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Laura H. Wright, Former Senior Vice President Of Finance And CFO Of Southwest Airlines, Joins CMS Energy And Consumers Energy Boards Of Directors
JACKSON, Mich., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Laura H. Wright, former senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of Southwest Airlines, has been elected, effective February 18, 2013, to CMS Energy's Board of Directors. Wright also is joining the Board of Directors of Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy.
Wright will serve on the Audit Committee and Finance Committee for both Boards.
Wright retired from Southwest Airlines in 2012 after serving as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer since 2004. During her 25-year career with the company, she also served as vice president of finance and treasurer and held several other financial positions.
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Tigers sneak home with late field goal against Sharks
THE Wests Tigers have defeated the Cronulla Sharks 29-28 at Toyota Park in another late season thriller.
North Sydney Bears & Crows Nest Fire Station Combined Centenary Event
IN the lead up to Rugby League
Tigers lose Farah for Sharks showdown
WESTS Tigers Coach Tim Sheens has named his team to play Cronulla Sharks at Toyota Park on Saturday, August 18, at 5.30pm, in round 23 of the Telstra Premiership.
Chooks beat Tigers in golden point thriller
THE Sydney Rooster
Tigers name outfit to tackle Roosters
WESTS Tigers Coach Tim Sheens has named his team to play the Sydney Roosters at Telstra Stadium on Friday, August 10, at 7.30pm, in round 22 of the Telstra Premiership.
Rooster Fitzgibbon not named for Tigers hit-out
ROOSTERS captain Craig Fitzgibbon has been ruled out of this Friday night
Titans roll Tigers in the twilight
THE Gold Coast Titans have tonight broken their big losing streak with a less-than-convincing victory over the Wests Tigers 30-14 tonight at Gold Coast Stadium.
Jets lose match but win trophy!
RESULT of Balmain v Newtown match
Wests Tigers lineup for clash with Titans
WESTS Tigers coach Tim Sheens has named his side for their clash with the Gold Coast this Saturday evening at Carrara Stadium.
Cowboys corralled as Tigers roar into Top 8
THE North Queensland Cowboys have all but run out of lives as their chances of making the NRL finals begin to fade, after a 54-10 thrashing at the hands of the Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval.
Cowboys name lineup for Monday night football
NORTH Queensland Cowboys coach Graham Murray has announced his lineup for the Round 20 Monday Night Football clash, against the Wests Tigers, kicking off 7:00pm at Leichhardt Oval.
Wests Tigers welcome back Benji and Hodgson
THE Wests Tigers are pleased to welcome back captain Brett Hodgson and half Benji Marshall to face the North Queensland Cowboys in Monday Night Football, to be played at the historic Leichhardt Oval.
McKinnon sent off as Warriors defeat Tigers
NEW Zealand has defeated Wests Tigers by 28-16 at Campbelltown Oval this afternoon.
Wests Tigers v Warriors match lineups
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SynopsisKenneth Noland's art can be categorized as Color Field painting, or as part of Clement Greenberg's "Post-Painterly Abstraction" movement, but Noland's body of work demonstrates so much more. After studying under the likes of Bolotowsky and Albers, and working alongside fellow second-generation abstractionists like Frankenthaler and Louis, Noland created several signature styles of abstract imagery. These styles were comprised of targets, chevrons, striped patterns and shaped canvases. Noland's paintings are characterized by reduced, minimalist and strikingly simple compositions of line and color. In this regard, Noland's art has influenced a wide range of contemporary abstractionists who continue to experiment with ultra-simplified forms in order to tap into basic human emotions.
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ChildhoodKenneth Noland was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. His father was what Noland later described as a "Sunday painter," an amateur artist who painted in his spare time. Having access to brushes, paints and canvas, Noland played and experimented with these materials as a young boy, which instilled in him a love of painting and the visual arts.
After graduating high school in 1942, Noland enlisted in the U.S. Air Force following the United States' entry into World War II. He returned from his military service nearly four years later. In 1946, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill by enrolling at Black Mountain College, which was conveniently located approximately 20 miles from Noland's childhood home. The highly experimental Black Mountain College was important to many young artists at this time because of its interdisciplinary approach to art education. Its faculty insisted that every student receive a comprehensive education in everything from dance and choreography to sculpture and easel painting.
Early TrainingAt Black Mountain, Professor Ilya Bolotowsky introduced Noland to the neo-plastics and geometric abstraction of Piet Mondrian, while Bauhaus artist Josef Albers introduced him to the work of Paul Klee. Noland paid very close attention to Klee's subtle nuances of color combined with bold contrasts of positive and negative space, which eventually informed his own art. In later years Noland credited Albers above all his other former instructors as the most influential, particularly with regards to his teachings on the interaction of color.
In 1948, after two years at Black Mountain, Noland traveled to Paris and studied under the Cubist Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Noland would eventually rebel against Zadkine's teachings, opting for ultra-simplified color and form rather than a Cubist's preference for painting contrasts of light and shadow.
After a year in Paris, Noland returned to the U.S. and began his teaching career. He first taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C. from1949-1951, followed by a much longer tenure at Catholic University (also in D.C.) from 1951-1960. He also taught at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts from 1952-1956.
While living in D.C., Noland met and befriended fellow painter Morris Louis. At this time both men were painting in the Abstract Expressionist style, although neither Noland nor Louis were considered members of the so-called first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists.
Although the exact date is not known, some time during 1952 or '53, critic Clement Greenberg escorted Noland and Louis to the New York studio of Helen Frankenthaler (with whom Greenberg was romantically involved) to view her recently completed Mountains and Sea (1952). Frankenthaler used a unique painting technique of pouring oils onto unprimed canvas, allowing the paints to soak in rather than just dry on the surface. Viewing Mountains and Sea color-field painting technique marked a major turning point in Noland's career as a artist. Following this studio visit, Noland decided to abandon any tendencies to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style and began work on a set of color-field paintings for which he would become best known: the Targets.
TargetsKenneth Noland's Target paintings, alternatively called Circles, were undoubtedly his breakthrough works. In 1958 he began applying a variety of color to a basic circle template positioned on a square canvas, often creating a burst of concentric circles rendered in complementary colors, which contrasted well against the square support.
Another interesting feature of Noland's early Targets, painted between 1958 and 1960, was the presence of a smeared, almost jagged outer edge that framed the inner circles, suggesting a final burst of seemingly infinite color, stretching outward into the cosmos.
As the 1960s commenced, Noland's use of color grew increasingly bold and ambitious. In his earlier, less refined Target paintings, heavier color forms were situated against a white or off-white backdrop. By 1962 Noland began to experiment with colored backdrops and cleaner dividing lines between each circle. He also began making the innermost point of his circles the visual focal point rather than the outer layers.
ChevronsBy 1963, Noland had concluded that his 'circles in a square' format was exhausted and it was time for something new. Noland wanted to continue to experiment with colors and their interactions with one another, but he needed a different format with which to work. The Chevron series was his next phase as an artist, growing increasingly simple and minimalist with his abstract imagery.
In 1964 Clement Greenberg was curating an exhibit of new art at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. This show was Greenberg's personal attempt at formally categorizing post-Abstract Expressionist art forms. In addition to Noland, Greenberg selected works by Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Jack Bush, Frank Stella, Morris Louis, with various others, dubbing this new stage in fine abstract art "Post-Painterly Abstraction."
Later that same year, Noland was selected to participate in a show entitled Four Germinal Painters at the U.S. Pavilion of the 32nd Venice Biennale. Many of Noland's Targets and Chevrons sat alongside paintings by Louis, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
StripesIn the late 1960s, Noland's approach to Color Field painting grew even simpler, but no less bold. Having exhausted the possibilities and permutations of both the target and chevron format for the time being, Noland settled on a rectangular canvas support and began covering the entire canvas with horizontal bands of color.
Of the three major stylistic phases in Noland's early career, his Stripes paintings are perhaps the most daring in their stark simplicity. In earlier phases, he tended to juxtapose color bands of equal width, incorporate some form of symmetry on the canvas, leaving portions of unprimed canvas blank as a stark contrast to the color. None of these features are found with most of Noland's Stripe paintings. Instead, Noland began playing with scale and color as form on new levels. He reduced his compositions to a basic formula: horizontal lines of color interacting with each other, often without regard for pattern or uniformity.
Later YearsIn 1977, Noland was honored with his very first retrospective exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The exhibit subsequently traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., which today houses one of the more impressive permanent collections of Noland's paintings anywhere in the world.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Noland made a brief return to chevrons, experimented with color compositions in the form of plaids, and perhaps most importantly, produced several shaped canvases. He also made a brief return to teaching, and in 1985 took an appointment as the Milton Avery Professor of the Arts at Bard College.
In 1999, Noland began work on his Mysteries series of paintings, which was in many respects a return to his beginnings as a formalist abstractionist in the late 1950s. Using acrylics on both paper and unprimed canvas, he was once again creating symmetrical targets on square supports. These paintings were for Noland a return to his roots as well as symbolic gestures. His new Targets, much like the older ones, were as visually bold as they were contextually meaningless, however, he wanted to reaffirm their relevancy as the new millennium approached.
LegacyKenneth Noland's legacy is that of an artist who took Abstract Expressionism - a movement renowned for its simplicity - and simplified it further. Combining the geometric abstraction of Mondrian and the color interactions of Albers with the spiritual ambiguity of Rothko and Newman, Noland has created abstractions comprised of pure forms, wherein any meaning or context is left entirely to the viewer's discretion. His intention as a painter has been to use the simplest of colors, shapes and lines to create movement on the canvas, to the point where they are living, albeit very basic, primitive life forms.
Below are Kenneth Noland's major influences, and the people and ideas that he influenced in turn.
Paul Klee
Ossip Zadkine
Piet Mondrian
Ilya Bolotowsky
Josef Albers
Barnett Newman
Clement Greenberg
Morris Louis
Helen Frankenthaler
David Smith
Abstract Expressionism
Years Worked: 1953 - present
Frank Stella
Ellsworth Kelly
Jules Olitski
Robert Irwin
Morris Louis
Helen Frankenthaler
Donald Judd
Michael Fried
Washington Color School
Formalist Abstraction
Hard-edge Painting
Color Field Painting
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"As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early '30s, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us."
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Written about NolandKenneth Noland: The Nature Of Color
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (20th Century Artists)
PaintingsKenneth Noland: Paintings 1958-1989
Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective : The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Kenneth Noland: Themes and variations, 1958-2000
Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings 1956-1963
Kenneth Noland: Monotypes, Barcelona 1984
ART REVIEW; No Message, No Story: The Color's About Color
By Grace Glueck
September 6, 2002
The New York Times
Kenneth Noland: Circles
By Daniel Kunitz
New Criterion
February, 2001
Kenneth Noland at Ameringer/Howard - Acrylic Painting
By Jonathan Goodman
May, 2001
Art in America
The Power of 'Cool'
By Ken Greenleaf
May 18, 2009
The Boston Phoenix
Websites about Artist
Appreciating Noland
By Terry Fenton
|Clement Greenberg was one the leading American art critics during the 20th century. Best known as the ideological counterpart to Harold Rosenberg, Greenberg was a formalist who coined the terms "American-type painting" and 'Post-painterly abstraction.' He was a staunch champion of pure abstraction, including the work of Pollock, Still and Hofmann.
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|Jasper Johns is an American artist who rose to prominence in the late 1950s for his multi-media constructions, dubbed by critics as Neo-Dada. Johns' work, including his world-famous targets and American flags series, were important predecessors to Pop art.
ArtStory: Jasper Johns Page
|Robert Rauschenberg, a key figure in early Pop Art, admired the textural quality of Abstract Expressionism but scorned its emotional pathos. His famous "Combines" are part sculpture, part painting, and part installation.
ArtStory: Robert Rauschenberg Page
|A tendency among New York painters of the late 1940s and 1950s, all of whom were committed to an expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes. The movement embraces the gestural abstraction of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and the color field painting of Mark Rothko and others. It blended elements of Surrealism and abstract art in an effort to create a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma.
ArtStory: Abstract Expressionism Page
|The Swiss-born painter Paul Klee worked in a variety of styles, including expressionism, geometric abstraction, and collage. His most famous works have a mystical quality and make use of linear and pictorial symbols.
ArtStory: Paul Klee Page
|Ossip Zadkine was a Russian painter and sculptor. After studying art in London, Zadkine moved to Paris in 1910 and became involved in the Cubism movement with the likes of Picasso and Braque.
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|Piet Mondrian, a founding member of the De Stijl movement, was a Dutch modern artist who used grids, perpendicular lines, and the three primary colors in what he deemed "Neoplastic" painting.
ArtStory: Piet Mondrian Page
|Ilya Bolotowsky was a Russian-born American artist and long-time instructor at Black Mountain College. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1923, he became a member of "The Ten," along with artists Rothko and Gottlieb, and later on was a founding member of The American Abstract Artists. His work contributed greatly to the styles of Neo-Plasticism and Geometric Abstraction.
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|Josef Albers was a German-born American painter and teacher. Celebrated as a geometric abstractionist and influential instructor at Black Mountain College, Albers directly influenced such artists as Rauschenberg, Twombly and Ray Johnson.
ArtStory: Josef Albers Page
|Barnett Newman was an Abstract Expressonist painter in New York who painted large-scale fields of solid color, interrupted by vertical lines or "zips." His sometimes narrow or boxy canvases, part painting and part sculpture, were influential for Minimalism.
ArtStory: Barnett Newman Page
|Morris Louis was an American painter and an original member of the so-called Washington Color School. Along with Noland, Frankenthaler and others, Louis pioneered the color-field school of painting, using a technique of soaking heavy oil paints into unprimed canvases. Louis's paintings in part inspired his friend Clement Greenberg to dub the second-generation Abstract Expressionism artists Post-painterly abstraction.
ArtStory: Morris Louis Page
|Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract painter in mid-20th-century New York. Along with Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, Frankenthaler is considered a pioneer in the practice of color-field painting.
ArtStory: Helen Frankenthaler Page
|David Smith was an American artist who combined Surrealism and formal abstraction in his sculptures. His early works, small and with a craft-like aesthetic, give way later on to giant constructions of welded and burnished steel.
ArtStory: David Smith Page
|Suprematism, the invention of Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was one of the earliest and most radical developments in abstract art. Inspired by a desire to experiment with the language of abstract form, and to isolate art's barest essentials, its artists produced austere abstractions that seemed almost mystical. It was an important influence on Constructivism.
ArtStory: Suprematism Page
|Bauhaus is a style associated with the Bauhaus school, an extremely influential art and design school in Weimar Germany that emphasized functionality and efficiency of design. Its famous faculty - including Joseph Albers and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - generally rejected distinctions between the fine and applied arts, and encouraged major advances in industrial design.
ArtStory: Bauhaus Page
|Neo-Plasticism was the guiding philosophy behind the art of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and many of his peers in the De Stijl circle. Articulated by Mondrian in 1917-18, the approach stipulates the strict use of only horizontal and vertical lines; the primary colors red, yellow, and blue; and white, gray, and black.
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|Frank Stella is an American artist whose geometric paintings and shaped canvases underscore the idea of the painting as object. A major influence on Minimalism, his iconic works include nested black and white stripes and concentric, angular half-circles in bright colors.
ArtStory: Frank Stella Page
|Ellsworth Kelly is an American color-field and hard-edge painter. Kelly got his start in the late-1950s with showings at the Betty Parsons Gallery and the Whitney Museum. His work often consists of shaped canvases, simple geometric shapes, and large panels of uniform color.
ArtStory: Ellsworth Kelly Page
|Jules Olitski was a Russian-born American painter and key figure in the mid-century movements of color-field painting and Post-painterly abstraction. Olitski is most famous for his innovation of painting using multiple spray guns, applied to unprimed and unstretched canvases.
ArtStory: Jules Olitski Page
|Robert Irwin is an American painter, sculptor, landscape architect and installation artist. Coming of age during the Abstract Expressionist years in New York, Irwin remained in his native Los Angeles and devoted himself to creating largely experiential art, such as the Central Garden at Los Angeles' Getty Center.
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|Donald Judd was an early and influential Minimalist artist who made large-scale geometric objects, often of industrial materials and serially arranged on the floor or wall. He helped found the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, where many key works of Minimalism are installed.
ArtStory: Donald Judd Page
|Michael Fried is an American art critic and historian who gained acclaim for his ideas on "theatricality" in art. Fried applied this idea to the artistic style Minimalism, which he believed negatively blurred the boundaries between natural art forms and non-art objects.
ArtStory: Michael Fried Page
|The Washington Color School refers to a group of Color-field painters who exhibited together at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1965. Their work is marked by the presence of color areas and washes, geometric designs, and even surfaces.
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|Formalist Abstraction was a loosely-defined submovement of Abstract Expressionism and Post-painterly abstraction. Championed by critic Clement Greenberg, the formalist abstractionists tended to work in the pure medium of oils and canvas, and employed very basic formal elements in their paintings, constructing abstract imagery out of simple shapes, lines and archetypal symbols.
ArtStory: Formalist Abstraction Page
|Hard-edge painting, emerging in the 1950s and 60s, departs from the gesture and scrawl of Abstract Expressionism to favor blocks of color with well-defined edges.
ArtStory: Hard-edge Painting Page
|A tendency within Abstract Expressionism, distinct from gestural abstraction, color field painting was developed by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still in the late 1940s, and developed further by Helen Frankenthaler and others. It is characterized by large fields of color and an absence of any figurative motifs, and often expresses a yearning for transcendence and the infinite.
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The Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Limited (APCOB) invites applications for the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
APCOB Recruitment Notification of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – 2010
The Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Limited (APCOB) is a Scheduled State Partnered Bank and is a Premiere Cooperative Banking Institution in the State of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, catering, among others, to the agricultural credit needs of the farmer-members of 2,738 Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) through the 22 District Cooperative Central Banks (DCCBs) and their 569 branches.
Post Name: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Age: Shall not be above 55 years of age as on 01.04.2009.
Educational Qualifications:
Shall have minimum educational qualification in any of the following fields:
(i) A Graduate with CAIIB/DBF/Diploma in Cooperative Business Management/ DCRS/HDC/HDCM or equivalent qualification
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Work Experience: Shall have at least 8 years work experience at the middle/senior level in the Banking Sector.
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bananaLine breaks: ba¦nana
Pronunciation: /bəˈnɑːnə /
Definition of banana in English:
1A long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe: a bunch of bananas
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- Towers started a fruit farm, growing bananas and avocados.
- Her eyes widened when she saw the bright orange pumpkins, the ripe yellow bananas, silks with colors that she had never before seen.
- Farmers grow corn, cassava, peanuts, bananas, and citrus fruits for their own consumption.
2 (also banana plant or banana tree) The tropical and subtropical palm-like plant which bears bananas, having very large leaves but lacking a woody trunk.
- Genus Musa, family Musaceae: several species, in particular M. sapientum
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- Here, people cultivate the ensete plant, which looks like a banana tree, but its trunk pulp is prepared and eaten.
- I heard of one gardener in North Carolina who protected his banana plant in his front yard by surrounding the plant with bags and bags of leaves.
- Vivienne's smile turned wistful and she turned to snap a picture of sunlight filtering through the leaves of a banana tree.
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- A Burnley headteacher has gone bananas and accused the Government of letting down needy children by leaving them out of a scheme to provide pupils with free fruit.
- 1.1Become extremely angry or excited: she went bananas when I said I was going to leave the jobMore example sentences
- Sections of the farming community are going bananas about quarantine today.
- I never really got close to executing the plan because the market was pretty much going bananas over the low mortgage rates.
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- informal The most (or second most) important person in an organization: a top banana of the MafiaMore example sentences
- Gira's originals play second banana, occupying the record's back third.
- This longtime second banana is finally a leader for the improving Thrashers.
- They are the stars, and they're going to talk with SHOWBIZ TONIGHT about their breakout roles and what it's like to play second banana to a great ape.
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FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrow Uniform has selected Columbus, an international consultancy and industry software developer, as their partner to implement Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
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The goal of business analytics (BA) is to help organizations make better decisions. Whether management wants to know the next thousand customers the organization is likely to lose, or what location makes the most sense for setting up a new distribution center, business analytics can provide actual answers to complex questions, as well as a path to improved performance.
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A pilot program is often the most manageable first step on an analytics journey. Effective pilots share several characteristics, including minimal initial technology and infrastructure investment, simplicity in the approach and involvement by a business owner who "gets it." Because a pilot program is a highly visible initiative, other parts of the organization will watch to see if the benefits were worth the effort. So it's critical to have the proper focus from the start.
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• be important enough to matter, but focused enough to manage;
• have goals that are achievable without the need for new infrastructure or large technology investments;
• be simple in approach and refined in scope to prevent disruption to the business before, during or after the pilot;
• have support from a business owner with a vision for how improved hindsight, insight and foresight can improve decision-making and operations within that function; and
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Once these critical requirements are met, it is time to explore the functional areas and project types that make good candidates for a BA pilot, such as customer analytics, supply chain management, finance, human resources and risk assessment.
A customer analytics pilot can offer tangible benefits quickly. For example, a large, national investment bank gained rapid results from its customer analytics pilot program. Looking to enhance its customer segmentation capabilities, the bank undertook an effort to reclassify customers into segments that had the greatest potential for growth. The project team segmented customers by brand fit, revenue potential, potential growth rate, current accessibility and market fit.
As a result of the pilot, the bank was able to identify and target a new customer base and focus its marketing efforts on previously untapped segments. The new segments were single female investors older than 35, risk-averse immigrants and middle-income customers that were atypically risk-inclined.
Forming an Effective Team
A successful BA pilot leverages the skills of people in the appropriate areas and takes advantage of talents that may not be evident in an individual's current role within the company. For example, a business may identify people who are passionate statisticians and analytical by nature, giving them an opportunity to participate in the pilot program. This approach builds analytics champions and makes efficient use of existing resources without hiring from outside. These individuals can then take the good news of analytics to their functional areas.
Here are other roles critical to a pilot program's success:
• The executive champion is a senior-level executive who can establish the vision, demonstrate the value to other senior-level staff, analyze and measure results, and celebrate the benefits.
• The business liaison can translate what is happening at an analytical level into the language of business value.
• Analytics professionals are skilled architects, developers and visualization resources who work as troops "on the ground."
• Business partners are external resources experienced in the business, process or technology aspects of analytics; they may be willing to put some skin in the game.
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Launching the Pilot
A successful pilot achieves a balance between being narrow enough to manage and broad enough to demonstrate real business benefits quickly. One key to launching a pilot you can build on is to include the basic visualization components, so that future efforts can leverage the pilot's underlying structure.
While the pilot has a defined start and end point, the goal is to deliver enough value to create a foundation for future initiatives. The life span of a BA pilot is usually three to four months and includes the following phases:
Gaining Consensus: Before embarking on the pilot, get buy-in from the functional area or business units involved. Communicate, listen and respond to questions and concerns.
Pilot Planning: Define a very specific hypotheses, objective and business problem for the pilot to address.
Resource Planning: Involve internal resources as much as possible, so that the pilot is viewed as a "family affair." If you don't possess the experience in-house, look externally for help.
Training: The pilot should focus on training the staff involved. However, for future phases, everyone in the business should be trained on the basics of analytics.
Infrastructure Assessment: Pilots should leverage your existing infrastructure and systems whenever possible. The goal is to build a more aware and nimble organization.
Kickoff: Make sure the parameters, scope and time frame of the pilot is communicated ahead of kickoff and that schedules are adhered to throughout.
Testing/Validation: Test, validate, document and publicize insights internally.
Measuring and Communicating Results: Measure results—savings, efficiency gains, risk mitigation, etc.—and communicate benefits companywide.
Measuring Success
An analytics pilot—focused on a specific functional area and staffed with a team of enthusiastic people who have well-defined roles—lets organizations test-drive analytics before investing for the long term. But to pave the road forward, it is important to establish metrics for success up front.
At the highest level, the pilot should align with the organization's strategic objectives, addressing a well-defined and specific issue that is readily measurable and meaningful to executives. For example, it may demonstrate how a value-based pricing strategy can benefit customers and the business.
If the pilot shows sufficient results, it can gain momentum and can be expanded to become an enterprise solution and a valuable corporate asset.
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Nikki Finke is so bitchy and HILARIOUS! Reading her account of the Oscars makes up for those three hours you just wasted. She makes Maureen Dowd read like Mother Theresa.
I don't keep up with the entertainment gossip and mags, so most of this is over my head. Just as most of Billy Crystal's jokes were so insiderish they were over my head. Hollywood really doesn't want normal Americans watching this show. We should honor their wishes.
Speaking of Billy Crystal, I kept wondering what in the world has happened to him. He doesn't look like Billy Crystal. He looks like a bank robber with a plastic mask over his face. Nikki Finke explained it for me. Apparently he is a "product placement" for Botox.
Nikki Finke must be a conservative, by the way, with her scathing comments about Hollywood and her political references.
My biggest disappointment was that Berenice Bejo did not get Best Supporting Actress for "The Artist." She illuminated the screen from the moment she first appeared, and effortlessly demonstrated why the 20s were such fun. But she didn't have a chance. I'm sure that the black actress from "The Help," Octavia Spencer, was very good (didn't see it), but Hollywood is nothing if not dependable. Berenice can't salve the consciences of all those aging white Hollywood libs. She's just too, too, too white.
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Age of Aztec (Pantheon #4) by James Lovegrove
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Age of Aztec is the fourth book in James Lovegrove's Pantheon series, and it establishes him more firmly as the founder of a subgenre coming to be known as "godpunk." It tells the story of a modern society under the heel of the Aztec empire and the Batman-style vigilante who opposes it.
Setting-driven fantasy
Having now read all four books so far in the Pantheon series, it has become very clear to me just how significant Lovegrove's choice of theme is to each book. In Age of Aztec, we see a world that has been completely co-opted by the Aztec Empire. Jungle covers virtually all of the world, and the impact of the religious dominance of The Great Speaker, the putatively immortal leader of the empire, is felt in every aspect of the world detail.
This is both the greatest strength and greatest weakness of this book. It is the strength because the best kind of alternate history fiction is the kind that goes whole hog into the premise, spending less time trying to patiently explain to us exactly what is different about this world versus the one we know and more time just telling a great story. This is the thing that makes Harry Turtledove one of the best alternate history authors around, and what puts James Lovegrove well and soundly into the same league. It is simply accepted that this is a world where the Aztec Empire has always and probably will always dominate the Earth, and we're allowed to figure out the consequences for ourselves and just enjoy the story.
It is also the weakness because without this setting, each novel of the Pantheon series is pretty much the same. What is an ancient, dead religion in reality is instead the dominant religion of the book's world, and some person or persons who oppose the oppressive nature of the regime rise up to try and stop it. While this does make the overall plot arc of the books quite similar, Lovegrove has thus far managed to keep the choices interesting enough and set the mood of the world under each religion distinctly enough that it hasn't yet fallen victim to the Dan Brown syndrome of "I wrote the same book four times." The pressure is on Lovegrove, if he continues with this theme, to keep ensuring the differences are significant enough to interest his readers in spite of the similarities.
A pretty dim view of old religions
While it's pretty easy to accept the idea that a religion built around human sacrifice would seem savage by modern, "enlightened" standards, I do feel sometimes that Lovegrove, in his zeal to show us the horrors of some ancient religions, is really doing them a disservice. After all, most religions practiced today have had some pretty dark and bloody scenes in their histories; but humanity has developed, evolved, and a lot (though sadly, not nearly enough) of the atrocities are behind us. In Age of Aztec, however, we're still working in 2012 with the version of the Aztec faith that we understood during the Age of Discovery, which ends up ringing a little false. We've seen throughout history that humanity will only stand for so much abuse and repression before they rise up, regardless of the cost.
This seems to be an overriding theme of the series, as well. The idea that it is the expression of freedom and the right to choose one's own course that result in the downfall of these regimes is a compelling one, but it does strain credulity that it takes until the present time or even near future before anybody decides they've had enough.
Let's see some GUTS
I'll tell you what I think every time I read one of these books: Lovegrove is taking the easy way out. He has built his books around the Norse, Egyptian, Greek, and now Aztec religions, presented them in all their horrible glory, then set them up for a downfall. One of the reviewer comments printed on this copy of Age of Aztec defines this new godpunk subgenre as "Rebellious underdog humans battling an outmoded belief system . . . the real weapon is free will" (Pornokitsch, on The Age of Odin).
You know what I would like to see? Age of Jesus. Age of Mohammed. Age of Siddhartha. If you want to set yourself up as a critic of religion (intentionally or not), and of the negative impacts that religion can have on the lives of those subjected to it, let's tackle one that is still practiced. There are plenty of aspects of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism that could provide a focus for these books. I would be fascinated to see Lovegrove's take on one of the big five modern religions viewed under this same critical lens.
Why should you read this book?
It occurs to me that I went pretty overboard on the social significance of Lovegrove's subject matter and didn't really talk much about the actual book itself as a story and piece of writing. Those who fancy themselves deeper thinkers in their fantasy should take it as a great recommendation that someone billed as The Ranting Dragon's "resident philosopher" found a lot to think and talk about with this book.
But even if you don't—if the idea of thought-provoking writing about the nature of man and religion doesn't do it for you—this is still a great book. As action fantasy, Lovegrove does an admirable job as well. The action is tight, the characters are interesting, and the plot moves at a great pace; the philosophical aspect is just icing on the cake.
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"I was in my stand when this monster buck appeared with two does," he said. "They were about 150 yards distant. It was the first time I'd ever seen such a buck. Even though the deer were too far away, I got ready ... just in case.
"But then, all of a sudden, they all took off running," he continued.
"When I looked around to see what had spooked them, there was my Grandma Dorothy, walking in the woods, picking up kindling for her fireplace.
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Jeremy went out the next day and arrowed a nice fat doe.
For the rest of the month and into November, Jeremy scouted and hunted. He never saw the buck of his dreams; never got a trail camera photo of it. But he did discover several new rubs along a trail and moved his stand near them in preparation for the gun season.
Spending opening day inside the house was frustrating, but at least the rain stopped that night.
"We were up early Sunday, and Dad walked me part of the way to my stand just to make sure I could get there. I was having a lot of trouble with my legs and knees then," Jeremy said. "Dad watched me get into my stand, and then he went to his own."
The sun came up early to a bright blue sky, and the wind was good for where Jeremy sat waiting. He was anxious for a chance at the monster buck. And he didn't have to wait long.
"About 7:30, I saw two does come out of the cedars. The big buck was behind them. They were all about 150 yards away - too far for my 20-gauge Remington 870, but I got ready anyway," said Jeremy.
"They came toward me slowly for about three or four minutes, and then all three went into another cedar thicket about 130 yards out. Everything got quiet again, and I didn't see anything moving. After several minutes, I heard what sounded like a bulldozer coming through the woods," he added.
"Suddenly, the buck came out of the cedars alone about 50 yards to my left and was moving pretty fast to the right, crossing right in front of me. I raised my gun and got him in the open sights."
The first slug struck the buck behind the shoulder, but Jeremy wasn't going to stop with two more shells in his pump. The second shot was high and farther back. The third clipped the spine and dropped the deer.
Jeremy sat there for a while, looking at the buck lying just 50 yards away. When he was sure it wasn't going to get up, he radioed his father,
"I called my dad on the radio and told him I shot the monster buck and needed help. Then I got out my cell phone and called my dad's friend, Mike Drouge, to see if he could come, too," Jeremy said.
When Jeremy's dad, John, and Mike arrived, they were shocked at the size of the deer. Points were literally sticking out everywhere, and the antlers' mass was incredible. They took lots of photos before moving the proud young man's "monster" to a place accessible by truck.
While the two men were field-dressing the deer, Jeremy called everyone he knew who hunted. By the time they got back to the house, friends were arriving to see the trophy, which also drew a crowd at Best Buy Grocery in Cross Plains, the local check station.
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Composite Score: 238"
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810,000 customers flee Netflix after price hikes and DVD split
Poor Netflix. Things were going so well, until it decided to increase prices, anger the Internets by spinning its DVD-by-mail service into Qwikster and then changing its mind on the split a month later. Of course, 810,000 subscribers would leave.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings understands that we're all pissed. He says he let arrogance take over, and thought that we'd all get adjusted to the price hikes and DVD-by-mail split.
Hasting knows that after all the confusion, the Netflix brand lost a lot of credibility, that's why he's focusing on winning us back and it starts with "listening."
"Qwikster became the symbol of Netflix not listening. We quickly changed course on that, and we're going to stick with DVDs as part of the Netflix brand."
810,000 subscribers canceling their Netflix might seem like a lot, but as Netflix reported in its fourth quarter shareholder report, the loss is "relatively minor." Compared to Netflix's 21.4 million streaming subscriptions and 13.9 million DVD subscribers, Netflix isn't exactly looking unhealthy (and maybe that price hike will make up for the deserters), but there's definitely an issue of consumer confidence that needs to be addressed here.
Hopefully Netflix can turn things around and regain the 800,000+ customers it lost or at least hire someone to do a little research before trying to create a new brand *snicker*.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the FBI asked the comptroller's office to assist in an investigation related to cash, vehicles and other assets seized by the Joint Violent Crimes Task Force and the Safe Streets Task Force.
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A recent survey conducted by uSamp shows an unexpectedly mixed picture when it comes to the use of smartphone hotspots in the U.S. While they're being used with increasing regularity, there are still several key concerns in the overall picture that not only keep users from using hotspots to the fullest, but are also impacting mobile providers.
The survey, conducted among over 700 mobile consumers in the U.S., points to increases in the number of users using their smartphones as mobile hotspots. There's been a nine percent increase in users who use their smartphones' mobile hotspot capabilities since May 2012, and fully 71 percent of respondents have used a dedicated hotspot device, smartphone hotspot, or both to get Wi-Fi capable devices on the mobile Internet. Over a quarter of them don't pay for hotspot service, instead using over-the-top applications to get access, while nearly half of the total aren't frequent users.
The survey also found that most hotspot users are heavy data users, but for the data users better described as light-to-moderate, over two thirds of those users would use a pay-as-you-go pricing plan for personal hotspot services. There are also some significant differences in terms of professional and recreational users' concerns. In terms of hotspot performance, 16 percent of recreational users called that a concern, while for professionals, the number skyrocketed to 59 percent. But, as two thirds of professional users also use hotspots for recreation, better management features and the rises in mobile data pricing are also concerns.
Those users who don't use any kind of personal hotspot, however, abstain for a variety of reasons. 27 percent stayed out for the sake of privacy concerns, and 21 percent stayed out to avoid having another wireless contract to deal with. Since one third of respondents reported no hotspot use at all, that's another major portion of the market that could be accessed, but isn't.
Given the massive number of Wi-Fi only tablets in the United States--over 90 percent of all tablets sold, according to the vice president of product management for Smith Micro, Sunil Marolia--that represents some significant opportunity for retailers. Making contracts simpler and improving privacy go a long way toward getting users into the fold, not to mention getting light-to-moderate users more interested than they currently are. That's a lot of possible revenue growth for mobile operators to consider, and missing out on mobile revenue is a terrible idea, especially in a slow economy.
While some may have issues with the sample size involved in uSamp's survey--700 users is a bit light on the statistical validity side of the equation--the principles put forth by it are certainly cause for greater consideration. A few simple changes might mean big revenue growth for mobile companies, and that's hard to pass up. Only time will tell if the mobile industry acts on these projections, but we may well be seeing some changes made in the field soon.


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Last week, NSSF President Steve Sanetti, along with long-time staffers Bill Brassard and Glenn Sapir, traveled to the Buckmasters headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., to share information and find common ground between the two organizations. Prior to becoming President and CEO of the NSSF in May 2008, Sanetti was with Ruger for 28 years, including five years as President and Chief Operating Officer. In this question and answer session, Sanetti discusses international efforts to control small arms, trends in U.S. firearms sales and the state of the shooting industry, as well as changing attitudes about gun ownership.
1) The NSSF has been busy on many fronts. Tell us about some of your programs that affect hunters and shooters.
The NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition and accessories industry. Virtually everything we do affects hunters and shooters in some way. Our mission is to promote, protect, and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Pull the Trigger is a website which gives shooters brief but very informative video tips about all aspects of firearms, hunting and shooting, from where to hunt in your area, to sighting in your rifle, to how to prepare venison. Our Hunting Heritage Partnership awards state agencies grants to improve access to state lands. Families Afield works toward authorizing apprentice hunting licenses in 32 states so that novice would-be hunters get to go hunting one time with an experienced adult mentor before they actually go through the long process of applying for and obtaining their first hunting license. Our Range Partnership Grant program has awarded over a million dollars to help fund over 46 shooting ranges nationwide. Where to Shoot.org allows shooters to search out all the ranges and gun clubs that are open to the public in their area. And our First Shots program gets would-be shooters their first hands-on experience with firearms safety and the experience of actually shooting a firearm under the watchful eye of an experienced instructor, and has served as the gateway for thousands of new shooters to become participants in the shooting sports. These are just a few of the many programs the NSSF offers.
2) NSSF also has been actively involved in gun control issues. One of those is strong opposition to the proposed United Nations Arms Treaty Negotiations. Should hunters be concerned about international efforts to regulate small arms?
Shooters and hunters should be very concerned about international efforts to regulate the manufacture, sale, transportation, use and even the very ownership of firearms. The list of such efforts is too long to mention here, but suffice it to say that well-funded international disarmament organizations which do not believe that individual citizens should own firearms are doing whatever they can to discourage firearms ownership by proposing a whole range of restrictions, generally but not always under the guise of a UN-sponsored proposal to "regulate" firearms in the name of a "more civil society" worldwide. Many of these proposals are being finalized this year, and we will either see a lively international debate as to their merits, or they may be put off until our Presidential election because they are so controversial. Both the NSSF and our sister organization, the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI) have been on the job for years, trying to respond to these challenging proposals. Only time will tell if we have succeeded.
3) The firearms industry is one of the few sectors of the economy that is enjoying brisk business. Many people attribute this to the political climate and fears that Washington is out of control. How do you see firearms sales playing out in the next couple of years?
Firearms sales have increased month-over-corresponding month of the previous year for 22 consecutive months now. The big question is, how high is up? We know this trend can't continue forever, but at present it shows no signs of abating. In my 32 years in the firearms business, I have never seen such sustained growth. Perhaps the best news of all is that during this period of increased firearms sales, violent crime has plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1960s, and accidents with guns have dropped to their lowest level since 1906, now accounting for only about one-half of one percent of all accidental fatalities in the U.S. each year. This is great news, and our firearms safety programs such as Project ChildSafe are working to make this number even lower!
4) Speaking of attitudes toward firearms ownership, they have shifted remarkably since the 1960s. Please speak to that and also the proposed repeal of Canada's gun registry.
The American public seems to be more receptive to lawful firearms ownership than ever — at least since the Gallup Organization began public opinion polling of gun control attitudes in 1959. Well over 70 percent of the general public is either opposed or strongly opposed to a handgun ban, and a majority even opposes a ban on so-called "assault weapons" (the term used by Gallup). Other surveys show that hunting and recreational shooting is either supported or strongly supported by over 78 percent of the population, even among non-hunters and shooters. And firearms sales have hit record levels, with last December recording the highest level of retail point-of-sale background checks ever. Even hunting license sales have increased in 24 states, reversing a decades-long decline. And Canada of all places has recognized the futility of trying to control criminals by pursuing lawful firearms owners and has recently dropped its wasteful 25-year-old registry of long guns. What a great time to be involved in our sports!
5) Tell us about the Shooting Sports PAC begun two years ago.
NSSF PAC is a new program designed to educate hunters and shooters about the issues of greatest concern to our community. While it does not endorse candidates, it makes clear the positions they take on various issues of interest and lets our members make up their own minds. Further details can be obtained by contacting our legal department.
6) The best selling firearms over the last several years have been handguns, ARs, tactical shotguns and other products pertaining to self defense. Do you see this trend continuing?
Self-defense, of course, is a legitimate reason to own firearms, as recently recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as a fundamental right of American citizenship. A great many purchasers of pistols and revolvers during recent years have given personal protection or protecting their family as a main reason for their latest firearms purchase, or their first firearms purchase in the case of new owners. Uncertain times produce insecurity, and this in turn enhances the need felt by many of both sexes to go through the steps necessary to purchase a firearm, generally a handgun, for self defense. As of now, we do not see this trend slowing down — in fact, one of the major U.S. manufacturers of pistols and revolvers actually has had to stop taking new orders because of the consumer demand on their newly expanded production facilities.
7) The NSSF has been actively involved in changing attitudes toward ARs, rebranding them as MSRs or Modern Sporting Rifles. Why is this effort important?
The gun control debates have always been charged with emotionally laden terms which the other side uses to scare the public. Witness "cop killer bullets,' "Saturday Night Specials" and "assault weapons," to name just a few. We believe that facts are on our side and that the type of gun a law-abiding gun owner possesses is completely irrelevant to the abuse of unlawfully owned firearms by a tiny minority of violent criminals. So when we saw the tremendous popularity of AR-15 platform rifles with the shooting public, especially as they became so commonplace during the last few years, we saw the other side leap to falsely demonize them as being in their "bad gun" category. These state-of-the-art rifles represent the most popular type of rifle being sold in America today, both for target shooting, plinking and hunting small and big game. We decided to re-educate the public about the fact that virtually all civilian hunting rifles had their ancestry in what were once military firearms. This goes back to the period right after the Civil War — lever actions, bolt actions and semiautos rapidly became the sportsmen's gun of choice during the years after generations of ex-soldiers became familiar with them. So rather than being the fully automatic military "assault rifles" that the gun controllers would mischaracterize them, we thought the far more accurate term to use would be today's "modern sporting rifle" —because that's exactly what they are!
8) Several weeks ago, the NSSF announced an iPhone app called Where2Shoot. What does it do, and where do readers go to download it? Also, is there an Android version in the works?
Where2Shoot is a new free iPhone app that puts our popular listing of all public shooting facilities right into the palm of your hand, so shooters can go to the range after just a click on their icon. Again, go to www.nssf.org for full details on how to download it. There is no Android version at present, but knowing the speed at which our communications wizards operate, one can't be very far behind!
9) What is your favorite type of hunting and your favorite gun in your collection?
I have always been a whitetail hunter at heart, having bagged my first one in Pennsylvania way back in 1966. I love sitting in a stand and watching the forest wake up on a cold, clear day (and the ability to open up a thermos and drink some coffee in the process!). My favorite rifle is a .276 Pedersen semi-automatic rifle, one of 200 that the U.S. Army tested in the 1930s while seeking a suitable modern rifle to replace another favorite of mine, the M1903 Springfield bolt-action rifle. The Pedersen has a toggle action that superficially resembles a Luger's and it stays open on the last shot — I hate to think what would happen to it if a soldier dropped it into the mud or sand like that! The Garand was obviously a better choice, but the Pedersen is a masterpiece of intricate machining. And if any of your readers know the whereabouts of an en bloc clip for it, please let me know!
10) How can people find out more about the NSSF?
I thank you for the opportunity to answer your questions, and if anyone would like any additional information about the National Shooting Sports Foundation and its programs, they should go online at www.nssf.org. We've specifically designed our website so all the information you might want on any topic or program we offer is no further than one click away.
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The Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) seeks applications from energetic, innovative librarians for its newly created position, Systems and User Experience Librarian.
The Systems and User Experience Librarian is a member of the Web Services and Emerging Technology team. This position plays an integral role in administrating the integrated library system (ILS) and supporting other library web services with an emphasis on ensuring functional and accessible end-user design. Other specific responsibilities include enhancing and promoting the online library catalog and other discovery tools, conducting usability testing, exploring new and emerging technologies for improving library services, and training library faculty and staff on catalog enhancements and new technologies. This tenure track position also includes general reference desk duties, library instruction, collection development and liaison duties with selected academic departments, participation in library policy formulation, university and professional service, and research and creative work.
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