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Though Baum and his brother, Doug, began developing real estate in 1989, this is their first big step into green development. Their development company, Baum Development, does about $50 million in projects annually. Baum, with silvery gray hair and a radio voice, focuses on marketing, while his brother handles the majority of the contracting.
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Ian Astbury of 80's punk-rock band The Cult lived out his dream when he was selected to fill in for the late Jim Morrison with The Doors of the 21st Century back in 2002. In a recent interview, he recalled how he became influenced by The Doors in his youth and what it was like to tour with them.
"They were really influential," Ian said as he explained that reading the book, No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugarman and Jerry Hopkins, as well as hearing the song "The End" in the film Apocalypse Now in his late teens moved him deeply.
When Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger revived the group and renamed them The Doors of the 21st Century in 2002, they invited Ian to step in for Jim Morrison. "They waited 30 years to do that, so I was really honored to be asked," said Ian but he noted, "it was a really long courtship, over 10 years, not overnight."
Although he did about 150 shows with the band over five or six years, he said that's not as many performances as bands do today. "The European tour was 6 shows."
"We went to places they never went to," he continued. "We got to perform "L.A. Woman," which they never did live."
Ian considers The Doors his mentors. "I look up to them and they gave me so much."
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University at Albany punter Paul Layton announced on his Twitter account Sunday that he is transferring to Temple to attend graduate school and play his final year of eligibility.
"Thank you to the University at Albany for everything it has given me. I will miss everyone," Layton tweeted after touring the Temple campus on the weekend.
He changed his mind after saying in November he would stay at UAlbany.
Layton, of Burnt Hills, averaged a league-best 40.4 yards per punt and was named to the All-Northeast Conference first team as a junior last season.
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At the DeltaV meeting in London, we discussed how to make a resource unversioned. We determined that the current method currently proposed in section 2.2.1 of draft 16 (COPY the latest version of the resource to a new location, then DELETE the old versioned resource, then MOVE to rename the new unversioned resource to the old name) is broken, for the following reasons: - It's not guaranteed to work, but not guaranteed to fail if it doesn't work. E.g. the server might automatically create a new versioned resource. No way for the client to tell in advance. - Log files, permissions, etc. are lost in this series of moves - Permissions could prevent the completion of this sequence of events and leave the documents in a poor intermediate state. With a single request, a permissions failure leaves the client in the same state as it was before it started. - basically, it's a side-effect, not a designed behaviour, and relies on several non-atomic operations working together We discussed replacing that with the recommendation "delete the VHR to remove a resource from version control". This has fewer problems because it's at least a single atomic request. However it also has weaknesses, some of which I didn't remember quickly enough to bring up in the meeting: - it could break situations where more than one VCR points to the same VHR, a scenario which has specifically been discussed as being permitted by DeltaV. Would it make all those VCRs no longer versioned? - it requires clients and particularly servers to support an entire optional chapter of DeltaV, and a new resource type with all its live properties, just to get the ability to remove a resource from version control. - the spec would have to deal with the order of delete operations. To delete a resource and all its versions, must the client delete the VHR first then the now-recently-unversioned resource? Is deleting the VCR when the VHR still exists forbidden? A specific syntax for making something unversioned is still the cleanest way to go, because when you design a specific syntax for a specific job you're more likely to be able to make it work. But in the absence of that, the draft should at least be brought up-to-date with the most current VHR-deleting recommendation. lisaReceived on Saturday, 18 August 2001 01:27:40 UTC
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Department of Social Services plans celebration for 100th anniversary
Published 3:04 pm, Thursday, September 10, 2009
Next month, the Greenwich Department of Social Services will mark a century of helping others.
Founded on Oct. 2, 1909, as the Department of Charities, a resource for the town's poor, it has evolved to provide a range of services to youths, senior citizens, families and people with mental illnesses.
The anniversary celebration will include a breakfast at Town Hall on Oct. 16, along with the planting of a commemorative tree and tours of the department.
"When a town can give to its people, it's a great thing," said Victoria Anyikwa, social services commissioner. "That's one thing Greenwich should be proud of."
Working with the town's Department of Public Works to secure people jobs during the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Department of Social Services eventually created a number of programs. They include the homemaker service, which began in 1958 and provides elderly and disabled residents help with household chores, and the Greenwich Youth Conservation Project, which employs teens in service jobs over the summer, as well as study programs and social services for residents of the town's public housing developments.
The department began offering mental health services in the early 1980s, and refers residents to public and private programs and benefits, such as energy assistance.
The needs of the town's residents have not decreased, Anyikwa said, especially during the latest recession.
Jeanne Farrell, social services commissioner from 1968 to 1985, said it's important to recognize the department's important work over the last 100 years. The department will be inviting hundreds of town officials and residents to the celebration.
"Unless you need a service and are referred, I would say eight out of 10 people in Greenwich don't know what the department does," Farrell said. "It gives recognition to an essential community service that has provided a number of programs over the century that met needs that were not previously being met."
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There's nothing like a good piece of corn on the cob at your summer barbeque or your buttered popcorn to go along with your favorite movie, right? Or wrong?
This question seems to be coming up more and more often…
Isabel, are corn and foods made from corn allowable on The DSP?
Well, the answer is yes, BUT there are a few details you need to know first (you didn't think I was just going to leave it at that, did you?)
It's been approximated that about 60% of the corn, now in the U.S., is genetically modified (although, I do think this number is higher now). The practice of genetically modifying corn began in an attempt to make corn crops resistant to certain pesticides. This helps the farmer because they are then able to grow a larger crop because it is easier to fight off pests (they can spray the crops with pesticides and get rid of insects without damaging their crop).
Sweet corn has also been genetically modified (now called Bt-corn) so that it produces a poison which kills harmful insects. This means the farmer no longer needs to fight insects with insecticides.
Now although some of these may sound like a good thing (especially if you're a farmer!), we need to consider how GMO foods respond in our bodies and what kind of long term effects they can have on our health.
Well, because the introduction of GMO foods is still relatively new, we're in a way being used as "guinea pigs" in a massive experiment (Yikes!). In April 2007, Arpad Pusztai, from the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, UK, announced that experiments had shown intestinal changes in rats caused by eating genetically engineered potatoes (and I don't know about you, but I'm not happy about anybody trying to mess with my intestines).
This actually doesn't surprise me. It's amazing to me how many more people now complain of things like irritable bowel syndrome and other nagging digestive problems. I'm not saying that eating GMO foods is the only cause for these conditions but I'm sure it's a significant contributor (along with processed foods, but that's a story for a different day).
Ok, so what if you're able to get non-GMO corn? (Which it is difficult to know which brands and items are GMO and which are not) where does corn fit into your DSP meal plan?
First, your body reads corn as a grain, NOT a vegetable so if you are to include it into your meals, this will be the grain (carbohydrate) for your meal. So having corn and brown rice would be having 2 grains in one meal. This is not necessarily off limits and not "bad" in any way, just consider if you are someone who is sensitive to grains, you will lose weight faster by greatly reducing the number of grains you eat each day. You may want to take 2 – 3 weeks and follow the "no grain" meal plans in the Diet Solution manual and see if that helps break through any weight loss plateaus and/or helps your digestion.
What about microwave popcorn?
Well even the organic varieties contain preservatives (of course to keep them in the bag) and have been shown to contain the same chemical coating in the bag that is used on non-stick cookware (double YIKES!). I would stay away from this stuff.
How about air popped popcorn?
This is your best bet and can definitely be used as an occasional snack. But notice I said "occasional". Remember most people lose weight faster by decreasing (not necessarily eliminating) many grains. Snacking on popcorn every day could and most likely will, impede your weight loss efforts.
I hope this information helps you to make a more informed decision at your next barbeque and at your next movie night. Remember, corn is not off limits by any means, just remember you're looking for the non-GMO varieties and including it as a grain and not a vegetable into your meal plans.
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Who's that bad boy--- A work in progress.
|photo by John Anthony, still dear friend
Young Dean with Rags in Alaska in the late '70s
Sister Ricki & Brother Dean celebrate their 42nd & 43rd birthdays at Acquerello
Picnicking with Ricki, Leah, Taya and Mimi in Marin
The famous soft ball pants. Dean wows his Looney Tunes fans with his amazing athleticism and his flashy pants!
Happy times at Lake Tahoe on that first magical trip (for a softball tournament)
Working on the beloved gray Astro van on another trip to Tahoe. Say what you want about those shorts!
Cheers! Dean smiles sheepishly after our waiter brought an unexpectedly LARGE beer at a cafe in Florence in the early '90s
The Pollycove string quartet featuring Dean on cello, Ricki on viola, Leah on violin and Taya on flute
The cosmopolitan couple shows up again in Firenze for Dean's 50th birthday! The temperature peaked around 100
Side by side head stands at a yoga retreat in Maya Tulum
Ros poses with Dean on one of our many trips to Washington D. C. How styles have changed!
Myron, Dean and Taya at Cousin Mike's in Anacortes
Ros, Myron, Taya and Dean in Assisi when Dean turned 50
Biking the flume trail high above Lake Tahoe
Hard at Work
The grill master preparing his favorite chicken drumsticks, before he built the deck
Fun times with elderly Rags
More fun times cuddling Allie. I'm so grateful he likes cats as well as dogs.
Dean's a hoot on Halloween
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no sweat – the saga continues.
By Diogenes (articles ) | Aug 14, 2007In the August 9 posting "no sweat," your Uncle Di observed that one Rev. Mr. Robert Whipkey, 53, was charged with indecent exposure. Fr. Bob admitted to police that he cast aside his clothing, modesty and morals, and in light of the bizarre nature of the admitted behavior, we wondered aloud whether Fr. Bob's sanity was intact and whether others before us had asked the same question.
As it happens, a Scripps Howard story reports that Whipkey has been noticed before. Some eight years ago, Fr. Bob was investigated by the Archdiocese for an unspecified "inappropriate personal behavior", and underwent "several years of therapy concerning unspecified "personal issues." (Emphasis added.) The story continues:
Independent medical (sic) health professionals evaluated Father Whipkey as part of his therapy but determined he was not a danger to others and that he should not be removed from the ministry...don't you just love that term, Independent.
The archdiocese also mobilized its conduct response team, which went to Sterling (Colorado) to investigate (Whipkey) and interview people who had raised concerns about Father Whipkey's conduct...don't you just love that term, mobilized.
However, Father Whipkey's conduct did not involve any physical or sexual contact with another person…
All this is according to Monsignor Thomas Fryar, moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese.
Hey folks, we got it covered! He's just an exhibitionist. Feel better now?
Archdiocesan spokeswoman Jeanette De Melo declined to clarify any statements made by Fryar, saying, "The story's over."
Well, Jen, News Channel 7 in Denver doesn't think the story is over:
Details were not released by the archdiocese, but a 7NEWS viewer said six families left St. Anthony's in Sterling after Whipkey allegedly gave nude "sex talks" to 11-year-old boys while on a three-day camping trip... we think that it was Whipkey in the buff, and not the sex talks or the boys.
Robyn Ciaravola, who lives across the street from Whipkey's home at the St. Theresa rectory in Frederick, told the Longmnt (sic) Times-Call that she has often seen Whipkey walking around naked through a window of his home during the three years she's lived in the house.
The Archdiocese of Denver acknowledges that Fr. Bob was tagged by the laity at least once eight years ago; it does not acknowledge whether he was playing boy games at the time. It seems to be an application of the Rev Larry Gibbs musical chairs rules for exhibitionists: the Archdiocese of Denver transferred the perp to another assignment in rural Colorado. Whipkey was deemed not dangerous by the psychiatric team, but was, nevertheless, sick enough to be undergoing psychotherapy while pastor of three churches in three towns and evidently with limited supervision--quite a hat trick! The Archdiocese did not acknowledge whether current parishioners had been briefed on Fr. Bob's education methodology--so expertly practiced in Sterling--where he taught those 11-year-old boys a spiritual lesson for life. But hey, the story's over! No crime, no suit, no foul. Millstone? What millstone?
We're not sure how this attitude of diocesan officials squares with Archbishop Chaput's own statement on the problems of homosexuality and pornography, but we find it more than a stretch to believe that the Archbishop finds that smut in the home is a problem, but smut in the rectory is just fine.
Remaining questions: 1) What else did the Archdiocese know about Fr. Bob before 1997? Did the Archdiocese or the seminary bury complaints by fellow seminarians and priests about his seminary record and previous assignments? Chalk it up to intuition, but something tells your Uncle Di that playing boy games in the buff eight years ago (at 45 years of age) was not Fr. Bob's first trip into homoterritory. 2) Do you think the Archbishop, in his article on pornography, considered appending the term "rectories" to the following statement? "But we can do a lot about the (sexual) poison in our homes and local communities." Most assuredly he can do something about the poison among his priests, but whether he will, absent coercion, remains an open question; unannounced visits and porn audits of rectories would be a promising start.
In the mean time, the lesson learned is: One more bishop kicks the homosexual clergy can down the road. (Upon further review, we add 50 more PQ points to the Denver tally. Restart the clock.)
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Aug. 22, 2007 2:47 PM ET USA
The priest should plead "Not Guilty" to the charge citing lack of sufficient evidence.
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Aug. 15, 2007 6:30 PM ET USA
In my old profession, law enforcement, if a cop were caught doing what this "Priest" did s/he'd be GONE. Crimes of moral turpitude are enough in the lay world to remove someone from employment. In the Church world that ought to be more than enough. I agree with others, priest shortage or not, we don't need this type. The Church needs to stand for quality not quantity. Right now, at least in the USA, it has neither.
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Aug. 14, 2007 6:05 PM ET USA
What about the 6th commandment? What about the 9th commandment? What about the vice of immodesty. What about the vice of impudence? It would seem there enough reasons to suspend him from ministry. The church needs holy priests what necessity could he possibly fill? He should be given 2 options: 1) Live in a carthusian monastery doing penence or 2) Fend for himself in the big bad world using his own marketable skills to make his way.
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Aug. 14, 2007 11:18 AM ET USA
By any sane standard, Rev. Mr. Robert Whipkey has a severe mental disorder. One that should preclude him from serving as a priest. And yet what keeps him there in part is that we have lost our standards. If the Rev. Whipkey marched nude on any weekend in a June Gay Pride (sic) parade day in any major city, he would be applauded by liberal politicians and religious and an adulatory media. Rev. Whipkey is the poster boy for a society that has come unhinged including large parts of the Church.
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Aug. 14, 2007 10:37 AM ET USA
What is this nude talk in the buff to 11yr old boys? If this is true, this priest better be put out to pasture for the rest of his days. By pasture, I mean locked-up somewhere in a convent. He needs a lot of help. Only Jesus can help him, but it is obvious, that he is failing to call on Him. Why is this so hard for the Bishop, not to know, that a "sick" priest does not belong in a parish setting?
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Aug. 14, 2007 10:33 AM ET USA
Select the most appropriate answer: (A) Spirit of Vatican II (B) Smoke of Satan (C) One sick puppy (D) All of the above.


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Rey Soto recalled in detail Tuesday the events that led to the death of Kenneth Ike Thomas in January 2000, a story his one-time co-defendant's new lawyer told jurors to question.
While Soto is serving a 30-year sentence in Thomas' killing, a second trial opened Tuesday for Ronald Smith, the man he originally stood trial with on second-degree murder, first-degree assault and first-degree burglary charges.
The Alaska Court of Appeals two years ago overturned Smith's conviction because a witness was allowed to use hearsay in testimony. His new trial began with defense attorney Kirsten Swanson questioning Soto's truthfulness, and the veracity of others who were at the trailer on Village Street downtown when Thomas was fatally beaten.
"Listen carefully to his testimony," she said of Soto. "People at the trailer had a motive to cover up what happened that night."
Senior Alaska Attorney Richard Svobodny, prosecuting the case, told jurors in his opening statement that the evidence would show Thomas, 36, died because he was beaten with a baseball bat after he came to the aid of his brother, Alfred Torres, after Smith pointed a shotgun in his face at around 4 a.m. on Jan. 25, 2000.
Torres testified Tuesday that the assault changed his life. He can no longer lift heavy objects, and he can dislocate his shoulder when turning sharply while driving. Like his brother, he said, he "had blood gushing out of the back of my head."
Mark Paddock, who was in the trailer that morning watching "The Blair Witch Project," testified that Thomas' injuries were more severe. "A big part of his skull was caved in." Thomas died later at Bartlett Regional Hospital.
What Smith and Soto got from the crime, Svobodny said, was about $30 and six single-gram baggies of marijuana. When people commit a robbery where someone is killed, the law holds them responsible for the death, he added.
Soto, his first witness, came into court in an orange prison outfit. In the hours before the crime, he saw Smith at a home in the Thunder Mountain trailer park and said he wanted to get some marijuana, he said.
He described how after he saw Smith make a phone call, he rode off with him, with Smith driving off Mendenhall Loop Road and needing help from a police officer shortly before 4 a.m.
Soto said he had brought a bat and Smith stopped to visit a man on Willoughby Avenue near Village Street and picked up a shotgun. Before they went to the trailer where Thomas and Torres were staying, Smith gave him a ski mask to wear and told him what they would do, he testified.
When Torres opened the door Smith pointed the shotgun at him, and Torres grabbed the barrel and pointed it up, Soto said. "Another guy kind of came out," he continued. "I swung the baseball bat and the person fell to the ground."
He said he didn't know either Thomas or Torres before the incident. He also said he never went into the trailer, and Smith came out with a gray mug holding the marijuana and money.
Police officers later testified that Smith and Soto were stopped in the Mendenhall Valley after the crime was reported. A baseball bat, one gram baggie of marijuana and two ski masks were found. Swanson stressed in her questions that no shotgun was found.
Soto said the shotgun was returned. In cross examination Swanson asked about Soto's deal with state to testify. She asked why he presented different facts each of the three times he testified in court in the matter.
For example, Soto testified at his 2001 sentencing that Smith paid the man who lent him the shotgun. This time, there was no testimony to such payment, she said.
"It wasn't asked," Soto responded.
"If you don't testify today in a way that helps the prosecutor, you'll lose your deal," she said.
"Yes," Soto answered.
Svobodny questioned Soto further and brought out the fact that Smith and Soto originally were convicted together five years ago. Soto agreed with the prosecutor that he could get a new trial with the agreement reached in May.
Judge Larry Weeks told the jury to disregard the fact that there was a prior judgment in Smith's case.
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Common Cause thanks the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for their efforts leading to today's joint introduction of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. We are especially pleased by the strong language with which this bill would renew and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Since its enactment, the Voting Rights Act has served America well. Not only is it one of the greatest civil rights bills ever passed, it has also strengthened one of the core values we support - increasing citizen participation in our nation's democracy. Common Cause has a proud history of support of the 1975 and 1982 extensions of the Voting Rights Act, and our former chairman emeritus, the late Archibald Cox, developed key provisions of the original Voting Rights Act, and as United States solicitor general, defended its constitutionality in oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
The Voting Rights Act has also helped break down voting barriers faced by racial and language minorities in the United States. It has ensured that greater numbers of Americans have an opportunity to participate equally in the most vital duty of citizenship.
But as indicated by the testimony and reports compiled by the House Judiciary Committee and recently submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Voting Rights Act is far from outdated or obsolete. Voters still face intimidation at the polls, last-minute election changes, redistricting schemes that unfairly concentrate or dilute their voting strength and other tactics designed to give them less of a say in political affairs. As long as these barriers remain, there will be a need for the Voting Rights Act.
We are encouraged by the bipartisan spirit in both houses of Congress and the recent statement by President Bush in support of reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act. We call on the House and the Senate to act this year to renew and strengthen this law by adopting the provisions contained in the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, including:
Reauthorizing the minority language provisions of Section 203 for 25 years;
Reauthorizing the preclearance provisions of Section 5 for 25 years, while strengthening the language in this section to its original 1982 intent; and
Adopting the American Community Survey as the benchmark for measuring minority-language changes under this act.
By reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act, Congress will guarantee more Americans an equal voice when they participate in the political process and offer new generations of Americans the opportunity to renew the strength of our democracy.
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Issues: Voting and Elections
Tags: Voting Rights
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The Knights Hospitaller battle ancient evil in medieval Rhodes as mysterious disappearances and insane devil-worshippers threaten to turn the entire island into a bloodbath....
When three Hospitallers go missing from a local village outraged Grand Master Foulques de Villaret sends the English knight Sir Richard-at-Lee and his trusted sergeant-at-arms Jacob to discover their fate. Met with resistance from frightened locals and rumours of a blasphemous sect performing unspeakable rites beneath the village Sir Richard must overcome not only the devil-worshippers but the faceless, unstoppable demon that stalks his dreams.
Fans of the best-selling Forest Lord books Wolf's Head and The Wolf and the Raven will enjoy this spin-off novella that sees the much-loved English knight up against a foe that threatens not only his life and his sanity, but God himself!
©2014 Steven A. McKay (P)2014 Steven A. McKay
"Great Novella from a mistaken purchase"
Sometime ago I accidentally purchased Wolfs Head (it appeared in an Audible sale, and i mistook it for another book that i thought sounded interesting). Never mind i thought, i would give this a listen - after all it was a while since i read Robin Hood. I am so glad i did. The story was gripping. The second book was even better.
This novella appeared on my screen as a recommended read. It follows Sir Richard and introduces Steven (both are in the first 2 two books, but are fleshed out a lot in the second). Its set when Richard was in Rhodes. While his other books are fairly historical - this has an element of fantasy within it.
A good gripping telling of the story. Narration was by Nick Ellsworth who also delivered an excellent delivery in the novels. This rarely happens in my experience. Audible Novellas are normally done by a different narrator. Top marks for continuity.
All in all, this is a great novella (you don't need to have read his books), good story, great pace, excellent narration.
"Thrilling and engaging listen!"
Wow! Such a thrilling story, and expertly written. I had the pleasure of listening to Nick Ellsworth narrating this novella in the Audible version, and though his cadence can come across as a little dull at first, he soon has you completely engaged in the story with his steady and honest narration. Having read some of McKay's other work, this novella was a perfect tie-in, giving a credible (but still exciting) background story for two of his characters. Excellent imagery, cohesion, and character portrayal. And like any good author, keeps you guessing right to the very end. Please can we have more like this, McKay?
"'Otherworldly' excellence !"
There are horrors beyond life's edge, that we do not suspect and once in a while, man's evil prying calls them, just within our range." from H. P Lovecraft's 'The Thing on the Doorstep'
Quite an introduction to this novella.
I had been struggling with contemporary novels from supposedly top writers. I was ditching them through boredom or an excess of clichés.
Steven A McKay is refreshing, and I find no problems getting engaged with his writing. He has no difficulty holding your attention.
A ripping good yarn !
I don't like giving too much away. The story is for the reader or listener to discover.
Nick Ellsworth is a superb reader of the audio version.
I have visited the Hospitaller Knight's castle on Rhodes so interest in this novella was easy for me.
The more 'otherworldly' parts of the story are not as 'otherworldly' as one might imagine. I would refer you to the late Harvard psychologist John E Mack and a work he was much criticised for, and another novel, called 'Eifelheim'.
H P Lovecraft, also knew what he was saying.
Steven knows his stuff, believe me, he does.
That's it, if you want to know more. Read or listen to the novella.
The main protagonist.
I suggest one reads the book.
The ones with the most suspense and action.
I am not, giving anything away.
Intrigued, as you will be as well.
Just read or listen to it. My main comments should be a significant recommendation.
"Lovecraftian Horror in the 14th century"
I enjoyed both versions, but the audio edition has an advantage with a good narrator who brings the distinctive voices of the characters come to life.
As a medieval mystery tinged with horror elements it comes across a bit Bernard Knight's Crowner John series, Maureen Ash's Templar Knight Mysteries or Paul Doherty's Hugh Corbett mysteries, but crossed with H.P. Lovecraft.
Stephen, the Yorkshireman and Hospitaller sergeant-at-arms is very well realized by Nick Ellsworth.
I had already read the print version, so my reaction was not extreme, but the experience of listening to a good story performed by a fine performer was satisfying.
I have enjoyed Steven McKay's books to date in print and in audio. Nick Ellsworth has proven himself a very capable and engaging narrator.
"Great narration, Intense story-telling"
I haven't read any other books in the series that this one is a spin-off from. I enjoyed the writing, and the characters. It's an action-packed, emotional story. It works well as an introductory or deeper understanding of some of the characters, but other than that, I didn't really see a purpose to the story. I don't know, maybe I missed something.
It did interest me enough, and I liked Mr. McKay's writing enough, that I may go on and read the other books. I haven't decided yet.
I listened to the audio version of the story, and I will say that narrator, Nick Ellsworth, did a fine job of bringing this story and the characters to life.
"Very good "
My experience with this book was enjoyable to say the least. The characters were great to get to know. I am definitely going to read more from this author.
"A great back story to the Wolf series by McKay"
Yes... Nick Ellsworth is the perfect voice for story
The character development.
End of the story was the best part.
Fun adventure of Sir Richard-at-Lee which gives the back story of the Knights Hospitallers (aka Order of the Knights of Saint John) and helps in filling in the character of Sir Richard as he plays into the "The Forest Lord" series by Steven McKay.
"A change from his other books, but well done!"
If you've read any of the other books from Steven A McKay, you might be surprised at the changes in the work... But if your anything like me you'll be pleasantly surprised.
This book departs from the others by adding an element of the supernatural to the otherwise historical setting and characters you would imagine. At first it took me by surprise and I was waiting for that element to be explained away. Nope! It's real and it's simultaneously mysterious and exciting!
In all, I would have liked that part to be more explained, but as the story is a short one, it leaves the reader coming to terms attempting to reconcile their own beliefs and imagine what THEY think the strange supernatural elements were rather than the author explaining it for them. Too, bad this is only one of a kind and ends where the Forest Lord stores begins... It would have made a great story to expand into a series of its own! I loved it!
"Favorite new Historical fiction author!"
I love how this one had a more supernatural feel like the old knight books! I just want him to live forever and keep pumping out books!!
"Can't hear it"
The story was unintelligible because of the narrator.His voice was unpleasant. I wish someone would give him a lemoin drink and a box of tissues.So nasal and grating on the nerves.I could not finish.
I would be happy to try this author again with a different narrator.
I was disappointed that felt the story was not strong enough to overcome my dislike of the narrator.
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National Library Week is April 13 - 19! We will celebrate here on the Around the Corner blog with a quote each day from a different children's book about the joys of reading and books. To get us started, here is Sunday's quote:
"There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."
from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald


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Jadhav's capture didn't badly hit India ties: Pakistani daily
Islamabad, March 31 (IANS) The capture of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav by Pakistan "has not led to a meltdown in relations altogether", said an influential daily which added that the broader issue of spying between Pakistan and India should be worked out between the two states.
In the editorial "The Spy Affair", the Dawn on Thursday said that while questions remain about the exact nature of Jadhav's activities in Balochistan and the circumstances of his arrest, "it is obvious that India has a great deal to answer for".
"Moreover, the weak and confused denials of Indian officials so far has added to a sense that the Pakistani version of events surrounding Jadhav is far closer to the truth than the Indian version," it said.
"After years of unproven allegations, the Pakistani state has rather dramatically produced evidence of Indian interest and interference in Balochistan," it added.
The daily said that perhaps what is most impressive is that the capture of an Indian national by Pakistan "has not led to a meltdown in relations altogether".
"Had Jadhav been captured a year ago, it is more than likely that the already tense bilateral relationship would have plummeted to yet another low."
The daily noted that in India too there has been a relatively muted reaction given that an Indian national has been shown confessing on national TV in Pakistan.
"Yet, it is in the continuing work of the Pathankot JIT that a real sense of perspective has been maintained," the editorial said.
"In Pakistan allowing the investigators to go to India and the latter receiving them and permitting them to work as planned, both states have shown that the Jadhav affair is not going to overrule and cancel all other crucial issues."
It went on to say that while prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi will now not meet in Washington after Sharif cancelled his trip in the wake of the Lahore park attack, it is hoped that a meeting elsewhere will be possible soon.
"…Instead of a public trial leading to all manner of nationalist and anti-Indian sentiment being unleashed, the fate of Jadhav and the broader issue of spying between Pakistan and India should be worked out between the two states," the Dawn said.
It stressed, "If at the height of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union were able to manage the issue of spies captured, surely there is a way for Pakistan and India to do the same."
It added that more troubling, though, is the allegation of going beyond mere spying and actively stirring unrest inside Pakistan. "A new set of rules needs to be drawn up on that front."


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Famous WeHo Gay Bar Bans Bachelorette Parties
No more bachelorette parties for straight women until same-sex marriage is legalized. That's the new rule at West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey, a popular spot that has lately attracted lots of hetero brides-to-be and their tipsy entourage. Owner David Cooley says the bar's LGBT patrons are growing weary of these premarital shenanigans.
"Every Friday and Saturday night, we're flooded with requests from straight girls in penis hats who want to ogle our go-gos, dance with the gays and celebrate their pending nuptials," Cooley said in a press release, quoted on gay blog Unicorn Booty. "They are completely unaware that the people around them are legally prohibited from getting married."
"The Abbey's Bachelorette Ban comes on the heels of a ban on Gay Marriage in North Carolina and a number of other states across the south," the press release continues. "The Abbey encourages other gay-owned and operated establishments to institute their own bans as a sign of solidarity until Marriage is legal everywhere for everyone."
Chances are, these bachelorettes aren't trying to rub their marriage rights in the faces of LGBT people, but celebrating your engagement at a gay bar is an odd choice when there are so many other options available. LGBT men and women go to places like The Abbey to unwind and have a good time — to get away from the culture war and homophobic politics forced onto us. A reminder of the civil rights we're being denied is a definite buzz kill.
But maybe The Abbey and other LGBT establishments considering a bachelorette ban could compromise. Perhaps The Abbey could charge a special bachelorette admission fee and donate the proceeds to an organization fighting for marriage equality.
In the meantime, bachelorettes looking forward to a night at The Abbey will just have to go party somewhere else.
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Steve Friesen grew up in Nebraska, so the difficult conditions during the first two days of the TPC Stonebrae Championship on the Nationwide Tour are nothing he hasn't dealt with before. Rain, fog, wind and temperatures that have barely reached 50 degrees have resulted in several delays and left the northern California tournament well behind schedule.
"This is spring for us there," said Friesen, a native of Omaha. "I don't mind it but I certainly wouldn't want to do this every week. Living in Scottsdale the last several years doesn't prepare you for this kind of golf.
TPC Stonebrae is hosting this event for the fourth year in a row, and former San Francisco 49ers great Jerry Rice is serving as tournament host for the third straight year.
Friesen finished the last five holes of his opening round 69 Friday and then turned around and added a 2-under 68 in the freezing afternoon wind for a 3-under 137 total and temporary possession of the clubhouse lead.
"There's a lot of the year in Nebraska where you don't touch a club for several months," said Friesen, who had four layers of clothing on and handwarmers in both pockets. "You're excited to play in weather like this."
Uh-huh. Sure.
Matt Harmon (68) has the next best 36-hole score at 1-under 139.
Russel Henley (67), Aron Price (70) and Michael Connell (69) are done at even-par 140.
The schedule is a mess as only 64 players in the original field of 156 have managed to complete both rounds. A total of 24 players have yet to tee off in Round 2. Ten others have withdrawn at various times during the first two days, including tournament host and NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice.
"We're doing everything we can," said Nationwide Tour Tournament Director Orlando Pope. "Mother Nature is just not cooperating."
First-round leader Ben Martin is set to begin his second round at 7:30 Saturday morning -- approximately 45 hours after polishing off a bogey-free 5-under 65 on Thursday. The top 14 players after the completion of Round 1, and 20 of the top 22, all played in the morning wave on Thursday and completed their rounds early.
Brian Stuard, who shot 66 on Thursday, teed off just before sunset Friday but has not yet finished his first hole.
Friesen got the worst end of the draw, having to endure rain and cold in the afternoon and then wait out a four-hour delay Friday morning because of fog and a saturated TPC Stonebrae course that has been swamped with 3.27 inches of rain this week. More than 1.5 inches fell Thursday night and had the grounds crew working feverishly once the heavy fog lifted.
"If we would have gotten more rain today, it would have just been unplayable," said Friesen, winner of the 2011 Price Cutter Charity Championship. "The golf course is made to play with wind, and if you hit some good shots, there are some pins that the ball will funnel towards. You can have some birdie opportunities."
Friesen had a few chances and made five of them. With lift, clean and place conditions in effect, a key to playing well is to hit fairways, and the former Cornhusker has hit 23 of 26 thus far. The next big key is dealing with a wind that has been steady at 15-25 mph and gusting at times to 30.
"I judged the wind well, which is not easy to do," he said. "If you're dead into it it could be as much as three clubs. If it's sideways, you really have to control your trajectory and spin because it could get out of hand."
Friday Notes:
--Morning fog, coupled with overnight rain resulted in a four-hour delay to the start of play Friday. Round 1 finally resumed at 11:30 a.m. with 78 players needing to complete their opening rounds and finished up at 2:55 p.m. -- a total of 29:55 after it began Thursday morning. The second round began at 1:00 p.m.
--Lift, clean and place conditions are in effect for Rounds 1 and 2. This is the third time this year (in six events) that preferred lies were used: Rounds 1 and 2 of the Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship and the Chitimacha Louisiana Open.
--Corey Nagy and John Kimbell withdrew during the round and did not resume play on Friday. NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice withdrew after nine holes in the second round. Craig Bowden (75), Jeff Cuzzort (75), Jason Gore (76), Ewan Porter (77), Reid Edstrom (77), Roger Tambellini (78) and Andrew Mageee (89) all withdrew after the first round.
--The Nationwide Tour will take next week off before heading to Georgia for consecutive weeks. The next stop will be the South Georgia Classic at Kinderlou Forest April 23-29.


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Several stores in Saratoga Springs will offer savings to Black Friday shoppers as part of a STAR 101.3 FM event. But you'll need to get out of bed early to score the real deals.
On Friday, 15 stores will offer discounts of up to 50 percent from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., up to 40 percent from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., up to 30 percent from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., and up to 20 percent throughout the rest of the day.
Participants include: Chic Underneath, 7 Spring St., The Pink Paddock, 358 Broadway, Saratoga Traveler, 360 Broadway, Miss Scarlett Boutique, 19 Phila St., Impressions of Saratoga, 368 Broadway, Raina's Jewelry, 386 Broadway, Saratoga Saddlery, 460 Broadway, Clothes Line, 486 Broadway, Saratoga Trunk, 493 Broadway, Yellow Boutique, 491 Broadway, Spoken Boutique, 27 Church St., Piper Boutique, 441 Broadway, Crafters Gallery, 427 Broadway, Bettie's Cakes, 371 Broadway and Saratoga Sundress, 327 Broadway.
Looking for a Christmas tree and some fun? At 2 p.m. Saturday, Santa Claus and three of his helpers will parachute onto the Ellms' Christmas Tree farm at 468 Charlton Road in Charlton.
This is a most memorable event for many families and a great photo op for Christmas cards! With blue sky as a back drop and green Christmas trees, Santa in his red suit really stands out. The magic is alive as many young children run excitedly to Santa as he lands.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Longfellows Inn & Restaurant in Saratoga Springs will host a "Dickens Village Festival."
This magical event includes shopping for holiday gifts in the English Market, food samples from area restaurants, free pictures with Santa Claus, strolling carolers, Dickens characters and much more.
The festival is presented by Star 101.3 FM, Longfellows, Saratoga Sweets, Image Photo and Events and YNN. Admission is $5, children 5 and under are admitted free. Twenty percent of the proceeds go to the Saratoga Hospital Foundation.


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Doors to the University Union Phoenix Room open at 5 p.m. with the dinner and program starting at 6 p.m. The event is $13 for students and $17 for the community, faculty and staff.
Dinner will include chicken curry, Greek salad, vegetable biryani, Asian-fried vegetables and baklava for dessert.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/27/data_mining_for_the_ppi_scandal/
Loads of mis-sold PPI, but WHO will claim? This man's paid to find out
Data mining to fathom the depths of banking's balls-up
Posted in Software, 27th August 2013 11:05 GMT
Feature When the opening line of a conversation starts, "I read an interesting number the other day", it's fairly safe to assume that you're talking to someone whose business it is to know about "interesting numbers". Perhaps unsurprisingly, these words were uttered by an economist whose ability to find
god gold in the numbers is the reason why he's been working for one of those very naughty High Street banks to figure out just how much the PPI scandal is going to cost it.
These days, the banks are very sensitive to any kind of media exposure, which is why this data miner has asked to remain anonymous, so we'll call him Cole.
Diamonds in the data: SAS Enterprise Miner tool in use for banking analytics
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Cole, who has a background in analytics, has to dig into some big data: his client has a hefty slice of those policies to work through, contracts running into the millions.
It's estimated that all the High Street banks combined have 20 million PPI policies to deal with (not all of which will have been mis-sold), but not all of the policyholders are going to play PPI bingo, and that's the catch. If every case was genuine and everybody applied, all the banks concerned would know what it will cost them straight away.
The fact is, not everyone will be bothered to follow up on compensation for the Payment Protection Insurance they were missold. The mis-selling of said PPI has rocked the banking industry since the major rumblings on this massive financial fiasco began back in 2005. And not knowing what it's going to cost is troubling for the banks. So they're been using data mining techniques to ascertain the types of customer likely to seek compensation to derive more accurate estimates, which is where Cole's expertise comes into play.
Incidentally, the interesting number he was talking about was the statistical claim that, at the moment, 90 per cent of the data stored on servers worldwide was collected within the last two years. In this business, the term "growth industry" appears to be a huge understatement.
Folk record collection
What makes the PPI models rather more involved – as compared to trawling text from tweets and peeking at the contents of your shopping basket – is that the data is historical. It goes back 20 years or more and involves the collation of records that have been migrated from systems long since dead, together with hard copies that have to be scanned in too. Lest we forget, he also needs to consider various bank mergers and their seemingly requisite system incompatibilities along the way. This isn't the neatly packaged analytics of the today's e-commerce, it's a bit of a mess and needs meticulous handling.
So who has been keeping this information? Where does it all live? Just how do you turn up at your desk one day and begin the task of mining data from 20 million records covering two decades?
Cole offers some background to this accumulation of records and its current use today. He sees the arrival of big data as developing in several stages.
"In the 1990s and after the millennium, big data was collated in data warehouses as relational databases. Consultancies earned a lot of money in the 1990s from building data warehouses - collating all transactional data, customer data (all sorts of data). After that came a period where in the last five to 10 years the focus has been more on the applications to utilise almost all of the data. And I come from the applications angle.
Moving the masses: Data mining information flow chart
"Then the next phase I see, to get to the data-mining part, is the exercise where you get all the data into a format where you can actually start analysing it. Big data, as it is, is not really fit for purpose in terms of getting inside analytics out of it. So analysts tend to build their own data marts on their own computers."
If you've never heard of a data mart before then you're not alone. Analysts can work from the data warehouse content, but creating a data mart is the way forward: syphoning off an specific range of data and narrowing down the areas you are interested in analysing – for instance, certain companies, time periods or particular regional locations.
There's direct access to the data on big servers from TeraData and other sources such as Oracle databases and the like and, depending on what it is, several types of data mart are built and, needless to say, the work takes place on copies.
Start with a mart
"We have built a data mart at the bank specifically to cover all the PPI analytics," explains Cole. "It contains all the bank's PPI accounts that have been sold and all related data to those policies – millions of records. In the data warehouse, there are a lot of data sources – different corporations and all sorts of different data formats coming in. You then collate whatever you need for your particular project or objective. You then build your mart for specific tasks – marts are not permanent."
The way the data is handled varies between the analytical data and operational phases of the work and the consequently there is the analytical data store (ADS) and also all sorts of operational data stores (ODS). The information in the latter is acted upon and used for various campaigns and targeting specific types of customer. Hence, the final phase is about implementing analytical tools that can make good use of the actual data.
"For analytics, what you're looking to get is maybe not all of it but definitely the full breadth of the data, so you may not need every single record. Then, when you get to the operational side of things, where you deploy your analytics, you may only need a much smaller part but you will need that for every customer.
"So in terms of the storage with our mart we've built here is half a terabyte, and I think we've used 95 per cent of that space and there is a upgrade underway. As you can see, it quickly adds up. But analytics is not really so much dependent on size and storage, you can do analytics on small pockets of data, it all depends on what you really want to get out of it."
Called to account
While all these banks seek to utilise big data to both harmonise accounts and clarify their position regarding the PPI payouts, one of the major players has another big data task on its hands. The UK government bailed out Lloyds during the financial crisis of 2009 with 43.4 per cent stake in the ailing bank. However, European Union law regarded this as state aid and demanded a sell-off to comply with competition rules.
In a project codenamed Verde, Lloyds set about divesting some 630 branches. Its attempts to sell them off to the Co-operative Bank failed recently, as this potential buyer got cold feet in this current economic climate. Yet Lloyds continues the work unabated and intends to offer this ready-made bank, branded TSB, as an IPO instead.
Lloyds has had its own PPI issues to deal with, but this an entirely different project and is nonetheless interesting as it is the reverse of merging – a necessary process in order to select the 630 branches for the sell-off and find out what they can do with the customers. Lloyds has even set up its own bank transfer website to explain the situation to its various account-holders.
Cole has his own take on the issues that this task involves. "Customers don't think of a branch, they think they are a customer of a bank. Now they're going to be banking with a newly formed company. So there will be cases where you have a joint account, your wife can have an account in another company, but you have a joint mortgage and things like that, it's massively complicated. From what I can see, it's an equally difficult exercise to split up the data as it is to merge it."
Quality control
Regardless of whether you're separating out the data or bringing it all together, data quality is the biggest issue that needs to be addressed before any major number-crunching begins. Cole also speaks of "holes" in the data, where information is missing – such as home address or date of birth. "You'd be surprised to see how many unknown genders there are. That's interesting." says Cole.
Determining different data classifications is another aspect that clarifies the picture that's being built up around a customer. Cole says he usually distinguishes between two types of data: behavioural and profile. With behavioural data it's typically an accumulation of transactions relating to customer activity, such as purchases or website visits. It ends up in a database and that remains unchanged, and simply builds up over time. According to Cole it's probably the most valuable source of data that can be collected.
"You can ask someone how often they shop in that supermarket and they will say once a week or twice a month but behavioural data will show exactly how often they shop and what they buy."
By contrast, profile data or research data is data that can change. Marital status, where you live and what you do. Working on filling in these gaps is just one aspect of a data-mining project, as Cole explains.
"One part of the process is to try to make your data better. So where there is missing information, you try to guess. This includes what the gender would be or if you don't know the income for that person, you make an estimate or you model it based on all the information [you have] on all the other customers."
This goes beyond just using a post code but can refer to particular spending patterns. When it comes to filling in the gaps, nothing goes to waste. While there are exceptions, it's far too time-consuming to laboriously go through every customer profile with missing income details to fathom out a likely figure.
"That's where the data mining comes in," says Cole. "You would then build algorithms that will use all the data to make that prediction. Alternatively, you can look at the average or examine a certain range of data – there are a lot of different ways to approach it. In your application you are cleaning the data. That means filling out the blanks and simply checking for errors. For example, a phone number typed into the age field, things like that. Looking for outliers. Again in the analytics you're interested in the breadth, but you're also interested in what is coming across."
Meaningful relationships"Data quality is the biggest issue when you start getting into your task and working with the data. You have a lot of data and you look for relationships, but if you then have something extreme [an outlier] appearing then that could change the whole relationship and create an inaccurate picture. So it's all about cleaning. Then, by creating these other factors from thousands of data [fields], you're creating a more manageable amount of factors. You know what you're looking at in terms of data on the screen.
"The big exercise in the data prep is to get to understand the distribution in the data and the variation. You need variation between two things in order to assess if there is a relationship. If there is no variation, you can't really say anything from that data. So there's a lot preparation going on and you're also normalising data – you're splitting it up – all sorts of statistical things. You have to massage the data to put it in a form that you can use to run your algorithms. All that you're doing is programming, writing code.
"You then run your algorithms and select your best algorithms. You get statistics on your screen and you make decisions – it's often a rigid process. The output could be a credit score or a just number. Or it can be a segment which you would then profile after that. You would send that segment to a marketeer who would then come up with a fancy name for it.
"There's an operation, a commercial aspect and there's an insight. And you always try to gain insights because that will help you next time you do the same exercise."
Prophecy and loss
For the PPI work, the servers get reloaded every week, but other projects might run daily. If you're handling historic data, namely decades-old insurance policies, you might ask yourself how fresh data can assist you. Yet for many of the bank's customers, their PPI policy will also have a separate account from the bank attached to it, and this is a rich source of behavioural data. It's a way of understanding who you are dealing with: are they likely to apply for a PPI refund or will they let it go?
Cole adds: "Recency* is a very important factor when you are analysing data. If you want to figure out what a customer would do in the future, the more recent behaviour is usually a much better indicator of their actions. A lot of the work is about trying to figure out what is going to happen in the future by looking at what happened in the past. That's a typical domain for data mining and data mining analysts.
"For example, what I've also been involved in is to try to figure out if people are likely to default on a loan. So [you] look at a similar group of people, how they've behaved in the past and you make your assessment."
And it is precisely this capacity of big data to reveal the likely actions of vast numbers of customers that the bank has tasked Cole and his colleagues to work with in order to estimate the cost of PPI. If you can determine how certain groups of people are likely to behave then it helps reduce the guesswork involved, so that realistic figures can be delivered that marketeers and investors can swallow.
Cole has his own example of how recency has assisted his PPI work. "In this case, we have figured out the more recent the loan, the more likely there is going to be a mis-selling complaint. So that's an important driver in order to predict whether there would be a complaint or not."
But not everyone will complain, so surely the bank can take it in its stride as complaints ebb and flow. Not so: all the banks involved in the PPI scandal have a serious incentive to get these complaints of mis-selling dealt with as quickly as possible, as Cole explains.
"The commercial aspect here is that customers are earning interest on that PPI premium that they're going to be repaid. So the banks have a vested interest in trying to get these complaints sorted as quickly as possible. They are paying 8 per cent interest." He adds, jokingly, "If you have been mis-sold, it's the best savings account you can have."
Tools of the tradetake a look at SAS.
"SAS is something that they teach at the university that I went to," says Cole, "and the company is probably the biggest supplier of statistical analytical software. There are other tools also, but for statistical analysis, you should know it. It involves using standard programming tools, as most of the work is done in programming, and you can build application runs on top of that for other people to use."
SAS products don't come cheap and the portfolio covers a huge range of business analytics applications. The site is worth a visit as it features numerous tutorials and the odd demo, but perhaps the best way to get your hands dirty and do some number-crunching is to consider the open-source alternatives such as R from Revolution Analytics. Cole is a fan too.
"I'm also teaching myself R. It is more specifically aimed at statistical analysis and given that it's open source, anyone can download applications or if they've developed one, they can upload it for everyone else to use."
It's this aspect of R that appeals to Cole, as it has the potential provide him with a much larger toolset that's specifically designed for statistical analytics. "In SAS," he says "the main tools have a lot of functions, but then you have to build your own applications."
Using Revolution R may well prove to be a useful vehicle for evangelising the benefits of data mining for companies that aren't permanent members of the FTSE 100, as he explains.
"My initial idea is you would be able to take this type of analytics to smaller companies that cannot afford to invest in the big applications. These businesses have accumulated a lot of data in the last two to 10 years and have their own small big data. Many online companies have a huge amount of behavioural data from customers visiting and shopping on their sites too, but they don't have the money or the skills to use the data they have collected."
How these small companies would utilise their data caches remains to be seen but there's no escaping the fact that if you do something that can be logged, then somebody out there will be interested in knowing about it and prepared to pay to find out.
The Community version of Revolution R is freely available for Windows and Red Hat Linux 5 in 32/64-bit flavours. It installed without a hitch on Window 8 running on an Acer Aspire P3 Ultrabook here at The Reg. At a glance, it looks very much like an application that's designed for people who are well versed in the dark arts of statistical analytics.
Monetary policy
Needless to say, the banks have been keen to bring these cases to a close and are duty-bound to contact a large proportion of these policyholders and send at least one letter. In theory, they should contact all policyholders but there is an agreement now to target policies from 2005 until 2011, when the selling of PPI products ceased.
"My task now is to look at the complaints we have already had to try to predict who are more likely to complain than others, and then focus on those policyholders to speed up the process, which would be in everyone's interests."
FCA figures for PPI payouts since January 2011: the total hit £10.5bn in May 2013. Mis-selling may have been rife, but the banks have had to make massive compensations, and the claims continue to this day.
Apparently there's no deadline for these cases either. Even though the British Bankers Association appealed, the High Court ruling in April 2011 was against the banks. In the various court wranglings, the words "unfair relationship" and "mis-selling" have been used to describe the impact of some PPI policies on unsuspecting customers.
In a way, data mining is being used to calm nerves as it identifies groups of likely claimants, so now board members don't lose sleep worrying over the losses if all the policyholders applied for refunds. After all, the task is not simply recording and reporting the structures you already know about – that's just a matter of numbers going up and down. By contrast, data mining is about looking for patterns that you were not aware of or wouldn't have thought of.
"You can look for correlations in all sorts of lifestyles such as the sale of goats' cheese and wine in a supermarket, but that doesn't necessarily explain anything. One could be the function of the other or vice versa – or both of them could be a function of something completely different."
Confessions of a cash machine
Cole adds: "What I found is that customers with a deeper relationship with the bank are more likely to complain. For instance, customers that were using ATMs more – checking their account balance regularly – and those who have had more products over a lifetime (more active products), things like that. The ATM connection isn't something you would have thought about up front but the data mining put the spotlight on this."
These kinds of insights become apparent as data is handled in different ways to refine the results. "Data analysts tend not to have the greatest discipline when managing the data they use. I think it's inherent in the way you work, as you need to be open to new ways of looking at things. It's not called data mining for nothing," says Cole. "It's a good term because it illustrates that you don't always know what you're looking for." He describes a typical scenario and how data mining insights are adopted by a company.
"So you have your data and you've identified pockets using a statistical algorithm. The next job is to try to profile it: what's the age, gender, where do they live? If that's what the marketing requirement is. If it's a matter of risk then you'll see what is their income, when did they last default on a loan?
"When we get to the application stage, there are often three areas. One is the direct application of your output, so whether it's some sort of segmentation or credit score or ranking of customers likely to complain, that would go into the operational parts (and be used operationally by those doing the campaigns).
"Then there's the commercial aspect of it. What's the impact on the profit and loss, and the revenue? By how much could the bank reduce its burden of interest payments if it were to push forward a lot of complaints? And then there are the insights of gaining customer understanding.
"In this case, it's to discover who are the complainers or who are the more risky people. When you get to this stage you need illustrative PowerPoint slides, of course, with a few data points and a few charts."
The insight track
For Cole, insights that come from data mining are not simply received on the nod. Presentations are made to internal stakeholders and, when you're dealing with a major High Street bank, acceptance of your findings involves numerous steps along the way.
"There's often a lot of spin work to be done when you have created insights to actually get it into the organisation," he concedes.
So after all that effort in the search for insights using big data derived from 20 million records – along with analytics and algorithms – at the end of the day, there's still a person in a suit who decides if it's actually of any significance to the company or not.
It's a pity that we don't have those people in banks any more to decide the merits of individual customer loan applications. Instead, data mining of your past will determine your future and, just as High Street banking has found out with the PPI mis-selling, these things can come back to haunt you. ®
* Our dear, dear grammar gurus: Yes, it's "industry-specific" terminology, which essentially specifies how much further back in time the data capture is compared to the present moment (which is also constantly shifting forward through time)... And while you could say "how recently it was captured" instead of saying "recency", it takes more words to do the former, and statisticians and analysts appreciate the brevity of the latter. Just accept it and move on. We have. – Sub Ed


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