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Ok.com User Rated Best Movies of 2012
Though Ok.com has only recently launched, we already have a vibrant and active community of parents and movie buffs who have provided ratings and reviews for thousands of movies. It is with thanks to all of you that we present the first of many annual movie lists - the top movies of 2012, as chosen by the Ok.com community.
Big Miracle
Adam Carlson (John Krasinski), a reporter based in a small town in northern Alaska, can't wait to land a job in a bigger market. Then, the story of a lifetime practically lands in his lap: A family of gray whales is discovered near the Arctic Circle, trapped by rapidly forming ice. Along with the descending media comes Rachel Kramer (Drew Barrymore), an environmental activist and Adam's ex-lover. Together, they try to rally an international coalition to save the whales before it's too late.
With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind.
On Nov. 4, 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 American hostages. Amid the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador. Knowing that it's just a matter of time before the refugees are found and likely executed, the U.S. government calls on extractor Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to rescue them. Mendez's plan is to pose as a Hollywood producer scouting locations in Iran and train the refugees to act as his "film" crew.
Wreck-It Ralph
Arcade-game character Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) is tired of always being the "bad guy" and losing to his "good guy" opponent, Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer). Finally, after decades of seeing all the glory go to Felix, Ralph decides to take matters into his own hands. He sets off on a game-hopping trip to prove that he has what it takes to be a hero. However, while on his quest, Ralph accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens the entire arcade.
When James Bond's (Daniel Craig) latest assignment goes terribly wrong, it leads to a calamitous turn of events: Undercover agents around the world are exposed, and MI6 is attacked, forcing M (Judi Dench) to relocate the agency. With MI6 now compromised inside and out, M turns to the one man she can trust: Bond. Aided only by a field agent (Naomie Harris), Bond takes to the shadows and follows a trail to Silva (Javier Bardem), a man from M's past who wants to settle an old score.
Marvel's the Avengers
When Thor's evil brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), gains access to the unlimited power of the energy cube called the Tesseract, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of SHIELD, initiates a superhero recruitment effort to defeat the unprecedented threat to Earth. Joining Fury's "dream team" are Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner).
The Dark Knight Rises
It has been eight years since Batman (Christian Bale), in collusion with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), vanished into the night. Assuming responsibility for the death of Harvey Dent, Batman sacrificed everything for what he and Gordon hoped would be the greater good. However, the arrival of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist named Bane (Tom Hardy) force Batman out of exile and into a battle he may not be able to win.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler), a tiny teenager, lives with her parents (Amy Poehler, Will Arnett) in the recesses of a suburban home, unbeknown to the homeowner and housekeeper. Like others of her kind, Arrietty remains hidden from her human hosts, but occasionally ventures forth from beneath the floorboards to borrow sugar cubes and other supplies. A secret friendship forms when 12-year-old Shawn (David Henrie) meets Arrietty, but their relationship could spell danger for Arrietty's family.
The Amazing Spider-Man
Abandoned by his parents and raised by an aunt and uncle, teenager Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), AKA Spider-Man, is trying to sort out who he is and exactly what his feelings are for his first crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). When Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard.
Here Comes the Boom
Once a collegiate wrestler, Scott Voss (Kevin James) is now a 42-year-old, apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten the school's music program and its teacher (Henry Winkler), Scott springs into action. He dusts off his long-unused wrestling skills and earns money for the program by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Though the school nurse (Salma Hayek) thinks he's crazy, Scott gains something he never expected, and the school rallies behind him.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor. The journey takes Bilbo on a path through treacherous lands swarming with orcs, goblins and other dangers, not the least of which is an encounter with Gollum[C21]and a simple gold ring that is tied to the fate of Middle Earth in ways Bilbo cannot even fathom.
Life of Pi
After deciding to sell their zoo in India and move to Canada, Santosh and Gita Patel board a freighter with their sons and a few remaining animals. Tragedy strikes when a terrible storm sinks the ship, leaving the Patels' teenage son, Pi (Suraj Sharma), as the only human survivor. However, Pi is not alone; a fearsome Bengal tiger has also found refuge aboard the lifeboat. As days turn into weeks and weeks drag into months, Pi and the tiger must learn to trust each other if both are to survive.
The Hunger Games
In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. District 12 Tribute Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has little to rely on, other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Accompanied by his ragtag crew, an enthusiastic pirate captain (Hugh Grant) sails the high seas and dreams of besting his bitter rivals, Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek), in a quest to win the coveted title of Pirate of the Year. The captain's quest takes him and his comrades from the exotic shores of Blood Island to Victorian London's foggy streets. Along the way, they battle a clever queen and join forces with a young scientist named Charles Darwin (David Tennant).
The Bourne Legacy
When the actions of Jason Bourne spark a fire that threatens to burn down decades of research across a number of secret intelligence agencies, Eric Byer (Edward Norton), the man who built the programs, decides he must sacrifice one of them: Outcome. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), one of Outcome's six agents, and research scientist Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) go on the run when Byer targets them for termination. But Cross proves to be a far deadlier target than Byer realizes.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Scrat's continuous pursuit of an infernal acorn has world-changing consequences for Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) when the continents split apart. The continental crack-up separates Manny and his friends from the rest of the herd, including Manny's mate, Ellie (Jennifer Lopez) and rebellious daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer) ]. The pals are desperate to return home, but a pirate (Peter Dinklage) and his ragtag crew stand in their way.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Some British retirees (Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy) decide to outsource their retirement to exotic -- and less expensive -- India. Lured by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and imagining a life of leisure in lush surroundings, they arrive and find that the Marigold is actually a shell of its former self. Though their new home is not quite what they had imagined, the retirees find that life and love can begin again when they let go of their pasts.
Merida (Kevin McKidd), the impetuous, but courageous, daughter of Scottish King Fergus (Robbie Coltrane) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), is a skilled archer who wants to carve out her own path in life. Her defiance of an age-old tradition angers the Highland lords and leads to chaos in the kingdom. Merida seeks help from an eccentric witch (Julie Walters), who grants her an ill-fated wish. Now, Merida must discover the true meaning of courage and undo a beastly curse before it's too late.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) live in the town of Stanleyville, home of the Stanleyville Pencil Factory. Though happily married, Cindy and Jim long for a child; unfortunately, they are unable to conceive. They bury a box in their backyard, containing all their wishes for what they hope a child of theirs might be. When a boy named Timothy (CJ Adams) magically appears at their door, the Greens learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life's greatest gifts.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.


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Last year we funded one of the top 10 grossing Health and Fitness applications on the iPhone, Runkeeper. The company was performing very well, the app had been downloaded by millions of people, they were profitable and had plenty of their own cash in the bank.
But they weren't interested in just being an iPhone app and we weren't interested in funding one. What we wanted to fund, and what they were actually building, was something much more powerful. Something that harnessed the collective actions and related data of millions of users to improve their health, inform their decisions and inspire change. The team realized that the power of this platform wouldn't be realized through any single app, but through a series of apps, sensors and algorithms that could be broadly used by consumers and developers.
There was just one thing standing in the way of the company and this vision. Their business model.
A meaningful portion of their revenue was tied to the Pro version of their app which was unlocked through a one time fee of $9.99. The high ticket price meant a large number of potential users weren't getting the full value out of the product. The entry price was not only creating a divide between user experiences, it was creating friction and confusion for potential adopters of the product.
So just before the holidays Jason and Mike approached us with a crazy idea. Make the paid version of the app free. We agreed to a trial period to see the response. During that 4 week trial, the Runkeeper Pro app saw over 1 million downloads and climbed to the #5 spot in the iTunes store. The app reached more users and was seeing more activities logged than we had imagined.
Yesterday, the company announced that the Pro version of the app will be free from here on out. Effectively killing their old business model of one time download revenue. By doing so, the company will be able to focus on a unified consumer experience, rapidly increasing their user base, delivering higher value subscription services (like their Elite Memberships and FitnessClasses) and working with 3rd party developers to increase the functionality and reach of the underlying platform.
Jason, Mike, Joe and the entire Runkeeper team have a compelling vision for the possibilites of this market. We're thrilled to be backing founders willing to make such bold moves to turn their vision into a reality.
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In my last blog, I discussed some things to consider when establishing a relationship with a new cloud-services provider. Getting involved early, determining the support model and establishing a regular cadence for continuous improvement are all critical to getting the service off the ground. But how do you know you're actually off the ground? By measuring and reporting supplier performance.
Metrics, KPIs and SLAs are a well-traveled road. If you Google "KPI" today, you'll get over eight-million hits. With that much information, where does one begin?
It is far better to have just a few sharply-targeted metrics that correlate highly with business goals and customer needs than it is to try to measure everything about a supplier relationship. So, as you consider what you want to measure, think hard about how improving a result might tie back to that for which your customers are willing to pay. This is a case where more is most assuredly not better. Just a few relevant metrics are much more impactful than a vast page of numbers.
When you're selecting a suite of measures, consider the big picture. Every supplier relationship will be similar in nature, but will contain some unique differences. So as you pick the metrics to measure service delivery, consider consolidating them into three main groupings:
Metric Group #1: Foundational – This is a set of metrics that apply to all your suppliers no matter what they do for you. A good example is Total Cost/Unit of Work delivered. Every good manager wants to know whether a supplier's service delivery is more cost-efficient than alternatives.
Metric Group #2: Category-Weighted– Consider what's most important in this supplier relationship:
If these are the right categories for you, select metrics that measure each of them, then weight them to emphasize the category that's more important in that particular relationship.
Metric Group #3: Service-Specific – Every service will have something about it that makes it unique. In a call-center context for example, you might want to measure Average Handle time (AHT) as a proxy for customer satisfaction. So, for each service, identify those characteristics that make the service unique, identify an appropriate metric to measure what's unique about that service, and then connect the metric to a business or customer need. If there is no connection, discard it and evaluate another.
In the healthcare sector, protecting member and patient data is paramount. Personal Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is highly regulated by laws like The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and compliance is closely monitored by government agencies like Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If privacy and data security are important to your customers, be sure to hold your suppliers to at least the same standard as you hold yourselves and check to be sure they're doing what they say. Build metrics into your contract that monitor for data breaches and result in immediate action with your supplier should a breach occur. Better yet, employ forward-looking and predictive measures that help avoid security events rather than report them ex-post facto. We all would agree, the best security breach is one that never happened.
Finding metrics or SLAs to measure a supplier is not hard. A huge list is only a Google search away; however, what you want is the right set of metrics, a set that ties the performance of the supplier to your business and to your customer's needs.
Think small in terms of metrics and big in terms of the picture and you will measure what matters most to you, your business and your customers.
For more information on this topic, please contact me at email@example.com or 518.689.3198.
Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine that works for an insurance company. The company has its own retail outlets in which they sell various insurance products. My friend is involved in the IT service delivery side of the business; ensuring that what is broken gets fixed and what is requested by the business gets fulfilled, along with general system maintenance.
He was telling me how they had implemented many visual tools to help their delivery people track projects that they were working on (reactive/proactive). During our conversation, it occurred to my friend that although his IT colleagues were clearly communicating they still were not actually "connecting" to the end customer. The topics of organizational empathy and centricity came up and how they were relevant to my friend's company. My friend's IT colleagues had little empathy for the end business client. The IT department's centricity was all based around themselves and their own challenges. This type of thinking eventually presents itself to the end business client as cold and detached. We see this time and time again in business applications that have been developed and supported with little to no true empathy of the business client's operating environment.
Empathy is the key to success in selling. The seller needs to relate to the struggles of the buying party in order to present value points that are relevant. For the most part, IT professionals are required to sell themselves to the business time and time again. With external options becoming available every week in the form of clouds, most IT departments have to continuously validate themselves. Business academics such as Subramanian Rangan, suggest empathy is essential for organizations to succeed in today's market. Best practices such as USMBOK, speak to defining your organization's operational centricity. This is again a position of empathy when designing service management organizations.
Despite the conversation my friend and I were having, he still needed a practical solution. The fix was not a complete one but enough to bridge the gap. He decided to broadcast several live video feeds of his retail floors onto monitors inside the IT department. This way his IT support people could actually see the statistic of wait time alongside the actual public waiting. This simple fix connected his people to the people they were serving.
For more information on connecting your IT Service Delivery department to the end-user, please contact me at email@example.com or 518.689.3198.
Many companies have been considering cloud models for IT service delivery. Whether you are thinking about Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), or other cloud-based services, there are a few significant differences between the cloud service model and what one might consider to be more traditional IT service delivery. These differences are significant enough that it might provide you with an opportunity to rethink your current business delivery model completely.
First, there is nothing like finding out someone else has negotiated a cloud services deal without your input, and now you have to deliver. So before that contract gets signed, get involved in the discussions with potential service providers. Doing so provides the opportunity to understand the intricacies of their service delivery model, how flexible they might be in meeting your requirements and most importantly, it gives you the chance to provide input into setting any service delivery performance metrics and SLAs that might be built into the contract. Remember, the best SLAs are those tied to the needs and goals of the business. So if you are going to specify a metric in the contract, make sure it directly relates to delivering improved business performance.
Second, figure out how the support model will work. From the initial incident report through problem resolution, map out exactly how someone who has a problem with the service delivery (whether customer, business, technical or other) will get that problem fixed. You will need to figure out whether you will use your incident/problem/change process and systems alone, the supplier's, or some combination thereof. If you are using a combination (which by the way, most companies do) - work out the workflows, handoffs, data sharing and integration points between you so each party (you and the service provider) knows exactly who is responsible for delivering what, to whom, by when.
Third, continuous improvement does not happen by itself. Assign a point person to evaluate supplier performance shoulder-to-shoulder with your service provider. Those metrics you contracted for back in contract negotiation and then gathered in the support and service delivery system(s) have to be consolidated, compiled, reviewed and acted upon. Knowing where the numbers will actually come from, who will provide them, and in what format is critical.
Hold weekly/monthly operational reviews to course correct with the service provider and quarterly or annual performance reviews to deeply evaluate their service delivery, and address any systemic problems. If they are doing well, reward them. If not, create a realistic plan, set a time frame for change and give them the chance to improve. (Consider the reality of the alternative: Disengagement.)
Finally, consider the following: It used to be a competition with a vendor to see who could wring the most out of the relationship. Get the most widgets out of them for the lowest cost, right? That way is no more. Sure, you are still in competition, but not with your service providers. You are in competition with other supply chains.
As you look for better ways of delivering value to your customers, look to the right service partners to help you improve all that you do. As you put the pieces together to make your whole supply chain more competitive, you will deliver whatever you do more efficiently, cost effectively and timely, and your customers will reward you for it.
For more information on this topic, please contact me at email@example.com or 518.689.3198.
One day you are in the middle of some of your greatest work when you feel a tap on your shoulder and hear, "You have been requested to help with the latest IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) audit." Cold sweats and the look of worry are prevalent in your reaction. Commonly this is the reaction to this kind of news, but it shouldn't be.
Audits have this feel in corporate cultures of being a resource drain. Successful completion is never clear and audit results don't have a high level of confidence. Why? Because there isn't a focus on improving the overly taxing manual effort in audits. With a little planning and design, tapping into the information stores you already have within your organization can allow you to automate your audit activities.
1. Store your policies in a system and ditch PDF, Word, Excel, Lotus, etc.
Utilizing technology to manage all aspects of IT GRC improves visibility and helps breakdown the linkages between Policy à Control à Remediation. Many times these different levels of detail are only stored in PDF format not allowing for easy consumption of what is needed for compliance.
2. Provide a systematic way to manage audits, control tests, test data sets, test results and remediation.
Utilizing technology to manage these activities at the time of the audit allows for clear visibility and simple understanding of roles and responsibilities.
3. Integrate your IT GRC processes with your ITIL processes.
Many companies have spent a fair amount of time and resources maturing their ITIL processes. This enables the results of the processes to be inputs to the audit process and control tests (Change Records, Incident Records, Problem Records, and Configuration Items). Tests can be automatically performed and results reported back in a matter of minutes reducing the amount of manual effort.
4. Keep it simple and utilize what you have.
Don't overthink a need; keep your workflows and activities simple – there is no need to manage every step of the lifecycle. Don't implement a solution that impedes agility and speed.
A little proactive planning and design can result in large returns for your organization in the following areas:
If you would like to discuss how to make this strategy become a reality, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or 518.689.3198.
These are just a few of the issues our clients are consistently seeking to solve as their end-users look for more efficient services. Organizations joined Linium and ServiceNow at last week's Transform IT Now seminar in New Jersey to learn how to solve these types of challenges and learn more about the next generation of IT Service Management (ITSM).
Presentations at this seminar showcased the approach that more than 2,000 customers across the globe have used to transform IT from a reactive, "keep the lights on" mentality, to being an effective provider and broker of services that drive business value enterprise-wide.
In particular, attendees learned first-hand how a large health service corporation has successfully leveraged the ServiceNow Service Catalog to establish a 'single pane of glass' for requests, resulting in improved end-user satisfaction for its 10,000+ end-users. This corporation was able to successfully reduce its call volume by 30%, as well as sunset multiple legacy systems and automate workflow – all by leveraging the ServiceNow Service Catalog. In addition, attendees learned how this corporation is taking a multi-phased approach to extending this project beyond IT and incorporating services from other business units to further streamline requests.
Want to learn more about how you can effectively address your end-users' needs and how you can expand Service Management enterprise-wide with ServiceNow? Contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com or 518.689.3198.
By now, we have all received and acted upon the message of cutting costs, do more with less, streamline, and right-size. With the marketplace stabilizing more and more, companies are enabling their growth plans and moving forward with new services. The issue is, "Are your IT services positioned to handle the growth to contain operational costs?" In my experience working with companies, I see many making decisions around growth to react to market opportunities, without keeping a close eye on operational costs. The net of this will be lower rates of return and the inability to scale.
What we need to do now is design our business services to allow us to manage the growth while keeping our operational costs in check. With that being said, IT needs to understand how to utilize innovative tools to help control operational costs while enabling growth.
To do this there are three major components:
We read about how automation is needed but most companies struggle with implementing for a number of reasons. Once we automate the simple workflows around password resets, virtual environments, and other requests, we stop. We need to ask the business what their challenges are and look to automate those workflows such as order to cash, customer care, and business operation coordination. Automating these types of services will reduce errors and omissions and will have benefits or decreased effort, reduced risk, increased productivity, and increased customer satisfaction.
You may have read the newer concepts of "Next Generation of IT Service Management". I have blogged about it myself. This concept uses internal knowledge on how to better serve the company's workforce through similar types of applications like "Living Social" and "Google Now". By providing users with "Personalized Service" that is actively trying to serve their needs before the employee is looking for it will help them do business, wherever, whenever, and when it's convenient to them.
With the movement of empowered business technology and embedded business technology, IT organizations need to have the proper controls and processes in place that will allow their organization to be agile while controlling operational costs and risks. This allows business units to incorporate third party service providers while rolling it into the governance framework to ensure the organization remains sustainable, scalable, and supports growth initiatives.
If you have not already started enabling these concepts within your organization you may be heading back to the land of drastic cuts. Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or 518.689.3198.
With the onslaught of personalized mobile apps in our lives, how do we mimic this type of service in our business? There are many ways of personalizing services, starting with the Service Catalog which has identity management built in to only display catalog items applicable to the user. The next step is to start to incorporate subscription services into your notification engine. These personalized services can be provided today, but what about the concept of taking into account a user's work pattern?
Tracking a user's work pattern is becoming more and more of an expectation in organizations today. To get started, you need to understand the repositories you have in your environment that can help you skim this type of data. Some people point to culling request tickets to pick up user patterns around requests; others go after system access information and user logs to understand what the user accesses. In my opinion, both are great sources. Deciding which approach to take all depends on how well maintained and how accessible the data is.
No matter where you start, you should come up with a strategy to understand user patterns. When understanding user patterns, you want to try to answer the following questions to help produce a user's work pattern:
By placing these user patterns in the preceding buckets allows IT to understand how the user interacts with it on a daily basis. This information can then be analyzed to provide targeted push services when a known change in the user's environment occurs. By providing push services, information will be available before the user requests it. This becomes very valuable to the user for better performance of their job functions and interacting with the organizations services.
Once you start to understand how to best push valuable service information, you can then look to maturing your personalized services by expanding on two trajectories:
Next phase of maturity would be to start to automate requests based on the user and environment prior to the user knowing they have a need. This is an elevated level of maturity. A level that at one time was only dreamt about but now is quickly becoming a reality.
If you would like to discuss how to make this strategy become a reality, please feel free to contact me at email@example.com or 518.689.3198.
Enable your mobile workforce to access services, wherever and whenever it's convenient to them!I was at home and I was reading my Google Cards ("Google Now") to pass some time when I started to look at all the apps on my tablet. I noticed how many services were pushing relevant information to my device based on who I was and where I was. I thought, "Why can't I get this same type of service from my place of work or the suppliers I do business with?" The technology is available. Solutions are available for external customers and continue to grow day by day.
The "Next Generation of Service Management" is becoming a very real thing. The need to allow your mobile workforce to access services wherever and whenever it's convenient to them grows day to day. Pressure from the business to do more with the same level of resources is a common theme. With the economy looking up, companies that have stabilized are starting to act on growth plans. Providing active push service has become a necessary part of the overall company strategy as it increases productivity while maintaining operational costs. Pushing services to users rather than users finding services is becoming more and more of an expectation. The key is bringing information/knowledge stores within your organization together to better serve your users. Don't think of the knowledge as traditional knowledge; think of it as tapping into sources that were unthought-of before but already exist within your organization.
By understanding these key components to the customer:
• Who am I?• What am I responsible for?• What am I interested in?• Where am I located?
You can push relative information and services to your users giving them what they need before they know they need it, giving your company the ability to service its customers quicker. Next time you are on your mobile device and you get an advertisement to a place you frequently go, think about how helpful it would be if you could do the same type of thing for the people you support. The value it would have in allowing your business users to be more productive. Don't get caught behind the curve, start planning today. If you would like to discuss how to make this strategy become a reality, please feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or 518.689.3198.
There are many excellent, integrated features of the ServiceNow Project Management modules available to help with all facets of the project lifecycle, from proposal through go-live.
As an integral part of the ServiceNow platform, the Project Management module can automatically take advantage of all the information available across that platform. Examples include people data, free/busy time for resource assignments, direct access to Tasks and Changes, workflow and automation, etc.
The first part of the project lifecycle is demand capture. The ServiceNow catalog is a great place to allow users to describe the projects they are proposing and provide any required level of detail, justification, business impact, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) or Return on Investment (ROI) analysis, etc. Reporting and homepage metrics allow you to determine which projects get priority and which will wait. Approval workflow is a standard part of ServiceNow - users can approve projects in the same way they approve requests or changes.
Tracking actual project execution is another strength of the platform - because project execution can come from any part of the ServiceNow Single System of Record - Changes, Change Tasks, Request, Workflow, Automation, or any other facet of the platform.
Another important point is that true appreciation of planned versus actual effort requires a detailed knowledge of those actuals - how much of an FTE's day is spent on non-project activities such as solving crises, planning and executing changes, doing root cause analysis? Only your IT Service Management (ITSM) tool can give you this data, and ServiceNow puts all of that information in your hands.
For more information on this topic, please contact me at email@example.com or 518.689.3198.
I often get a mixed reaction to this question. Answers tend to be one of two kinds:
Both good objections, and not something I can fully answer for you in a blog postl; however, the inclusion of Project Management in your ServiceNow implementation can bring a lot of benefits - in my next post I'll detail a bunch of them. In the meantime, below are couple of things to consider.
When people tell me they are not ready for a Project Management tool, a little digging often reveals an interesting fact - they are already using a tool (or usually a set of tools) to deal with projects! MS Project or Excel is used to track project progress, ServiceNow Tasks are used to make work assignments, Incident Management might be used to capture new project demand, etc. While great for their primary use, none of these tools are well-suited for managing a PMO.
Customers who tell me they already have a tool are generally referring to one of the large Project & Portfolio Management tools on the market, such as Oracle Primavera, CA Clarity, or Planview.
In this case, the appropriate question is, are you getting value for that large investment?
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About 2.5 miles north of Phetchaburi, Thailand is a majestic stalactite- and stalagmite-filled complex of caves housing numerous Buddha statues, said to be put in place by King Rama IV. Rama IV often used the caves for meditation prior to ascending the throne, according to Travel and Leisure Asia.
Visitors to the cave, which is accessed through a steep set of stairs, first see a golden Buddha figure that is often illuminated with a heavenly glow when sunlight filters in through the heart-shaped skylight, says Lonely Planet. On the opposite end of the chamber is an equally majestic 16ft-long reclining Buddha.
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When Grace & Reality Collide: Dealing with Mental Illness, Part II
- Thursday, June 05, 2008
It's More Common Than You May Know
As a person in ministry I have found Christians who love someone with a mental disorder/disease and/or addictions to be more common than not.
One particular Christian author and speaker (who asked to remain nameless, so we'll call her Denise) is the parents of an adult child with Type-2 bipolar illness, a more severe form of bipolar disease that sometimes includes psychotic episodes. For the most part, Denise's son Charles (not his real name) grew up healthy and normal. But when he was only seventeen-years-old the episodes began. "This was a child who was walking closely with the Lord," Denise reports. "So imagine our surprise when the illness first showed itself."
Denise's victim of Type-2 bipolar disease typically begins an episode by talking fast, sleeping little (if at all) and eating little (if at all). As his moods begin to swing, living with Charles from hour to hour becomes a tremendous challenge. He displays unusual character traits: cursing, uncontrollable anger, walking off in the middle of the night. His strength becomes increased and—while some become violent, even toward those they love—so far Charles has not physically wounded anyone.
The Type-2 bipolar can become paranoid. "Once the episodes become full blown they can totally part company with reality. In a fit of mania they might spend literally thousands of dollars in a matter of an hour or sink to the lowest places of despair," Denise says. "This is often when the patient attempts or is successful at committing suicide."
Within the framework of grace and mercy, Denise and her family had to find different types of boundaries for Charles. "Most doctors will tell you tough love makes a bipolar patient worse. Patience, honesty, gentleness, prayer, kindness, and often simply being quiet are the best ways we've learned to cope with Charles when he's not well."
Denise also had to find peace within herself as her son's illness coincided with her mother's Alzheimer's. But as Bottke writes, "We have become emotional repositories for everyone else's problems, and the time has come for that to stop."
When Denise found the boundaries that worked for her—both with her son and her father—she was able to put the fragmented pieces of her life back together and—drawn closer to God—was then capable to climbing to new levels within her relationships with God, her husband, herself, and her ministry.
Another friend of mine has a father with Alzheimer's and a 54-year old brother--a former homeless man--who suffers from alcohol-induced dementia. My friend often tells me she is suffering from the guilt and anxiety involved in being the only caregiver in town for them both.
Still, she has she placed boundaries so she can cope. After years of giving in to the guilt, she has claimed the promises and boundaries of Psalm 16:5-6. She has come to realize that God never gives her more than she can handle, and when she feels too stressed to handle the situation, that's her cue to back off and let God take care of her family.
Finding the Boundaries/Extending Proper Grace
While it would be wonderful to hand everyone who loves a person with a mental illness/disorder/addiction a step-by-step recipe to healing, I cannot. I have discovered that some issues are universal and some are dependent upon the relationship you have with the patient and the degree to which you've allowed the patient to take over your life.
That said, there are things that don't work. Melanie, a Christian who suffers from a mental illness/disorder, says one of the worst things that happened to her in the beginning of her illness was when people told her to "buck up."
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An LA Times reader reacts to the Sept. 9 story about the hotline for 'losers' (from LA Times, requires registration):The idea of a woman giving out a bogus "loser's" phone number instead of her own is an old one ("Hey, Loser, Got a Message for You," Sept. 9). Some years ago I met an attractive young woman and asked for her number. She gleefully gave it to me. I phoned the very next day, only to hear a taped recording: "Thank you for calling the Los Angeles Zoo.... " My only solace was a good laugh because, even though the joke was on me, it was truly funny. Unfortunately, Jeff Goldblatt's "loser's" phone number is lean on humor and…
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If someone asks for your phone number and you don't want to give it to them, get rid of them discreetly by giving them the number for the rejection hotline. They'll think it's your number until they dial it up and hear this prerecorded message: "The person who gave you this number obviously did not want you to have their real number. Maybe you're just not this person's type.... This could mean short, fat, ugly, dumb, annoying, arrogant or just a general loser. Maybe you suffer from bad breath, body odor or even both. Maybe you just give off that creepy, overbearing, psycho-stalker vibe. Maybe the idea of going out with you just seems as appealing as playing leapfrog with…
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Yesterday's NY Times piece about mock weddings sparked my interest in the subject. A quick search on Google pulled up some more info about the phenomenon:Northern New York's Mock WeddingsThis website reports that mock weddings were a popular activity for church groups in the 1930sThis page references Frazer's The Golden Bough to note that at the dawn of civilization "Mock weddings were often carried out as part of harvest and fertility rituals, sometimes culminating in human sacrifice, or reminicances of such sacrifice."
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J.D. Salinger Documentary Director Shane Salerno Reveals 'Catcher In The Rye' Sequel, Author's Fascination With Teenage Girls [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
Salinger, the new documentary about J.D. Salinger, sheds light on the late author of The Catcher in the Rye's prolific life as a recluse and the origin of his interest in girls who had yet to reach adulthood. The documentary's director Shane Salerno described the information he unearthed to provide the revealing look at the private author in an exclusive interview with Uinterview.
Salinger published his final original work in 1965, and subsequently retreated, never to produce any more work intended for the public eye. Unbeknownst to those who hungered for more of his writing, the author continued to develop the characters his readers had cared so much about. "So what he'd really been doing for all of these years, for 45 years, if you can believe this, of writing only for himself, locked away, is creating the story of these two extraordinary families, the Glass family and the Caulfield family," Salerno revealed.
"And those are the masterworks for which we will know Salinger, and in the Caulfield case, that does include continuing some of the stories in The Catcher in the Rye."
It was a strange phenomena for a writer of Salinger's talent and appeal to not only shun celebrity, but to quit his career as a writer altogether. The decision was ultimately a product of his faith. "J.D. Salinger had an extraordinary devotion to the Vedanta religion and among many beliefs in the Vedanta religion is that you are to do your work without seeking any reward of any kind, that you are to do the work for the work's sake," Salerno told Uinterview. "And J.D. Salinger was devoted to that ideal. And so in 1965, fulfilling the third tenant of his religion, withdraw from society."
After having published his first short story, but roughly a decade before The Catcher in the Rye was published, Salinger dated socialite Oona O'Neil – the teenage daughter of Eugene O'Neil, who dated Orson Wells before him and married Charlie Chaplin after him. "That relationship, which Salinger never recovered from, never recovered from losing her, imprinted upon him a girl, not a woman, a girl at a very specific age, on the cusp of womanhood and he was forever fascinated with girls at that age," observed Salerno. "He was fascinated by girls before they entered the adult world."
Salinger's posthumously published work will be released in installments from 2015 to 2020. The documentary is currently in limited release.
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My daughter still talks about this place. She's now in Kindergarten. I really liked taking her here last year. Her teachers were great and so kind to her and the other kids as well. Mrs. Mildred really made our day with her smiles and interaction with the kids. I checked out other places before bringing my daughter here and they don't even welcome you but Acacia Montessori sure did! If we didn't move out of the city I would have brought my daughter back. She had a wonderful experience and so did we. I recommend this place. They really do care about your child's education and make it fun and loving! Thank you Acacia Montessori for giving my daughter great memories of her pre school year!
My experienced with this school was so GREAT! I enrolled my son in the 2 year old classroom and it was amazing for my cry baby to be in this kind of environment. I didn't expect that the transition for my baby from home to school was that easy. The teacher Ms. Sharon in the classroom is really a nice teacher. She's really such a nice person and very honest. She made her classroom environment very peaceful for the babies. Teachers in this school are very nice especially their Director, Mrs. Mildred who really such having a loving touch and action for the children. Being a new parent, Mrs. Mildred helped me a lot by giving me examples and suggestions, and advices on how to raise my baby better and most of the points she gave are very helpful. She always make my morning so bright with her warm greetings and big smiles. I really could feel her sincerity in her heart that's why I was very comfortable to leave my baby under the care of Acacia Staffs. I really recommend this school! Thank you so much Acacia Staffs.
This school is terrible, the owner only care about the tuition and your child is just $$ and a number to him. Both him and his wife are cold hearted people. I had no choice and had to pull my child out of this school. This is awful school and negative environment due to Mr.& Mrs. Firdosy. Even if they offer low income programs, dont take your child here. So many unhappy parents have pulled their children out from this awful school. The positive reviews listed below are from years ago and Ms. Elisa quit because the owners treated her like crab, especially when she stood her ground and advocated for the parents & children.
There hasn't been a review since 2011. This school should be closed. The owners do not provide work books that are needed for the children. The owners are very unprofessional. When they are confronted with a problem, they shut you down and they don't own up to their mistakes. My mistake is sending my child to that school, only to find out my child didn't learn anything. The state should really look at this school. The owners always cry that they have no money. If they have no money, why are they open?
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The Delve R800 is a dual band CDMA bar style phone that sports a large 3" touchscreen display and Samsung's TouchWiz interface. Other key features include a 2.0 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, 8GB microSD memory card, live TV, full HTML browser, GPS, MP3 player, video capture and pic transfer software.
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If your browser is working fine right now, I'd create a restore point. I'd update IE before doing that, but it's not a big deal. You could create one before and after the updates. If IE does a major overhaul as it updates, it should create a restore point automatically before installing a new version and/or the updates.You aren't interesting or clever when you write or speak in the lyrics of others. Rather, what are YOUR words?
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Let out your inner Dork and come celebrate with us at Great Kills Branch on Staten Island at 3:30 for Dork Day giveaways, raffles, and Phineas and Ferb inspired fun! Click here for more details or read about what The New York Times has to say.
Also be sure to visit your local branch to check out DVD's of the ultimate dork, Steve Urkel from Family Matters!


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Big Star's shadow is looming large at this year's SXSW.The text that Alex Chilton had died came through just before midnight on the first full day of South By Southwest 2010 in Austin. I was on my way to the sleeze-and-cheese-and-bathroom-cologne club Prague to see the anti-Alex, Billy Bragg, ... More >>
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This is the virtual home and diary of Tina, 29 years old from Germany. I live with my husband and my two cats named Peaches and Bounty. All animals are like friends to me, and so it was my choice, not to eat them, or abuse them in any kind of way! I am obsessed about a few things, like my favorite band blink-182, vegan food, things that most people would call "paranormal" happenings and The X-Files. Also I'm just turning into a Star Trek fangirl. If you like, follow me on Twitter! You'll find me as MuseOfFruits !
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Ayo! This is my blog, I ♥ Science, Music, Paul McCartney and his band The Beatles, all of these stuffs are found here. Well I could be random sometimes. So, enjoy and FOLLOW!
Love Story beneath the Aurora
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Marketa Stanczykova and I met after a she looked me up from Iceland when she found this image http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=04&month=10&year=2011 on the cover of spaceweather.com 1 year and 21 days ago. We became friends on Facebook and after shooting aurora together in Alaska we fell in love. Despite many obstacles we were able to gather a small group of friends and head up to Poker Flat Research Range where the aurora is studied, to say I do in front of the world on the Aurora Cam.
The sky was dark and aurora activity was non existent until we pulled up to the observatory. As if by magic, the sky came alive and we were able to say our vows with a select group of incredible friends, the amazing aurora that brought us together, and the Aurora Cam as our witnesses. A day none of us will forget!
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Matt Schaub is now officially the starting quarterback of the Oakland Raiders. But the question remains….who is the quarterback of the future?
I decided to take a look at some quarterback options in the 2014 NFL Draft not named Bridgewater, Manziel, Bortles, or Carr.
Here is a look at the Second-Tier QB options for the Oakland Raiders. The projected 2nd to 7th round quarterbacks, who may prove to be starting caliber NFL quarterbacks in the very near future.
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My work for the upcoming Doctor Who tribute show at Meltdown Comics! It's here in LA on November 1st, and loads of talented artists have come out of the woodwork to share out love for the good Doctor.
With something like Doctor Who, there's so much rich, amazing material to work from. Obviously you have the companions and a vibrant rogues gallery, but i've always really loved River Song, both her character and her unique relationship with the doctor. Sorting through her timeline requires a bit of a roadmap, but fortunately the internet was ahead of me on that one. Her story is powerful and beautiful and tragic AND she's got big awesome curly hair, what's not to love?
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It's EPIPHANY! MERRY OLD CHRISTMAS!
I have one more image for Epiphany
Thanks for visiting my Advent Calendar! I hope this site was (and still is) a blessing and great fun for you and your family and friends. Thanks for sharing the link to the site and spreading the word about my work. I posted here every night, or by noon, for a daily walk through this wonderful season with a new vision and perspective on the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany stories.
By the grace of God I completed 26 images. The Calendar has been successful in a number of ways and hopefully will become a yearly tradition and offering with new pieces and old links to this 2013 Calendar with images.
Jack Anglin
January 6th, 2014
Jack Anglin is the pastor at
Chalice Christian Church in Virginia Beach
ChaliceCC.org in the Diamond Springs area.
The images here were accented each Sunday in the service of worship.
Pastor Jack, (as both young and old members have come to call him) loves the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany seasons, but not as most people would expect --not for the usual reasons. With art as an emphasis or as a way to preach, teach, to explain and present the stories in ever more powerful ways, Jack touches on just about every theme from the birth narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Over the month you saw nocturnes, landscapes, and portraits in an array of styles and techniques. I think it was a fun endeavor for all, and one that has been very meaningful to me. --Jack
Main Images will be displayed at
THE ART WORKS Gallery in Norfolk
321 West Bute Street 23510
757 625+3004 www.artworksva.com
December 1 through 16 are already at the gallery!
Jack completed 25 images and has a few more to add and post before Epiphany but will stop here with the daily posts. It has been successful in a number of ways and will be a yearly tradition and offering.
If you are just looking in you might think of it as an Old Christmas opportunity. After most people have put the Holy Day far behind them, there might be just one thing left to learn and share. Maybe the whole collection will continue to be an inspiring show of art related to the Christmas and Epiphany seasons.


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Physicians for Human RightsUsing science and medicine to stop human rights violations
Don't Miss It: Recognizing and Documenting Evidence of Torture and other Persecution
Special medical training to recognize and understand the consequences of human rights abuses is no longer a niche specialty only for clinicians working with asylum seekers. Such training is necessary for all physicians, psychologists, nurses, and social workers determined to aid their patients effectively. PHR will be conducting two training sessions to provide clinicians with the skills necessary to recognize and document evidence of torture and other human rights abuses.
Psychological Torture in Detention
PHR and TASSC International held a briefing at the Capitol entitled "Psychological Torture in Detention" in recognition of Torture Awareness Month. The discussion centered on the use of psychological torture on individuals in detention through practices such as prolonged indefinite detention and abusive solitary confinement.
Prohibiting Medical Participation in Torture
Eighteen years after the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, we are still engaging in illegal and immoral practices all over the world.
World Health Organization Adopts Resolution Requiring Documentation of Violations of Medical Neutrality
Member States of the World Health Organization adopted a resolution on Friday that requires the body to document violations of medical neutrality.
President Obama, the US Should Join the Mine Ban Treaty
PHR joined partner organizations in an April 4, 2012, letter calling on President Obama to officially announce future US policy on landmines, and to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. To date, the US has not taken the official step of acceding to (joining) the monumental treaty which forbids countries from using, producing, stockpiling, or transferring anti-personnel mines, and requires countries to destroy existing mines.


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Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While some doctors and patient advocates have welcomed rising diagnosis rates as evidence that the disorder is being better recognized and accepted, others said the new rates suggest that millions of children may be taking medication merely to calm behavior or to do better in school. Pills that are shared with or sold to classmates — diversion long tolerated in college settings and gaining traction in high-achieving high schools — are particularly dangerous, doctors say, because of their health risks when abused.


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Great town. Great Home. Awesome owners. Thanks for another great time. See you next year. Jim
Absolutely Perfect Place
The condo was gorgeous and has all the amenities of home (and even some I don't have at home). The place could not be better located. Right in the heart of the P-Town action, but just far enough way where you can get a quiet night sleep. Love the view of the monument (especially at night when it is lit up). Beds were comfortable, AC worked great, and the porch is great for grilling and hanging out. Will always stay here when I vacation in P-Town!
Perfect spot for a much needed getaway!
We stayed at Flyer's last weekend and could not have been any happier that we found this property! The house is in a quiet location but is within walking distance to everything in town. Which was perfect for checking out all of the stores and restaurants. The inside of the house was immaculate and very charming. The views from the bedroom and living room were amazing. We spent a lot of time just sitting and watching the ocean. One of our favorite things about the house is that the beach is just a few steps out of the door. It was nice to spend a few hours on the beach and be able to go back inside whenever we got hot. I would also recommend renting Kayaks from Flyer's or taking one if their boat rides! The scenery is spectacular. The owner, John, was great! He was very helpful with any questions that we had before our stay, and was very accommodating while we were there. He even gave us a little tour of the town! I would 150% recommend this property to anyone looking to stay in the Cape!!