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Tena Buell Roethle
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
"**((((I will be out of the office July 3-8))))))). I work with adults and older adolescents (17-19) who are experiencing anywhere from some current life stressors to more long-term depression and anxiety symptoms. I specifically specialize in PTSD and trauma (more in paragraph below) and those who have or are experiencing domestic violence.
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"I provide psychotherapy because I understand that life can be really hard, stressors overwhelming, and sometimes its hard to access our resources and coping skills. When crises occur, we can feel lost, without anchor, and alone - and that's a crummy way to feel. I can help you make sense when life feels senseless, learn to let go of what is out of your control, and identify new skills to function more effectively and live the life you want.
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Dana M Houck
Counselor, EdD, DMin
""Everyone has a destiny, however, various experiences, perceptions and life events often send us in another direction. Many people become stuck or have difficulty throwing off old thoughts and behaviors. The Psyche brings various symptoms, depression, anxiety, and mood disorders to move us forward. Working through these symptoms leads to a positive outlook on of life. My goal is to help individuals work through the symptoms and build on the strengths and potential within a person. Discovering these gifts can help alleviate negative symptoms and enable you to move into the future with a new awareness and zest for life.
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Nicole Larson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
"Are you struggling with the stress of managing family, relationships and work? Do you feel unbalanced, struggle with mood, anxiety or feelings of general unhappiness and frustration? Let me help you create a plan for finding more balance and happiness in your life. Our website now offers convenient online scheduling. Please call me to discuss any additional questions you may have.
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Krista M Larson
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"I work along side individuals who are struggling with anxiety spectrum disorders (including PTSD), mood disorders, difficulty with regulating emotion and/or tolerating distress, marital or relationship concerns, disordered eating,infertility, and chronic health issues. I believe the therapy relationship is a critical part of healing, as indicated by years of research. You can expect me to work with you in developing approaches to healing that fit your needs, comfort level and strengths. Please note I am not taking new clients until June 2015. I am happy to put you on my wait list if you contact me.
(507) 205-4986
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Carrie Menk
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"*****At this time, I am not accepting new clients***** As a licensed therapist, I have provided clinical counseling to adults, couples and children for fourteen years. You can expect a calm and supportive environment in which to address your presenting concern. You will be provided with treatment interventions that are tailored to your specific needs and that draw on your personal strengths. Clients often report a more integrated sense of self after developing greater insight, body awareness and using the safety of this therapeutic space to reprocess underlying issues. Your journey back to health and wellness is important to me.
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Erin Barnett
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"I work collaboratively with my clients to define and explore the things they want to change. Most of my clients come to therapy because something in their lives isn't working anymore. They want to let go of old habits and deepen their sense of well-being. I help my clients build skills that create the conditions for growth. These skills, practiced over time, allow my clients to connect more deeply with themselves and others, and move more purposefully into the lives they choose. My goal is to facilitate my clients' movement beyond symptom relief to real and lasting change.
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Carla Rae Hunt
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"I believe there is a time in everyone's life where one feels uncertain or in need of assistance to gain understanding of oneself. If you are seeking therapy you may be experiencing a variety of symptoms or searching for better understanding of yourself or a partner. I work toward identifying the root of problems to maximize potential and build on strengths within you. I view my role as a guide to support and assist in your journey of self-discovery. I honor the uniqueness and integrity of every individual, offering a safe and nonjudgmental environment.
(507) 258-3929
"I provide individual, couple and family counseling for children, adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, abuse, grief, family relationship issues, and a variety of other issues that affect their personal well-being. I have experience working with military veterans and their families and am a DHS-approved gambling treatment provider.
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Claire Haedike
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
"There are times in life when you may feel stuck, helpless, or so confused you are not sure how to even start making things change. It is at these times when having outside help can make the difference in starting to feel better. Change can be hard, scary, and confusing. I take a collaborative approach to discuss your concerns, build your strengths, help you learn about yourself, and help you take steps to make changes in your every day life.
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Office is near:Northfield, Minnesota 55057
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LIFE Counseling LLC
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"Are you ready for a change? A fresh perspective? We offer a strength-based approach that will actively seek and identify solutions for your current challenges. Whether you are looking for a marital tune-up, or you are in need of some more in-depth counsel and assistance, we are here to help. We look forward to serving you as you pursue greater focus and a fresh outlook on life.
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"Phoenix Recovery Programs (PRP) offers Chemical dependency and mental health treatment (Dual Diagnosis) to Adolescent boys (MALES AGES 14-19) and their families. We strive to provide all facets of treatment to our clients including: Mental health counseling, chemical dependency treatment, improving clients life skills, psychological testing, Medication management, education/GED advancement. The hardest part about helping clients is transitioning clients back home. Some clients have no where safe to live or there is possibly drug use in the home. It is our goal at Phoenix Recovery Programs to find every client a safe and supportive environment to live were they have their best chances to succeed. It is always our goal to return clients to their family, if that is not possible we help the client with finding independent living, college applications, vocational programs and many other options.
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As communities, neighborhoods, groups and parties plan opponents for the 2012 political races, it is important to note the candidate registration dates for the 2012 primary. After the Alaska Senate race in 2010, there are completely new campaign techniques to achieve new representation more compliant to communities' and neighborhoods' will and interests.
The last date to register a candidate for the 2012 primary ballot is March 9, 2012. The last date to register a write-in candidate for the 2012 primary ballot is May 22, 2012
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Doing It Now or Later
The authors examine self-control problems--modeled as time-inconsistent, present-biased preferences--in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. They emphasize two distinctions: do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate--do too soon--immediate-reward activities. Sophistication mitigates procrastination but exacerbates preproperation. Moreover, with immediate costs, a small present bias can severely harm only naive people, whereas with immediate rewards it can severely harm only sophisticated people. Lessons for savings, addiction, and elsewhere are discussed.
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SPFL considers League Cup change
The rule that forces clubs promoted to the Premiership to play in the League Cup first round could be changed.BBC Sport » 3h
The rule that forces clubs promoted to the Premiership to play in the League Cup first round could be changed.BBC Sport » 3h
UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Macedonian club Shkendija after Aberdeen keeper Danny Ward was targeted by a laser pen in last week's Europa League clash.Daily Express » 3h
CELTIC have had a six-figure bid for goalkeeper Logan Bailly accepted by Belgian club OH Leuven.Daily Express » 3h
Adam Matthews admits he swapped Celtic for Sunderland to try and get back into the Wales side, writes Sky Sports News HQ's north-east correspondent Keith Downie.SkySports.com » 4h
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GLEE SINGS THE BEATLES Album Out Today
Get ready for some Gleatlemania! The Glee cast introduces The Beatles' legacy to a new generation with the album release of Glee Sings The Beatles today, September 24. Glee Sings The Beatles includes 14 songs from the first two episodes of Glee's fifth season, which will premiere on Thursday, September 26 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The album will feature the Glee cast's take on the Fab Four's iconic classics such as "All You Need Is Love," "Let It Be," and "A Hard Day's Night" (see below for full track-listing).
On the all-new "Love, Love, Love" premiere episode airing Thursday, September 26, the New Directions are back in action and take on their biggest assignment yet: The Beatles! As Will enlists the kids to pay homage to the classic song catalog from the Fab Four, Blaine and Kurt attempt to answer questions about their future together. Meanwhile, Rachel's New York ambitions take an unexpected turn.
Beatlemania continues at McKinley with the "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds" episode airing Thursday, October 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). It's time for the students to vote for prom queen and king, but when Tina receives a nomination, she takes on a fierce attitude that alienates her biggest supporters. Meanwhile, Rachel adjusts to a new attitude of her own as she and Santana work at a Broadway diner to make ends meet.
Since its debut in 2009, Fox's Glee has pioneered the comedy musical genre, becoming an unstoppable phenomenon that has redefined modern television and broken multiple music sales records. From the anthem hit "Don't Stop Believin'" to the widely praised mash-up of Adele's "Rumour Has It" and "Someone Like You," Glee has sold over 55 million tracks and over 13 million albums worldwide. Throughout its four seasons, Glee has also set a groundbreaking record for the most songs charted by a single act on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing records previously held by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and JAmes Brown. With their incredible record sales, Glee has made a name for itself in music history.
Glee scored three consecutive #1 releases with Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna, Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers, and Glee: The Music, Journey To Regionals. The RIAA has certified Glee: The Music, Volume 1 and Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Platinum (sales in excess of 1 million units) as well as Glee: The Music, Volume 2, Glee: The Music, Volume 3 and Glee: The Music, Volume 4 Gold (sales in excess of 500,000 units).
The full track listing for Glee Sings The Beatles is as follows:
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10. Here Comes The Sun
11. Something
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|April 1, 2014 11:00 AM EDT
The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader interview focuses on the fascinating subject of preparing for the workforce of the future. It's now clear that we are entering into a very diverse and even unprecedented work environment -- something the world perhaps has never known.
But how do enterprises prepare, and how do they create the means to analyze and manage the transition to very different work environments? BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand at the recent 2014 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas.
To learn more about hiring and acquiring talent and managing a diverse and socially engaged -- and even more knowledge-driven workforce -- we sat down with Shawn Price, President for Global Cloud and Line of Business at SAP, and the former President of SuccessFactors, now part of SAP. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Now, this is a really fascinating subject for me, this new diversity and this talent-oriented workforce. But companies must be thinking, how do I reduce risk? How do I think about making this an opportunity rather than a challenge?
Price: Dana, if you think about it, what you have just described is the company that has already started to take steps to make sure that they don't get caught unprepared for the future.
A lot of companies are having to respond to dramatic changes in their operating models, where they're driving revenues against the backdrop of a global economy. And companies are required to deploy flexible workforces that can be engaged and can change with this fast business environment that we're in.
We have a scenario here in the US market, in particular, where every day, 10,000 people turn 65 and that will continue for the next 19 years. So you have an experienced staff that's leaving the workforce. Then, on the front-end, you have a talent shortage. There just are not enough millennials to replace that exodus that's occurring.
The astute companies of the future have mapped this out, have laid a plan, have started to build warm pools of talent, and understand this in everything that they do. They've tied their strategy to their people strategy and acquisition, and they're really managing it for the cultural nuances that the regions that they operate in require, and they're pretty flexible and nimble.
More diversity
Gardner: One of the characteristics, as I understand it, is that there is more of a diversity in the ways in which employees or talent are engaged with a company, many more varieties than the full-time, 40 hours a week, 9-to-5 employee type. This seems to have some upside, but it's different. You don't manage folks in the same way when they're working through these different models.
Price: There's a real movement and emphasis on personal brand. To a degree, you're starting to see free agents in the market. When you look at it on the retention side, planning strategy to the right people, to the right place, and at the right time, with a lot of millennials that are entering the workforce there is a clear six month delineation. That is the greatest risk for your company to lose that talent.
They've come in, they've looked around, and they've decided whether they're actually advancing their personal brand, their knowledge base. It's less about hierarchy and the old models of the past. They're making a call on whether they're actually advancing and learning or it's more tenure based. The way we measure is different as well.
One measurement that's completely different than anything that we've done in the past is your engagement index: How much do you contribute? How much is your content consumed? How engaged are you in the day-to-day?
Gardner: I suppose there's another complicating factor. I've read that by 2020, there will be five different generations working together, and each with a very different set of skills, experiences, expectations, and behaviors. It means that companies can't have a one-size-fits-all approach to this. In fact, they might have to be able to have multiple ways of engaging.
We need start to create a relationship at a much earlier point in order to create these warm pools of talent.
How does that factor into what you're talking about, the workplace of the future. I guess we should talk about the enterprise of the future, and that they need to have a diversified approach, not just a single way to engage?
Price: You're absolutely right. If you look at talent acquisition today, it has shifted. The focus used to be in the past on how do I put as many people as possible through my applicant tracking system, but today it's far more strategic. It's where do I need them and how much do they cost. We need start to create a relationship at a much earlier point in order to create these warm pools of talent.
Second, it's really asking who are my best performers, where are they from, and how do I get more of them? If you have a particularly productive intern program, for example, which college are you drawing talent from that's performing the best in the specific function? So the workforce of the future looks vastly different.
The power of how talent is acquired has shifted subtly as well. It used to be solidly in the hands of the employers, but today it's a two-sided equation. If I'm hiring somebody, I often do interviews over SMS or text, because it's a stream of consciousness. It's not a prefabricated dialogue.
But I also look at their LinkedIn profile, which is how they want the world to see them. I look at their social media profile. And then the most valuable thing to me is the peer references that exist in my network that can validate that that individual is who they're representing themselves to be.
The flip side
But the flip side of that is we have websites that allow the applicant to look into the leadership style. They can connect to their network of people that may have worked for that leader in the past. They can see if the culture that they're espousing is working.
So you have the fundamental shift in how you're attracting, retaining, and working with talent that is completely different from things in the past and the way that we have done it.
What the future will hold is that we'll go to a point where you will carry your composite profile of who you are and that will be made up of both social media external to the company, the LinkedIn profiles, and in some cases, even your performance reviews, where it's appropriate to externalize it. All of that will go in your employee record that will follow you throughout your career. Systems will automatically update that, and so it will be much more consumable.
Smart companies that are innovating are redefining the processes by which they engage. In retail, for example, you have seasonal workforce, and that seasonal workforce typically has to go through the entire recruiting process again if they come back the following year.
We're encumbered in many ways to systems and thinking of the past around some of these talent acquisition processes that are so core to delivering on the strategy.
Maybe I had a good experience year one. If I reapply, now I'm going through the website, now I'm doing verifications. Why can't we re-imagine the on-boarding to be, "Dana, you worked with us last year. You did a terrific job. We'd like to have you back. Is everything the same?" In fact, you can put an application on your smartphone with which you can make sure that the information is accurate, and then turn you on as an employee in the system automatically.
Instead, we're encumbered in many ways to systems and thinking of the past around some of these talent acquisition processes that are so core to delivering on the strategy.
Gardner: Shawn, thinking about the past, I suppose we used to measure things pretty directly -- productivity measurements, top line, bottom line. Is there a new way to measure whether we're doing this correctly, whether we're getting the best workforce and best talent, ramping up to give ourselves the resources we need as organizations to meet our own goals? Should we not think about this in productivity terms? What's the right set of metrics?
Price: It's funny. We will always be top-line and bottom-line driven to some degree, but the measurement isn't necessarily productivity. Maybe it's rethinking processes that can have a material impact. One is this learning management notion, where I was describing engagement. Imagine you are on-boarding to a new company. The most important thing for me as that hiring manager is to get you up to speed and, in your words, productive as quickly as possible.
How did we do that in the past? We put you in a training course or maybe state-of-the-art, an online web-based training course that would run days, if not weeks, on end to try and have you assimilate everything that we needed you to learn.
Moving ahead
The new world, which is not based on that, is trying to move that on-boarding and productivity ahead. The way that we're doing it is we are saying, "We already own all of the subject matter expertise required to on-board somebody. Wouldn't it be cool if, before you even join the company, you could connect by a social network, not one of these isolated ghost towns that stand on their own, but a social network connected to HR or connected to Ariba?"
We could have you engage with somebody doing your same job, so you could ask that person anything you want before you got there -- what should I read, what should I learn, who should I talk to, what's my first week like? That engagement was already occurring.
Then, when you arrive in the company, it would be your compliance learning, and the normal HR functional learning, but you would also take advantage of subject matter expertise.
Today, the way that we learn is not in large chunks of data. Think about YouTube. It's web downloadable, consumable in five minutes on my mobile device. That content that I need in order to be enabled and to thus be productive is available from my coworkers in the form of a five-minute video. Or there's this advent of massive online communities that are producing content. Or I may choose to bring in an expert from outside the company to create content.
The visualization that I have is Khan Academy, where the most complex topics are searchable and digestible via mobile in 15 minutes. That's where we're seeing the shift from just pure top line and bottom line to rethinking what on-boarding and engagement look like, and what does that ultimately do to the acceleration of someone's comprehension? There are many, many examples.
Many times social networks are established as standalone entities and they become ghost towns after a while.
Gardner: Are you saying that companies need to start to become more open and social and create content and the media and mechanism, so that they can be in a sense part of this community? And how far along are companies in actually doing that?
Price: Many times social networks are established as standalone entities and they become ghost towns after a while. You kind of lose interest because they lack content and context.
When you attach it to an actual application, you can publish dynamically to that community, and you can search and see, for example, what was the number one search content today, this week, this month.
Increasingly, I'm starting to see things on people's resumes like their engagement index, which says, "I was the number one producer of content for my company that was consumed by the social network." You're seeing stack rankings of that nature and form.
Cloud strategy
Social will become, and has become, an enormous component of our cloud strategy. In fact, today, we sit with more than 12 million subscribers on our social platform.
We have a large hotel chain that is actually using it to manage contract labor and part-time labor, because they want the engagement. They want the connection, but they want to be able to connect differently to them than the employee who is a full-time employee. And this hotel chain has over 170,000 contractors in their communities, and they're grabbing information and all the expectations.
The other part of social, of course, is the mobile side of it. Our networks and our access to vast amounts of skills that would have in the past been hidden are now available to peruse, almost like a skills catalog within your own organization. You'll find things that you didn't even realize you had in pockets of the globe. People's skills that you wouldn't necessarily have on file even are now apparent through that dialogue.
Most companies are going through this transformation in HR because of the macro trends we've been describing. What they're ultimately trying to figure out is how do I create a strategy? How do I build a set of applications that allows me to execute against that strategy and measure whether I'm performing? And how do I drive cost out of it?
For many companies, they visualize this at the top line and the strategic level, but they also visualize it as a process, and they think of that process as recruit to retire. We believe that you can start anywhere, but you're going to end up with this process that's interconnected.
Maybe your starting point is recruiting, because you have a lack of talent or you're opening or you're expanding. Maybe you have a learning management on compliance, or maybe you have performance and goals where you're actually measuring the progress. You can start with any application and interconnect it over time.
We have actually completed the entire portfolio of applications end to end in the market. Think about Ariba's connection with HR, which seems like a funny thing to say. On the Ariba Network today, we have 1.5 million connected companies. We're adding one every three seconds. Imagine in that supply chain, in that labor pool, what would be available to you if you were to publish a job requisition, for example.
So we look at it as recruit to retire. Where the world is going though is our cloud applications. Today, we manage in excess of 35 million subscribers, the byproduct of people working with us like that is two-fold. One, they tell us very quickly what they like and don't like, which allows us to innovate very quickly. But the other side that you raised is the predictive side.
Predictive analysis
HR is really wide open right now for predictive analytics, and the only way you get there is by having scale of people using your system. Today, for example, we have built 2,000 key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks to be able to tell us things like, what is my management bench strength, today, 30 day, six months, and a year from now? Who is ready and who is going to be ready, because of course that's dependency to your strategy?
Or what's the voluntary turnover rate? We talked about five generations in the workforce. For experienced workers, what's my voluntary turnover rate versus the millennial workforce?
Where we're getting to is really being able to correlate multiple indexes to give us a predictive view of what's going to happen. And that's pretty exciting. That's a pretty big breakthrough that we've seen.
Gardner: If I understand you correctly, Shawn, we're talking about being able to analyze what's going on inside your company across many aspects of the business to better know what your requirements are going to be vis-à-vis talent and in human resources. But you're also analyzing externally something like the Ariba Network and/or social environments so that you can then, if you can't hire, you can procure, or perhaps the boundaries between them are shifting as we get into more services procurement and we automate.
The community component of this is really fascinating -- contributing best practices in new ways.
But the key here, I think, is the analytics. We need to analyze better what we're doing and how we are doing it, but we also need to analyze what's going on externally. Sometimes, that's difficult without a third party, a partner, or a platform. How do you advise companies to be able to do this sort of comprehensive analytics capability?
Price: It's a great point. We have analytics on a particular application. So if you want to instrument learning, that exists. There is analytics that cross the recruit-to-retire spectrum.
But then you hit on a really good point. How am I in category, in mining for retention for this cost of worker, or how am I for recruitment and retention ratio relative to a 100 other minds? You're absolutely right. You can do it within an app, across an app, and using the power of the 35 million subscribers look at patterns that exist within an industry or a best practice.
The community component of this is really fascinating -- contributing best practices in new ways to look at things and new indexes that companies build and publish to the cloud so our communities can consume those new ways of looking at a particular process is an exciting time. The byproducts are 2,000 KPIs that you subscribe to, to not only give you what is best in category in your industry.
Gardner: Are there some examples of being able to create campaigns that start to pull this together? It seems to have an impact across many parts of the business. We need to think about change. We need to put in the technology. We need to think more social, engage people in different ways, and think about sourcing of talent in different ways.
We're at a state in the market and the technology today where it's really a matter of imagination more than anything else.
Is there any precedent that you can point to of a campaign of some sort that has begun to make the shift? Perhaps there's a methodology that we can look at.
Price: We're at a state in the market and the technology today where it's really a matter of imagination more than anything else.
If you take retail, they have always had a historic problem of getting the right amount of talent, in the right place, at the right time, as seasonal as they are. They may have two weeks of hyper growth and they may have a great season or a bad season, but if they're slow, they can't hire enough talent.
So retail has re-imagined hiring. Of course it doesn't fit all, but in some large global multinational chains, they found that the actual people that shop in their locations is the same demographic of people that work in their locations.
So they said if we can build a smartphone app that would allow you to apply while you are in the store, and the manager in the store at that time can see your resume or your LinkedIn profile, we can put you together and collapse this formal hiring process of weeks into potentially hours. This is just a complete re-imagination of recruiting. They collapsed all of their hiring from weeks to days.
We're seeing this across all areas of the business, the ability to transform and visualize data. Where did I get that last recruit from that was so exceptional, and what is the profile of that individual? Talent doesn't necessarily look like we think it looks from the past. Talent comes in every gender, every diversity, and from every corner of the globe. So what patterns do we have in our workforce that we want to replicate? The impact isn't just productivity, as we described. It's the engagement and contribution.
Creating a connection
Then, if you think about some of the other areas, you just follow this example. If I'm joining a company as a new sales rep, that application should be smart enough to look within my company for people who have worked with me before, create a connection over social and say, do you want to go for coffee, congratulations.
Maybe it goes out and sources over the Ariba Network for all of my laptop, my mobile, everything that I need. And if it's really smart, it takes all of my contacts and pushes it into my customer cloud, because I will have been selling to the same people over and over. That's an example of a process that will run across four legs of the application stack. We've never been at a more exciting time -- ever.
Gardner: When you were speaking, you reminded me of the mantra several years ago in customer relationship management (CRM) of know your customer well, know them end-to-end. It now sounds as if we need to apply that to the employee.
The informed companies of the future will know their workforces better than anyone.
Price: Absolutely. If you don't, and you don't really have the engagement level, you'll probably have a talent shortage, because you're not measured hierarchically any more. You're not measured on the old traditional way. It's about what you get in your personal brand. The informed companies of the future will know their workforces better than anyone and know how to replicate and scale them up or down at will and on-board them instantaneously.
Gardner: Perhaps the corporation of the future isn't a single brand, but an amalgamation of many thousands of brands for all the people contributing to their common goals?
Price: Absolutely.
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Possibly the best picture I've ever seen of jj??
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Nathan Montgomery Maloley smile appreciation post
cries for ten years
Not Sure How To Feel About This…
I really want to know what he saw😂😂
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You weren't quite sure why you agreed to tag along with Sam to a photoshoot where he'd be posing with another girl, she was beautiful, and quite clingy to Sam when she posed with him. Her name was Noah Cyrus and she was apart of the Mudd Campaign with him and his friends, but Noah and Sam were called back to model more because their chemistry was so 'amazing'. You went because you were curious, and you wanted to see how far Sam was willing to go with another girl.
They posed, and you sat eating some of the food provided, it wasn outdoor shoot and immediately her arms were wrapped around his neck, she pressed kisses to his cheek and you rolled your eyes, "oh come on," you murmur with a mouth full of a boston creme donut.
Sam smiles at her, and snakes arm around her waist. He leans forward and closes his eyes pressing a kiss to her temple, the same thing he did to you, he would usually lean in and whisper in your ear 'I love you' afterwards and it was kind of your thing.
"I'm actually gonna kill him when this is over, you better get some good shots." You joke, and the makeup artist laughs at your comment. You had a bad habit of becoming extremely witty and sarcastic when you were jealous and this a perfect example, "can I have another donut?" You question, moving to stand up, this time you get a strawberry frosted one and you walk down to the shoot, now Sam was holding her bridal-style with ease and her arm was perfectly placed on his toned chest.
"Y/N's stress eating." Someone from behind you jokes and you turn around to find Nate, "don't worry, he looked uncomfortable."
You sigh, "nah, he actually looks really comfortable." You flash Nate a kind smile and he drapes his arms around your shoulders, "she looks fake as fuck."
Nate chuckles, "she's already gotten with Johnson and Gilinsky, she wants to try Sam now." Your eyes don't even grow, you weren't surprised that Mini Cyrus wanted to take your boyfriend for a ride.
"I think he wants to try her too."
A few minutes afterwards you hear the photographers precise words, "how about we get a few kissing shots?" Sam doesn't even look up at you, he just smiles and happily leans in to kiss her, his lips immediately part and her arms tighten around his neck.
"Wow." You and Nate murmur in unison, you look at each other and Nate automatically notices that your expression has fallen and you're upset.
"I get to hold him while you punch." Nate jokes, trying to lighten the mood but you were in no mood for joking. After a few making out shots, the shoot is over and Sam comes to find you.
"Hey baby," he leans in to kiss you and you jerk your head back, "baby…" he trails off pointedly and looks at Nate for help.
"Hey, don't bring me into this." Nate chuckles and says hi to Noah quickly before saying goodbye to you all.
Sam sighs, "I told Noah we'd give her a ride home." He goes to grab your hand and starts leading you towards the car.
"So you're not gonna even ask me if that's okay?" You heave a sigh as Sam shrugs and doesn't reply, "just know I hate you so much right now." You open the door to the backseat and crawl in crossing your arms.
"Y/N, get your ass in the passenger seat." Sam instructs, Noah was getting her things and you had to wait.
You roll your eyes, "Sam, I hope you get mouth herpes."
"You know, I kissed her and it was amazing, I was going to ask her to fuck with me too after the shoot but I realized I had to take your annoying ass home." He snaps turning to look back at you. Tears enter your eyes and you divert your gaze to out the window, trying to hold back your sobs. He really had stooped too low with that comment.
"Fuck…" Sam trails off, but just as he opens his mouth to speak again Noah opens the door asking what she had missed.
Sam and her have light conversation on the way to her house, he was constantly looking back to see if you were still crying–which you were. Upon dropping her off, he drives home in silence and you get out immediately slamming the door. You walk up the steps to your house and open the door, walking straight to your bedroom with Sam close at your heels.
You turn around quickly causing him to stumble back, "do you really want to fuck Noah? Go for it! Go have sex with her and enjoy her because you guys have SO much chemistry."
"I had to kiss her for the shoot it wasn't my idea!" He argues.
You scoff, "you had no issues with it though, there was obviously no inhibitions seeing as you just went for it…god Sam!" You shout back loudly going to walk out of the room and away from him.
Sam grabs your wrist and turns you around, he pulls you harshly against his chest and smashes his lips against yours roughly. You resist him for a moment before completely giving him, wrapping your arms around his neck, your jealousy taking over to the point where that's all you can think about. He was yours.
"I'm sorry." He murmurs against your lips, "I only do well in those shoots with her because I'm think about you the entire time." He explains sincerely.
"I still hate you for that." You argue, moving up to kiss him again harshly smashing your lips against his, you tug at his hair as he pushes you up against the wall hands caressing your waist, "but it's getting less and less the more you do that." You murmur against his lips with a grin.
Jealousy was normal in a relationship, so was arguing, and you and Sam were slowly learning how to deal with it.
THIS PROBABLY REALLY SUCKS SORRY I WANTED TO POST ONCE MORE BEFORE BED! - Bri x
Anything above a size four is large, you have to fit into Hollister clothes, you have to have a flat stomach and boobs that are bigger than a B cup, your ass can't be flat, your hair has to be long, you always have to have prominent cheekbones and your collarbones and hipbones must be showing.
You were constantly finding new things to worry about, is my back fat falling over my bra? Why isn't my hair sitting right? Oh god it's so embarrassing asking for a larger size when you're in the dressing room. Jean shopping was your absolute worst enemy. You hated it when your little muffin top got squished and looked disgusting. There was always something you hated about your body and you had no idea how you managed to swoon over Nate Maloley to fall in love with every part of you–and yes, that means the muffin top.
Currently, Nate was rested on top of you working on your neck skillfully with his lips, his hands slide up your thighs and you flinch, oh god you hated your thick thighs that looked abnormally large in pretty much everything except black, "did I-did I do something?" He questions noticing the tension in your body. He breaks away and looks at you quizzically.
You swallow thickly, "no it just still feels weird that you aren't disgusted with the way I look." Nate tilts his head to the side narrowing his eyes, "don't look at me like that." You say with a pout, sitting up as Nate crawls off of you and sits beside you.
"It's like, you don't realize how crazy attractive you are to me, and it scares me how many issues you have with yourself." He looks back at you and you sigh, moving to cover your stomach with your forearm, "like, you make me turn off all the lights when we have sex and I haven't seen you naked in the light yet and we've been dating for four months. I can only touch certain parts of you, but lil' mama, I honestly don't care."
You sigh, "Nate…I'm not tiny, okay? I'm not skinny with curves in just the right places my fat is in all of the wrong places and I have stretch marks everywhere."
"And? It's you, it's your body I don't give a fuck." It wasn't really Nate's issue with you, it was your issues with yourself and it made you very upset that you couldn't just get past it, "you know what, listen to me, when I first met you I liked you because I had been so many other little sticks and then you came with this killer personality, and these amazing curves that I could grab onto, and those beautiful thighs that I could rest my hand on while I'm driving. I love you, and I would love you if you weighed more and I would love you if you weighed less just the same because you are the person that is there for me when it's two in the morning and I have food poisoning, or the person who makes me dinner after a long day and does my laundry and supports me and sticks up for me and everything else that you do to me…" he trails off, quieting his ranting.
"It's honestly not you, it's me and how I feel about myself," you admit, diverting eye contact so you wouldn't get upset. Loving yourself was hard, but letting yourself be loved was even harder.
Nate looks around the room and gently grabs your hand, "come on, stand up." He pulls you up with him and makes you stand in front of him, "you know, I feel like I'm the ugly duckling compared to the rest of the guys–I didn't get the Mudd campaign because I didn't fit their look, and mostly girls at meet and greets go hug them before they hug me." His jaw is tense and his eyes are low, you reach out, running your hands over his toned stomach and chest.
"You're not the ugly duckling, you're absolutely perfect." You assure him, Nate uses his hands to slowly lift his t-shirt over his head. You watch in awe as his muscles flex, he was toned and looked amazing you couldn't believe that he thought of himself as anything less than perfect. With another swift moment, he strips his pants off and kicks them off in a direction away from you both. Finally, he peels his boxers off, letting them drop to the floor he stood there completely exposed in front of you.
Nate shrugs, "Maybe I am the ugly duckling, but you make me feel comfortable enough to do this and I want to help you feel the same way." You purse your lips, tilting your head to the side as you thought about his comment, "what's the worse that can happen? I see a little bit of fat?"
You shrug, "I don't want to disappoint you."
Nate scoffs, "babygirl, you can't disappoint me, you succeed my expectations every single day by just being you."
You make eye contact with him, and can't help but smile back as a grin toys on his lips, "alright." You slip off his hoodie that you borrowed that you felt like should be a little baggier on you and Nate presses a reassuring kiss to your lips.
"Keep going."
With another movement, you take off your t-shirt so you're only in your bra. Nate's smile widens and he leans forward to kiss down your neck and onto your shoulder.
"Keep going," he breathes.
Taking off your jeans was your biggest fear, because you wore your jeans so tight they held everything in, you were scared of him seeing the cellulite on your thighs. Nonetheless, you unbutton your jeans and peel them off so you're now just in your bra and panties, and you looked nothing like a Victoria's Secret Model.
Nate pulls you into him and gazes at you with admiration, lips finding yours he kisses you sincerely, "you are absolutely stunning, I love you so fucking much." You felt relieved, because there was absolutely no more hiding, there didn't have to be sex in the dark anymore because he had seen you. In one liquid motion, Nate unclasps your bra and slips it off your shoulders.
"Thank you, I love you too." You murmur with gratitude, Nate truly was one of a kind and you were so lucky to have a person like him in your life.
As you let Nate touch you and see you in places you used to be so conscious about, you gain a newfound confidence about yourself…because if he loved it, why couldn't you?
Matt: " Come they said, It'll be fun they said. @Y/T/N @Y/F/T/N"
Swazz: "@Y/T/N and @Y/F/T/N finally done their hair. Pretty good if I say so myself, pretty good"
Dillon: "Thinking I'm their photographer @Y/T/N @Y/F/T/N"
Carter: "Pour it up, pour it up @Y/T/N @Y/F/T/N"
Shawn: "I'm so proud of @Y/T/N and @Y/F/T/N built a fire all by themselves"
Nash: "@Y/T/N But noticeeee meee. @Y/F/T/N"
Taylor: "@Y/T/N why can't we cuddle instead of @Y/F/T/N?"
Hayes: "Y/T/N @Y/F/T/N Why don't they like pictures?"
Aaron: "@Y/T/N So cute. @Y/F/T/N"
Sammy; "Third Wheeling isn't fun @Y/T/n @Y/F/T/N"
Nate: "@Y/F/T/N taking my baby @Y/T/N away from me for the day"
Cam: "Looks like I'm not the only one that can kiss @Y/T/N. @Y/F/T/N"
Johnson: @Y/T/N and @Y/F/T/N may suck at bowling but as long as they're having fun"
Gilinsky: "They swear they cute @Y/T/N @Y/F/T/N"


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Tennessee consumer officials warn about contest scams
Posted: 07/18/2011 - Gary Cordell of the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs says scams circulate daily with the goal of getting money or personal information.
Posted: 07/18/2011 - Gary Cordell of the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs says scams circulate daily with the goal of getting money or personal information.
Posted: 07/18/2011 - The owners of three businesses shut down over the state's nuisance law will appear in court.
Posted: 07/15/2011 - Gatlinburg doctor gets one year in prison for health care fraud and tax offenses.
Updated: 07/15/2011 - As taxpayers, we spend 644 million on criminals every year and less than 90 million on early education But if we spent more money on education crime would go down and so would the cost.
Posted: 07/15/2011 - U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier in an order Thursday dismissed the suit, two weeks before a scheduled trial linked to the July 2009 death of 32-year-old Alonzo Heyward.
Updated: 07/15/2011 - A fourth person has been arrested in connection with a double homicide in Sevierville in February, the Sevier Co. Sheriff's Office announced on Friday.
Updated: 07/14/2011 - Police share several reasons your car may be targeted, and how you could even be left with the cost if it's broken into.
Posted: 07/14/2011 - Chester County authorities have charged the parents of a baby with murder in the child's starvation death.
Updated: 07/14/2011 - A Catholic priest was convicted of molesting an alter boy while both were at St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Kingsport in the 1970s.
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Posted: 07/14/2011 - Gov. Bill Haslam is refusing to grant pay raises to hundreds of state workers who have been disciplined during the past year.
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Bea Arthur would have turned 93 today. A great day to remember the legacy. A great way to do so is by pulling out those Golden Girls and Maude DVDs, reading through fan stories, watching the ever growing YouTube playlist or taking a look at this article that was posted about Bea's school days at Susquehanna Valley. So many great ways to remember Bea today and everyday!
Maude: Season 2 — August 11
Shout! Factory, who recently released Maude: The Complete Series, will be releasing Maude: Season Two on DVD August 11! If the complete series is a little too big of chunk to take at once, we will soon have the option to grab the long awaited season two in a few months.
This is also a good move on Shout! Factory's part, as Maude: Season Two has been specifically requested ever since season one was released back in 2007.
Read more over at tvshowsondvd.com.
Although I rarely play media on discs any longer, as most media is now available up in a cloud of your choice, Maude is one of the tangible must haves of this century :)
Bea a Lego
I usually don't post about Golden Girls as a collective, however this story is just too good to pass up! Apparently, many other people think so too, as it was a trending topic on Facebook and news throughout the medias yesterday.
Golden Girls fan, Samuel Hatmaker, hit it off when his LEGO ideas hit the 10,000 votes within 8 hours to be considered for official review. I assume the rights would need to be obtained, but with this much fanfare and attention, I have a good feeling they will give the green light.
Read more over at Vocativ and keep a watch on the developments to this fun bit of news.
P.S. Did you obtain the newly released Maude DVD set? Leave a comment on what you think of it!
Maude: The Complete Series
I wanted to wait a few days before posting this to make sure it was legit. It was back in 2007 when Maude Season 1 was released on DVD from Sony Entertainment, which was received very well by Bea's fans. Since then Maude has appeared on various streaming sites and finally iTunes and Amazon for digital purchase. Season two, which seemed right around the corner off the success of season 1, never appeared. So, a few days ago when the complete series, all 6 seasons, 141 shows started to spring up on Shout! Factory's webpage seven years later, I was and still am hesitant to it's existence. Meanwhile, fans seem pretty happy about it and I have been receiving messages with no mention of any reserves about this specific release.
Shout! Factory seems to be the reincarnation of Rhino, which I am very familiar with. You can read more about their history here via their about page. After learning this, I feel more comfortable with this release. That being said, I doubt it will be available on Amazon, iTunes and the like anytime soon, if ever at all due to it's unique commercial licensing. I also just found out from our contributor Alex, that this is now listed on the creditable site TVShowsOnDVD.com.
It looks like this is the time to get your long awaited box set of Maude: The Complete Series!
If you do order this, please send photos in of your unboxing, embracing, absolute joy-ing to share this momentous occasion starting on March 17, 2015!
Television history has given us many memorable, amazing women… and then there's Maude. Bea Arthur (The Golden Girls) stars as the feisty and funny title character in Maude: The Complete Series, finally available on DVD from Shout! Factory.
Created by Norman Lear (All In The Family), Maude pushed the boundaries for network television during its six-year network run from 1972 to 1978. Often controversial and always refreshingly honest, the series never shied away from tackling the topical issues of the day, yet its depth of character and humor left audiences laughing all the way.
Decades after its initial broadcast, Maude remains a benchmark in television for its sharp, intelligent writing, impressive supporting cast (including Bill Macy, Adrienne Barbeau, Conrad Bain and Rue McClanahan) – and of course, the amazing Ms. Arthur. In a role that earned her a well-deserved Emmy® award, Bea Arthur created an indelible portrait of a fiercely liberated woman, paving the way for other noteworthy, female-driven sitcoms from Roseanne and Murphy Brown to 30 Rock.
Right on, Maude!
Until next time,
More detailed information has been announced on the contents of the box set from our contributor Alex, below:
"And then there's Maude. Bea Arthur (The Golden Girls) stars as the feisty and funny title character in Maude: The Complete Series, finally available on DVD from Shout! Factory on March 17, 2015.
The box set contains all 141 episodes on 19 DVDs, as well as a 40-page collector's book containing an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Tom Shales, and several bonus features.
Maude: The Complete Series Bonus Features:
Original All In The Family episode "Cousin Maude's Visit"
Original All In The Family episode "Maude – Pilot"
Unaired episode 115 "The Double Standard"
Unaired episode 316 "Maude's New Friends"
Syndication Sales Presentation (Hosted by Norman Lear)
And Then There's Maude: Television's First Feminist
Everything but Hemorrhoids: Maude Speaks to America
Memories of Maude – featuring new interviews with Adrienne Barbeau and Bill Macy"
Source: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Maude-The-Complete-Series/20631
*The two unaired episodes of Maude share titles and story elements that eventually did air. "The Double Standard" was originally shot for Season One as episode 15 and did not air. However, the same script was reshot for Season Two with cast changes and aired on 10/30/73. "Arthur's Friends" (a.k.a. "Maude's New Friends") was originally shot for Season Three as episode 16. This version also did not air, but the script was reshot in Season Five with cast changes and aired 11/29/76. Tapes for both episodes were recently found in the Sony vault and have never been seen by the public until now.
Source: https://www.shoutfactory.com/tv/comedy/maude-the-complete-series
My Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan clips
I ran across some videos from 2005 and 2007 recently of when I took a hand full of clips on my still camera back at that time (spoiled on the quality of phone cameras of today). I combined the small, raw clips, into one video and threw it up on YouTube. Good memories, hopefully they bring some back to you, too.
The Bea Arthur clips are from her April 19, 2005 Mount Pleasant, MI show. After the show, my friend and I met with Bea for a short time where I caught a clip of Bea giving her flowers to my friend. The clips of Rue McClanahan were from her May 17, 2007 book signing at Borders on Michigan Avenue at the time, in Chicago.
UPDATE: I also uploaded a higher quality version of my footage from Bea's appearance at Sidetrack bar here in Chicago back in 2001.
Happy Bea-Day
Wishing all the Bea fans a happy Bea-Day today! Bea would have been 92 today and many of her fans are remembering and reflecting on her performances. Other fans are pulling out their photos and stories of when they were
fortunate enough in meeting her, primarily during her one woman show. Either way, a great time of the year!
Still haven't shared your story? Like and post to the Facebook page that coincides with this fan site here!
The Golden Girls gracefully arrives on iTunes
iTunes, Apple's digital media ecosystem, thriving for years now, is finally delivering all 7 seasons of The Golden Girls digitally. Each episode cost $1.99, as it is only available in standard definition resolution. Season 2-7 can be purchased for $19.99 each, while with season one, each individual episode has to be purchased. I, personally, was hoping for the episodes to be remastered in high definition in which I would have gladly re-bought all of the seasons. I remember seeing at one time a network was airing it in true high definition, so they must exist! Either way, it is nice to finally see The Golden Girls in the iTunes network. Still waiting on those further seasons of Maude. Hint hint distribution companies.
Here are the direct links below :
Busy Bea now on iOS
Based from the off and on defunct Flappy Bird iOS game, Michael Denison from #BeaADay and Brian Kokernak from Headrush team up to unveil today, Busy Bea. It is just as painfully addicting as Flappy Bird has been. You will be throwing your phone in no time, but this time it will be with the playful FakeBit rendering of Bea and the Golden Girls (simplified MIDI background Golden Girls theme music).
I find it to be a fun medium to keep Bea's memory alive and kicking, check it out. Free on iOS, Android coming soon.