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Philippe Delquié is Associate Professor at George Washington University School of Business. He's also a regular speaker at the Berlin School, taking our EMBA participants on a journey through the complex and often uncertain world of Decision Making. We spoke to him about the importance of viewing ambiguity with an open mind, the creative capacity for leaders to use data to feed new solutions and ideas, and the responsibilities this 'big data' access brings to consumers and big businesses.
Can you give us some classroom insight into the world of 'Decision Making'?
It's about individual decision making, how to handle the complexity of business decisions, and how to handle uncertainty and ambiguity. What makes decisions very difficult and potentially paralyzing for people is the presence of uncertainty in the outcomes of their decisions. This is particularly true in the business world where most investments are very uncertain. Essentially, we look at decision making not just from a numbers point for view, but from a cognitive and psychological point of view. We look at the biases that we bring to decision making, the evaluations we make, and the way we tend to adopt a very narrow view when approaching decisions. We investigate how we can increase and expand the framework in which we view our options to make sure we're solving the correct problem, and we examine how good we really are at appraising uncertainty – we all cognitive limitations that we can overcome with proper awareness and training.
Over the last decades, factors such as digitization and globalization have changed the way business leaders and entrepreneurs look at their futures. What disruptions and trends have impacted the way that leaders manage risk now versus ten years ago?
One of the big things that's happening (and that's not going to stop) is what we call 'big data'. We see that it's not only disrupting things but also enabling business opportunities that were not possible before. Artificial intelligence and big data are poised to affect our ability to make timely decisions and to put other decisions on auto-pilot which frees up the human brain for other exercises and interpretation. In the future, there's only going to be more data and processing capabilities. A.I. can do a lot of things for us, but the key thing to remember is that human judgement will always be needed and won't be irradiated. The boundaries will be pushed but human nature will always be part of things. And that's why we need to be evermore well-trained and vigilant about how we use our limited attention and our judgement skills. Our critical evaluation will become even more important. Another thing we hear a lot about is the advent of Blockchain technology, which will essentially change the way that banking and a lot of administration is done. With computational and distributional power, there'll be less need to trust a single organization like a government or a bank to do things. Systems will become more secure because it doesn't rely on the simple idea of a vault that people might try to break into. Hacking a system with Blockchain will become so much more costly than the benefits you can get from it, that it will be inherently more stable and sustainable. But we are still just at the beginning of that and people are still arguing whether the current technology which is very costly in terms of data and computational resources will be 'the future'. But the concepts clearly seem to be getting traction.
For businesses around the world, the upsides of big data are pretty clear. But from a consumer perspective, there's also a lot of mistrust. Can you elaborate on any of the downsides and the responsibilities that come with big data capabilities?
I'm not an expert on the technology of big data but the wider issue of responsibility is hugely important. Users will have to be more sophisticated, more demanding and more discerning in the way their data is used. People tend to rely on default options – this is part of the narrow-framing we explore in decision making. If the default is 'check the box if you want to be in our database' or 'check the box if you don't want to be in our database', it makes a difference. A great example is Facebook and the recent stories from Cambridge Analytics, where they used a lot of data unknown to the users, but also to some extent, unknown to Facebook itself. Essentially, by default, the data and anonymity of people were not protected. And this kind of framework will have to change. Companies will need your consent to use your data as opposed to the other way around. It will create challenges but again, there are benefits. This is just a hunch, but I feel that we can trust that people – users – will become more sophisticated, and that they will know where to pull the brakes on things. At some point there will be a limit, not just for privacy reasons but for individualization. Users will rebel and say, 'I don't want to be profiled this way.' People inherently want to be more than just a profile in a computer. They want to be seen as human and complex.
In teaching uncertainty, what advice do you give more left-brain or right-brain leaders who might be intimated by either its mathematical or emotional aspects?
This is actually an interesting challenge. There are three places where decisions are made – the head, heart, and gut. It's a question of balance. You should not expect all the answers to come from calculations and mathematics. If you do that, you create resistance. People will not trust you or they'll be turned off by it because it's not their cup of tea. As a leader, I think what's important to convey is that using analytics is not contradictory to being creative. I want to open up people's minds and ideas to the fact that sometime they'll have to trust their gut and use their hearts to drive their organizations. But if they can better use their brains – the more computational and mathematics-based extension of the brain – it cannot be harmful. The idea is not to make us robots. As Einstein said, 'Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted counts.' We need to appreciate that we can get deeper insights and accept that what we know intuitively may or may not be true. Challenging our intuitions with numbers and hard facts can help us to generate insights that we wouldn't have had otherwise.
Are there any tools or authors that you'd recommend to a creative-minded business leader looking to expand their view on decision-making?
When it comes to visual tools, and this is very relevant to big data, there's lots of work being done at the moment on visualization, asking what is the best way to convey vast quantities of information. We're all familiar with bar charts, graphs, pie-charts and so forth. These are simple ways of displaying data that we see in the newspaper all the time. But there are evermore clever ways to do things when data becomes complex. If you're interested in digging into analytics, there are basic textbooks that teach you how use you Excel to do this and that, and it's more than just 'Excel for Dummies'. But you can surprise yourself with the back of behind-the-spreadsheet analysis you can do with Excel. 'Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets' by Stephen G Powel is a book I often recommend to my MBA students. Then of course, there is all of the literature on Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Science as they apply to business, finance, and economics. For example, Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' and there's the work of Dick Thaler who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Behavioral Economics in 2017. He has a famous best-seller called 'Nudge'; how do you get people to do things that are in their best interest without patronizing or being heavy-handed? It's using the idea of Behavioral Economics and psychology and asking how we can design the choice architecture so that more favorable outcomes can be obtained. We understand that because of human nature, people will not necessarily do things simply because they are told. Take safety, for example. We are all familiar with taking shortcuts even at our own risk. Can we design the choice architecture so that people do not hurt themselves and design devices to be robust to people's shortcomings?
The Berlin School classroom is unique for its diverse talent and backgrounds. As a regular faculty member, can you tell us what it's like to stand in front of the EMBA class?
The EMBA program is unlike any other program that I've been affiliated with. It's no exaggeration to say that each class at the Berlin School is totally different from the typical class you might meet in Executive Education. It's such a refresher for me and I really enjoy engaging with them. Even just the way they dress and look! They are not your typical business types. Their attitudes are fantastic. There's a special dynamic. I've been coming back to the Berlin School for over four years, and my course always takes place at the beginning of the module. Participants have just landed in from all over the world. Some of them are reconnecting from old modules and some are meeting for the first time. It's amazing to see how eager they are to share. Teaching this class forces me to revisit my approach. I can't come in heavy-handed and dive straight into analytics and neither should I. It makes me explore new ways of conveying information and really think about the scope of Decision Making and its application, and the value of what I have to teach.
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Michael Smith, anchor, commentator and reporter for ESPN, will be the keynote speaker at the Louisiana Journalism Education Association Fall 2018 conference, to be held Thursday, Sept. 27 at Loyola University New Orleans.
Smith will serve as Visiting Professional in Residence in the School of Mass Communication Sept. 25-27, working with mass communication majors at Loyola before opening the high school journalists' conference.
"We are always delighted to have our distinguished alumni return to provide insight and encouragement to current students, and Michael is generous with his time and expertise," said Sonya F. Duhé, Ph.D., director of the School of Mass Communication.
A member of the Loyola class of 2001, Smith was inducted in the School of Mass Communication's alumni hall of fame, the Den of Distinction, in 2013.
Prior to joining ESPN, Michael was a reporter for the Boston Globe, serving as the paper's NFL and New England Patriots beat writer. Michael began his journalism career while a student at Loyola University in his hometown of New Orleans, serving as a sports reporter and casino copy editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and sports columnist for the award-winning Loyola Maroon.
In 2004, Smith was hired by ESPN. He has regularly appeared on ESPN studio programs in a wide variety of roles, including as co-anchor for the for 6 p.m. eastern weekday edition of SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program; as an NFL reporter and insider for "SportsCenter", "NFL Live" and "Sunday NFL Countdown"; and in 2016 as the co-anchor for "Fantasy Football" Now. From 2011-2017, Smith co-hosted a daily midday talk show, first entitled "Numbers Never Lie" and later re-named "His & Hers," after his popular podcast. He also periodically appears as a panelist on "Around the Horn" and was a correspondent for ESPN's news magazine show, "E:60." Michael is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. He lives in Farmington, Conn., with his wife and three children.
The Louisiana JEA Fall Conference is being co-sponsored by the Press Club of New Orleans and the Loyola University New Orleans School of Mass Communication. It will include the Fall 2018 JEA/Tom Bell Silver Scribe Yearbook Contest, open to any Louisiana high school that produces a printed yearbook for the 2017-18 academic year.
Information on the conference is available by contacting Albert Dupont, Louisiana JEA president and instructor in the Loyola School of Mass Communication, atjea.louisiana@gmail.com or 504-865-2653. Details are available at https://jealouisiana.org/568/state-conferences/loyola-jea-fall-2018-conference/.


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Q: iPhone Data Best Practices - caching vs remote I'm developing an iPhone app that uses a user account and a web API to get results (json) from a website. The results are a list of user's events.
Just looking for some advice or strategies - when to cache and when to make an api call... and if the iPhone SDK has anything built in to handle these scenarios.
When I get the results from the server, they populate an array in a controller. In the UI, you can go from a table listing view, to a view of an individual event result - so two controllers share a reference to the same event object.
What gets tricky is that a user can change the details of an event. In this case I make a copy of the local Event object for the user's changes, in case they make an error. If the api call successfully goes through and updates that event on the server, I take these local changes from the Event copy and set the original Event object to match with setters.
I have the original controller observing if any change is made to the local Event object so that it can reflect it in the UI.
Is this the right way of doing things? I don't want to make too many API calls to reload data from the server, But after a user makes an update should I be pulling down the list again with the API call?
...I want to be careful that my local objects don't become out of sync with the remote.
Any advice is appreciated.

A: I took a similar approach with an app I built.  I simply made a duplicate version of the remote data model with Core Data, and I use etags on the backend to prevent sync issues (in my case, it's okay to create duplicate records).
It sounds like you're taking a good approach to this.

A: Some time back, I developed an iOS app where in, I had almost same requirement to store data on server as well as locally to avoid several network call and also user can see their information without any delay.
In that app, user can store photos, nodes, checkIns and social media post and with all this data, app can form a beautiful timeline. So what we did was, we had everything locally and whenever user phone come in some WIFI zone, we start uploading that data to server and sync both (local and remote) databases.
Note this method works well when only one user can access this data.

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Ankle dislocation and comminuted fractures to metatarsals.
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Topic category and keywords: amicus,injury,foot,ankle,fractures,fractured,comminuted,metatarsals,phalanx,angulated.
This is a description of the database entry for an illustration of foot injury. This diagram should be filed in Google image search for injury, containing strong results for the topics of foot and ankle. This drawing shows what the injury looks when it is illustrated in fine detail.
This webpage also contains drawings and diagrams of foot injury which can be useful to attorneys in court who have a case concerning this type of injury regarding the foot. Doctors may often use this drawing of the injury to help explain the concept they are speaking about when educating the jury. Given the nature of this drawing, it is to be a good visual depiction of foot injury, because this illustration focuses specifically on Right Foot Injuries. This illustration, showing injury, fits the keyword search for foot injury, which would make it very useful for any educator trying to find images of foot injury.
This exhibit shows injury. The definition of Right Foot Injuries can be derived from this visual diagram. It is used to illustrate how foot injury would look under normal conditions. This exhibits also contains images related to foot. It would be helpful in demonstrating foot. You can also find a reference to ankle which appears in this diagram. This could also help medical experts to explain ankle to the layperson. If you are looking for fractures, then you can find it in this diagram as well. It will show you how fractures relates to foot injury. Once you know about ankle and fractures as they relate to foot injury, you can begin to understand fractured. Since fractured and comminuted are important components of Right Foot Injuries, adding comminuted to the illustrations is important. Along with comminuted we can also focus on metatarsals which also is important to Right Foot Injuries. Sometimes people put more emphasis on metatarsals than they do on fractured. Overall it is important to not leave out phalanx which plays a significant role in Right Foot Injuries. In fact, phalanx is usually the most common aspect of an illustration showing Right Foot Injuries, along with foot, ankle, fractures, fractured, comminuted and metatarsals. This diagram also contains pictures related to angulated. It would be useful in demonstrating angulated.
This illustration also shows amicus, injury, foot, ankle, fractures, fractured, comminuted, metatarsals, phalanx, angulated, to enhance the meaning. So if you are looking for images related to amicus, injury, foot, ankle, fractures, fractured, comminuted, metatarsals, phalanx, angulated, then please take a look at the image above.


Kimberly Hebert Gregory (born 1973, Houston, Texas) is an American actress. She began her career in theatre before her breakthrough role as Dr. Belinda Brown in the HBO comedy series Vice Principals in 2016.
She graduated from The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in her native Houston. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, where she received a BA in Psychology, and the University of Chicago, where she was awarded a master's degree in Social Work. She also spent a quarter at DePaul University in the school's MFA program.
She appeared in a number of Chicago Theatre Company productions as of late 1990s. She received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for performance in Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery.
In 2012, Kimberly Hebert Gregory was nominated for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for performance in By The Way, Meet Vera Stark.
She appeared in films I Think I Love My Wife (2007), Red Hook Summer (2012), White Alligator (2012), and The Genesis of Lincoln (2014). She guest-starred on Gossip Girl, Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Two and a Half Men, and The Big Bang Theory.
In 2014 she had a recurring role as Lucinda Miller in the Lifetime comedy-drama series, Devious Maids. In 2016, she starred as series regular Dr. Belinda Brown in the HBO comedy series Vice Principals opposite Danny McBride. In September 2016, trade publication The Wrap described Hebert Gregory as the show's "breakout star".
In early 2017, she was cast opposite Toni Collette in the ABC action comedy-drama pilot Unit Zero produced by Kenya Barris. The pilot was not picked up to series. She had recurring roles in Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Better Call Saul. Later in 2017, Hebert Gregory was cast in a female leading role in the ABC comedy-drama The Gospel of Kevin.


Woolly mammoth exhibit at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.: photo by Rob Pongsajapan on Flickr (use permitted with attribution).
Nebraska designated the mammoth as the official state fossil in 1967. Various species of mammoth crossed the Bering Strait land bridge in prehistoric times and spread throughout most of North America. Giant grass-eaters of the Ice Age tundra, the woolly mammoth stood 10-12 feet (3-3.7 meters) tall at the shoulder and weighed 6-8 tons (5500-7300 kilograms), with massive curling tusks and long shaggy hair.
Mammoth fossils have been found in most Nebraska counties. One mammoth found in Lincoln County (Archidiskodon imperator maibeni) was one of the world's largest elephant fossils (displayed in the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln).
Alaska also designates the mammoth as a state symbol, and Michigan recognizes the giant mastodon. What's the difference between a mammoth and a mastodon? Mastodons had straighter tusks than the mammoth, and both the body and head of the mastodon is longer and squatter than the woolly mammoth (its back doesn't slope like a mammoth's).
Woolly mammoth fossil at La Brea Tar Pits, California; photo © 1990 David Morgan-Mar: DM's Photo Gallery (all rights reserved; used by permission).
Fossil model of woolly mammoth at the American Museum of Natural History; photo by Dan Stephenson on Flickr (noncommercial use permitted with attribution / share alike).


restylingmag.com March 2015 | Restyling & tRuck AccessoRies 11 posts to YouTube with informative videos, like how to install window tinting , and entertaining videos, like the one with the staff doing the Harlem Shake dance move. "We take pride in the fact that we are No. 1 on Google when people are searching for window tinting car audio in the OKC region," says Kelley, the operations manager. "We recognize that's how people shop these days. ere's no more Yellow Pages, so we have to be at the top of the search page." Jackie Cooper Tint & Electronics makes great effort to stay visible within its com- munity. Local car clubs are invited to take over the shop parking lot to showcase vin- tage classics. Also, a monthly on-location, three-hour broadcast by a popular sports radio talk show allows the Jackie Cooper Tint & Electronics pros to talk about cars, answer questions from listeners and pro- mote specials. Most important, Splitt says, is estab - lishing a special customer experience for visitors of the shop. " We have a fantastic clientele and get a lot of business through referrals," she says. "We use an online scheduler to keep track of our appointments that also helps us send reminders a day ahead of time and follow up with thank you notes aerward. We strive to develop a great relationship with them because we know that if they have a good experience here they will keep coming back." Just like your mother would have wanted. The installation bay at Jackie Cooper Tint & Electronics is usually packed.


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24. In what way do we say the Scriptures are inspired? Divine dictation?
Scriptures were therefore not divine dictation, but rather penned under the breath of the Holy Spirit. Unifying all the various genres of the books of the Bible is the Holy Spirit.


Hearts & Wine is an elegant evening of wine tasting, jazz, great food and fun! Tickets include a full buffet Herban Feast dinner, a spread of tasty handcrafted desserts, wine sampling from a large number of the region's best wineries, access to the Live Auction of rare and hard to get wines and experiences, and more. The venue is the gorgeous The Foundry, Herban Feast's desitnation wine sampling location. All proceeds benefit Rotary First Harvest and help bring surplus produce to Washington's food banks while reducing food waste. Join us! You won't be disappointed.


As I write this, my son is out driving on his own for the first time. I am pretty much calm enough to write down a few ideas about teaching kids to drive. Forgive me if there are typos!
- Put 'em through the ringer. Mountain roads, ice, snow, rain, dark of night. (Hey, that sounds like the post office motto, doesn't it?) Let them experience the extremes for the first time while you are with them and can offer guidance. Take them to a big parking lot in a snowstorm and let them learn how the car handles in adverse conditions.
- Communicating faith and trust in your teen's abilities will be far more helpful than projecting your fears by issuing warnings and dire predictions. Which voice do you want them to hear inside their heads when you aren't there? The one that shrieks, "Oh no!" or the one that says "Okay, I know you can figure out what to do here."
- Notice what they do well and point it out very specifically. "Nice job making that turn tight enough so you ended up in the right lane." "Glad you looked both ways and noticed that guy coming on his bike!"
- Make your expectations crystal clear, as well as the consequences for any violations. Cell phones? Radio? Passengers? Destinations? Speeding? Write it all down, go over it, and have your teen sign it before you hand over the keys for independent driving.
- Reiterate your "call anytime and I'll come pick you up anywhere no questions asked" policy. It still applies, even after they are driving on their own. The teen brain is not at 100% reliability yet. Offer them a buffer that will keep one impulsive decision from dropping a whole lotta dominos.
- And my most recent idea, spawned just about the time I heard the garage door go down: Petition your teen's guardian angels for extra protection! I dunno, I figure it sure can't hurt.
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For information about moving to Iceland we refer to the homepage of the Icelandic Multicultural and Information Centre as well as the homepage of the Icelandic Direcorate of Immigration.
Finally, homepage of Promote Iceland has some useful links to information about working and living in Iceland.
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