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Banking Regulators Drop Libor … Adopt New Standard
Given the loss of confidence in the big banks in the wake of revelations that they have been manipulating the world's most important economic benchmark – Libor – regulators in the U.S. and UK have announced that they will abandon Libor and adopt a new standard.
In the run up to the change in standards, Bank of England chief Mervyn King had called for a benchmark based on actual transaction prices. King's theory was that Libor – which stands for London Inter Bank Offered Rate – is supposed to measure that interest rates which banks actually offer to loan each other money.
But regulators on both sides of the Atlantic considered such a scheme too cumbersome and "lead-footed".
Disgraced former Barclay's chairman Agius (who until 2 days ago was also head of the British Banker's Association), JP Morgan boss Dimon (a class A director of the Federal Reserve) and others who can easily wear conflicting hats as regulators and bankers – while holding pristine moral standards and doing God's Work – have all suggested a more realistic standard.
The new standard – announced today – would promote growth, reduce bookkeeping costs, and free regulators from having to whisper from the sidelines. It also more accurately reflects current banking practices.
They call it Limor (pronouced "LieMore").
Unlike it's predecessor, Limor – Let's Immaculately Makeup Official-sounding Rates – reflects the prevailing view of the political class and top mainstream economists that bankers are saints who can do no wrong, whose every movement and release of gas creates jobs and stimulates the economy … in the same way that flowers spontaneously grow wherever a holy man walks.
Since these great men have only the best interests of the little people in their heart, letting them make up the appropriate Limor rate will benefit the world, as the great Invisible Hand guides the markets to their divine destiny.
Indeed, anyone calling for "objective" benchmarks or talking about so-called "justice" – like these heretics or these – are so lacking in faith that they should be excommunicated from the fiat land of milk and honey.
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GW, how about LEMUR,
an endemic clade of strepsirrhine primates?
EQ, EUD, PM's, TNX all headed South despite rate cuts. (for the rest of the summer?). We'll know more toward the close today...6:10 AM - 5 Jul 12 via web · Details
The LIBOR crimes, as big as they are, pale in comparison to the FED Interest Rate Swap manipulation crimes, in their misguided attempt to preserve the criminal system that they are.
Among this fossilized bunch of bankers they should be more worried about obtaining Lipitor.
Go through years of Widowmaker ZH posts:
You ZH fucks that think ANYTHING is as it seems are dead meat. All of it is fraud, ALL OF IT.
I said recently that new money is the solution and a bunch of spineless tough-talking texters think that will never happen.
I assure you that is the exit -- the only exit.
Honestly, how many mortgages, variable interest rate contracts, etc. have been mispriced and mispaid as a result of this nonsense?
MSM will bury this quickly. Too much to see behind the perception curtain on this one.
It is no longer a conspiracy theory when there is actually a conspiracy going on.
All of them.
Mission accomplished; record bonuses and a taxpayer "saved" system.
"We saved the banks but lost America" - Timothy Fuckup Geithner, 2008
They have to bury it quickly because of two things. One, if it's out there for a few more days people will be asking for a true adjustiment of interest rates on other financial instruments that are more true to the market and reality. And they can't have that because with so many trillions out there it could easily bankrupt banks and countries in hours. And two, people will know that the US Fed was in own this scam also. Justt because the US SEC and te Chicago Trade made fines doesn't mean a thing, it's obfuscation. By making look like they are concerned and care people won't ask the questions of the Fed and American banks being involved.
Cover your shorts. ECB must cut 50 basis points to get some traction, so assets are fixing to rally!
You call any of this shit "Capitalism"? It is global fascism my friend. The political elite are picking winners, losers, and throwing in market manipulation to cover the extreme waste, corruption, and overall inefficiency. Capitalism could possibly, maybe turn this around with truly transparent open markets.
if a person gains flnancial wealth from the proceeds of crime, should that wealth be confiscated upon conviction ?
thanks to this video, i now understand how bankers get upset that we muppets don't appreciate all their selfless efforts on our behalf (shame on you GW):
Meet The Pyro (2m32s)
For all the grief Mervyn gets for printing without end, he isn't an entirely bought and paid for ... his plan to just use market rates is clearly the right one.
Also in the running was
London Exact Measured Ultra Robbery
in honour of the rung on the primate ladder they now have to stoop to have anything believe anything coming out of The City and The Fed
i think it's time to add some definition to what i'm trying to say; and i mean from a cosmic/fully-orbed perspective. the time has finally arrived. a time in which mankind can free himself from the fetters and constraints of traditional power. if a large enough share of humanity strives toward the better end -- the 'better end' being a renewed dignity of the individual, and a fullness of the person mediated through liberty -- then they will, for the betterment of all, secure a future worth the investment of living...for i TRULY say, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!
if there were a moment that served as catalyst for my experiemnt, it would have to have been a simple conversation. my eldest son and i were just chatting, and at one point i casually admonished him to not dare have children -- things being the way they are, and only growing worse. i made sure he understood what i was talking about; that i wouldn't change a thing; that i love him dearly; but, conditions being what they are, it's about as improvident as it can be -- the act of procreating and all.
and i caught myself. not because i'd overstated the case; rather, i reckoned this is about the most cowardly thing a father can do...state plainly that the bastards are winning and sit silently defeated, not intending to do a goddam thing about it. well, it's safe to say that janus is past all that now. at first, i saw the undertaking as monumental -- i mean, it's an interlocking juggernaught, so complete and ubiquitious that it would necessitate radically new ways of thinking about ourselves and the world around us. actually, these ways of thinking have been around forever...only, the bastards kept on winning due to their ability to effectively communicate and control the modes thereof.
things are different now; in a way so fundamentally new...those who would but hear/to those who would but see -- those must recognize the fact that we are slipping into an entirely new epoch...not just a new age -- the earth itself seems involved; seems like it's suffering the spasms of birth-pains...seems like they're increasing in frequency.
and if you're mired in simplistic, binary thinking; thinking that it's just corporations or governments or religions or schools or families or militaries or fill in the blank. it's a complete and all-encompassing diminunition of the human spirit. on the one hand, we're more aware of the nefariousness of the all-present evil, and on the other it has never been so acutely wicked or opressive. this tension is at an all time high; and something will soon give.
the reason i make myself the bad guy is becasue everyone seems to think some aspect of these horrid institutions are redeemable -- that they're good...they figure that, since they were conceived in relative goodness, there must be some good still remaining. so, bitchez, i am the bad guy. if all the institutions that comprise the totality of our existance are holy, then i am wicked. if this world's power is a benevolent thing; i am the essence of evil.
time for another Bible lesson, i think
remember ole Abraham? back in the Book of Genesis, ole abe chews the fat with a couple of angles sent from Heaven to destroy sodom and gomorrah with a punative pillaging of fire, brimstone and other bric-a-brac common to the arsenal of Merciful Vengance. so, abe is shocked...SHOCKED, i say...at the machinations of The Almighty. and it comes to pass that he begins to bargin with the angels, asking them if they'll spare the city if 100 good men still therein abide. abe is the compassionate sort, so he eventually whittles this number down to 5...confident that the city housed this number at the very least.
seems it didn't...but that's another story.
the point is, when things are just congenitally flawed; when their only substance is a stew of cannibalizing pathogens; when they emit only the foul stench of rot and decay; well, i could go on...you get the point.
in case you don't, maybe i should layer on a parable from the NT...just to balance things out:
somewhere in galalee, Christ is teachin and doin His Thing with twelve primative ZHealots. eventually He sets into a real hum-dinger of a cautionary tale. need i remind you? Christ is one hell of a racantaur. something like this: so, there was this guy who owned this orchard. and there was this steward of said orchard. the owner would come by on occasion; you know, to inspect the operations and whatnot. well, one day he spots a fruitless tree. doesn't like what he sees.
'chop it down' sez The Proprietor
'have patience...let me prune it and water it around its edges. and if after this if it beareth not fruit, i will do as you say.'
as you might have guessed, the tree fails to flourish and the hopeful steward is compeled to chop down the tree and throw it into the fire. i don't know, maybe it's just me, but seems like The Proprietor is weary of this fruitless age. maybe the whole system needs to be ground into mash. i look out my window and marvel at the material progress; and then i observe the condition of mankind and i am crushed.
some people may think i'm an anarchist...nope, far from it. people need protection from certain other people...but, all the same, rarely if ever from their own selves.
the internet is just amazing. it hasn't even begun to change the world...but that time is fast approaching -- galloping even. all parasitic institutions will inevitably be crushed by its power...and all who stand opposed to the transparancy it demands will be lit up like a blazing 4th o july sky.
the time for hope is over; the time for expecting or affecting change through the system is at an end; wake up to the reality of it all -- why the fuck should we save a giant sucubus that seeks only our lifelong submission? fuck the ways of this world.
it's time for destruction. must clear out the ruins before we can build.
perfect timing, too. i'm fuckin hungry:
"what is democracy/
it's about young men killin each other",
Can anyone say claw-back.. some of what has been done in the name of banking is worse than murder!
OWS needs a new calling.. jail and worse for the Pretty Boys.
Some real accountability.
If you find a congressman that opposes claw-back it it just means they have the same rotten blood and need to be in the same jail.
Going to work in the fiance industry after you make laws...... same deal who is kidding who.
"Some real accountability.
If you find a congressman that opposes claw-back it it just means they have the same rotten blood and need to be in the same jail.
Going to work in the fiance industry after you make laws...... same deal who is kidding who."
a practice in the USSA known as the "REVOLVING DOORS", happen among the regulator agencies and the corporations they're overseeing that the officers (executives) may switch sides.
Isaiah 1:6-7 ...the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores:...
Bankers, Corporate leaders, Politicians, Military, Media, Academics, Police, Judiciary, Religious leaders - the whole body is corrupt, rotten, maggot filled whores that would sell their own mother on the street for a dime. So who on Earth will hold these men accountable???
But there is the Most High Judge who cannot be bought for money or sex, and in His time His Judgment none will escape. There is no justice in this world but it will be impossible to escape justice in the court of Jesus Christ when he separates the sheep from the goats. That day will dawn sooner or later, probably sooner now rather than later! Till then the System will prevail till the System is no more on the day that the merchants of the Earth will weep and mourn, for no man will buy their merchandise any more (Revelation 18); on the day when the Whore of international banking and commerce, BABYLON THE GREAT will be judged and burnt to the ground never to rise again.
Believe it or not!
The History of the House of Rottenschilds by Andrew Hitchcock
"The Rottenschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following timeline. However, before you jump to the timeline, please read this invaluable introduction which will tell you who the Rottenschilds are as oppose to who they claim to be.
. . .
The most wealthy bloodline in the world bar none and the leader of the Ashkenazi J--s in the world today is the Rottenschilds family. As you will see in the timeline, the Rottenschilds have obtained this position through lies, manipulation and murder. Their bloodline also extends into the Royal Families of Europe, and the following family names: ASTOR; BUNDY; COLLINS; DUPONT; FREEMAN; KENNEDY; MORGAN; OPPENHEIMER; ROCK3FELL3R; SASSOON; SCHIFF; TAFT; and VAN DUYN.
Reading Hitchcock one will realize that the Rock3fell3r family are Rottenschilds descendants through a FEMALE bloodline!!!
And how this family intermarried with it's first and second cousins to preserve the family fortune (of the 18 marriages by Mayer Amschel Rottenschild's grandchildren, 16 were between first cousins - a practice known today as inbreeding).
Read the entire summarized "TWO-AND-A-HALF-CENTURY" TIMELINE here: http://bit.ly/MhkwoV
Or see the very terse version of above writing formatted in .ppt: http://bit.ly/NlwRto
Article is so funny, I'm only holding vodka from spraying in my nostrils. Filthy capitalists!
Brother, they are anything but capitalists. Good luck changing any of this with non-capitalists in charge.
I am absolutely unfamiliar with the materia, but might a fake libor rate count as a ground for invalidation in e.g. derivative contracts ?
this will keep the courts full way
past eternity. providing the judges get
some piece of the action. expect a qe
for this one all on its own.
A farce ndeed, which I find particularly scary, for the simple fact that no matter how bad I sometimes imagine the banking system might be, when I find out the truth it's always even worse.
where can I get more info on the this LYMOR index?
I googled it and nothing came back....
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime
There should be a court of last resort for the banker/regulator class where-in they are tried by circumstance. Having a millstone tied to their necks they are thrown into a river--if they float they are guilty of sympathy with the devil and beheaded, but if they sink and drown they are doing Gods work and will be presumed innocent.
Lying .thieving,cheating corrupt to the core fucking ponzi scheme.
Make the rules as you go (get caught).
Time to bring the system down yet boys and girls...????
"...and others who can easily wear conflicting hats as regulators and bankers – while holding pristine moral standards and doing God's Work.."
what a mouthfull of pristine-ness
...and a just little hard to swallow without choking on some/alot/most of it
holding pristine moral standards and doing God's Work.."...
So just who is the High Priest this year? His "breastplate of righteousness" has a few more dings in it and is a bit worse for wear. Not to mention the Urim and Thummim were hocked to the chinese to go along with the rest of their rare earth purchases. Forget the diaspora, looks like it's back to captivity.
"Given the loss of confidence in the big banks in the wake of revelations that they have been manipulating ......"
loss of confidence by who???
The morons that watch American Idol.....Bachelor....snooki ???
In the last 3 years, the major banks have kept their financial standing A TOTAL SECRET.
A standard metric in my TDAmeritrade account for banks is "Financial Strength".
The response to that inquiry is "Data not available....."
new index! happy whore?
Bullwinkle's Hat Trick- All 4 animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW7pITY5Cg (1:03)
The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-16zxVMw0 (2:55)
Electric Light Orchestra - Roll Over Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1Qc (4:38)
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLD5H4uQ1xs (4:27)
Well, George, if it is pronounced LIEmor it at least cannot be lies since they are madeup out of thin air, truth no longer exists. Now, if the banksters could just "fix" reality.
Outstanding! I enjoy a good laugh occasionally, on all of this shitfest we have been through since 2008.
Now I get to clean up my keyboard.
Thanks a lot. ;-)
Your farce is becoming more credible, you had me there for the first few sentences.
I speculate that the number of prosecutions for financial fraud is inversely proportional to the number of ex-God's workers employed as regulators and senior Government officials?
(Thinks for a moment)
"LIMOR"? Limor. Yes, I know her. She can set my "interest" rate as high as she wants - http://seductivejewess.com/type-iii6-limor-sarah-blokman.


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Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
Well... when you say A motion in limine cannot be struck. The proper action is to either demand withdrawal of the motion under CCP 128.7 -- or, to simply oppose the motion on its merits.
Opposing counsel writes in POA filed concurrently with MIL:
8 II 7. " (a) "Hearsay evidence" is evidence of a statement that was made other than
9 II by a witness while testifying at the hearing and that is offered to prove the truth of the
10 II matter stated. (b) Except as provided by law, hearsay evidence is inadmissible.
11 II California Evidence Code § 1200. Here, Petitioner attempts to request relief and/or
12111assert his claims via the use of myriad letters, reports and/or private records-all of which
13 are being offered for the truth of the matter asserted, and all of which lack the necessary
1411foundation that would permit their admission into evidence. For example, Petitioner's
15 moving papers filed March 5, 2012 rely upon the alleged statements of a mental health
16 II professional to assert the validity of his claims. As discussed above, res judicata
17 II prohibits Petitioner from introducing documentation pertaining to the issues resolved via
18 II the parties' stipulated Judgment But such statements are disallowed as hearsay,
19 II regardless. Thus, all statements proffered by the Petitioner for the same purpose are
20 IIinadmissible as hearsay, as are the attachments and/or exhibits subrnitted by Petitioner
21 with all of his remaining filings, including but not limited to, that paperwork submitted by
22 II Petitioner September 19,2012, November 20,2012, November 30,2012 and February
23 1111,2012. Thus, each of Petitioner's references to letters, notes or records from doctors,
24 IIteachers, administrators, therapists, court dockets or police records are inadmissible and
25 IImust be excluded. California Evidence Code § 1200.
26 II Again, Petitioner selects and/or references documentation pertaining to issues
27\IWhiCh existed at trial, and were addressed in the Judgment-a fact that makes such
28 evidence irrelevant to the instant proceeding, in any case.
So....Socrateaser, opposing counsel want's to strike with an MIL
Petitioner's (MY) references to letters, notes or records from doctors,teachers, administrators, therapists, court dockets or police records are inadmissible and must be excluded.
QUESTION: Should I then based of your last commend OPPOSE TO THE MOTION ON THE MERIT THAT THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE ALL VALID AND WITNESSES WILL BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO VALIDATE NEXT WEEK?
OR ..... would it be better to demand withdrawal of the motion under CCP 128.7?
QUESTION: Should I then based of your last commend OPPOSE TO XXXXX THE MERIT THAT THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE ALL VALID AND WITNESSES WILL BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO VALIDATE NEXT WEEK?
A: I can't answer this question definitively, because I don't know if the documents are in fact valid. Assuming that they can be validated by your witnesses as subject to the business records exception to the hearsay rule, then you can simply respond that the records complained about are all covered by the business records exception, that you will produce witnesses to properly authenticate the documents at trial. You can also complain that opposing counsel has made a blanket request to deny admissibility of all of your evidence, and that the lack of specificity makes it impossible for you to respond intelligently, or for the court to make an informed decision concerning the introduction of any specific item of evidence.
If the judge doesn't rule in your favor, I'll be very surprised, because this sort of blanket motion is the functional equivalent of a motion for summary judgment, since it deprives you of the opportunity to develop your case at trial. Strike that -- I won't be surprised. This is family court, and the judge will do whatever he/she feels like doing at the moment he/she decides to do whatever he/she decides to do.
A: The motion isn't entirely frivolous, because it's probably true that some of your proposed evidence is inadmissible. So, I would stay away from the 128.7 motion.
That was very helpful Socrateaser
Can I ask the court for a continuation without appearing next week on the premise that now I need more time to subpoena all the witnesses?
Is there a procedural vehicle (paperwork or on-line request) of some sorts to request more time....
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Larksville chief addresses 'shooting' incident
As the investigation continues into what happened to a 14-year-old boy who was struck while riding a dirt bike Friday in Larksville, police Chief John Edwards said he wants to dispel any rumors confirming the boy was shot.
Edwards said Saturday the male has been released from a hospital. According to Edwards, he is meeting with the teenager and his father today, hoping to tie up loose ends and acquire medical documentation from a doctor in an effort to determine what hit the male.
Edwards said whatever hit the male was "very tiny," but crews cannot yet confirm exactly what it was.
Larksville police responded Friday to the report of a male being struck in the back while riding a dirt bike in a wooded area near Poplar Street. According to police, the male walked to a friend's house when it was discovered he had some blood on his back.
Police said a small fragment of something was found in his back near his shoulder. Due to how tiny the fragment is, Edwards said it has not yet been determined what the object in question is.
According to police, the investigation is continuing and no reports of gunfire were reported in the area at the time of the incident.
Edwards said police are going to step up patrol on ATVs and motorcycles riding in the woods.
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Desert tortoises have lived in the Sonoran Desert since the Ice Age, yet many of the creatures are now finding themselves homeless due to the bad economy.
Over the past few years, the Phoenix Herpetological Society has been keeping ever larger numbers of desert tortoises, said Wendy Cassidy, tortoise-program coordinator. As more natural desert habitat is lost to development, people find the tortoises and drop them off at the reptile sanctuary in north Scottsdale.
But lately, many people who had kept tortoises in their yards have lost their homes and are moving away or into apartments, she said.
"So many tortoises are abandoned," she said. "A lot of Realtors call and say they have them. These tortoises can't live in an apartment."
Cassidy said the society is eager to adopt out the creatures, which cannot be released into the wild once they've been in captivity. This is a good time to begin the adoption process, she said, because the animals have just come out of hibernation and will have plenty of time to adjust to a new habitat before hibernating again in October.
Because the tortoises are protected, and each is implanted with a microchip and registered with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the adoption process is lengthy, requiring an application and interview.
Potential tortoise-keepers must build a low-walled enclosure with a burrow and provide photographs of it before they are approved.
"A lot of people inquire about it and then decide not to adopt when they see what's involved in the process," Cassidy said. "If you're keeping it in captivity, you have to provide for it or it will die a slow, painful death."
The Phoenix Herpetological Society holds monthly seminars May through September for approved tortoise-keepers. During that period, it usually adopts out about 10 to 15 desert tortoises a month, Cassidy said.
The tortoises, which grow to about 15 inches and live up to 100 years, make good, low-maintenance pets, she said.
"They're like little pieces of history - little dinosaurs," she said. "They make wonderful first pets for children."
Desert tortoises don't like excessive handling but will tolerate being picked up.
Cassidy said the usually solitary tortoises also are curious and will come to the wall when people are nearby.
In fact, their enclosures must be solid block and not chain-link fencing, because if the tortoise can see out, it will dig so aggressively to get out that it can injure itself.
Janey Frost, activities manager at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, was part of the resort's "green team" that acquired a desert tortoise, named Monty, and built his habitat as part of the hotel's "Sonoran Trail" a few years ago.
Monty is popular with guests, especially the children who attend the summer "kids' club."
"He's gotten to know our voices," said Frost, who lures Monty out of his burrow with a hibiscus flower. "He sees that red flower and it's like dessert to him. He'll eat right out of your hand. He's so gentle."
May 14, 2011: The Phoenix Herpetological Society is preparing for its monthly Sonoran desert tortoise adoption to be held at its North Scottsdale facility.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA — Republican Party of Florida leaders today said they might pursue legal action to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in "inappropriate expenses" by Gov. Charlie Crist, his hand-picked former GOP chairman and a former top party aide between 2007 and 2009.
State GOP Chairman John Thrasher made the announcement after he and the party's executive board spent three hours reviewing an audit of party finances while Jim Greer was chairman.
Crist's campaign spokesman accused the GOP of playing "the same old political games" against Crist, who left the party in April to pursue an independent Senate bid.
The expenses, largely travel-related, were put on the American Express cards of Greer and former GOP executive director Delmar Johnson, but many of them benefited Crist, Thrasher said.
Read the RPOF statement after the jump…
Statement today by Republican Party of Florida:
RPOF Board Votes to Request Additional Information Regarding the Forensic Audit, Review Possibility of Potential Legal Action Against Charlie Crist, Jim Greer and Delmar Johnson
Lake Buena Vista – The Republican Party of Florida's Executive Board today met in executive session for the purpose of reviewing of a forensic audit of the party's finances which was initiated by Chairman John Thrasher with the approval of the Party's Executive Board earlier this year.
After a detailed review of the findings of the audit, the RPOF's Executive Board voted to request additional information regarding inappropriate expenses charged by the individuals listed below in order to make a determination regarding potential litigation against the following individuals:
Charlie Crist
Jim Greer
Delmar Johnson
The decision regarding the release of the audit will not be made until the Party has determined whether or not legal action is required. The Board directed the Chairman to report back to the board within 10 days.


text: !!FridgeBrilliance* Watching the opening cutscene of ''Lego Batman'', This Troper wondered what a perfectly sane catburglar like Catwoman was doing in Arkham Asylum, as opposed to a regular prison. Upon completing her level in the game (at the end of which Batman captures her by putting out a saucer of milk and she just can't resist lapping it up like a cat), he understood: ''this version of Catwoman thinks she is actually a cat''.** She continues the Flanderization in the next game, where she runs on all fours. Also, traditionally Blackgate prisoner Penguin is in Arkham, too, for simplicity and convenience of plot.* In Lego Harry Potter, why can the generic [[{{Mook}} Death Eater]] pick up Mandrakes, who paralyze people with their screech? Because he's a [[{{Pun}} DEAF eater]]!** ...no.* In the ''Lego Batman 2'' movie, Lex was still working with Joker after [[spoiler: Joker double-crossed him and made the voters loyal to ''him'', not Lex. Why? Because Joker offered to make Lex vice-president, who takes over if the president dies. [[FridgeHorror Lex was planning to kill Joker.]] ([[JokerImmunity Not that he would've succeeded, but still...]])]]* In ''LEGO Batman 2'', every returning villain (except Joker and Scarecrow) is a DegradedBoss. This makes sense when you think about it: in the first game, the villains had a plan to break out, so they already had equipment, gangs, and hideouts ready for them once they escaped. In the sequel, they escaped because Joker and Lex set them loose while escaping to keep Batman busy, so they were completely unprepared.* In Lego Marvel Super Heroes, I was bugged by why the Fantastic Four's Human Torch was in the level [[JustForPun "Red Head]] [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Detention"]] and teamed up with Captain America until I realized that the original golden age Human Torch, Jim Hammond, fought alongside Cap against the Red Skull, the boss of that particular level!** [[ActorAllusion They also share an actor.]]* Lego Marvel Super Heroes features a cameo of Stan Lee as a prisoner in the Raft. You'd think that the creator of various superheroes like Spider-Man being in a high-security supervillain prison was just RuleOfFunny... until you remember that he also created a RoguesGallery for all of those heroes. He's in jail for creating all those supervillains!* Now at first you would think the ComicBook/RedSkull being a part of all this is NoSwastikas / {{Disneyfication}} in action. But remember, neither Doom or Magneto or anyone else ever interact with or even acknowledge Red Skull's involvement. Except for Loki, who probably doesn't care enough to look into Earth's history and thus doesn't know to much about Skull's past.* This is possibly the first version of [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Galactus}}'s coming to Earth]] that actually explains why he came down in New York, of all places.* This troper was confused by Deadpool's comment "Kingpin is offering low-price dental checkups! I HAVE NO TEETH!" Until realizing that he was referring to the fact that he is a LEGO minifigure, and minifigures (technically, if you don't count printed expressions) don't have teeth.* Some people have noted that certain characters, like Black Widow, have the Intelligence ability, while other smart characters like Spider-Man don't. However, the way it's used in the game is specifically as a ''hacking'' ability - which explains why spy characters have it while others like Spidey don't. (Still doesn't explain why Doc Ock has the ability and Superior Spider-Man doesn't, though).* In the game of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie the movie]], there are several alternate characters that are labelled as different costumes for Emmet, even though they are just generics in the game and the film proper. However, in the film, there is a minor plot point about Emmet's face being so bland and generic he could literally be any random minifigure in the LEGO universe.** This also lends itself to another plot point in the movie: [[spoiler: Every minifig is special and unique in Finn's eyes. In the game, there are no bland, generic names for characters as there are in the other games (Except the robots, but that's because they're the minions of the bland, boring Lord Business.) Every character, from the Bricksburg residents to the Middle Zealand guards, have catchy names.]] * Of corse Batman's space suit is white. Helps him stay visible in the darkness of space, just like real astronauts.* In Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Deadpool provides hints, cheats and color commentary. Of all the characters, he ''would'' know he's [[FourthWallObserver in a game]].* In ''LEGO Batman 3'', why would Cheetah, after being captured and tied up, insult Wonder Woman on her outfit and her relationship with Superman? Because she's being [[{{Pun}} catty]].** Or potentially acting as a AudienceSurrogate.* Riddler is voiced by Creator/RobPaulsen in ''Lego Batman 2'', making it [[WesternAnimation/TheMask the second time]] he voiced someone who was played by Creator/JimCarrey in [[Film/BatmanForever a movie]].* In ''Lego Marvel Superheroes'', control panels can only be hacked by intelligent characters. [[TheChessmaster Loki]] cannot hack these panels. Perhaps it's a hint that he's not as smart as he thinks he is.!!FridgeHorror* The elephant you use to open the gate in "Pankot Secrets"... [[AndIMustScream how is it supposed to get out?]]** [[FanWank Maybe it got off on the lower floor]]?* In ''Lego Batman'' one of the Joker's unlockable outfits is a tropical tourist's garb, with a purple fedora, Hawaiian shirt and a camera. It's a funky little ensemble, until you realize that it was what he was wearing when he [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke shot and crippled]] Barbara Gordon.** ...And yet Barbara is playable as Batgirl. In BOTH games. So it's really more MythologyGag than anything else.* In Harry Potter a collectible type is "students in peril". No one seems to care about them no one notices them. Some just need to get something down or have a missing object, but what about the ones that are caught in devils snare or locked in the cupboard when the dragons destroying the towers? ** Even when you know a student is trapped, you are powerless to help them until you get the right ability. In story, this can be ''years'' later.* The fight with The Vulture has you tricking him into hurting himself by flying through promotional materials for Marvel heroes. When you remember Vulture's an old man, it feels more like you're taking advantage of his senility.* Carnage is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never seen again]] after escaping the Raft.* Croc says Dr. Fate's helmet was in his stomach from "yesterday's lunch". Poor Kent Nelson...** But he's a playable character in the game you unlock, most likely he was trying to freak Robin out.* The statue of Abin Sur at the Indigo Tribe might not make any sense in ''Beyond Gotham'', but comics fans will know that [[spoiler:it's because Indigo-1 killed his daughter]]. That's right, as per the comics [[spoiler:Indigo-1 is a child-murderer as well as a total sociopath]].* Where did the bones the ''I. rex'' was playing with in ''LEGO Jurassic World'' come from? Wait...didn't she eat her own sister?!!FridgeLogic* In LEGO Batman 2, Bizarro is a DLC character. He has the exact same abilities as Superman in the game. The problem is that his breath and EyeBeams are the opposite of Superman's. Superman has heat vision and freeze breath. Bizarro is supposed to have arctic vision and fire breath.** That is original Bizarro, who was just an imperfect clone of Superman, with all his powers and none of his smarts. It's not current day Bizarro, who is the literal opposite of Superman.** He's also a bonus character not integral to the game, so the developers probably couldn't be bothered to create two new effects for a DLC character, and they used some time making Black Adam's lightning, so perhaps they decided to skip for Bizarro.* In the movie version, I doubt Wonder Woman needed to be in her invisible jet for ''all'' those scenes. Holding up Wayne Tower, for one, she probably didn't need it for.** Because invisible jets are inherently funny.*** Really? I don't get the joke. Adding the Invisible Jet to scenes when she was flying in the games just showed how pointless her plane is.**** [[DontExplainTheJoke I'm pretty sure the pointlessness of the jet is the joke]]. * The subtitles spell M.O.D.O.K. with a K, yet he claims he's designed only for ''conquest''.** It's probably a work-around to get him past the [[MoralGuardian Moral Guardians]].*** Slave Leia and Carnage are in these games. What moral guardians?** This has been done before ('K for konquest') in other Marvel adaptations. In all probability, it's because they don't want to have a character shout 'I am designed only for killing!' in an age 7+ game. ** M.O.D.O.K.'s name is usually left unexplained or his last initial is changed when he appears in kid-friendly adaptations. So here it's not much of a surprise.** It's also related to his goals. In a lot of works with that change, his plans are more on the side of domination and power then murder, so it does make some sense.** (OP) i completely agree, but you're all missing the point. My question is if he's "Designed Only for Conquest" then why is it M.O.D.O.K. instead of M.O.D.O.C.?** Again, kid-friendly censorship. The character's name is actually spelled with a "K", so they wanted that to be accurate. * All of the prisoners to escape The Raft in Marvel Superheroes are defeated and re-captured... except Carnage, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse who can only be assumed to still be at large after the defeat of Doctor Doom.]]** Given the character we're talking about here, that might be Fridge Horror as well.----


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For several months now I have been using an external openldap server for authentication. Working great. I have disabled the user's ability to change their passwords, as we had been working on a centralized spot for users to change it.
Since then, I have been receiving requests from the users to allow for the password changes to happen on the zimbra server itself. Now, I could have sworn that I remember reading that it doesn't work that way, but I figured I would test it out.... So I tried with my own account. Enabled password changing, and tried...
The result was that it did NOT change my password on the external (as expected), but it DID create a new password for me! SOOO now I have two passwords... One from the external LDAP, and one apparently locally stored.
So it's a muilttpul question... Is there anyways to change external ldaps passwords via zimbra (even any zimlets in the works?)?
And... how do I go about removing this annoying extra password? For security reasons, I really dont want two working passwords..


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Nancy Wells, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Research Professor
VUSN & Director of Nursing Research, VU Hospitals and Clinics
Current Research Interests
- Pain and symptom management
- Efficacy of alternative therapies to manage symptoms
- Evidence-based practice
Flannery, M. (2012-14). Lung Cancer Pain/Symptom Assessment for Functional Well-being (ONS Foundation/Purdue Pharma Trish Green Pain Assessment & Research management Grant; Role: Wells Co-I
Fitzhenry, F. (2010-12). Pain Assessment & Intervention Needs AHRQ 1R03HS019069-01. Role: Wells Co-I]
Representative Publications
Fitzhenry F, Wells N, Slater V, Dietrich MS, Wisawatapnimit P, Chakravarthy AB. (2014). A randomized placebo-controlled pilot study of the impact of healing touch pm fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. Integrative Cancer Therapy, 13: 105-113.
League K, Christenbery T, Sandlin V, Arnow D, Moss K, Wells N. (2012). Increasing nurses' access to evidence through a web-based resource. JONA, 42: 531-535.
Wells NL, Sandlin V. (2012). Expectations of pain and accompanying symptoms during cancer treatment. Current pain and headache reports. Epub 2012/05/15. doi: 10.1007/s11916-012-0272-0. PubMed PMID: 22580764.
Professional Organizations
2004-present Member, American Academy of Nursing
1998-present Member, Oncology Nursing Society


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Well, after seeing all the beautiful works, and how they have been evolving and developing, thanks to the great advice of the fellow mates of this forums, i have decided to post this rough sketch of the map of a campaign world, in wich i have been working something like 3 years. (On the world, not the map) XD
Right now i would like to hear some advice on the climates and how they should be distributed, now, the catch is that this is a flat world, envelop with the power of the gods, i don't know if i should look to make it like the climates of the earth, or just do whatever i like, i don't like the "everything is just result of gods power" answer, that i should use in that case.
The sun exists, the moon, etc, some gods gave their freedom to "replace" them, taking their places. So one god is the sun, one the moon, one the earth itself... But the thing is that the sea ends in the infinite, and when you get to the edge of the world, you are transported to the other extreme.
I dont know exactly how to manage the climate issue...
Any ideas?


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High School: Norman
College: Arkansas (school history) (McClard college stats)
Drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 3rd round (61st overall) of the 1972 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 4 (9949th overall since 1950)
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The premiums that employers with defined-benefit plans pay the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. will increase slightly next year.
The base premium—now $33 a year per plan participant—will increase to $34. That increase is a result of a federal law that requires that the premium be adjusted to reflect changes in the national average weekly wage during the prior year.
In fiscal 2007, the last year for which information is available, the PBGC collected about $1.1 billion in base premiums in its single-employer insurance program; $358 million in variable-rate premiums, which are paid by employers with underfunded plans; and $61 million in termination premiums. Termination premiums are imposed on employers that terminate an underfunded plan as part of the bankruptcy process. A $1,250-per-participant premium is due in each of the three years after emergence from Chapter 11 protection.
The premiums collected by the PBGC are used to help pay benefits to participants in plans taken over by the PBGC, which in 2007 had a $13.1 billion deficit in its single-employer insurance program.
Separately, the PBGC announced an increase in the maximum annual benefit it will guarantee to participants who retire at 65 and are in underfunded plans that the agency takes over. The cap in 2009 will be $54,000, up from $51,700 for plans that terminated in 2008.
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Business Forecasting, Tomorrow's Winning Lottery Ticket # and Measure Twice, Cut.
Tim O'Bryan 270001NMX7 email@example.com | | Tags:  businessforecasting businessanalyticstoday forecast planning timobryan provenpractices strategy businessanalytics | 0 Comments | 1,200 Visits
What if you knew tomorrow's winning lottery ticket number? Imagine the possibilities. Quit your job? Travel the world? Buy that convertible Bentley you've always wanted? Addition to the house? Pay off those nagging debts? Think about the impact of knowing what a stock price will be next week, or knowing when your car is going to break down, or exactly when your roof is about to start leaking? Better, what about if you had early insight into your future health condition? Now, wait a minute! Something seems different here. With regard to the winning lottery ticket number that seems a lot more unpredictable than say, picking a stock or determining when your car is going to break down not to mention forecasting potential health concerns. It certainly is different. I'm sure you can guess the difference between predicting the winning lottery ticket number and the other examples. I'll state it anyway. It's because in these other examples we can draw from historical data, analytical research, individual's input based on their experience, and a vast array of data to more accurately determine what is likely to happen. Once you know this information you can begin to do some planning for these possibilities or scenarios. Seems pretty logical, right? We know how much information is being captured today by companies about their customers, employees's insights, internal operations and external market conditions that there's obviously not a problem with lack of data to do this predictive analysis. Yet, in a lot of companies today this practice does not happen with regularity. Companies aren't using their most valuable resources available for forecasting – their people and their data – to develop this in-house capability.
Look, I don't need to tell you the advantages of knowing what's likely to happen and how an organization can exploit this knowledge. If you're an investment bank in 2006 and have a large amount of CDO's and mortgage-backed securities on your books it might have been helpful to hear from these traders and other knowledgeable people in your operations that these speculative instruments were bound to go belly up. In hindsight the information was all there but there wasn't a culture in place to gather this feedback. Prescience. Only helpful to the enterprise if there's a platform in place to capture these insights and communicate them up the corporate tree so all are aware. Without this kind of enterprise forecasting platform the enterprise won't die…not overnight that is. But, in the long run, it might suffer from multiple missed opportunities which could lead to a slow death by a 1,000 cuts.
The more unbiased participation you can glean from the relevant stakeholders and knowledge experts the more likely you're going to be able to predict what will likely happen. The key is reaching out into your workforce across functional areas, remote operations, corporate support units, to gather feedback as far out into the future as they can most accurately predict with some likelihood which can then be leveraged by business unit managers, executives and other stakeholders to make decisions NOW based on this feedback. If you know something's likely to happen in the future, say a hurricane, are you going to remain in your home if your home is in the hurricane's direct path? No, of course not. You're going to do everything you can to save all of your earthly possessions – maybe even your home, if possible – and get out of there. You're acting now. Not waiting for the day of the hurricane to do something about it. This is the basis for business forecasting.
Only in obtaining honest, unbiased feedback from your workforce will you be able to trust this information to take action on it. If it's not unbiased – meaning the figures that are produced from this effort were top-down dictated (think sales manager telling their sales rep what their next quarter's sales figures MUST be vs. what this sales rep believes the figures WILL MOST LIKELY be – it ends up with little use for decision making. It becomes a performance contract.
This is not your mother's forecast. You should not be repeating the same process you've gone through in your annual budget cycle. This forecast process has a different intention (insights for decision making) than the budget (annual objectives typically tied to performance contracts) and therefore needs to be designed and administered differently than the budget. With a forecast, benefactors of this process include more than just the executive management team but also the actual contributors to the forecast and their managers. This is because there's now a formal means of submitting honest and real feedback about what's really coming. Managers can then take that information and have a real discussion about the difference between what the direct report said was likely to happen and what the targets are. That gap between the two is where the real golden nugget of value exists in delivering a forecast. This changes the conversation from "this is your target, now go get it done" to something like "your targeted number which we captured in the annual budget is different than your newly forecasted number for the same thing…let's discuss this difference and see how/if we can make up the shortfall".
Think of the Titanic and the benefits of an early detection system. Would it have been helpful to identify that fatal iceberg well in advance of its arrival??? Duh. It was later learned that the captain of the Titanic saw the hulking iceberg well before the actual impact but, because of the sheer size of the Titanic and how much open sea was needed for it to veer off course, it was too late to veer away. This is just like your business. If the Titanic knows that it can only change course with at least 500 yards of open sea in front of it then the captain should at least be forecasting and re-forecasting in increments of 500 yards because that's the space it needs to react. Otherwise, we know what can happen. Your business forecasting time horizon and the frequency which you update the forecast, or re-forecast, should be planned similarly.
Other related resources:
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
Implementing Beyond Budgeting by Bjarte Bogsnes
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath
Lastly, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. There's no simple way to go about doing this right. Every company is different with its own politics and culture. The key is to get started with some small wins and build from there. I'd suggest you start in an area of the business that could benefit from a forecast more than others. What department needs the most help? Partner with IT and/or Finance depending on where you sit in the organization and make it happen. Get a quick win and expand. Baby steps.
Tim O'Bryan
Email: tim.
Leveraging IBM OpenPages & Cognos Clarity for Risk Management, Disclosure Management and XBRL
Tim O'Bryan 270001NMX7 email@example.com | | Tags:  businessanalytics openpages clarity ibmcognos | 0 Comments | 1,359 Visits
Leveraging IBM OpenPages & Cognos Clarity for Risk Management, Disclosure Management and XBRL
In yesterday's Financial Performance Insider Webcast, a monthly webcast series brought to you by Business Analytics software at IBM, we delivered business content to our global customer community highlighting important business practice updates about today's ever-evolving regulatory, compliance, financial reporting and risk management landscape and how finance, IT and risk management teams can better prepare and arm themselves for effective stewardship of these market realities. In addition, we touched on how enterprises can leverage IBM solutions, in this case, IBM OpenPages and IBM Cognos Clarity FSR, as part of the Business Analytics software solution suite to enable these practices most effectively. As mentioned, these IBM solutions can help automate and manage these related processes driving value through improved efficiencies and greater transparency to ensure proper regulatory compliance is in tact and enterprise risk is effectively managed and monitored. This ability to deliver integrated solutions across these critical practice areas all in the face of changing business strategies and the evolving external demands on the enterprise is critical to IBM delivering business value in its solutions for its customer community. Peppered throughout the webcast customer success stories were discussed proving the real-world value these solutions deliver for organizations worldwide. In addition, empirical research about the state of enterprise risk management, disclosure management and XBRL were discussed to provide greater context for how critical these processes are and are only going to get more and more complex over time thereby reinforcing the urgency to start building a more robust infrastructure around these vital business processes.
In the webcast, we featured the 3 IBM Product Marketing leaders including IBM's Doug Barton, WW Product Marketing Lead for Financial & Risk Analytics, Dan O'Brien, Product Marketing Director for IBM Clarity Systems, and John Kelly, Product Marketing Director for IBM OpenPages.
There were many valuable nuggets of information to extract from each of their presentations too numerous to mention but to summarize their presentations down to a few topic areas would be that they each highlights that there are certainly traditional challenges facing finance and risk departments in today's business environment only now with emerging complexities becoming more and more demanding on these departments as we look down the road at what's coming. These summarized areas discussed were:
Many of those present on the webcast work in publicly traded organizations and have seen shorten filing deadlines and an ever expanding workload…and yet the "last mile of financial reporting" has largely lacked true, analytic and collaborative technology support.
That was clear. Yet there is hope. Doug mentioned the results from the CFO Executive Board survey at the end of 2010, discussing the changes in finance budgets to reflect these new concerns for finance and risk management teams.
There are certainly many challenges facing finance, IT, and risk management professionals today to address myriad practices on their agendas today. As Doug, Dan and John reinforced throughout the webinar, Business Analytics software at IBM has a solution portfolio through solutions like IBM Clarity FSR and IBM Openpages that can harness, automate and enable effective management of these practices.
What ROI have other IBM Cognos customers gained from using our solutions?
There are many, many IBM customers leveraging IBM OpenPages and IBM Clarity FSR solutions to enable their disclosure management, XBRL and risk management practices, some of which are discussed during this webcast.
A few customer success stories discussed were:
In addition, the presenters drilled deeper into our solutions that address these key processes:
Questions asked during this webinar:
IBM Cognos Clarity (Dan O'Brien)
Hope you enjoyed. Please let me know if there's additional information you need or questions.
Tim O'Bryan/IBM
Email: tim.
Strategy Execution using Scorecards: What's In It For Me???
Tim O'Bryan 270001NMX7 email@example.com | | Tags:  strategyexecution businessanalytics | 0 Comments | 612 Visits
Exercise daily. Star in your own sitcom. Visit the Great Pyramids. Run a marathon. Go hand-gliding. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway. Climb K2. Attend the Winter Olym
Goals. They can be our rudder out in the high seas of life that give us purpose and direction.
For the ones that don't ever get accomplished the reasons vary but for a lot of us the reason for the missed goal is as simple as, "life just gets in the way". We get distracted with other tasks that seemed more pressing - and even more interesting.
One of the perennial goal making exercises we all go through is the New Year's resolution...Do you even recall what your New Year's resolution was this year??? Notice I said was and not is. That was intentional. :) So many things come up over time that these things just get buried until we finally forget them completely. Harmless usually. They're usually fun things we'd like to start or stop doing.
All well and good if these are personal goals but what about your work-related goals? Suddenly, it is much more important that they get accomplished. That's for certain. Even more importantly, how are these work-related goals measured so you and others can track your progress? (Are they even meas
In a time where companies and 'the Street' are so margin conscious in expecting more to be accomplished with less resources, purposeful action by the workforce has never been more important. Ensuring a productive workforce operating efficiently is critical to survive and succeed in today's marketplace.
I've seen many organizations successfully and unsuccessfully deploy this Strategy Execution business practice. When done right, a Strategy Execution Framework can do many performance enhancing things to improve a company's bottom line. This Framework has a foundation built around using a collaboratively defined set of KPIs for each individual employee. In this framework, these KPIs as displayed in a scorecard tool are collectively 'networked' and aligned to the rest of the workforce's scorecards which can all be aggregated together showing a direct causal tie to the company's top-line goals.
Said differently, whatever the top-line strategy is, the contributing components, i.e. sales, marketing, services, finance, product development, etc. including the individuals within those contributing components, have a common framework in place to ensure the organization is marching along to the beat of the same drummer and not playing their own songs as they see fit. Without this framework the company loses valuable horsepower through reduced productivity because the workforce isn't aligned and fully accountable for meeting enterprise strategy-supporting targets. As a result, you'll have employees doing what they think are the right things without any accountability and inherent strategy alignment. Worse, what happens as the enterprise strategy changes? How quickly is your organization able to realign itself to course-correct the direction of the ship so it's headed towards the new target??? What are the consequences if your competitors are adjusting more quickly to these changes?
Well, hopefully the reasons for getting started on this initiative are clear. Still, it's surprising that there are not many companies responding to the need for greater accountability, sharper alignment, and more nimble adaptability of its most important resource, its workforce.
So, what are some tips for getting started with this initiative? Well, there are some clear must-haves when starting a project like this including getting C-level executive spon
Perhaps if we all implemented more personal scorecards for accomplishing our New Year's resolutions we might have a higher success rate at that too but that's for another time.
Hope you enjoyed.
BICC Research Study
Krista Wheatley 270001BXAR email@example.com | | Tags:  bicc | 0 Comments | 542 Visits
We are conducting a BICC research study over the next month. If you have any information you would like to share on BICC org structures or any other best practices and/or would like to be a part of this research study, please drop me a line here.
Some of the preliminary content we will be looking at for the research study include:
I would be happy to hear any feedback/comments on this research study, drop me a line on this thread and I will contact you for more information.
Krista Wheatley/IBM
The chicken and the egg
Forrest Palmer 270001YU2V firstname.lastname@example.com | | Tags:  bicc data_goverance data_quality bi | 0 Comments | 792 Visits
I often get asked about the importance of having your data in excellent shape - accurate, complete, relevant, etc - before you start using BI. The conventional wisdom, usually in IT, is that the data has to be right or the users will not trust it. Of course, that's true - to a point. The success of any reports, dashboards, scorecards or analytics often rests on the quality and trust people have in the data they see through that BI content. But the reality is that the data is never perfect. The "single version of the truth" (something I question as a goal but that's another day) is a journey that will never be reached 100%. So waiting until the data is completely trustworthy before rolling out BI is a folly that, in fact, will slow down the realization and need for data quality to be addressed where it needs to be addressed - in the business.
The truth is that data quality is often improved because of BI. While the first reaction might be to "blame the messenger" - the reports or tools that were used - the reality is that exposing data quality issues and discussing how to address them is essential to establishing the sense of ownership in the business and the subsequent need for governance programs that will continually improve the quality over time.
To be clear, we cannot build BI on top of truly bad data and expect that to be acceptable. Our data warehouses and data marts must meet a sufficient level of quality to make the use of that data valuable and meaningful. But don't let the quest for "the best" prevent us from starting our journey towards "the better".
Which means we need to move to both a information governance mandate and a BI governance (e.g. BICC) mandate that work in concert and alignment with each other. And that means that our information management strategy and our BI strategy have to be viewed together. Each depends on the other.
And yet too often companies are more focused on one or the other. Some companies start headlong into a BI strategy without any real consideration of the information management strategy that goes with it. The result is a truly failed BI initiative that will struggle to regain credibility. And there are probably just as many companies who invest a tremendous effort on data warehouse design and development, MDM, and data governance with little attention to how the business can effectively use all that data with BI.
So which comes first - the need for information governance and information strategy or the need for BI governance and BI strategy? Chicken or egg?
A Community of Excellence
Tracy Harris 2700026WJ9 firstname.lastname@example.com | | Tags:  community competency business excellence of center intelligence | 0 Comments | 890 Visits
Organizational design around business intelligence and business analytics has been evolving over the last few years. We have seen many different types of formations and naming conventions around the business intelligence competency center (BICC), the Business Analytics Center of Practice, the Center of Excellence. They may be virtual or structured. They may report to the CIO, CFO, the CEO or a line of business. However, in a recent survey by the Business Applications Research Center, it has been found that organizations who have this formation in their organization outperform in every area that was measured.
And, regardless of the exact details of how it is configured, it appears that the most successful design is when there is both a shared service center and a larger community of stakeholders that keep in regular communication. Perhaps is it a Business Analytics Community of Excellence? We would love to share thoughts, organizational design ideas and best practices in this area. How is your organization currently structured for success?


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Real Housewives' Brandi Glanville Weighs In On Amanda Bynes's Troubles
Should Brandi Glanville be bracing herself to be called "ugly" by Amanda Bynes any day now on Twitter?
Brandi has dealt with a fair amount of controversy as a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, but it's practically nothing compared to what the troubled What I Like About You star has experienced lately. So how does Brandi feel about the Amanda saga?
On May 27, Brandi commented on someone else's tweet about how people shouldn't be encouraging Amanda's behavior. Brandi wrote:
@ferozan so not ok!— Brandi Glanville (@BrandiGlanville) May 27, 2013
Apparently, Brandi seems worried that Amanda is either dealing with mental issues or drug problems, even though Amanda has maintained that isn't the case.
Amanda's troubles became more real last week after she was arrested for allegedly throwing a bong out of her third-story NYC window. She claims that she actually threw a vase — although why she would throw a glass vase out of a third-story window doesn't make sense either.
This is in addition to what has seemed to be an endless stream of bizarre behavior by Amanda, including Twitter rants, threats to sue her parents, and a much different physical appearance than we're used to.
Amanda's go-to move once a fellow celeb says anything remotely negative about her on Twitter is to then call that person "ugly," as Courtney Love learned earlier this week.
So will Brandi soon face Amanda's wrath as well? Somehow, we have a feeling Brandi will be able to handle herself.
Source: Twitter


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What a Shocker! Unions Are Behind Scaring Californians From Signing Ballot Petitions
[This is an update to Friday's post.] On Friday, attention was drawn to a radio ad and new website that popped up by a group calling itself "Californians Against Identity Theft." While its backers were not immediately identified (nothing on the website indicates who is behind the site), it didn't take long to discover that, lo and behold, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of | Read More »


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Interesting article on CNN about tithing in which evangelical leaders say the Bible does not requires a church member to tithe. Tithing has always been one of those lightning rod issues that people have a core belief about but when faced with difficult financial times they sometimes abandon church rather than face the perceived shame of not being able to ... Read More »
More Supernatural Debt Reduction With Todd Coontz of Rockwealth Ministries
Every since I wrote about Peter Popoff and his supernatural debt elimination prayer some of the television evangelists have hit my radar. Todd Coontz of Rockwealth Ministries was pitching essentially a donation for business success / debt elimination approach. What caught my ear was his use of "God supernaturally gave him the money." It sounded like a line straight out ... Read More »
Debt & Religion: A Look at the Islamic View of Debt With Imam Asal
I was curious about how different religions viewed or interpreted debt so I embarked on a mission of finding religious leaders from different faiths and asking them to share with us their point of view so we could learn more. Life does not exist in a vacuum, especially a religious vacuum. And if there are major religious differences what does ... Read More »
Elderly Investors Scammed by "Man of God" Fraud
Photo Credit: Tiziano Caviglia Nigerian Citizen and Texas Resident, Samuel LeMaire, was recently sued by the SEC for alleged religious affinity fraud against elderly investors. The lawsuit filed June 7, 2010 by the SEC claims LeMaire presented himself as a "man of God" who intended to start a charitable foundation to help needy Nigerian children to investors by proposing ... Read More »
Couple Scams Nuns for $800,000 and Spends it Gambling
A Chicago man who along with his wife scammed more than $1 million from monasteries and religious groups was sentenced Friday to 39 months in federal prison. Edward Bosire, 40, and his wife, Angela Martin-Mulu, 36, posed as siblings who had fled political oppression in Africa, were in the United States illegally, and needed money for medical bills and other ... Read More »
Your God Loves Debtors
So many people tell me about how ashamed they feel about their financial problems. They feel like losers, cheats or just bad people for not being able to honor their repayment promises. It is truly unfortunate that people find themselves in money trouble with debt casting a huge black shadow over their life as far as they can see. But ... Read More »
Should I Tithe While Getting Out of Debt?
She and her husband are working diligently to get out of debt . They want to direct as much money as possible to digging out of their hole, but at this point they are also trying to keep their heads above water. I am not an authority [. ... Read More »


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Hi to all of you guys out there, just a quick G'day from me here in Wangaratta, Victoria Australia.
Im not going to write a book here but here goes.
Wangaratta (Wang for short! haha) is a country town (they call it a rural city which I rekon is a bit of an oxy moron!) I work in one of 3 shops in town as workshop manager as well as owning and riding a vast collection of stuff including a couple of single speed bikes. I dont ride much road for fear if being killed by a country kid driving dads car so its all dirt for me. We go crosscountry locally and a bit of chairlift action up in the ski resorts. Im on here to mainly ask questions about jobs in the shop that I may be stuck on, but Im also happy to share my knowledge so I'll answer as much as I can.
Cheers for now