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By most measures, the Denver area commercial real estate market has never been in better shape. In most of the major submarkets, rental rates have reached new highs, and vacancy rates have never been lower.
The Central Business District, however, is struggling with subleased space and downsizing of companies, which has kept rental rates flat and driven the vacancy rate to about 15% at mid-year, from a 10-year low of about 12% at the end of 1994.
But there is much to crow about. For the first time in a decade, plans are on the drawing board for spec office buildings. The $4 billion Denver International Airport opened with great fanfare as did the $215 million Coors Field.
Industrial vacancies are so low that a California developer, Majestic Realty Co., is talking about building a 250,000-sq.-ft. spec warehouse in the 750-acre Aurora Business Center.
John Waggoner of Denver's Lowe Enterprises says he's seen significant rental increases in response to the declining vacancies -- "particularly in the A to B+ office market."
Lenders who red-lined Denver during the oil boom and bust of the 1980s because of its glut of space now find it red hot.
Says Doug Jones, president of Jones Realty, a local commercial real estate firm: "I think the market is obviously good. It is not as electric as it was in 1994, which is not to say it is bad, because it is not. But some people had expectations a little high for 1995. I think it will kick up again in '96."
George Thorn, president of Mile High Property Services Inc., also is enthused. "My outlook across the board is very positive," Thorn says. "I'm bullish. But having been through the '80s, I'm cautiously bullish. I firmly believe that with the big infrastructure projects -- DIA, Coors Field and all of the other things going on -- Denver is for real again."
Tim Harrington, vice president of the office division for Grubb & Ellis, also is enthusiastic about the market. "The overall market is fairly healthy," Harrington says. "If you break it down into specific submarkets, we have some that are very, very healthy with very little space available. That is especially true in the southeast suburban and the west markets.
"If you look at the weaker market, you're looking at Aurora (east of Denver), midtown (offices at the edge of downtown) and the central business district, Harrington says.
Sherman Miller, senior vice president of CB Commercial, says every property type is improving. "My gut feel is that all indicators in the market will continue to be strong," he said. "Values are rising for almost every property type."
Miller doesn't think the area will go through the boom/bust cycle it did in the 1980s, despite the most industrial, office, retail and apartment construction in a decade. "There is not such easy availability of financing, and with a lot of corporate downsizing, everyone is being very cautious," he says.
Lowe Enterprises' Waggoner sees the market getting closer to a time that justifies new construction and says that although in general there will be only a relatively small amount of new development, the Denver area will be one of the few active new development areas.
Steve Clarke, president and CEO of Englewood, Colo.-based Prime West, notices that there are some recent changes in the state of the Colorado real estate market. "The most striking change that's taking place in the commercial market in the Denver Metropolitan Area is the rapid increase of rental rates for office properties, with a corresponding decrease in vacancy rates in Class-A and Class-B buildings to the 7% to 11% level in most suburban markets," Clarke says. "This is accompanied by fewer tenant finish dollars being available to tenants, particularly in a renewal situation."
Rick Pederson, senior vice president at the Frederick Ross Co., says office absorption has slowed dramatically because of corporate downsizing and the lack of available space, which has forced many companies to choose build-to-suits. Also, rising lease rates make ownership more attractive resulting in a drop in leasing activity. "Other than that, the office market is fairly healthy," Pederson says.
The third-tier space, however is being converted into other uses, such as housing, hotels or retail. "That's a trend I'm finding around the world," he says.
Greg Morris, executive vice president of Fuller and Co., which like Frederick Ross is a large, local commercial firm, has seen a similar trend.
"In the first six months of the year, approximately 800,000 sq. ft. of multitenant office space has been converted to some other use," Morris says. "That represents 1% of our market."
Doug Wulf, a Fuller and Co. broker, notes that the top office buildings in the Southeast suburban market at mid-year had a vacancy rate of only 2.45%, and rates had risen to more than 20% from the beginning of the year, with the best space getting more than $20 per sq. ft.
Today, Denver building owners are pocketing more than many landlords in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles that have higher rates, Wulf says. That's because operating costs are so much less expensive in Denver.
Industrial, however, may outperform all of the markets, with huge demand and little supply, Pederson says. Most of the activity is near the new airport.
For example, Bill Pauls, managing director of the Denver Technological Center, the premier office park in the Denver area, and the $27 billion General Electric Investment Corp. are developing 1,200 acres in the Gateway area at the doorstep of DIA.
One savvy investor who continues to find the Denver-area market attractive is the legendary Fort Worth, Texas, investor Richard Rainwater. Rainwater is the man who turned the Texas Bass family's fortune of $50 million into more than $1 billion. His real estate investment trust, Crescent Real Estate, has purchased prized office buildings and hotels in downtown Denver, the strong submarkets of Cherry Creek and the Denver Technological Center office park.
"It is pretty obvious that Denver outpaced the U.S. average in the early 1990s," says Gerald Haddock, president of Crescent. "It probably will tail off some but will still be way ahead of the average."
Steve Leonard, president of Pacifica Holding Co., has been a big buyer of office, retail and industrial properties and, more recently, land.
Since the early-1990s, Pacifica paid about $160 million for 6.25 million sq. ft. of space, which today is valued at about $220 million.
With bargains harder to come by, Leonard's buying spree has slowed, but he's looking to develop a couple of spec office buildings and so-called "flex-space" hybrid building that combines office and industrial uses in several locations.
"The real play is in office and industrial," Leonard says. "There are some big players getting ready to get into it, especially in the northeast area around DIA."
He points to Bill Pauls, general manager of the Denver Tech Center and another huge office business park south of Denver called the Meridian International Business Center, who bought 1,200 acres near DIA.
Millions of square feet of industrial properties, offices and hotels eventually will be built on his property at the doorstep of the airport.
Another big player near the airport is Majestic Realty, one of California's largest developers. It is planning a 250,000 sq. ft., spec industrial building after it purchases the Aurora Business Center this fall.
Bruce Etkin, chairman of Denver-based Etkin Equities Inc., has been the Energizer Bunny of buying commercial real estate. And unlike others, he plans to keep buying, and buying and buying. "We see significant, continued reduction in vacancy rates," Etkin says, "and we see rental increases of 20% to 25% in most product types."
Etkin thought it would take another five years before buildings sold for their replacement cost, but now he sees it hitting that mark within two years. "We see a significant amount of new construction getting ready to go and we're extremely happy about it," he says. "That's because new construction means rents have risen high enough to justify it."
Terry Hart, marketing manager for LaSalle Partners, is glad they didn't pull out of Denver during the tough times. "We made a bet to stay in Denver, and it was the right thing to do," Hart says. "We oversee a portfolio of 2 million sq. ft. here and 175 million sq. ft. around the U.S. and Europe. We've been really impressed by the tremendous activity in Denver in 1994, and while things have slowed a bit in 1995, it hasn't slowed to the point where we are worried."
Jeff Castleton, director of marketing and leasing for COMPASS, the management arm of Equitable, sees the same trend. "We enjoyed a big increase in lease rates in 1994, but now rates are remaining flat in the Central Business District," he says. COMPASS' downtown buildings include the 654,093 sq. ft. 17th Street Plaza that was 94% leased at mid-year, the 328,000 sq. ft. Mellon Financial Center, also 94% leased and several smaller buildings, many of them 100% occupied.
There has been some concern that the Denver-area apartment market is becoming overbuilt, but Jeff Hawks, an apartment expert with CB Commercial, believes if anything, the area faces a shortage of units. "Even with immigration slowing down, we're seeing 30,000 people being added to the metro area," Hawks says. "And we're only building 3,500 to 4,000 units per year, while in the early-1980s, we were building 9,000."
Meanwhile, the Colorado Springs market, 55 miles south of Denver, is booming.
"I see continued strength," says Les Gruen, vice president and director of research for Palmer McAllister Co., a dominant commercial real estate firm in the Springs. "The big constraint we have in Colorado Springs right now is the lack of large blocks of contiguous space. Hopefully, we'll see more spec construction."
Lease rates in Colorado Springs are cheap even by Denver standards, and Denver rates still are among the lowest in the country.
"That's true," Gruen says, "and we still have a beautiful city and a tremendous quality of life compared to just about anywhere in the country."


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2016 USA Memory Championship
2016 USA Memory Championship
I guess we'll be getting a new USA Champion this year! It won't be me, haha!
Does anyone here know how you take the Poetry test? Do you type it into a computer on a keyboard, or write it out by hand? If by hand, is printing preferred, as I don't trust my cursive to be legible anymore. Also, is there anything we should bring? Pencils, pens, cards, etc. The website doesn't seem to address this.
I think that it's all on paper. I'm not sure if people bring their own cards.
Tracym don't say that! You can be the champion but first you must believe it. I believe you can do it. Just do your training.
You have to write the poem out by hand and I would suggest doing it in print. You don't want someone to think a letter is another letter.
You don't need to bring anything but you can bring your cards to so can warm up and such. But they give you paper and pens.
Is anyone staying at the Hershey Lodge the night before? I would enjoy meeting anyone on this forum who is going to the USAMC.
Does anyone know the typical order that the memory events occur?
I'm staying at the nearby Days Inn, but I'm not getting there until late Friday night. I'd love to hang out with folks after the competition, though.
Hope you all do great :) The order is always N&F, 5 minute Numbers, Poem, and Speed Cards.
A quick note: Don't forget capitalization and punctuation in the Poem! It helps to have an image system for the various punctuation marks (Nelson does this quite well). Last year I wrote like 250 points down but forgot a bunch of punctuation marks, so my score got docked to 178.
I'm thinking about maybe making the trip from Montreal to the USA Memory Championships next week. I don't have a car and it includes a little too much traveling and hosting expenses for a one day event where I can't even compete, but it would be more affordable if I could find a ride from New York or Albany and maybe split the cost of 2 bed hotel room the night before. I'm writing this here just in case.
Is there another competition somewhere else this weekend? Alex is the only one from last year's top 8 that is coming this year.
I do this just for fun so I don't put a lot of practice time in, but I might actually have a shot at making the finals with so many top competitors missing (finished 26th and 23rd my first 2 years). Only 4 people who finished ahead of me last year will be there. I've never even practiced the championship round events. Yikes, now I'm nervous.
I knew that Nelson was not coming because he's in the Himalayas making an assault on Mt. Everest, and Everett had hinted in a post he wasn't coming. Maybe the other athletes are saving their efforts and travel expenses for the XMT and the US Memory Open. I thought for sure Livan would be coming because he gets an automatic bye into the finals. Maybe the list they published was just incomplete.
@Kiko - do you have a list of the competitors that you can send me? Thanks. I'm sure you'll do great!
@Tracy - Yeah, I didn't train at all this last year so I thought it probably wouldn't be worth the time and money... Are you competing?
@Everett - Yeah, I'm competing. Sorry to miss you, though. Also, the participant list is part of that document called "2016 Program" that is now available on the USA Memory Championship's website, http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/.
Nice! Hope you do well. Yeah, maybe next year if I train more. Thanks for the link!
Here are some videos and articles about the USA Memory Competition:
Alex with the World Record in Speed Cards!! :D Hope it counts!
I wish that there were more updates. Here are Alex's new records so far:
- US numbers: 483 digits
- Speed cards: 18.653 seconds
Well that was humbling. Alex, as expected, dominated, although Brad Sundstrom gave him a run for his money during the Double Deck O' Fun, taking him to around 70-75 cards. In addition to Alex's records mentioned above, young Katherine He scored an out of this world 335 or so in poetry. I think Alex's scores in poetry were around 240, and he won the Names & Faces event with 170.
I had performance anxiety like you would not believe. After getting a decent 102 in Names and Faces, during speed numbers I just froze, sort of dumbly looking at those numbers which back home come so easily. I creaked out 60, barely. In the second attempt, I tried for 80, but blanked on a locus and couldn't come up with it, so 60 was my score there. Speed cards was a disaster. I guess I should have practiced with real cards, because I totally bungled the reassambly order during recall, getting a whopping TWO in the first round, then in the second round switching two images on my fifth locus, ending up with an incredible EIGHT. I don't even want to talk about poetry. Suffice to say, I finished 35th out of the 54 contestants. But I had fun, met some fantastic people, and would love to practice and try to do this again.
It was nice meeting you yesterday Tracy (this is Kyle by the way, which isn't evident from my username :-) ). I wouldn't put too much weight on your performance with it being your first year. Consider it a learning experience.
Alex's results were incredible. If anyone finds video of his speed card memorization, please post a link. Also, Katherine memorized the entire poem. Who knows, maybe she would have gotten an even higher score if there were more points available (longer poem, longer lines, more punctuation). Incredible memory feats!
Local news coverage of the event: http://abc27.com/2016/05/08/national-memory-championship-tests-competiti...
It was great meeting you, too. It's always great to have someone to talk baseball with!
I was following along online with the competition and I must say it sounds like it was a fun one! I do regret not going due to work obligations, but I noticed, Lance, Nelson, Johnny, and Everett were not in attendance either so I guess I wasn't the only one.
Tracy - That anxiety is exactly what I felt the first year too. At home I was doing a deck in 45 seconds and the day of I had to review it a second time because I was so nervous and ended up with 1:22. The only way to get over it is to do more competitions, at least that was the case for me. In Sweden I had to sit next to Yanjaa and Jonas Von Essen so as you can image speed cards was intimidating but what I did was waiting for them to finish their runs before I started mine, that meant I wasn't worried about their times, or them slamming their hands down and distracting me. Can anyone tell me what the 2nd fastest CARD time was, and who was 2nd place for SPEED NUMBERS? I am more interested in the GAP between Alex and others. Thanks!
@Memory-Magician: Brad Sundstrom did 202 in Speed Numbers, and I'm fairly certain he was in second place there. For Speed Cards, I think he told me he did about 1:52, and I THINK he was the second fastest there, as well. Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have such a good memory. :-)
Wow Nice! Brad is the 5th American to break the 200 digit mark! :) Thanks for the update Tracy.
FYI - the results are posted now:
For anyone interested, I wrote a blog recapping this year's competition. Didn't get a chance to meet everyone, but nice to meet new faces (Tracy, Kyle) and see old ones again!
More coverage from yesterday:
Thanks for mentioning ArtOfMemory.com! :)
Nice article about Brad: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/may/31/...


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David Horowitz: 'Sanctuary' Secessionists Must Be Prosecuted!
The David Horowitz Freedom Center calls on Trump to prosecute secessionists.
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Collegiate campuses have long been the home to hardcore leftist ideas and Cultural Marxist powwows, but in the world that is 2017 America, these leftists have moved past ideologues and are now bordering on becoming total secessionists for their promotion of "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants – criminals.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center's latest initiative calls for President Trump to defend any public university that has decided to call itself a "sanctuary" and to, in turn, prosecute officials both at the university and at the state level who choose to promote this activity.
"There are now 500 sanctuary cities in the United States," Horowitz described in a post to his website FrontPage Magazine, "virtually all Democratic, which are pledged not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security in its efforts to secure our borders." What this means is we have states complicit in not helping us identify and prosecute terrorists, we have states intending on not deporting illegal, criminal aliens. It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that California is leading the way. California, and other states participating in this "sanctuary" nonsense are aiding in the development of the cold civil war that is currently dividing the American people.
Janet Napolitano, the President of the University of California system, is one of Horowitz's primary targets and the reason he started the "No Sanctuary Campuses" campaign. Her malevolent and seditious behavior should come as no surprise considering her history as Secretary of Homeland Security under Barrack Obama – another individual leading the seditious charge against President Trump.
Horowitz has been a staunch critic of the academic left and of university officials and professors since his breakaway from the left over forty years ago. His career has been dedicated to combatting the immoral behavior of the liberal elite on college campuses and also on informing individuals about terrorism and radical Islam. A Fox News report described the group's mission as attempting to defend: "free societies whose moral, cultural and economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and religious, at home and abroad."
We're making some waves against the seditious sanctuary left: https://t.co/BuNzjFDq3V
— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) March 24, 2017
Horowitz, in his post on FrontPage Magazine, stated: "Sanctuary campuses are not only part of a radical attack on America's social, political, and education establishment but a dagger aimed at the rule of law and the nation's safety."
As a patriot, Horowitz hopes to fight this "sanctuary" phase till its death. It is in the best interest of Americans and the legal migrants we endorse to fight these institutions and encourage a shift away from this illiberalism.
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I don't use html myself to send mails, but when I receive one I would like to be able to forward it as html. It's possible to have that option?
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|Thats kinda what bounce does, although the difference between forward and bounce is that bounce looks like it came from the original sender, forward looks like it came from you. Which effects where the reply goes.
|Carlos Rocha
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|Precisely. The "engine" is already there. Only the sender changes.
One option in the right click menu like "Forward as html" would be enough.
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Best of The Simpsons Season Two QuotesEric Hochberger at . Comments
Back in 1990, The Simpsons began a tradition with season two that has continued for the last twenty years with the first "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special.
Season two was also notable for introducing us to plenty of recurring characters including Dr. Hibbert, his less successful counterpart Dr. Nick, Akira, and so many other faces we still see to this day.
Oh and did we mention we first met Phil Hartman's wonderful contributions of Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure that we would enjoy for eight more seasons until the actor's untimely death in 1998?
Or what about the many other celebrities that would lend their voices to characters including Danny DeVito, Dustin Hoffman, and Ringo Starr. Yeah, season two featured some amazing episodes.
Don't believe us? Well then you better start reading our collection of The Simpsons season two quotes and be convinced.
Fine, too lazy for that? Then check out our selection of our favorite Simpsons quotes from the season:
(Bart has just given a poor book report on Treasure Island.)
Mrs. Krabappel: Bart, did you read the book?
Bart: Mrs.Krabappel, I am insulted. Is this a book report or a witch hunt?
Mrs. Krabappel: Then perhaps you'd like to tell us the name of the pirate.
Bart's Brain: Blackbeard. Captain Nemo. Captain Hook. Long John Silver. Peg Leg Pete. Bluebeard.
Bart: Bluebeard? | permalink
(After dinner at the Simpsons goes badly and costs Mr.Burns the election, he and Smithers head home.)
Mr. Burns: Ironic, isn't it, Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election. And yet, if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir. | permalink
Marge: Homer, I couldn't help overhearing you warp Bart's mind.
Homer: And?
Marge: I'm worried that you're making to big a deal of this silly little kiddie golf tournament.
Homer: But, Marge, this is our big chance to show up the Flandereses.
Marge: I'm sure it is, but why do we want to do that?
Homer: Because sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves. | permalink
Bart: Otto, I'm going to jump Springfield Gorge on my skateboard.
Otto: You know, Bart, as the only adult here, I feel I should say something?
Bart: What?
Otto: Cool! | permalink
Kent Brockman: Are cartoons too violent for children? Most people would say "No, of course not, what kind of stupid question is that?" But one woman says "Yes"... Marge Simpson. | permalink
Lionel Hutz: Hutz is the name, Mr. Simpson. Lionel Hutz, attorney at law. Here's my card. It turns into a sponge when you put it in water.
Homer: Ooh, classy. | permalink
Marge: Hmm, well, to be honest, he seemed a lot more concerned about wrapping Bart in bandages than in making him feel better. And he mispronounced words that even I know, like abdomen... and his office was dirty. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if he was even a doctor! | permalink
Homer: Poison? What should I do, what should I do? Tell me, quick.
Chef: Oh, no need to panic. There's a map to the hospital on the back of the menu. | permalink
Homer: Marge, honey, I've got five words to say to you: (Counts on fingers) Greasy Joe's Bottomless Bar-B-Q Pit!
Marge: Oh, Homer, remember you promised you'd try to limit pork to six servings a week?
Homer: Marge, I'm only human! | permalink
Skinner: Bart, I'm flabbergasted. Surely you knew as you were writing your own name in 40-foot-high letters on the field that you would be caught.
Bart: Maybe it was one of the other Barts. Sir.
Skinner: (Yelling) There are no other Barts! | permalink
Bart: Ya know, Grampa kinda smells like that trunk in the garage where the bottom's all wet.
Lisa: Nuh-uh. He smells more like a photo lab.
Homer: Stop it, both of you! Grampa smells like a regular old man, which is more like a hallway in a hospital.
Marge: Homer, that's terrible! We should be teaching the children to treasure the elderly. You know, we'll be old someday.
Homer: (Gasps) My God, you're right, Marge! You kids won't put me in a home like I did to my dad, would ya?
Bart: Well
Homer: (Screams) Marge, what do we do!? | permalink
Mr. Bergstrom: There is a wonderful girl's future at stake.
Homer: Well, if she's so wonderful, give her an A!
Mr. Bergstrom: I am giving her an A.
Homer: Great, but don't tell her it was a favor to me. Tell her she earned it.
Mr. Bergstrom: Mr. Simpson, she did earn it.
Homer: You are smooth, I'll give you that. | permalink
Marge: So maybe a part-time job is the answer.
Bart: Aw, Mom, I couldn't ask you to do that. You're already taking care of Maggie, and Lisa is such a handful--
Lisa: She means you should get a job, stupid. | permalink
Homer: Don't you know the story of Hercules and the lion?
Bart: Is it a Bible story?
Homer: Yeah, probably. Anyway, once upon a time, there was a big mean lion who got a thorn in his paw. All the village people tried to pull it out, but nobody was strong enough! So they got Hercules, and Hercules used his mighty strength, and...bingo! Anyway, the moral is, the lion was so happy, he gave Hercules this big...thing...of riches.
Bart: How did a lion get rich?
Homer: It was the olden days! | permalink
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa is an unceasing disease of the apocrine glands, a form of sweat gland found on a number of parts of the body. For unidentified causes, people with Hidradenitis Suppurativa extend to blockage of their apocrine glands. This develops constant scarring and pus development in the areas where there is skin to skin contact. The condition is alike acne, which is also a disease of the sebaceous glands.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa is extensive in people who have had acne. Hidradenitis Suppurativa typically starts as red swellings in the groin or armpits. Over a period of hours to days the lesions increase and frequently open to the skin surface releasing clear to yellow fluid. The caught up area then cures with scarring.
Key Facts of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa is an incessant illness of sweat organs which can happen in numerous zones of the body
- Normally it grows in the armpits, crotch or butt-centric territory
- This ailment is as skin aggravation and can be profoundly agonizing for the sufferer
- This disorder is most normal in ladies and is non-infectious in nature
- It exists as bunches of endless abscesses, epidermoid blisters, sebaceous sores, pilonidal growth or multilocalised diseases
- The agony and sorrow brought about because of the malady is extremely hard to oversee and may prompt constant complexities that can likewise get life threatening with the progression of time
Causes of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Following are some of the root causes of Hidradenitis Suppurativathat are responsible for its onset:
- Excess weight
- Stress
- Hormonal changes
- Heat or excessive perspiration
- Blockage of the oil (sebaceous) glands and hair follicles with fluid and dead skin cells
- Bacteria attack on the sweaty areas
- Genetic inheritance
- Cigarette smoking
- Crohn's disease or Graves' disease
Symptoms of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Some of the most common symptoms of Hidradenitis Suppurativa include:
- Occurrence of the disorder around hair follicles where many oil and sweat glands are found
- Blackheads which are small pitted areas of skin containing blackheads, often appearing in pairs or a "double-barreled" pattern
- Red, tender bumps
- Painful, pea-sized lumps
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It's not a conflict most of us are new to: the butting heads of an evangelical Christian and an atheist. Of course, Matthew Chapman's thriller, The Ledge, takes this typical opposition and adds a salacious complication: a beautiful woman. Now, with such a ubiquitous conflict, Chapman has lots of room to explore more fully the back and forth between these two schools of thought, but unfortunately the film only skirts that concept and uses it as a more of a means to an end rather than a conversation.
The film focuses on three different men and in that, two different debates. The first pair comes together when one of them threatens to jump to his death from - you guessed it - a ledge. The first man, Officer Hollis (Terrence Howard) finds out his children aren't biologically his right before being called to talk Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) off his perch. Of course, as he finds out, Gavin is on the opposite side of that fence; Hunnam's character not only covets, but sleeps with his neighbor's wife. While this conflict of interest for Howard's character is one of the more interesting aspects of the film, it's overshadowed by the clandestine love affair and a slew of turgid, inconclusive theological discussions.
As Hollis tries desperately to sort out his own demons and get Gavin off the roof, the would-be jumper slowly unravels the details of the romance that landed him there. If he doesn't jump at noon, "someone else" dies. Now, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that "someone else" is Shana (Liv Tyler), the wife of that evangelical Christian neighbor, Joe (Patrick Wilson). Is that enough plot for you? Because it was certainly more than enough for me. As we wind our way through this ambitiously complicated story, we encounter Joe's textbook impenetrable Christian ideals thrown right up against Gavin and his homosexual roommate. Oh yes, the plot tries to get into that debate as well.
The capable cast does its best to bring the hefty, winding story back down to earth and they almost succeed. Hunnam is the weakest of the bunch, but he's really there as a bit of beefcake to tempt Tyler's sheltered character. The real heavyweight here is Wilson, who despite being dealt a fairly narrow character who rattles off the same overzealous discourse we've heard time and again, gives his performance everything he's got. Joe isn't much more than his stalwart religion and his mounting anger, but Wilson tries damn hard to offer just a little something extra. Howard similarly lends weight to his character's story, though it unfortunately becomes little more than an afterthought once the romance between Gavin and Shana gets going.
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The Ledge seems to be a case of Chapman biting off more than he could chew. Every aspect of the plot is a worthy, intriguing topic, but when they all collide in a mere two-hour period, it's a challenge to give any of the components the attention and depth they really deserve.
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I am famously bad at parties. I am bad at giving them, and bad at attending them. I cannot handle small talk, and I am of the sort that prefers to discuss a topic in-depth with one person for several hours, rather than mingle and have superficial conversations with many folks over the party-period. If you are having a party? Don't invite me. Then I will not feel bad for either failing to attend, or for being a total drag if I do.
The great Elsa Maxwell probably would have labeled me as one of her insufferable "bores" -- people who just plain lack whatever gene is necessary to engage pleasantly in social niceties. In the mid-20th century, Elsa Maxwell was a renowned gossip columnist and "professional hostess," which basically meant she gave marvelous parties for fabulous people and patiently explained to others how they might also do so.
She hung out with Cole Porter and Noel Coward, and partied with royalty, with political leaders and with Hollywood stars. The frontispiece portrait in her out-of-print memoir, "R.S.V.P.," was drawn for her by Salvador Dali, and she thanks him quite graciously for it, too.
The art of the party was a critical aspect of social culture for a certain class of people following World War II, in a time during which so much was in flux. Elsa Maxwell specialized in making these parties fun, positioning herself as an authority on having a good time.
This would be curious enough if she managed to do it as a person accustomed to certain privileges, but Elsa Maxwell was the product an upbringing fairly described as impoverished, herself "a short, fat, homely piano player from Keokuk, Iowa, with no money or background, [who] decided to become a legend and did just that," in her own words.
In Simon Doonan's view, Elsa Maxwell was:
...not only ingenious, creative, witty, musical, highly intelligent, and extremely naughty, but, most importantly, she was also rather fat... Permit me to explain: Her chosen milieu was the world of international high society, a world where you could never be too rich or too thin. Chunky, rule-breaking, nonthreatening Elsa Maxwell charged in and trampled all the old rules governing this uptight, food-disordered monde. She gave all the aristos, swans, and moguls carte blanche to have fun.
Elsa Maxwell was also an unbashed name-dropper, given to comments like "I remember the first time I met Eleanor Roosevelt," or reminiscences about the time she encouraged Albert Einstein to play violin at Charlie Chaplin's house. Seriously. She is further credited with inventing the scavenger hunt, and was very partial to costumes and games at all of her parties.
Elsa is also commonly thought to have been a lesbian, although as with so many historical queer folks, the legitimacy of this story is difficult to confirm. Certainly Elsa was not interested in male romantic attention (she describes Cole Porter as "one of three men I've been attracted to in my entire life"), enough that she was disposed to resist even the enormous pressures placed on a woman in her position -- that is to say, poor -- to marry to ensure her own fiscal stability, at one point running away from home to work with a traveling theater troupe.
In "R.S.V.P.," Elsa tells the story of one man she agreed to marry, but whom later seemed to reconsider. She asks him if there is "another woman":
"When you say another woman," Alex answered gravely, "you imply there are two women in my life. That is wrong. There is only one woman, but she is not you. You are a fine person, but there is something in you that will always stop you from being a real woman."
There was nothing I could say, for I knew he was right.
Rule-breaking, indeed.
Below are a few bits of Elsa's wisdom from two of her books on the art of enjoyable society, "Elsa Maxwell's Etiquette Book," from 1951, and "How to Do It, or the Lively Art of Entertaining," from 1957.
On the origins of dumb social rules:
There was a time when any etiquette book would have been required to devote at least one short chapter to gloves alone... But all of this belongs to a stuffy age when women, inactive in world affairs and disinterested in pretty nearly everything outside of their homes, families, and tiny social orbits, made life difficult and etiquette something to be abhorred.
On being an interesting conversationalist:
In the world today there is no excuse for lack of something to talk about. Five cents buys most newspapers. [...] Don't skip the editorials that present a viewpoint opposed to yours. Read them more carefully than you read anything else. Those who fear to change their thinking limit themselves to a very small world.
On taxicab drivers:
There are hundreds of jokes about taxicab drivers. Most of them are uncomplimentary. And most of them I find unfunny, probably because I like taxicab drivers; find them warm and interesting human beings.
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Whenever tips are mentioned I remember James Cagney, the movie star. 'I have no patience for those who leave a meager ten per cent when they can afford more, excusing themselves on the grounds that it is vulgar to tip generously,' Jimmy said. 'If tips were part of their income I'll bet their tune would change, I'll bet they'd be darn glad to have their services recognized with a little more than the minimum.'
On Joan Crawford's hostessing abilities:
If ever there was anyone who proves that you need not come from rich or social parents to be a charming woman and a great hostess, it is Joan Crawford... At a small party at her house you are almost certain to find one of your favorite dishes included in the menu. She is a busy woman -- but not too busy to keep a little book in which she lists, among other things, her friends' preferences in food.
The above was written in 1951. Something must have happened between Elsa and Joan between then and 1957 -- I like to imagine they had a passionate romance that ended explosively -- because in her subsequent book, Elsa says:
The necessity of giving careful thought and time to food is, I suppose, one reason actresses so rarely make good hostesses. In a profession that assesses glamour largely in terms of tape-measure and scale, hearty appetites must be sternly put down, and the best way to accomplish that, of course, is simply not to think about food at all. The result is that many actresses find it easier on their powers not to entertain at all (I have never known either Bette Davis or Joan Crawford to give what could properly be called a party)...
BURN. Also the association with Bette Davis? DOUBLE BURN.
On dealing with drunks at your party:
The problem of what to do with excessive drinkers confounds most hostesses because they tend to regard inebriates as being in a mentally deranged state and therefore potentially dangerous... nevertheless my advice to any host who has allowed such a situation to develop is to order to offender off the premises in no uncertain terms, and to back up the order with a discreet show of bodily force if necessary. If you haven't one strong-armed man in the group to help, ask for a little teamwork from the spindlier ones.
On the profound social changes following World War II:
[World War II] forced families which previously would have been horrified to have their women in business to alter this thinking... At the risk of sounding feminist -- and maybe I am, although I do not think of myself that way -- women have done very well in business. They have taken their places beside men on assembly lines. They have become executives in banks and brokerage and insurance houses. They are presidents and buyers and general managers in the big department stores.
Most of Elsa's books, including her unexpectedly fascinating memoir, are long out of print, the one exception being "How to Do It," which was reprinted in 2005. Why her life hasn't yet been turned into an epic film is beyond me (Hollywood? I'm waiting on your call), as her story bears all the fascination of a traditional rags-to-riches tale with a snarky, self-assured, convention-defying whirlwind of a lady at its center.
Maybe Elsa wouldn't have called me a bore. Maybe she would have appreciated my inclination toward passionate argument instead of chirping discussions about the weather or... my shoes. Either way, she still has my respect and admiration for being an opinionated lady who dared break the rules.


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Zaki's Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
|James Franco as the Wizard of Oz
But while the director does his best to invest his trademark visual flair into this (*cough*unofficial*cough*) prequel to MGM's 1939 screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, that flair is largely subsumed by sumptuous, empty calorie excess. Oz is less a personal statement than it is a checklist of blockbuster "to-dos." It trades on the audience's long-entrenched familiarity with the original film's redolent imagery (re-imagined here in glorious high-def 3D) but relies on that familiarity to forgive the absence of little things like character and depth.
Oz the Great and Powerful stars a game (if completely miscast) James Franco as Oscar Diggs, a ne'er-do-well con man who masquerades as a the magician "Oz" in a traveling circus in dustbowl-era Kansas, with a line for every occasion and a girl in every town. When one of his ill-planned hustles involving a strong man's girlfriend catches up to him, Diggs escapes the suffocating 4x3 confines of Kansas in a hot air balloon, and after an encounter with a wayward twister, is deposited into the technicolor landscape of Oz (a.k.a. Pandora-lite).
Once there, he makes the acquaintance of Theodora (Mila Kunis), a witch of indeterminate goodness, who informs him that he's the fulfillment of a long-in-coming prophecy involving some business about a wizard dropping from the sky bearing the same name as the land. It's all very convenient. Anyway, before long, Oz makes the acquaintance of Finley, a flying monkey voiced by Zach Braff (what is it about James Franco and talking monkeys, anyway?), and sets off on a certain Yellow Brick Road toward a certain Emerald City and a meeting with a certain good witch (Michelle Williams). Will he pull off the ultimate con, or will he perhaps learn a lesson about heroism and leadership? I wonder.
I mentioned earlier how Franco is miscast a role that calls for equal parts smarminess and world-weariness to really sell it. Think of a young Bill Murray, or even the man who was originally being courted for the role, Robert Downey. As it is, Franco feels like he's sitting at a distance from the proceedings, never fully engaging. It's as if he's playing dress-up in his dad's clothes.
When caught in his hot air balloon in the middle of the twister, his plaintiff cry to the heavens that he'll change his ways if given a chance should be a revelatory moment, but instead it just feels empty and removed. And the complaint about age-appropriateness doesn't stop at Franco. It can also be lodged at the two love interests duking it out for Oz's affection, Kunis and Williams, both of whom feel like little kids marching through roles intended for grown-ups. Of the human cast, the only one who seems to "fit" is Rachel Weisz as scheming witch Evanora.
In fact, "empty" and "removed" are pretty apt descriptors for everything we see. The CGI landscapes are at once rich & lush (especially in 3D), but also cheap & fake. We go through the motions as we're introduced to a variety of characters in the "real" world of Kansas, who we've been conditioned to know will turn up later in a different form. And Zach Braff (as Oz's long-suffering assistant) was there! And Michelle Williams (as a woman who loves Oz but is engaged to a man named "Gale"...hmmm) was there! We've been down this yellow brick path before, so it's less about making any new statement than it is about firing the neurons of familiarity.
|Michelle Williams as Good Witch Glinda
As a result, like Oz the character, Oz the film is afflicted with a kind of schizophrenia as it tries mightily to determine precisely what kind of story it wants to be -- a romp or an adventure -- and doesn't quite land at either. Although it tries mightily to populate the screen with elaborate feasts for the senses, Oz the Great and Powerful is boxed-in by the narrative tropes of its forebear. Like its main character, it's ready to go with light, sound, and spectacle, but it's all just an elaborate facade for something altogether ordinary. C-*
* (Except for the monkey. Loved that monkey. Give him his own movie.)
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Sunday is the 85th Academy Awards® and it is the eighth year for this little exercise of Sherlockian inanity. The last seven years I wrote this for SherlockPeoria but that weekly Webpage ended in June of last year. Inow have this blog and will carry on the tradition here. I will be using this year's nominations for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, and the Best Director. In six steps or less, I will tie these nominees to a Sherlock Holmes film.
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper/ Silver Linings Playbook
- Bradley Cooper/ Wedding Crashers (2005) with Owen Wilson.
- Owen Wilson/ Shanghai Noon (2000) with Lucy Liu
- Lucy Liu/ Elementary
- Daniel Day-Lewis/Gandhi (1985) with Ben Kingsley
- Ben Kingsley/Without A Clue (1988)
- Hugh Jackman/ Van Helsing (2004) with Richard Roxburgh
- Richard Roxburgh/The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
Joaquin Phoenix/ The Master
- Joaquin Phoenix/ Gladiator (2000) with Richard Harris
- Richard Harris/ King of the Wind (1990) with Ian Richardson
- Ian Richardson/ The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
- Denzel Washington/ Much Ado About Nothing with Kenneth Branagh
- Kenneth Branagh/ Shackleton (2002) with John Grillo
- John Grillo/ Brazil (1985) with Jonathan Pryce
- Jonnathan Pryce/ Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain/Zero Dark Thirty
- Jessica Chastain/ Coriolanus (2011) with Ralph Fiennes
- Ralph Fiennes/ The English Patient (1996) with Kevin Whatley
- Kevin Whatley/ Inspector Morse (1987) with John Thaw
- John Thaw/ The Sign of Four (1987)
Jennifer Lawrence/ Silver Linings Playbook
- Jennifer Lawrence/ The Hunger Games (2012) with Woody Harrelson
- Woody Harrelson/No Country for Old Men (2007) with Tommy Lee Jones
- Tommy Lee Jones/ Lonesome Dove (1989) with Robert Duvall
- Robert Duvall/ The Seven Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Emmanuelle Riva/ Amour
- Emmanuella Riva/ XXL (1997) with Gerard Depardieu
- Gerard Depardieu/ Hamlet (1996) with Judi Dench
- Judi Dench/ A Study in Terror (1965)
Quvenzhane Wallis/ Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Quvenzhane Wallis/ Twelve Years a Slave (2013) with Benedict Cumberbatch
- Benedict Cumberbatch/ Sherlock (2012)
Naomi Watts/ The Impossible
- Naomi Watts/ Le Divorce (2003) with Glenn Close
- Glenn Close/ Hamlet (1990) with Ian Holms
- Ian Holmes/ Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) with James Fox
- James Fox/Sherock Holmes (2009)
Best Director
Michael Haneke/ Amour
- Benny's Video (1992) with Angela Winkler
- Angela Winkler/ Peer Gynt (1971) with Bruno Ganz
- Bruno Ganz/ Unknown (2011) with Liam Neeson
- Liam Neeson/ Rob Roy (1995) with Ian Stewart
- Ian Stewart/ The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Benh Zeitlin/ Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Benh Zeitlin/ The Egg (2005) with Max Goldblatt
- Max Goldblatt/ Bushwacked(1995) with Daniel Stern
- Daniel Stern/ Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) with Michael Caine
- Michael Caine/ Without a Clue (1988)
Ang Lee/ Life of Pi
- Ang Lee/Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Tom Wilkinson
- Tom Wilkinson/ Inspector Morse (1985) with John Thaw
- John Thaw/ The Sign of Four (1987)
David O. Russell/ Silver Linings Playbook
- David O. Russell/ The Fighter (2012)with Amy Adams
- Amy Adams/ Charlie Wilson's War (2007) with Julia Roberts
- Julia Roberts/ Mary Rielly (1996) with Wendy Knottingham
- Wendy Knottingham/ Inspector Lewis (2008) with Kevin Whatley
- Kevin Whatley/ Inspector Morse (1987) with John Thaw
- John Thaw/ The Sign of Four (1987)
Steven Spielberg/ Lincoln
- Steven Spielberg/ Saving Private Ryan (1998) with Jeremy Daveis
- Jeremy Davies/Solaris (2002) with Natascha McElhone
- Natascha McElhone/ Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987) with George Baker
- George Baker/ On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) with Diana Rigg
- Diana Rigg/ Hospital (1971) with George C. Scott
- George C. Scott/ They Might Be Giants (1971)
This wraps up another year of "Six-Degrees of Sherlockian Separation" We will do it again for the 86th Annual Academy Awards®. I hope you have enjoyed the effort.
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Named after the New York City running event with which it sometimes coincides, the annual CMJ Music Marathon came to a finish in the early hours of Sunday morning, following four days of panels and hundreds of performances catering to crowds of mostly young people into making new music, seeing it and selling it. Run by the College Music Journal media group best known for charting songs on non-commercial radio, this year's CMJ also celebrated the event's 25th birthday.
Speaking at a CMJ panel last week, Charles Bissell, songwriter for the Wrens, recalled working as a volunteer to gain entry to his first CMJ in the early '90s. After a false start he blames in part to working with too many lawyers, his band finally found long-deserved success last year, their story becoming instant indie rock legend. He was back at CMJ as a performer this year, headlining one of the marathon's hot ticket shows at the Lower East Side's Mercury Lounge.
Musician Mary Timony attended her first CMJ back in 1994, with her former band Helium. In the basement bar of a club blaring Hall and Oates on Thursday, she joked about being a "snotty punk" back then, with a cavalier attitude toward the event. Coming upstairs to the stage at Rothko, she greeted fans as a top-billed solo performer at this year's CMJ.
She and Bissell were joined by hundreds of musicians new to the event, at which many bands are booked based on their submissions to CMJ. They came from all over America, sleeping on couches and playing multiple shows to rooms both packed and empty. Their vans and trailers clogged the downtown streets where Manhattan's rock clubs are clustered, packed to the hilt with guitars, drums, organs, accordions and a variety of thrift-store noisemakers -- anything that might be used to create something audiences had hopefully never seen or heard before but would want to experience again.
There have been mad times for music since the new millennium. Record companies began logging year after year of shrinking sales and increased marketing costs, while going to battle against illegal downloading. Independent bands trying to make it sailed against a new wave of boy bands and manufactured pop princesses. Many who did land a contract discovered that in such a climate, it's far from a guarantee of success. "Artist development is huge," Brendon Mendoza, A&R director for the major label American Recordings, noted during a panel titled The Hit Factory, "But not so widely practiced." Meanwhile, the fans whom both sides of the contract rely upon complained of rising CD prices, concert costs and Ticketmaster fees, and reacted with anger to file-sharing lawsuits.
The celebration of CMJ's 25th anniversary isn't the only positive sign for music in 2005. U.S. CD sales went up 2.3 percent in 2004 - not a lot, but an end to a four-year decline. More people are paying for MP3s, at an average of 6.7 million downloads a week last year, and the Supreme Court sided with the industry in its case against makers of file-sharing software that facilitates illegal swapping. Musicians and fans continued to find new outlets online, through the popularity of the 28 million-member social networking community Myspace, the powerful influence of online news and review sites such as Pitchfork and the rise of MP3 blogging.
CMJ attendees not in a band themselves were there to talk about these issues, network, angle for their first job out of college, see what's cool (this year's biggest overheard "ooohs" were earned by lucky owners of the new iPod nano) and party with friends old and new. But above all CMJ is about the hunt for the next new sound to love.
Last week's showcases and promotional events yielded the usual dose of buzz, trends and quirky favorites. De Novo Dahl impressed as an up-to-the-minute college radio band, costumed in psychedelic prison uniforms and playing fun art pop from their indie-label double-disc "Cats & Kittens." You'd think it might be a New York or San Francisco band, but De Novo Dahl calls Nashville home. The Two Gallants proved to be another of the sort of band one hopes to discover at CMJ, something with obvious staying power. A guitar and drums two-piece that applies heavy volume to a blend of country, folk and blues in a manner reminiscent of the early work of "No Depression" genre pioneers Uncle Tupelo, they're from San Francisco, though their Americana sound suggests the South or Midwest. It's no surprise they've just signed to the highly successful Nebraska independent label Saddle Creek.


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LAFAYETTE —- The Cajundome Convention Center was transformed into France's most-noted city as Krewe of Xanadu members and their guests celebrated "Paris, Ooh La La" at their 23rd annual ball Feb. 8.
The evening was dedicated to Todd Dudley and Irby Simon, and the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. The American flag was presented by Dwayne Guidry. Singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" were Carrie Fite Leonard, Leah Fite Sullivan and Lindsay Fite Finely.
Members of the Lafayette-based women's group represented all things unique to The City of Lights during a tableau that also featured the Xanadu Amusers parading to Mardi Gras tunes and the Xanadudettes performing various musical numbers.
Reigning over the festivities were Queen Xanadu XXIII Maggie Trahan Simar and King Xanadu XXIII Ebbie James Breaux.
Queen Simar, a Family Court hearing officer for the 16th Judicial District, St. Martin Parish, is married to Brannon Todd Simar. They have two children.
King Breaux is general manager of DoCo Industrial Insulators Inc., co-owner of Deano's South, and owner of E&C Supply LLC. He and his wife, Christy Do Breaux, have two children.
Introduced as captain was Debbie K. Mills, who made her entrance as the Eiffel Tower. A registered pharmacist, she is co-owner of Mills' Cashway Pharmacy with her husband, state Sen. Fred Mills Jr.
With a backdrop of red, gold, black and white decorations, members of the royal court were introduced as nine Greek muses, each representing something Parisian.
This year's head muse, Phyllis Boudreaux, Polyhymnia, represented French Perfume, and was escorted by Ronnie Navarro.
A French Artiste from Montmartre was Jeanne Brannon, Thalia, escorted by Wade Brannon.
Leslie Carbo, Melpomene, was a Parisian Lady on the Champs-Elysees, escorted by Kerry Carbo.
Luxembourg Gardens was Rebecca Coody, Urania, escorted by Greg Coody.
Escorted by Ben Hebert, Amy Hebert, Terpsichore, was a Moulin Rouge Can Can Girl.
Representing Notre Dame Cathedral was Amanda Judice, Erato, escorted by Gentry Duhon.
On the arm of escort Neal Olivier, Donna Olivier, Clio, portrayed Parisian High Fashion.
Tammy Simoneaux, Eterpe, represented a French Maid, escorted by Michael Fowler.
Amanda Touchett, Calliope, showed French Lingerie, escorted by Jamie Touchett.
Emcee was Sen. Fred Mills, and music was provided by Louisiana Red.
Messengers for the ball were Cade Simar and Rebecca Simar, children of the queen, and Ethan Breaux and Christian Breaux, children of the king.
Visiting the court were Greater Southwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association President William Miles Johnson and his wife, Christian Voorhies Johnson, and Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel Jr. and his wife, Lynne Durel.


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Traditional views of enterprise technology have historically depicted a straight-line continuum, a sort of Masters and Johnson benchmark for technology, with operational systems on one side of the continuum and analysis applications on the other. Even the widely accepted Corporate Information Factory in its prior incantations read from left to right - picturing operational systems on the far left (outside the BI environment) and the operational data store, data warehouse and data marts moving progressively to the right (inside the BI space). Only in the last several years have we started to view things differently.
Today, our platform horsepower and data movement capabilities have improved to the point that technology has caught up to vision, and the wall between operations and analytics is coming down. The latest version of the CIF as we see it now depicts operational data inside the BI environment, subject to integration and aggregation processes and available to analytic applications as needed.
Operational BI is no longer simply theory as teams (not necessarily on the bleeding edge of technology advancement) are starting to investigate how to more closely link analytics to their operational activities.
The objective of the operational BI environment is to provide the analysis infrastructure from which people from both inside and outside the organization can make better, faster and more informed decisions. Operational analytics, once opposite ideas now comfortably joined, represent the techniques by which organizations are leveraging the BI infrastructure. Companies employ operational analytics to improve business decisions by directly supporting specific operational processes and activities with analytics. They provide an environment where the organization can learn and adapt based on analysis of operational processes. And they reduce the latency between business events and the organization's ability to react to those events by closing the loop between analytics and operations.
How does this actually work? First, we require an event detective or BI service that can continually monitor business events or transactions that happen in the operational world. These events can be generated by applications, by customer transactions or by service personnel. Once the events have been detected, the related information must be pushed through analysis applications to validate the event and determine the course of action. This generally involves moving the event information into the data warehouse in real or near real time. More traditional data warehouse analyses will also be required prior to starting the initiative in order to determine which events are going to be part of the program. Lastly, the results of the analysis must be married with an operational process so the relevant action can be taken.
An example: a bank wants to serve an immediate need for customers who need cash for emergency purchases and have insufficient cash reserves. With timely, relevant communications, the bank plans to offer these customers a credit card with cash advance capability, overdraft protection or a personal loan. First, the bank must detect that the event has happened - a customer has attempted to withdraw funds at the ATM or at a bank branch and has been rejected due to insufficient funds in the account. This requires continuous data mining for rejected transactions at ATMs and branches. Once the event occurs, information about a specific transaction must be pulled from the transaction system and moved through the data warehouse into a special analysis application designed to determine the significance and relevance of the event for that particular customer.
Habitual offenders, potential fraud perpetrators and people who have simply misjudged their account balance (and can get the funds from other accounts within the bank) must be eliminated from consideration. Eliminating these customers requires a look at past behavior patterns and recent transactions to determine that the account has not had an insufficient funds transaction in the past six months, that the card has not been reported lost or stolen, and that the customer does not have another account from where they could withdraw a similar amount in the 24 hours following the initial attempt. Further analysis to ensure an honest need for emergency cash can include verification that the account does not have a paycheck direct deposit due but is simply late arriving (again requiring past account transaction detail mixed with current state information). Once the bank confirms the need for cash, it must perform a credit score on the customer to ensure that the products offered are appropriate. Next, the bank must deliver the resultant product offer back to the operational process where the customer is experiencing the rejection - in this case, to the ATM or branch interaction.
Implementing the operational analytics program in the example requires a closed-loop environment between the operational world and the analytical one. It offers the possibility of tremendous benefit and will become the norm as organizations harness the intelligence in data warehouse for competitive advantage.
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The city shut down African Supermarket & Liquors today because of problems with inadequate pest control, and poor housekeeping and maintenance.
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The Motorola X Phone, which has been rumored to be a collaboration between Google and Motorola set for a debut at Google I/O 2013, may indeed arrive at Google I/O but it may not be the savior or have the 'wow' factor that many consumers are hoping for.
Read: Motorola X Phone Rumors Suggest Serious Galaxy S4 & iPhone Competitor.
In late December, a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that Google and Motorola were working on a smartphone dubbed 'X Phone' that would take on the likes of the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4. Since then, numerous rumors have popped up, with rumors suggesting that this phone could in fact be the Motorola phone that many fans and consumers have been waiting for.
However, according to comments from Google's CFO and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette, courtesy of The Verge, Google is currently working through a lengthy Motorola product pipeline. And while those products, which include both current future devices, are great, Pichette says that they aren't "wow by Google standards."
He also reaffirms what we already knew, saying that "Dennis Woodside and his team have inherited 18 months of pipeline that we have to drain right now." Woodside is the head of Motorola Mobility.
Pichette did not refer to any products by name but we did see three Motorola products launch in late 2012 including the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX HD, Droid RAZR HD and the Droid RAZR M. But given what is on the way or here in 2013, a list that includes the beautiful HTC One, the Sony Xperia Z, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 and presumably a new iPhone, fans of both Google and Motorola have been clamoring for more.
So far, the only potential future Motorola flagship that has surfaced is something called the X Phone. So far, rumors have built this device up to be this game-changing Motorola device and one that could seriously threaten phones like the iPhone and Galaxy S for supremacy. Rumors have suggested that this X Phone could debut on stage at Google I/O.
And while it could be that an X Phone does make an appearance at Google I/O, it may not be the mythical creature that consumers have been looking forward to. Instead, it could be a device from Motorola's previous pipeline that has some hints of Google involvement, but won't be a device that reeks of full on collaboration.
Perhaps the device that launches at Google I/O is a planned addition to Motorola's X series of smartphones which died after the release of the Motorola Droid X2. Maybe this first 'X Phone' is a Motorola X3. Maybe nothing launches at Google I/O. Nothing is for certain at this point.
But given that we haven't left that 18 month pipeline, it could be that a full-blown collaborative effort by Motorola and Google, won't come until much later in the year. Or, perhaps, as late as 2014.
That said, the device that launches at Google I/O could very well be a competitor, it just may not have that 'wow' factor that many consumers have been looking for.