy levels overall.
Other development leaders, like France, Ireland, and Luxembourg, are defending agriculture subsidies as "friends of the farmers." Our estimates show that their support levels are actually in the bottom half of members, and they could shift their position to suggest an alternative approach where producer support is equalised between members, and lowered overall—supporting development and levelling the EU playing field.
The EU's next Financial Framework is being discussed and agreed over the coming months. In a world where the challenges are about fragility, climate, and migration, there are much better uses for the hundreds of billions of euros spent on agricultural subsidies which hold back development and accelerate climate change. We hope these new estimates improve understanding of EU agricultural spend and accelerate progress in reform.
We are very grateful for advice on our approach from Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin. We're also very grateful for advice, data manipulation, and QA from Lee Robinson; and for initial data collection from Hannah Timmis. All views and any errors are the authors.
Please see PDF for tabulated results and excel file for full calculations.
Europe Programme
Food, Agriculture, and Biofuels
Oral Evidence at the International Development Committee
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