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Let's Get Beyond The Tired, Out-Of-Date EA Metaphors
Posted by Jeff Scott on May 3, 2010
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The current metaphors for EA can be useful at a conceptual level to help non EAs understand what all the fuss is about. Most people understand the role of the building architect and the city planner and can make at least a rough association to what enterprise architects do. But many architects take these metaphors much too literally and much too seriously. They try to fashion their practice to align with the metaphor instead of taking the metaphor concept and creating a new way to apply it in their IT or business space.
The enterprise architect as building architect
I use this metaphor myself when I am talking with non architects. Conceptually, it is a very rich metaphor that almost everyone can identify with. Even though most people have never seen a complete set of blueprints, they have seen enough examples to get the point. Unfortunately, this metaphor breaks down pretty fast.
- First of all, building architects get paid for creating architecture, not buildings. In most cases the architect gets paid when the blueprints are complete. It doesn't matter if their blueprints get put on the shelf - they are on to the next project. EAs are accountable (or should be) for implementation too. Enterprise architects whose architectures become shelf-ware are considered failures.
- Building architects work from requirements. No one says "go architect what I need". Their clients provide very specific requirements for what they want to be designed. EAs on the other hand generally have to figure out what they are architecting and then sell it to the client.
- Building architects start with a green field. Unless they are designing a renovation, building architects don't have to worry about existing structures and legacy architectures. Consequently, they need to create a complete set of blueprints. EAs almost never work in a green field environment (though I would love to some day). Most of what they do at the enterprise level is renovation. They really don't need a complete set of blueprints.
The enterprise architect as city planner
Though not quite as rich a metaphor as the building architect, city planning is a concept that most people can understand. Again, it breaks down pretty fast.
- City planners work on long-term visions. City planners work at a glacial pace compared to the typical enterprise architect. In the physical world things change relatively slowly. City planners generally think in decades. Not sure I have ever seen a ten-year EA plan. It would certainly be unusual. Even the most strategic businesses use three to five years as their planning horizon. Most EAs would consider themselves lucky to get that.
- City planners build plans, not cities. Just like building architects, city planners aren't actually accountable for executing the plan. Your city might have a great plan, but if no one is building, who cares?
- City planners have laws that back up what they say. Needless to say, EAs don't.
So what would be a better metaphor for EA or do we really need one at all? And metaphor or not, shouldn't we be defining the practice of EA by what we do, instead of what we named it?
I wouldn't give up on the
Comment from null on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 16:08
I wouldn't give up on the city planner metaphor, but how about also exploring this one: enterprise architect as cartographer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography
EA Metaphors
Comment from null on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 10:12
Metaphors continue to be useful. I still like, and use the EA as a building architect and EA as the city planner but I too am getting tired of these and haven't found anything much better. I have a presentation on Gothic architecture and the role of the master builder, as one introduction to why EA is needed. It makes the building architect metaphor a little more interesting.
Still, some days as EA I feel like a gardener or an ecologist who is tending to an IT ecosystem. As a garden it's full of weeds, and as an ecosystem it's often not self-regulating.
Other days, I feel like an industrial mechanic or millwright working on single production line within the context of a large manufacturing system.
Some days, I feel more like a relationship mediator working to achieve a degree of alignment, to eliminate the asymmetry that often exists between business and IT.
Finally some days, I feel more like an conductor of an orchestra, trying to harmonize disparate pockets of technology, much as I imagine a conductor must harmonize the strings section with the brass etc.
I look forward to reading some of the other comments on this one.
EA Metaphors - (Chemical) Process Plant Designer?
Comment from null on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 12:40
I had been thinking about this for a long time. I could draw parallels with (chemical) process engineer / plant designer.
Process engineers define basic layout of the plant they want constructed to deliver an end-product from given raw material. When dealing with petrochemicals, mix of raw material and possible combinations of end-products makes it interesting to compare with IT.
The process engineer is not responsible for constructing/building the plant, but define blueprint for the plant and major parameters that controls the design of individual components as well as end product. In that line of business, almost all discipline leads are equally accountable, but almost all engineering decisions are derived from process engineers' blueprint.
Process engineers do get a chance to work on green-field projects, but many a time, it's renovation / expansion of existing units.
Even though they start with some requirements, I think it is as good as saying "go architect what I need" given the twist nature can throw into raw material, plant location, etc.
Counter thoughts?
A new metaphor for EA
Comment from Jeff Scott on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 09:21
Some really great metaphors proposed here. I like the cartographer metaphor but it isn't directive enough for me. I think wagon train trail boss is more accurate (if completely outdated). Think Clint Eastwood in Rawhide. Not following a map, but clearly aiming at a common goal, leading a group of sometimes reluctant travelers though ever changing and often dangerous territory. I tried to work this into more of an Indiana Jones metaphor but couldn't quite get it to work.
I also like the process plant designer metaphor. In a lot of ways it is a combination of city planner and building architect. I worked in the engineering office of a huge paper mill one summer so I can connect with this one very well. This might be a good metaphor for architects themselves but I don't think it will resonate with their stakeholders as most of them don't really understand the role of a plant designer. So, more accurate but perhaps less useful?
Dennis really gets to the heart of the problem. Gardener, ecologist, industrial mechanic, millwright, mediator, orchestra conductor: are all roles we play and points out that we are different things at differ times and in different situations.
My current thought is strategy activist. Though more descriptive of where I think EAs should head than an accurate metaphor of the current role, it gets to the heart of EA – create forward looking strategies and work hard to get the organization behind them to create broad, far-reaching change.
What do you think?
Comment from Scott Joy on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 13:31
I'm not sure what could be more directive than "This is how you get from here to there." Isn't a key point of Enterprise Architecture to get away from that "not following a map" approach to one where you have better (if always imperfect) information to help guide your decisions? (I just saw an exhibition at the Library of Congress that includes a series of world maps. It was fascinating to see how they changed over time.)
Strategy Activist - I like that
Comment from Dennis Layton on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 07:22
" My current thought is strategy activist. Though more descriptive of where I think EAs should head than an accurate metaphor of the current role, it gets to the heart of EA – create forward looking strategies and work hard to get the organization behind them to create broad, far-reaching change."
@Jeff, well said. I often use the term proponent, but activist seems to be a more apt description. Too often, thinking beyond the current project or budget year seems to go against the very grain of IT and business unit organizations, where strategic thinking is reserved for those at the very top of top of the corporation. Like an activist, we are arguing for a new way of looking at things, a new way of thinking.
I would suggest that creating forward looking strategies is not saying enough. Those strategies need to have degrees of alignment with the overall corporate strategy and the goals and objectives of the business units.
Like an activist, I am passionate. I am passionate not about technology for its own sake, rather its the intersection where technology is used to enable or enhance; operational efficiencies, the ability of the business to sense (BI) and respond to change (IT agility), customer experience (customer and intermediary interfaces).
Atratgy Activist
Comment from Jeff Scott on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 07:38
"I would suggest that creating forward looking strategies is not saying enough. Those strategies need to have degrees of alignment with the overall corporate strategy and the goals and objectives of the business units."
Well put. It is the "right" strategies: those that support business and IT goals and create more value for the organization.
Strategy Activist
Comment from Dennis Layton on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 08:01
Harmony, on that one.
Nothing like metaphors to explore the core of what it is we are trying to achieve, and why we are doing it. I think now I will go chain myself to the corporate gates, until real change is achieved.
Map making versus navigating
Comment from Jeff Scott on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 14:01
Scott, As I understand it cartographers make maps but they don't say "you should go here, by this route" Having a map of the United States tells me all the ways I can get to places but it doesn't tell me the best cities to visit or the best route to get to a specific city.
Maybe a better metaphor would be a ship's navigator. They plot the most efficient course to meet the business's goal (take this cargo to London) taking into account the ships characteristics, weather, sea conditions, etc. As conditions change, the navigator updates the course (even though the map stays the same).
What do you think?
Do our business partners
Comment from Scott Joy on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 14:55
Do our business partners typically want us to say, "You should go here, by this route"? Surely, you've used Google Maps to find and compare routes and to locate items of interest. It takes modern cartography to allow you to do that.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the conversation - not trying to insist...
I just really like Wikipedia's description of cartography: "combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively." Just strike "spatial" for enterprise architecture. The ideas about editing for context, generalization for relevance, and designing to convey a message are all applicable.
And I'm by no means suggesting this is a complete metaphor, only that it's one more that may be useful. I'm reminded of the blind men and the elephant.
EA as a Cartographer
Comment from Dennis Layton on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 08:20
"context, generalization for relevance and designing to convey a message are all applicable"
@Scott- good points. This is a really important part of what we do. Too often, decisions are a made without that map on the wall. If we can't draw the map, in a way that is understandable to those that are navigating, we are often lost, often making the less than optimal decisions about our direction.
There is an interesting book, if you want extend this idea even further.
"The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World"
For those that haven't read it. It tells the story that until someone drew a map, showing the locations and timing of people that died from the plague in London, the experts were drawing all the wrong conclusions and consequently making decisions that compounded the problem. It was a map that showed the truth of what was really happening. Good read.
Good EA: Boring story
Comment from James Inge on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 18:18
I have used the "Novelist" metaphor and that seemed to resonate.
Novelists create story and at the heart of good story is conflict. That conflict rises as the story progresses so that each obstacle the hero faces gets bigger and bigger.
If the Enterprise Architect was a novelist, and the EA was doing a good job, no one would bother reading their stories. It would be too boring.
The novelist guides a cast of characters, through action, to a logical and satisfying conclusion. To thoroughly enjoy the trip the reader must understand the problem the hero is trying solve, and progress through the scenes as the story question gets resolved.
In terms of what makes story satisfying, is it the overall plot? Is it the characters? Is the individual scenes where the action happens? Or, is it the way the individual sentences are constructed to build the scenes that build the plot?
EA's need to clarify the story questions, so the solution architects can build the right scenes, and the technical architects can put the sentences together in the right way.
The EA's stories will always be full of conflict, and unusual characters, and intense action – but done well, the satisfying conclusion we are working toward should be boringly clear to everyone involved.
EA reality = interesting story
Comment from Jeff Scott on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 09:32
James - I love it. What a creative and vivid view of the overall EA process. I agree if all was as it "should" be, then the EA story would be boring, but since EA is almost never as it should be the story is quite interesting. In EA reality, the characters keep modifying the plot without telling the other characters or the writer. Predictable stories are boring, unpredictable ones are interesting. Maybe that's why so many EAs like their job even with all the challenges.
Good EA Boring Story
Comment from Dennis Layton on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 12:21
Well done, James.
"The novelist guides a cast of characters, through action to a logical and satisfying conclusion". I have often thought of playing a game of chess, pieces on the board but the novelist metaphor is much richer, and more life-like.
plot, characters, scenes, sentences and an author are all great elements to work with.
Why Do We Have to Resort to Metaphors?
Comment from Leonard Fehskens on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 08:19
This discussion reminds me of the old saw "if what you're doing isn't working, don't do it harder, do something different".
Why do we have to resort to metaphors to explain what we do? Because we can't explain what we do in language that the people we're talking to understand. So we say what we do "is like" something else that's already been explained in language that they do understand. The problem with this is that every metaphor carries unwanted baggage, and we don't spend any time explaining how what we do isn't like something else. Metaphors are very simple minded models, and as such their value, and in some sense their "truth", is entirely determined by how well they help us understand what is being modeled. Most metaphors for EA have very limited value in this respect.
So, rather than find better metaphors, I suggest what we need to do is find a better way of saying what we do, not what we do is like, and that a better way entails doing so in language that the people we are talking to understand.
Lately I have taken to explaining what I do by saying that enterprise architecture is about ensuring that an enterprise's assets and capabilities always serve its vision, mission and strategy. I often do so in more words of fewer syllables, but the gist is the same. And I have found that almost everyone not only understands what this means, but also understands its value. For example, my niece, asking what I did that required me to travel so much, and who was considering setting up her own small business, immediately said "can you do that for me?".
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Gloria Ramirez
Gloria Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994)[1] was a Riverside, California, woman dubbed "the toxic lady" by the media when several Riverside General Hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. Her case was the basis for a scene in one episode of the American TV series The X-Files (The Erlenmeyer Flask),[2] an episode of the American TV drama Grey's Anatomy, a segment of a show on Discovery Communications' channel Investigation Discovery called "The New Detectives,[3] a third season episode of Weird or What?, the "Stink Bomb" segment of the animated film Memories and an episode of Law & Order.
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About 8:15 p.m. on the evening of February 19, 1994, Ramirez, suffering from the effects of advanced cervical cancer, was brought into the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital by paramedics. She was extremely confused and was suffering from tachycardia and Cheyne–Stokes respiration.[5]
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The county health department called in California's Department of Health and Human Services, which put two scientists, Drs. Ana Maria Osorio and Kirsten Waller, on the case. They interviewed 34 hospital staff who had been working in the emergency room on February 19. Using a standardized questionnaire, Osorio and Waller found that the people who had developed severe symptoms, such as loss of consciousness, shortness of breath, and muscle spasms, tended to have certain things in common. People who had worked within two feet of Ramirez and had handled her intravenous lines had been at high risk. But other factors that correlated with severe symptoms didn't seem to match a scenario in which fumes had been released: the survey found that those afflicted tended to be women rather than men, and they all had normal blood tests after the exposure. They believed the hospital workers suffered from mass hysteria.[5]
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Gorchynski denied that she had been affected by mass hysteria and pointed to her own medical history as evidence. After the exposure, she spent two weeks in the intensive care unit with breathing problems. She developed hepatitis and avascular necrosis in her knees. Riverside Coroner's Office contacted Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to investigate the incident.[5] Livermore Labs postulated that Ramirez had been using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a solvent used as a powerful degreaser, as a home remedy for pain. Users of this substance report that it has a garlic-like taste.[5] Sold in gel form at hardware stores, it could also explain the greasy appearance of Ramirez's body.[5][6] The Livermore scientists theorized that the DMSO in Ramirez's system might have built up owing to urinary blockage caused by her kidney failure.[6] Oxygen administered by the paramedics would have combined with the DMSO to form dimethyl sulfone (DMSO2). DMSO2 is known to crystallize at room temperature, and crystals were observed in some of Ramirez's drawn blood.[5] Electric shocks administered during emergency defibrillation could have then converted the DMSO2 into dimethyl sulfate (DMSO4), a powerful poisonous gas, exposure to which could have caused the reported symptoms of the emergency room staff.[7] The Livermore scientists postulated on The New Detectives that the change in temperature of the blood drawn, from the 98.6 F of Ramirez' body to the 64 degrees Fahrenheit of the emergency room, may have contributed to its conversion from DMSO2 into DMSO4.
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Two months after Ramirez died, her badly decomposed body was released for an independent autopsy and burial. The Riverside Coroner's Office hailed Livermore's DMSO conclusion as the probable cause of the hospital workers' symptoms, while her family disagreed. The Ramirez family's pathologist was unable to determine a cause of death because her heart was missing, her other organs were cross-contaminated with fecal matter, and her body was too badly decomposed. Ten weeks after she died, Ramirez was buried in Olivewood Memorial Park.
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The possible chemical explanation for this incident by Patrick M. Grant of the Livermore Forensic Science Center is beginning to appear in basic forensic science textbooks.[8] In Houck and Siegel's textbook, the authors opine that, although some weaknesses exist, the postulated scenario is "the most scientific explanation to date" and that "beyond this theory, no credible explanation has ever been offered for the strange case of Gloria Ramirez."
Everything that Grant ever speculated or concluded about this incident was evaluated by professional forensic scientists, chemists, and toxicologists, passed peer review in an accredited, refereed journal, and was published by Forensic Science International.[9][10] The first paper was very technically detailed and did, in fact, give two potential chemical reaction mechanisms that may possibly have formed dimethyl sulfate from dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfone precursors. The second communication gave supplemental support for the postulated chemical scenario as well as insight into some of the sociology and vested interests inherent in the case.
One of the letters proposed the production of toxic chloramine gas due to urine mixing with bleach in a nearby sink. This hypothesis, previously proposed to the investigators and to the medical personnel involved in the incident, was apparently never considered by all involved. The noxious effects of this gas are documented in the New England Journal of Medicine.[11] Grant later addressed this chloramine scenario in his 1998 Response, and found it did not come close to fitting the ER incident.[10]
- ^ Dates from SSDI; Gloria C. Ramirez, SSN 549-57-9201.
- ^ Lovece 1996, p. 105
- ^ http://www.tv.com/shows/the-new-detectives/lethal-dosage-540155/
- ^ GORMAN, TOM (21 April 1994). "Woman at Core of Mystery Buried : Medicine: Gloria Ramirez is laid to rest two months after her death at a Riverside hospital, where fumes felled personnel...". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Stone, Richard (April 1995). "Analysis of a Toxic Death". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b c Dunning, Brian (3 January 2012). "Skeptoid #291: The Toxic Lady". Skeptoid. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ^ The Straight Dope: What's the story on the "toxic lady?"
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Tesco will close its Middleton distribution centre in July to relocate to Widnes, affecting 620 workers.
Warehouse staff have been told they will be offered roles at the new site or elsewhere in the company, while drivers will be transferred to Eddie Stobart, which will take over operations from Wincanton next month.
Tesco said the Middleton distribution centre was now too small to serve its growing number of stores.
Spokeswoman Juliette Bishop said: "The site at Middleton is 20 years old now and provides no room for expansion."
Hovis workers in Wigan are planning industrial action after the baker announced plans to cut more than 90 jobs from the 530-strong workforce at its Cale Lane factory.
Parent Premier Foods says it wants to switch production of morning goods, including rolls, crumpets and baguettes, away from the town to other sites around the country.
Members of the Bakery, Food and Allied Workers' Union have voted to ballot for action to fight the cuts.
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The 2007 LPGA Tour season is in full swing, but it's been flying under the radar of many. The first major championship of the season wasn't nearly as exciting as last year's edition, and that has definitely hurt things a little. I was happy Morgan Pressel won the Nabisco Championship, but the way she won it wasn't very thrilling. She basically finished her round and watched the leaders crumble coming down the stretch.
In other action on the LPGA Tour this season, a young gun returned to the winner's circle for the first time in over a year, someone other than Annika is number one in the world, and the Korean contingent is still looking for their first victory of the year. There have been some positives and negatives so far in 2007, and I'm here to break them down.
A New Number One
Even though the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings debuted just last season, Annika Sorenstam was considered the world's best female golfer long before that. Sorenstam's stranglehold on the world rankings was second only to male counterpart, Tiger Woods. Fortunately for golf fans, Lorena Ochoa recently knocked Annika off her pedestal to become the world's top female golfer.
I have nothing against Sorenstam, but it's nice to see a little shakeup in the world rankings every once in awhile. It was the same when Vijay Singh finally knocked Tiger off the top in late 2004. It didn't last long for Singh, but it was still pretty cool to see a fresh number one for a change.
Lorena Ochoa has a lot to prove now that she is number one in the world. She hasn't had a perfect 2007 season so far, but she has played solid golf for the most part. Until she wins a major championship, however, the critics (including myself) will remain. All in all, it's nice to see her at the top, and she will more than likely be there for awhile. Also, I'll be surprised if she doesn't win a major this season.
Morgan Pressel
Since Morgan Pressel made waves at the 2005 U.S. Women's Open, I have been a fan. Most people seem to be Michelle Wie fans, but I consider myself a Morgan Pressel fan. I never thought Pressel would win an LPGA major before Wie, but I'm extremely happy she did. Even though Wie wasn't in the field due to injury, the victory was still sweet as a fan.
Michelle Wie is probably more talented than Pressel, but she still hasn't won an LPGA Tour event. Pressel not only has a win, she has a major championship victory. That's definitely the number one bright spot so far in the 2007 LPGA Tour season. It will also make things more interesting once Wie returns from injury. The Big Wiesy will have to answer a lot more questions about Morgan Pressel winning before her, and I can't wait to hear some of the responses.
Paula Creamer's Return to the Winner's Circle
Paula Creamer took the golf world by storm in 2005. The Pink Panther won two LPGA Tour events two years ago and carded 11 top-10 finishes overall. Also, the young gun put together a dominant performance at the 2005 Solheim Cup. It definitely looked like Creamer was going to be Annika's top challenger for years to come.
The Pink Panther played well last year, carding 14 top-10 finishes. However, she didn't find the winner's circle, and that's what separates the great golfers from the rest of the pack. At the first LPGA Tour event of 2007, Creamer made an early statement by returning to the winner's circle for the first time in over a year. Something tells me it won't be her only win of the season.
Paula Creamer is very talented and marketable, so it's definitely a positive to see her win again. I'm sure I'm not the only fan that wants to see a Creamer vs. Ochoa rivalry start up this season. Both are filled with youth and talent, and it would help spice things up on The LPGA Tour. Mix in Annika, Pressel, and Wie, and we have ourselves a great foundation to build upon.
Golfers Missing in Action
I already mentioned both Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie in this week's article, but it never hurts to mention their names again. Sorenstam has only played in three LPGA events this season, finishing in a tie for 30th at the season's first major championship. Golf fans won't be seeing Annika as much this year because of a back injury. No Annika isn't real good for women's golf right now.
Michelle Wie, on the other hand, hasn't played any LPGA Tour events this season due to a broken wrist. Wie was smart to finally have surgery, but her absence has been boring. I'm not a Wie fan, but she is still great for the game just as Tiger and Phil are on the men's side of things.
Sorenstam and Wie can't get back into the action soon enough. Any time the two highest-profile names are out, interest decreases significantly. It's nice to see others step up their respective golf games, but it just isn't the same without Sorenstam and Wie. Wow, I never thought I would miss seeing Michelle Wie, but I actually do. I have to have someone to pick on right?
Natalie Gulbis' Struggles
My favorite LPGA Tour golfer is Natalie Gulbis, and it's not because of her good looks (that doesn't hurt the situation any). Last year, Gulbis was very consistent and seemed to put herself in contention on numerous occasions. She had a couple close calls in finding the winner's circle, including a major championship, but she still hasn't gotten the job done.
It looked like Gulbis was going to be a consistent star for years to come, but she hasn't been close to consistent in 2007. In six starts, she has missed three cuts and has zero top-10 finishes. It hasn't been good so far, but Gulbis did finish in a tie for 11th at the last event. Maybe things are starting to turn around for the young gun.
Like Creamer, Gulbis has a world of talent and is as marketable as it gets, so things can only get better if she is playing well. Whether or not Gulbis regains her consistency from a year ago remains to be seen, but it would be nice to see her play well and even win a time or two. Her struggles this season have definitely decreased my interest level in The LPGA Tour.
The Final Say
There are probably more things to talk about when it comes to The LPGA Tour, but these are the main topics from 2007. Like I said earlier, I haven't been as interested this season as I was last season, but that could change. The season is still very young, and I'm sure fans will witness a lot of exciting moments from now to the finish line. I hope so anyway.
Now it's time for you to tell me what you think about this week's article. What have you enjoyed most about the 2007 LPGA season? Also, how much does it hurt having both Annika and Wie out due to injuries? Finally, will Natalie Gulbis bounce back and be as consistent as she was last season? If you have anything to add, feel free to comment below or discuss it in the forum. Thanks for reading this week's Thrash Talk!
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Eastern Idaho housing market outlook
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The housing market in Eastern Idaho is slowly recovering and local real estate brokers say the market has well passed the bottom.
Interest rates climbed this week to a two-year high to 4.46 percent
Before the housing market crash in 2008, brokers said anything below a 7 percent interest rate was a great deal.
Around many neighborhoods there area plenty of "For Sale" signs.
Tina Miller, real estate broker and owner of Assist To Sell in Idaho Falls said this past winter was one of the best-selling season in years, but she added summer is prime buying and selling season.
"The new inventory for the most part seems to be selling pretty quickly. List to sold price is holding pretty tight together, in fact we're seeing some sell above list price," said Miller.
Among the summer listings is Ray Barnes' home in Idaho Falls. His 7,000-square-foot home has five bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, four fireplaces, hardwood floors throughout the home and character that only comes with a home built in 1931.
"This was out in the country in 1931, 17th street was a gravel road and kind of the limit of civilization. So it was a place in the country when it was built," said Barnes.
Barnes moved to Idaho Falls from Washington, D.C, 21 years ago. He said home in the East Coast was just a house, this home in Idaho Falls has truly felt like a place to raise a family.
Barnes and his wife raised two kids and called this large property on 2300 South Boulevard home for 21 years. Barnes shares stories of his children playing in the backyard in a playhouse he built for them, and hiding behind trees that are more than 100 years old.
This summer the Barnes' are ready to lock their doors for good. Their children have grown and moved out of the home. He said the home is too much house for two people.
"It's a lot to take care of and it needs a family to grow up in," said Barnes.
Down-sizing won't be easy, but finding a new family to grow up in this high-end home, may not be so difficult.
"I'm seeing more high-end homes selling now than I've seen in years, and they're selling pretty fast," said Miller.
Halfway through 2013, Miller added there is more optimism on the seller's side. She said the housing market has been a buyer's market for years, but it's slowly shifting.
"More people are willing to put their house on the market. It's a little better than it used to be. This is literally a better time than a year ago," said Miller.
Barnes is hoping the seller's optimism works in his favor, but he said he's not in a rush to sell the home.
"We've had wonderful times here," said Barnes.
Barnes walks around his home through the renovations and reminisces about the past 21 years.
He shares stories of spending time with the kids in the family room. The room has original stone work and pecan hardwood flooring from 1931.
He shows the shuffleboard outside and talked about imagining life out here in the 30's, sipping cocktails and playing shuffleboard.
Barnes has not set a listing price for the home yet. Renovations are in the works throughout the interior and exterior of the home. Barnes, a lawyer by training, will be selling the home himself. He said real estate agents for a home in the high-end market value cost a lot, and he wants to know the people who will be calling his home theirs.
"We want to have family who will enjoy it as much as we have," said Barnes.
Miller said the market in Idaho Falls is similar to the the rest of the region. She said the housing market in Rexburg is getting very busy.
Miller also said she has been selling homes to first-time homebuyers more this season than ever before. She said her clients often pay less with a home mortgage than they do for rent.
For more information on the Barnes' Home, there is a blog set up for interested buyers www.2300southboulevard.blogspot.com


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Last week was another busy week in our business, with one salient highlight being gold's drop on the Eurozone's woes. How does that work? It's a bit crazy, but when the euro drops sharply against the USD, the dollar looks strong – and if the dollar is "strong," what do we need gold for?
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But failure to be the worst currency of the week is not the same as being a strong currency. We believe traders caught in the old paradigm of selling gold when the dollar rises will come to regret their short-sightedness. And as the paper-money con game continues unraveling, that regret may not be long in coming.
Meanwhile, your Casey Research metals team has taken a look at the supply side of the gold market, comparing the situation now with that leading up to the 1980 gold mania. It's an interesting context to keep in mind while you make your investment decisions.
Bottom line: We believe that a mania of epic proportions still lies ahead. No telling exactly when that train will leave the station, so we want to get on board now while the market is weak and prices are low. However, we also don't want to go all in, not because we're concerned about the eventual end game for this market, but because we want to have cash to deploy at lower prices before the mania, should a much greater correction give us the chance to do so.
Gold: Supply Crunch? What Supply Crunch?
By Louis James
We have reported on changes in global gold demand, from booming investment demand in Asia to European and US debt concerns that have re-solidified gold's long tenure as the ultimate safe-haven asset for turbulent times. In fact, with investment demand from private and institutional buyers continuing to grow and central banks increasing their gold reserves, total demand reached a record US$57.7 billion in the third quarter of 2011. Quite astounding.
But what's happening on the supply side of the equation?
The most important source of gold supply is mine production – which is responsible for about two-thirds of the total – followed by recycled gold. While recycled gold is the reason supply is inelastic, new production has more predictive power since it can reflect shifts in industry conditions and investor sentiment.
Starting with a bird's-eye view, take a look at global gold production since 1900.
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The 1980 gold mania occurred when gold supply had the same structure as it does today: two-thirds from production and one-third from recycled product. As the chart shows, in the 1980s, production increased after the short-lived mania came to an end, while this time around, production has already gone up (more on that below). Also, as the 1980s wore on, production grew in spite of the price falling dramatically.
History doesn't repeat exactly, but it often does rhyme, so comparing the 1970-1980 decade to the present can give us a useful context for thinking about gold today. Reviewing the data available, here are some key comparisons:
- The previous major interim peak in mine production was recorded in 1970, followed by a 10-year decline and ultimately, the 1980 peak in gold's price. It's interesting to note that the mania occurred when gold supply was flat.
This cycle, we have an interim peak in 2001, followed by a decline for seven years, and then a reversal of the trend in the last three years. On average, production decreased at 0.2% per year (2000-2010). But looking at the decade average ignores the trend reversal in the last three years: Gold production rose by 7.4% in 2009, 3.7% in 2010, and is up 5% in the three quarters of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010.
This recent increase in production without a market mania beforehand could be seen as an argument against there being a mania this time around: There's no supply crunch. Supply could keep up with demand and prevent the crunch from happening. We don't see this being likely for several reasons, foremost among which is that we don't see the increases in production being sustainable. Mines are by definition depleting assets, and it gets harder every year to permit and place new mines into production.
- Global gold reserves in 1980 tallied 1.1 billion ounces (34,000 metric tonnes), and production at that time was sufficient to meet demand at the time for about 20 years. In 2010, reserves were 1.6 billion ounces (51,000 metric tonnes) and were also sufficient to meet demand for an identical 20 years, but production was twice as high. Much of this can be attributed to improvements in mining technology that, coupled with higher prices, allow larger, lower-grade deposits to be mined profitably. Again: no supply crunch.
Not yet, anyway. In addition to the increasing regulatory burdens, the discovery process has grown more arduous. There are new technologies that have made some things much easier, but overall, most explorers have to go farther and search harder every year.
- Gold production has outpaced the increase in the population. In fact, gold production per capita now is even higher than in the 1970s. No crunch evident from this perspective either.
1970-1980 Gold Production
2000-2010 Gold Production
At interim peak (1970): 0.40 grams
At interim peak (2001): 0.42 grams
During mania phase (1980-1981):
Current value (2010-2011): 0.37 grams
However, gold is not a consumer good – it's not something people need to eat a certain amount of every day, so the physical quantity of gold per person in the world means less than it would for other commodities. Gold, we have long argued, is a "fear barometer" in today's world. It's valued, which means it has demand in inverse proportion to people's confidence in other forms of money. So the fact that supply has kept up with population growth does not imply that supply has – or "should have" – kept up with demand… and we can see that it hasn't in the price of gold. A major part of that is the return of investment demand, almost to levels we saw in 1980, as you can see in the chart below.
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- Today, as in 1980, mine production and scrap are the major components – almost the only components – of supply. The disappearance of net disinvestment from the supply side of things is one of the more bullish similarities we see between now and 30 years ago.
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- One major difference between the gold market today and in decades past is the geography of mine production. South Africa accounted for two-thirds of global gold production in 1970 and 55% in 1980. In 2010, not one country was responsible for more than 14% of world mining supply (with the leader being China, at 13%).
A similar shift has occurred with demand. In the 1980, it was mostly Western countries soaking up the gold trade, probably because that's where most of the wealth that wanted to avoid inflation was. By 2000, when gold was held in the same esteem as certain other four-letter words, North America and Europe had almost left the field. Today, it's become a truly global trade again, as you can see in the chart below.
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Such decentralization has benefits: It creates flexibility and stability in the gold market. The market psychology is more diverse, making it more liquid and robust.
No Crunch Today – Crunch Tomorrow?
Your Casey Research metals team believes the supply of gold is going to tighten. Most companies have been forced to look in riskier jurisdictions and remote locations with poor infrastructure. Environmental and other regulations are multiplying and becoming more costly every year, and even in places where they are not, labor strikes and increases in taxes are taking their toll. Worldwide, mining becomes more complicated and expensive every year… and in some cases, not even worth trying. At the same time, big discoveries remain few and far between – and even when a discovery is made, it often takes up to ten years to reach production.
As they say, the low-hanging fruit has been picked: We do expect a supply crunch in the years ahead.
It's tempting to try to make an argument based on future constraints in gold supply and some of the interesting similarities between past and present conditions in that supply – they seem to point to a gold mania ahead. But it's the demand side that dominates the price of gold. Whether a shortage of gold supply from production occurs or not, demand for gold is more flexible than supply overall.
Gold is a monetary metal. If confidence in paper money evaporates the way we think it will, the flight to the safe haven of gold could swamp any conceivable glut in supply. We've no crystal ball to tell us when it will start, but we definitely see a mania coming.
And another question arises: Now that gold demand and supply are dispersed across the globe, where will the mania start? US? Europe? How about China, India, or Malaysia? Things could really start cooking with no immediately evident cause in the West at all.
Regardless of when or where the mania starts, our advice is to make sure your personal gold reserves are in place.
[Institutional investors are taking advantage of a little-known anomaly in the metals market to get positioned in gold at a steep discount. You can learn how they're doing it.]
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Ernst & Young: Volumes Are Up for Junior Mining Companies' Financings
Despite the fact that mining equity financing is steadily decreasing this year, Ernst & Young analysts claim, "there is light at the end of the tunnel for junior mining companies." The firm reports that as majors have improved their financial standings and reducing debts, more room on the secondary financing markets is left for the juniors. That's bullish for many of the smaller companies we follow, but the increased liquidity won't last as long as a snowflake in a bonfire if broader global markets go into a dive as deep as we think they may soon do. For now, we continue focusing on the "buy low" side of the investment equation.
New Data Say Indian Consumers Are Becoming Investors
Due to high prices of gold jewelry products, Indian consumers are starting to buy bars and coins. In some cases, investors are repurchasing bars they'd sold at higher prices in September.
Demand for bars and coins is estimated to have risen by 30-40% since September, with the current gold weakness acting as an accelerator. Meanwhile, local banks are offering new physical gold products and adding electronic bullion exchanges.
This attitude shift makes sense, since investment-grade gold is of higher carat and certified, which makes its exchange easier and the market more liquid. Demand in China and India has been growing at a high rate this year, and with investment products entering what was traditionally the reign of jewelry products, we are looking at a new type of investor and new type of market for physical gold. Both are bullish signs for the yellow metal.
Department of Fun: Panning for Gold on the Streets of New York
Yes, on the streets of New York: take a look at the five-minute YouTube video linked to above.
This Week in International Speculator and BIG GOLD – Key Updates for Subscribers
International Speculator
- One of our explorers has started drilling on its flagship project, an announcement we have been anticipating for a while. What do we expect from the drilling campaign?
- A new gold producer with growth on tap just reported a set of high-grade intervals encountered at an area not yet in production. We expect a value-adding updated resource estimate soon – but is the price right?
- A high-grade silver producer with growth on tap also just reported a set of high-grade intervals encountered at an area not yet in production – but is this the time to buy?
- It's not all roses; one company we're already underwater on just ran into legal trouble. Is it time to sell?
- One of our gold producers reported some positive exploration results on its properties this week, along with good progress on its next major producing mine. But the biggest news was the jump in the dividend.
- One of the biggest gold discoveries of this decade is owned by one of our producers, and management reached some tentative agreements with the host country. Are the new policies reasonable?
We would be remiss not to mention that many members of the Casey team will be at the Cambridge House Investment Conference in Vancouver, on January 22-23, 2012. This year we're going to be much more visible than before... with our own, spacious pavilion that fits up to 300 people. We're currently putting the finishing touches on our program to make sure something will be going on all day at the pavilion – including but not limited to free presentations by our metals and energy editors, an Explorers' League panel discussion, and our own "Best of Show" and Casey NexTen awards.
If you're planning to visit the Cambridge House conference, make sure to stop by; we always love to meet our subscribers in person. And don't forget to mention "Casey" when you register at the conference website.


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Naomi Darling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a principal at Naomi Darling Architecture, a full-service architectural practice based in Amherst, MA and New Haven, CT. The firm aims to produce socially responsible and environmentally conscious projects at all scales in terms of size, time, and permanence with a special consideration of site and place. Current projects include a park in Old Saybrook, CT, a farmhouse expansion and renovation in Simsbury CT, and a Memorial Hall and Community Center in honor of Inazo Nitobe, in Sapporo, Japan.
Darling was one of 20 participants showcased in EP:2011, the second annual exhibition of work, art, and designs of emerging architects across North America sponsored by The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Center for Emerging Professionals. Her project, Kernan Tea House, was awarded an AIA New England Regional Award in 2013. Prior to founding her practice, Darling worked at Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Studio ABK, and Kengo Kuma and Associates.
Darling's early experiences working as a researcher studying climate change in Antarctica and as a scientist aboard the SSV Westward were formative experiences that have helped shape her teaching and practice today.
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A virtual centre for second-generation bioenergy research
As announced on our website, I was pleased to participate last Tuesday (Jan 27) in the press briefing and formal launch of BSBEC, a nested acronym that stands for the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre. This is a virtual centre that represents a collaboration between a large number of research institutions and is part of the Research Councils' Energy Programme. It involves a BBSRC investment of £20M with additional investments of £7M from industry, plus further contributions from the consortium partners.
The focus of a very exciting scientific programme is on the generation of bioenergy and transport biofuels from woody biomass and from waste materials that do not compete with food production for land (as do many so-called first-generation biofuels). The origins of this programme lay in a report from a Panel that I chaired for BBSRC, and in some of the analyses from the subsequent Gallagher report.
There is a series of processes that need to be optimised to improve the efficiency of second-generation biofuel production. The upstream end of the system is of course solar energy, and the chain progresses via photosynthesis, biomass production, biomass composition, biomass deconstruction, and fermentation. The BSBEC programme covers, and seeks to improve the efficiency of, each of these, with the potential for an overall six-fold improvement in the efficiency of energy conversion 'from photon to fuel'. This may sound like a lot, but bear in mind that the overall efficiency of photosynthesis itself, including the dark reactions, is probably only some 1-2%!
In developing a story, journalists usually light on something they think their readers will find particularly interesting. In this case, much journalistic interest focussed on the part of the programme concerned with marine wood borers (Limnoria isopods), a potential source of novel enzymes for deconstructing woody biomass and turning it into fermentable sugars. The journalistic attraction of this part of the programme evidently came in part from the wonderful trivial name these organisms have acquired, viz 'gribbles'. The etymology of 'gribble' is somewhat uncertain, most commentators (e.g. M-W online) seeing it as a diminutive of 'grub'. I suspect (and I am not alone, though it is not listed) that it may be onomatopoeic, from the presumed sound of their wood-boring activities. Amusingly, the term also has a meaning in computing: "Random binary data rendered as unreadable text. Noise characters in a data stream are displayed as gribble."
The (biological) gribbles remind us of the very great extent and importance of biodiversity as sources of bioactive natural products. Leaving aside enzymes and other biologicals, a large fraction of marketed pharmaceuticals are based on or find their origins in natural products, and there is continuing interest in exploiting them. A recent summary shows also that they were as successful as those derived from physico-chemical considerations alone, possibly because successful marketed drugs and natural products are more like metabolic intermediates than are purely synthetic molecules. Genome mining is capable of providing clues to novel natural products even when these have not been previously observed in extracts or cultures of the producer organism. Mutasynthesis provides a means of modifying them when they have. Food security is a major issue on which I shall blog soon. However, from bioenergy to enzymes to drugs, we depend on the natural world for considerably more products than just food. The BSBEC will provide an important focus for some of these.
- Challis, G. L. (2008). Genome mining for novel natural product discovery. J Med Chem 51, 2618-28
- Dobson, P. D., Patel, Y. & Kell, D. B. (2009). "Metabolite-likeness" as a criterion in the design and selection of pharmaceutical drug libraries. Drug Disc Today 14, 31-40
- Ganesan, A. (2008). The impact of natural products upon modern drug discovery. Curr Opin Chem Biol 12, 306-17
- Harvey, A. L. (2008). Natural products in drug discovery. Drug Discov Today 13, 894-901
- Koehn, F. E. & Carter, G. T. (2005). The evolving role of natural products in drug discovery. Nat Rev Drug Discov 4, 206-20
- Newman, D. J. & Cragg, G. M. (2007). Natural products as sources of new drugs over the last 25 years. J Nat Prod 70, 461-77
- Powell, A., Borg, M., Amir-Heidari, B., Neary, J. M., Thirlway, J., Wilkinson, B., Smith, C. P. & Micklefield, J. (2007). Engineered biosynthesis of nonribosomal lipopeptides with modified fatty acid side chains. J Am Chem Soc 129, 15182-91
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