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From Lab to Market: Accelerating Innovation through University, Business, and Government Partnership
Sat 28 Apr - Thu 03 May, 2007
(Session 441)
Florian Lennert (Faculty)
Country/Region: Germany
London School of Economics and Political Science
Director of Corporate Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
Florian LENNERT, London Florian Lennert is director of corporate relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science. He leads and coordinates strategic partnerships with both businesses and government agencies and overall business-university relations. He is also responsible for international business and partnership development, and for LSE's knowledge exchange services targeting a range of institutional stakeholders and specialist audiences. Previously, Mr. Lennert was a director of the LSE Foundation, Inc. in New York and coordinator of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the LSE in London. A native of Berlin, he has in the past worked for the German Federal Privatisation Agency, the Treuhandanstalt, as well as the German Institute for Urban Research in Berlin where he managed urban renewal and development projects in East Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic on behalf of the German federal government. Mr. Lennert holds a B.S. in economics and an M.P.A. from the LSE.
Media files from Florian Lennert
Round Table: Nurturing Innovation
University: Seeding Innovation
Working Gruop Presentations: Incubation Groups 1 & 2

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EE Publishers Home»	Articles: PositionIT»Top 10 ways to use GIS in retail banking
Top 10 ways to use GIS in retail banking
August 8th, 2014, Published in Articles: PositionIT, Featured: PositionIT
by Eliot MacDonald, Market Forté
This article describes key applications of geographic information systems that major banking corporations pursue at a head office level. The information is also applicable in most cases to other organisations operating a large number of retail outlets.
It was not that long ago that I would be asked regularly at events focused on geographic information systems (GIS) about what banks do with GIS. The rare times that applications of GIS had been cited were restricted to a few examples, such as simply looking at locations on maps or for an industry-specific activity. The list presented here is not ranked in any way and represents only applications in which one individual has been personally involved for one single banking organisation. In almost all cases, one can substitute "branch" with "store", "restaurant", "café", or "dealership" and the applications apply almost equally to the respective industry.
Site selection for new and relocated branches
It's not difficult to comprehend the basic idea of depicting market statistics on maps in an effort to evaluate locations. But these days, there are so many more techniques and tools in the arsenal to allow the organisation to go so much further. "Spatial interaction modeling" captures the patterns of customer locations in relation to the branches they may choose to execute transactions. Systems can go to work calculating complicated geography-based statistics (e.g. households within a 5-minute drive, an index representing overall competitive intensity that takes into account proximity of branches, whether or not a branch is on the "going home side" of the street for commuters, etc.) for thousands of locations at one time. Distribution of customer home locations can be fully analysed to better understand impacts on nearby branch openings.
Besides assessing a given site opportunity, GIS helps prioritise alternative site locations, assess the expected performance of existing branches based on the market conditions faced, quantify the estimated financial impact of changes to the branch network (including competitors'), evaluate stores in which a small banking kiosk may be installed and assess branch relocation opportunities to name a few.
Branch closure evaluation
Assessing the attractiveness of the markets in which branches operate with the help of GIS can help a bank decide whether or not to reduce its presence in that market and assess the risks in doing so. But GIS-based analysis of closure opportunities is especially helpful when it comes to predicting the customer loss (attrition) that would result should a given branch be closed. Capturing this ability to retain customers through transfer of business to nearby branches can have a very significant impact on the decision involved, where it is sometimes better to close one branch that performs on its own better than another candidate for closure. Some banking organisations are taking this concept to the next level and applying sophisticated customer attrition models across a national network of branch locations in an effort to identify consolidation opportunities.
Targeted marketing campaign enhancement
Using GIS, neighbourhoods, ZIP/postal codes, or individual addresses can be assessed as to whether or not they meet certain geographic and/or demographic criteria and can be scored or ranked according to the corresponding potential to respond to campaigns. For example, rather than mailing a letter randomly to customers with certain cities, one can identify postal codes that are within a 10 minute drive of one of the organisation's branches and are in neighbourhoods with an average annual household income of at least $50 000 to name one example.
When it comes to increasing staff, merely waiting to first see that a branch has clearly become too busy can mean significant business lost. One branch operating at capacity may already be capturing virtually all of the business it can expect based on the market conditions it faces while another experiencing the same customer wait times may have many more customers turning away due to those waits. By analysing markets correctly, the bank can better anticipate expected business volumes and the need for more staff before the branch becomes too busy.
A similar analysis of branch locations in relation to market potential can be especially beneficial when an entirely new service and corresponding new staff are being introduced or certain types of staff are only being deployed in selected branches. In these cases, GIS-based market analysis may hold critical information when information about existing customers doesn't provide all the answers.
Another of many examples in this category is the setting of optimal hours of service across branches. The location positioning of the organisation's branches in relation to the hours of service offered at nearby competing branches may, for example, play a big role in determining what is appropriate.
Market profiling
Even if no changes to the branch network or major marketing campaigns are involved, simply knowing the regions served (such as demographic characteristics) can go a long way toward helping branches fine-tune appropriate service processes and tailor local marketing efforts. Defining primary trade areas through GIS deployment is a big part of this effort, where geographic positions are determined for customers and processed to identify such regions. Once in hand, the trade areas can be used to identify differences between any demographic information the organisation already has for its customers and the prevailing demographics in the regions themselves. This may reveal, for example, a higher than expected proportion of the population above or below a certain age level, speaking a particular language, or leaving to work outside the area.
Customer relationship management (CRM) support
In cases where important demographic information is unavailable for customers, GIS can be used to attach neighbourhood-level demographic averages as a way to effectively either summarise characteristics of customers as groups or predict the likelihood of customers having certain demographic attributes. This in turn can be incorporated into tools used to manage interactions with customers or into various analyses performed for CRM purposes (models predicting customer behaviours, development of customer segmentation systems, etc.). As a completely different example, proximity to branches can be almost instantly provided to a potential commercial customer who needs to have good access to on-site banking from his/her own network of business locations.
Merger and acquisition evaluation
By analysing the location pattern of branches of an acquisition candidate, for example, a bank can determine the overall "geographic fit" in relation to its own branch network. For instance, it may be ideal that the other bank's branches are either almost immediately adjacent to its own or sufficiently removed from them yet serving markets that are similar or otherwise sufficiently attractive. GIS can help quantify the degree to which this holds true.
In other cases, such as a major merger between banking organisations, there are certain processes used by governmental agencies to help them determine whether or not a merger will leave the organisations with too much dominance in certain markets (and thus unfairly set fees, as one of many examples). This kind of review process has a key geographic element to it. By using GIS, banks can actually perform similar "self-assessments" to allow them to anticipate and potentially address these issues in advance of governmental reviews.
Customer navigation
Branch locators are one of the more recognised applications of GIS for bank branches these days. But some banks are going further than others in this capacity. The effectiveness of a branch locator depends on several factors:
The flexibility in how customers can specify locations for searches
The amount of branch information made available (including photos)
How current the data is maintained
The degree to which the look is tailored to the bank's brand image
The range of criteria that can be specified for searches (e.g. nearest branch offering X, Y, and Z)
The visual quality of the maps
The accuracy of the branch positions
The proportion of searched locations that are successfully found
The speed in which information is returned
The capacity of the system (speed offered as many customers use it at the same time)
Beyond helping customers navigate, some banks provide expanded versions of these store locators for internal use across the organisation, where much more confidential branch information can be incorporated.
"Location based services" (LBS) also represent applications of GIS related to this category. The term is a complex one that has been described differently by different parties over the years, but can be characterised as information services supplied over mobile devices (such as smart cellular phones) that incorporate the geographic location of the mobile devices. For banks, the examples may include pushing out advertising to subscribing customers that are within close proximity to a branch, simply providing the above branch locating support using the customer's current location (nearest ABM/ATM, for example), and allowing specialised bank staff to capture various locations while out in the field (e.g. locations of leasing opportunities) or find the nearest exit, gas station, or café.
In many ways, the geographic positioning of a bank's branches and offices in relation to market conditions determines its business potential (the financial performance it should expect accordingly) and GIS helps banks do this at both the local branch level and at regional levels.
Predictive models of branch performance, based in large part on analysis and visualisation provided by GIS, define how well a branch should be performing (revenue generated, funds under management, customers booked). As a result, branch managers and other key staff can be more accurately evaluated beyond the actual financial results themselves for a given branch.
The same kind of concept applies in determining the effectiveness of new products and services, where new customers can be plotted in relation to other market data to estimate penetration levels. The bank may find that the success of such new offerings depends in part on selected geographic patterns and demographic attributes of markets.
Enhancement to executive information systems, reports, and presentations
In many ways, GIS provides key contributions to better use of corporate information systems for decision-making purposes. Credit-card-only customers and those otherwise not connected directly to a bank branch can be assigned to branches based on proximity so that this customer data can be integrated with other data at a branch level and at levels representing formal organisational groupings of branches. The appropriate groupings themselves can be determined or redefined based on GIS analysis. The concept of "geo-accounting" in general is enabled, where financial data is allocated to locations and standardised market boundaries where possible to allow review and extraction of data by geography versus merely the internal accounting organisation.
Maps depicting metrics as charts or regional colouring can be incorporated into business intelligence systems to allow more effective display of tabular data. And finally, new KPIs (key performance indicators) can be defined for dashboards such as estimated market share.
Contact Eliot MacDonald, Market Forté, emac@marketforte.com
banking CRM customers GIS GPS LBS LBS & Applications Technical location mapping Market Forté


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Table Tennis Manager is multiplayer table tennis game and also an app that stands out from the crowd. Really, if you take a look at the whole bunch of apps available at the app stores, you will find literally hundred table tennis related apps, ranging from simple scoreboards to various table tennis game simulations. Table Tennis Manager, on the other side, is somewhat genuine. It provides you the unique opportunity to manage your own table tennis club or at least to take an insight into managing a table tennis club.
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A team of players should consist of 5-7 adult players so that you can rotate them. Each player will have some skills which can be improved over time. They will gain skills by coaching, training and by playing. Top shape requires some time and work unless you purchase a player with high average abilities. Stamina, for instance, is one of the keywords immanent to every player. It is also a parameter you will have to care of since games and daily training routine will decrease it. In order to maintain players' stamina, you will need to create line-up and training program wisely. There are other ways for boosting stamina and holiday and pauses between rounds are some of them. Hiring stamina coach as a staff member will have benefits as well as leg work training and leg work skills.
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Introduction | Today | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
Born: Edward VI of England, 1537, Hampton Court; Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, 1798; Hugh Miller, geologist, 1802, Cromarty.
Died: Pope Honorius I, 638; Pope Boniface VIII, 1303; Maximilian II, emperor of Germany, 1576, Ratisbon; Duke of Palmella, Portuguese statesman, 1850, Lisbon; Robert Stephenson, engineer, 1859, London.
Feast Day: St. Wilfrid, bishop of York, confessor, 709.
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
On 12th October 1492, Columbus with his followers landed on Guanahani or San Salvador, one of the Bahama Isles, and planted there the cross in token of gratitude to the Divine mercy, which, after guiding him safely through a perilous voyage, had at last, in the discovery of a western world, crowned with success the darling aspiration of his life. Land had already been descried on the previous evening, but it was not till the ensuing morning that the intrepid admiral beheld the flat and densely-wooded shores gleaming beneath the rays of an autumn sun, and by actually setting his foot on them, realized the fulfilment of his hopes.
It is now well known that although Columbus was unquestionably the first to proclaim to the world at large the existence of a new and vast region in the direction of the setting sun, he cannot literally be said to have been the first European discoverer of America. The ancient Scandinavians or Norsemen, so renowned for their maritime enterprise, had, at the commencement of the 11th century, not only settled colonies in Greenland, but explored the whole east coast of America as far south as lat. 41° 30' N, and there, near New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, they planted a colony. An intercourse by way of Greenland and Iceland subsisted between this settlement and Norway down to the fourteenth century.
There is also satisfactory evidence for believing, that in the twelfth century the celebrated Welsh prince, Madoc, having sailed from his native country with a small fleet, landed and founded a colony on the coast of Virginia. But to Columbus still belongs the merit of having philosophically reasoned out the existence of a New World, and by practically ascertaining the truth of his propositions, of inaugurating that connection between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres which has effected so remarkable a revolution in the world's history.
It is a little curious, indeed, that the belief which Columbus entertained, at first, as to the land discovered by him being part of India or China, was adhered to by him to the last, and he died in the idea that Cuba formed a portion of the mainland of India. This notion so pertinaciously clung to, both by the great Genoese and Europe in general, was dispelled by Balboa's expedition, in 1513, across the Isthmus of Darien, and discovery of the Pacific Ocean; whilst a few years later, the real position of these countries with respect to America was demonstrated by the expedition of Fernando Magalhaens, whose untimely death, in the Philippine Islands, deprived him of the honour of being the first circumnavigator of the globe.
Much obloquy has been thrown on Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator, for depriving Columbus of the honour of giving his name to the New World. How the denomination of America arose from Vespucci's Christian name, has never been satisfactorily explained, but it appears to be sufficiently ascertained that he himself is in nowise responsible for the circumstance. Vespucci, who was a man of considerable attainments, wrote an account of his American voyages, which was translated into German, and obtained an immense popularity with that nation. It has been conjectured that the name of America was first applied in Germany to the New World, and from thence was adopted by the other countries of Europe.
THE 'CURIOSITIES' OF MANCHESTER COLLEGE
On 12th October 1653, died at Clayton Hall, near Manchester, Humphrey Chetham, who bequeathed the large fortune which, though a gentleman by birth, he had made in trade, for the purpose of establishing a school for the education of forty poor children of Manchester, and also of founding a public library, which till recently was almost the only institution of the kind in Britain. The college' as the scholastic establishment and library are termed, was originally a religious foundation, but the buildings were in the sixteenth century sold to the Derby family, from whom they were purchased shortly after the death of Mr. Chetham, by the trustees of the latter. The boys are boarded, clothed, and educated from about the age of six to fourteen, after which they are bound apprentices to some trade. Both in a philanthropic and antiquarian point of view, the college forms one of the most interesting public buildings in Manchester, contrasting so markedly, as it does, in its traditions of ancient times, with the bustle of factory life and the din of mills and machinery. No part of the structure strikes the visitor more forcibly in this respect than the library, which is open daily to the public, with an unlimited right to every one, whether a resident in the town or a stranger, of reading, within a room set apart for the purpose, any book in the collection. The only condition demanded is, that the reader shall enter in a book his name and address. The reading-room is an antique apartment, wainscoted with oak, and adorned with portraits of Humphrey Chetham, the founder, Luther, and other celebrities, and presenting altogether such a quaint and secluded appearance, that it is difficult for the visitor to realise the fact of his being near the centre of such a busy nineteenth century city as Manchester.
Till within the last three or four years, an odd collection of what were termed 'curiosities' used to be exhibited in the library gallery attached to the college. The visitors were, for the most part, people from the country, who flocked thither to see the wonders of the place. A small fee for admission was charged, the duties of exhibitor being assumed by the college-boys in rotation, and certainly to a stranger the show-boy was the greatest curiosity there. With a loud, shrill voice, in the broad Lancashire dialect, and a tone of wearisome monotony, the boy, with or without a long wand, thus directed attention to the objects exhibited:
That's th' skeleton of a mon; that 's a globe; that's a talliscope; that's a snake; over th' snake's hack's two watch bills; them 's four ancient swooards; that wi' a whoite haft onst belonged to General Wolfe; that's th' whip that th' snake was kilt wi'; that topmost 's a crocodoile; that bottomost's a halligator; that boot wonst belonged to Queen Elizabeth; that's a Hindian pouch; that's a ancient stiletto; that's part o' Humphrey Cheetham's armour; that wi' th' white feeace is a munkey; under th' munkey 's a green lizard; side o' th' munkey's a porpus's skull; under the porpus's skull's a halligator; under th' halligator 's a turtle; them bows an' arrows belonged to th' Injyans; that's a porpus's head; them there 's various kinds o' adders, worums, snakes, fishes, and vemenous exec-tars; that albine piece was takken from th' deead body of a Frenchmon, that was killed at th' battle o' Waterloo, that was fowt i' th' year eyteen hundert an' fifteen; them's a pair o' eagle's claws; that arrow belonged to one o' th' legions that fowt under th' Duke o' Richmunt at th' battle o' Bosworth Field, i' th' year 1485, when King Richurt th' Third, king of Englund, was slain; them arrows wonst belonged to Robin Hood; that 's a sea-hen; that's a sea-weed; that's a unicorn fish; that's part of a Hindian's skull; that's th' top on it; that 's Oliver Crummell's stone and tankard; that's part on a loadstone; them two pieces o' wood was almanecks afoare printin' was fun' out; that's a hairy mon; under th' hairy mon 's a spakingtrumpet; side o' th' spaking trumpet's a shark's jaw-bone; that that's leaning against th' spakingtrumpet's Oliver Crummell's swooard; that's a leather-bag; side o' tic' leather-bag's two cokey-nut shells; side o' th' cokey-nut shell's a porpus's skull; side o' th' porpus's head 's a pumpkin; over th' pumpkin's a turtle; side o' th' turtle's a sea-weed; that top 'un's a crocodile; under th' crocodile 's a halligator; under th' halligator's a woman's clog that was split by a thunner bolt, an' hoo wasn't hurt; side o' th' crocodile's tail's a sea-hen; side o' sea hen's a Laplander's snow shoe; that in a box is th' skeleton of a nightingale.
This brought the show-boy and his gaping auditors to the door of the reading-room, the door of which being thrown open, the company entered to the great annoyance of the readers, and the lad would point out in the same loud, piercing voice, the various curiosities which the apartment contained, including the portrait of Chetham the founder, and finally pointing to the brilliantly painted and gilded cock on a bracket, would exclaim, by way of peroration, 'That's th' cock as crows when he smells roast beef! The country-folk at this would stare more and gape wider, as if in momentary expectation of hearing Chanticleer, and then turn away, half disappointed, but consoling them selves with the supposition that just then there was no roast beef within smelling distance. This ludicrous exhibition is, however, no longer one of the sights of Manchester College. The feoffees, feeling that it was scarcely in accordance with the cloistral quiet, solemn aspect, and studious silence of the place, at length closed the show, and the curiosities have been removed to the Salford Royal Museun, Peel Park.
ROBERT STEPHENSON
The lives of George and Robert Stephenson are interwoven, and it is not unlikely that some do not sufficiently recognize the genius of the son in the original glory of the father. 'It was my father's thorough training,' said Robert, 'his example, and his character, which made me the man I am.' And on another occasion, he observed:
It is my great pride to remember, that whatever may have been done, and however extensive may have been my own connection with railway development, all I know and all I have done is primarily due to the parent whose memory I cherish and revere.
It is pleasant to read these modest and grateful words, yet we must remember that character is as much as education, and in Robert Stephenson it was easy to discern a repetition of those qualities of will and intellect which raised his father from a labourer's cottage to wealth and honours which might satiate any ambition. If Robert rejoiced in his father, George might rejoice in his son. The world will always read their lives together, and behold in the son the crown and perfection of the foundation laid in the father.
Robert Stephenson was born towards the end of 1803, while his father was working as brakesman at Willington Quay, on the north bank of the Tyne, about six miles below Newcastle. George having felt the pinch of ignorance, resolved that his son his only son should not suffer in the same way. To cite his own words: 'When Robert was a little boy, I saw how deficient I was in education, and I made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I should put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after may daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son.' Thus when Robert was twelve, he sent him to a good school in Newcastle, to which he rode daily on a donkey. There are some still living who remember the little boy, dressed in his suit of homely gray stuff, cut out by his father, cantering along to school upon the 'Cuddy,' with his wallet of provisions for the day and his bag of books slung over his shoulder.
At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to a coal viewer, and during three years in which he served in that capacity, he spent his evenings with his father in reading, and study, and eager discussions concerning the locomotive engine, and its growing powers and possible uses. In order that Robert should be well qualified to deal with the world, George took him from business and sent him for six months to Edinburgh University. To what excellent purpose he turned this brief sojourn is proved by an anecdote related by Mr. Smiles. One evening, long years afterwards, Mr. Robert Stephenson was conversing with a friend in his house in London, and rising from his seat he took down a volume from the shelves. 'What have we here?' was asked, as a book of neatly written manuscript was spread before him. Mr. Stephen son's answer was: 'When I went to college, I knew the difficulty my father had in collecting the funds to send me there. Before going I studied short hand; while at Edinburgh, I took down, verbatim, every lecture; and in the evenings, before I went to bed, I transcribed those lectures word for word. You see the result in that range of books.' One reason for undertaking this great labour was, that his father should share in the instruction he received.
On his return from Edinburgh, Robert assisted his father in the survey of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, entering the figures while his father took the sights. Then he was engaged on the more difficult task of scheming out the line between Liverpool and Manchester over Chat Moss. In 1824, he went to South America, to superintend some mining operations in Columbia; but finding life there dull and unsatisfactory, and his father writing that his help was urgently required at home, he returned to England after an absence of three years, and assumed the management of a locomotive factory which had been set up in Newcastle. There he constructed the Rocket, that celebrated engine which won the prize of £500 at the competition at Rainhill in 1829, and established the efficiency of the locomotive for working the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and indeed all future railways. His next great undertaking was the formation of the railway between London and Birmingham, a work of prodigious difficulty and anxiety. In examining the country to ascertain the best line, he walked the whole distance between London and Birmingham upwards of twenty times.
Long tunnels and miles of deep excavation had to be driven through unknown strata. The business of railway making was new, and those who contracted for its execution seldom came to any good. Speaking of the difficulties encountered during the construction of this line, Robert Stephenson observed:
After the works were let, wages rose, the prices of materials of all kinds rose, and the contractors, many of whom were men of comparatively small capital, were thrown on their beam ends. Their calculations as to expenses and profits were completely upset. Let me just go over the list. There was Jackson, who took the Primrose Hill contract he failed. Then there was the next length Nowells; then Copeland and Harding; north of them Townsend, who had the Tring cutting; next Stoke Hammond; then Lyers; then Hughes: I think all of these broke down, or at least were helped through by the directors. Then there was that terrible contract of the Kilsby tunnel, which broke the Nowells, and killed one of them. The contractors to the north of Kilsby were more fortunate, though. some of them pulled through only with the greatest difficulty. Of the eighteen contracts in which the line was originally let, only seven were completed by the original contractors. Eleven firms were ruined by their contracts, which were re-let to others at advanced prices, or were carried on and finished by the company.
The skill with which he overcame obstacles between London and Birmingham established Robert Stephenson's reputation beyond cavil, and projectors thought themselves fortunate who could secure his name, and he had only to propose his own terms to obtain them. In one session of parliament he appeared as engineer for no fewer than thirty-three new schemes. His work was enormous, and his income larger than ever fell to any of his profession. His business did not, however, fall into easy routine, but he was continually called to exercise his genius in surmounting difficulties hitherto unattempted by engineers.
He designed the Royal Border Bridge, which crosses the Tweed at Berwick, and the High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle, both of which are marvellous and beautiful works; but as engineer to the Chester and Holyhead Railway he won his chief triumph in carrying the line through tubular bridges over the Straits of Menai and the estuary of the Conway. These Welsh works cost him intense thought and anxiety. When he had got the first tube floated at Conway, and saw all safe, he said: 'Now I shall go to bed!' The Britannia Bridge over the Straits gave him still more trouble. 'It was,' he said, 'a most anxious and harassing time with me. Often at night I would lie tossing about, seeking sleep in vain. The tubes filled my head. I went to bed with them and got up with them. In the gray of the morning, when I looked across the square, it seemed an immense distance across to the houses on the opposite side. It was nearly the same length as the span of my tubular bridge!' When the first tube had been floated, a friend remarked to him: This great work has made you ten years older.' 'I have not slept sound,' he replied, 'for three weeks.'
The tubular bridge he repeated on a grander scale in the Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence, at Montreal; and in two bridges over the Nile, he varied his plan by running the line upon the tubes instead of within them. It was from his experience in Egypt that he addressed the House of Commons with so much effect on the Suez Canal scheme. 'I have surveyed the line,' said he, 'I have travelled the whole distance on foot, and I declare there is no fall between the two seas. Honourable members talk about a canal. A canal is impossible the thing would only be a ditch!'
George Stephenson was once invited to offer himself as member of parliament for South Shields, but he declined the honour, having slight interest in politics. Politics,' he used to say, are all matters of theory-there is no stability in them; they shift about like the sands of the sea; and I should feel quite out of my element amongst them.' On the question of free-trade, nevertheless, he held a decided opinion. 'England,' said he to Sir Joseph Paxton, 'is, and must be a shopkeeper; and our (locks and harbours are only so many wholesale-shops, the doors of which should always be kept open.' Robert, on the other hand, was, strange to say, a thorough-going Protectionist, and represented Whitby in parliament as a Conservative from 1847. He resisted free-trade, and supported the Navigation Laws; and on the 26th of November 1852, he went into the lobby with. the famous minority of 53, who voted in disapproval of liberal commercial legislation, and thereby earned the name of 'cannon balls,' their heads being presumed too hard for the entrance of a new idea.
Robert Stephenson died on the 12th of October 1859, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was buried by the side of Telford in Westminster Abbey.


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Q: Как изменить одинаковые ключи в bibtex-файле, которые соответствуют разным статьям С помощью одного плагина я генерирую .bib файл. Может возникнуть ситуация, что для разных статей будет использоваться один и тот же ключ. Например:
@inproceedings{Hosseini_2016,
    doi = {10.1109/ism.2016.0028},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1109%2Fism.2016.0028},
    year = 2016,
    month = {dec},
    publisher = {{IEEE}},
    author = {Mohammad Hosseini and Viswanathan Swaminathan},
    title = {Adaptive 360 {VR} Video Streaming: Divide and Conquer},
    booktitle = {2016 {IEEE} International Symposium on Multimedia ({ISM})}
}
@inproceedings{Hosseini_2016,
    doi = {10.1109/ism.2016.0093},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1109%2Fism.2016.0093},
    year = 2016,
    month = {dec},
    publisher = {{IEEE}},
    author = {Mohammad Hosseini and Viswanathan Swaminathan},
    title = {Adaptive 360 {VR} Video Streaming Based on {MPEG}-{DASH} {SRD}},
    booktitle = {2016 {IEEE} International Symposium on Multimedia ({ISM})}

Библиотека pybtex, которую я использую для парсинга, считает, что под одинаковыми ключами записаны одинаковые статьи, и пропускает дубликаты. Но статьи на самом деле разные, и я хочу обработать их все. Как мне изменить ключи так, чтобы все они были разными?

A: Решил проблему регулярными выражениями. Просто заменяю все ключи на nanoid. Наверняка есть более удачное решение, но мне подошло такое.
from nanoid import generate
import re

def process_bibtex(fn):
    with open(fn, encoding="utf-8") as r_file:
        bibtex = r_file.read()
    pattern = r"@([\w\W]+?){([\w\W0-9_\-]+?),"
    def callback(matchobj):
        return f"@{matchobj.group(1)}{{{generate()},"
    with open(fn, "w", encoding="utf-8") as w_file:
        w_file.write(re.sub(pattern, callback, bibtex))

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Dino Rossi's Republican Party
by Goldy — Monday, 10/4/10 , 12:32 pm
There are two kinds of Republicans these days. The kind who publicly call for right-wing, Christianist, craziness like this:
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says that even though "no one" came to his defense in 2004 after he said that gay people and unwed mothers should be banned from teaching…
And the kind who quietly support it.
… "everyone" quietly told him that he shouldn't back down from his position.
Which kind is Dino Rossi? Pretty clearly the latter. But it doesn't make it any less crazy.
N in Seattle spews:
Monday, 10/4/10 at 12:53 pm
I believe the appropriate term is enabler.
Vaguely related, as I waited for my Metro bus this morning, I saw a sign stapled to a telephone pole. Above and below a photo of Dino's smarmily smiling face, it displayed:
VOTE FOR TORTURE
You Know I Will
There was a 425- phone number as well, but I didn't copy it down. Perhaps it was the number on the "Contact" page from his website.
I didn't examine the sign to see whether it displayed any campaign disclaimers or approvals. You can be damn sure, though, that the union bug was nowhere to be seen on anything coming from Dino's campaign.
Monday, 10/4/10 at 1:28 pm
U.S. Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell (Prefers Tea Party) claimed in a 2006 debate that China is planning to "take over" the U.S., according to news reports. O'Donnell also to have "classified" information backing this assertion.
Roger Rabbit Commentary: This is typical wingnut fare: They're suspicious, paranoid, and need someone to hate. To understand wingnuts, you need to realize they've never had sex, and have backed-up sex juices pouring out of their nostrils, like an overflowing sewer.
O'Donnell also finds fault with China's one-child policy. That's really none of her business. She doesn't live in China, and doesn't have to manage that country's problems. Such as, how do you feed over a billion people? If limiting population growth in the world's most populous country is a priority for the government of that country, who the hell is she to question it? China doesn't need more people. If she wants to be a proponent of unrestricted fertility, then let's put her on a spaceship with a horny chimpanzee and send her to an unpopulated planet in a distant star system, where she and the chimp might be able to make themselves useful.
But sending her to the U.S. Senate? Nah …
One of the weakenesses of democracy is that nuts are permitted to run for public offices and fools are allowed to vote for them. I don't know the answer to that.
Even here in Washington State, a greasy little real estate salesman who enthusiasticaly worked for a guy who went to prison for stealing from widows and orphans can count on getting 42% of the vote. Hell, even cigaret smoke can get 38% in this state, and Rossi is doing 4% better than lung cancer. Something's wrong with this picture. Cigaret smoke should outpoll Rossi every time. At least cigarets kill you; two-time loser Rossi makes you suffer prolonged agony. Would someone please drive a stake through his political ambitions so we don't have to go through another of his campaigns.
rob spews:
"…let's put her on a spaceship with a horny chimpanzee…"
"…even cigaret smoke can get 38% in this state…"
LOL. Roger's on a roll.
But no, let's put her on a spaceship with DeMint.
Mr. Cynical spews:
While Goldy continues to throw last minute shitbombs, you've got to question our news sources. For example, pot-smoking, pot-selling CBS News Reporter–
Lee's kinda guy!!
Probably selling it directly or indirectly to little kids in the Ghetto!!
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39504880/?gt1=43001
manoftruth spews:
goldstien, how do you get away with using the word christianist? what if i called you jewboy? would you like that? you're a fucking antichrsitian bigot. not that we didnt know that already. so,let me see, are there two kinds of democrats? one being those who call for leftwing jewish socialism? it works both ways. dont you realize, for example,that a lot of latinos, because of rick sanchzs' firing, will now being thinking along antisemitic lines, figuring he got fired for calling out jewish bigots like stewart? you're adding to the problem, not helping.
Richard Pope spews:
Senator DeMint is up for re-election this year. If you find his statements to be offensive, you can send a donation to his Democratic opponent:
Alvin M. Greene
for United States Senate
Manning, South Carolina 29102
Looks like the Republican edge in the Rasmussen Reports generic congressional ballot has fallen from 12% four weeks ago to just 3% this week.
That is still enough margin to change control of the House of Representatives. Next week, or four weeks from now, hopefully not :)
# 5: I'd hate to get into a conversation with the product of THAT union.
It reminds me a bit of that famous quote from Einstein. Some reporter said that he and Marilyn Monroe should wed, the child could have his brains and her looks.
Einstein didn't miss a beat. He just looked puzzled, and said – "but what if it's the reverse"?
Steve spews:
@7 The KLOWN excretes, "For example, pot-smoking, pot-selling CBS News Reporter"
Nice attempt at diversion, KLOWN, but what's really on everybody's mind is the Georgia federal court judge nominated by Reagan and his getting high on pot and Roxycodin with a stripper.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39.....and_courts
Hmm, I can see how you wouldn't want to talk about that. Maybe you should post the latest Rasmussen generic congressional ballot poll. No, wait, I can see why you wouldn't want to go there either.
Please don't play with Cynny's head like that. In his world, a private sector reporter's marijuana usage casts far worse aspersions on the Democrats than does drug usage, firearms violations, and soliciting prostitution by a sitting Republican federal judge, appointed by Saint Ronnie, upon the Republicans. I'm going to guess that in sentencing those convicted of drug crimes, this judge was on the harsh end. Wanna bet, anyone?
PL @13:
I'm going to guess that in sentencing those convicted of drug crimes, this judge was on the harsh end. Wanna bet, anyone?
It would certainly fit the Larry Craig/Jim West/Ted Haggard/David Vitter/John Ensign/et al. mold of Republican hypocrisy philosophy.
@13 I kindly left out the cocaine and gun charges so the KLOWN's head wouldn't explode.
Judge Camp, reflecting on his career in law back in 2008, "Taking senior status, he said, will give him the opportunity to do some things "I really want to do, but never had a chance to do."
http://www.southsidecitadel.or.....122308.pdf
Hmm, I take it "those things" included getting it on with a stripper while high on pot, Roxycotin and coke.
Look on the bright side, KLOWN. At least he wasn't caught with a goat.
LD spews:
I can hardly hold the tears back for Nov 2. We'll all be looking forward to joining your wake. We'll be the ones at Drunken Liberally, sitting around the edges watching the Klown act perform.
Might even send over a couple of free Bruskies so I know your trip home will be tear free. Do watch out for the Union Cops, they will even take you down for the good $$$$$ of society…or their massive lifetime pensions
As we get closer to election, Gallup switches it's generic ballot poll from registered voters to likely voters. The results are in and, wow, Republicans are up 53 to 40. Among registered voters, the GOP is still up three. 46-43. Considering Gallup's generic ballot poll has traditionally underestimated Republican support, I don't think the GOP's too worried about a resurgence of Dem-momentum.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer......z11RI7cpXl
re 8:
what if i called you jewboy?
Christianists have a social and political agenda. What is the political and social jewboy agenda?
thats not the point. we dont mention race, gender, religion or ethnicity. period.
is it ok to say all hollywood producers are jewish? is it ok to say all fed reserve govs are jewish? is it ok to say most lawyers are jewish? is it ok to say most doctors are jewish? is it ok to say most accountants are jewish? is it ok to say hlsf of all pro sports team owners are jewish? is it ok to say most sprots agents are jewish? is it ok to say most wall street crooks are jewish?
ahh, i feel much better.
Mencken1980 spews:
How does Goldstein know Rossi is "the kind [ of GOPer] who quietly support[s]" a Christianist social agenda? He should provide a link to statements or other information that support this claim.
Chris Stefan spews:
Remember anything less that a veto-proof majority in both houses of Congress along with a sweep of all state legislatures and governorships up this year is a massive defeat for the GOP.
After all the Democrats are supposed to suck so bad that even liberal America-hating fags in San Francisco won't vote for them anymore, right?
Gman spews:
@ 8 – hows it feel to be the victim of a bigot….hhhhhaaaaaahhhhaaaaaahhaaaaahhhhaaaaa.
MikeBoyScout spews:
Helmet-Hair-Hamlet is neither of the above.
To effectively serve one's self one can never really pick a side.
Making any sort of decision is hard for Helmet-Hair-Hamlet.
… well except those decisions that put money in his pocket.
Go Aqua Sox!
so you agree goldstien is a jewish bigot. thats good enough for me. thanks gman.
@23 I don't know if he is or isn't. I wouldn't base it just on him trying to make some type of point. You make your own determination. I'm just glad you were offended. Hhhhhhhsaaaaaaahhhaaaa
lostinaseaofblue spews:
Re 3
Easy. Term limit McDermott out of there.
Or were you talking about a different nut?
Odd. I haven't seen a single liberal tout the amazing crowds at One Nation.
30 or 40 thousand people, many forced to go by their unions, and you aren't cheering the outpouring of popular support for progressive politics?
Steve @ 15
I apologize for overlooking that act of kindness. Your empathy for Cynny, despite his antagonism toward humanity, confirms your humanity. March on, bro.
Salsamanca spews:
Of all people to attempt to follow me on twitter, I was not expecting Dino Rossi or his campaign. They must not look because I am followed by dinorossipr and routinely send out information about shoddy construction.
Gary spews:
Tuesday, 10/5/10 at 4:34 pm
No one is forced to go to any political meeting by a union. What idiocy.
# 26: 20 or 30 thousand? This is like a fish story, except it keeps getting smaller each time the wingnuts tell it.
The figures given by independent new media ranged from 75 thousand to 200 thousand, with most settling on a central figure of around 125 thousand. Which isn't too bad, considering that it didn't have the daily advertising leading up to it like that promoted by Fox Friends and Beck & Co.
And no, nobody's union forced them to come. You knew that wasn't true, but said it anyway.
More importantly, I have yet to see a photo of the crowd showing a mis-spelled sign. Unlike that of the Beck rally, where it's a wonder how they even passed sixth grade. I'm hardly one to criticize people for bad spelling (my own spelling is pretty bad unless I send it through a spell-check), but if I were to go to the trouble to make a sign, I would make sure it was right.
Wingnuts don't do irony very well, but there is irony in lost's self-perception as an intellectual given his support of the anti-intellectual mob that is the core of today's GOP.
worf spews:
Crowd size at One Nation was probably similar to that of Beck's Attack on Honor. Traditional (i.e. conservative) media chose not to cover the event because there weren't enough white faces – like when they ignored 200,000 people marching for comprehensive immigration reform but devoted all their coverage to 200 racist teabaggers.
In summation, 100,000+ racist, white teabaggers get days of fawning coverage before, during and after. 100,000+ Real Americans get crickets.
Hey now. Worf baselessly calling me a racist was fairly egregious. But calling me an intellectual? Those are fighting words. Might just as well call me some pansy ass lefty comminist, darn it.
Where I come from men don't read no books. They don't think no thoughts. They is just redneck racist conservatives without a thought in their heads but that redhead by the bar, and the Budweiser behind it.
Sorry. Didn't mean no offense.


We all thought that the Celine, Birkenstock inspired, fur footbed slide would vanish like a sock in a dryer. We were wrong. It looks like this furry friend has re-appeared itself with a twist….fur upper!!!
Fashion girls around the globe are sporting their fur covered chaussures during these hot summer months. Yeah, I am perplexed, but I wont lie, it looks cool. Will I buy one? No. Will I buy a knock off? No. Will I admire them from afar, and continue to think they are amazingly cool? Yes.


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There is one sentence in the Seattle Bride Magazine's article Pros Of Hiring A Pro that says it all.
This coming from an amateur photographer that is doing pretty well as a travel photographer – he has had a few cover images, so he knows a thing or two about photography.
The assumption right now is if you have a camera, love taking pictures, you can photograph anything any time. And I don't just hear this from the consumers; I hear it from seasoned professionals as well. So many people have bought into the theory that if you have a camera, you can be a professional.
Isn't that just like saying if you have a plunger, you can be a professional plumber? Or if you have a toothbrush you can be a dentist?
Having the love, desire and passion for photography is your starting point. Then it moves up from there.
You have to know your camera inside and out, be able to shoot in any condition without thinking about it – you just know how to set your camera/flash to get the best image possible.
You have to have the best equipment possible for your circumstances. Multiple professional grade bodies, multiple lenses, flash units – whatever you need to do the best job possible.
You have to know the business side of photography. You have to be good at everything – photography, production, sales, marketing, planning. It all makes you a better photographer, and presents you that way to your potential customers.
And you have to be willing to keep learning along the way. I talk to photographers all the time that swore they would retire before they ever had to use new technology (i.e. digital, social networking, website marketing, etc) and now they are some of the best in the industry. Things change. And you have to change with it. That's just the way it is.
And finally, you have to be willing to pay for the best, and know when to call in an expert to help you get exactly what you want. Just like you would never have a friend put in a crown over a broken tooth, you should never call in a friend to photograph one of the most important days of your life.
I couldn't agree more. I am an evolving 'intermediate' photographer, no longer an amateur but no where near a pro. I have the passion and the desire to learn, and I have learned a TON over the last two years since I bought my first DSLR, but the one thing I've learned the most is that I don't know a thing!
Okay, that's a big of an exaggeration – I look at how my work has evolved over the last two years, and I do see a dramatic improvement, and I know that I have the ability to learn to be just as good as anyone out there, but I still have a long way to go.
I don't agree that you need multiple high quality bodies, lenses and flashes to be a good photographer.
Today's technology makes good photography attainable for anyone, even on a tight budget.
Technology doesn't make you a good photographer automatically of course. You need talent, a good eye for quality, and perseverence. If you have that, it will show through regerdless of your equipment.
I feel the exact same way….I could not have explained it better.
I have so much more to learn but do see my photos evolving through the years….and I will never give up!
I hate to break it to you but MANY consumers can't tell the difference between pro work and many soccer moms who have a bit of an eye who are shooting on auto mode outdoors. Or maybe some of the consumers don't want to be able to tell the difference because soccer mom is giving away all the digital files for 50 bucks. Many consumers feel that work is "good enough" because they can see how much money they can save going with the non-pro (or the amateur who does a good job but doesn't charge as a business for profit).
Us artistic types can spot the difference between a pro and nonpro, but not all consumers can or care to. I appreciate my clients that can see the difference. Hope the tide changes in the future and more consumers can start spotting the difference.
Now if only we could get this message out to the masses!
At most weddings these days, there will be at least 3 or 4 photos taken by family or friends that are incredible – capturing the emotion and the moment perfectly. But can they shoot for 6-8 hours and get every shot they're supposed to get? Of course not – they're amateurs! Sure some people can't see the difference, but they're normally the people for whom near enough is good enough. And that's what they get when they go with an amateur – perhaps some really great images, but on the whole….'near enough'!
I agree with Elin – still learning myself, I never want near enough to be good enough in regards to my images and I'm realistic enough to know that some people will recognise this and others won't. I've got a long way to go!
I don't bother getting wound up about photographers who don't come up to others in standards, If people buy from them then well done to the photographer, especially if it gives them more inspiration to go out and take even better photos. I think there is enough room in the marketplace for everyone. In all industries you have top spec companies and those that are trying to compete and learn along the way. Why should we be so churlish towards the new blood? Life is a learning curve.
A really good photographer can make the most amazing imagery with one lens and one body yes, BUT the reality of being a professional is that you must have the redundancy in case of failure as well as the tools to be able to create for many types of clients eg) commercial or wedding and I believe that is what the article is in part trying to state.
What happens if you are shooting a wedding as as the bride is walking down the isle, the camera has a seizure? You panic but a professional is prepared and simply switches cameras/bodies and keeps shooting. It absolutely happens….because it's happened to me.
It's not about being able to take a great photo, it's about setting goals to making photography into a career that will not only benefit you but those you photograph but you community and your family too.
Being a professional photographer is about 10% photography and 90% business. Yep. Sorry. Cold hard truth!
Thanks Gloria – I completely agree. I had a camera nosedive off a tripod right in front of the clients while photographing formals at a wedding. I picked it up, threw it in the case, grabbed another one, and acted like nothing happened. It's all a matter of professionalism and being prepared for any situation. If you are in business long enough, you are prepared for anything, and can react professionally to everything.
I totally disagree that you need the best equipment. The best photographers can still make amazing imagery out of mediocre equipment. You have to know how to use what you have to work for you. I can go out and shoot a better image with a pinhole camera than someone with $10,000 equipment if I have the eye and passion.
Ruth baley,,,, you don't get wound up on photographers who don't come up to others in standards???
do you do that when you do to the dentist??? I have a toothbrush,, can I pull your tooth?,,,, I bought a calculator,,,, can I do your taxes?,,,,,,,,, I can act like a jerk,,,,,,,,, can I be your lawyer????????? nope, all of these walks of life have standards and TESTS you have to pass before you can even do what they do,,,,, and they still call it "practicing"……… Just because in your life you have no standards,,,, why do you expect everyone else to be as mediocre as you?
The big difference is time. Can you shoot the CEO with only 15 minutes of their time to get the shots. As for equipment, it can always be rented if you do not have it in your kit, but you still need to know what you need and how to use it. Weddings are a lot of pressure and responsibility. Anything can go wrong, even for a seasoned Pro. Knowing how to handle situations and being prepared for whatever happens are as important as getting the shots.
What someone said in the comments is true–we have to educate the masses. It's our job as professionals to SHOW the difference.
I love hearing someone speaking my speak. Years ago I walked into a gallery / store in Kingston Canada to see if they would exhibit my work and the owner came out with the line "Today everyone with a camera thinks they're a photographer." After hearing that I shifted my head to the right and up on his wall was a photograph that someone had copied from my website. ( I no longer run a website ) Anyhow I looked at him and said "That's true" "Even the ones who steal think their photographers too." I then let him know about the photograph on the wall and walked out. I never went back.
Photography is a product like many others, not everyone can afford a professional. There are MANY good home improvement do-it-yourselfers that show up at their local home center each weekend with very good results. Could the results be better? Many times of course! Some are highly skilled amateurs, some are just plain awful. But can everyone afford to pay for a professional? No. You get what you pay for. I drive an older car, somethings I maintain, some things I have skilled friends I trust who can help and many things above my skill level I take to a professional. True professional photographers are worth every penny, but to suggest there is no room for the part-time amateur or intermediate photographer is nonsense.
I completely agree. And like you said, you get what you pay for. The point behind this post and this blog for that matter is to educate those that want to turn it into a business. Pros need to be on their game 99% of the time. Amateurs may get a good image here and there, but you can't expect them to be on the money anywhere close to 99% of the time. A brain surgeon who operates once won't be near as good as one that operates 100 times.