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It's like another heavier version of the passage of time map, where the focus is on "after"
Yeah! Bring on the devastation!
Nope, leave my world in peace.
The Destroyed Lands map - create a regional map depicting a civilization destroying cataclysm of epic proportions, a sort of post apocalyptic map, with the major feature showing the remnants of the great cataclysm.
Decide on a type of destruction that can be depicted on a map, something that complete alters the landscape from what it was before. It could be the crater left by a comet strike, a new coastline after an earthquake dropped California into the Pacific, the fast rise of a great volatile volcano in the middle of a city, or arcane destruction (1 M HD Fireball, anyone?), anything else you can come up with.
Of course, you can also depict survivalist camps or whatever else you want, the main goal is to show a world in its aftermath of destruction.
Fantasy, modern, futuristic doesn't matter, show me a map of destroyed lands, that's what I'd like to see!
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It's like another heavier version of the passage of time map, where the focus is on "after"
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Nice idea...and I even have practice from my before and after volcano map.
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I suspect the entries will be art-heavy and map-scarce.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
It could be fun, though I doubt I'll have the time to enter as I'm trying to maintain my focus on my main world project. Still . . . If I need to take a break, and it might help with some of the aspects of my world map . . .
When nothing is going right and you can't find someone else to blame, start beating your head against the wall, 'cause it'll feel so much better when you stop.
If I put in a wholly blue map and claim that an asteroid made all the ice-caps melt; will that do ._.?
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I'd say no, but if you were creating some kind of "Water World", I'd expect islands and even better, structures sticking out of the water with new shorelines beyond that. Not that a world couldn't be completely covered in water following a catastrophe, but then the point of the challenge idea is to show evidence of great change. A plain blue map of water only shows water, not the change. Another possibility is to have an underwater map showing city ruins and such surrounding tiny island (former mountain top), etc.
You'd need more than a blue map to show evidence of destruction.
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I like the idea as well. I love creating but I've never really explored the dark side of destroying. Sounds interesting.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never......
Part of the One Big A.. Mistake, America.
Impeach the whole mess of them as they are just wasting valuable oxygen.
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She is taking the FIFTH amendment to cover her lying A&& while Obama plots and schemes to take away Fox news FIRST AMENDMENT and the American Public SECOND amendment rights.
The "most transparent" administration in history makes Nixon look like a boy scout.
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Oh, she is such a "lovely little patsy" "I am not a crook. I didn't break any laws. I didn't do wrong. I won't answer any questions. It is my right to claim the 5th" Wouldn't you think if one was claiming the 5th, they would start out saying that? And the plot thickenings.
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Things are starting to move very fast on all Fronts. Hopefully in a few months many heads will roll(especially Holder). The other evening I turned on the Socialist News Channel to hear what they are saying. Rachel Maddow said it was a major scandal and that Jay Carney was simply incoherent.
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Enlarge that photo of this woman....look at her closely. The cold, calculating soulless eyes of a woman without feeling, only a self-righteous cruel and cutting vengeful being. Of course she 'took the fifth', as she's surely the grey and hidden meister behind this entire scandal. FIRE HER! And if the government cannot there are other ways...transfer her to rural Montana!
I've known 'climbers' like her from my years working for the fed. It's not a pretty picture but occurs more often than less.
Obama? Sadly, he's becoming too much an 'absentee' President consumed with enjoyment of his perks, a love of his own droning voice and Air Force One junkets to hog the scene at whatever event de jour. He needs to wake-up and crapcan the lackluster and disloyal boobs surrounding him. You can't buy 'love' but you can gain 'respect' through decisive iron-fisted leadership! Wake up Barry! Time is not on you side.
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So all this happened under the leadership of a lil bush IRS appointee?
Who knew?
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The American people need to unite and jerk these jerks right out of their comfy positions, including the politicians who set these appointees and employees up.
The people should have no fear of the IRS. It is completely backwards. The IRS is subject to the will of the people.
The government & these people have far too many resources that belong to the people. Time to cut government and all the perks & benefits government people take advantage of. All of this stuff is wrong. The policians and public servants have hi-jacked system and now abuse the working people.
Is it the people's will to get scrreewwed? It is the people's will to be lied to? Is it the people's will to be fooled by the fooler's?
Time to clean house & put government in its rightful place....under the people where it belongs.
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"I have not done anything wrong,I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations. And I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee."
And now I plead my Fifth Amendment rights not to incriminate myself. Moohoohoohawhawhaw!
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WASHINGTON – First she refused to testify. Now Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the tax agency scandal, is refusing to resign, according to a top Republican senator.
Sources confirmed to Fox News earlier Thursday that Lerner, the head of the IRS division that oversaw the unit targeting conservative groups, had been placed on administrative leave, with pay.
But Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, claimed she was only put in that status after refusing to step down.
He said the commissioner was in his right to demand her resignation, and said taxpayers should not continue to pay her salary indefinitely.
"My understanding is the new acting IRS commissioner asked for Ms. Lerner's resignation, and she refused to resign. She was then put on administrative leave instead," Grassley said in a statement. "The IRS owes it to taxpayers to resolve her situation quickly. The agency needs to move on to fix the conditions that led to the targeting debacle.
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So all this happened under the leadership of President Obama?
Who knew?
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Back when I worked for the Fed Gov we would periodically get top ranking jerks who were destructive. When finally asked to resign, yup, they refused. So the remedy was to give them an 'important chief position as head of our liaison office with a key ally' In a word..they were ordered to Ottawa, Canada. Most immediately resigned.. a couple actually went North, way North but lasted mere months before deciding it was 'best for the family' to resign. In a word, it usually worked. They should try that on the Lovely MS. (don't you just love that title on her name plate) Lois Loser.
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Let us take a look at what the left is doing. We have the 1st,2nd, 4th and 10th amendment under attack. But the left does want to keep safe the 5th amendment for their own use. Someone else said that yesterday as a joke. But Seemed to make sense.
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All she did was follow orders. If she protects her superiors by extension she protects herself as well. If she rats on her superiors, by extension she is guilty as well.
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Looks like she DRANK a fifth before she TOOK the fifth!
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"So all this happened under the leadership of a lil bush IRS appointee?"
You mean the appointee that visited the Obama White House 118 times and attended the Obama's Easter Egg Roll w/ his family??? Google "YouTube Shulman Easter Egg Roll" for the hilarity!!!
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Why can'tthe IRS investigate tax evading crooks.
Why can't the IRS investigat tax crooks? Al Capone went to prison for the same crime. Are those righties above the law???
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I wonder if the Congress will call Juanita Broaddrick to give an account of her experiences with IRS.
Just after she went public with what happened to her.
There's a wonderwhy!
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Oldman, Are you aware that the scandal is over applications submitted and scrutinized unfairly. Application meaning BEFORE anyone was paying taxes!
From the NY Times, "WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations on Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt status."
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Every day, thousands of farmers take steps to reduce polluted runoff and restore wetlands and grasslands. Many more would help, but 40 percent of farmers have been turned away by the U.S. Department of Agriculture when they offer to share the cost of cleaner environment.
Dust storms have re-emerged across much of Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas, fueled by the same combination of persistent drought, plowing up fragile land and poor public policy that led to the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.
Many counties where federal crop insurance subsidies rose between 2008 and 2012 also had an increase in poverty over that period, a finding that undermines the oft-repeated arguments that farm subsidies help reduce rural poverty, an Environmental Working Group analysis shows.
As the cost of crop insurance has ballooned – from less than $500 million a year in the 1990s to more than $14 billion in 2012[1] – the program's most ardent defenders keep repeating the same mantra: Crop insurance is better than budget-busting ad hoc disaster programs.
Seven U.S. senators last week called for re-linking the federal crop insurance program to conservation compliance during a House-Senate conference committee meeting on the 2013 farm bill. The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee also endorsed the linkage.
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Hundreds of millions of conservation dollars in the federal farm bill should be used more effectively to address widespread water pollution problems in California, concludes a new report by Environmental Working Group.
Last month, the National Wildlife Federation reported that more than 398,000 acres – 620 square miles – of grasslands, forests and other land were plowed, cleared or otherwise converted to grow crops over a 12-month period from 2011 to 2012.
Today, officials at the USDA will don their Santa Claus outfits a few months early and disburse almost $5 billion dollars in direct payment farm subsidies to landowners across the country.
Doesn't it make sense to subject some of the richest farmers to a means test when they seek federal subsidies to pay for their crop insurance?
An interactive map developed by the Environmental Working Group shows where more than 660 U.S. newspapers have published editorials since 2007 demanding meaningful reform of the federal farm bill.
Mark Lynas, maybe the most famous apologist for GMO foods ever, this week urged a gathering of food and biotech industry employees to stop battling the growing movement to label foods made with genetically engineered ingredients.
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The Food and Drug Administration's food inspectors have also been deemed non-essential – meaning that America's food manufacturing plants will not be inspected until Congress decides to pass legislation to reopen the government.
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TriceEdneyWire.com – Some stood with hands raised, others sat with heads bowed—all crying out to God on behalf of the victims and loved ones of America's most recent massacre.
This prayer vigil was not in Newtown, Conn., where Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 students and several employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. It was at the Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, in the heart of Washington, D.C.
"We pray, God, that even during this horrific time, you will deliver and show your grace," said Bishop T. Cedric Brown, Calvary's associate pastor. "Even during this time of calamity, God, show yourself mighty! Show yourself strong! We lift up Newtown…We lift up that school. We lift up those students. Have mercy, in Jesus' name!"
The Greater Mount Calvary congregation is among many that have prayed for the families affected by the Newtown slaying. The incident's proximity to Christmas made it even more heartbreaking. But whether death results from a mass shooting or a single homicide, members of the clergy said ministering to the grieving is among the most painful of their assignments from God.
"It's extraordinarily difficult, particularly when you're dealing with children…," said Bishop Noel Jones, pastor of the City of Refuge Church, located in the Watts section of Los Angeles. "It's very hard to comfort somebody in that type of situation. It's nearly impossible."
Often people will ask them difficult questions, like why it happened, the pastors said.
"We ought to be authentic in saying, 'I don't know why this happened…There is no explanation for that,'" said Brown. "But it is the pastor's job to be there, to be fully engaged and to show full compassion on them and what they're dealing with and to provide solace…"
The Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, pastor of the Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, agreed.
"Sometimes the greatest compassion and comfort is just being there, to not try to come up with answers and be super religious and throw scriptures out there," said Bryant. "One of the things that I try to instill, especially over the holidays, whether someone is lost to homicide or to cancer, is to relive the positive memories—not the incident that led to death. That will help to bring a greater level of closure."
Bryant, who has four children between the ages of 6 and 8, said they have been asking why the children were killed. He said he is honest in discussing the incident with them.
"I tell them that the man that did it was mentally challenged, needed help and didn't get the help that he needed. And I tell them that we've got to pray for people like that," he said.
The Rev. Steven Johnson, pastor of Abundant Faith Ministries of Towson, Md., said "Trust in God" is among the most important messages.
"Isaiah 26:3 says 'He will keep us in perfect peace if our minds are stayed on Him because we trust Him,'" he said. "When something tragic like this happens, the only thing that you can do is trust that God knows best. Trying to tell that to a mother who just lost a 5-year-old who will never go to high school, who will never get married, who will never bear children, who will never get a chance to see her life really mature is a hard place because people are then searching for answers. They want to know why an innocent child."
The pastors said parents' involvement in the issues raised in the aftermath of violence can help them to move forward.
"It's continuing to live that helps to heal," Jones said. "It's taking on the issue that surrounded the loss of the children. It's taking on the issues of mental health, taking on the issues of abuse in general, taking on the issue of the availability of weapons."
Perhaps the most difficult question they get is "Why did God allow this to happen to children?"
Ultimately, Brown said, the answer to that question is that "God has still given man a choice. He has given us a will…Unfortunately we live in a world where people choose to do evil things."
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*From main train station with metro C from Florenc 1 stop and then change the line B -4 stop to Karlovo náměstí.
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According to this article, a Chevy Silverado is only 62% comprised of American parts vs. a Toyota Tundra at 75%. A GMC Sierra is only 62%, a Ram 1500 is 70% and an F-150 is 75%, same as the Tundra.
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St. Louis (KSDK) -- Admission buttons are now on sale for First Night St. Louis.
The annual New Year's Eve Celebration at Grand Center in Midtown will take place Mon., Dec. 31 from 6 p.m. until midnight. The event is a family-friendly and alcohol free. It features food, entertainment and two fireworks shows.
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The titles alone of many give you a sense of why United Artists pulled them out of circulation in 1968: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves, Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears, Clean Pastures, All This and Rabbit Stew, Tin Pan Alley Cats, Uncle Tom's Bungalow, Sunday Go to Meetin' Time, Jungle Jitters, Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land, The Isle of Pingo Pongo and Angel Puss. Yet many of these are amazing pieces of art -- and all but a few black people would thoroughly enjoy them. There is a healthy contingent of black fans amid the constant blog-site chatter about these cartoons, and a few months ago in Los Angeles, Donald Bogle, author of the classic black film history Toms, Coons, Mammies, Mulattoes and Bucks, hosted a cinema screening of eight of them. Bogle is quite concerned with stereotyping of blacks in vintage American pop culture. Yet he sees the Censored Eleven as, after 70 years, worthy of examination, and Warner Home Video's George Feltenstein spearheaded the Bogle event as a step toward getting these cartoons out of the vaults. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves, for example, is one of the 10 best Looney Tunes ever made. The Snow White tale is retold in eight glorious minutes to a driving boogie-woogie beat, with director Bob Clampett's hot, rubbery animation yanking characters into the camera lens like Ren and Stimpy on acid. Clampett took his animators to black clubs in L.A. to get a look at the dance moves, and it shows. Clampett got the idea for the cartoon from seeing a Duke Ellington revue in L.A., after which the cast themselves suggested he do a cartoon with the same feel. He made sure that some local black musicians got to play on the soundtrack, and protagonist So White is voiced by Dorothy Dandridge's sister Vivian. They and other blacks who helped create it reportedly had a great time. I will never forget my first look at this one at a film festival when I was 12 -- I had to remember to breathe. Now, to be sure, these cartoons feature minstrel-style caricatures. But Looney Tunes were all about caricature. Italians were swivel-tongued hotheads. Women were eyelash-batting gold diggers, battle-ax spouses or dotty spinsters. Mexicans were impecunious slowpokes -- upon which it bears mentioning that Speedy Gonzales is popular in Mexico, and when the Cartoon Network banned his cartoons, Mexican Americans were amply represented among the disappointed, and the ban was lifted in 2002. Funny Comes in All Colors In that context, in 2010 can't we take a joke too? All This and Rabbit Stew has Bugs Bunny pursued by a slow-witted black hunter, who basically does precisely the things Elmer Fudd usually did. The only difference is that whenever the black hunter runs, it's to a driving boogie vamp, which is just plain catchy. Well, there's a little more -- in a single sequence, the hunter shoots some craps. You know -- "black people shoot craps, ha-ha," at least in 1941. But is that going to send any black people to the other room in tears? To be sure, in 1943 the NAACP protested Coal Black. But in those days, things like this were almost the only depiction of blacks in mainstream pop culture. Today we are long past that -- or even by the early '80s, when The Cosby Show was heralded as showing whites that not all black people were poor. There's a reason restaurateur B. Smith is no longer hot news. In our times, Spike Lee movies, Tyler Perry's universe, the first family and even the likes of bread-and-butter TV successes like Sister, Sister and That's So Raven -- the passing nature of those last two only underscores the point -- show us that black depictions in the media have done a lot of overcoming. Eight minutes of jiving cartoon high jinks can hardly be blamed for defining black people. Sound familiar? All of it is right out of the rap catalog -- the lingo, the butts, the violence, right down to the gold teeth. If Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent are classic, then why aren't the Censored Eleven? These cartoons are pieces of black performance history in their way. Stylized, to be sure. But so is rap. Stereotyped, to be sure. But ... need I go on? Primly holding these 11 cartoons back in the vaults in 2010 makes black people look, frankly, weak. Why can't we take a joke as, say, Yunte Huang can about Charlie Chan, as recounted in a recent New Yorker? Charlie Chan gets anthologized on DVD sets with all of us admitting that the past is the past (when the Chinese past in America was quite hideous). But we can only get peeks at the Censored Eleven from muddy prints of some of them on YouTube. It's high time for Warner Home Video to do a DVD with all 11 of these historical curios. They should include sage commentary before each one and preface the whole thing with a nice apologia by someone black. I suggest Whoopi Goldberg, who was brought in for similar purpose in earlier Looney Tunes DVD sets, or Oprah. Or maybe even Dr. Dre. Yes, there will be a flutter or two of protest from people who can't take a joke even at 70 years' remove. But the sky will not fall in, and the kerfuffle will only increase the profits on a DVD that will sell like hotcakes from minute one. And that will not be because the cartoons are racist -- though they are -- but because they are, in spite of themselves, one part history and one part just plain fierce. John McWhorter is a lecturer at Columbia University and a contributing editor to The New Republic. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre 0


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Students are accepted in this program at the beginning of the freshman year and learn to use computers by taking CBH 101 and CBH 102, 4-hour courses designed for this purpose. During their second, third, and fourth years at the University, students become undergraduate research assistants and work with faculty members by applying their computing skills to research projects. They receive 3 hours of credit each semester for this research work and meet once a week to discuss research techniques and to report on completed projects.
A number of full- or half-tuition fellowships are available to selected students in the program, who are chosen during their senior year in high school. The Computer-Based Honors Program is a suitable minor for students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, the College of Communication and Information Sciences, and the College of Engineering.
Computer-Based Honors Scholarship. Recipients chosen from students who demonstrate high academic potential as indicated by high-school grades (average 3.9 GPA on a 4.0 scale) and standardized test scores (average 32 ACT, 1350 SAT). Entering freshmen are given priority consideration.
Jerry C. Pruett Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Awarded to an outstanding student in the Computer-Based Honors Program who has completed CBH 101 and CBH 102 or the equivalent and who has not previously been awarded any CBHP scholarship support.
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When surgery is on your schedule, be sure you have it scheduled at Avera. You have a choice. Expect the best and choose Avera for:
Where you have surgery is your choice. Make sure you choose the best. Surgery at Avera - there is a difference.
Avera has world-class surgeons, right here at home. Choosing the right surgeon at Avera can substantially reduce your healing time, improve the chances of a positive outcome and ensure a more pleasant experience. Search by specialty below for a list of surgeons and team members.
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Most of us seem to do more research when we buy a car than when we make a healthcare decisions that may have lifelong implications. Perhaps we don't know what questions to ask or where to turn for information. Few resources exist to help consumers rate healthcare or hospitals the way Consumer Reports rates refrigerators.
There are many things to think about before making any important decisions, and this is especially true when it comes to your health. Before specifically deciding on a hospital or where to receive your healthcare, there are some important safety and quality issues to consider.
There is a difference. Accreditation, which is voluntary, is more comprehensive than certification, which is mandatory. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), an independent nonprofit organization, conducts a quality assessment of over 5,000 or 80 percent of all hospitals in the United States every three years. Avera Sacred Heart's JCAHO accreditation assures there are policies and procedures in place to provide the safest possible environment for both patients and staff and is the only hospital in the 15-county region to attain this designation.
According to the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality, hospitals that do many of the same types of procedures on a regular basis tend to have better success with them. In addition to choosing your surgeon and the facility, the surgical staff and their credentials are important factors to consider. The surgical team at Avera Sacred Heart – operating and recovery room nurses, surgical techs and nurse anesthesia providers - has over 700 years of combined experience. In 2002, this experienced team handled over 4,000 complex and same-day surgery procedures.
Your anesthesia provider is an important member of the surgical team. Avera Sacred Heart is the only hospital in the region to have medical doctors specializing in anesthesia, overseeing patient care, along with five certified nurse anesthetists (CRNA's) on staff. Anesthesiologists are trained to detect potential problems in surgery and recovery along with being experts in managing post-operative pain. They carefully screen each patient and then supervise or collaborate with the CRNA's to carry out your anesthesia plan.
If a complication occurs during surgery, you want the best medical care and you want it immediately. Immediate access to a full range of specialty departments within a facility is critical. If there are not critical care services available in the facility, how will an emergency be handled? Avera Sacred Heart has a physician on duty 24-hours a day, every day of the year, along with a highly trained staff in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit available in-house to handle emergent and urgent situations.
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More hospitals are trying to improve the quality of their care by tracking patient outcomes for certain procedures. By finding out what works and what does not, the hospital can improve the way it treats patients. Avera Sacred Heart's performance improvement process monitors patient outcomes through an ongoing, intensive patient improvement process and uses the data to improve patient care.
Patient satisfaction surveys provide input from the experience of many patients and can predict what your experience in a particular hospital will be. Avera Sacred Heart compares itself to other hospitals in the nation as well as in the Avera Health system. Patient liaison representatives assigned to the surgical floor (5th) daily assess patient satisfaction. In 2002, Avera Sacred Heart's Same Day Surgery Department scored above the norm for patient's assessment of overall quality and well above the norm for patient satisfaction with medical outcomes.
Often, patients and families are faced with finding rehabilitation programs after surgery. Issues to consider are the extent and speed of recovery, patient comfort, and family involvement in the process. Avera Sacred Heart provides both inpatient and outpatient rehab services with physical, occupational and speech therapists. Joint surgery patients can attend Joint Camp, a team approach to hasten the recovery process. In addition, new rehab programs are being offered through the Rehabilitation and Wellness Institute.
As a non-profit hospital, Avera Sacred Heart reinvests in other services that need subsidizing to exist such as the Emergency Department, staffed 24 hours a day by a physician and support team. Avera Sacred Heart's earnings are reinvested into the community, not distributed to shareholders and contributed over $1.3 million towards community health programs in 2002. As a nonprofit hospital, Avera Sacred Heart accepts all patients regardless of their ability to pay and provided over $1.1 million of free care to 985 people last year.
Hospital charges vary and pricing estimates may not compare "apples to apples." What do the charges include? Does my health plan cover care at the hospital? Are there payment installment plan options or resources for financial assistance?
Each patient has the right to CHOOSE where to have his or her surgery. This is an important decision and for your own well-being, make an informed choice. You should be comfortable not only with the choice of your surgeon, but also with the facility and surgical staff.
A surgical unit attached to a full-service hospital has immediate access to an intensive care unit, emergency personnel and a variety of specialists that can address complications that may arise during surgery. Freestanding surgery hospitals or surgery units at physicians' clinics typically do not.
Freestanding surgery hospitals generally employ nurse-anesthetists (CRNA's). Hospital generally employ physician anesthesiologists (medical doctors specializing in anesthesia.)
Unlike mandatory certification, voluntary accreditation by JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) is for more comprehensive, ensuring adherence to the safest possible policies and procedures.
Full-service, not-for-profit hospitals are often able to reinvest income in leading edge technologies, such as high-tech Endosuites that allow health care professionals to focus entirely on patient needs.
When you have surgery at a hospital, post-op rehabilitation programs are often available on-site.
Facilities that perform a particular procedure on a routine basis may experience better outcomes.
Before deciding on a facility, you may want to visit to get an idea of what it offers in terms of privacy, cleanliness and comfort.
Ask questions! Ask your surgeon about his or her history with the procedure or ask your regular primary care doctor for input about your surgeon's qualifications.
Where you have surgery is your choice. Make sure you choose the best. Surgery at Avera. There is a difference.
A phone interview one to two days prior to the surgical procedure usually reviews instructions. Generally, patients are asked to:
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Research News
November 2005 Issue

Table of Contents:

Research Scholarship Progress Report

Revised Routing Sheet and Proposal Submissions

Research Equipment Sharing Corner

Recent IIT Awards

Research Support Services 2005 Workshop Series

Acknowledgements

Past Issues of Research News

Research Scholarship Progress Report

Read the final progress report of the recipient of an IIT Research Fellowship - Matthew Pearson.

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Revised Routing Sheet and Proposal Submissions

Due to the increasing compliance requirements by federal and non-federal sponsors, we have revised the internal routing sheet ("Request for Review and Approval of Proposal").
Effective October 1, 2005 , this routing sheet must be completed and signed prior to proposal submission. The Office of Sponsored Research and Programs will not submit proposals received without the routing sheet. You can find the revised routing sheet on our website at: http://www.grad.iit.edu/research/OSRP/routingsheet.html

Proposal submissions continue to be on an upward trend (348 in FY03, 408 in FY04 and 435 in FY05). Many funding agencies are requiring that proposals be submitted via their specialized electronic system. Not all sponsors use the same systems. In addition, some electronic systems have required additional processing steps and software which are subject to delays due to server problems and/or internet connection problems.

The Office of Sponsored Research and Programs is committed to providing high-quality service. Therefore, we are requiring that final and COMPLETED proposals be submitted to the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs (OSRP) as follows:

Agencies requiring the submission of hard copy proposals:
Close of business, three (3) business days prior to the funding agency deadline

Agencies requiring electronic submission:
Close of business, two (2) business days prior to the funding agency deadline

Any proposal not received by these deadlines stands the risk of not being sent. In addition, if OSRP is still able to submit the proposal, without having adequate time for review, the proposal may be administratively withdrawn if later review indicates that the proposal is non-compliant with IIT and/or funding agency policies and procedures.

Please note that all administrative portions of ANY proposal must be finalized a MINIMUM of five (5) business days before funding agency's deadline date . Administrative portions include:

budget and justification

current and pending support

facilities and resources

biosketches

representations and certifications

subcontracting negotiations

compliance issues such as human or animal subject involvement, biosafety

cost share and match (which is the responsibility of the PI to secure)

If you are planning a proposal submission (including pre-proposals, new submissions, continuations, renewals, and supplemental proposals), we ask that you inform OSRP about your intention to develop a proposal as soon as possible. Information, such as the funding agency, deadline for submission and a copy of the guidelines (or a website to obtain them directly), is essential.

Assistance with budgetary preparation, completion of agency forms, and questions regarding agency guidelines is available. OSRP also duplicates and mails proposals to the agency.

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Research Equipment Sharing Corner

Research equipment is expensive, but sharing it reduces costs and helps the IIT research enterprise. Sometimes, faculty join together as a group to submit a proposal for extramural funding for research equipment. If you are interested in such an effort, please know that ORCPD would be happy to help broadcast your intentions and will help you seek others who would be interested in participating with you.

Please check out current equipment and announce what you have to share.

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Recent IIT Awards
Awards received during September 2005 at IIT

Important Note: a "$0" next to an award indicates a no-cost extension has been granted.

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Research Support Services Workshop Series for 2005

Mark your calendars! IIT Graduate College Research Support Services will offer the following workshops in 2005. Workshop Descriptions are as follows; dates are below:

Fund Searching workshop: Learn to search for funds for your research program. Set up automatic alerts so you learn of new solicitations in your field of research as soon as possible!

Compliance workshop: Learn about IIT's review committees: IRB (Institutional Review Board) for human subjects research; IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) for research involving animal subjects; and IBC (Institutional Biosafety Committee) for research involving biological materials and other potentially hazardous agents. Find out how to apply and how to make sure your project complies with institutional guidelines.

Proposal Writing workshop: Learn to craft a high-quality, compelling, competitive research proposal.

Budgeting Basics workshop: The workshop will cover budget item definitions and what a good budget justification should include. Participants will develop a typical budget used in proposal submissions.

Tentative Schedule of Workshops, 2005:

November:
Proposal Writing workshop, November 11th.

The above are tentative dates; please watch for emails and future issues of Research News describing exact time, location, and signup procedures.

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Acknowledgements

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Ali Cinar, PhD
Dean of the Graduate College and
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Alexander J. Flueck, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
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I developed my own method of creating realistic coastlines. I'm very pleased with how it turned out:
Old Guy Gaming - Creating Realistic Coastlines
I'm ready to begin work on the actual map. My sketch shows the basic shape and dimensions that I want but the outline is too smooth. I wanted to rough it up to make it look more realistic. I looked through various tutorials but everything I tried distorted the original outline more than I wanted. Probably the result of my being new at this and not following the tutorials properly.
I kept at it though until I hit upon a process that I'm pretty happy with. This was done in Adobe Photoshop.
I started with my island in white and the surrounding area in black as shown in the first image.
* Filter | Noise | Add Noise (gaussian, monochromatic, set to 100).
* Filter | Blur |Gaussian Blur (set to 2).
* Image | Adjustments | Threshold (adjust to taste). *
* Select Magic Wand Tool, click in black surrounding area. (contiguous checked)
* Shift-Ctrl-I to invert the selection
* Fill with White. (contiguous unchecked)
That's all there is to it. Now I have the beginnings of my very first Photoshop map.
* -- Move the slider to the right. You want to eat away at your landmass. Don't worry about how the land looks at this step. We will fill it back in. We just want to roughen the edges. By creating "holes" everywhere, we are trying to let the outside creep in a little bit. If there are too many holes, the outside will never hit anything to stop it. You want just enough holes to let it creep in a little but then run into a boundary. You may have to undo and try different amounts a few times to get the effect you want. Once you've done it once, it will be much easier to do than it is to explain. : )
EDIT: There is an updated version of this tutorial at Old Guy Gaming.


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I am running several tests in order to import emails into a Zimbra server, using ZCSPSTImportWizard-18.104.22.16847. I guess I worked "by the book", but the checkbox "ignore previously imported items" keeps being greyed out, whatever the test I am running, on three different PCs - anybody has an explanation/ a hint about how to fix it ?
Each time, I run a first test, at the end of which I uncheck the box asking for the logs deletion, then I run my second test - and the checkbox is still greyed out.


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Impact of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Regulatory Pressure on your IT Risk and Governance Model
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Impact of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile
and Regulatory Pressure on your IT Risk and Governance Model.
This 30% decrease was established by optimizing and
automating the risk process, end users are now able to complete the whole risk
cycle in one platform with risk identification, risk assessment, risk
management, risk reporting (real time!) and risk monitoring.
2. Customer decreased their manual IT control test
effort with 140 hours per week only for Segregation of Duties and access
management. This was done by automating control tests.
Blog post by Erwin Boeren
Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM Europe
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Looking back at a great IBM Vision 2012, Orlando FL
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Looking back at a great Vision 2012,
Vision 2012 was a great event with many customers speaking, partners and market analysts.
Customer Advisory Board
The IBM Customer Advisory Board came together in Monday, the day before the event officially kicked off to discuss the IBM Integrated Risk roadmap and to prioritize future development initiatives.
Keynotes were presented by Les Rechan (General Manager IBM Business Analytics), Mark Loughridge (CFO IBM) and Alison Levine.
Les opened with an energy level high as always! Mark gave a great insight in the financial transformation IBM has gone through and the road ahead. Alison delivered a key note where the whole room hung on her every word. Astonishing how Alison can present and what an inspiring lady she is.
this is available in recordings on : http
OpenPages version 6.1 released
At the risk keynote on day 1 by Patrick O'brien and Gordon Burnes the new version 6.1 of OpenPages was released. New features can be found on the IBM OpenPages 6.1 landing page :
A new leader for the IBM Risk Analytics pillar
Michael Zerbs has been appointed as the new leader to run the IBM Risk Analytics organization. Michael was the President and COO of Algorithmics. He is a recognized expert in risk management for market and credit risk, and has an in-depth understanding of the key risk management challenges that the financial industry faces today. He has authored several papers on pricing models and risk management and is a co-author of Mark-to-Future: A Framework for Measuring Risk and Rewad.
Market Analysts impressed by IBM Risk Portfolio
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Operational risk is still strong as ever but Policy & Compliance management, IT Risk & Governance and Audit capabilities have grown to such maturity level that IBM is top in Risk Analytics.
Customers are expanding on their GRC Environment
Clients speaking at the 2 main event days were all expanding their platform to multi discipline risk. Especially risk convergence, standardization, enterprise risk management, IT Risk & Compliance and Fraud & Financial Crimes were topics that came across many times.
IBM implemented OpenPages
IBM has implemented OpenPages herself, and demonstrated that at day 2. Deborah Dunagan, IBM Transformation Executive demonstrated how IBM reduced her risk cycle times with 30% using IBM OpenPages!
With all this excitement we are looking forward to another great year and client success in Risk Analytics.
Blog post by Erwin Boeren
Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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IBM Enhances Risk-Aware Decision Making & Policy Management with New OpenPages Platform Release
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By Gordon Burnes, Worldwide Marketing, IBM Risk Analytics
A key theme at Vision 2012, IBM's three-day user conference for Finance and Risk professionals, is how organizations can leverage enterprise risk information to make better decisions while balancing the demands for risk oversight and regulatory compliance.
The current complex and dynamic regulatory environment is a particular challenge for risk and compliance directors. For instance, while organizations covered by Dodd-Frank must respond to current regulatory reporting requirements, less than a third of the associated rule-making has been finished.
So, risk and compliance professionals must put in place an approach to meet regulatory requirements that can easily adapt over time as regulations evolve, and this approach includes the capability to adapt internal policies to keep pace with the evolving regulatory environment.
During the Risk Analytics Keynote, IBM announced general availability of IBM OpenPages GRC Platform 6.1.
This new solution enhances the ability to make risk-aware business decisions, enables companies to react more quickly to regulatory changes through better policy management, and decreases costs and complexity of compliance.
Leveraging the IBM Cognos business intelligence platform, OpenPages 6.1 delivers interactive reports and dashboards that allow business managers to turn that risk information into insight and insight into better business outcomes.
The new release includes several important enhancements:
· Manages lifecycle of policies from creation, review, approval, attestation, and exception management
· Standardizes policy templates and approval processes across the business
· Allows policies to be structured in a standardized way but presented in narrative form (for editing and review, etc) the way people are used to working with policies
· Formalizes process for employee awareness and training and monitoring of campaigns
· Maps policies to regulatory library and control framework to increase visibility into policy coverage & adherence and make it easier to update policies as regulations change
· Enhanced reporting user interface and framework that empowers business users to explore and analyze risk data using interactive dashboards and reporting for better decision making
In summary, IBM OpenPages 6.1:
· Enables companies to react more quickly to regulatory changes through better policy management
· Enhances the ability to make risk-aware business decisions through easier access to risk and compliance information
· Decreases the cost and complexity of compliance with out-of-the-box configurations for policy management.
For more information:
· Read the Vision 2012 Day One Recap
· Read the blog post from Michael Zerbs, VP of IBM Risk Analytics, "Managing Risk: A Global Challenge that Must be Confronted"
· Download the whitepaper, "Managing Regulatory Change - Learn how Dodd-Frank Impacts Regulatory Compliance"
· Follow @IBMRisk & @IBMCognos on Twitter and/or search #Vision12
For more information:
· Read the Vision 2012 Day One Recap
· Read the blog post from Michael Zerbs, VP of IBM Risk Analytics, "Managing Risk: A Global Challenge that Must be Confronted"
· Download the whitepaper, "Managing Regulatory Change - Learn how Dodd-Frank Impacts Regulatory Compliance"
· Follow @IBMRisk & @IBMCognos on Twitter and/or search #Vision12
Convergence of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II (Track 1014)
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Convergence of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II (Track 1014)
IBM Vision 2012, Tuesday May 16th, 16:45 – 17:45 pm I will be presenting the Convergence
of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Basel II and Solvency II.
In this session I will take you through the most common questions I received from our customers facing Basel II and Solvency II. I will help you understand the challenges from an Operational Risk perspective and speak about how my clients have overcome these challenges.
Convergence, Risk Adoption, Risk Montoring, Loss Registration, Risk Reporting
and Dashboarding and Regulatory Reporting are topics that will be discussed in
this session.
Hope to see you in Orlando next week!
Twitter : #Vision12
Blog post by Erwin Boeren
Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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Vision 2012, 1068 Managing IT Risk and Compliance with IBM OpenPages ITG
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Managing IT Risk and Compliance with IBM OpenPages ITG (Track 1068)
At IBM Vision 2012, Tuesday May 15th, 1:15 – 2:15 pm I will be presenting Managing IT Risk and Compliance with IBM OpenPages IT Governance.
In this session I will take you through the results of the IBM CIO Study 2011 that was recently published and guide you through the IT Risk related subjects.
Do you want to understand how Big Data, Cloud, Regulatory Pressure, Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Segregation of Duties, Automated Controls and Endpoint Controls will influence your GRC strategy?
This all comes together in IBM Smarter IT Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Hope to see you in Orlando next week!
Twitter : #Vision12
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Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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Not Going to IBM Vision 2012? Better "Think Twice."
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Do you really understand the reasons you make decisions?
Sometimes the mind wants to unconsciously push us into a certain decision when there's a better way to think about it.
That's the premise of the book, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, written by Michael Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management and a keynote speaker at IBM's upcoming Vision 2012 conference in Orlando, May 14-17.
Vision is IBM's global conference for finance and risk professionals to help improve planning, budgeting and forecasting, identify and mitigate risk, and meet the demanding requirements of XBRL, IFRS, Basel II and Solvency II with greater confidence.
I talked to Mauboussin about his book, making data-driven decisions, some common pitfalls as decision makers, and his upcoming talk at Vision.
"What's very exciting is that in the last half dozen years, we've had a real influx of data, and we're now just learning how to tap that data for the benefit of better decision making," said Mauboussin. "Now we can create a better intersection between value creation and making decisions."
The problem however, according to Mauboussin, is that we still have the same cognitive makeup and the propensity to make common mistakes.
"We often think about our own decision making as being objective and fact based and rationale. And we tend to underestimate systematically how important the social context is for our decision making," said Mauboussin.
To illustrate this point he told an interesting story from his book.
Researchers went into the wine section of a supermarket and set up French and German wines next to each other that were roughly matched in price and quality. Over a two week period they alternated playing distinctively French and distinctively German music to see if it would have any influence on purchase decisions.
Surprisingly, they found when French music played people bought French wine 77 percent of the time, and German wine 73 percent of the time when German music played. When asked if music affected their selections, the consumers unanimously said no.
"This basic experiment can be extrapolated to a lot of organizational settings where we think of ourselves as trying to be conscious and mindful as we make decisions. But indeed what is going on around us can be deeply influential to our decisions," said Mauboussin.
So what do we do?
According to Mauboussin, integrate more data into quality decisions. However, there is still a tension between the intuitive, go by the seat of the pants experience group versus the analytically-minded group.
"Either extreme is not going to work but a blend between the two is right way," said Mauboussin.
Read the rest of the interview with Michael Mauboussin on the Business Analytics Blog here.
For more information:
· Register here for the upcoming Vision 2012 conference
· Download the Vision conference guide for background on keynotes, elective sessions, demos & workshops
· Read a previous blog post on minimizing risk and improving performance
Risk Reporting and Dashboarding now available on your desktop!
Erwin Boeren 270002C43V email@example.com | | Tags:  ibm solvency insight dashboarding governance grc management openpages risk reporting basel cognos ii compliance | 0 Comments | 3,287 Visits
With the brand-new IBM Cognos Insight you can now connect to your IBM OpenPages environment from your desktop. You always have that moment that you need the information on a report but just a bit different than the standard report provides to you. The solution is here now, IBM Cognos Insight!
Insight is a powerful, intuitive desktop solution, that can read many different data sources from Excel to datawarehouses. Even your real time IBM OpenPages environment!
And it is not only reporting and dashboarding but it also lets you create what if scenarios on the fly! How would my risk exposure be if in one risk category the loss impact increases with 15%? Two clicks and you know the answer! And then you can comment on your report, which gives your colleagues more information on the context the moment you share your workspace.
How easy can risk reporting be???
For more tour on how IBM Cognos Insight please look at : http
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Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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IBM Watson found a job as a risk expert!
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IBM Watson found a job as a risk expert!
IBM Watson goes to work in financial services as a risk expert. One of the largest Financial Services institutes and IBM now partner to enhance and simplify the consumer banking experience with faster, more accurate decisions, better risk assessment, and more targeted customer offers.
IBM Watson is transforming expectations for how technology can help individuals live and work in better ways. Its ability to make sense of vast quantities of unstructured information, communicate in natural human language, learn from experience, and offer confidence weighted responses is already a game changer in healthcare. Focusing these capabilities on financial services brings new possibilities for higher service levels to an expanded set of users.
For those who do
not know IBM Watson, Watson is an artificial intelligence computer system
capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's
DeepQA project. As a test of its abilities, Watson competed on the quiz show
Jeopardy!, in the show's only huma
Now what will that bring to our Financial Service clients? Potentially as an assistant to client service professionals to help deliver evidence-based recommendations across multiple areas of the bank, including: credit card; private banking; wealth management; and call centers. Since IBM Watson can think faster than any human being it is able to make cross checks, prevent fraud, determine risk, etc. It is able to analyze data such as client information, online news reports, blogs, Twitter feeds, analyst reports, regulations, credit ratings, and government securities filings which can help to suggest options targeted to a consumers' individual circumstances.
Blog post by Erwin Boeren
Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
Smarter Project Risk
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Smarter Project Risk
Last week I came across project risk, and not for the first time! So, time to spend some words on this topic.
Especially organizations in Energy&Utilities and Manufacturing have huge risks in their assets and in their projects. You think you have all risks identified through the standard risk identification process and you just missed that elephant?! This might impact your yearly financial result or worse!
This is why more and more clients start to look at Project Risk methodologies. My client happened to use the PMBOK methodology. In this methodology you consider standard project phases including standard risks and controls. This is great, since you have most of the standard risks covered. But what about that risk that is just not standard? This is where gate reviews will help you. These gate reviews are held after every project phase. Each gate review contains questions used to identify risks, holds monitoring methodologies to check status and behavior and contains audit like activities. Key element here is that all findings roll up to top level so no significant risk can be missed.
all works for what we call manageable risks, but what about risks that you
cannot manage? How will you anticipate on this? Well these risks can be covered
by sensitivity analysis, simulations and business continuity management.
Especially sensitivity analysis and business continuity analysis will help you.
For simulations you will need data, and a significant amount of data. Only in
case you have many similar projects running in a regular cycle you will be able
to generate enough risk identifications and losses to be able to make a sensible
calculation like
Now the system is in place, and now we are in control? Wrong! This is where the real work starts. How do I get my organization to adopt risk in her daily business? How do I get input with the right quality? How do I make everyone a risk manager? This takes time and effort. Guide your people in how to make the assessments and make them part of it. Give them back where they contributed to, and make their life easier. That is what we call Smarter Risk.
IBM OpenPages and Deloitte have put together a Risk Methodology for project risk where all these technologic and organizational aspects come together and can be integrated in your enterprise risk platform.
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Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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How to make the right GRC software selection?
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Governance, Risk and Compliance software selection process
A client of mine recently asked me about what I have seen as the most effective way to run a selection process. Now I know this may seems a conflict of interest, a GRC solution vendor writing on the GRC software selection process and the need for a GRC platform. Still I think I can give you some dos and donts on a GRC software selection process since I have been there many times.
Let's start with the need for a GRC software platform. Why do you need such?
Of course investing in a solution needs a compelling event. Either the cost for risk management and compliance becomes very high, or the process takes too long to be responsive to stakeholders or the 'in control' statement cannot be guaranteed any longer. Also external regulators can advise you to implement software.
Before you start thinking about a GRC platform carefully review the risk and compliance maturity level of your organization and the scope of the problem. This will help you make the judgment between 2 approaches. First approach is what we call 'point solution', second approach is 'enterprise solution'.
The first approach, Point Solution, is best when the compelling event is there but the scope is limited to one area. On a single point of your GRC activities you have a pain that must be resolved in a fairly short term. In this case you can search for specific capabilities with specific knowledge. You can make a selection of vendors that operate in the area where you have the pain and select the partner that understands your area. Of course you might want to consider your ambition on the long term. If your long term ambition is Enterprise wide GRC integration you might still look at enterprise vendors and use the specific area as a 'pilot' for further extension.
The second approach, Enterprise Solution, is best when the compelling event is on the integration of Governance, Risk and Compliance. The term risk and control convergence often comes up here. This approach requires a lot more work than the point solution and may have cultural impact. You might consider a second party to help you go through this project. A second party (consulting firm) can help you in making critical decisions and in reviewing your current (silo based) approach to GRC. They can keep the holistic view for you. Every silo needs to be reviewed and mapped to the enterprise approach. This will not come without discussions and sacrifices!
So the need is there, now how to make your selection?
In the first point solution approach there are just two considerations, short term or long term? In case of the short term do NOT select an enterprise vendor and go for the right point solution. Advantages are lower cost and shorter implementation time. Second consideration, long term, means a selection between enterprise GRC software vendors and consider the first phase as a pilot for the enterprise approach. Still you might want to involve a consulting firm with specific knowledge.
In the second enterprise approach you will go for an enterprise vendor. This is where you want to be careful in setting up your selection. I personally have seen many of these selection processes since I have been in such selections. And this is where I want to give you some guidance to save you a lot of time and money.
First do NOT expect the enterprise vendors to differentiate on functionality. The GRC software market has made an evolution in the last 10 years that have resulted in a fairly high mature software market. So a 'beauty contest' is a waste of money and resources. Outcome will be equal for all vendors and you will be stuck between your user community and the vendors in the process. You might get questions from your management team why you spend so much time and resources without any outcome.
Secondly involve your end users in the selection process early, but do not expect 20 people working in silos to come to one single conclusion. Again you will end up in a long discussion with no outcome. Have a small group of people (3 preferably) to make the selection.
Thirdly make your selection criteria known upfront and make them measurable. Also involve the vendors in the process and be open to them. If you are open and honest you will get transparent, open and honest answers. If you hide, vendors will hide! Criteria should be based on experience in your market, understanding of your organization, size and financial stability, ability to deliver in time and within budget, alignment of implementation approach to your implementation methodology and the cultural fit.
Again this may look preaching to the choir but I hope I just saved you time and money that you can invest in your implementation.
Blog post by Erwin Boeren, Senior Governance, Risk & Compliance specialist IBM
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