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Nervous, knock-kneed and not yet 30 years of age, this writer approached cult movie favorite Susan Tyrrell for an exclusive interview in 1989. Over lunch, Tyrrell regaled me and my friends with stories of her days in Hollywood. Remarkably outspoken, she told me that director John Huston had raped her following her Academy Award nominated performance in "Fat City" in 1972. Tyrrell's "rotten life" - her words, has ended. She was 67.
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Keywords: Susan Tyrrell, cult movies, death, amputations, actress
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Tyrrell had carved out a niche of bizarre and colorful roles onscreen. The mad queen of the Sixth Dimension in "Forbidden Zone" (1982); the perpetually crying single mom in "Andy Warhol's Bad" (1977); the formerly nice, now dangerously psychotic killer in "Night Warning" (1982); Johnny Depp's white trash grandma in "Cry Baby" (1990). Interestingly, she told me that these off-the-wall roles were not of her choosing. "I don't seek out these pasts!" she hissed. "I take these parts to pay the rent!"
The daughter of a talent agent, Tyrrell established herself in the theater and then transitioned to film with 1971's "Shoot Out." The following year, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in John Huston's "Fat City."
Fiercely opinionated, Tyrrell played the Hollywood game strictly on her own terms. She may have lost out on major roles in major productions, but the films she did appear in remained permanently lodged in the hearts of minds of movie fans. Other memorable roles included the feisty lesbian sculpturess in the "Angel" series, the island madam in "Islands in the Stream," "Powder" and the possessive mom with a secret in "Buddy Boy."
Life can be cruel, and Tyrrell's health began to fail in the early 2000s. Both of her legs were amputated below the knee in 2000, due to the rare blood disease Essential Thrombocythemia. In spite of this setback, she continued to take the occasional film role such as "Masked and Anonymous" (2003), "The Devil's Due at Midnight" (2004) and David Zellner's "Kid-Thing."
"Nothing was off limits with her -- she didn't mince words, she loved what she loved and she hated what she hated...She will be sorely missed," director Zellner wrote.
Truer words were never spoken. You didn't want to get on Tyrrell's bad side -- but eventually everyone did.
With the exception of "Fat City," her favorite role was as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension in the madcap musical "Forbidden Zone." "I run that movie every Halloween, it's so fresh." Acting onscreen with her real-life lover, Herve Villechaizse, best known as Tattoo on "Fantasy Island," Tyrrell runs her wacky alternative universe with an iron fist, much in the manner as she lived her life.
Tyrrell and this writer would have our differences, but she rallied behind me at a time when it really counted. For this, I will be eternally grateful.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Louisiana, Minnesota, California. The University of Alabama has been willing to go wherever it needs to find its offensive linemen of the future.
On Tuesday, Nick Saban and the UA coaching staff got a bit of good news from the West Coast where junior college offensive tackle Dominick Jackson (San Mateo, Calif./College of San Mateo) flipped his verbal commitment from the UCLA Bruins to the Crimson Tide. The 6-foot-6, 310-pound prospect has the potential to be an instant-impact player for the Tide, which will likely have to replace two starting offensive linemen in 2014.
The potential for turnover no doubt aided in Jackson's decision. The Northern California native doesn't have to be an NFL general manager to look at Cyrus Kouandjio and see a top-10 pick in next year's draft, regardless of his underclassmen status. ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. already has the Tide's athletic starting left tackle for UA as his fourth-best prospect overall. Barring a surprise decision, the anchor position on the line will be wide open for Jackson to come in and compete at either in the spring or fall of next year when he enrolls.
The move to accept Jackson's commitment makes sense on Alabama's end as well as the Tide has signed just three offensive tackles over the past two classes: four-star prospect Brandon Greene in 2012 and junior college transfer Leon Brown and Hargrave Military Academy product Brandon Hill in 2013. Brown is a short-term option with just one year of eligibility remaining after this season and Hill is a question mark given his weight concerns having enrolled in January at a whopping 406 pounds.
Jackson, who is the 14th commitment of the 2014 class, might not be the only offensive tackle Alabama signs, though. The big fish is No. 1-rated tackle Cameron Robinson, who has Alabama and LSU in his top two schools he's considering. He told TideNation that if he does everything right, he's been told by the UA coaching staff that he could compete for a starting job as a true freshman.
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It can be happened, that the the unit test cannot test properly due too system condition. eg: another job is running, what locks a table what is used by a service what should be tested.
in this case the output of the test should not be SUCCESS nor FAIL... it should be just like IGNORED
is there a way to set the unit test 'ignored' in the test itself?


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Innovating at the speed of life
Rebecca Wissinger email@example.com Tags: fuelcaster development social+business scgs allstate customers social-business customer+experience smarter-commerce commerce apps stardriver customer-experience cx smarter+commerce innovation social drivewise experience strategy innovating smarter-commerce-global-s... 4 Comments 6,116 Visits
A key theme in today's social world is that innovative, exceptional customer experiences are critical to business success. When people think of insurance companies, they don't tend to associate them with innovation or...Modified by Rebecca Wissinger email@example.com
Brand Image and Security Concerns – All the More Reason to Become a Social Business
Luis Benitez firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: business_tech_trends cloud mobile socbiz key_practices bluemix pacesetters strategy analytics luis_benitez benitez 6,038 Visits
To get the full benefit of social business, you must inject it into your key business processes for stronger customer engagement and workforce collaboration. But many enterprises are afraid to fully embrace social business, with 30 percent of them citing...Modified by Samantha Klein firstname.lastname@example.com
Triangulating Your Direction in the Social Universe
Wyatt Urmey email@example.com Tags: digital alice_in_wonderland ibm_social_study cai social_business research triangulation #ibmsocialstudy wyatt_urmey strategy study ibmsocialstudy center_applied_insights social 5,849 Visits
What the Cheshire Cat Can Teach Us about Social Business Strategy Alice in Wonderland: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" How do today's enterprises chart their journey to...Modified by Wyatt Urmey email@example.com
CMOs: We are all pioneers
Jon Iwata firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: leadership survey iwata marketing strategy insights 1 Comment 5,349 Visits
I am fascinated in two different ways by the findings of the inaugural CMO study from IBM's Institute for Business Value – as an IBMer, and as a CMO. The study won't be released until October, but at the risk of scooping it, I want to share a couple of my...
from Blog: From Stretched <br/> to Strengthened
Answers to Partner Questions from the Oct.28th Webcast: IBM Software Value Plus (meeting our goal of Growth Through Skills!)
Mary Hall email@example.com Tags: value software growth plus partnerworld_member partnerworld skils distribution strategy through partnerworld_communities 3,910 Visits
Thanks to all of our partners who attended this week's webcast on IBM Software Value Plus to ensure that you are an Authorized Software Business Partner . This program is designed to meet our goal of Growth Through Skills. We had a terrific turnout and we...
from Blog: Collaborate for Success Blog
How Social & Mobile Are Rewriting Enterprise Business Processes
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: mobile process business social strategy cloud reengineering transformation 3,891 Visits
When companies embark today on business process transformation activities, they do so with an eye on total end-to-end processes. One of the most important lessons of past transformation efforts is that optimizing the business process for any one metric...
Innovate, Understand, Engage
Daniel Davis firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: security engagement social-business employees strategy integration newwaytowork software interconnect2015 socbiz innovation customers andrew-warzecha ibminterconnect warzecha interconnect 3,874 Visits
At IBM InterConnect 2015, Andrew Warzecha, VP of Strategy at IBM, presented Data, Cloud, and Mobile/Social Engagement: IBM Software Group's Strategy. A topic as big as that might seem difficult to cover in a single conference session, but Warzecha summed...Modified by Daniel Davis email@example.com
Four Pillars of Hybrid IT Integration (merge the "how" with the "wow")
Kristoffer Sterzin firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: computing analytics mobility enterprise api systems devops simplify business strategy economy transformation infrastructure virtualization integration hybrid real-time cloud-based services digital ibm it soa data iot scalable 3,854 Visits
As IT architects, you're probably suspicious of adopting integrated systems. But what if you could cut through the noise, reduce the time it takes to adopt a platform, and simply plug it in and go? The "if it's not broken, then...Modified by Kristoffer Sterzin firstname.lastname@example.com
The CMO Balancing Act: Marketing in the Age of the Connected Customer
Shaku Selvakumar email@example.com Tags: smarter_commerce digital_marketing bizagility cmo strategy leadership ibmimpact 3,223 Visits
Contributed by Shaku Selvakumar Manoj Saxena is Vice President, Strategy & Market Development in IBM Software Solutions Group. His leads worldwide strategy, market selection, investments, and integrated execution for IBM's Industry Solutions...
Webinar Replay IBM Production Imaging Edition and IBM Case Manager – Understand Your Solution Strategy Options
Gaye Watanabe firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: production your understand webinar solution ibm replay case strategy edition options – manager and imaging 3,097 Visits
Welcome to the eConnections Blog! You can also stay up to date by subscribing directly to the eConnections Blog - hover over "Feed for blog entries" at the bottom of the blog to add the ECM eConnections Blog to your feed reader. For additional...
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Save the Date: Live BP Webcast on Oct. 28th on our Software Distribution Strategy
Mary Hall email@example.com Tags: distribution through skils partnerworld_member partnerworld software growth strategy partnerworld_communities 2,936 Visits
In case you haven't head, we are inviting all our IBM Business Partners to a special live webcast next week. We want to spend some time explaining our Software Distribution Strategy and taking your questions. So mark your calendars, and save the date. Here...
from Blog: Collaborate for Success Blog
To Tweet, or Not to Tweet: Why Every Leader Needs to Give Social Media Another Shot
Diana Zhou email@example.com Tags: twitter customer_strategy social_business crm innovation engagement technology customer_relationship_man... tweet strategy customer social_technology social_media 2,862 Visits
If you still don't know what a tweet is and how your company can leverage social media to yield tangible business results, it's probably time to give social media another chance. Don't believe me? Just take the recent box-office success of...
Effective Analytics in the SMB Market: Delivering Measurable Business Results
Nick Cater email@example.com Tags: strategy analytics optimisation swg smb business intelligence nick cater bao data aberdeen trends 2,644 Visits
Consistently within Business Analytics we are demonstrating that by delivering actionable insights from relevant information, to people throughout an organisation, when and where they need it, delivers better business outcomes through improved decisions....
Going to Impact? We want to interview You about IBM Software! Community Blog
Jennifer Dennis firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: ibm impact it ibm-software strategy 2010 software smart-soa #ibmimpact ibmimpact soa smarterplanet websphere smarter-systems smarter-software 2,639 Visits
How has smarter software made your business better? We want to hear from you! If you are an IBM Software customer or Business Partner and attending Impact , we invite you to participate in a casual video interview to share your business and IT...
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Three Catalysts of Hybrid Integration
Kristoffer Sterzin firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy cloud-based digital simplify iot computing data real-time business it integration hybrid enterprise mobility systems soa analytics virtualization scalable devops services api economy infrastructure transformation ibm 2,623 Visits
Mobile everything, uptime all the time, and 100% availability are just a few challenges facing IT professionals today. We are entering a bold new world of business that demands connectivity and security. Your messaging, data, and applications need to reflect...Modified by Kristoffer Sterzin firstname.lastname@example.com
Digital Marketing as the Next Step of CRM
Hyuk Jae Lee firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: social crm technology digital_marketing mobile strategy channel online customer_experience marketing multi_channel smarter commerce 2,612 Visits
The traditional methods of connecting with customers are becomming obsolete. The rise of smarter, interconnected customers who use new technology - smart phones, social networking and web 2.0 tools - has siginificantly impacted the way CRM works. ...
Innovation, Transformation and Smarter Marketing - how do you engage yourself and your company to move closer to your consumers?
Inger A Myklebust email@example.com Tags: smarter marketing strategy change products transformation consumer innovation 5 Comments 2,502 Visits
Through discussions I have had with leaders in the industry lately (just came back from a meeting now), I feel that there is a true interest for embracing the opportunities of social media to get new insight and move closer to a more personalized and...
Unique characteristics of the Chinese consumer electronics market
Hyuk Jae Lee firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: channel china tablet online strategy chinese_consumer retail emerging_market smart_phone consumer_electronics market_entry tv mobile 2 Comments 2,492 Visits
At a glance, the Chinese consumer electronics ( CE ) market may look similar to that of the U.S. You can easily spot big electronics retail chain stores featuring a wide range of famous CE brands. However, you will soon see the difference when you actually...Modified by Hyuk Jae Lee email@example.com
IBM's Presence at CES in 2013 - See Us There
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: electronics ces consumer strategy ibm 2,431 Visits
Picture CC creative commons from Rob Boudon Ready to Gamble Another Year In Consumer Electronics? It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is only about one week away, which marks the official start of the holiday shopping season in the US...
Six considerations for your 2013 mobile enterprise strategy
Checklists may not go into fine detail but in my experience as a Client Technical Professional at IBM, I've seen them prove very useful for organisations looking to implement new solutions. Their value lies in their ability to...Modified by Darryl Miles firstname.lastname@example.com
Outsourcing as a Business Strategy: Is it about more than cost reduction?
Albin Fai email@example.com Tags: transformation flexibility outsourcing hosting strategy 2,370 Visits
In this short video, Paul Miller, a Partner within IBM Global Business Services, discusses the key reasons why organisations look externally to IT service providers to support implementation of their strategy. As a C-Suite Specialist, I find Paul's commentary...
Caleb Barlow on BlogTalkRadio: IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration
Jacques Pavlenyi firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy communications blogtalkradio podcast blog ucoms unified 2,358 Visits
#ucoms Caleb Barlow, IBM Director of Unified Communications and Collaboration, has been working the media angle hard since joining our team. Just the latest example after Enterprise Connect, is his appearance on BlogTalkRadio's Unified Communications channel...
Moving from Social Media to Social CRM [Part 2]
Hersh Sahai firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: smarter_consumer crm social_media cmo_study strategy 2,334 Visits
"What's your social media strategy?" This is now the burning question across all consumer-facing industries. Righty so, it seems. One would hardly want to open new channels to their customers without being able to understand and communicate the...
Making the Business Case For Transformation
Kirk-Dale McDowall-Rose firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: business-transformation consulting kirkdale change strategy business-case 2,327 Visits
Business Transformation: Re-imaging The Case for Change Have you ever found it difficult to create meaningful business cases for implementing organizational change? All too often transformation leaders and CIO's struggle with challenges when...
Do you really need a new AMS strategy?
Brett Squires email@example.com Tags: ibm brett_squires ams strategy 2,308 Visits
Application Management Services have been around for quite a while now. It's become like that well worn suit. Comfortable, predictable, perhaps a little frayed on the edges, but it's got you through and seems to have another year in it at least. In fact,...
What's On Sale In Electronics Retail in 2013?
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: retail electronics embedded online national holiday strategy commerce shopping mobile federation season 2,292 Visits
The holiday shopping season is over and for many people (like my son) the output was consumed in a matter of minutes. While in the past the deepest discounts were reserved for after-christmas sales, retailers have been pushing the discounts...
Today Is Going Out Of Business Day for Election Campaigns
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: crowd-sourcing analytics mobile economics politics strategy 1 Comment 2,177 Visits
Digital image CC from TimeTrax23 The Campaign As A Digital, Social, Mobile Enterprise Today Americans go to the polls and so this is really the last business day of for hundreds of small to large size organizations that have grown...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy innovation marketing consumer smarter leadership transformation customer collaboration 2 Comments 2,155 Visits
Harvard professor says that only 5% of us are natural born innovators and 40% are simply incapable of innovation. What is Innovation all about and why is it so important? The definition from Wikipedia says that Innovation is the creation of better...
No Takers?
Marlon Machado email@example.com Tags: cloud strategy cebp 1 Comment 2,106 Visits
About a week ago I wrote a post on this blog in which I asked our readers two questions: What's your take on the direction we're setting for the Sametime platform vis-à-vis CEBP? Do you see things such as CEBP and Cloud being delivered exclusively through...
Customer Obsession: Listening With Your Eyes Open
Diana Zhou firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: ibm_ceo_study customer_focused_strategy customer_experience customer_obsession customer_delight 2012_ceo_study leadership ceo_connect ibv customer_centric_organiza... thought_leadership ceo strategy customer 2,047 Visits
The 2012 CEO Study launches today and I hope you will all check it out. This marks the fifth biennial release of the study and this year's study is full of insights from over 1700 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders from around the...
Don't Bring Your Storage Problems to the Cloud
Francis Mammone firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: storage cloud-computing data strategy cloud_computing mammome big-data francis 1,994 Visits
In this whitepaper, Lynda Stadtmueller of Stratecast offers some practical suggestions that organisations of all sizes can implement when developing their storage strategy. In light of my day to day discussions with clients the article is very...
IBM and AT&T Equip Enterprises to Deliver High-Performing Mobile Applications
Casper Hansen email@example.com Tags: applications collaborative_lifecycle_m... a clm at&t smarter_business apps ibm software mobile strategy big_data network mobilefirst mobile_applications csi 1,984 Visits
IBM and AT&T Equip Enterprises to Deliver High-Performing Mobile Applications IBM and AT&T recently announced they are working together to help businesses develop more network-efficient mobile apps. The new integration of AT&T and IBM...
from Blog: IBM CSI Newsblog
Preparing your network for the mobile onslaught
Luke Gibbons email@example.com Tags: router byod strategy solutions core-network switch data-center networking 1,915 Visits
I work every day with organisations looking to align networking solutions with IT requirements. I find myself spending more and more time on their Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy. This trend has really taken off. A recent Cisco Systems survey of...
Moving from social media to Social CRM
Hersh Sahai email@example.com Tags: social_media hersh_sahai cmo_study strategy crm 1 Comment 1,870 Visits
As it turns out, it is rather difficult to overstate the pervasiveness of social media. After all, it is undeniable that the way in which we interact online with each other and within our community has transformed enormously over the past five years....
One-to-one Marketing: Sounds like a plan. Now What?
NIAN YEE CHOW email@example.com Tags: strategy data analytics marketing loyalty personalized customer 1,857 Visits
I like being listened to and understood. It's great when companies go out of their way to understand me and to give me exactly what I want… sometimes before I even know I want it. But as a marketer, I know just how hard it can be to make that...
from Blog: Smarter Marketing Today by JoJo CheungModified by Krishna Chaitanya email@example.com
Where Does Social, Mobile ROI Come From?
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: enterprise investment roi mobile social strategy 1,839 Visits
Mobile devices and social networks have re-arranged our free time (why talk to your family when you can play Angry birds) and they've invaded the enterprise (whether IT administrators like it or not). But are they generating ROI? It was famously...
Fair Questions--No (Friday Funnies) Soup For You!
Marlon Machado firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy web-browser expeditor cloud cebp 1,831 Visits
Today instead of giving you something to make you smile (or just roll your eyes) I would like to, instead, ask you, dear readers, a couple of questions. I'm interested in your opinion because, first of all, I'm very curious about the make-up of the...
Making the oil and gas industry a little 'smarter'
Henry Vila email@example.com Tags: smarter_energy transformation henry_vila strategy 1 Comment 1,776 Visits
With the continuous increase in global energy requirements, the exploration of new oil and gas fields is shifting to increasingly challenging sites. Today's exploration methods achieve only 10% success in the search for new fields, with only one of every three...
Inger A Myklebust email@example.com Tags: collaboration cmo strategy leadership ceo social 4 Comments 1,770 Visits
HOW TO GET CLOSER TO CUSTOMERS THROUGH CREATIVE LEADERSHIP We have some interesting strategic dialogues with forward leaning leaders from great Nordic companies. Discussions have focused on how to get closer...Modified by Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com
The Great Consumer Analytics War of 2013
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: analytics commerce strategy marketing mobile retail business electronics enterprise 1,710 Visits
"With great power comes great responsibility." It's a super-hero cliché, but it applies nicely to the deployment and utilization of business analytics. In this case, we might say, "with great insight comes great responsibility."...
Do You Want What I Want? The Curated Shopping Revolution Arrives
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: online marketing strategy shopping curation commerce 1,670 Visits
Do your friends call you to ask what kind of electronics to buy? We all know someone who's an expert on something. When my friend Tim comes over, I always ask him to help me organize my wine cellar (aka the shelf in my basement closet). He's...
Capital Spending Driving A Re-Integration of The Electronics Supply Chain
Horace Dediu takes the stage for his discussion of capital spending. We're just back from IBM's Electronics Global Leadership forum which took place in Taipei earlier this month. Over the next week, we will publish video and key...
Let's be a bit more creative in our Leadership Development efforts
Leslie Breackell firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: development strategy leslie_breackell transformation chro leadership creativity 1,544 Visits
An organisation's longstanding commitment to the development of leaders in their workforce has often been seen as an additional expense – and one that is the first to be cut when budgets are tightened. The attraction, retention and development of leaders...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: consumer analytics strategy marketing innovations smarter customer 2 Comments 1,506 Visits
INCLUDING A HINT TO THE PREMIUM CAR BRANDS FROM A CAR ENTHUSIAST REPRESENTING A SUBSTANTIAL AND GROWING BUYER GROUP I just came home from the greatest kick-off of the year - NRF Retails Big Show in New York https://www-304.ibm.c...
How to ensure vendor independence in an AMM infrastructure
Michael Gaertner firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: interoperability strategy smart meter amm 1,503 Visits
The system aspects of smart metering infrastructures are relatively regulation independent and more driven by the business processes of the owning utility, however, on the meter and communication part of a smart metering infrastructure, you will recognize a...
from Blog: Energy and utilities
Asymco's Horace Dediu on Capital Spending's Transformation of the Electronics Industry
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: apple transformation electronics spending capital strategy 1,498 Visits
A video of Horace Dediu's presentation at IBM's Electronics Global Leadership Forum in Taipei on 23 October 2012. Horace discusses how Apple's enormous capital spending is reshaping the global supply chain for the industry. ...
The Future of the IT Function
Kirk-Dale McDowall-Rose firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: saas cloud disruption red_queen kirkdale strategy it transformation 1,495 Visits
Technology, and business model innovation are sources of competitive advantage, but the advantages they confer can be short lived. Organizations such as Dell and FedEx have demonstrated how technology and process change can alter an organization and...
How Big Data Is Changing The Electronics Industry
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: crm media electronics strategy analytics ibm social ecommerce 1,493 Visits
Steven Sit, a director in IBM's software group, talks about how big data is transforming the ways companies can learn from clients. In particular, he looks at how there are different kinds of data - some that are reliable and some that are not - and how...
Products to Services Transformation in B2B Electronics: Past, Present, and Future
You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. Over the last six months, I have been working with Photizo Group to develop a point of view on how traditional B2B electronics industries are going to be transformed. We have been using as...
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, OPEN INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP - CEO and CMO Roundtable in Oslo this week – How to get closer to customers
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy business research cmo customer ceo transformation open centricity thought leadership innovation 1,380 Visits
W e are thrilled to arrange a CEO and CMO Roundtable in Oslo this week. The event will be in attractive, new locations in Oslo by the sea – first at the Astrup Fearnley Museum http://www.afmuseet.no/en/ and then at The Thief Hotel http://thethief.com/ .This...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: innovation marketing analytics collaboration strategy smarter transformation customer consumer 1,362 Visits
NO, NO, NO! .. said the man when meeting the cashier to pay his groceries. "NO – I do not want a printed receipt!" "NO – I do not want a shoppingbag!" "NO – I do not want your loyalty card offer!" This was my...
What I'll Be Looking for at IFA in Berlin
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: strategy ibm consumerization branding electronics 1,361 Visits
We're heading to Berlin next month to participate in IFA 2012, one of the world's largest consumer electronics shows. I have mixed feelings about IFA since it falls on my wedding anniversary. This makes it the least popular business trip of the...
Embedding innovation to drive growth
Anthony Lipp firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: innovation strategy growth 1,350 Visits
How does an organization out perform its competitors? Successful organizations grow faster than their competitors and convert their growth into greater shareholder value. Organic growth methods provide necessary but incremental growth. Gains through...
Innovation in Customer and Partner Relationships
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: online ecommerce ibm media strategy social smarter commerce 1,341 Visits
Tom Osterday, one of IBM's global experts on smarter commerce discusses how Smarter Commerce is enabling companies to innovate their customer relationships. &n...
Collaboration: The Lines are Blurring - The Challenges Still Exist
Eric Lesser email@example.com Tags: eric_lesser human_resource study collaboration chro strategy 3 Comments 1,330 Visits
From the early days of groupware, to the present day world of blogs, wikis, and social networking sites, organizations have wrestled with the challenges of connecting employees from disparate locations to share ideas, expertise and good practices. When I first...
The Road to a Smarter Enterprise: Six Principles for Successful Transformation
Wolfram Stein firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: analytics wolfram_stein jam leadership 2010_ceo_study creativity strategy transformation innovation governance 1,327 Visits
This is the golden age for business transformation. The Great Recession forced organizations to jettison unprofitable business lines, dramatically cut costs, and reinvent themselves in radical ways to remain competitive. Firms of all sizes have launched...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: transformation innovation change strategy consumers customers 1,294 Visits
Harvard professor says that only 5% of us are natural born innovators and 40% are simply incapable of innovation. What is Innovation all about and why is it so important? The definition from Wikipedia says that Innovation is the creation of better and...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: consumer marketing innovation nrf inspiration retail strategy products 2 Comments 1,276 Visits
IBM is in the "Chairman's Circle" for NRF Retails Big Show in New York City on January 13 – 16. We use this arena as a global kick-off with Business Executives in prioritized companies. The theme for this year is Reinventing the total brand...
Spørsmålet er hvordan?
Rune Berggren firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: supply_chain risk_management predictive_intelligence strategy 1,266 Visits
Combating risk with predictive intelligence Daglig må virksomheter manøvrere i en verden der håndtering av risiko blir viktigere og viktigere, enten det handler om naturkatastrofer, geopolitisk risiko, markedsrisiko, finansiell risiko eller...
The top 10 trends from 2011 CES!
Saul Berman email@example.com Tags: electronics saul_berman ces consumer_electronics_show entertainment strategy media 1,233 Visits
Each new year brings not only new beginnings and annual resolutions, but the promise of new value and a better life enabled by technology, as demonstrated by the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Inevitably you have seen or heard coverage of the show...
Winner Take All? How The B2C Electronics Business Model Is Transforming the B2B Electronics Business
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: b2b strategy transformation b2c 1,228 Visits
The Consumer Electronics industry has ridden an enormous wave of transformation in the last decade, moving the industry from products to services. Now, that same revolution is set to sweep through the B2B side of the electronics industry. The...
Turbulent Times May Be Ahead for B2B Electronics Companies
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: strategy b2b consumerization opensource marketing electronics engineering 1,227 Visits
As the consumer electronics industry has become increasingly competitive over the last few years, we've observed more and more IBM clients in this space shifting their focus towards B2B sales. The attraction of B2B businesses in electronics...
The Evolving Electronics Industry
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: strategy ibm electronics transformation 1,218 Visits
Bruce Anderson, IBM's global general manager for the electronics industry, looks at the macro trends shaping the industry as he introduces IBM's electronics global leadership forum in Taipei. &nb...
The Performance Perspectives Blog: Tim O'Bryan stops for coffee and a chat on the journey to performance management:
Delaney Turner email@example.com Tags: cognos cfo_study rolling_forecasts innovation_center strategy 1,204 Visits
On the performance management journey, Tim O'Bryan travels more miles than most people. From his base in Chicago, the Marketing and Customer Relations Director of the IBM Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management travels twice a week across...
from Blog: The Performance Perspectives Blog
How do you move yourself and your company closer to the consumers, customers, employees and society?
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: consumer strategy change innovation marketing people smarter transformation 1,165 Visits
Outperforming companies and people are improving in opening up a more collaborative culture. Read and share here: http://ibm.co/Iwfr73
B2B Transformation in the Electronics Industry
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: ibm strategy transformation b2b 1,130 Visits
How are the same trends that affect the consumer electronics industry going to affect companies operating in the B2B space? This presentation from IBM's electronics global leadership forum takes you through case examples and recommendations. &...
Trends In Electronics: A Quick Video on the Social, Mobile Transformation
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: electronics social strategy mobile 1,111 Visits
IBM Electronics Industry Blog & RSS Feed @Pbrody on Twitter @IBM_Electronics on Twitter Paul Brody on Facebook Paul Brody on Linked In Paul Brody on Sina Weibo Smarter Electronics Discussion Forum on Linked In
Is There A Brighter Future for Display Manufacturers?
Paul Brody email@example.com Tags: strategy transformation electronics displays innovation 1,093 Visits
There's no question that the business of making displays has been tough. As the technology for flat panels has matured, the product has commoditized and many companies have exited the business. For those left, it seems like the business has...
Inger A Myklebust email@example.com Tags: smarter leadership marketing strategy customer nrf innovation analytics multichannel consumer 1,063 Visits
IBM is in the "Chairman's Circle" for NRF Retails Big Show in New York City on January 13 – 16. We use this arena as a global kick-off with Business Executives in prioritized companies. The theme for this year is Reinventing the total brand experience...
All Hail WiFi – Enabler of the Smarter Planet
Paul Brody firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: smartphones mobility networking tablets smarterplanet bandwidth strategy wifi 1,044 Visits
The biggest new thing in networking isn't 4G/LTE but something quite old: WiFi. WiFi may be a relatively old standard (actually, since the first WiFi access points date from the late 1990s, it's positively ancient in Internet time), but it's now...
The "price" of airline pricing schemes
Steven J Peterson email@example.com Tags: pricing airlines strategy yield 2 Comments 1,003 Visits
Technology has been the impetus for many of the most innovative changes in airline management in the past 50 years, including the advent of central reservation systems, the development of automated scheduling systems, and the observed dominance of...
from Blog: Travel and Transportation
Innovasjon som strategi
Rune Berggren email@example.com Tags: innovation strategy 1,000 Visits
Denne uken ble det kjent at Serge Haroche og David Wineland får Nobelprisen 2012 i fysikk for sitt arbeid innen metoder for utvikling av såkalte kvantedatamaskiner, et område som IBM også har forsket på lenge. IBM har lang tradisjon for grunnleggende...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: collaboration marketing consumer analytics transformation innovation strategy customer smarter 2 Comments 999 Visits
NO, NO, NO! .. said the man when meeting the cashier to pay his groceries. "NO – I do not want a printed receipt!" "NO – I do not want a shoppingbag!" "NO – I do not want your loyalty card offer!" This was my sons funny...
Re: CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, OPEN INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP
Inger A Myklebust email@example.com Tags: strategy social leadership cmo collaboration ceo 989 Visits
In response to: CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, OPEN INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP Appreciate your comments and thoughts, Ralph, Patricia and Ragnar! Yes, Ragnar - Insights from Social Media Analytics really can become a strategic weapon. IBM is currently...
Inger A Myklebust firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: analytics innovation transformation collaboration consumer marketing strategy customer smarter 2 Comments 985 Visits
NO, NO, NO! .. said the man when meeting the cashier to pay his groceries. "NO – I do not want a printed receipt!" "NO – I do not want a shoppingbag!" "NO – I do not want your loyalty card offer!" This was my sons...
Business lessons from a sports blog
Delaney Turner email@example.com Tags: strategy cognos spss ibmsoftware 961 Visits
Two lessons in business strategy from Bruce Dowbiggin's Ususal Suspects blog . Bruce's blog is actually about sports and his post yesterday referred to the NHL playoff series between the San Jose Sharks and the Colorado Avalanche . But it applies equally...
from Blog: The Performance Perspectives Blog
Business Forecasting, Tomorrow's Winning Lottery Ticket # and Measure Twice, Cut. Community Blog
Tim O'Bryan firstname.lastname@example.com Tags: businessanalyticstoday businessforecasting forecast planning timobryan provenpractices strategy businessanalytics 935 Visits
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Kate mentions that they crashed 8 days ago. Michael has 8 years of construction experience.
Island events in this episode take place on September 29th 2004.
Goof: When Kate reaches the caves to help Jack get out she asks Michael if Jack is alive and before he answers you can see a red ladder behind her.
When Charlie and his brother are arguing backstage, as his brother rushes out shouting "P*ss off," you can see a crew member move in the mirror on the left and the right side. If you watch closely you can see the producers tried blurring the mirrors, but still they weren't able to remove the crew member.
It is not likely for a person to get fireworks in Australia unless they have a special permit. Therefore Australia is a strange place to try and smuggle them from especially when the United States borders places like Mexico.
When Sayid lights the flare, it is in considerably tall grass. Wouldn't the grass catch on fire?
In response to Boone asking his sister: When they first heard the message in French, they told each other that they couldn't tell anyone else. So since they were making the transceiver because of this message, he couldn't have asked anyone who didn't know about it.
During the episode wrap-up, when Charlie and Jack are sitting at the campfire, you can clearly see Jack leaning back, resting his weight on his injured right arm & shoulder. A minute later, Kate brings him a sling.
When Charlie and Jack are trapped in the cave, they are both very sweaty and dirty. However when they emerge from the cave they are much cleaner and not sweaty at all.
Near the end of the episode, when Kate is sitting alone on the beach, and Jack comes up to talk to her about moving into the caves, you can see vehicle tire tracks in the sand.
Sayid is from Tikrit, Iraq, the town where Saddam Hussein was born and later captured by the U.S Army.
At the beginning of the party scene, when Jin serves Sun a glass of champagne, the classical music playing in the background incorporates both the numbers 42 and especially 4. It is the opening of the second movement, the minuet, of the String Quartet in D minor, opus 42, by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
Haydn is credited with creating the string quartet as a distinct musical form, consisting of an ensemble of 4 instruments--a pair of violins, a viola, and a cello. Most string quartets, like this particular one, have 4 movements. This work's overall key, D minor, also includes the fourth letter of the alphabet. A considerably longer selection from the second movement of this same Haydn string quartet is heard again playing faintly in the background in the Season 2 episode …And Found, when Sun first meets her prospective suitor at the hotel.
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The time Sun is supposed to meet the car at 11:15, the four numbers added up equals 8 (1 + 1 + 1 + 5).
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It all starts so simply – a day like any other. A boy stays home alone when his mom goes to visit Aunt Rose. With a few cookies and a good spot to read, everything seems so perfect. When the Mouse shows up, hungry – talkative – and not to be ignored. What can the boy do but give the Mouse a cookie? So... what do you get when an energetic mouse and an obliging boy spend the afternoon together? Cookie crumbs, spilled milk, and a whole lot of outrageous physical comedy that will have you rolling in the aisles.
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The Eagles have done an excellent job in taking care of their own this offseason, in a marked contrast to their approach in 2011. DeSean Jackson's deal was completed before he had time to sign his franchise tender. Evan Mathis was handsomely rewarded for his excellent play in 2011 with a nice 5-year deal. Todd Herremans and Trent Cole received extensions friendly to their wallets and the team's cap. But one high-profile deal remains to be done: A reworking of the contract for Pro Bowl RB LeSean McCoy after his record-breaking 2011 season. At present, McCoy is slated to make $600,000 in 2012, the last year of his rookie contract. That amount is an obscene underpayment for the level of talent and play the team has consistently seen from McCoy,one of a very few consistent bright spots in the 2011 season for the Philadelphia Eagles. It's time to pay LeSean McCoy. Everyone is in agreement about this fact. Hopefully, it won't get nearly as ugly as it did with DeSean Jackson. And there's ...
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Diamonds: An Investor's Best Friend?
Demand in Asia is driving up prices but, for non-experts, getting exposure to the market is not so easy
Fine-quality diamonds might be rare, but much of their perceived value is the result of canny marketing which, in the mid-20th century, created the almost universal expectation in Western countries that an engagement had to be marked by a diamond ring, as a symbol of an eternal commitment.
But as Western wedding traditions invade Asia, prospective brides in India and China are now also receiving diamond rings in such quantities that demand is surging, and prices are likely to follow.
A report by magazine What's On Xiamen says buyers from China and Hong Kong spent a total $737 million on gems from Antwerp, the center of the diamond trade, during the first three months of 2010,
Meanwhile, the diamond industry in India is suffering from shortages of rough diamonds and recently took the politically sensitive step of allowing the gems to be imported from Zimbabwe, whose diamond industry has faced allegations of human-rights abuses.
With demand on the rise in emerging markets, and the more usual safe haven of gold at sky-high prices, diamonds are becoming an interesting alternative investment category.
According to Kleinwort Benson, rough-diamond prices rose 25% in 2010, while polished gems rose 17%, with prices hitting their highest levels since 2002. Rough diamonds continued to rise in value in the first quarter of this year, and broke their pre-recession levels.
Stephen Lussier, chief executive of the De Beers diamond brand Forevermark, says while the Europe has seen considerable economic turbulence in 2010 and 2011, the diamond market has been very strong. The overall demand by diamond jewelry retailers for the first half of the 2011 was up 10%-15%, he says.
De Beers controls around a third of the world's diamond supply.
"For those looking to invest in diamonds, it is a little bit like art," says Mr. Lussier, "First of all invest in something you enjoy. Diamonds, like art, give you a lot of pleasure. We never like to see people invest in diamonds and keep them in a bank vault somewhere. You can wear your investment."
De Beers estimates that four out of 10 Chinese brides are now getting a diamond engagement ring in some of the country's largest cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This is by no means a Chinese tradition but rather a completely new trend. Chinese diamond demand increased 25% in 2010, while India saw 31% rise, according to De Beers.
Diamonds don't break, they don't go out of fashion and they represent a store of value, says a De Beers spokesperson, all qualities that long-term investors, looking for safety, will value.
But Delyth Richards, head of research at Kleinwort Benson, points out there are a host of potential pitfalls.
Following revelations in the late 1990s that Angola's Unita rebels had managed to defy UN sanctions and fund their activities through the sale of diamonds, the Kimberley Process—named after the South African town where an inaugural meeting took place—was implemented to stop the flow of conflict, or "blood" diamonds into the international marketplace.
Diamonds from approved countries are certified before export. Without such certification, stones can't be legally sold on international markets.
The scheme isn't without controversy; Zimbabwe has recently been deemed eligible, despite human-rights groups questioning the diamond industry's connections with
Some producers hope to go beyond Kimberley. De Beers inscribes each diamond with a "Forevermark" icon and a unique number that can only be seen under magnification. The trademark provides a guarantee of
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"It is a minefield of making sure you have proper verification, authenticity; you've got to know your cuts if you're buying cut stones," she says.
Buying equities in mining companies with significant diamond operations would be one way to gain exposure to rising prices, she says, but the largest producers tend to be relatively minor arms of much larger operations, meaning their shares have little direct correlation with diamond prices.
There are diamond-focused small-cap companies, but not that many, Ms. Richards says. Buying into these means carrying all of the additional risks of investing in junior miners.
There are few other alternatives for investors—to date there is only one listed investment vehicle holding the stones themselves, Diamond Circle Capital, which launched in 2008.
Ms. Richards says: "It's still not a mature investment class. What we want to see is a little more maturity in that asset class."


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Kiril Stanchev is born in 1974 in the ancient and picturesque Danubian city of Rousse. He is a representative of the new generation of young Bulgarian artists who are trying to combine the beauty in the tradition of the old masters with the complex emotions of the present. Inspired initially by the rich cultural atmosphere of his own family, and particularly by his grandfather Kiril Stanchev Sr., one of the biggest names in Bulgarian art, Stanchev developed his style under the supervision of some of the best Bulgarian artists in the Sofia College of Fine Arts. According to him nature is the eternal source of the beautiful, it never stops to amaze our imagination and is the reason for his preoccupation with landscapes.
' Nature is boundless and there is nothing in the modern world even in the slightest similar to the feeling of owe experienced when faced with a mountain peak piercing the horizon and at the same time rushing down to reincarnate itself on the still surface of the resting sea. There is nothing like the flickering lights of the thousands of lives immersed in the magic of the city when encountering the first moments of the night.'
In his work the painter combines and juxtaposes light and shadow, matter and density, he studies in detail the specificity and harmony of the natural forms and manages to recreate on the canvass the meandering of his own moods and emotions.
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In the last fifteen years Kiril Stanchev managed to establish his name among the most promising Bulgarian painters and presented his work in a number of co-authered and individual exhibitions. His paintings are owned by collectors and galleries world-wide including USA, Canada, Australia, and most of the European countries.
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