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But is it just a crater? If you look at the original black and white HIRISE image then it seems as something has crashed, leaving a trail behind or could it be the entrance to an underground alien base, given the unnatural looking structure?
Using Google Mars (coordinates: 81.3° 91.5°) and we compare the object depicted in the Google Mars image with the original NASA/JPL black and white image then it is amazing to discover that the spot looks quite different and we may wonder whether they have edited the Google Mars image to hide something or not.
Left: Original NASA/JPL image - Right: Google Mars Image.
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I'm plotting a year of exploring the Trendwatch 2015 themes: Sometimes via live events (keep an eye on the CFM's web page futureofmuseums.org for upcoming engagements), but mostly over the web. I hope you will find an opportunity to dive in.
First up, a CFM Twitter chat on Open Data on Friday, March 13 from 1–2 p.m. (ET). Twitter chats are a great way to pool the collective knowledge, resources and ideas of our colleagues.
This chat will be co-hosted by Ed Rodley, associate director of integrated media at the Peabody Essex Museum. Ed blogs at Thinking about Museums, and wrote a marvelous essay—quoted in TrendsWatch—on why museums should give their data away (The Virtues of Promiscuity).
(Also for your radar on the topic of "open," a Google+ Hangout on Open Licensing organized by the Alliance's Media & Technology Professional Network and the New Media Consortium. It will be held Thursday, March 5, 2–3 p.m. (ET). Highly recommend!)
Recap of the Trend
The open data movement is about getting information out in the world where it can be mined, mashed up and put to work. This means putting data onto the web in standardized, accessible formats. We are in the midst of a huge push to make U.S. government data "open"--not only commonly used resources like census information but also previously inaccessible information such as databases generated by government-funded research. In the museum realm, see the Institute of Museum and Library Services' recently established Data Catalog https://data.imls.gov.
What we will do in the Chat and how you can prepare
Here a few things you can do in advance to make the chat a useful & enjoyable event:
Read the chapter in TrendsWatch 2015 on open data. You can download a free copy here.
Take time before the chat to queue up some material that you want to share ahead of time: text and links you can copy and paste into tweets during the chat. (That makes it much easier to pay attention to what everyone else is tweeting.)
For example, we will be inviting you to share:
- Resources: links to papers, websites, that provide information & tools about open data
- Authorities: blog addresses and Twitter handles for people you look to for smart commentary on this topic
Examples of museums working in various ways with open data: creating APIs for their museum's digital resources; hosting hackathons; doing interesting things with other people's open data
As well as your thoughts on:
- Your dream application for open data: what datasets would you like to mine, to what end?
- As we move towards a presumption of "open," what kinds of data is it acceptable for museums to redact or conceal?
How To Participate
If you do not already have one, create a Twitter account. Really folks, it's not all "here's what I had for breakfast" & "check out the LOL cats." There are many people sharing useful resources via tweets, as well as reporting out in real time from conferences & events you may not be able to attend. Follow @futureofmuseums (that's me) and check out the list of folks I follow for some ideas.
On Friday, March 13, during the chat period of 1–2 p.m. (ET), tweet using the hashtag #TrendsWatch.
You can focus on just the tweets related to the chat (out of all the tweets in your stream) by using Twitter's own search tool, or a third-party tool like TweetDeck or HootSuite, to filter the conversation with the #TrendsWatch hashtag
Ed and I will tweet questions in the format
Q#: (for example, Q1: what are some articles, resources, sites you recommend for info on Open data?)
Then you tweet your contributions in the format
A#: (e.g., A1: I recommend following Code|Word essays on Medium https://medium.com/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum-f63dabc61f47 [Twitter will abbreviate the link]
I will summarize and post the conversation after it wraps up, but I hope you choose to engage in real time! This chat is also a good opportunity to find, and follow, other Tweeters who synch with your interests.
Hope to Tweet with you on the 13th.


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After yesterday's post about Netflix reducing their membership plan pricing, now we see an announcement from competitor Blockbuster that they are expanding their online offering as well. Curiously, the price points sound very familiar...
The full press release appears below, but here are the high points:
- Cheapest plan is $4.99/month for 1 DVD at a time and maximum of two rentals (online only, no in-store exchanges).
- If you want to have the ability to exchange movies in-store, the least expensive plan is $9.99/month for 1 DVD at a time with 2 in-store exchanges.
- The highest priced plan is $24.99/month for 3 DVD's at a time and unlimited in-store exchanges.
- Movies can now be exchanged in-store for game rentals as well as movies in 5,000 of the chain's 8,000 stores.
- Blockbuster online has more than 70,000 titles (as opposed to Netflix's 80,000+ selection)
While I think that offering in-store exchanges is an advantage for Blockbuster, that advantage is diminished by the fact that the movie you picked up has to be returned to that store. You can't use the postage-paid envelope that didn't get used to mail back the in-store movie, so now you have the hassle of returning a movie (most likely under the same time restrictions as if you had paid for the rental).
It will be interesting to see what's next in this tug of war for customers between Netflix and Blockbuster!
Press Release
Blockbuster Announces Expanded Online Subscription Offerings
New Range of Plans For Online Subscribers as Low as $4.99 Per Month Subscribers Can Now Enjoy Discounted Game Rentals
DALLAS, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI, BBI.B) today announced that the Company is introducing a wider range of subscription plans including BLOCKBUSTER Total Access Premium(TM), BLOCKBUSTER Total Access(TM), and BLOCKBUSTER(R) By Mail.
The new subscription plans are now available to all current and new subscribers to Blockbuster's online rental service with pricing as low as $4.99 a month. In addition, most of Blockbuster's online subscribers will now have the option of exchanging their online movies for discounted in-store game rentals as well as free in-store movie rentals at more than 5,000 participating BLOCKBUSTER(R) locations.
"Blockbuster's wide array of online rental offerings continues to offer subscribers the best value in the marketplace. With multiple subscription plans to choose from, we're giving our customers the ability to choose the option that's right for them," said Jim Keyes, Blockbuster Chairman and CEO. "We want to give consumers the most convenient access to media entertainment, whether that's through our stores or by mail, and are dedicated to doing that with flexible plans and pricing."
For subscribers interested in an online-only plan, BLOCKBUSTER By Mail subscriptions start as low as $4.99 per month and go up to $16.99 for the three-out unlimited movie rental plan. BLOCKBUSTER By Mail subscribers will also now have the option of exchanging their online rentals at participating stores for $1.99 discounted in-store movie rentals.
For subscribers who want both in-store and online movie rentals, BLOCKBUSTER Total Access plans start as low as $7.99 per month and offer a fixed number of free in-store movie or discounted game rentals per month. The Company's three-out unlimited rental plan offers five free in-store movie or discounted game exchanges per month for $17.99. Subscribers to the Total Access plan who want in-store rentals in excess of their monthly free exchange benefit can take advantage of the $1.99 discounted movie rental exchange offer.
For the most frequent renters, the Company's BLOCKBUSTER Total Access Premium plans let subscribers rent an unlimited number of movies by mail with unlimited free in-store movie exchanges or discounted in-store game rentals. Subscription plans for BLOCKBUSTER Total Access Premium start at $16.99.
Consumers can log on to http://www.blockbuster.com to sign up for a free two-week trial of either BLOCKBUSTER Total Access Premium, BLOCKBUSTER Total Access or BLOCKBUSTER By Mail.
With more than 70,000 titles to choose from online, Blockbuster delivers DVDs right to subscribers' mailboxes in pre-paid postage return envelopes. There are no due dates or late fees with movies rented from Blockbuster's online rental service. In-store movie rentals are still subject to store rental terms, including due dates, and must be returned to the store from which they were rented. As of July 1, 2007, the Company had approximately 3.6 million total online subscribers.
About Blockbuster Inc.
Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI, BBI.B) is a leading global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment, with approximately 8,000 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company may be accessed worldwide at http://www.blockbuster.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements, including those related to our expanded online subscription offerings and our expectations with respect to those offerings, including with respect to our continued ability to offer consumers the best value in the marketplace. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current intent, belief, expectations, estimates and projections regarding our company and our industry. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may vary materially from what is expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to vary materially include, among others: (1) consumer appeal of our existing and planned product and service offerings, and the related impact of competitor pricing and product and service offerings; (2) overall industry performance and the accuracy of our estimates and judgments regarding trends impacting the home video industry; (3) our ability to obtain favorable terms from suppliers, including on such matters as copy depth and uses of product; (4) the studios' dependence on revenues generated from retail home video and their related determinations with respect to pricing and the timing of distribution of their product; (5) the variability in consumer appeal of the movie titles and games software released for rental and sale; (6) our ability to comply with operating and financial restrictions and covenants in our debt agreements and any adverse publicity relating thereto; (7) our ability to respond to changing consumer preferences, including with respect to new technologies and alternative methods of content delivery, and to effectively adjust our offerings if and as necessary; (8) the extent and timing of our continued investment of incremental operating expenses and capital expenditures to continue to develop and implement our initiatives and our corresponding ability to effectively control overall operating expenses and capital expenditures; (9) our ability to effectively and timely prioritize and implement our initiatives and to timely implement and maintain the necessary information technology systems and infrastructure to support our initiatives; (10) our ability to capitalize on anticipated industry consolidation; (11) the application and impact of future accounting policies or interpretations of existing accounting policies; (12) the impact of developments affecting our outstanding and any future litigation and claims against us; (13) a change in the composition of our key management and any shift in strategy in connection therewith; and (14) other factors, as described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and under the heading "Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Information" in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 1, 2007. This cautionary statement is provided pursuant to Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release are made only as of the date hereof and we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason, even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.
Source: Blockbuster Inc.
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Ok cool, so with camber plates and M3 bits there is not too much I can do mess things up. I might get a slightly better feel around corners and maybe a tad more tire wear, but nothing dramatic like making the car way too "touchy" or anything.
Fraggy, I have Dinan camber plates and both M3 arms. I'll post up a pic, been running this since last Nov on new tires... no inside front tire wear at all. The rear tires are SHOT btw... the inside rear tires with the torque we have wears the rears bad on the inside.
Handling - when I replace the RFTs, I had stock camber - the tire would roll over completely on hard cornering. Once I got the M3 arms and camber plates in, the following happened:
1) Turn in was HUGELY better
2) cornering was way better than stock - way more grip all around
3) the car didn't plow like it did stock.
4) The steering was way more precise - no slop, very direct. Point the car, it goes there - with a ton of control and precision.
5) Tramlining was GONE.... that is the best part on this mod. The car doesn't lurch all over if you go over a rut or change lanes - that was infuriating.
6) Steering is a bit firmer, but nice - no worries
7) WET/SNOW driving shows huge benefits - the car turns better for some reason - the understeer and plowing on wet/snow was very bad - it is very much improved
1 CON: The Dinan camber plates (that don't make noise) add 1/2" or so to the front ride height - that sucks. I did get the dinan suspension, which brought it back down to stock. You COULD drill the pins out in the front and change camber that way without raising the front of the car that is already too high.
I can't say enough on this collection of mods. Do it.
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In his autobiography FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO, W. H. Hudson details, with the practiced eye of a naturalist, the pungent but lyrical memories of his childhood and adolescence up to the age of sixteen. Although Hudson wrote most of the book when he was in his middle seventies, he recalled with nearly photographic precision the impressions of places, scenes in nature—above all, the living creatures—that were the meaningful parts of his youthful days in Argentina. Previously he had published in Gentleman's Magazine (1886) material from his first chapter, and much of the second and third chapters appeared earlier in English Review (1912); the rest of the book he composed during a six-week period while he was confined to a hospital bed. Yet his memories of "long ago" are not, as one might expect, the ruminations of an infirm old man; rather, they are presented with childlike freshness and wonder, the delight that comes from discovering the "root of things."
In spite of Hudson's remarkable powers of capturing the sharpest details of his past life, FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO is not entirely reliable as autobiography. Because the author was unduly sensitive about revealing his true age, the book is purposefully vague about dates, including birthdates; Hudson alters the chronology of some historical events (for example, material concerning the tyrant Rosas); and he distorts some time-sequences, so that the reader has only a general, imprecise notion of time itself. In places, Hudson's evasive method works to his artistic advantage. Because the passage of time is made to seem unimportant, the action of the book is filtered through the author's consciousness, as though in dream or reverie. Events in his life are treated without concern for exact...
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Approximately 70 percent of consumers say they would prefer to use one bank to manage a majority of their financial products, according to Needham, Mass.-based research and consulting firm TowerGroup. Yet, customers still have fewer than two products at any one bank.
Tired of losing customers to competitors, many banks are restructuring corporate cultures and making customer-centric, cross-selling marketing strategies an enterprisewide priority. By consolidating consumer data into centralized locations and training associates to use analytics tools, banks are creating more-targeted campaigns to bolster consumer portfolios and rebuild dwindling customer loyalty.
According to New York-based Deloitte Consulting, banking customers typically have 1.93 financial products at a single bank. However, banks are convinced that if a customer does not have at least two or three banking products with the institution, they are in jeopardy of losing customers' loyalty and, thus, their business, Deloitte reports.
Attracted to promises of increased customer loyalty and profitability, banks first added cross-selling strategies to their marketing arsenal almost a decade ago. However, many banks did not have a clear understanding of how to incorporate cross-selling technology into their marketing strategies, or how to maximize the solutions' analysis capabilities. It was not uncommon for marketing campaigns to push products that customers did not need or already had. As a result, many unfocused campaigns failed to produce results.
But, pressured by the banking industry's current competitive landscape, many banks are reevaluating cross-selling opportunities. Supported by a newly developed sales culture and evolving technologies, cross-selling could be the customer-loyalty driver for which banks have been longing. In fact, banking executives report that cross-selling is a priority for them over the next 18 months, according to a study by San Mateo, Calif.-based Epiphany, a provider of CRM and business intelligence solutions, that surveyed 91 banking executives between March 2005 and May 2005.
Aiming for the Right Target
The first strategic shift banks are making is ensuring that they are tapping the ideal customer base. "A bank can spend 30 percent of a sale on acquiring a new customer," explains Thomas Volk, executive vice president of international field operations for Dublin, Calif.-based Sybase, which provides open, cross-platform solutions to deliver information. "This cost hampers the cross-selling initiative."
So, the focus no longer is on acquiring new customers. "Instead, banks are grabbing a larger share-of-wallet from their loyal customer base rather than trying to earn new customers," says David Fleming, CTO of Fincentric Corp., a Vancouver-based provider of core retail banking customer value management software.
Further, banks are increasing marketing effectiveness by replacing outbound customer communications with messages delivered at customer touch points. By communicating relevant offers to customers as they conduct business in person, on the phone or online, banks are in a better position to up-sell, according to Epiphany senior director of industry marketing Pradeep Amladi. "The best way to succeed at cross-selling is to determine where the most customer interaction happens," he says. "Rather than reach out to customers [blindly], banks have a better chance of recommending a relevant offer to customers during their visit to the branch, call center or online," Amladi continues. "During these visits, banks have the customer's permission, time and attention."
But, banks must be careful not to overstep their relationships with current customers. Thanks to the flurry of recent mergers and acquisitions, banks' existing customer bases have expanded significantly. While this poses a ripe up-sell opportunity, banks must remain cognizant of each customer's needs before launching a campaign.
"Banks need a view of the entire household and what the financial needs are," says Lee Ann Hoover, managing director, financial services practice, with Chicago-based consultancy Navigant Consulting. "Banks cannot rely on paper-based files to remember and know at a moment's notice what is happening in a customer's life," she stresses. "Banks need to rely on automated tools to augment the customer relationship from the first moment they meet."
The New Sales Force
Clearly, technology is a core enabler of cross-selling efforts, and bank management must take an active role in ensuring that technology is used correctly this time around, asserts Hoover. "Senior management needs to uphold sales performance and ensure that its relationship managers are using the correct tools to conduct needs-based selling," she says.
Senior management at Chicago-based LaSalle Bank ($108 billion in total assets) made cross-selling part of the bank's mission in 2001 and stresses the role of technology in cross-selling efforts across the enterprise. The bank's sales group typically called upon customers to up-sell services. By training the bank's administrative staff across marketing, service and sales groups on the nuances of up-selling and using related tools, LaSalle not only augmented its sales team, it also positioned customer relations at the forefront of its marketing strategy, according to Jack Thurston, LaSalle's assistant vice president of marketing. "Through our management's support, up-selling has become part of our corporate culture," he says.
Armed with its newly trained, enterprisewide sales force, LaSalle added technology to the mix. With the help of Chicago-based SAVO Group, the bank converted printed sales materials to electronic form three years ago. Using SAVO's custom-built eBrochures solution, LaSalle presents product content to clients in e-mails or PowerPoint presentations, Thurston explains. Besides streamlining content delivery, electronic materials keep branding and selling messages consistent among LaSalle's departments, he asserts.
"There is nothing wrong with polished, printed pieces," Thurston says. "However, you can miss many opportunities during one-on-one interactions on the phone if you are not able to e-mail materials within 10 seconds."
LaSalle expanded the initiative with SAVO's Sales Asset Manager platform, or SAM. Dubbed "eMarketing Central" at LaSalle, the solution acts as a one-stop sales tool kit for the bank's relationship managers, Thurston relates. Based on parameters input by LaSalle, SAM suggests products best suited for cross-sell to the relationship manager. The platform assembles and customizes the best, targeted selling materials and information for the highlighted product within seconds.
"Efficiency within time savings and process improvements were the objectives when LaSalle implemented SAM. Over time, customer effectiveness has become the driving force behind the initiative," says Alisa Gilhooley, vice president of marketing for SAVO. "Having the most-precise information and materials in hand and available when face to face with a customer means LaSalle's relationship bankers are armed for a discussion that is meaningful," she adds. "Besides adding value to the relationship, this can ultimately translate into more business, faster."
A Single View
In addition to centralizing business information, banks are centralizing customer information. This requires banks to reorganize their corporate structures to enable a customer-centric approach.
"Each checking, credit card, mortgage and loan department was blanketing the same customer base to sell product, yet most of these untargeted promotions ended up in customer wastebaskets," Sybase's Volk explains. By breaking down silos and creating a single repository of customer information, newly reorganized sales forces are gaining a single view of the customer, which is helping banks transition from product-based sales models to a customer-centric sales approach.
Now, sales forces are analyzing their customers' needs, mapping their profiles with offerings and then selling relevant products. "Banks can only cross-sell if they analyze their customers' needs and paint a clear picture of their customer and their financial needs," says Jacob Jegher, senior analyst for Boston-based Celent.
Experts agree that data quality is the first step to creating a customer relationship strategy. "Data quality is such a hot topic," says Navigant's Hoover. "If data, including names and addresses, is clean, it will be better processed by the systems that relationship managers use as they interact with the customer."
Unlike original CRM initiatives that operated independently with incomplete data, newer applications are being linked to enterprise data warehouses and pulling information from the warehouses' available data sources. The second generation of CRM tools mine data and indicate a customer's lifetime value, credit risk or probability of defection. Some solutions even create scoring algorithms that detect warm leads and suggest actions onto users' computer screens. The result is a more complete understanding of customer needs and more-successful marketing.
"Five years ago, banks did not have the level of atomic data available today," says Peter Harvey, president and CEO of Intellidyn (Hingham, Mass.), which provides data and marketing products and services. Besides revealing what products people buy and what their interests are, "Transaction data can also reveal what offers customers will most likely respond to," he says.
"It is critical to deliver relevant offers. If you offer an investment product to someone who is struggling to save money, you are wasting your time and theirs," Harvey points out. "Use the data to identify the consumer's personal situation. This information is the foundation for a bank's creative marketing decisions."
On Track
While analytics are valuable for all financial institutions, virtual banks are unleashing the power of these tools with the most success. Lacking the personal interaction of a branch visit, online banks learn about customers through their page visits and their occasional telephone conversations.
In hopes of better understanding response rates to its cross-selling efforts, click-through rates and which ads made the strongest impressions on customers, NetBank uses analysis tools from SAS (Cary, N.C.) and Epiphany. "The biggest challenge for us is understanding our customers' needs and segmenting the correct offers to specific groups of customers," says Marsha Calfee, director of CRM delivery for Alpharetta, Ga.-based NetBank ($4.8 billion in total assets).
SAS keeps the bank armed with analysis and building models, such as product and customer profitability. Using this information with Epiphany's Interaction Advisor tool, NetBank can create a promotion or banner ad and select the right individuals to whom to push it.
Typically, marketing tools primarily rely on rules-based engines that help companies target promotions to large groups of customers with similar attributes. Epiphany's software has a predictive modeling tool that can determine the offer most likely to be accepted by an individual. "We can run research at any time to see the response rates," Calfee explains. "Based on response results, we can tweak the promotion to ensure it's targeting the right customer."
These tools are keeping NetBank on track with its long-term strategic plan. "Our goal is to have a customer base of 500,000 users, each with four products or services," Calfee explains. "Today, our 270,000 customers have an average of 2.33 products each." According to monthly evaluations of click-through rates and fulfillment rates, NetBank's consumer product purchases have increased 10 percent since August 2004, Calfee relates.
Similarly, LaSalle recently instituted a cross-selling initiative to help relationship managers better serve commercial customers. Called Product Profiler, the solution breaks all product and service groups into categories. Relationship bankers can obtain information, such as customer pre-qualifying questions on specific products, monetary awards programs, important contacts within each product group at the bank, and even how to spot a potential cross-sell opportunity with an existing customer. The system provides this information in readable chunks right at the manager's fingertips.
"Our tool provides relationship officers with the right information to properly identify potential cross-sell opportunities within our existing customer base," LaSalle's Thurston explains. SAVO's tools helped LaSalle save printing, storage and mailing costs, as well as reduce manual labor for relationship managers. More important, the tools contributed to more than $50 million in incremental deals, according to Thurston.
The Future Sell
The future of cross-selling lies in the ability to maintain an ongoing dialogue with customers, says Intellidyn's Harvey. And thanks to ever-evolving Web-based services, "Banks have more options," he adds. "These capabilities are increasing and the cost of technology is going down."
Online services are helping banks acclimate to electronic means of cross-selling and bringing cross-sell initiatives to consumers outside of the four walls of the bank. "Laptops, BlackBerries and other wireless devices are changing the face of cross-selling," says Navigant's Hoover. "Wireless devices untether financial services folks from their desks and let them meet clients wherever they are."
Banks are using these tools and real-time data to cross-sell offers to customers at the point of purchase - in the branch, on the phone and online. Building on systems integration and linking aggregation tools to the cross-selling equation, banking agents can view an up-to-the-minute aggregated profile of the customer's existing banking portfolio and deliver relevant offers instantly.
"More than 50 percent of customer decisions happen in real time," says Epiphany's Amladi. "The prime opportunity to target a customer is while they are conducting business with the bank." Currently, nearly 40 percent of banks already are involved in real-time cross-selling efforts, according to companies that responded to Epiphany's study. Almost 50 percent of other respondents are planning to make similar efforts.
With the help of Epiphany's Interaction Advisor, NetBank targets its customers with promotions in real time. As visitors log onto the site and are authenticated, that information goes back to NetBank's Epiphany database. Using Interaction Advisor's rules and modeling tool, NetBank makes real-time offers that the customer is most likely to accept.
"It is a self-learning engine that adjusts itself based on the rules and the [customer's] responses to the offers presented," the bank's Calfee says. "However, we are looking to the next level we can reach with the tool."
That next level could include merging a business process management (BPM) solution with NetBank's CRM tool. The BPM solution could monitor operational databases; then, an integrated marketing tool, such as Epiphany, could send a real-time offer based on event-based transactions in the operational database.
"If a consumer changes his direct deposit information, that would suggest to us that this customer either changed jobs or possibly moved. Maybe he needs a mortgage," says Calfee, who notes that NetBank hopes to begin evaluating the project within the next 12 months. "By analyzing this customer data in real time, we can target services to our customers in a timely fashion."


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The lights are on
When I saw the trailer for Dark Souls II during VGA on spike, I suddenly got very hyped even
though I'd never played Dark Souls, so I got it. The game is amazing, but very hard. Here are the
this is the best fantasy / role playing game to date, but then add extremely difficult enemies
that make the game not for everyone. This game is extremely challenging, forcing you to load, load,
and load again. By the time I defeated the second boss in the game, I already had six different
campaigns. Even though this is a very challenging game, many casual gamers can make it a long
The enemies in dark souls are mostly the same. You're basically fighting a lot of undead. In a
forest, you fight plant-like monsters. The bosses, on the other hand, are all very different and each
require different tactics to defeat. I really enjoyed that your shield actually blocked attacks unlike
The open world part of Dark Souls is fantastic! There's a big map but it isn't just flat land like
most open world games. You can go high places that will give you hours and hours of fun. I love the
fact that you don't get an actual map so the layout isn't just given away. You actually have to imagine
what the map looks like. I also love the way everything connects.
In Dark Souls You don't have an objective or map marker telling you "Go there!" You must
rely on your memory to find out if you're going the right direction or if you are going back to where
you started.
The weapons are suburb. You can use swords, axes, spears, and other items such
as shields. The armors are a bit vague. Most enemies you find have hollow warrior armor
or soldier armor, but the other armors you find throughout the game
Gameplay: 9/10
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Monitoring The World's Oceans
This is the seventh in a series of guest posts by Joel Barkan, a previous contributor to "The Intersection" and a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The renowned Scripps marine biologist Jeremy Jackson is teaching his famed "Marine Science, Economics, and Policy" course for what may be the last time this year (along with Jennifer Jacquet), and Joel will be reporting each week on the contents of the course.
I don't want to write a post all about climate change on Chris and Sheril's blog because my fire-retardant suit is at the cleaners. So I won't. But I will write about what marine scientists can learn from what climate scientists are doing (no "Oceangate" jokes, please).
Each week, I write in this space about a different threat that will inevitably doom our oceans if we fail to act. But which threat is the most critical? At least climate scientists have agreed on a general consensus: most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely due to increased greenhouse gas concentrations as a result of human activities. UC San Diego's own Naomi Oreskes, in a 2004 Science essay, analyzed nearly a thousand abstracts published in the ISI database between 1993 and 2003 that contained the keywords "climate change." Three-quarters of them accepted the consensus view and not a single one challenged it. This means climate scientists know the problem (greenhouse gas emissions) and how to address it (reduce emissions). Of course, it's not that simple, but it's a basic cause and effect that advocates can rally behind.
It's not quite so straightforward for marine scientists. Ask one why the oceans are in danger and he'll say it's because of overfishing. Ask another and she'll say it's because of pollution. Ask a third and the reason will be coastal development. We know we have problems, but we struggle to agree on the most pressing. Marine scientists also don't have something like the Keeling Curve to present as a simple, obvious symbol of human impacts on the oceans. Most importantly, the world lacks something like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to assess ocean health and inform policy decisions. As a result, the marine conservation movement often feels as unorganized and unfocused as a third grade recess.
Dr. Jackson and Dr. Jacquet have challenged us to brainstorm creative solutions for marine management. The student presenters in this week's class offered some thought-provoking ideas. They cooked up the "Intergovernmental Panel on the Degradation of the Marine Environment," though Dr. Jacquet suggested substituting "Ocean" for "Marine Environment" to create the snazzy acronym IPDO. Like IPCC does for climate change, IPDO would evaluate the state of the marine environment as a basis for informed policy action. IPDO would also consolidate marine management into a single group, as opposed to the current bewildering myriad of agencies with jurisdiction. The students gave IPDO the hypothetical power to sanction or fine countries for violating certain standards of marine ecosystem health. IPDO would also maintain a points system to evaluate countries based on their protection (or abuse) of the oceans. Every five years or so, IPDO would publish a report on the state of our oceans, much like the IPCC's Synthesis Report, and reveal which nations were champions of ocean conservation and which were the culprits for ocean degradation. Could the public, international shame of such a ranking motivate the offending countries to change their ways?
At one point, it was suggested that the IPDO could even collaborate with the International Olympic Committee to ban countries from the Games for particularly brazen acts of ocean destruction. Can you imagine if China had been barred from the Vancouver Games for its taste for shark fin soup, or Iceland for its high seas bottom trawling? It's a crazy idea, but it's going to take a lot of crazy ideas to thwart the barrage of threats to our oceans.
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Change the proposed panel to "International Panel on Oceanic Degradation" to get an acronym of IPOD. Might sell better, it works for Apple.
The chief problem is that protecting oceans requires some form of global governance but there isn't a strong global organization to do it. You could try to put together a UN Resolution that member nations agree too but that would difficult to enforce.
Joel Barkan says
"Marine scientists also don't have something like the Keeling Curve to present as a simple, obvious symbol of human impacts on the oceans."
But isn't the Keeling curve already a "simple, obvious symbol of human impacts on the oceans."?
In fact, isn't the Keeling curve actually a better, more direct indication of what is happening to ocean acidity than it is of what is happening to global surface temperature?
— eg, as illustrated on the graphs shown here found at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission site
and as also shown in the
graphs here from the NOAA Coral Reef Watch site.
While one can argue (seemingly endlessly) about alternative (to CO2 increase) contributions to global temperature change, it's really hard to argue that the human related (fossil fuel burning and cement production) CO2 emissions which are responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration (shown on the Keeling curve) are not also directly responsible for the VERY rapid (geologically speaking) changes in pH that the oceans have experienced in recent times.
If the past is any indication, it is also hard to argue that this pH change will not have a large impact on ocean life.
For whatever reason, global mean temperature has become the poster child for human impacts on the environment.
The increase in ocean acidity is the elephant in the room that only ocean scientists seem to have noticed and may turn out to be every bit as (if not more) important to humans than temperature changes.
I love how you ignore the Democratic war on science. Latest news is that food bourne illnesses cost the economy $152B per year. Yet dems have fought against irradiation of food. I guess it's OK when it's dems behind the bad science of 5000 deaths per year. No, I'm not a Republican. I actually agree with you about the republican war on science, but the dems have conducted their own war. Thirty-five years w/o a new nuke plant and now it's suddenly chic. I don't expect a response from a partisan hack. Once again I hate repubs just as much. You have to insane to think that only one party has all the answers.
Ask one why the oceans are in danger and he'll say it's because of overfishing. Ask another and she'll say it's because of pollution. Ask a third and the reason will be coastal development. We know we have problems, but we struggle to agree on the most pressing.
Umm … the logical answer is "all of them." It's not a beauty contest.
The research book, "Atlantic Salmon in Maine," by the National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2004, offers an excellent template on how to analyze cumulative effects over enormous geographic areas (from Maine to East Greenland) and from mountain headwaters to estuaries to the North Atlantic and southern Arctic. Trying to ask "what is the most pressing problem" is a fool's errand since it is different for every species and every aquatic biome, as it has to be. Pick a species, any species, and save it. In doing so you will save the ones nearby. Then keep moving outward. Time is running out.
Two thing.
1. You do realize that Naomi Oreskes was full of shit, don't you?
2. On Ocean acidification: According to Wikipedia the PH of the ocean in the 1700's was 8.179. How they know this or can even estimate it to three fucking significant digits is beyond me, especial y when one considers that the concept of PH was only developed around 100 years ago. At any rate, they now say that the PH of the ocean is 8.104. So, in 300 years the PH of all the world's oceans, on average, has dropped by .075 basis points and that this drop is responsible for the destruction of the oceans corals. I realize PH is a logarithmic function ….. but come on people! 75 thousandths of a basis point?
Mike H says
"According to Wikipedia the PH of the ocean in the 1700's was 8.179. How they know this or can even estimate it to three fucking significant digits is beyond me…"
So, you found something on wikipedia that gives the pH in 1700 to 3 decimal places, eh?
…and that means precisely what?
That wikipedia is not always completely right? Oh my, what a discovery! (Noble prize material, no doubt)
But, in all seriousness, according to ocean scientists, the pH of the oceans has dropped by about 0.1 from pre-industrial levels.
And though you acknowledge that "PH is a logarithmic function', it does not appear that you fully appreciate what that means.
A drop in pH of "only" 0.1 means about a 25% increase in hydrogen-ion concentration (ie, more acidic) A drop of "just" 0.3 in pH would mean a doubling of hydrogen-ion concentration.
It has been estimated by some marine scientists that the pH may drop by that mount (below pre-industrial level) before the end of the current century (depending upon the emissions rate).
And while that may not seem like much to you, to marine organisms like coral and plankton that use a pH sensitive chemical process to build their calcium carbonate skeletons, such a change can be very significant (ie, harm or even kill them).
Shellfish (oysters, clams, muscles, etc) depend on a similar chemical process — and as everyone knows, humans (and other animals) use shell-fish as a food source
In other words, despite your completely uninformed assumption to the contrary, small changes in pH can have a significant effect on ocean life.
..and on other life as well.
The human body attempts to maintain the pH of the blood between about 7.35 and 7.45.
Guess what happens when that is changed (by some external source) by just 0.3 either way? ( more acidic or more basic)
You die within just a few hours, that's what.
PS the above information on ocean pH is not hard to find (for anyone who cares to look that is)
See for example this press release from University of Hawii


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July 07, 2008
Survey Says: DemCong = EPIC FAIL
We hear a lot about Bush's historic lows and the hatred of the GOP, but this poll at the Christian Science Monitor (I know - it's just a poll) is a larf.
The Presidency, despite the drag and lag of the Bush years, is still more trusted than Congress, TV news, and newspapers. That's gotta have some lefties scratching their heads.
And of course, our brave brothers and sisters in arms retain their rightful position at the top of the list.
What a pathetic, horrid joke the Democrat-controlled Congress has been and continues to be. May it choke on its own stupidity.
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One nine nine to three
and I wonder what kind of day Allah, has in store for me
So I stroll out the crib about eight
to go eat breakfast at Mike's, everything's alright
Leave out of Mike's about nine
Headed Uptown to the studio - everything's fine
Reached the studio about ten
Bumped into a good friend - that's what I thought then
But to my surprise, he was the opposite
When he played - tough, I had to call his bluff
"It's cool.. to occupy your own
Come for mine, I'm gonna crash your dome" [x4]
Shoppin downtown on the street
Lookin for a pair of new sneaks then I went to get a bite to eat
I saw a guy and his lady
She didn't look my way, but he was lookin at me kind of shady
So I asked him whassup (Yo whattup?)
But before "up" came out, he was pushin away his plate and cup
Screamin somethin bout watchin where I look
Kinda caught me off guard, so at first I was a little shook
But when I gained my composure
I suggested he sit back down where he was cause brother I don't know ya
But he wouldn't take heed
So in front of his girl, and the rest of the place, I bust his face
"It's cool.. to occupy your own
Come for mine, I'm gonna crash your dome" [x4]
There was a time and a day; that if I was tested and tried
I turned my cheek and looked the other way
But nowadays I don't sleep; cause if I try to turn away
them brothers think that I'm bein weak
So I'm even in the odds; and whoever steps to me
better be makin sure he pray to God
Less he wanna be my prey; but you don't wanna go that route
Hahahaha.. I'm out!
"It's cool.. to occupy your own
Come for mine, I'm gonna crash your dome" [x4]
"Come for mine, I'm gonna crash your dome"
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A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Lately, there have been a lot of calls for a progressive infrastructure similar to the one the conservatives have built over the past 40 years, only with progressive values, of course. We could have our own foundations and think tanks with lots of money, coordinated talking heads, intellectuals doing policy research and development, and training programs for young progressives. It's a long-term view. Commonweal Institute is trying to do just that, and they have lots of interesting reading. I particularly liked the Progressive Infrastructure Information Page, and the NY Times Magazine article "Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy" found there. Kinda gives one hope.


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Joseph arrested for trespassing at hotel
ORLANDO, Fla. — Revolution captain Shalrie Joseph was sent away from preseason training camp after being arrested for trespassing at the team hotel early Sunday morning.
Joseph was taken to the Orlando Police's central booking office at 3:31 a.m., according to an arrest affidavit. Trespass is a misdemeanor in Florida, according to police spokeswoman Sergeant Barbara Jones.
Both Joseph and defender Kevin Alston were sent home for disciplinary reasons, according to the team. Alston was not charged.
Alston and Joseph played in the preseason opener, a 2-0 win over the University of Central Florida Friday night. Players were given Saturday off, then were to report for training Sunday morning.
Many members of the team were unaware why Alston and Joseph were absent from Sunday's session.
Joseph, considered one of the most versatile players in league history, acted as team captain for most of last season, though he was limited to 22 appearances, missing five games while participating in the MLS substance abuse and behavioral health program and others with injuries.
According to the police report, officers responded "in regards to a loud party.''
The officers cleared the room, which was being rented by two women, and told the people to return to their own rooms. But Joseph and another man remained in a stairwell, having a conversation.
Joseph was ordered again to go to his room but responded, "I'm not doing nothing wrong. I'm not going anywhere.''
A brief argument ensued, the hotel's director of security was summoned, and Joseph was eventually arrested.
The Revolution have not made an announcement regarding possible fines or when Alston and Joseph will rejoin the team.
"We have not made a final decision on any of that yet,'' said Revolution vice president for player personnel Michael Burns.


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Reviews: Enders Game
Good Film Burdened By Unanswered Questions And Mary Tzu
Ender's game is a smart sci-fi film, exploring the journey of the eponymous Ender as he is chosen as a candidate for Battle School, a space station where humanity is training a new generation of soldiers and generals to fight in a Bug War, having been inspired by a hero who rammed his jet plane into an alien spaceship and won a battle (somehow). Simple. The special effects are good. The zero-gravity fights scenes are spectacularly immersive, and the characterization is generally well done. The acting is taken seriously, even among the children, and the premise was original and interesting. It was a good film overall, but what makes me unwanting to see it again are two plot holes and a Pet Peeve Trope. The PPT is Mary Tzu. Ender always dishes out a Curb-Stomp Battle with his team of underdogs, even when outnumbered 2-1 by an experienced and skilled enemy that has set up good defensive positions. First, how does the famous person lead to the Battle School program? The line of logic the film presents is "Man's suicide attack in an airplane is successful" equals "a kid will become a military genius and lead us to victory, and we will train him through zero gravity laser tag". Maybe the book explains it, but there seems to be some steps missing. Also, why a kid (especially when the famous hero was an adult)? Why laser tag (see below)? Why put all your faith in a single, new commander when you have a committee of seasoned veterans already at your disposal? You're telling me that a teenager with natural talent is a better choice than people who have dedicated their lives to waging war? Second, how does the Battle School program actually work? You train your army and commanders with laser tag (as opposed to study of past battles or practicing maneuvers with thousands of soldiers and vehicles)? Granted, there are probably other things, but from what we see, the Battle School lives up to its initials. I know Ender is a genius in that arena as previously mentioned, but what would Ender do without the OP Wave Motion Gun he had in the climax? Ender's victories in the arena rely on, say it with me, cheap tactics. Ender's victories outside the arena are just protecting a superweapon until it recharges. Napoleon and Grant were real military geniuses; no battle of theirs was won by turtling around a Game Breaker until it was ready to fire.
A Long Wait, But Not Long Enough
Ender's Game is the long-awaited film adaptation of the sci-fi classic of the same title. Ironically, the film itself would have greatly benefited from being longer. With a two-hour run time, Ender's Game manages to pack in a faithful adaptation of the book's events, but it looses the book's heart in the process. Adaptation Distillation is inevitable when filming a story as deep as the original Ender's Game, and choices like including Bean in Ender's launch group, skipping his time in Rat Army, and cutting his sibling's blogging subplot altogether make sense. However, even with these cuts and rearrangements, two hours is not enough time to tell the story adequately. Details of the setting, science, and logistics of the war are simplified or skipped over; most notably the issue of long distance space travel, which leaves a minor plot hole as to why Ender's training has a deadline. Worse, with the exception of Petra, the other children in Ender's command cadre are almost devoid of characterization or interaction with Ender, making them only distinguishable physically. Ender's character suffers as well. His tactical genius is largely an Informed Ability due to the film only portraying his first and final battle games, thereby skipping his growth as a leader and tactician, and making him appear to have simply arrived at the school perfect. This is only worsened by there being very little sense of how much time has passed between any given event in the movie, making it seem as if the entire film took place in a week instead of years. Ender's emotional journey, which was arguably the true main conflict of the book, is only lightly touched upon a handful of times. This is most evident in the final act of the film, when the spectacle of grand space battles becomes the focus instead of the breakdown-inducing mental stress of Command School on the kids, and Ender's disillusionment with the entire war in particular. What it comes down to is that Ender's Game is simply too short for the story it needed to tell. Even another half hour (or better yet a full one) at Battle School could have given the story the breathing room it needed. As is, nothing is allowed the time necessary to give it the emotional weight needed to drive the story home, and in the end, it turns out as just a sci-fi action film.


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Jobs go as Woodberry Brothers and Haines enters administration
One of Highbridge's biggest employers has gone into administration with the loss of more than 160 jobs.
Furniture maker Woodberry Bros & Haines Limited has been based in the Somerset town since 1949.
Ross Connock, joint administrator and director at PwC, said 163 workers - out of a total workforce of 175 - were made redundant on Wednesday.
He said the firm had financial problems, could not find a new buyer and "lacked investment" to restructure.
The company has an annual turnover of £10m, although it was £11m last year to December 2013, Mr Cannock said.
'Family business'
"The operations are well located with a strong employee, customer and supplier base," added Mr Connock.
"But regrettably the current position of the company is such that we have had to make the immediate decision to cease operations which has resulted in the redundancy of the majority of employees."
On its website, Woodberry Bros & Haines Limited said it was a "family business" that had been designing and manufacturing furniture since 1949.
Its collection of "highly respected household names" include Caxton, Bath Cabinets and Woodberry Bathrooms.
The company has so far been unavailable for comment.


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Amber Rose hosts baby shower
Los Angeles: Model and actress Amber Rose, who is due to give birth to a baby boy with her fiance Wiz Khalifa, had a low key baby shower with family and friends.
The theme of the party was blue and it was Sunday.
She shared details of her party with her Twitter followers while tweeting: "We had a good all down home baby shower today. No paparazzi, just fun, friends, family, food and good times," reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 29-year-old, who was left devastated after miscarrying her first baby, previously admitted she is planning to have an all-natural water birth without the help of medical aid.
The couple confirmed they are keen to resume planning their wedding after their son is born.
"I am so ready. I have decided that I am going to have an all-natural water birth. No medicine. It makes more sense for the baby to be in the wedding than for her to be pregnant. Some people, they rush and do it, but it works both ways," she said.
Rose, whose ex-boyfriend Kanye West recently announced his current girlfriend Kim Kardashian, 32.


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As an early autumnal chill descended on the ground and the cacophony from the Hollies stand reached its peak for the day, England began to seize control of a game that had seemed destined for a draw once Saturday's play had been sacrificed to the rain gods.
In the first Australian innings, when the cloud rolled over, James Anderson had made the ball swing like a Sixties suburban party and profited. There was filmy cloud only yesterday evening and he was as straight as a Quaker's path through life. Nor was there any barnstorming from Andrew Flintoff, although his impact had come with the bat earlier in the day.
Instead, as Australia began the task of wiping out a first-innings deficit and then batting long enough into today tomorrowto secure the draw they so desperately need, it was Graham Onions and Graeme Swann who brought proceedings to life. Onions, whose double-wicket opening over on Friday had transformed the match for his side, was greeted roughly and uncompromisingly by Shane Watson but held his nerve to slant one away from the left-handed Simon Katich, who edged to Matt Prior.
It brought to the crease Ricky Ponting, greeted by the boos that will follow him to the end of the tour (twirly-moustached pantomime boos for the most part but impolite to a great batsman playing what must be his last Test innings on this ground). Swann simply toyed with him briefly and then dismissed him, the lbw appeal that looked giveable turned down by Rudi Koertzen immediately cancelled out by the ball that drew him lunging forward before it spun back through a gate the size of the Brandenburg.
Ponting remained transfixed for a moment before marching off briskly. If the inside edge that ballooned from Mike Hussey's pad had stayed in the air a fraction longer, Onions would have snared him for a king pair. Hussey survived and by the close was playing with a fluency that belied his recent form, reaching 18 as he and Watson, 34 not out, advanced the score to 88 for two, 25 adrift of England.
It now needs the cloud to trundle back again this morning and for the ball to start singing its song again, for England to seal a win that would make them dormie in the series. The prospect, though, of chasing, say, 150 to win, against the clock, while not to be discarded, could provide some nervy moments. There is some cricket to be played by both sides before this match is done. In fact, until England counterpunched in thrilling manner during the afternoon Australia had seized the initiative. The start was delayed by an hour as early sun helped transform a quagmire into something playable. The ball had swung massively for the Australian bowlers during their warm-up, though, and continued to do so, for Ben Hilfenhaus in particular, during the early part of the day.
Hilfenhaus has been Australia's steadiest bowler during this series and, although his lack of or reluctance to use an inswinger as counterpoint to his away swinger makes him a little predictable, he caused the early problems, removing first Andrew Strauss for 69, caught at the wicket as he misjudged the bounce on an attempted cut, and then Paul Collingwood, taken at second slip as he drove at a wide ball with lunch imminent. It was the sort of stroke, given the timing of it, that ought to have brought a dressing-room rebuke. Nine times now Strauss has resumed an innings having in excess of a half-century to his name and on seven of those occasions he has failed to add more than half a dozen.
When Ian Bell was finally and justifiably lbw for 53 to Mitchell Johnson – a much improved bowler yesterday – England, rather than anticipating a significant lead, found themselves 168 for five, still 95 short of Australia and in some trouble. Beware the wounded beast. Never was the great Gordon Greenidge more dangerous than when he began to limp. Flintoff now is hobbling arthritically at the crease but he put bat firmly to ball yesterday, surviving the remnants of Johnson's spell, clambering eagerly into a brief dose of muscle-bound dross from Watson and belting Nathan Hauritz. Together he and Prior added 89 in 15 overs before Prior mistimed a pull to mid-on.
By now, though, England had closed in on Australia, a six from Flintoff over wide long-on bringing the scores level and a boundary that took him to his half-century giving them the lead. With noses in front, runs somehow appear easier to come by and now Flintoff and Stuart Broad added a further 52 for the seventh wicket before Flintoff, unluckily, saw an off-spinner from Hauritz spit out of the rough, take his gloves as he offered no stroke and rebound to slip. His 74 had come from 79 balls with 10 fours.
Yet more runs came now from Broad and Swann, the eighth wicket producing 39, with Johnson, from his first ball delivered from round the wicket, snaring Swann at cover for 24. It took Peter Siddle to end Broad's knock but not before he had reached 55. The lead of 113 was riches compared with how it might have been. Of such vigour had the riposte been that the last five wickets produced 208 runs from 35 overs. With the second new ball Johnson had sent down four overs for 32 runs and still has work to do. He tries hard to deliver a line in sledging but he just gets laughed at. It is a bit of a shame really. He seems a nice lad.


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The activities of the Henry D. Epstein Professor in Urban Planning are focused on the exploration of current and innovative topics in urban and regional theory. These topics are examined via the following avenues: ongoing research, an annual lecture, and an annual research symposium.
Dr. David Prosperi, the Henry D. Epstein Professor in Urban Planning at the School of Urban & Regional Planning, has been with FAU since 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from Indiana University and a master's degree from Temple University in Geography. His main interests include growth management, economic development, and computer applications.
The Annual Epstein Research Symposium
The annual Epstein Research Symposium is held in the spring. The Symposium features presentations of outstanding research by both SURP students and faculty.
Complexity and Water Management Regimes:
Ostrom's IAD Framework Applied to South Florida
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Located at HEC room 1110, FAU Fort Lauderdale Campus, 111 E. Las Olas Blvd.
All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
Introduction and the Ostrom Oeuvre
David C. Prosperi, Henry D. Epstein Professor of Urban Planning
Applying the IAD Framework to the South Florida Water Management Regime
John Bradford (with P. Calvaresi & A. Scotti)
Unpacking the Biophysical and Institutional "Exogenous Contexts"
Marianne Quinn (with A. Alvarez & J. Hsu)
Efficiency in Water Service Delivery: Questions and Methods
Claudia Hasbun (with A. Davis & R. Madan)
Equity in Water Service Delivery: Questions and Methods
Rasheed Shotuyo (with M. LaFrance & J. Root)
Complexity and Change: Primitive Concepts & Applications
April 13, 2011
Presentations Based on Published Papers for REAL CORP 2011, Essen, Germany, May 18-20, 2011
The Annual Epstein Lecture
The annual Epstein Lecture takes place in the fall, coinciding with the world-wide celebration of World Town Planning Day.
20/20 Lecture
A celebration of the past and a discussion on the future of planning in South Florida
November 4, 2009
The School marked its 20th anniversary on November 4th by inviting students, alumni, and friends to a special event entitled "20/20". After a celebratory reception, Henry D. Epstein Professor and Founding Chair David C. Prosperi delivered a thought-provoking lecture on re-claiming the urban region as a focal point of future-oriented thinking. A reaction panel made up of distinguished SURP alumni follows.
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Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport - SHD
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Hotel direction: 12 miles N
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Take I-81 North. Exit 247A. Make first right onto Burgees Rd. At 2nd stop light make a left onto Evelyn Byrd Ave. Courtyard by Marriott is on the left.
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Hotel direction: 29 miles NW
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Head south on Bowen Loop. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto Airport Rd/Co Rd 649. Turn left at US-29 N/Seminole Trail. Turn left at US-33 W/Spotswood Trail. Turn left at University Blvd. Turn right at Evelyn Byrd Ave.
Washington Dulles International Airport - IAD
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Hotel direction: 117 miles SW
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Merge onto VA-28 S/Sully Rd. Take the ramp onto I-66 W. Take exit 1A on the left to merge onto I-81 S toward Roanoke. Take exit 247A to merge onto US-33 E/E Market St toward Elkton. Turn right at Burgess Rd. Turn left at Evelyn Byrd Ave.
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Hotel direction: 165 miles NE
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Building up a team almost from scratch was a challenge that head of legal services of the North West Development Agency (NWDA) Steven Zdolyny has eagerly embraced.
Since joining the agency in 2005, Zdolyny has spent the past two years recruiting a team of experienced lawyers to service the NWDA's increasing list of projects.
The team has since expanded from being a solo operation of just Zdolyny to a five-strong team made up of three lawyers and two support staff. And Zdolyny is keen to recruit two further lawyers.
"It's great that we now have a team of people here. It means that legal advice is more accessible to the organisation and we can provide more services in-house," Zdolyny says.
Under the current configuration, each member of the legal team specialises in one or two practice areas, corresponding to the broad range of topics that the NWDA covers on a daily basis.
The NWDA is one of the UK's nine regional development agencies set up by the Government in 1998 to serve regional areas in core sectors such as infrastructure, business, skills and education and employment.
Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside are all served by the NWDA, which provides a diverse range of services, from joint ventures with local businesses to bus route expansion.
Key recent projects in which Zdolyny's team has been involved include the opening of a 275,000sq ft distribution centre in Bolton and the planned £16m Greggs bakery factory in East Manchester, which will create 300 jobs in the area.
"The most satisfying part of my job is travelling around the various towns in the area and being able to say that I've had a part in so many of the new developments that have changed the North West," Zdolyny says. "It's very satisfying, because I feel like I'm a part of what the agency does. I'm very much involved in the projects."
Before joining the NWDA in 2005 Zdolyny worked for public sector group the Environment Agency. Starting as a solicitor, he moved up the ranks to regional solicitor during his eights years at the agency.
Moving from being a member of a 22-strong legal team at the Environment Agency to heading the NWDA's legal capability – and initially being the only team member – was a significant step for Zdolyny, but it is a change that he has adjusted to quickly.
"Having moved from a large team to being the only person in the department, I quickly realised I had a lot to adapt to," Zdolyny says. "Making sure I was organised and getting everything done was hard at first. You get used to having support with administration, so going it alone can be tough."
Before his in-house career began at the Environment Agency in 1996, Zdolyny worked at Bristol-based firm John Hodge & Co. Gaining experience over his two years at the firm enabled him to weigh up his career options before deciding to go in-house.
"You have a very different approach in-house, and this is more particular for us because the NWDA has to adhere to regulations set out by the Department of Trade & Industry. I've found working in this sector fascinating and feel that I made the right decision to move in-house."
The team strives to maintain constant contact with all of the other departments in the agency. Making the legal team a part of the wider strategy is something Zdolyny is keen to develop.
"It's important to know what's going on with the rest of the organisation," he says. "You're not just a team standing on its own, you're a part of what other parts of the group are doing and this must be evident in your day-to-day work.
"I've found it extremely rewarding working at the NWDA. You embark on something completely different every day, and seeing the fruits of our labour all across the North West makes all the hard work worthwhile."
Steven Zdolyny
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Subhapradam music released
By Baiju NT [ June 21, 2010 ]
Subhapradam music released
The audio of the Allari Naresh-Manjari starrer Subhapradam, directed by K. Viswanath under the banner of Sri Rajarajeswari Films, was released by Chief Minister K. Rosaiah at Ravindra Bharathi auditorium, Hyderabad. The CM unveiled the cinema's logo and released the audio CD, presenting the first CD to singer S.P. Balasubramanyam.
Senior IAS officer K.V. Ramanachary, K. Viswanath, Mani Sharma, Ambika Krishna, Sarath Babu, Allari Naresh, Manjari, P. Suseela, Venugopal, Giribabu, Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastry, Ananth Sriram and others were present.
Rosaiah, Manjari, S.P. Balasubramanyam and Viswanath spoke during the occasion. Later, the unit felicitated the CM. Playback singer P. Susheela donated Rs. 2 lakhs to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund (CMRF).
Ikon Entertainment has obtained overseas distribution rights of Subhapradam. which is scheduled to hit the marquee on July 9.


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Artists & Their Regions - 2009 Archive
Artists & Their Regions (formerly Writers and Their Regions) is the CCW's signature course. It features seminar-style class meetings and a week-long artists' retreat that gives students and faculty time to focus on their creative projects.
The course is offered each Spring to upperclassmen dedicated to honing their craft and developing a specific creative project over the semester.
Class 2009
The pilot WATR course and reading list focused on the way that artists ground their work in Place, specifically East Texas. WATR's class meetings included discussions of the texts as well as students' creative projects. In May, the class presented its projects to the University community in the Honors Commons.
Reading List
- William Goyen's The House of Breath
- Mary Karr's The Liars' Club
- Yusef Komunyakka's collected poetry
- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom
- Music of Charles Mingus
- Charles Mee's play bobrauschenbergamerica
Retreat 2009
Over the week of Spring Break, the class and faculty traveled East to the Retreat at Artesian Lakes, just outside of Cleveland, Texas, to create and live together. During the day, everyone split up to work, explore the landscape, and exchange ideas, and in the evening they came together to cook dinner, share stories, and present the day's efforts.


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A Sri-Lankan born artist whose work floats between Western and Immigrant culture, Rajni Perera's work is an East-West dialogue of ideas, concerning immigrant identity issues, female sexuality and science fiction and fantasy. This is her first exhibition in Sri Lanka. Exhibition will be open from August 28 to 25 September 25, at the Saskia Fernando Gallery, 41, Horton Place, Colombo 7.
The excerpts of the interview
What made you choose to study art?
My choice to study art is probably just an extension of my interest in it and the skills I have developed to make it. I started drawing and painting as a very small child and my parents nurtured that, which led to me pursuing an art education in Toronto, Canada. Art education isn't, however, the be all and end all of the makings of an art career. In some cases I believe that academia has contributed to the demise of the art world by creating exclusivism and elitist art scenes that alienate the average culture-lover and widen the gap between producer and consumer, so to speak.
Have you maintained a connection to Sri Lanka through your work and/or life?
Growing up between two cultures means that you don't belong to one place or another. In Toronto I'm a Sri Lankan and in Sri Lanka I'm a Canadian, which is confusing, but makes for great subject matter. My connection with Sri Lanka is a sinuous thing; childhood memories, first impressions of ideals of craftsmanship, the mark of distinction, aesthetically speaking, in my work – it shows itself in many strange ways. That said, I must admit that I haven't visited Sri Lanka in 10 years.
When did you leave the island?
In 1995..
Why is this series of work more relevant to Indian culture?
It could be considered to have a closer relationship with antiquated Rajput and Mughal-style miniaturist portraiture. However, although the clothing styles and poses borrow from embellished photography at the turn of the century in India, the association with issues of monarchy-worship, divinization of royalty, and the spectacle of royalty as an intimidation tactic, are something that I want to explore in such a broad context as South East Asia, maybe even globally recognizable issues. In the diptych Royal Couple, issues of colonialism are explored as well, which is an ongoing issue even here in the time of Capitalism, which we can call Neocolonialism.
How do you see yourself in relation to the Sri Lankan contemporary art scene?
I don't know anything about it. It's hard to tell just yet! I would love to do a residency here, and some public art projects like murals or installations.
What are the notable differences between the Canadian art scene and the Sri Lankan and what are your suggestions for its sustainable growth?
The Canadian art scene is very interested in mirroring other art scenes. I don't know enough about the Sri Lankan art scene to make a valuable enough comparison, although I can highly recommend not following art world trends and creating something truly unique, a quality much more admirable. Some great examples are the Indian and Pakistani art scenes.
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