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First Look – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Today at CCXP22 (Comic-Con Experience 2022) in São Paulo, Brazil, Marvel Studios debuted the trailer for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3." Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, introduced Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora in the franchise, before delighting the enthusiastic fans with the trailer debut for the highly anticipated upcoming feature film, releasing in Australian cinemas on May 4, 2023.
In Marvel Studios "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
James Gunn writes and directs "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter and Maria Bakalova. Kevin Feige is the producer and Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nikolas Korda, Simon Hatt and Sara Smith serve as executive producers.
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Findings Fall 2008
From the Dean: Working Together
Their Town: Kids of Flint, Michigan
In Step with the Giant: China
The Art of Being a Mentor
When Town Meets Gown
Observatory News
Fathers & Sons
Funds: Ron Davis, Scott Simonds
George Kaplan Hunts Patterns
Q&A: Karen Peterson on Nutrition
Hefty People, Healthy Hearts
Statins & Memory Loss
Pollution & Stroke Risk
Cadmium Linked to Lung Disease
Lung Cancer Survival
Calcium & Pregnancy & Lead
Environmental Change/Ecuador
Breast Cancer as Chronic Disease
Student Snapshot
Historically, academic medical centers and private hospitals don't get along very well. So when the Nebraska Health System decided in 1997 to merge two hospitals—the (academic) University of Nebraska Hospital and the (private) Clarkston Regional Medical Center—it was a gamble.
A bad one, it seemed. By 2001, the system's cash reserves were depleted, earnings had fallen, and there was a small exodus of private practitioners. Cultural resistance between the two hospitals and their respective staffs was pervasive.
"I used to call them the Bloods and the Crips," says Glenn Fosdick, MHSA '76, who became CEO of the system in 2001. "We had a lot of challenges."
Seven years later, the Nebraska Health System—now the Nebraska Medical Center—is first in market share in the Omaha metropolitan area. Besides its primary facility, the center owns 49 percent of a 24-bed freestanding orthopedic hospital and recently broke ground for a 100-bed community hospital, 40 percent of which will be physician-owned. What's more, half of those physician owners will be from private practice and half from the university.
"I'm not sure there's another model like that anywhere," Fosdick says.
A past president of the SPH Alumni Society Board of Governors, a member of the advisory committee of the Griffith Leadership Center, and the 2007 recipient of the school's Distinguished Alumni Award, Fosdick spoke to Findings about the changes he's seen.
How did you turn things around?
We really focused on one basic entity, which is improving the product. Obviously that incorporates quality. It certainly requires working out the relationships between the two sides and getting them to work collaboratively, recognizing that competition is not internal, it's external.
But aren't the two sides inherently incompatible?
In our culture we have two different types of practice scenario, academic and private. It's like religion. Religions are all good. Having two different religions in your town has some advantages to it, but both of them have their unique needs, and you must respect them. And trying to jam them together doesn't work well. So we need to design our process and systems to ensure that we respect what's important to both parties.
It sounds easier said than done.
Our commitment to quality was huge. We took the stance that we should use best practices from other industries, like GE's six-sigma lean-manufacturing program. We changed our dietary system. We don't mass-produce 500 meals a day. When our patients are hungry, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they call room service. We changed our entire supply system. We also implemented crew-resource management training, developed in the aviation industry in the 1980s because of a dramatic increase in fatalities in the '70s. We've trained our OR people, and we do checklists before surgery. We've expanded that to ER and the cardio-cath area and radiology, and we've seen great results. We measure every project by one of three criteria: it improves outcomes, improves efficiency or effectiveness, or it makes somebody's job easier.
Is the organization where you want it to be?
I don't think we're close to the level of quality that we should be. As an industry and as an organization we have a long ways to go. We have a perfect storm coming in the next four to five years, with more people retiring from medicine, nursing, and pharmacy than the health system can produce, and as the baby boom population gets into their retirement years, we'll have more and more people using acute care for their needs. And reimbursements are clearly not going to go up, they're going to go down. It's also clear societal expectations are going to increase.
How did your SPH training prepare you for this job?
The number one thing the program at Michigan did is make me appreciate what I'm really supposed to be doing at the hospital. At Michigan you're not only exposed to health administration but also to the public health side. You're taught as a hospital administrator that your primary job is to improve the health of the community. Now, part of that is to ensure the long-term viability of the institution. But part is to find new programs and medical services that aren't available and to figure out how to make them available, to work on preventive care, to work on education and research. That's all part of my job.
Send correspondence about this or any Findings article to the editor at sph.findings@umich.edu. You will be contacted if your letter is considered for publication.

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using BooksSampleWithMVVM.Services;
using BooksSampleWithMVVM.ViewModels;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace BooksSampleWithMVVM.Views
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for BooksList.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class BooksList : UserControl
    {
        public BooksList()
        {
            ViewModel = (Application.Current as App).Container.GetService<AzureBooksListViewModel>();
            InitializeComponent();
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        public AzureBooksListViewModel ViewModel { get; private set; }
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Posted on January 22, 2016 by Galion Inquirer
Galion falls to Fairbanks
By Mike Tanchevski - [email protected]
Galion girls basketball head coach Nick Vukovich talks to the team during a game against Fairbanks. The Lady Tigers lost 51-42.
A turnover-plagued first quarter kept the Galion Lady Tigers basketball team from their first Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference Red Division win of the season.
Fairbanks handed Galion a 51-42 loss on the Panthers' home floor.
Galion turned the ball over nine times in the quarter, while allowing 13 Fairbanks points and only scoring four.
Galion girls basketball head coach Nick Vukovich tried to settle the team, calling a timeout after the Lady Tigers went down 6-0. Vukovich huddled his squad and challenged them to "pick up the intensity, we're way too flat."
Senior Taylor Valentine came out and scored four of her game high 11 points in the opening quarter. She also hauled down three rebounds.
Galion picked up their play on both ends of the floor following their initial setback, playing the Panthers even for the next three quarters.
"I thought today was the best I've seen it (the intensity) all year, especially quarters two through four," Vukovich said. "I thought we played extremely hard."
The Lady Tigers protected the basketball and reduced its turnovers in the second quarter as they went into the locker room down 21-13 at the half. Galion pulled down six rebounds and forced five Fairbanks turnovers in their comeback effort.
Galion continued to rally in the second half. A pair of free throws and a layup off a steal by junior point guard Jamie Ehrman cut the Panthers lead to 21-17. Ehrman was playing in her third game following time off due to an injury. Her return off the bench sparked the Tigers.
"Ehrman gives us another scoring option, it's not just about Taylor (Valentine) and Robin (Barnes), and it helps out," Vukovich said.
Junior guard Lauren Huggins 3-point basket made the score 22-20 halfway through the third quarter, but that was as close as the Lady tigers would get.
Only two points ahead, Fairbanks intensified their effort. The Panthers outscored Galion 17-12 through the remainder of the quarter, connecting on a pair of 3-point shots and shooting four of eight from the foul line.
The fourth quarter saw both teams transition down the floor as there were 14 scoring possessions. Galion outscored Fairbanks in the last period of play 13-12, but they were unable to overcome the 10-point deficit, which the Panthers had built.
"We started off slow and that was the difference in the game, like the last time we played them. We didn't play to our potential in the first quarter and that was the difference," Vukovich said.
The Lady Tigers got more open looks on shots and were effective in breaking the press. Vukovich admitted that effort in practice is beginning to pay off during games.
"We worked on the girls to shoot more, to be ready to shoot. I thought we did a great job of driving and getting the ball to open people, sometimes shots fall and sometimes they don't," he said. "We worked on the press and the girls did it very well, we executed as best a s we can."
Fairbanks had 10 players in the scoring column. Logan Stigham, Lauren Kocsis and Bailey Beddow each scored eight points to pace the Panthers.
For Galion, in addition to Valentine's 14 point effort, Ehrman added 10 and Lauren Huggins totaled six points.
Galion (0-10, 4-12) will face North Union at home on Jan 23.
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By Mike Tanchevski
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Keira Knightley has banned her daughter from watching certain Disney movies
posted by Laura - Oct 17, 2018
Keira Knightley has a 3-year old daughter and she's banned her from watching certain Disney movies because of the messages they send.
"Cinderella" is one of them. On "Ellen" yesterday Keira said, "She waits around for a rich guy to rescue her. Don't. Rescue yourself, obviously."
Keira is conflicted about "The Little Mermaid", because she LOVES it, but she doesn't want her daughter to watch it. "The songs are great, but do not give your voice up for a man! Hello?"
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DETROIT – Former Detroit Public Schools CEO Kenneth Burnley, Jr. and current Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb have enslaved the Detroit Public Schools to the Bank of New York Mellon by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars. The Bank was founded by slaveowner Alexander Hamilton.
The debt is expected to rise to $523.8 million by 2011, or 90.7 percent of state per-pupil aid for that year. This year alone, DPS debt of $438.8 million amounted to 71.2 percent of state per-pupil aid.
"The Emergency Financial Manager was supposed to eliminate the $219 million DPS deficit when he came in," said CPA Greg Frazier, formerly Deputy Auditor for the City of Detroit, who also filed and won a Freedom of Information Act request for DPS financials for 2006-07, in conjunction with community organization Call 'em Out.
The Bank of New York Mellon (BofNYM) is the nation's oldest bank, with $23 trillion in assets. The Bank of New York was founded in 1784 by Hamilton, and merged with the Mellon Corporation in 2007. The Mellon family is ranked number five by wealth in America's 60 Families.
B of NYM is also custodian of the government's $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). It was paid $20 million in fees to manage the program, and further benefited by selling $3 billion of its preferred stock to the federal government under the program, according to Bailout Sleuth. It has since repaid the $3 billion. Its CEO Robert Kelly is notorious for objecting to proposed restrictions on bonuses paid to top executives of the bailed-out banks.
It also has ties with Chase Bank, one of the nation's foremost culprits in massive foreclosures. In 2006, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. announced they would swap their corporate trust unit for Bank of New York Co.'s retail and small business banking network.
TARP has doled out billions to bail-out the nation's largest banks, which in turn have done virtually nothing to stem the nation's Katrina of foreclosures. Foreclosures in Detroit have drastically reduced another source of school funding, property taxes, which accounted for $75.4 million of DPS cash receipts in 2009-2010.
The excessive DPS borrowing began when former schools CEO Kenneth Burnley, Jr. first purchased $210 million in "deficit reduction bonds" guaranteed by state school per-pupil payments in March, 2005. Monthly letters from DPS Chief Financial Officer Ricardo Kisner and Chief Accounting Officer Delores A. Brown on the DPS website confirm this.
State law had to be changed to resurrect such "deficit reduction bonds," which had been outlawed in 1994, according to a 2004 memo from Gary Olson, then director of the Senate Fiscal Agency.
Since state Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb took over, the district has borrowed untold millions more. Notes dated 2009, 2010, and 2011 account for $515.5 million of $523.8 million debt set-asides for 2010-2011.
"The state is deliberately starving the school district by freezing state aid and sending it to charter schools, while Bobb is covering it up with more borrowing, as Burnley did," Attorney George Washington, who represented the Detroit Board of Education in its successful fight against a mayoral takeover, added.
While it is busy cutting funds to Detroit's children, the Bank of America has been embroiled since 1996 in a $7 billion money-laundering scandal involving a top executive and a Russian bank that collapsed as a result of the transactions, according to articles in the New York Times.
But, said the Times, ". . . corporations are legally liable for the actions of their officers, and now that the two suspects — a former bank vice president, Lucy Edwards, and her husband, Peter Berlin — are cooperating with prosecutors the stakes have suddenly risen for the bank." Edwards and Berlin eventually pled guilty and got probation with restitution, but the case is still ongoing.
In 2008, after the B of NY and Mellon merged, Russia filed its own $22.5 billion lawsuit against BofNYM its' citizens losses.
Richard Scaife is heir to the Mellon fortune.


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If you know me at all, you know I'm not normally one to call for punishment. I also think I have a pretty good sense of humor. I love all kinds of humor. Things that many others find offensive, I can find the humor in. But, in the case of Don Imus, I'm going to make an exception to both my rules. I'm more than happy to tell you why, just in case you don't understand why I think this man should lose his job over his "nappy headed hos" remark.
First I have to admit, I am not a Don Imus fan. I have never caught his show. I've heard precious little about him up until a couple of days ago. But, I do know this. The man has a mainstream "news" (or entertainment or comedy program) on CBS radio and MSNBC. It's debatable as to what type of show it is. The line between comedy, news and entertainment has become so fuzzy, it's hard to tell. But, since the show is put on by CBS and MSNBC as a quasi-news program, I think these companies are responsible for his speech. I understand he's one of those irascible shock jocks that America seems to love. They seem to me to be a guilt-free way to allow hatred to spew forth under the guise of humor or free speech. I'm cool with that, if that's your cup of tea. But, Mr. Imus crossed a line (jumped way across it) with his remarks about the young women who play for Rutgers' University basketball team and for that, he should pay with his job.
Nappy headed hos is just about the worst thing a white man can call a group of young black women. It insults their hair (one thing that Black women are particularly sensitive about). And, it insults their sexuality. It's racist and sexist all rolled into one. It's possible that Don Imus is so insensitive and clueless that he didn't know the impact of the speech he used. But, this is as good a time as any for him (and others to learn). They will only learn if serious consequences are paid by Don Imus. And I think nothing short of NBC and CBS parting ways with him will show just how seriously those corporations take the feelings of the people who watch and listen to their shows.
This is not a free speech issue. If someone wants to put Imus' tripe on alternative stations, goody for them. He's free to say what he wants and we're free to react to what he says. This is my reaction. If NBC and CBS allow this, without some very serious consequences, they are complicit in it as far as I'm concerned. I'm hopeful that people will keep pressure on them and bring this situation to the right conclusion.
I'm not naive. I realize that Imus will land somewhere else very soon. I'm guessing probably with a better contract and more freedom to continue with his hate speech. Frankly, if I thought the man was going to starve on the streets I wouldn't be calling for his firing. I don't think his remarks rise to that level of punishment. I don't think he will personally lose any money over this, even if he is fired. I'm doubtful he's nearly as contrite as his apologies portray him as being or that he's really understood what he's done wrong. But, a two week vacation suspension is barely a slap on the wrist. I'd almost rather see them do nothing than to insult the women of Rutgers by pretending a two week suspension means anything. The pattern is clear now. Say whatever outrageous thing you want and the next day issue a "heartfelt" apology outlining how much you've learned from the incident and how you're not "really" a racist/sexist. I'm sick of it. As a black man, this is language I wouldn't use in a room with my closest friends over a beer. I've never called a woman, any woman a "ho". I can only imagine how I'd feel if my daughter were on that Rutgers basketball team. Looking at Imus and hearing those words come from his mouth, over public airwaves and funded by corporate sponsors brings up some very unpleasant memories of a time most of us do not want to be reminded of.
I've heard two excuses for Imus' behavior and why he should not be fired. I'd like to address both of those here and now. The first thing is that black rappers use this type of language all the time with no repercussions and that the black community itself calls black people "niggers and hos". So, they say, everybody should be held to the same standard. As far as I'm concerned, a racist remark by a radio host on a mainstream program and the lyrics of a rap song or something said by a comedian somewhere are two very different issues. As soon as Snoop Dog gets a radio show and makes a remark like that, I'll call for him to be fired, too. We need to deal with the verbal violence committed by blacks on blacks every day. But, that does not excuse Imus or give him permission to use this type of insulting, racist, degrading language. White people have to understand that the problems within our community do not give them permission to pile on. If you don't understand the language you're using and the implications of it, don't use it. Ignorance is not an excuse for someone in Imus' position. Others being equally guilty is no excuse either.
The second reason I've heard why Imus should be allowed to slide by is the people who are going after him (Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton) are no better than he is. I'm not going to get into how I feel about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton other than to say I never voted for either of them to represent me. And, that I hate to take the same side with them on just about any issue. But, that is a completely separate issue. I don't care about who is calling for Imus' resignation or firing and he should not be able to slip by on this issue simply because the credibility of some of his accusers might be suspect.
Racism and sexism are still big problems in America even while institutionalized racism has largely been eliminated. NBC and CBS putting up with this type of speech is not acceptable. Every once in a while we get the opportunity for an educational moment. This is one of those opportunities. For a white man to call a group of young black women hos (and nappy headed hos at that) from a public platform needs to have serious consequences. We need to send a clear signal that we will marginalize this type of speech and that it is not acceptable in the public forum. I don't see anything short than a "Here's your hat, there's the door, Mr. Imus." as a clear enough message.
Imus: Race Remark Was "Sarcastic"


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Q: Is the extension $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{7+\sqrt{7}})/\mathbb{Q}$ a Galois extension? I'm preparing for an algebra exam, and in previous exams I found the following exercise:
Let $\alpha = \sqrt{7+\sqrt{7}}$. Show that $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$ is a Galois extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ of degree $4$ with cyclic Galois group.
Now, my problem is that this extension seems not to be a normal extension. Here is my reasoning: It is easy to see that the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is
$$
f(X) = X^4-14X^2+42
$$
which is irreducible by Eisenstein criterion. The roots of $f(X)$ are $\pm\alpha$ and $\pm\sqrt{7-\sqrt{7}}$, so the splitting field of $f(X)$ is
$$
K = \mathbb{Q}\left(\alpha,\sqrt{7-\sqrt{7}}\right).
$$
Note that $\sqrt{7}\in \mathbb{Q}(\alpha)\subseteq K$ and because
$$
\alpha\sqrt{7-\sqrt{7}} = \sqrt{42} = \sqrt{7}\sqrt{6},
$$
we have that $\sqrt{6}\in K$. Also from this last equation if follows that $\sqrt{7-\sqrt{7}}\in \mathbb{Q}[\alpha,\sqrt{6}]$, thus $K=\mathbb{Q}(\alpha,\sqrt{6})$. Now we have a tower of field extensions
$$
\mathbb{Q}\subseteq F=\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{6}] \subseteq K.
$$
The polynomial $f(X)$ is irreducible over $F$: Indeed, it has no roots in $F$ because this would imply that $\sqrt{7}\in F$ which is easy to see to be impossible. Thus if $f(X)$ where reducible over $F$ it must be the product of two polynomials of degree $2$ over $F$, that is
$$
f(X) = (X^2+aX+b)(X^2+cX+d), \quad a,b,c,d\in F.
$$
Expanding and comparing coefficients, we obtain
$$
a+c = 0, \quad b+d+ac=-14, \quad ad+bc=0, \quad bd=42,
$$
from where
$$
c=-a, \quad b+d-a^2=-14, \quad a(b-d)=0, \quad bd=42.
$$
The third equation in the above line tells us that $a=0$ or $b=d$. If $a=0$ we obtain that
$$
b+d=-14 \quad \text{and} \quad bd=42,
$$
and solving for $b$ we obtain $b=7\pm\sqrt{7}\not\in F$, a contradiction. If $b=d$ then $b^2=42$, giving $b=\pm \sqrt{6}\sqrt{7}\not\in F$. Thus $f(X)$ must be irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{6}]$.
This implies that $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$ is not the splitting field of $f(X)$ and hence $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)/\mathbb{Q}$ is not a normal extension.
From here I know how to proceed to compute the Galois group, but I want to be sure that I made no mistakes. So my question is: Is this reasoning correct? Did I made a mistake or was it a mistake of the professor?

A: Yeah! that's perfect. For your conviction this is what magma says:

P< x >:=PolynomialAlgebra(Rationals());

f:=x^4-14*x^2+42;

G:=GaloisGroup(f);

print G;

Permutation group G acting on a set of cardinality 4
Order = 8 = 2^3
(1, 2)(3, 4)
(1, 4)
If $\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)|\mathbb{Q}$ were Galois then $[\mathbb{Q}(\alpha):\mathbb{Q}]$ would be 8, but we know it's 4

A: If the Galois groups is isomorphic to $\mathbb Z/4\mathbb Z$, then it can only have 1 proper intermediate extension, but from your work, we know both $\sqrt{6}$ and $\sqrt{7}$ are in the normal closure of $\mathbb Q[\alpha]$.
To show the polynomial is irreducible or equivalently $[\mathbb Q[\alpha]:\mathbb Q]=4$, we have the following more conceptual way. As clearly $\sqrt{7}\in\mathbb Q[\alpha^2]\subset\mathbb Q[\alpha]$, and $[\mathbb Q(\sqrt 7):\mathbb Q]$ divides $[\mathbb Q(\alpha):\mathbb Q]\le 4$, hence $[\mathbb Q[\alpha]:\mathbb Q]$ can only be $2$ or $4$. If it is $2$, then $\mathbb Q[\alpha]=\mathbb Q[\sqrt 7]$.
Now let $\sigma$ be the nontrivial element in $\text{Gal}(\mathbb Q(\sqrt 7)/\mathbb Q)$, we have $$[\sigma(\sqrt{7+\sqrt 7})]^2=\sigma(7)+\sigma(\sqrt 7)=7-\sqrt 7$$ $$\sigma(\sqrt{7+\sqrt 7})=\pm \sqrt{7-\sqrt 7}$$ And $\mathbb Q(\sqrt 7)$ will contain $\sqrt{7-\sqrt 7}$ no matter what the sign is. Further it also contains $(\sqrt{7+\sqrt 7})(\sqrt{7-\sqrt 7})=\sqrt{42}$ and $\frac{\sqrt{42}}{\sqrt 7}=\sqrt 6$ and it's not hard to show $\sqrt 6\not\in\mathbb Q(\sqrt 7)$.

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A special issue shift from dual medium to open access academic publishing
Michele Jacobsen
Each year, the editorial team receives and considers proposals for special issues of CJLT devoted to a particular domain or topic of research in the field of educational technology. I am sincerely delighted and grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the indefatigable Elizabeth Meyer from Concordia University in Montreal to prepare this special Fall 2008 issue of CJLT. Our initial contact was in person with all other communication, review, editing and production tasks being conducted entirely online and on time. Dr. Meyer presents six articles that reflect state of the art and diverse international research on Electronic Portfolios. The sixteen authors who contribute their research and critical perspectives to this issue hail from post-secondary institutions of research and learning across Canada, the United States, France, China and the Netherlands.
In this editorial, I mark the passage of CJLT from a dual medium publication to an open access academic journal. The present editorial team has supervised the dual medium publication of CJLT since 2005 and has shepherded 12 print issues into production and distribution. The 2008 calendar year marks the seventh year of the journal as a dual media publication, using both print and online delivery (i.e., CJLT / RCAT website [www.cjlt.ca] launched Feb 2002). Originally, full text articles became available on the CJLT website with a one issue (4 month) delay after the print issue was distributed. In 2008, CJLT was hosted by AUPress and was published online using the Online Journal System (OJS). With Volume 34 in 2008, the decision was made to publish the articles of each current print issue online at the same time the issue was mailed out to members and subscribers, thus beginning the transition to full open access.
At the April 2008 CNIE Board Meeting at the Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta, the decision was taken to publish both of CNIE's peer reviewed journals, the Journal of Distance Education and the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, as open access, open source journals starting in 2009. Therefore, the Fall 2008 print issue is the last hard copy version of CJLT that will be distributed by mail to Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) members. Starting with Volume 35 in Winter 2009, CJLT completes the transformation from dual media to a fully open access journal. CJLT will provide immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. CNIE members will be notified by email as new issues of CJLT are published online.
As I have written in previous editorials, the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology is unique in the international field of educational technology in that manuscripts are accepted and published in either English or in French. The abstract for each article is published in both of Canada's two official languages. As an open access journal, CJLT will continue to accept and to publish articles in either English or in French.
With the transition to open access, the CJLT Editorial team is in a great position to consider educational technology research and scholarship that goes beyond the primarily text and graphics rich print medium. While print journals continue to serve the research community well, it seems fitting for scholars in educational technology to chart and explore new Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 capabilities in its academic, open access publications. Therefore, at the choice of the authors and at the discretion of the editors, online CJLT manuscripts may contain selected graphics, animations, multimedia elements, or resource links that may help to illustrate a concept or amplify a project that could not, by their nature, be included in the print version. Authors and editorial board members interested in exploring different approaches to using multiple media and social networking for academic publishing should contact the editor at cjlt@ucalgary.ca


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Fridays 8/7c
Highlights from the Fifteenth Episode of Season 3 of Hawaii Five-0
Five-0 investigates when a mysterious man targets select police officers for revenge. Check out this update of "Hookman," from the original series.
"Hookman"
Five-0 investigates when a mysterious man (guest star Peter Weller, who directs this episode) targets select police officers for revenge and McGarrett is the next on his hit list. Photo: Norman Shapiro/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Five-0 (Grace Park, left, Daniel Dae Kim. right) investigates when a mysterious man targets select police officers for revenge and McGarrett is the next on his hit list. Photo: Norman Shapiro/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Seriously.... Who's got better hair?
Thanks to Chris M. for the winning photo caption!
Five-0 Huddle
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Singing isn't just my dream, it's my truth," says Chevel Shepherd, the 17-yr-antique winner of The Voice Season 15. With a report settlement with Universal, a impending debut album produced with the aid of the legendary Todd Tidwell, an upcoming excursion, and, to cap all of it, a lead position in a movie variation of Michael Martin Murphey's hit "Wildfire" inside the works, it's a truth that just keeps getting better. With 2020 set to be the 12 months Chevel makes proper on her promise of becoming The Voice's subsequent massive movie star, it's time to research greater about the gifted teenager.
She might nonetheless be in her young adults, but Chevel's been making a song for years. She first stepped as much as the mic while she turned into simply 2 years vintage: over the subsequent years, she took every opportunity that came her manner to get lower back to it, acting on numerous radio suggestions or even recording her personal mini-CD by the point she turned ten. Her famous yodeling, meanwhile, occurred after her mom showed her a video of a person doing the identical: after finding out she desired to grasp the method herself, she started out working towards each day, and soon had it all the way down to a nice art.
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Along with a shed load of coins, Chevel additionally won a recording settlement with Universal Music Group as part of her grand title. Speaking to People about whether or not she'd be placing her legendary yodeling competencies on display in her first album, she replied with a very particular sure, earlier than increasing further on what form of sound she planned to create. "I [want] to honestly bring returned the older Loretta [Lynn], Dolly Parton u . S . Vibe," she said. "I feel like that might be in reality cool to start out with, and then I wouldn't mind doing a little cutting-edge, contemporary united States of America as well. But I just need to carry returned the older country due to the fact now not many humans are doing that these days."
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During her blind audition, Chevel pick to sing a rendition of If I Die Young by The Band Perry. The Voice judges have been definitely awed, with three out of four turning their chairs. Despite the pleading pitches of Jennifer Hudson and Blake Shelton, Chevel joined the likes of Sarah Grace, Kymberli Joye, and Delaney Silvernell on Team Kelly. Ch evil's eventual victory gave Clarkson her 2d win of the display up to now, making her the first woman teacher in The Voice records to win more than one season.
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Of all of the reviews, she's had considering the fact that triumphing The Voice, the one that's giving Chevel the most important thrill changed into meeting the First Lady of Country (and one of her all-time icons), Loretta Lynn. The meeting came after Ch even received a non-public invitation to attend the legend's 87th birthday, in conjunction with a behind the scenes pass to fulfill the stars of the birthday live performance. Although meeting enterprise luminaries along with Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Margo Price, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, and Jack White was glaringly memorable, it became assembly Lynne herself that bought Chevel to tears.
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Clayton Christensen: The man who changed how we see disruptive innovation
Remembering the man, his ideas and body of work, through a professional association spanning 15 years
Neelima Mahajan
Jan 27, 2020 10:01a.m.
[Clayton Christensen, Kim B Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, with Neelima Mahajan in January 2019. Christensen died on January 23, 2020. He was 67.]
It was July 2005 and it was my second day at The Times of India in Mumbai. We had just learnt that Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was in town and speaking at an event later that day. "You should go and interview him," said my editor Indrajit Gupta (IG as we all call him).
The name Christensen was on everyone's lips in those days. Every second business leader you met in India was talking of his ideas. Christensen first shot to fame with his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma. The book laid out for the world the famous disruptive innovation theory. In simple terms, disruptive innovation describes how products or services can start off at the bottom of the market—a segment that large, well-entrenched players usually ignore—and then quickly move up the market, posing a serious threat to established competitors. The theory, which shed new light on a lot of existing market phenomena, proved to be wildly successful and made Christensen something of a rock star. Business leaders, from Intel's Andy Grove to Apple's Steve Jobs, started revering Christensen. He followed up The Innovator's Dilemma with books like The Innovator's Solution and then Seeing What's Next, a book that aimed to help decision-makers predict how their industries would evolve.
But I, a rookie reporter, hadn't read any of these books yet.
Nervous, I returned to my desk. I had only recently transitioned to writing about management and I wasn't very familiar with any of Christensen's theories. I couldn't possibly read up everything within an hour and be ready with a sensible interview.
I looked outside the window. The downpour was incessant. The event was at a hotel close to the airport and we were at the other end of town. "Are you crazy?" said a colleague. "Cars are submerged in water there. You better not go anywhere." I told IG. "Even better! No one else will manage to come. You can get an exclusive!" Better sense prevailed and I stayed put. I used the time instead to read up on Christensen's work and set up the structure for a sensible interview. Meanwhile, I also emailed someone I knew in the communications team at Harvard Business School (HBS), formally asking for the interview.
The rain was relentless in Mumbai that day and water levels were rising dangerously. Local trains had stopped running and the roads were waterlogged. We would soon head into what would later be known as 26/7, the worst floods the city had experienced till then. By now my contact at Harvard had emailed Christensen requesting him to meet me if he had the time.
That night none of us could go home. The Times magically arranged for bedding for a building full of employees. And soon my colleagues had all gone off to sleep. I, however, couldn't. It was only my second day here and I was too embarrassed to sleep in office. I spent the night hunched up on my computer even as the editor-in-chief's secretary routinely implored me to go to bed.
It was then the email came:
"Hello Neelima,
Thank you very much for your interest in interviewing me. I am in Mumbai; however, I'm not sure for how much longer I will be here. We haven't been able to get back to our hotel due to the rain. When we do get back, time permitting, I will give you a call on your mobile.
That was it! By now I was too excited to sleep. By midnight, I was reading my umpteenth article on Christensen, and had exchanged a few emails with him already. His event had been cancelled and by then, he had, it seems spent quite some time in a car stuck on the road, watching the water levels rise perilously around the car. At some point, the organisers of the event he had come for gave up trying to get him back to his hotel, the Taj Hotel in Colaba, and checked him into a hotel near the airport.
He promised to write to me again once he knew what his schedule looked like. Comfortable in the thought that this was not a flat "no", I finally went to sleep.
The next day was a blur. We woke up in office unsure if we could go home. Trains were still not working but the rain had stopped. Meanwhile, it was rumoured that food supplies would run out at noon. At around 11 am a couple of colleagues and I bravely decided to go home. A cab got us one-third of the way and we walked the rest of the distance. Seven hours later I was home and exhausted. There were new problems to deal with at home: a damaged car, wrecked elevators making the climb to our 10th storey flat an effort for tired legs, and rotten food because there had been no electricity now for 30 hours. Christensen was the last thing on my mind now.
I slept for 10 hours straight that night, my mind still a blur and my body hurting. And then my phone rang. It was Christensen. All his meetings had been cancelled due to the floods and would I care to meet him? I jumped at the idea. He had all the time in the world now and it was up to me to take it.
"Yes, I would love to!" I said.
"Sure, come over then," he said.
"Where will I find you?" I asked.
"I will wait for you in the lobby. You can't miss me—I am 6'8"," he said.
I smiled. I quickly got ready and made my way to the Taj. And sure enough, he was there in the lobby waiting for me. I had never seen anyone this tall before. We shook hands—I still recall how my hand vanished into his giant hand. He was relaxed and quite at ease, despite having been on quite an adventure in the last 24 hours.
Interviewing thought leaders in management, especially as a newbie, can be intimidating. You are forever conscious that you know so little compared to the person in front of you and the pressure to talk intelligently is intense. I had been in some such situations before but with Christensen it was different. He never once made me uncomfortable. He took his time to discuss every answer in great detail, even taking my notebook to draw little graphs. I was hanging on to every word. The interview was not on my mind anymore—I was learning. Learning from a scholar most people wouldn't have access to. In the two hours I spent with him that day I learnt more than I would have in a year in a real classroom.
We talked about what would be the building blocks of the 'jobs to be done' theory, the problem with data, and new ways in which marketers should look at customers. There was one thing that stayed with me from that interview, a strand that has been through all of Christensen's work through the decades. "The problem with data is that it is only available about the past. So if you wait until the data can clearly tell you what to do, almost always you have missed the opportunity to take action in a timely way," Christensen told me. "The only way that you can interpret if something happens in your environment, the only way you can impute meaning to that observation is through the laws of theory."
That's what he was attempting to do: develop a body of theories about management that allow you to pick up each theory "like a set of lenses" and look at something that is happening in the industry today and predict what that would result in going forward. He also lamented how a lot of managers didn't "give credence to the word 'theory' because it is associated with the word 'theoretical' which denotes it's not practical".
I came back to the office feeling charged up and hammered out the interview within two days.
And then he went back.
But before he returned he sent an email to my contact at HBS:
"Dear David:
We had a good conversation. She's a very, very sharp, impressive woman, and asked great questions that showed unusual understanding of the issues. Thanks to both of you for this opportunity.
-Clay C."
I was mildly shocked. And then pleased. Until now I was a bit unsure of whether writing on management was really my calling. This sealed it, and I would go on and build a career in this niche.
Who is a disrupter?
That first encounter made Christensen one of my favourite interviewees, and I kept in touch regularly. Story on innovation? Mail Christensen. Something happening at TCS? Ask Christensen who was on the board. HBS is looking for a new dean, possibly Indian? Ask Christensen. He replied graciously every time but never ever divulged any secrets.
I met him whenever he came to India and each interview would yield a spectacular new insight. On one such visit, I noticed his smile suddenly melt and his face turn pale. Interrupting our interview, he said, "I need something sweet. I am diabetic and my sugar levels have dipped." We quickly rushed to a restaurant but he started looking worse and worse. I panicked. What would I do if he collapsed suddenly? The bewildered waitress at the restaurant heard me out and quickly got us three cubes of sugar. Christensen's face turned red. He was trying his best not to show his disappointment, perhaps anger. This was the first time I had ever seen him ruffled. Clearly, he needed more than just a few cubes of sugar. I told him to sit down while I ran to the hotel patisserie and got him a big chunk of Black Forest cake. As he ate it, he slowly came back to his usual self. I lingered on, a little unsure of what to do next. But he smiled his big Christensen smile and said we should restart the interview. He completed the interview as if nothing had happened. That was Christensen for you.
While much of the business world was in awe of him, Christensen attracted his share of detractors as well, albeit a small number. The most prominent one being Harvard history professor Jill Lepore. Lepore wrote a damning article in The New Yorker with the subtitle "What the gospel of innovation gets wrong" and accused him of presenting a theory on the foundations of shaky evidence. "Disruptive innovation as a theory of change is meant to serve both as a chronicle of the past (this has happened) and as a model for the future (it will keep happening). The strength of a prediction made from a model depends on the quality of the historical evidence and on the reliability of the methods used to gather and interpret it. Historical analysis proceeds from certain conditions regarding proof. None of these conditions have been met," she wrote.
This time, the usually calm and collected Christensen quickly rose to defend his theory in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Apparently, he even waited outside Lepore's office hoping to discuss this with her. I'm not sure what that resulted in.
The problem perhaps lay with how the term disruptive innovation has been used. Over the years, disruption has become a much bandied about term. Every new and successful company is labelled a disrupter. Eventually, Christensen felt compelled to clarify this—again. So, in the pages of Harvard Business Review, he wrote an article titled 'What is Disruptive Innovation?' 18 years after he published his seminal book. "Unfortunately, disruption theory is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. Despite broad dissemination, the theory's core concepts have been widely misunderstood and its basic tenets frequently misapplied. Furthermore, essential refinements in the theory over the past 20 years appear to have been overshadowed by the popularity of the initial formulation. As a result, the theory is sometimes criticized for shortcomings that have already been addressed," he wrote. And Uber, he categorically clarified, is not a disrupter.
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A few years went by. I left India for the US for a fellowship and subsequently found myself in Beijing and then Hong Kong. We lost touch. I tried getting back in touch, but now my mails would go unanswered. I tried his super-efficient assistant. She would tell me his schedule is too full—every time.
It was only much later that I would discover the reason for his evasiveness: in 2007 he had a major heart attack, in 2009 he was diagnosed with cancer, and in 2010 he had a stroke. Three life-altering events, one after the other. These events took a toll on him. But, this was Christensen, someone Forbes magazine would put on the cover in 2011 with the words "The Survivor" splashed across in big font. Unfazed and unbroken, he approached his ailments differently—with analytical precision. He learnt how to manage his condition. He also analysed how the health care system worked, and how it needed to change.
One of the worst things was the stroke which robbed him of his ability to speak.
As his son Matthew would tell Forbes, Christensen bought himself Rosetta Stone English and started learning words all over again: "He'd have contests with my oldest daughter, Madeleine [6 years old]. He lost a lot." He taught himself how to speak again and over time he returned to his teaching.
It was in 2010 that Christensen turned his strategy viewfinder from business to life. In 2010, he addressed the graduating class at HBS on how they could apply his principles to their personal lives. In a world where everyone is struggling to find meaning, that lecture touched a chord. It led to an article in Harvard Business Review and then a book titled How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth). As he told Fast Company: "I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the culture that we would want to exist in our family, and you can then, as the rest of life happens to you, you can utilize those things to help you become the kind of person you want to be." The book, which was at its heart a guide to life, had a tremendous impact on readers and showed to the world that Christensen thought deeply about things other than business too. Today if one were to look at Christensen's most influential ideas, How Will You Measure Your Life? stands toe to toe with disruptive innovation.
A teacher's legacy
A few more years passed. I changed jobs and moved to Hong Kong. Work would take me to Boston off and on and it felt weird going to HBS and not trying to meet Christensen. So I tried emailing again. Things had changed again, clearly. Now emails would generate an auto response asking you to fill a form regarding the purpose of the meeting. I did. It vanished into a black hole.
But I also had other meetings at HBS. As I was waiting to meet another professor at Morgan Hall, the building where Christensen's office was, I saw him coming towards me. I was shocked to see him. He had lost a lot of weight and was walking with the help of a stick. He graciously said hello and walked past me. It was quite obvious he did not recognise me. It was then I realised how much he had been through over the years.
But clearly he wasn't done yet. He wrote another book, with Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon, titled The Prosperity Paradox. There are different shades of innovation—sustaining innovations (that make a good product better), efficiency innovations (that make a good product cheaper) and market-creating innovations (that make products simple and affordable so more people can access them). The book makes a strong argument for how market-creating innovations can lift entire nations out of poverty, a better alternative to aid.
Perhaps things improved a bit because I saw Christensen's name as a speaker at a management conference I was going to attend. I got in touch with my friend in communications at HBS and asked him if I should even attempt requesting him for an interview—now that I had seen how Christensen was, was it even appropriate to ask? My friend replied positively, and in fact, walked over to Christensen's office and requested his assistant to help with my request. Things started moving again but Christensen cancelled his engagement at the conference, presumably due to another health episode.
Two months later work took me to Boston again. I nudged my friend who confirmed that things were better and I could try for an interview again. His assistant confirmed. About an hour before the interview she emailed saying Efosa Ojomo would join us because Christensen sometimes has trouble with words due to his stroke.
And so I walked into his room and met both him and Ojomo. He had clearly no recollection of who I was and I thought it best to not remind him, given the tight time slot. Before we began, he told me he would have to keep walking as we talked because of a neurological issue he had developed. It's then I realised this would be harder than I had imagined. We began the interview. Christensen would start answering my questions but he would often stumble over a word. Then he would nudge Ojomo to complete the answer, which he would brilliantly, not a word out of place. In short, just as Christensen would have answered it. Clearly, articulation was a big issue, but the logic and clarity were still there in his mind. Christensen was not having the best day, physically. He struggled to open a can of soda and pour it, as we both looked on concerned. Eventually Ojomo helped him. We somehow finished the interview, and as I got ready to leave, he looked at my business card and said: "Your name is familiar. Have we met before?"
I said yes, and reminded him of our first meeting. He had not forgotten Mumbai's torrential rain. "Oh Efosa," he said to Ojomo with a twinkle in his eye, "the water was up till here." He gestured at his waist.
We talked a little more before I left, and it hit me somehow that this might be the last time we meet. I knew I wouldn't be asking him for an interview again. It just wouldn't be right.
It seems he also knew he didn't have much time left, even though there was still a lot more his brilliant mind had to offer. His mind was still brimming with ideas and he prepared several others—like Ojomo, a brilliant thinker and speaker in his own right—to pick up on his work from where he left off.
Dig Deeper into Christensen's ideas and work
[Watch] How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston
[Watch] Clay Christensen: The "Job" of a McDonald's Milkshake
[Watch] Clayton Christensen (Innovator's Dilemma) & Marc Andreessen (a16z) | Startup Grind Global
[Watch] Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) on How to Build a Disruptive Business | Startup Grind
[Read] Clayton Christensen on Innovation: Finding the Jobs To Be Done
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[Read] The Evolution of an Innovation Guru
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ganesh kasinathan on Jan 27, 2020 6:36 p.m. said
Lovely article Neelima and thanks for writing. Also thanks for additional pointers, which i'll read.
RIP prof Christensen. Learning is infinite as well!
Debashis Bhattacharya on Jan 27, 2020 11:09 a.m. said
This is an amazing article and the real hero is Neelima whose dedication and determination made this possible. Well done you for making this possible.
What's most striking is what steel the man was made of and the lesson that we learn is that it is never over till the fat lady sings. To me Christensen has used every physical obstruction in life to introspect and come out with answers which would possibly not have been possible otherwise.
Though gathering of knowledge is important we must always look within ourselves to get answers for questions which sometimes appear unanswerable.
Thanks Neelima once again for this classic. I will definitely keep an eye out for your work
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From my base in Hong Kong, I oversee Roland Berger's management magazine, Think:Act. I have a keen interest in management thought. Over a career spanning two decades, I have interviewed several thought leaders like C.K. Prahalad, Michael Porter, Philip Kotler, Clayton Christensen, Henry Mintzberg, Henry Chesbrough, Marshall Goldsmith and Gary Hamel, and Nobel Prize winners John Nash and Amartya Sen.
Before coming to Hong Kong, I spent four-and-a-half years in Beijing as editor of a China-focused business and management publication. China taught me many things, most of all it gave me a refreshing take on business. Prior to that, I was an International Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley. There, I explored how publications need to evolve with changes in technology and reader habits, and business journalism in Silicon Valley. I was also awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation fellowship as part of the Africa Reporting Project to write about coffee and climate change in Uganda, Africa.
I have worked with some of India's best known publications such as Forbes India, The Times of India and Businessworld. In 2010, I received the Polestar Award for Excellence in IT and Business Journalism.
I have researched and edited books like Leading with Conviction (Jossey-Bass) by Shalom Saada Saar and Michael Hargrove, and Culture of the Sepulchre (Penguin India) by Madanjeet Singh. The second book is closely linked to my family's personal history in East Africa.
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Editor's Note: This is a series of recollections written by Shelby Paul Horn, who was raised in Estill County and went on to become a successful attorney. He now lives in Joplin, Missouri. At the urging of a friend, he wrote down many of his life experiences, some of which we will share with our readers.
My mother was born in Estill County on August 28, 1904. She was much better educated than my father. Although she and her eleven siblings lived in the country, quite distant from town and high school, her father realized the importance of education. Unlike some men of his day, he believed not only in education for his sons, but for his daughters as well. I appreciate that quality in my maternal grandfather for it says a lot about his character. Although he died before I was born and I never knew him, I believe I would have liked him, likely much more than I might have liked my other grandfather, an inattentive father who took little interest in his offspring. My mother always referred to her father as "Papa," and her facial expression and tone of voice said that she felt very close to him. Probably because of what I detected in her expression, I would place "Papa" at the same quality level as "Daddy." Each of them must be earned.
Grandpa Warner, lacking transportation means for his children to go to high school in town, came up with a novel idea. Thinking that they surely had not learned everything they might have during those first eight years, he felt that they could benefit from attending the eighth grade four more years. Thus they spent the extra time in their rural one-room school that it would have taken to get a high school diploma. As a result, had my mother every made out a resume, she would have listed eighth grade in the education column, but would have been farm more qualified than that. I was always impressed by her handwriting, as clear and legible as anyone's of any degree of learning. She never failed to write to me, no matter where I was, and it was always a pleasure to see that distinctive handwriting on an envelope. Her knowledge of the world may not have been sophisticated -she never traveled very far-but she had a basis for universal understanding that belied her station in life. Part of that was related to emotional intelligence, I am certain, but she had received enough education to value education itself. She liked to read, which is the door to knowledge, but she never had enough reading materials. She alone was the parent who wanted me to have an education. I know that my own ambitions in that regard were partially influenced by her early praise for my accomplishments in school.
While I cannot use the words I'd like in referring to my father, I can never thing of my mother other than as "Mama." That word has within it all the times she checked my temperature by holding her hand to my fevered brown and worried that I might grow sicker, all the times she lay awake until I arrived home from wherever I may have been, and all the times that I knew-although willingly she would never have paced upon me the guilt of knowing—that she listened to or watched every news report from the war in which I had placed myself by my own volition. Mama is, I think, the most beautiful word in our language. When I think of mine, I realize that I too, subscribe to that mountain tradition of mother reverence.
I do not know just how Pryse and Mama met, except that first he dated her older sister, Anna. For the life of me, I could never imagine that paring as successful, but then, can I think of Pryse as good enough for Mama? Hardly. I do not know what particular quality of his might have attracted the woman I knew her to be, except that he had a native intelligence, could be charming, was extremely outgoing when he wanted to be, and was physically attractive, with a high-bridged straight nose, blue eyes and dark blonde hair. He was not extremely tall-about six feet– but had a wrestler's physique, strong and lithe and with never an ounce of fat. He played banjo "by ear." I'm certain he sang back then, too, folk songs handed down from the English, Irish and Scots to Appalachian mountain people. I've heard him play and sing "Barbara Allen" and others of that genre. Like many mountain people, he was a raconteur, and could entertain with jokes and have everyone laughing. His jokes were hokey and not so funny to me, but they may have seemed funnier earlier and with a different audience. Aunt Anna wasn't buying. But what may have been less than essential to Aunt Anna may have seemed desirable to Mama, the innocent that she may have been, for at eighteen, she would have been guileless, without suspicion or premonition. He could have—must have—charmed her.
She could have had others, of course. I have a stack of letters to her from another suitor, the last letter written just before she married Pryse. I have read them, once, although I felt somewhat like a voyeur. She saved them, so they must have had some meaning. The gentleman in question seemed rather smitten. He said that he was eager to see her again when he returned to Estill County from someplace his business had taken him, that she was a "sweet little lady" and that he hoped she liked him as well. From his letters, I could see that he was literate, for his grammar, punctuation and syntax were excellent, and I wonder why he lost the race to someone else, someone less learned. What might her life have been had she chosen him? Would she have been a city wife, never having to wash clothes on a washboard or sell eggs to get money for things she needed or sacrifice her own needs for what her children needed? Her children would have not been us, of course, but whoever they would have been, they would have had her for their "mama," and it would have been alright.
But she chose Pryse.
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What is compensation revision letter?
Salary revision letter is either written to the company by an employee for requesting increment in salary or the company to the employee by sanctioning the increment on the basis of his/her annual contribution to the organization. An employee should ask for increment when he/she feels they deserve it and at the right time. The company sends the increment letter to the selected employee by analyzing his/her achievements and commitment to the company. When an employee writes a salary revision letter instead of complaining and victimization, he/she should write about how their work stands out.
Compensation revision letter is written to the employee for not only increment in their salary but also stating that he/she is eligible for other benefits and bonuses from the company. A clear compensation revision letter means that it states the position of an employee stand with the company along with other benefits like medical coverages and time off and will serve as proof of their commitment to the company.
A sample of salary revision format to the employee from the company is given below, you can modify it according to your requirements.
We are delightful to inform you that an increment in your salary has been revised based on the performance and commitment during the period of ________ ( period his/her achievements) to the organization/company which exceeded our expectations. These changes will be applied w.e.f. _____ ( Date).
We are also happy to state that you are eligible for all the benefits form company during the annual period of _____________.
We believe that you continue to work with utmost confidence for company's growth.
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Q: New reputation area. Recent changes In the old reputation area when you got any recent rep the line was highlighted.
In the new version all i see is the text bolded (and nothing highlighted) and it is hard to tell the difference between the two:
Can you find the new one here?

Well its here:

Now I have noticed it is not even telling me how much rep I have earned recently:

It seems
That this was fixed on meta :-)
Still waiting on SO.

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2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-Door
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI) unveiled the 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI and WRX (U.S. specifications) models today at the New York International Auto Show (Press day: March 31 and April 1; Open to the public from April 2 through 11).
The Impreza WRX STI offers superior driving performance befitting a sports model and is Subaru's performance flagship. The Impreza WRX STI also offers high levels of safety thanks to the Horizontally-Opposed (Boxer) turbo engine serving as a core of the Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive (AWD) system with its excellent weight balance and a low centre of gravity.
Developed under the concept of 'The Fastest WRX STI Ever', the 2011 model has achieved even more advanced driving performance due to a finely tuned suspension. To attain such superior performance, the model underwent repeated testing at the Nurburgring track in Germany as well as in Japan, which served to refine the essential nature of the car as a true driver's car that offers 'total driving control' with a high level of cornering performance, secure and supreme sure handling, and overall vehicle stability.
New 4-Door Sedan
In order to further pursue the performance expected of a road sports model, a 4-door model has been added to the lineup to provide a new Subaru AWD performance sedan.
New Wide-Body WRX 4- and 5-Door
Adopting the same wide body as the WRX STI, the Impreza WRX features wider tread and tire widths which, together with a finely tuned suspension, provide remarkable improvements to stability and road-holding performance when driving at high speeds. The 4-door and 5-door models have been thoroughly upgraded in terms of styling and driving performance for enhanced product appeal.
[Note: Information provided in this release is based on U.S. specifications.]
1. Exterior
The new 4-door model, along with the 5-door, includes a 'wide and low' design concept that is a perfect match for this advanced performance model and gives the impression of dynamic and powerful road presence.
The corners of the bumpers have been enlarged and the areas around the fog lamps have been blacked out in order to provide a front face shape that expresses a sense of reassuring stability. The newly designed front grill features virile black tones which, together with enlarged grill and bumper openings, serve to project functionality matching the vehicle's high performance. The adoption of a forward-surging shape for the lip spoiler at the bottom of the bumper further enhances the sportiness. (For both 4-door and 5-door models)
Like the 5-door model, a blister fender running from the front to the rear, providing a side view with a sense of dynamic movement, has been adopted for the new 4-door model. The rear fender has a strong design that emphasises the wider track of the rear tires and the performance sedan characteristics.
For the rear view of the 4-door model, the rear fender surface is stretched beyond the outer side of the combination lamps, emphasizing the thickness of the rear end, thereby providing a design that expresses stability. Additionally, the diffuser shape incorporated at the bottom of the rear bumper completely envelops the muffler for a refined, sporty look.
A striking larger rear spoiler was exclusively designed for the STI 4-door model. The spoiler has a three-dimensional shape in consideration of the aerodynamics of the wing and further serves to symbolise the advanced performance of the WRX STI.
The twin-dual muffler cutters feature a new design unique to the 4-door model. Stainless steel is used to express both sportiness and high product quality.
Lightweight 18-inch aluminum wheels have been newly adopted as standard equipment, and these have been given a high luster finish to heighten the sense of luxury. Additionally, the optional BBS 18-inch wheels are provided with a high luster finish. (For both 4-door and 5-door models)
The new color of 'Plasma Blue Silica' has been added. (For both 4-door and 5-door models)
2. Interior
The colors of the instrument panel, door trim and steering decorative parts have been changed to a dark metallic hue. The contrast of this hue with the silver decorative parts produces a sporty cockpit.
A Bluetooth* function has been added to the standard audio. Additionally, a switch for Bluetooth hands-free communication has been added to the steering wheel to improve convenience.
* Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth Sig, Inc. USA.
A USB jack has been installed inside the console box in order to provide for use of USB input devices.
3. Mechanisms
The overall suspension setup has been completely revised and the vehicle height lowered by 5 mm in order to provide high-precision handling that allows a driver to accurately power through lines exactly as required.
A new aluminum lower arm has been designed for the front suspension, while the rear arm bushes have been changed to a pillow-ball type. These work to improve toe and tread rigidity in order to provide handling performance that is even more faithful to the driver's steering control.
The specifications of the sub-frame bushings of the rear suspension have been changed to improve the toe and camber rigidity, resulting in increased vehicle responsiveness and road hugging capability.
Specialised tuning of the damping force of both front and rear dampers provides secure road-holding ability. Changes to specifications of the front and rear coil springs, and stabilizers have greatly improved roll rigidity.
built at Japan
engine Flat-4
position Front, Longitudinal
aspiration Turbocharged
power 220.7 kw / 296 bhp @ 6000 rpm
bhp/weight 196.68 bhp per tonne
torque 406.7 nm / 300 ft lbs @ 4000 rpm
driven wheels 4WD
front tires 245/40R18
rear tires 245/40R18
rear brakes Ventilated Discs
front wheels F 45.7 x 21.6 cm / 18 x 8.5 in
rear wheels R 45.7 x 21.6 cm / 18 x 8.5 in
f suspension MacPherson Struts w/Coil Springs, Dampers, Anti-Roll Bar
r suspension Multi Link Struts w/Coil Springs, Dampers, Anti-Roll Bar
curb weight 1505 kg / 3319 lbs
emission 243 g/km
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5 secrets to become the best version of you in 2017!
You may have pictured it in your head numerous times – the best version of you. The best could mean the healthiest version, the happiest version, the smoke-free version, or the less-stressed version of you. Whatever your best version means, the following 5 secrets can help you reach your maximum potential in 2017.
1. Balance your Diet – Take a good hard look at your daily food intake. Does it include at least a couple of servings of fruits and vegetables per day? Is it made up of sugary processed foods? Are you skipping meals? According to Forbes, only 8 percent of Americans achieve their New Year's resolutions. Take this opportunity to be part of that 8 percent and meet with your Hy-Vee registered dietitian to work on your nutrition goals. She can keep you accountable and ensure that your diet is balanced and fulfilling.
2. Water, Water, Water – Most of us have heard it before, "You need to drink more water." Take this message to heart and focus on making the majority of your daily beverage intake water. To help increase your intake, take a clear water bottle and draw hash marks evenly spaced along the side of the bottle. Starting at the top, label each hash mark with a time of the day (i.e. 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., etc.) and use that as your hour-by-hour water intake goal.
3. Relax, Renew and Refocus – Let's admit we could all use some stress reduction in our hectic lives. Whether you like to listen to music, read, meditate, or exercise, try to take time each day to give yourself a mental break. This mental break can help you refocus your time and perhaps make you more productive because you gave yourself a chance to just breathe.
4. New Habit: Moving More – According to The Huffington Post, it takes 21 days to develop a new habit. Start slowly, do something you enjoy, move more throughout your day and after about 3 weeks it will become a new healthy habit for you.
5. Give Yourself Some Attention – In 2017, make it a point to write down the things that make you happy. Keep this list handy and add to it throughout the year. Focusing on your happiness may inspire you to have a better outlook on life.
In a small bowl, stir together nut butter, honey and salt. Divide the mixture between bagel halves and top with banana slices.
Nutrition Facts per serving: 284 calories, 10g fat, 1g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 368mg sodium, 43g carbohydrates, 7g fiber, 15g sugars, 9g protein.
Daily values: 0 percent vitamin A, 6 percent vitamin C, 10 percent calcium, 11 percent iron.


Lying just off the northeast coast of Milos, Kimolos remains a backwater and is the only one of Milos' three satellite islands to be inhabited (pop c 800). Some larger ferries do come in but is more commonly reached via the local boat that runs from Apollonia. Although tourism is starting to grow, the combination of still restricted bed numbers and lack of big ferries means that Kimolos avoids the crowds that now flock to the better known islands.
The island has only two settlements to speak of - the small port of Psathi and the main village of Chorio above. Psathi has a shingle beach and a couple of tavernas plus cafes. Chorio has more choice and is only a 15 minute walk up the hill (also served by the island taxi and, in season, minibus). Chorio is a classic whitewashed Greek 'capital' and has a lovely Venetian kastro, two small museums, a handsome 16th century church, fine views and the usual labyrinth of small lanes in which to get lost.
Washed by the clearest of seas, Kimolos has over a dozen named beaches, the best being Prassa, with fine white sand shelving into aquamarine water, and Bonatsa. Both can be walked to (c 5 kms and 3 kms from Chorio respectively) and have a summer taverna. Alternatively the minibus runs in season and cars can be hired. Kimolos has a surprisingly good network of walking paths (see www.kimolos.gr); boat trips run to nearby Polyaigos island, inhabited only by goats; and it is easy to pop over to Milos for the day.
Really an island for those wanting a complete escape and who appreciate the timeless nature of small traditional Greek islands. Please note these ferry tickets have to be paid on board (€2.10 in 2017).


Our selection of Lewes vacation homes and summer rentals include stylish condos, family homes and elegant townhouses, with many of the communities benefiting from outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, community barbecue, and more. You'll find yourself rubbing shoulders and fitting right in with the locals.
Located where the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay meet at Cape Henlopen, you'll enjoy mostly calm waters, and with the Lewes Beach life-guards manning their posts throughout the summer months this coastal location makes the perfect spot for family vacations and seasonal getaways. You'll also find a selection of our Lewes rental properties are pet-friendly, so you can bring along every member of the family – even your four-legged friends!
When the beach becomes a little too laid-back for your liking, or you fancy a little exercise, you are in close proximity of Cape Henlopen State Park with it's many hiking trails and all the natural beauty the area has to offer.
During the off-season, many of the Lewes beach short-term rental properties are available for a minimum of 3-nights making them ideal for a long weekend. This increases to 7-nights during the summer months, when Lewes and the surrounding beach resorts turn into 'summer vacation central'. This is a popular spot, not only due to the beach but also since there are so many great restaurants, bars and a variety of entertainment available to visitors.
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If you want a delicious and easy apple pie recipe, try it inside out! You'll love the addition of ice cream to the baked apples.
Hello DIY Candy friends! This is Liz from The Pretty Life Girls and I am here to share with you the most delish fall dessert! Pie season is upon us and while I am an expert at pie eating, I am a pie-making novice.
So today I bring you the perfect pie marriage of simple-to-make and outside-the-norm with this divine easy apple pie recipe.
I made this sucker for a get together with some girlfriends the other night and it was a crazy hit. It looks beautiful, tastes amazing, and seems like you spent a lot more time on it than you did. So much winning with this sucker. Here's how you do it!
If you want a delicious and easy apple pie recipe, try it inside out! You'll love the addition of ice cream to the baked apples.
Stir together the oats, pecans, brown sugar, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl.
Press the mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie pan and bake until toasted, 10 to 12 minutes.
Remove from the oven and use the back of a spoon to push the crust back up the sides, then set on a wire rack to cool completely.
Remove the ice cream from the freezer and allow it to soften for about 10 minutes. Scoop the ice cream into the pie shell and spread it in an even layer.
Put the pie back in the freezer to firm up for at least 1 hour, or up to 3 days, placing a piece of plastic wrap on top if you'll be freezing it for more than a few hours.
Melt the butter in a large sauté pan.
Add the apple slices and sauté until tender, 8 to 10 minutes.
Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla and continue cooking until a sauce forms, another 2 minutes.
Remove the ice cream pie from the freezer, slice, and top with warm apples on individual plates.
Or, let the apples cool to room temperature and then pile them onto the ice cream pie before cutting into serving pieces. Garnish with the pecans and serve immediately.
Happy pie making! And be sure to come and visit my sister and me as we blog about style, food, and the things we love over at The Pretty Life Girls.


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Andrew Buckley (born August 20, 1993) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. He played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for two seasons before announcing his retirement prior to the 2018 CFL season. He was drafted in the seventh round, 63rd overall, by the Stampeders in the 2015 CFL Draft. He played CIS football for the Calgary Dinos where he won two consecutive Hec Crighton Trophy awards in 2014 and 2015.

Background
Buckley was born in Calgary and spent his high school career playing at Rundle College and then the University of Calgary (Dinos).

Professional career
Buckley was drafted in the seventh round of the 2015 CFL Draft and participated in the Stampeders' 2015 training camp before returning to university to play his final season of CIS football. He re-signed with the Stampeders on January 6, 2016 and made the team's 2016 roster as the third-string quarterback.

Buckley played as a back-up quarterback for the Stampeders in the 2016 Grey Cup and scored a rushing touchdown in the third quarter. He was the first Canadian quarterback to score a touchdown in a Grey Cup since Russ Jackson in 1969. On June 17, 2017, Buckley was named as Calgary's back-up quarterback, by head coach Dave Dickenson after the departure of Drew Tate. Buckley announced his retirement from professional football on May 7, 2018 after being accepted into medical school at the University of Calgary. His parents are both doctors and he always wanted to be one, as well.

References

External links
Calgary Stampeders bio

1993 births
Living people
Players of Canadian football from Alberta
Canadian football quarterbacks
Calgary Dinos football players
Calgary Stampeders players
Canadian football people from Calgary

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Q: What does this regular expression do? What does the following regular expression do?
^\d{1,2}(\-|\/|\.)\d{1,2}\1\d{4}$

Particularly, what is the purpose of the \1 part?

A: You should check out a tutorial. There's barely anything advanced in there (well except for that \1 you pointed to):
^         # the start of the string
\d        # a digit
{1,2}     # 1 or 2 of those
(         # start the first subpattern, which can later be referred to with \1
  \-      # a literal hyphen (there is no need for escaping, but it doesn't hurt)
|         # or
  \/      # a literal slash
|         # or
  \.      # a literal period
)         # end of subpattern
\d{1,2}   # one or two more digits
\1        # the exact same thing that was matched in the first subpattern. this
          # is called a backreference
\d{4}     # 4 digits
$         # the end of the string

I.e. this asserts that the input string contains exactly one date, no more no less, of format ddmmyyyy (or could also be mmddyyyy), with possible delimiters ., - or / (and consistent delimiter usage). Note that it does not ensure a correct date. Months and days could be anything from 00 to 99.
Note that the exact meaning of \d depends on the regex engine and culture you are using. Usually it means [0-9] (any ASCII digit). But for example in .NET it can also mean "any Unicode character that represents a digit".

A: *

*^ Start of string

*\d{1,2} Matches 1 or 2 digits (0-9)

*(\-|\/|\.) Matches either a "-" OR "/" OR "."

*\d{1,2} Matches 1 or 2 digits (0-9) again

*\1 is a back-reference. Matches another instance of the same character captured by the group in No. 3

*\d{4} Matches 4 digits

*$ End of string

This would match a date in the following formats. Please note, the dd, mm, and yyyy ranges are not being checked, so the date could still be invalid.
d-m-yyyy
d/m/yyyy
d.m.yyyy

d & m could be 1 or 2 digits each.

A: It matches:

*

*one or two digits

*a dash, slash or period

*one or two digits

*another separator just like the one earlier

*four digits

The \1 is a back reference to the value matched by the first group, i.e (\-|\/|\.).
For example:
2-14-2003
99.99.9999
1/2/0001


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Home » Crime, Featured » Why Did Cardinal Andrews Die?
Cardinal Andrews
A second person succumbed to the ongoing gun violence in the Lake Independence area of south side Belize City. Four days after he was shot to the head by a gunman on bicycle, twenty-eight-year-old Cardinal Andrews succumbed to his injuries inside the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. His murder takes the murder count up to one hundred and twenty-three for 2017. Andrews was on Partridge Street waiting for a friend when witnesses say a minor on a bicycle unexpectedly rode up and fired a single shot which caught Andrews on the back of the head and exited his forehead. He was rushed by police to the hospital where he remained on a ventilator until his demise after four p.m. on Sunday. Police have since detained two persons, including a minor, but haven't been able to establish a motive for the crime, which has now been upgraded to a murder investigation.
Alejandro Cowo
ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City
"He succumbed to his injuries yesterday evening. We have two persons in custody that were detained. They were interviewed and we have received certain information and we are still following it up at this moment."
"Can you confirm if those in custody are adults or minors at this point?"
ASP Alejandro Cowo
"One is an adult and one is a minor."
"Any motive as to the attack sir? We know that he was pounced on by a gunman, but have you been able to establish a motive?"
"No motive up to now, at this moment."