Two years ago, IBM's 2010 Global CEO Study, which surveyed more than 1,500 chief executive officers from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide, concluded that creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing competencies such as integrity and global thinking. The CEOs told IBM that today's business environment is volatile, uncertain and increasingly complex. Because of this, the ability to create something that's both novel and appropriate is top of mind.
Puccio suggests organizations use collective imagination to develop solutions to the evolving challenges posed by the environment, because imaginative responses are much more likely to sustain innovation. Without creative thinking, organizations miss out on breakthrough ideas that can become innovations.
"But in order for creativity to become a global leadership competence, individuals in leadership positions must first recognize the fact that creativity and creative problem solving are 21st century leadership skills," he said.
According to Edwards, chief learning officers who are transparent, authentic and compassionate help employees accept the need for change and motivate them to experiment with new ways to achieve their goals. She said in times of change, especially radical change, leaders cannot over-communicate. They need to ensure everyone understands both the rationale for change and the new expectations for the business.
"Exceptional leaders can demystify the business challenges and clarify the inevitable ambiguity associated with innovation and change, thus enabling the employees to move forward with as little anxiety and fear as possible as they transform the business together," Edwards said.
According to Chris Grivas, principal of Chris Grivas Consulting and co-author of The Innovative Team, the best way learning leaders can teach creativity is to model it.
"The keys to making change stick are knowledge and consistency — having a strong understanding of the creative process, tools and techniques to facilitate progress within that process, and using the process whenever solving a problem," Grivas said.
Grivas and Puccio believe there are four creative thinking preference types — clarifiers, ideators, developers and implementers. Each way of thinking is fundamental to the creative process; organizations need all four to generate breakthroughs, but their research and applied work has highlighted the fact that people will vary in regard to how comfortable they are thinking and behaving as each type.
Grivas and Puccio believe that like evolution, creativity can happen by chance, but also like evolution, creativity can be deliberately guided. Just as scientists selectively develop particular genetic lines of animals and plants, leaders are able to take control of their own creativity and deliberately bring about breakthrough outcomes and products when they understand the universal creative process.
Graffiti artist and motivational speaker Erik Wahl believes developing this toolkit is essential to disruptive thinking. He said as the landscape for business continues to change, leaders need a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions to stay ahead of the game — solutions that revive stagnant markets or completely reinvent the competitive dynamics of an industry.
I know this article is six years old, so I can't believe this is the first time I've come across it. These are interesting facts presented (i.e., the IBM survey to which the article refers) and I wonder how a survey taken today would compare to this one.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. –Minnesota's Natalie DenHartog, Alabama's Montana Fouts and Northwestern's Danielle Williams are the three finalists for the 2019 Schutt Sports / NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award. The winner will be announced on the evening of May 28 at the 2019 NCAA Women's College World Series banquet in Oklahoma City.
Fouts is the seventh top-three finalist to represent the Southeastern Conference and the second from Alabama. DenHartog is the second Golden Gopher, while Williams is the first to don a Wildcat jersey as the duo doubled the Big Ten's number of finalists to four.
An NFCA All-Great Lakes First Teamer, DenHartog leads the Big Ten with 59 RBI, which is ranked 11thin the NCAA. She is batting .392 with 15 doubles two triples and 16 home runs through 56 games and is one of the keys to Minnesota's second Super Regional appearance in program history. The Gopher cleanup hitter has a team-leading .830 slugging percentage and 127 total bases. Three of the Hopkins, Minn. native's 16 long balls have been grand slams. She earned unanimous All-Big Ten First Team and All-Freshman Team honors.
Fouts, the SEC Freshman of the Year and first-team all-conference selection, is 14-3 this season with a 1.20 ERA, which is second lowest in the SEC and ranks 14thnationally. She has struck out 164 batters over 146 innings, twirled five shutouts, picked up five saves and is holding her opposition to a .167 batting average. Named to the NFCA's All-South Region First Team. The rookie hurler has picked up victories over nationally-ranked opponents, Arizona, Georgia, Florida and two against Minnesota. Fouts, a native of Grayson, Ky., earned five weekly honors from the SEC, including a program-record four Freshman of the Week accolades.
Williams led the Big Ten this season with 31 wins and 13 shutouts, ranking tied for third and fourth in the nation, respectively, It is the most victories and shutouts for a Northwestern pitcher in her rookie season since 1984. Williams, the first Big Ten Freshman of the Year since 2004, is also ranked among the top 10 in the nation with 310 strikeouts (6th) and 9.7 strikeouts per seven innings (9th), while posting a 1.38 ERA with just 39 walks and a .161 batting average against. The rookie southpaw has played a pivotal role in Northwestern's first Super Regional appearance since 2008. Williams, a native of Pleasanton, Calif., earned first team NFCA All-Great Lakes Region accolades.
All three finalists will be competing in Super Regionals this weekend as DenHartog's Gophers host LSU, Fouts' Crimson Tide hosts Texas and Williams' Wildcats travel to Oklahoma.
In its sixth year, the Schutt Sports / NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award was created to honor outstanding athletic achievement among Division I freshmen softball student-athletes. The top three and the winner are voted on by the NFCA's Division I All-American Committee, consisting of one head coach from each of the Association's 10 regions.
Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year
2018 – Jocelyn Alo, Oklahoma
2017 – Rachel Garcia, UCLA
2016 – Amanda Lorenz, Florida
2015 – Paige Parker, Oklahoma
2014 – Annie Aldrete, Tennessee & Kasey Cooper, Auburn

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'Change' is the slogan of Nigeria's ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), while the slogan for the main opposition party in Nigeria, the People Democratic Party (PDP) is 'Power'.
During her just-concluded convention in Port Harcourt, the PDP adopted a new slogan, "change the change," which invalidates the previous slogan under which they lost the 2015 election.
Although there was no explanation as to why the slogan was changed, leaving many to punctuate the air with speculations. A school of thought believes that the PDP's former slogan may have contributed to their loss, hence the change of slogan. Another school differed and suggested that the new slogan is just an energizer and something just targeted at the APC.
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The nominees for the Tähtivaeltaja Award, given to the best science fiction book published in Finland in the previous year, have been reported by Partial Recall.
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Pass the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
by David Gemunder and JNS.org
This should not be a controversial piece of legislation. It doesn't seek to ban hateful speech, just to define it.
Eight years ago during the Obama administration, the State Department adopted a definition of anti-Semitism to be used in identifying Jew-hatred around the world. Except for in the United States. To remedy that omission, a bipartisan group of politicians in Washington just introduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2018.
This should not be a controversial piece of legislation. All that the act does is direct that anti-Semitism, as it is manifested today, be treated comparably to racism or sexism. It certainly doesn't seek to ban hateful speech, just to define it. Take that in for a minute: How, in this day and age, could it possibly be problematic to simply define "the oldest hatred"?
Well, there's the rub. The State Department's definition does not challenge "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country"; however, in a few extreme instances, it correctly equates anti-Zionism – opposition to the creation and continued existence of the State of Israel – with anti-Semitism. And that has terrified the supporters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and their radical ilk.
Once limited to ideological zealots, anti-Zionism is now trendy, serving as a litmus test for membership in the American progressive social order. In contrast, anti-Semitism, even today, is generally perceived to be a bit gauche, except by members of the alt-right and their cronies. In more basic terms, on campuses, in most newsrooms and throughout other leftist bastions in this country, anti-Zionism is kosher; anti-Semitism ain't. Yet.
As a result, opponents of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act frantically claim that it will violate the First Amendment. Or "repress debate and criticism." Or prevent people from "engaging in a robust exchange of ideas." Translation: Left-wing extremists are perfectly content to use anti-Semitism against their opponents (once they've cloaked it in a mantle of "respectability"), but they're desperately afraid of being exposed as intolerant and prejudiced. That's the issue, in a nutshell.
Why is it so important that we adopt the State Department's definition linking certain expressions of anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism? Because today, the two are usually indistinguishable. There have been far, far too many examples recently. Allow the bigots to highlight a few of them:
At Barnard College, after the passage of a BDS resolution, hundreds of students received an email with a subject line of "ISRAEL DID 9/11," which claimed that Israel, Jews and treasonous Americans were responsible for the carnage on Sept. 11, 2001, and that the "9/11 Commission Report is a 571-Page Zionist Lie."
At the Claremont Colleges, a supporter of Israel was asked by an SJP member why she was a Zionist even though she wasn't Jewish. When a second SJP mentioned that one of the supporter's grandparents was Jewish, the first one, citing the Nazis' infamous racial laws, responded: "That's enough for Nuremberg!"
At San Diego State University, a social-media post urged "#SDSUDivest so we can get rid of t[h]e jews."
At the University of California, Berkley, graffiti in a campus bathroom stated that "Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber."
At the University of California, Davis, a few days after the student government passed a resolution supporting BDS, swastikas were painted on a local Jewish fraternity house.
At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, after a BDS resolution was defeated, a disgruntled supporter of the measure posted "Palestine is 4 Palestinians not 4 a sick cult fm anywhere but Palestine with a sense of entitlement 2 it. Need that in Yiddish?"
At its most basic, the First Amendment allows anti-Semites to spew out their bile and venom. And it permits the rest of us, in turn, to call them repulsive bigots. That's how it works. As SJP and its supporters demonstrate on a near-constant basis, free speech usually isn't typified by polite conversations at tea parties. It's rough-and-tumble, it's noisy, it's messy, and even at its most offensive, it's as American as apple pie.
The proposed new act simply allows Jew-haters to be called out for what they are, regardless of whether they're trying to disguise their bias as principled criticism of another country. That's basic fairness, nothing more. And those who feel that it's acceptable that loathsome extremists can benefit from free speech but their targets can't are hypocrites, plain and simple.
So let's be honest: If you think that only radical leftists deserve the right to free speech, maintain the status quo. But if you want to protect the First Amendment for everyone, support passage of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.
David Gemunder is an attorney, a leader in the Republican Jewish Coalition, and a member of the Board of Governors of Hillel International.
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(9) Lorenberrington, March 11, 2019 7:00 PM
Thanks for making this known.
Are we looking at ovens again? And doing nothing again?
(8) Anonymous, July 7, 2018 5:16 AM
This Act should not pass. Not helpful.
https://forward.com/opinion/404591/the-anti-semitism-awareness-act-wouldnt-protect-jews-it-would-protect/ Good article concerning this topic.
(7) Alan, June 14, 2018 12:10 AM
More complicated than portrayed
The Act refers to a definition by the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism of the State Department as""a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities." It gives examples of Anti-Semitism such as drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Kenneth Stern, the executive director of a Foundation that combats hatred and anti-Semitism, and the author of the definition of Anti-Semitism on which the law is based, opposes the Act (https://www.postandcourier.com/s-c-anti-semitism-bill-isn-t-needed/article_f17d607e-29e5-11e7-b4a7-a35035f3dc38.html).
Mr. Stern writes, the definition of Anti-Semitism "was never intended as a vehicle to monitor or suppress speech on campus. But that's what some right-wing Jewish groups and individuals behind this legislation seek."
Mr. Gemunder supports Mr. Stern's claim by pointing only to "radical leftists". Notwithstanding this lack of even-handedness, Anti-Semitism is wrong from any quarter.
The Act is to help the Education Department determine violations of Title VI. The Act states in part, "While Title VI does not cover discrimination based solely on religion, groups that face discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics may not be denied protection under Title VI on the ground that they also share a common faith. These principles apply not just to Jewish students, but also to students from any discrete religious group ... (e.g., Muslims or Sikhs).". Interestingly, the Act focuses on Anti-Semitic language directed against Jews, but not hate language directed at Muslims or Sikhs.
I don't need an Act of Congress to tell me or to help me identify Anti-Semitic speech and action.
(6) Anonymous, June 13, 2018 11:51 PM
It can no longer be tolerated.
Anti-Semitism is an archaic point of view, which can no longer be tolerated. Americans are forbidden to use the word N..... in relation to black people, other words in relation to women.
Well, how about us? Let's make anti-Semitism punishable by $$$$ fines and/or prison. ENOUHG is ENOUGH. In addition lets remind people about all the good stuff, Sciences, medicine, and on and on that the Jewish people contributed to.......
Anonymous, June 25, 2018 9:44 PM
Don't aggrandize
While I agree with you that anti-semitism is wrong and that anti-zionism is wrong, saying the n word nor the c-word is not "punishable by $$$$ fines and/or prison". Americans are not forbidden from saying those things. They are allowed to by constitutional right to free speech. We obviously shouldn't do that. But making speech illegal is wrong because it's the core of the US, of democracy. We rise above as a people, the Jewish people because we have a holier outlook. Look not to hate. We will overcome with peace and love and knowing we are right.
(5) Jennine Wessell, June 12, 2018 11:39 PM
Keep Israel Loved & Sovereign
It only defines what is ocurring. Let's keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem
(4) Stan Roelker, June 12, 2018 6:07 PM
Anti-Semites
I am a peaceful person who would rather "help" than hurt. But, I truly believe the anti-Semites should have their eyes removed since THEY HAVE BEEN OF NO USE TO THEM. With plenty of evidence-written, oral, pictorial-about the WWII, Holocaust to learn from, they since act the way they do! Maybe, their brains, too!
(3) Anonymous, June 12, 2018 4:08 PM
A Slippery Slope
This Act was defeated in 2016 and hopefully will be again. Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism and we all know it. Zionism is a political movement and the policies of Israel should be criticized.
Nancy, June 13, 2018 11:37 AM
To commenter #3 Anonymous
I suggest that you read this article once again. The examples the author gave were most certainly NOT criticisms of Israel. Those words demonstrated profound hatred against Jews. Btw--I am a registered Democrat, but I always consider an intelligent viewpoint from both sides of the aisle. After all, how will I learn anything new if I don't consider different people's viewpoints?
More Slippery.
If you read the Act, it is overly broad and it tramples on legitimate and and valid criticism of Israeli policies.
The occupation has to end, the settlements and land theft have to stop. It is a discussion that needs to happen.
The Palestinians are suffering daily, the checkpoints, collective punishment, raids. They are not all "terrorists."
Seeing the West Bank, being open to reading the General's Son, visiting sites like JStreet and Jewish Voice for Peace, brings an awareness that we have not been seeing a complete picture.
We can't heal what we don't acknowledge and silencing legitimate concerns is not the way go.
I remain against the passage of this Act, and I no longer jump to defend Israel against accusations of apartheid.
As the Jewish people we are all responsible to bring about change.
(2) Elisheva, June 12, 2018 3:42 PM
Steve T, June 12, 2018 3:55 PM
Oh for heaven's sake ...
If you have an issue with some of the articles, there's a very simple solution. Don't read them! I want to be informed about ALL issues that affect me as a Jew, and this is a serious one. As for the curse words, they were not printed. You filled in the gaps yourself.
Eli, June 13, 2018 3:43 AM
True, Steve, I won't be reading them again, and the "gaps" were inserted after my complaint. Thanks, whoever amended them.
What is REALLY sad...
What is REALLY sad is that even within the State Department and the Democratic Party are those who challenge this act!!
Rachel, June 13, 2018 9:48 PM
State Department does not have responsibility for domestic policy
There may be individual State Department employees who do not support this act, but it would be highly inappropriate for the Department itself to weigh in on domestic legislation.
If the author can provide a link to the text of the bill, that would be very helpful. I found the introduction of the bill on Congressional websites, but I would like to read the full text so I can advocate for it.
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Gabby Douglas Helps US Gymnastics Team Claim Gold
Gabby Douglas, the 16-year-old gymnastics phenom, helped the US women's team claim gold yesterday in London.
This is the team's first gold since 1996. Douglas' outstanding performance on the uneven bars helped assure the win.
When Gabby Douglas finished first at the Olympic trials last month, critics argued that she was too inexperienced in international competition and couldn't possibly be ready for the big stage of London 2012.
Nobody's saying that now, after Douglas and the U.S. team won the all-around team competition by what could be considered a landslide on Tuesday, becoming the first American squad to do so since 1996. The Americans tallied a score of 183.596, finishing over five points ahead of Russia.
Each member of the team has her strong suits. Each of them serves a particular individual purpose. The U.S. wouldn't have gotten that gold on Tuesday without McKayla Maroney's vault performance, or without Jordyn Wieber's performance on the floor.
But without question, the U.S. wouldn't have been in a position to win the all-around gold without Douglas' uneven bars routine, which was made even gutsier by the fact that it was the Americans' weakest event and Russia's strongest.
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Congrats to Gabby and the rest of the team.
Good luck in the all around competition!
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The Passover table is a place of joy. It takes a lot of work to get there. And when the table is set with ritual food and tableware, it seems like an excellent platform for a great story and conversation to unfold. We're all ready. We're equipped with texts that share the majesty and miracles of our ancient days. We powered our way to freedom as an underdog against a large and tyrannical force that sought to destroy us. We know the plot lines all too well. It's not hard to say, "In every generation a person is obligated to tell the story of the exodus from Egypt…" It seems that sadly and happily, it is always a relevant theme, either for our people or for someone else under the hand of oppression, on the brink of liberation.
There's only one thing we have a shortage of, and it's not matzah. We've got loads of it. They're even selling shmura matzah — a matzah made with even more vigilant oversight — at Costco these days. It's not wine, because there'll be four cups of that as well. And when it comes to the main course, we're on brisket overload. Arteries beware. In Exodus we read that the first evening of Passover is a night of watchfulness, but don't be careless. Make sure the Lipitor is ready and on hand (is Lipitor kosher for Passover?).
Here's what we're missing: great storytellers.
Great stories keep us on the edge of our seats. They are told by masters of detail with voices that modulate and inspire. They have a cast of interesting characters. There's almost always a villain and a hero. There's a fabulous plot brimming with twists and turns, unexpected conflicts and satisfying endings. There are usually a few important life lessons discreetly tucked into its pages that lodge inside of us and don't let us go.
For years, I've struggled to make sense of what kind of document the Haggadah really is. Logically speaking, if our task is to share the story of the Exodus, the most natural way to do that is to take out a Hebrew Bible, a Tanach, and recite the first 15 chapters, from Pharaoh's enforced slavery to the Song of the Sea, when we finally left and broke out in exaltation. I've always wondered why that's not the case. Granted, it will take up more book space than a Maxwell House Haggadah at the table, but it will get the job done with more clarity and efficiency.
One day it dawned on me. The Haggadah is not the story of the exodus from Egypt. Far from it. It's a rabbinic collage of odd, disconnected passages — snippets of biblical verses with rabbinic interpretation, a few breaks for performance art (the four questions, the four sons, the door opening) and exceptionally weird math. Nothing about the Haggadah is linear. Nothing about it is chronologically smooth. So if you had to explain the Haggadah to an absolute stranger, what would you say?
Here's what I'd say. The Haggadah is an ancient book that shares how our ancient sages told the story of leaving Egypt with passion and enthusiasm, without telling the story itself. They stayed up all night telling it, in hiding when it wasn't safe to tell it. They were so enraptured by it they had no idea it was morning. They told it even though they were all-wise and knew it already. They prompted themselves with questions and ritual food, numbers and narrative. They sang songs to stir memories. The Haggadah models what an active storyteller does to keep listeners engaged, assuming its readers knew the story's content.
It's not an assumption we can make today. In demographic research, the No. 1 ritual still observed by American Jews is the Passover seder. What happens at the table, however, is usually an extended family dinner rather than history relived. Some millennials told me their families don't even bother with the Haggadah anymore. They just eat. Rabbi A. J. Heschel once said that we don't need textbooks but text-people. We have a great story. Now we need great storytellers.


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Brent Lakatos, Canadian flag bearer at the closing ceremony
The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) selected the 41-year-old wheelchair runner on Friday, the day after he performs in 800m T53 Which again ended with a silver medal.
It is a great honor. There are big names in athletics who have carried the flag, including Chantal Petit Clerc, so I am honored to be among these great athletes. He indicated in a short video clip.
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Sprint specialist, Lakatos begins his Japanese adventure He finished an astonishing second last Saturday in the 5000m T54. Remember that before the Games, the man with the great record did not set the lowest podium at a distance of more than 800 meters at the Paralympics or the world.
Brent Lakatos wins silver in the 5,000m
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Dorval Sports Bar continued its momentum with more silver medals at 400m T53, Sunday, as wellAt 100 meters T53, Wednesday. Lakatos also stopped during qualifying for 1500m T53 / 54, Monday.
Lakatos' booming harvest in the Japanese capital has allowed him to cement his place among the Canadian gaming legends.
He now has 11 Paralympic medals and is one of the few maple leaf representatives to cross the decade. Eight athletes before him have reached this important mark. Swimmer Aurelie Rivard also joined this select group in Tokyo.
Fourth Silver Medal for Brent Lakatos
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In fact, he will succeed Lakatos Rivard, who displayed the Canadian flag at Rio's Maracana stadium as part of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Games.
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This is Lakatos' fifth Paralympic event, after appearing at the Games in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio. After juggling the idea of retiring in 2008, he scored three podiums in England, then four in Brazil.
The wheelchair runner will get another chance to show off his versatility in semi athletics. For the first time in his career, on Saturday night, he will be at the start of the Paralympic Marathon in what will be his sixth event in Tokyo.
No later than October 2020, 10 months before the Summer Games, Lakatos took home honors at the prestigious London Marathon in front of the discipline's pioneers.
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When designing for web applications, a well-implemented analytics backbone can provide incredibly useful insights. However, getting there can be a challenge for many organizations.
One of the most famous projects we've worked on resulted in a $300,000,000 increase in annual revenues for a major e-commerce site. We achieved that, in part, by studying the site's analytics. However, it wasn't easy because the team had made several common mistakes.
Our discovery started with a pattern that emerged from usability testing. As we were watching customers finish their product selections and start down the path of the checkout system, we saw them getting stuck in an early stage that no one had anticipated.
Our initial dive into the analytics showed a huge drop between people putting products into their cart and those that started on the first screen of the checkout process. The team had assumed that people were abandoning their cart because they had no intention to buy. We put the usability tests together to help us understand why that might be.
What emerged from our tests was that during the checkout process, shoppers were getting stuck on the account sign-in page that came up first. This was our first uncovered mistake: the team had never instrumented the sign-in page to call the analytics' capture functions to collect the data. It wasn't until we asked why we weren't seeing this page show up in the clickstream data that we discovered it was missing.
The Forgot Your Password page and its confirmation message also, it turns out, weren't instrumented. We had them instrumented and waited a few weeks for the data to populate. Suddenly, we discovered that the account sign-in page was the third most popular page on the site, after the home page and shopping cart pages.
Unfortunately, we also discovered the Forgot Your Password page was now the fourth most visited page. That wasn't seen as good news.
Tools like Google Analytics or Webtrends are very powerful for content sites, where the only things a user does is visit a page, click on another page, or leave the site. These tools can deliver insights on which pages people visited and in what order.
However, web-based applications are more complex. When implemented with something like a model/view/controller approach, it's not uncommon for one "page" to serve many purposes. A single page can change dynamically depending on the view and model involved, even though it's the same page. In a traditional analytics tool, that one page will show up inaccurately, without giving any insight on about what actually is going on.
Similarly, these tools can't detect non-page interactions, such as lightboxes or pop-up dialogs. Sophisticated user interactions go unreported.
The result is the team can't trust the reports from the tool. Once the team loses confidence in their reporting data, it's value is greatly diminished. A different approach is necessary.
We've found the teams that get the most out of their analytics are the ones that build their own systems. Instead of relying on the http logs provided by the web server, they capture their own events — ones they believe are the most important activities to study.
Moving to an activity-based logging system opens up a world of opportunity for the analytics. Now you can capture specific transactions and data requests. You can capture which button on the screen the user went to next. Even for rich interaction systems, you can see great results.
This approach can extend to multi-device and mobile apps. Since it's no longer tied to pages, but to team-defined discrete events, the team can collect both the state change and the data involved.
For the e-commerce team, we could capture when the user had trouble remembering their username and password by recording each combination they tried to authenticate. Even though they weren't leaving the page between authentication attempts, we could see that the average user that had trouble tried multiple user names. We could see many users still tried email addresses even though the system didn't accept those as account identifiers. This gave us insights we couldn't get from the page-based analytics tool.
Some of the most important activities to capture are when the user receives an error message. Client-side validation and asynchronous communication means that the nature and frequency of each error is a mystery to the team.
Capturing each time an error is displayed and the corresponding data that generated the error, can lead to interesting insights. Knowing which errors are most frequent can help a team discover rough spots in the design, such as poor labeling or instructions. Detecting a sudden increase in a certain error message might mean that a recent change broke an important interaction.
When resolving a problem like this, the team needs to answer two key questions: "What are the users doing today?" and "What are the users trying to do?" Well implemented analytics can help identify what users are doing today with the design and bring clarity to what the team hears from their users about what they are trying to do.
Capturing the movement around the application immediately yielded insights. The team recorded every time a user went to a new function, keeping track of which functions they'd just left. In essence, they were measuring the desire paths through the site.
The result was a giant transition matrix, with every starting screen across the top and every destination function down the left. The team could see the frequency for function from each screen.
Though the users claimed they wanted to get from anywhere to every other function, it was clear in the data they weren't doing that. A small group of starting screens were far more popular than the rest, by several orders of magnitude. In fact, in the initial weeks the team collected the data, more than 20% of the functions were never used by any user, leading the team to wonder if these functions were needed at all.
Studying that small group of starting screens, the team saw users regularly visited specific functions from these screens. Looking at the most popular transitions, the team could identify transitions where having a big bright button on the screen was a better way than burying the function in a menu somewhere. In some cases, it made sense to combine the two screen's functionality onto a single screen, since it was frequently something users did together.
These are only a few examples of the value teams get when they make the investment in building an analytics system for the critical activities in their application. Because off-the-shelf solutions aren't tuned for the types of activities that an application has built in, the team needs to make a commitment to build their own.
It's true that building the analytics platform in from the start, is the best approach. However, even a retrofitted system for specific functionality is worth the effort.
In the end, the insights the team can bring to the table will make for dramatically improved designs. That's what makes it all worthwhile.
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We are a small (after 25 years, still fewer than 70 of us) band of passionate people who believe right down to our bones that everyone has the power to make positive changes in their lives. We think getting healthy starts with taking little steps, like choosing healthy all natural foods. Kashi is about embracing and living your best life.
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I was listening to some great lightning talks at Agile Australia, and the topic of testing came up. Specifically, the fact that quality control can be a significant impact to delivery schedules and tends to be handled poorly by most teams.
Can it be deleted? Then delete it.
Can it be delegated? Then delegate it (and then delete it).
Can you respond in less than 2 minutes? Thenrespond to it.
Do you need more information? Then defer it to a time when you can address it appropriately.
And then, if there is anything that you can do now, then do it; otherwise add it to your calendar or task list.
Let's think about this for a moment. This is a simple mechanism to prioritise and process a complex set of, unstructured and varied, activities. We can use the same idea to manage and resolve defects, technical debt and other un-plannable activities.
Is it an actual issue that needs resolution? If not, then delete it.
Is your team responsible for it? If not, then delegate it.
Can you resolve it in less than 10 minutes? Then fix it.
Do you have all the information you need to resolve it? If not, then defer it to the next iteration where you can address it appropriately.
Finally, if you have sufficient time in the current iteration, then do now; otherwise add it to the product backlog as technical debt.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments below.


What's the weather like in Turkey in January?
With land in both Asia and Europe, Turkey is a unique country with a diverse climate, depending on where you're visiting. During January, Turkey is generally cool, making it a good time to visit if you prefer to avoid the blistering heat of the summer months. There's a reasonable amount of rain at the start of the year, so make sure you pack for wet weather so you can make the most of your holiday. Snow days are also possible, while mornings are often foggy.
Turkey's average daily temperatures in January hover between 7ºC and 10ºC, depending on where you go. Antalya is usually a few degrees warmer than Istanbul during the winter, with highs of 15ºC compared with 8ºC in the capital. The country experiences ten to 15 rainy days in January, with around 180mm of rain, so be prepared and bring a waterproof. The Mediterranean has an average temperature of 16ºC in January, so you'll need to be brave if you're planning on taking a dip. There are five hours of sunshine each day, with sunset at 4.45pm at the start of the month.


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Howell Webster Melton Sr. (December 15, 1923 – December 18, 2015) was an American lawyer and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Education and career
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Melton graduated from the University of Florida in 1943 with his Associate of Arts degree. Melton served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 during World War II and attended the Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1948. He remained in the United States Army Reserve with the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1949 to 1953 and became a 1st lieutenant. Melton was in private practice in St. Augustine, Florida from 1948 until 1961. He was a county attorney for St. Johns County from 1959 to 1960. He served as a circuit judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida from 1961 to 1977.

Federal judicial service

President Jimmy Carter nominated Melton to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on March 29, 1977, to the seat vacated by Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 25, 1977, and received his commission the next day. Melton assumed senior status on February 1, 1991, serving in that status until his death on December 18, 2015, at his St. Augustine home.

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Netflix animated series Disenchantment, which premiered August 17, has drawn a decidedly young and male crowd, with aggregated viewing topping that of the streaming platform's Lost in Space.
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Amy Adams during an appearance today on The Talk gave a brief update on the status of Disenchanted, Disney's long-in-the-works sequel to its Adams-starring 2007 hit about Giselle, the singing animated Disney princess who crosses over into the real world.


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I wrote in this morning's paper that Ryan Boschetti, whom Redskins defensive coordinator Greg Blache nicknamed "The Cockroach" because he would never go away, was out of the NFL.
My bad. It turns out that Boschetti, a California native who played at UCLA, is with Oakland. Boschetti seems too nice for the Raiders, but at least he's employed for the time being.
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Q: Prove that $\{x\}$ is transcendental base of $\mathbb{Q}(x,i)$ We have the field extension $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Q}$. Let $x\in \mathbb{R}\subset \mathbb{C}$ be transcendental over $\mathbb{Q}$. Show, that $\{x\}$ is a transcendental basis of $L = \mathbb{Q}(x,i)$.
I've argued that $\mathbb{Q}(x)$ is a transcendental extension because $x$ is transcendental and $\mathbb{Q}(x,i)/\mathbb{Q}(x)$ is algebraic since $i$ vanishes in $X^2+1$. $\Rightarrow$ $[\mathbb{Q}(x,i):\mathbb{Q}(x)]=2$
Is that enough to prove that $\{x\}$ is a transcendental basis? ($\ast$)
I was also asked to find another transcendental base $B$ so that $\mathbb{Q}(x)$ and $\mathbb{Q}(B)$ aren't subsets of each other.
Can I work with $B= \{x+i\}$? It's pretty clear that it's a transc. basis (if ($\ast$) is sufficient) and $\mathbb{Q}(x+i)\not\subset \mathbb{Q}(x)$ is also obvious. I'm not sure how to elegantly show '$\not \supset$' though.
Any help is appreciated.

A: We have $\Bbb Q(x,i) = K(x)$, where $K = \Bbb Q(i)$ is algebraic over $\Bbb Q$.
Its clear that $\{x\}$ is a transcendental basis of $K(x)$.

A: If $y$ is transcendental, then the only elements of $\mathbb Q(y)$ which are algebraic over $\mathbb Q$ already lie in $\mathbb Q$. For, suppose $\alpha\in\mathbb Q(y)-\mathbb Q$ satisfies $p(\alpha)=0$ for some polynomial $p$ of degree $d$. Writing $\alpha=f(y)/g(y)$ we have $0=g(y)^dp(\alpha)=q(y)$ for some (nonzero) polynomial $q$, a contradiction.
In your question, suppose $\mathbb Q(x)$ is contained in $\mathbb Q(x+i)$. Then $i\in\mathbb Q(x+i)$, but $i$ is algebraic and $x+i$ is transcendental. Contradiction.


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We tested the legendary Big Green Egg on all its abilities.
Credit: Big Green Egg
Written by Lindsay D. Mattison
Having a reliable grill is the key to taking your barbecue game to the next level. Practice makes perfect, sure, and you can work on your skills on any grill. But having one that's durable, easy-to-use, and dependable goes a long way toward building your confidence in outdoor cookery. After testing dozens of gas, charcoal, and portable grills, I can tell you with 100-percent confidence that not all grills are built equally, and you often get what you pay for.
You'll need to choose between charcoal and gas, a complicated debate that mostly comes down to ease of use or smoke-infused flavor. We're not here to change your mind if you're a die-hard gas grill enthusiast, but I have to say I'll likely be trading in my gas grill for a Big Green Egg in the near future. It can do just about everything—in addition to grilling burgers and hot dogs, you can use the Egg to smoke brisket and ribs, cook a whole turkey, or turn it into an outdoor oven for pizza and bread. There's a reason it won our award for most versatile charcoal grill, but its hefty price tag may have you wondering if it's really worth the hype.
What makes a Big Green Egg different?
You can use a kamado to grill steaks and burgers, or use it as an outdoor oven or smoker.
The Big Green Egg is a charcoal grill, but unlike kettle and barrel-style grills, the Egg is what's known as a kamado-style grill, an oval cooking vessel made from ceramic. The thick walls of this grill store more heat than regular charcoal grills, allowing it to radiate around the food as it cooks. While you can use it as a regular grill for high-temperature cooking, you can also lower the temperature and use all that stored heat to turn the grill into a smoker or an oven. As an added bonus, those thick walls also make the Egg more efficient; during our tests, it always had more leftover charcoal as compared to other charcoal grills, ready to relight for the next grilling session.
Unlike most of the grills we tested, the Big Green Egg isn't available at national chain stores. It's available at most Ace Hardware stores, but other individual dealers also sell the Egg. The prices tend to vary by dealer, who may sell it as part of a package deal or a special. You can find a Big Green Egg dealer near you to get the price (the Large model we tested was available at my local store for $850).
Credit: Reviewed / Lindsay Mattison
I tested a Big Green Egg at home—here's what I learned.
How did we assess the Big Green Egg? We put it through hours of comprehensive grilling tests, cooking burgers over high temperatures before lowering the heat to cook chicken drumsticks. Then, we added the grill's ConvEGGtor—a ceramic plate that facilitates indirect heat cooking—and turned the unit into a smoker, cooking a rack of ribs and a 4-pound bone-in pork shoulder until it was shreddable and tender. To round out the tests, we added a pizza stone to the mix and cooked flatbread and pizza on the grill.
In addition to determining if the grill could cook tasty food (spoiler alert: it did), we also wanted to test the grill's design. The look and feel of a grill is just as important as its ability to cook great food, so we looked at factors like the location of the vents, the weight of the grill, whether it was maneuverable on a patio or driveway, the material of the cooking grate, ease of cleaning, ease of adding and moving coals, and the overall aesthetic and build quality.
How does it perform?
The vents on a kamado grill allow you to regulate the amount of airflow inside the unit.
Overall, we had no complaints about the Egg's ability to cook everything we threw at it. The Large model had an 18-inch grill space that was large enough to fit a dozen burgers, up to six chickens (cooked vertically), a few whole pork shoulders, or a large turkey. Our burgers had perfect grill marks, the chicken drumsticks were infused with a deeply smoky flavor, and our pulled pork turned out super juicy and tender.
Temperature control was one of our favorite features of the Egg. By sliding the lower vent closed, we were able to get the temps as low as 150°F without worrying about extinguishing the coals. Opening up the vent ignited the coal bed, burning them red-hot and building to temperatures as hot as 700°F.
Our model featured a rEGGulator top vent cap that opened all the way, letting in more air than most charcoal grills allow. Fully opened, it helped us achieve maximum airflow to boost the temps, and it trapped all that tasty smoke inside when we slid it halfway or almost all the way closed. Both vents were cool to the touch, even while cooking over high heat.
When it came to indirect heating, the Egg's oval design makes it nearly impossible to set up a two-zone fire, where coals are physically moved to one side of the grill. This type of cooking is required for bone-in chicken and any other foods that take longer than 30 minutes to cook. On the Egg, you'll have to purchase a convEGGtor, a ceramic plate that separates the food from the coals. It worked well and we didn't have any complaints about its function, but it's an additional cost on top of an already expensive grill.
Kamado grills are great for grilling brisket, turkey, pork, and more.
The bottom vent control made it really easy to set a precise temperature inside the grill, while the top vent let us control how much smoke stayed inside as we cooked. With a little practice, changing temperatures in the Egg was almost as easy as turning a knob a gas grill (although, it's worth noting that it does take a while to cool back down if you accidentally overshoot your temperature).
It was easy to turn "off." On most charcoal grills, you can close the vents to extinguish the coals. Because the Egg is more insulated than most grills, closing the vents removed all air inside the unit, extinguishing the coals very quickly. These extra coals are preserved and ready to use for your next grilling session.
The lid hinges about halfway open, a feature we originally thought would be a pain. As we used the grill, we came to understand its purpose. Like the rest of the grill, the lid is heavy, so the hinges make the lid easier to open and close. As an added bonus, the design prevents smoke from funneling into your face, a feature we always appreciate.
The coals seem to last forever. At first, we were worried about cooking items with a long smoke time, like our pork shoulder. Once the ConvEGGtor plate was in place, it's difficult to add extra coals to the grill. Luckily, that wasn't a problem; we filled the grill to the top of the fire ring and still had plenty of leftover coals after a 6-hour smoke time.
It doesn't use much charcoal. We cooked on the Big Green Egg for a full week, spending hours cooking burgers, chicken, pork shoulder, ribs, and multiple pizzas. Even after all that cooking, we only used somewhere between 10 to 15 pounds of charcoal.
To clean the Big Green Egg, you have to use an ash tool to work the coals around the firebox, pushing the dust and ash through the holes at the bottom.
This grill is large, heavy, and takes a while to cool down. Although it's easy to move with locking wheels, we wouldn't recommend buying an Egg if you're planning to store it in a shed or a garage. It stays hot to the touch long after the coals are extinguished and it shouldn't be moved while it's hot.
Cleaning out the ashes was a bit of a pain. The coals are stored in the bottom half of the oval-shaped grills, and they sit on top of a plate with perforated holes. Those little holes let air in and allow the ashes to fall through when they're spent, but they need a little coaxing with the Egg's proprietary ash tool. To remove them from the bottom of the grill, you have to open the bottom vent and use the tool to rake the ashes into a bowl or bucket. It would have been nice if they automatically fell into a removable bucket, speeding up the cleaning process quite a bit.
Buying one can get a bit pricey. The grill itself is significantly more expensive than your standard charcoal grill. In fact, it costs more than most gas grills. On top of that, there are a ton of optional Big Green Egg accessories (we'll talk about a few of them in a minute). It would be really easy to rack up a hefty bill to customize the Egg to your liking.
The grill itself may be heavy-duty, but the interior components are a little fragile. If you're taking the Egg apart for cleaning, you'll need to be very careful with the firebox and fire ring nestled inside the grill. These pieces are all made from unglazed ceramic, and they can easily chip. Luckily, you can buy replacements if they do break, but that's an unnecessary expense.
How are the accessories?
Take your pick from cast-iron cooking grates, side tables, custom cooking islands, covers, pizza stones, grill racks, woks, and more.
We only tested a few EGGcessories, but there are hundreds to choose from. Take your pick from cast-iron cooking grates, side tables, custom cooking islands, covers, pizza stones, grill racks, woks, and more. Big Green Egg also has its own brand of oak and hickory lump charcoal and charcoal starters. They even sell a wireless temperature control unit that allows you to set the grill's temperature from your smartphone. All of these items come at a price, and customizing your Egg can add up pretty quickly.
Where can I find recipes?
I turned my Big Green Egg into an outdoor oven to make pizza.
One thing you'll definitely receive with the purchase of an Egg is an entrance into a community that calls themselves Eggheads. Big Green Egg's website has hundreds of recipes to help you get started using your Egg, and there's even a culinary center with classes. If you really get into it, you can attend Eggfests in cities across the country or participate in the online forum to get (and share) advice with your fellow grillers.
For residential (non-commercial) use, the Egg comes with a limited lifetime warranty for materials and workmanship on all ceramic components, including the dome, base, damper top, firebox and fire ring. The warranty on Eggcessories varies from one to five years. Keep in mind you have to be the original owner and register each product.
Is the Big Green Egg worth it?
Before testing the Big Green Egg, I thought it was just an expensive charcoal grill. Now, I know why it has a loyal following of Eggheads. The versatility of the Big Green Egg really sets it apart from other gas and charcoal grills. Turn it into a smoker, use it as an oven, or fire up some really tasty burgers. I would be lying if I said this grill isn't on my Christmas list this year.
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