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Soil patterns vary widely. The abundant subtropical vegetation of the Caspian coastal region is supported by rich brown forest soils. Mountain soils are shallow layers over bedrock, with a high proportion of unweathered fragments. Natural erosion moves the finer-textured soils into the valleys. The alluvial deposits are mostly chalky, and many are used for pottery. The semiarid plateaus lying above 3,000 feet (900 metres) are covered by brown or chestnut-coloured soil that supports grassy vegetation. The soil is slightly alkaline and contains 3 to 4 percent organic material. The saline and alkaline soils in the arid regions are light in colour and infertile. The sand dunes are composed of loose quartz and fragments of other minerals and, except where anchored by vegetation, are in almost constant motion, driven by high winds.
Iran's climate ranges from subtropical to subpolar. In winter a high-pressure belt, centred in Siberia, slashes west and south to the interior of the Iranian plateau, and low-pressure systems develop over the warm waters of the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Mediterranean Sea. In summer one of the world's lowest-pressure centres prevails in the south. Low-pressure systems in Pakistan generate two regular wind patterns: the shamāl, which blows from February to October northwesterly through the Tigris-Euphrates valley, and the "120-day" summer wind, which can reach velocities of 70 miles (110 km) per hour in the Sīstān region near Pakistan. Warm Arabian winds bring heavy moisture from the Persian Gulf.
Elevation, latitude, maritime influences, seasonal winds, and proximity to mountain ranges or deserts play a significant role in diurnal and seasonal temperature fluctuation. The average daytime summer temperature in Ābādān in Khūzestān province tops 110 °F (43 °C), and the average daytime winter high in Tabrīz in the East Āz̄arbāyjān province barely reaches freezing. Precipitation also varies widely, from less than 2 inches (50 mm) in the southeast to about 78 inches (1,980 mm) in the Caspian region. The annual average is about 16 inches (400 mm). Winter is normally the rainy season for the country; more than half of the annual precipitation occurs in that three-month period. The northern coastal region presents a sharp contrast. The high Elburz Mountains, which seal off the narrow Caspian plain from the rest of the country, wring moisture from the clouds, trap humidity from the air, and create a fertile semitropical region of luxuriant forests, swamps, and rice paddies. Temperatures there may soar to 100 °F (38 °C) and the humidity to nearly 100 percent, while frosts are extremely rare. Except in this region, summer is a dry season. The northern and western parts of Iran have four distinct seasons. Toward the south and east, spring and autumn become increasingly short and ultimately merge in an area of mild winters and hot summers.
Plant and animal life
Topography, elevation, water supply, and soil determine the character of the vegetation. Approximately one-tenth of Iran is forested, most extensively in the Caspian region. In the area are found broad-leaved deciduous trees—oak, beech, linden, elm, walnut, ash, and hornbeam—and a few broad-leaved evergreens. Thorny shrubs and ferns also abound. The Zagros Mountains are covered by scrub oak forests, together with elm, maple, hackberry, walnut, pear, and pistachio trees. Willow, poplar, and plane trees grow in the ravines, as do many species of creepers. Thin stands of juniper, almond, barberry, cotoneaster, and wild fruit trees grow on the intermediate dry plateau. Thorny shrubs form the ground cover of the steppes, while species of Artemisia (wormwood) grow at medium elevations of the desert plains and the rolling country. Acacia, dwarf palm, kunar trees (of the genus Ziziphus), and scattered shrubs are found below 3,000 feet (900 metres). Desert sand dunes, which hold water, support thickets of brush. Forests follow the courses of surface or subterranean waters. Oases support vines and tamarisk, poplar, date palm, myrtle, oleander, acacia, willow, elm, plum, and mulberry trees. In swamp areas reeds and grass provide good pasture.
Wildlife includes leopards, bears, hyenas, wild boars, ibex, gazelles, and mouflons, which live in the wooded mountains. Jackals and rabbits are common in the country's interior. Wild asses live in the kavīrs. Cheetahs and pheasants are found in the Caspian region, and partridges live in most parts of the country. Aquatic birds such as seagulls, ducks, and geese live on the shores of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, while buzzards nest in the desert. Deer, hedgehogs, foxes, and 22 species of rodents live in semidesert, high-elevation regions. Palm squirrels, Asiatic black bears, and tigers are found in Baluchistan. Tigers also once inhabited the forests of the Caspian region but are now assumed to be extinct.
Studies made in Khūzestān province and the Baluchistan region and along the slopes of the Elburz and Zagros mountains have revealed the presence of a remarkably wide variety of amphibians and reptiles. Examples are toads, frogs, tortoises, lizards, salamanders, boas, racers, rat snakes (Ptyas), cat snakes (Tarbophis fallax), and vipers.
Some 200 varieties of fish live in the Persian Gulf, as do shrimps, lobsters, and turtles. Sturgeon, the most important commercial fish, is one of 30 species found in the Caspian Sea. It constitutes a major source of export income for the government, in the production of caviar. Mountain trout abound in small streams at high elevations and in rivers that are not seasonal.
The government has established wildlife sanctuaries such as the Bakhtegān Wildlife Refuge, Tūrān Protected Area, and Golestān National Park. The hunting of swans, pheasants, deer, tigers, and a number of other animals and birds is prohibited.
Ethnic groups
Iran is a culturally diverse society, and interethnic relations are generally amicable. The predominant ethnic and cultural group in the country consists of native speakers of Persian. But the people who are generally known as Persians are of mixed ancestry, and the country has important Turkic and Arab elements in addition to the Kurds, Baloch, Bakhtyārī, Lurs, and other smaller minorities (Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Brahuis, and others). The Persians, Kurds, and speakers of other Indo-European languages in Iran are descendants of the Aryan tribes that began migrating from Central Asia into what is now Iran in the 2nd millennium bc. Those of Turkic ancestry are the progeny of tribes that appeared in the region—also from Central Asia—beginning in the 11th century ad, and the Arab minority settled predominantly in the country's southwest (in Khūzestān, a region also known as Arabistan) following the Islamic conquests of the 7th century. Like the Persians, many of Iran's smaller ethnic groups chart their arrival into the region to ancient times.
The Kurds have been both urban and rural (with a significant portion of the latter at times nomadic), and they are concentrated in the western mountains of Iran. This group, which constitutes only a small proportion of Iran's population, has resisted the Iranian government's efforts, both before and after the revolution of 1979, to assimilate them into the mainstream of national life and, along with their fellow Kurds in adjacent regions of Iraq and Turkey, has sought either regional autonomy or the outright establishment of an independent Kurdish state in the region.
Also inhabiting the western mountains are seminomadic Lurs, thought to be the descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country. Closely related are the Bakhtyārī tribes, who live in the Zagros Mountains west of Eṣfahān. The Baloch are a smaller minority who inhabit Iranian Baluchistan, which borders on Pakistan.
The largest Turkic group is the Azerbaijanians, a farming and herding people who inhabit two border provinces in the northwestern corner of Iran. Two other Turkic ethnic groups are the Qashqāʾī, in the Shīrāz area to the north of the Persian Gulf, and the Turkmen, of Khorāsān in the northeast.
The Armenians, with a different ethnic heritage, are concentrated in Tehrān, Eṣfahān, and the Azerbaijan region and are engaged primarily in commercial pursuits. A few isolated groups speaking Dravidian dialects are found in the Sīstān region to the southeast.
Semites—Jews, Assyrians, and Arabs—constitute only a small percentage of the population. The Jews trace their heritage in Iran to the Babylonian Exile of the 6th century bc and, like the Armenians, have retained their ethnic, linguistic, and religious identity. Both groups traditionally have clustered in the largest cities. The Assyrians are concentrated in the northwest, and the Arabs live in Khūzestān as well as in the Persian Gulf islands.
1Includes seats reserved for Christians (3), of which Armenian (2); Jews (1); and Zoroastrians (1). | |
Official name | Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān (Islamic Republic of Iran) |
Form of government | unitary Islamic republic with one legislative house (Islamic Consultative Assembly [2901]) |
Supreme political/religious authority | Leader: Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei |
Head of state and government | President: Hassan Rouhani |
Capital | Tehrān |
Official language | Farsī (Persian) |
Official religion | Islam |
Monetary unit | rial (Rls) |
Population | (2014 est.) 77,555,000 Expand |
Total area (sq mi) | 628,872 |
Total area (sq km) | 1,628,771 |
Urban-rural population | Urban: (2011) 69.1% Rural: (2011) 30.9% |
Life expectancy at birth | Male: (2010) 70.9 years Female: (2010) 74.7 years |
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate | Male: (2008) 87.3% Female: (2008) 77.2% |
GNI per capita (U.S.$) | (2013) 5,780 |


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Strategic Financial Management: Part I
Strategic Financial Management: Exercises
Strategic Financial Management
Corporate Finance: Part II - Budgetting, Financing & Valuation
Corporate Finance: Part I - Cost of Capital
Company Valuation and Share Price - Part I
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Managing Budgets
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In a world of geo-political, social and economic uncertainty, strategic financial management is in a process of change. However, modern finance theory reduces future uncertainty to quantifiable risk so that savvy analysts and financial managers can estimate an investment's prospective yield using classical probability theory. Part 1 of the Strategic Financial Management e-book looked at the normative objective of strategic management preferred by analysts in the twentieth century, as well as the material investment decision. Part 2 expands on this discussion to examine the impact of the finance decisions on investment decisions for all-equity firms, and models an alternative to Net Present Value (NPV), or wealth maximisation concept, through the application of the "value added" concept. Both part 1 and part 2 of this comprehensive text are available to download for free on bookboon.com
Strategic Financial Management: Part 2 begins with a discussion of the Finance Decision, examining equity valuation, the capitalistion concept, dividend valuation, dividend yield, equity cost, growth estimates, capital leverage, issue costs, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). It continues its analysis by introducing the concepts of Economic Value Added (EVA) and Market Value Added (MVA), and NPV maximisation.
All explanations in the text are accompanied by example equations and practice activities to ensure comprehension. The equations have been simplified wherever possible for ready understanding. Selected references are also included at the end of the text for further reading.
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Chapter Two, Three and Four (Strategic Financial Management: Part I) provided a detailed explanation of the investment decision with only oblique reference to the finance decision, which determines a company's cost of capital (discount rate) designed to maximise shareholder wealth. But if wealth is to be maximised, management must determine what return their shareholders require from an investment and then only accept projects that have a positive NPV when discounted at that rate.
There is also the question as to what cut-off rate should apply to investment proposals if corporate finance were obtained from a variety of sources, other than ordinary shares? Each stakeholder requires a rate of return that may differ from the equity market and may be unique. In this newly leveraged situation, the company's overall cost of capital (rather than its cost of equity) measured by its weighted, average cost of capital (WACC) would seem to be the appropriate investment acceptance criterion.
1. Equity Valuation and the Cost of Capital
1.1 The Capitalisation Concept
1.2 Single-Period Dividend Valuation
1.3 Finite Dividend Valuation
1.4 General Dividend Valuation
1.5 Constant Dividend Valuation
1.6 The Dividend Yield and Corporate Cost of Equity
1.7 Dividend Growth and the Cost of Equity
1.8 Capital Growth and the Cost of Equity
1.9 Growth Estimates and the Cut-Off Rate
1.10 Earnings Valuation and the Cut-Off Rate
1.11 Summary and Conclusions
1.12 Selected References
2. Debt Valuation and the Cost of Capital
2.1 Capital Gearing (Leverage): An Introduction
2.2 The Value of Debt Capital and Capital Cost
2.3 The Tax-Deductibility of Debt
2.4 The Impact of Issue Costs
2.5 Summary and Conclusions
3. Capital Gearing and the Cost of Capital
3.1 The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
3.2 WACC Assumptions
3.3 The Real-World Problems of WACC Estimation
3.4 Summary and Conclusions
3.5 Selected Reference
4. Shareholder Wealth and Value Added
4.1 The Concept of Economic Value Added (EVA)
4.2 The Concept of Market Value Added (MVA)
4.3 Profit and Cash Flow
4.4 EVA and Periodic MVA
4.5 NPV Maximisation, Value Added and Wealth
4.6 Summary and Conclusions
4.7 Selected References
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There are two different cases here.
3^4*3^7*3^6 is a pure multiplicative expression, so the rules of priority and rules of exponents are applicable.
1. exponentiation has priority over multiplication
2. multiplication of two numbers to the same base a raised to exponents x and y yields a result of ax+y.
= (34)*(37)*(36)
= 34+7+6
The second expression, 2^80+3*2^80, has two terms with a common factor 280. So the simplification consists in factorization of the expression, namely
= 1*280 + 3*280
= (1+3)280
= 4*280
In the second problem why do I put a 1 before 2^80?
you dont have to, but on the second step it makes factorization more apparent.
thats why the answer not 3^2^280 I am not understanding the answer
thats why the answer not 3^2^280 I am not understanding the answer
you dont multiply 3*2=6^80
The rules of priority of operations requires us to do exponents first, so
3*2^80 is the same as 3*(2^80). That is to say, we do the exponentiation of 2 to the power of 80 before multiplication.
If we multiply before exponentiation, we are not following the rules of priority of operations.
Then come the rules of exponentiation, some of the basic ones are :
a0 = 1 for any value of a≠0
a1 = a
a2 = a*a
a3 = a*a*a, etc.
a-1 = 1/a
a-2 = 1/(a*a)
a-3 = 1/(a*a*a), etc.
ax * ay = ax+y
This rule can be applied only if the two bases (a) are the same.
This also means that we cannot simplify ax*by for general values of a and b.
Since the expression
=31 * 280
has 3 and 2 as bases for the exponents, we cannot simplify the expression by the rules of exponents.
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No one was more disappointed about the way last season ended in Miami than Jermaine O'Neal [1]. He had just begun to find his legs in the playoffs, playing significant minutes and becoming a force after injuries to his left knee and left wrist caused him to miss 58 regular season games.
But now he's healthy and ready to go. He says he hasn't felt this good since finishing the 2009-10 season in Miami, when he played and started 70 games.
"I felt strong, I felt knowledgable about the system," O'Neal said. "Now I feel comfortable with the guys and the guys felt comfortable with me. I think the coaching staff feel comfortable with me. Last year, no one knew what to expect since I wasn't out there."
Doc Rivers [2] called him the "MVP of training camp" and believes the C's will be getting the real O'Neal this season. O'Neal doesn't want to disappoint.
"I think all of us want to do the job Doc expects us to do," O'Neal said Friday. "I feel like we have enough size, enough mobility to play the style of game we want to play."
O'Neal, if healthy, could be a huge difference-maker this season for the Celtics [3]. He has average 14 points and just over seven rebounds a game and is considered one of the best defensive centers in the league when healthy.
"You talk about our size, there's not many teams that have legitimately three or four seven-footers," O'Neal said. "We have 6-10, 6-11, three or four of those guys who can really do a lot of different things. I think a lot of guys are just mentally focused on doing their jobs. If we do our jobs, we'll be fine."
O'Neal could never get on track last season, battling injuries and splitting practice time with Shaquille O'Neal [4] and Glen Davis [5] as the Celtics desperately searched for an answer in the low post.
"Last year, I was kind of behind the gun," O'Neal said. "I ended up getting hurt in the second or third day of training camp. I ended up missing some of the schemes they were putting me in and I never really caught up. I had to deal with trying to catch up and trying to physically get healthy. That's tough, whereas now I feel healthy, I feel strong, I feel like I know what I'm doing, which is key. In any professional sports, if you don't know the system, you're in trouble.
"I'm not in any different position than anybody else. There are two aspects to this game. There's physical, there's mental. The mental is most important. With physical, you can get ice and get treatment. I think that's where we're going to have an advantage because we have some older guys who win games and know how to take care of their bodies. And that's what this year is all about."
O'Neal left the preseason game early on Wednesday to get a massage, just one of the ways he's trying to make sure he'll be full strength come Sunday.
"You guys are talking a lot about our age and stuff like that but we feel like we have enough depth to get through the challenge," he said. "It's going to be a challenge though. We're not going to sit here and fabricate it. We understand we have to be prepared to go through some bumps and bruises and I think we are."
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Rugate filters fabricated by a radio frequency magnetron sputtering system by use of an optical in situ monitoring technique
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp. 184-190 (2006)
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We propose, for the first time to our knowledge, a new feedback fabrication technique for rugate filters with sinusoidal refractive index distribution. The technique uses an in situ optical monitoring system, in contrast to conventional techniques for rugate filters that are based on time control, which is generally unsuitable for accurate fabrication of a continuous index distribution. We employed a-SiOx:H thin film as the material for the rugate filters because its refractive index can be successively controlled. Using the proposed technique and material, we fabricated near-infrared rugate minus filters having multiple and continuous refractive index distributions. The experimental and calculated spectra were well correlated as a result of applying the proposed feedback fabrication technique.
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(060.4510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Optical communications
(230.4170) Optical devices : Multilayers
(310.1860) Thin films : Deposition and fabrication
(310.3840) Thin films : Materials and process characterization
(310.6860) Thin films : Thin films, optical properties
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Hidehiko Yoda, Daisaku Tanaka, Osamu Hanaizumi, Yoshinori Kogami, and Kazuo Shiraishi, "Rugate filters fabricated by a radio frequency magnetron sputtering system by use of an optical in situ monitoring technique," Appl. Opt. 45, 184-190 (2006)
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And so, we still invest domestically and are still excited about the micro-cap space, but with fewer IPOs, because of the cost for micro-cap companies, they've deferred becoming public or chosen not to come public or waiting until they are bigger, that has maybe dampened the micro-cap space domestically, and that's probably the most profound change. It's kind of an interesting time, though, there might be some pent-up demand; we are seeing a little healthier IPO environment now.
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Rushkewicz: Your strategy centers a lot around high-quality growth companies, but I understand you also invest in what you call fallen angels or companies with temporary setbacks. Can you give me an example?
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excuse for an appalling 42 but it didn't seem to affect his playing partner Ant
'His Excellency' Pope, who shot a 38, as did TWIT virgin Nick Chitty. Cockney
Tel headed up the T.Wells contingency with a 37 but out in front all ready was
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man in form. After a reshuffle of groups the players headed to the
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at last. His 33 was truly astonishing given the distractions of the film crew,
only matched by the eventual winner. Big Top Ted making his TWIT debut & Trev 'Pumbah' Ex
both carded 35's, Trev's score forcing a playoff with UK No1 for 2nd T.Wells
player. Incredibly, Cockney Tel shot a 36 to give him the T.Wells win & 200
Ranking Points. He may possibly feel guilty now about 'buying' the current UK
No1's course notes in exchange for one paltry prize donation - but then again he
probably doesn't. Another notable 36 was Jo Williamson making her TWIT debut
too. Which leads us to the winner, after rounds of 34 & 33,
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Cockney Tel in 2nd. Six players were heard muttering under their breath as they
handed over their fivers. Watch out for him in the upcoming WC's, he's in form! Future star Alex Ex won the junior prize & enough
sweets to rot his & all of his friends teeth, Jo was first Lady with Janette
Robertson in 2nd place. Thanks as always to Dave & Marion at the Seafront for
staying open solely for us, also to the Family Robbo & Sean Homer for coming
so far on a weekday evening. Also thanks for the prize donations, no one went home
empty handed, though some wish they had! Another fun TWIT seemingly enjoyed by all! "What's that" I hear you ask - "no mention
of Ace Man, was he there?" Sorry - he was there but way down in *th place - Happy
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We present the first experimental results for polarization-switched QPSK (PS-QPSK) and make a comparison with polarization-multiplexed QPSK. Our measurements confirm the predicted sensitivity advantage of PS-QPSK. We have also studied the single channel performance after transmission over 300 km and support the results with numerical simulations. It is shown that the two modulation formats have similar nonlinear tolerance and that optical dispersion compensation outperforms compensation with digital signal processing in the single channel case. Finally, we propose a novel transmitter for PS-QPSK based on an IQ modulator and two amplitude modulators driven in a push-pull configuration.
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Martin Sjödin, Pontus Johannisson, Henk Wymeersch, Peter A. Andrekson, and Magnus Karlsson, "Comparison of polarization-switched QPSK and polarization-multiplexed QPSK at 30 Gbit/s," Opt. Express 19, 7839-7846 (2011)
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Give me something I can write about January 25, 2010
Posted by David Gillespie in creativity, philosophy.add a comment
From the It's-been-sitting-open-for-a-week-just-write-about-it Department, this great short video called Making Is Connecting from David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications at Westminster University. In it he argues tools that exist to facilitate expression of one's self are inherently more powerful than tools that exist only as an expression of someone else (think the rise of social platforms versus the dominance of 20th century media) as this connects us to the world around us.
Gauntlett backs up his ideas not with the latest digital media thinkers such as Charles Leadbeater or (my hero) Clay Shirky, but with quotes from Ivan Illich, a philosopher from the 1970's, and William Morris, a textile designer from the 1800's. The examples point to something I've been banging on about for quite some time: the rise of social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. are an interesting development, but they are successful due to facilitating expression of self, and conenction with like-minded others.
As I wrote about Posterous last March, tools will continue to rise that make it easier and easier to express yourself, creating content for others to consume in the process. Making is connecting indeed, and as the world gets radically smaller on a daily basis, understanding this becomes ever more crucial.
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All that noise, all that sound November 17, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in philosophy, technology.Tags: communication, Kids and Teens, technology, Video
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So my agency is on a decent size pitch at the moment, and we were talking about the acceleration of technology over the last three years as it pertains to this particular company. And we were video taping various people saying different things and so I of course being the narcissist I am went off back to my desk and sat running a monologue over and over in my head, trying to think of something clever to say while being able to toss it off as if it was largely off the cuff.
And then when they came to film me I was on a conference call. And then the opportunity was gone because they're in a bit of a rush.
The thing I thought of though, I thought was quite interesting, and it was this: the technological revolution we're going through right now is currently being framed as a change in lifestyle, when what we're really dealing with, on a really fundamental level, is a change in life itself. 20 years ago, many-to-many communication was basically impossible, and even one-to-many was limited to those who could afford to do it, usually requiring a publisher.
Now anyone can, and because there are still more people in the world who knew life without the Internet than there are who only know the Internet, being always connected is deemed a lifestyle and a choice. As that ratio changes however, being disconnected is going to be seen as a lifestyle and what is currently (at least in some circles, not mine) considered an "other" state, will be the norm.
The norm on the rise now is being able to get a message to anyone you want or as many people you want at any time you want. After thousands of years of relative status quo, it's changed over night. Which is why I say the web is young, and why I say we haven't fully grasped all this yet. I could just have a smaller mind than most (it has often been suggested), but sitting and pondering it for a moment kinda blows it to a thousand tiny pieces.
And having said all that, the only thing I can be sure of is I would have wound up on the cutting room floor, with the Creative Director going "Do you really have to do that every time?".
…I suppose I do…
On the road again October 29, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in branding, intent, marketing, philosophy, work/life.Tags: Amazon Kindle, British GQ, Heidi Klum, Jack Kerouac, Lynne Truss, Mark Earls, Public transport
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I have had Jack Kerouac's On The Road given to me a gift to keep at least three times. I imagine some combination of traits my friends spotted in me (wannabe-philosopher mixed with restless-and-easily-distracted) focused their attention on this book. When people visit, they remark on the copies that line my shelf:
"You liked it enough to buy it twice?"
"No. I ignored it long enough to be given another."
This is not about that book though. This is about perception (and a little intent).
Your friend and mine Mark Earls referenced a piece from Lynne Truss in the UK's Sunday Times in which she states:
…I like to see what other people are reading on the bus or the train; how far they've got; whether they're enjoying it. It seems to me that such information needs to be public for the good of us all and I'm sad to think of reading in public places ultimately becoming so private…
Lynne was lamenting the arrival of E-Readers and the disappearance of actual book and magazine covers from the parks and cafes and public transport systems of the world, along with the loss of a shared look or a fleeting conversation about the work at hand.
Lynne Truss' worry stems from the removal of social identifiers in public spaces; it seems we don't just judge a book by its cover, but the reader as well. I smile whenever I see another grown-up reading Harry Potter in public, because I remember being consumed by those books and also embarrassed to have them out in public without an 8 year old in sight. We use these things (and clothes, iPods, cars and holidays) to signal via the perceptions we assume others will have. My intent given my office wardrobe today of boho-cardigan and falling apart at the seams (but limited edition John Varvatos-collaboration) Converse sneakers, is to signal something true about myself; unfortunately that truth is little more than the clothing equivalent of the never opened copies of Kerouac's masterpiece, or as I wrote in Everyone 2.0, you're unique.
Just like everyone else.
I have friends (they shall remain nameless because I love them dearly) who have taken great pleasure in displaying tomes they have conquered in the name of enlightenment. These friends drew more pleasure from others seeing they had read (or at least bought) the appropriate books than perhaps they did from the work itself. On The Road is a book a selection of my friends feel I am supposed to have read, and as anyone who knows me will tell you, something someone says I am supposed to do instantly defaults to the thing I am least likely to do. Their intent is to help me appear a culturally astute and well-rounded individual; my intent is the equally pretentious attempt to thumb my nose at convention simply for the sake of it.
Now, my favourite magazine is British GQ as its collection of columnists is a veritable who's who of the UK's newspapers. They are regularly funny and insightful and it pains me when the publisher stoops to putting a scantily clad woman on the front cover, partly because the writing is better than that suggests but also because I then feel the need to explain to others, much as the joke about Playboy goes, "I read it for the articles." Perception reveals, or so we would assume, intent. Perception is also said to be reality, and so given the option of tangling with the looks I imagine women might give me on the subway in the mornings, I opt for Wired and instead leave Heidi Klum in her various states of undress on my coffee table for next Sunday (sorry dear, you know how it is).
Back to the Kindle, on one hand I like where we're heading as I could potentially just read A.A. Gill's column without wondering if someone's nipple is slipping out on the other side for the rest of the train to see.
On the other hand I'm envisioning a birthday not too long from now, where a gift arrives as a download along with a note "Didn't see it in your "Read Items" list on Amazon and thought to myself David is supposed to have read books like this!!"
The identifiers are perhaps moving out of the physical world in some ways, I doubt however this will have much impact on the intentions we have for everyone else's lives.
Everyone wants to be the man at the top (Commented on "Howard Lindzon") October 26, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in philosophy, storytelling, strategy.Tags: Apple, Howard Lindzon, Microsoft, Personal computer
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The conversation taking place around the web about Digital Strangelove is truly blowing my mind. All I wanted to do was move the conversation forward a little, the fact so many people have taken the time to work through it, comment on it, think about it and share it means the absolute world, and it's great getting to visit a bunch of new blogs and engage with different audiences I would never have had the chance to find out about.
Below is a response I wrote to one post in particular on Howard Lindzon's blog to an anonymous comment that had said (and I paraphrase) "The ultimate goal is to give people what they NEED", to which I responded:
"Name" – appreciate your thoughts. And for saying I was smart, I wish my high school teachers could see! ;]
I would suggest the ultimate goal is not to give people anything, except for an easier way to spread their own message. It is entirely unquantifiable, but I would love to know how many people with no prior experience just had a stab at recording some music because of how easy it was to use Garage Band.
At the end of the day, I don't think you should aim to give your customer something meaningful, you should create an environment where they can give something meaningful to you. To use the Apple/Microsoft example, MS is launching a campaign for Win7 based around having listened to its users, whereas I believe it is arguable Apple's platform tries to facilitate being able to listen to each other. A subtle but crucial difference.
Now, off to find a cushy job in a Think Tank!
(Written, for the record, on a PC. With a Mac to my left.)
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The Think Tank comment was due to a wry observation on the part of the poster than I had taken so many slides to say something they thought was blatantly obvious. Maybe they're right, though other comments had come in stating how concise it was.
Each to their own.
We off that October 5, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in creativity, music, philosophy.Tags: business, Katie Chatfield, Nike
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While looking at Katie Chatfield's blog last night and thinking about the various ways I'd like to be like her when I grow up (I'm sure she'd say she'd like to be like her when she grows up too), I stumbled back across a post she'd made in May of this year on "done". I liked it so much at the time I printed it out and stuck it on the glass door to my office, though I'm not sure anyone else got it (complete aside, taking the time to turn something in bits into atoms surely has to be the most you can like something, ever).
Re-blogged below for the sake of further cementing its awesome-ness, here it is in full:
Something I preach and rarely practice is the importance of just doing, and not waiting for perfect because perfect never happens. My musical self, all nerves and insecurity, decided to make good on threats to be less hypocritical, and found once it started it was actually fine and better than expected.
Done is the engine of more, and the important thing is to have done it, not talked about it. If Nike's slogan had been "Just practice and be ready to do it at some point", then odds are they wouldn't be the rock star brand that they are.
The point of done is not to finish, but to get other things done. Amen.
(and we're done!)
I've got big ideas, I'm out of control (Commented on "A VC") September 9, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in conversation, philosophy, work/life.Tags: Australia, Canada, DNA, Fred Wilson, Hong Kong, Society and Culture
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Fred Wilson has an interesting short piece up this morning on failure. After reading it, I left the following comment:
I was doing a review of a (young but brilliant) guy on my team recently, and as we were discussing the feedback he said to me "You know, the thing I worry about more than anything is making mistakes."
I looked at him blankly and said "That is like fretting that the sun might come up tomorrow. Guess what? It's going to happen! Don't worry about making mistakes, worry about things you can actually have a positive impact on. If you spend your time worrying about the possibility of mistakes you're not going to get anything done."
Now, being Australian (living in Canada atm), there's a fair amount of a "no worries" attitude that is ingrained in us, but Fred I think you hit on something really crucial about the States – the fact that success is rewarded and if you fail you are encouraged to give it another go; as fortunate as I feel to be from Australia we don't have the latter as part of our psyche. I've benefited from tremendously from growing up in Hong Kong among other places, and I think a willingness to get it wrong is one of the best things any society can have in its DNA.
It's probably also the reason I'm a long way from home right now :)
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Now, I adore Australia and it will always be home. We do have an odd relationship with success and failure though, born no doubt from a myriad of cultural sources others I'm sure have written long and eloquently about, and which I don't want to get into right now. Instead I'll just say, as I did the other day when someone asked me what this blog was about, I said "big ideas".
"Are they the right ideas?"
I laughed and said "That my friend, was never the point."
So, here's to the big ideas today. Wherever they lead us.
Intent = stuff white people like March 13, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in digital strategy, intent, philosophy.add a comment
"People have a really good ability to see through you projects on the Internet that are just done to try and make you famous."
Great quote. This is why I bang on about INTENT!
Watch this Google talk, from Christian Lander, author of brilliant blog Stuff White People Like.
Treetop Barbie March 5, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in branding, marketing, philosophy, politics, work/life.1 comment so far
On the subway this morning I was watching the below TED talk by Nalini Nadkarni on her work as an ecologist, studying life in the canopies of rainforests. It's a great talk which i recommend you check out, my favourite part though was her institution's appropriation of every girl's favourite doll, Barbie.
They buy them from thrift stores and other cheap outlets then hand-sew costumes for them and send them out. They're also available for purchase which makes me wish I had cousins who were young enough to get one for!
A few thoughts:
- I love the appropriation of a classic symbol, recast with new meaning in this day and age
- Is this brand-jacking? Maybe, but not in a way that casts the original in a bad light
- If I were Mattel I would be all over this. Nalini's group send a booklet out with each Barbie on the work they do, Mattel could release a whole line of eco-warrior Barbie, created entirely from renewable materials in a series of different guises. Sea-Rescue Barbie, Treetop Barbie…Ivory Coast Barbie? (ouch!)
I'm wondering about other campaigns, brands, products, services, whatever. Major symbols like Barbie that can be given new purpose in an eco-aware age. There's a lot of chatter right now on how green issues will be cast aside as people just try to hang on to their homes, I'm hoping initiatives like this might manage to keep it front of mind for people.
This post is also a special dedicatuion to Alex White, one of my best friends and a tireless eco-warrior himself. He gets married to an extraodinary woman (hi Fern!) tomorrow, a wedding I am sadly not in Australia for. Mate, I love you to absolute pieces and am sorry I can't be there to share your special day. I cannot wait to hear about it, watch the videos and catch up when I'm back home at the end of the year.
Value + Hope February 18, 2009
Posted by David Gillespie in philosophy.7 comments
In a former life I gave a presentation to the sales team of a company. I was reminded of it after reading this quote from Seth:
What marketers sell is hope.
Hope was part of the thrust of the presentation I gave, the other was value. We would raise hopes, set a price on those raised hopes, and then afterwards the customer decided whether or not they got value. My point was (and is) the seller mitigates value by adjusting the level of hope in the buyer – the price point is almost irrelevant (ok it's not, but humour me here).
So I agree with Seth, marketers sell hope. But once money exchanges hands, hope transforms into value – either good or bad. Hope isn't ever received by the buyer, and if one really wants to get into semantics, you could argue hope never actually existed with the seller in the first place.
There's a link here somewhere to Schrödinger's cat, though I can't quite wrap my head around it. Anyone want to have a go?
Oh, and the (not very good) presentation is below.


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Smith, Alan M., Harris, Jonathan J., Shelton, Richard M. and Perrie, Yvonne (2007) 3D culture of bone-derived cells immobilised in alginate following light-triggered gelation. Journal of Controlled Release, 119 (1). pp. 94-101. ISSN 0168-3659
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Photoreactive liposomes have been exploited as a means of developing 3D tissue constructs. Liposomes formulated using the photosensitive lipid 1,2-bis(4-(n-butyl)phenylazo-4′phenylbutyroyl)phosphatidylcholine (Bis Azo PC), which undergoes conformational change on stimulation with long wavelength ultraviolet light, were prepared with entrapped CaCl2 before being incorporated into a 4% alginate solution. It was shown that stimulation of the photosensitive lipid using a light emitting diode (LED) (peak emission at 385 nm, dose equivalent to 9 mJ/cm2) caused the release of liposome entrapped CaCl2, resulting in cross-linking of the alginate solution and immobilisation of bone derived cells over a range of seeding densities, approximately 97% of which remained viable for periods of up to 14 days in culture. Entrapment volumes of a variety of liposome types were evaluated and interdigitating fusion vesicles were identified as having the highest payload (24%), however the inclusion of cholesterol as a means of shifting Bis Azo PC sensitivity into the visible light wavelengths resulted in an approximately 10-fold reduction in calcium entrapment. This application of light-sensitised liposomes offers the potential to create complex tissue engineering substrates containing cells immobilised in precise locations, in contrast with substrates onto which cells are seeded post production.
Item Type: | Article |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QD Chemistry R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
Schools: | School of Applied Sciences |
Depositing User: | Alan Smith |
Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2011 16:55 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2011 16:55 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9880 |
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