tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55119837031386427632024-03-19T14:22:53.567+11:00Here, There and Everywhereochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-8279859162298653412011-03-18T22:39:00.001+11:002011-03-18T22:39:32.452+11:002011 NCAA Bracket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhnKdZEn1ojGhX24R7rzNILvDFOQ4gz9mw5ZkBANjieOW80KGJ1ViwA_y7a3oVCk0Tv_kvYpfsADiUNN6MhYo0Hve1g5sLoh2-rXG28XmfCZ-JaCA6BTCuiKrxmsZvu-hR4p69RZpdio/s1600/SCN_0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhnKdZEn1ojGhX24R7rzNILvDFOQ4gz9mw5ZkBANjieOW80KGJ1ViwA_y7a3oVCk0Tv_kvYpfsADiUNN6MhYo0Hve1g5sLoh2-rXG28XmfCZ-JaCA6BTCuiKrxmsZvu-hR4p69RZpdio/s400/SCN_0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-4309613917798714572011-03-16T16:45:00.000+11:002011-03-16T16:45:11.737+11:00<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_-_new_fears_as_the_trage.html">Japan: New fears as the tragedy deepens - The Big Picture - Boston.com</a>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-9887592865471858462011-02-25T18:20:00.001+11:002011-02-25T18:21:04.804+11:00Are you an Architect? Take the quiz…<b>Jody Brown</b>, the architect behind the blog <b><a href="http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com/2011/02/22/are-you-an-architect-the-quiz/" target="_blank">Coffee with an Architect</a></b> made this interesting quiz to determine if you are indeed an architect or not.<br />
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Correct Answers – 1.A, 2.A, 3.A, 4.B, 5.B, 6.B, 7.A, 8.B, 9.A, 10.B, 11.B, 12.A, 13.A, 14.A, 15.A or B, 16.B, 17.B, 18.B, 19.B, 20.B, 21.B, 22.A, 23.A, 24.A, 25.B, 26.A, 27.B, 28.B, 29.A, 30.A, 31.B, 32.B, 33.B, 34.A, 35.A, 36.B, 37.B, 38.A, 39.A, 40.B, 41.A, 42.B, 43.B, 44.A, 45.B, 46.B, 47.B, 48.B, 49.A, 50.B<br />
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You’re an Architect = 41-50 correct answers<br />
You might be a Designer = 31-40 correct answers<br />
You’re probably a Barista = 21-30 correct answers<br />
You have a real job don’t you? = 11-20 correct answers<br />
Sorry, you’re an Engineer = 1-10 correct answers<br />
You’re homeless = 0 correct answersochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-28235553853175026042011-02-11T12:25:00.002+11:002011-02-21T20:59:33.221+11:0020 Corporate Brand Logo EvolutionFrom <a href="http://www.instantshift.com/2009/01/29/20-corporate-brand-logo-evolution/" target="_blank">InstantShift</a><br />
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<b>Have you ever wonder how the first Apple logo looks in 30 years back? Did you know Volkswagen was Hitler’s idea? Or how the IBM logo changes over the time? Or where the Mercedes-Benz Brand And The Three-Pointed Star logo came from?</b><br />
As we already know that Logo is the identities that are fundamental to building a brand and communicating with the target audience. Many well-known corporate brand changes their logo to archive the perfect identification because identity’s creation is not an occasional activity, but a permanent one.<br />
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Let’s take a look at the Interesting stories behind the logos of some of the most popular brands in the world. Be sure to let us know if I have missed anything!<br />
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<h1>Corporate Brand Logo Evolution</h1><br />
01. <u>Apple</u><br />
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It is one of the biggest consumer electronics and Software Company, best known for products like Macintosh, iPod and iphone. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne had together setup Apple in 1976, to sell their hand-built computer Apple I. They had offered their product to HP first but were declined by them. I think HP would still be regretting this today.<br />
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The road to success wasn’t easy for Apple, and Wayne liquidated his share in the company for a mere $ 800. After the launch of Apple II in 1977, things started to look up for Apple and we all know what heights the company has reached since then.<br />
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Apple II was successful mainly because it had colored graphics. Great and simple design, has always been the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) for Apple, and their logo is no exception. When Apple was started, the logo was a complicated picture of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree. This had been designed by Jobs and Wayne, with the inscription: “Newton … A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone.” Frankly, I don’t think it was just a coincidence that Apple had slow sales during this period.<br />
However, Steve Jobs hired Rob Janoff to simplify the logo, which turned out to be a great idea. Rob created the ‘Rainbow Apple’ which was the logo for company till 1998. There are many rumors as to why Rob had chosen to create such a logo. One of them says that the Apple was a tribute to Newton (discovery of gravity from an Apple), and since the USP for Apple at that time was colored graphics, it had the rainbow colors. Another explanation exists that the bitten apple pays homage to the Mathematician Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating an apple he had laced with cyanide. Turing is regarded as the father of computers. The rainbow colors of the logo are rumored to be a reference to the rainbow flag, as homage to Turing’s homosexuality.<br />
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Janoff, however, said in an interview that though he was mindful of the “byte/bite” pun (Apple’s slogan back then: “Byte into an Apple”), he designed the logo as such to “prevent the apple from looking like a cherry tomato.”<br />
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When Apple launched the new iMac in 1998, they changed their logo to a monochromatic apple logo, almost identical to the rainbow logo. Now, the Apple logo comes with nice gradient chrome silver design. It is one of the most recognized brand symbols in the world today, and the shape is what identifies the company more than the color.<br />
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02. <u>Shell</u><br />
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Back in 1900, when the company was started the logo was a realistic and simple shell which lies flat on the ground. This was a pectin or scallop shell, but today the company has a logo which is bold, colorful and much more simplistic.<br />
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The evolution of the logo began after 1915, when rendering enabled the company to reproduce its identity easily. This is visible in the 1930 logo for the company. When the company started a project in California, it added the red and yellow colors to the symbol. The colors help Shell to stand out. Additionally, these are the colors of Spain, where many Californian settlers were born, which might have helped the company to create an emotional bond with the people.<br />
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With the advent of internet and fax machines over the later years, it became necessary for the company to simplify their logo, which would prevent it from being distorted in small images. The 1971 logo designed by Raymond Loewy is very simple as compared to the earlier logos.<br />
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This has helped the company because this logo is more memorable and recognizable, accountable to the simplicity of the logo. The 1971 logo is still used by the company albeit with minor changes, but it has become so recognizable that it often appears without the company name now.<br />
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03. <u>Xerox</u><br />
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The Xerox Company used to be known as the Haloid Company almost 100 years ago. But in 1938, Chester Carlson invented a technique called xerography which we today call the photocopy technique. Unfortunately no one was willing to invest in his invention, and many big giants like IBM, GE, RCA and others decided not to finance this invention.<br />
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But Haloid Company decided to go with Chester and made the first photocopying machine named Haloid Xerox 14. As can be seen in their logos, the original Haloid word which was prominent in the company’s logo before 1961 was completely replaced by Xerox due to the immense success of this idea.<br />
They retained almost the same logo from 1961 to 2004. But in 2004 there was a problem with the Xerox books and it tried to reinvent itself with a new logo. People associate the company only with photocopy machines, and that has been a major problem for Xerox.<br />
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The company changed its logo in 2008 to get away from this stereotyped image, by changing the font of the word. They also added a ball which has a stylish X instead of their ‘boring’ X in earlier times According to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/anne_m_mulcahy/index.html?inline=nyt-per" rel="external nofollow"><b>Anne M. Mulcahy</b></a>, Xerox’s chief, that little piece of art represents the connection to customers, partners, industry and innovation.<br />
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04. <u>BMW</u><br />
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BMW or Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Bavarian Motor Works) was originally founded as an aircraft company. The aircrafts manufactured were painted with the colors of the Bavarian flag, which is the color of BMW logo. Another explanation is that when the pilot used to sit in the plane he would see alternating segments of white and blue due to rotation the plane propeller (blue being the sky).<br />
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The major business of BMW was to supply planes to the German army during World War I. But after the war they were forced to change their business. It made railway brakes, before making motorized bicycle, motorcycles and cars.<br />
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The logo itself hasn’t changed a lot during the years, but now has a more stylish look due to the different gradients. The unchanged logo has made it easier for people to remember and has given the company more recognition.<br />
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05. <u>Nike</u><br />
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Nike probably got the best deal amongst all companies when Caroline Davidson designed its logo for just $35 in 1971. The main part of the logo hasn’t really changed with time. However, I don’t understand why they waited for 7 years before they realized that the text and the swoosh were overlapping each other.<br />
As the brand gained recognition, the company name was dropped from the logo, which made it more simplistic and memorable. The company has different variations of this logo for its various departments like Skate, Soccer etc.<br />
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06. <u>IBM</u><br />
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As you would observe from the logos above that IBM was earlier known as The International Time Recording Company (ITR), whose major products were mechanical time recorders, invented and patented by Willard L. Bundy in 1888. So in the earlier periods the logo of the company had ITR inscribed on it. Later in 1911, ITR was merged with the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which is why you will see that both ITR and CTR are there in the 1911 logo.<br />
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In 1924, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company adapted the name International Business Machines Corporation. The ornate, rococo letters that formed the “CTR” logo were replaced by the words “Business Machines” in more contemporary sans-sarif type, and in a form intended to suggest a globe, girdled by the word “International.”<br />
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In 1947, IBM decided to drop the globe from its logo, which was by then quite familiar amongst the people. The logo was not the only change in 1947; it was accompanied by a change in business from the punched-card tabulating business to computers. The typeface of this logo was called Beton Bold.<br />
In 1956, before Thomas J. Watson, Sr died he appointed Tom Watson, Jr. as the CEO. Tom Watson, Jr. decided to project the beginning of a new era in the company, for that he changed the company’s logo as well as the actions. Paul Rand designed the new logo which represented that the changes in the company would be subtle and will not disrupt the continuity. Also, the new logo looked more solid, grounded and balanced.<br />
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Another change in the logo was designed by Paul Rand which had stripes instead of the solid font. It depicted ‘speed and dynamism’. Since, then the logo has more or less remained the same, and the design has been recognized and replicated all over the world.<br />
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07. <u>Canon</u><br />
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The company had always wanted a global perspective, and the logos reflected the same as early as 1934. A specialized advertising designer had created the logo which included typeface never seen before in Europe or North America.<br />
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The first camera launched by the company in 1934, was named as Kwanon, after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The logo included the wordings and a picture of the goddess with 1000 arms and flames.<br />
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As the years went by, like all other logos we have seen above, the company strived to make the logo as simple and memorable as possible. The logo had only been trademarked in 1935, and after that a lot of designing work went into making the logo more balanced. After 1956, the logo hasn’t been changed, but the designing effort is clearly visible in their simple but classic logo.<br />
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08. <u>Google</u><br />
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The clarity of thought is visible in the company’s logo right from the very beginning, when in 1996 two Stanford University computer science graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built the search engine.<br />
The name of the search engine is derived from Googol (meaning one followed by 100 zeros). Google’s first logo was created by Sergey Brin, after he taught himself to use the free graphic software GIMP. Later, an exclamation mark mimicking the Yahoo! logo was added. In 1999, Stanford’s Consultant Art Professor Ruth Kedar designed the Google logo that the company uses today.<br />
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09. <u>Kodak</u><br />
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Interestingly, Kodak was the first company to integrate its name and looks into one symbol in 1907. After 1935, Kodak predominantly used yellow and red colors and the complete name of the company. First time the Kodak name was completely written in the logo in 1935, which began the use of yellow and red colors as well.<br />
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In 1960, they tried to show a flip page as a logo, but was changed to a box and graphic “K” element in 1971. I think the logo in 1971 was quite trendy, but it might have been a little complex. Retaining the 1971 concept, there was a slight variation in the font in 1987. The new font looked contemporary.<br />
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Again, like other companies, Kodak decided to simplify their logo in 1996, and removed the boxes. The red color gives a more brighter and structured feel of the company. In 2006, again a slight variation was made in the logo with a rounded ‘a’ and ‘d’, to give a contemporary look.<br />
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10. <u>Microsoft</u><br />
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The Microsoft story began in 1975, when Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen coded the first computer language for a PC and named it BASIC. Soon they named their partnership as Micro-Soft which explains the first logo of the company.<br />
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They changed the logo in that year itself and dropped the hyphen too. For the next 12 years, the logo had a distinctive O. The employees called this as “Blibbet”. It is said that at that time, the Microsoft cafeteria even had a double cheeseburger named “”Blibbet Burger”.<br />
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When a new logo came on in 1987, there was a campaign within the company to “Save the Blibbet”. But, this couldn’t stop the company from adopting a new logo. The logo designed by Scott Baker, came to be known as “the Pacman logo” due to the distinctive cut in the O.<br />
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In 1994, they integrated their tagline ‘Where do you want to go today?’ within the logo. This was widely mocked and the company kept trying different taglines like People Ready, Start Something, Making it Easier etc.<br />
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The new 2008 logo has all the text in Italics (including the tagline), but the look of the logo has remained pretty much the same. Basically, the company is so well renowned already, that I don’t think the logo needs to change, since people already recognize and connect with it worldwide.<br />
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11. <u>Volkswagen</u><br />
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Volkswagen means ‘People’s car’ in German. The history of the company is tied with Adolf Hitler.<br />
Before the rise of Hitler, the German economy was in a very bad shape; as a result people couldn’t afford to buy cars. In 1933, Hitler raised the idea of an inexpensive car in the Auto show.<br />
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In 1934, Ferdinand Porsche met with Hitler to design the car. Hitler gave him all the specifications of the car and Porsche promised to deliver the design. In 1937, the Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH was created (it became simply Volkswagenwerk GmbH a year later). In 1938, Hitler opened a state funded Volkswagen factory in Walburg. It was suppose to produce commercial cars, but it was used to churn out military cars. It was only later found that Hitler had intended to use the Porsche car as a military vehicle only, which could carry 3 men and a machine gun.<br />
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After the WWII, Britishers took over the company. They renamed the car as Beetle. Surprisingly all the car makers like Fiat and Ford declined to take ‘free control’ of the Volkswagen factory. So, it was returned to the German government, and went on to become one of the world’s bestselling cars ever.<br />
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The first logo was designed by Franz Xavier Reimspiess, a Porsche employee during an office logo design competition. The main part of the logo hasn’t changed much, but understandably after the WWII, they got rid of the design around the circle which seems to be inspired from the Nazi flag. I love the colors that were added in 2000, to the logo which was built after WWII, it depicts a positive change in the company and the ability to adapt to the new millennium.<br />
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12. <u>MasterCard</u><br />
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In 1966, seventeen bankers formed a federation for the reciprocal acceptance of their credit cards. They called this federation as Interbank and hence, the first 1966 logo. The ‘i’ was used to identify the participating members of Interbank Card Association.<br />
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In 1969, the name was changed to Master Charge. The new logo had the two familiar intersecting circles which make sense when we think about the interbank card business. Also, the ‘i’ was retained at the bottom to show continuity and also to make it easy for people to recognize their earlier familiar logo.<br />
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Finally, in 1979, the name MasterCard was adopted and they lost the ‘i’ from the logo. In 1990, bold colors were adopted which also made it easier to recognize the 23 horizontal bars between the two circles, which I think denoted the idea of multiple simultaneous interbank relationships. The logo looks more contemporary and simple, with an italic, sans-serif typeface.<br />
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In 1996, a more prominent font replaces the old font, and the number of bars was also reduced, resulting in a simple and powerful logo. The Brand Mark’s visibility, recognition, and overall brand image are improved, with new features including larger lettering highlighted with a drop shadow, fewer interlocking bars within the red and yellow circles, and a new dark blue background for use on decals and signage.<br />
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13. <u>Mozilla Firefox</u><br />
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An open source web browser, created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, was first of all named as Phoenix, which is visible in their first logo in 2002. Due to some trademark issues, the name had to be changed to Firebird, but the name was chosen so that they would be able to retain the same logo.<br />
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Unfortunately, this name also had trademark issues because of existing software. Then, they finally got lucky and chose the name Firefox, which has become one of the favorite and most used browser worldwide. In 2003, the now famous logo was designed by professional interface designer John Hicks.<br />
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The logo depicted a Firefox engulfing the whole world, which also signifies the global reach that the company strived for. There has been a minor change in the logo since then, with the colors of the continents using a lighter blue color, just to differentiate them better from the oceans.<br />
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14. <u>Pepsi</u><br />
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Today, one of the biggest soft drinks company, was first started by Caleb Bradham in 1890’s. Initially named as Brad’s drink the name was quickly changed to Pepsi-Cola, which is visible in the first 1898 logo. Finally in 1903, the name was trademarked and hasn’t been changed till date.<br />
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In the early years, Brad made custom logos for the brand as it became more famous. In 1933, the company was bought by Loft, Inc. The company changed the bottle size from 6 to 12 oz. and came up with the ‘Refreshing and Healthful’ logo.<br />
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However, the major breakthrough in the Pepsi logo design came in 1940’s. Walter Mack, the CEO of Pepsi came up with the idea of a new bottle design, with a crown having the Pepsi logo. The ‘Pepsi Globe’ emerged when USA was in WWII, and to support the country’s war efforts, Pepsi had a blue, red and white logo.<br />
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This logo became hugely popular, and went on to be the identifier for the company. As a result, in 1950 and 1962, this bottle cap with the swirling blue and red became prominent in the company logo. During the 1960’s when it became even more popular, the script was changed from the curly red, and the main attraction was on the bottle cap in the logo.<br />
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We see the first appearance of the Pepsi Globe instead of the bottle cap in 1973. The typeface was made smaller so as to fit in the globe. The Pepsi Globe was “boxed in”, with a red bar coming in from the left and a light-blue bar coming in from the right.<br />
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In 1991, the typeface was moved from inside the globe. The red bar was lengthened and the typeface came on the top of the globe. In 1998, the white background in the logo was replaced by the blue color, which also resulted in dropping the red horizontal band. The globe now had 3D graphic and larger than earlier versions. It might be that since, Pepsi and the globe touch each other for the first time in the logo, the name ‘the Pepsi Globe’ was given to the logo.<br />
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After 1998, it seems that Pepsi had decided to give the globe more prominence than the script itself. So, the globe came on top of the script in 2003, and in their current logo they have done away with the script altogether.<br />
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15. <u>LG</u><br />
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LG was formed from two different companies named Lucky (chemical cosmetic company, 1947) and Goldstar (radio manufacturing plant, 1958). Though, these were different companies they were essentially owned by one person. In 1995, Lucky Goldstar was renamed to LG Electronics.<br />
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Actually, LG is a chaebol (a South Korean conglomerate), so there’s a whole range of LG companies that also changed their names, such as LG Chemicals, LT Telecom, and even a baseball team called the LG Twins. These companies all adopted the “Life is Good” tagline you often see alongside its logo. LG denies that their name now stands for Lucky Goldstar. They’re just “LG.”<br />
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16. <u>Mercedes-Benz</u><br />
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The Mercedes-Benz was formed by the merger of two car companies – DMG (Daimler-Motored-Gesellschaft, founded by Gottlieb Daimler) and Benz & Cie, founded by Karl Benz. Both the companies were similar in their work and were situated in close proximity.<br />
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It was after the World War I, when the German economy was shattered, that both these companies decided to from a syndicate in 1924, and then finally merge in 1926, called Diamler-Benz.<br />
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In 1902, the logo for Mercedes was nothing more than the simple company name. However, it was changed to a 3 pointed star in 1909. The origin of this star came from a postcard by Diamler, where he had drawn a 3 pointed star which represented ‘making vehicles in land water and sky’.<br />
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After 1926, a new symbol for Mercedes-Benz came into picture, where the original logo of both the companies was merged into one. It combined the 3 pointed star of Mercedes and the laurel wreath of Benz.<br />
Over the years, the symbol has been improved vastly in design and simplicity. It has been recognized as a symbol representing luxury and top tier cars.<br />
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17. <u>General Electric</u><br />
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The company has a great history. It was formed in 1892 by the merger of Edison Electric Light Company (founded by Thomas Edison to sell his invention, the light bulb) and Thomson-Houston Electric Company.<br />
The basic logo font face is still quite similar to what it was in 1892. Over time, a circle engulfing the company name has been added to the logo, which might be due to the increasing global presence and vision of the company. The current logo, which was designed by Wolff Olins, adds blue color to the logo instead of the black color which had been used in all the previous logos. Accompanied with the logo change was also a change in the tagline of the company from “We bring good things to life” to “Imagination at work”.<br />
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18. <u>Nokia</u><br />
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‘Nokia’ in Finnish means means a dark, furry animal we now call the Pine Marten weasel. However, this has little to do with the current business and brand image. The origin of the company name, can rather be attributed to the setting up of the wood pulp mill (set up by Knut Fredrik Idestam), on the banks of Nokianvirta river in the town of Nokia.<br />
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The Nokia Corporation was formed as a merger of Finnish Rubber Works (which also used a Nokia brand), the Nokia Wood Mill, and the Finnish Cable Works in 1967. The company has sold a variety of products in the past including television, shoes, car tires and others. The evolution and the meaning of the logo is unclear due to the changing business over the years.<br />
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19. <u>Ford</u><br />
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Henry Ford used to work for Thomas Edison. He founded two companies before settling on Ford. His first company went bankrupt after just two years, and he left the second company after just one year. However, the second company became Cadillac later on. His third company, founded in 1902, was called Ford & Malcomson, Ltd.<br />
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He was unable to pay the bills for parts in his third company, but some investors agreed to put money in the company, and it was renamed as Ford Motor Co. This is the company name in the first logo of 1903. The 1909 logo, which has a similar font as today’s logo was borrowed from Childe Harold Wills, who had made this font for his business card.<br />
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In 1912, the Ford logo was given a complete makeover, as compared to the earlier simplistic design. When a car was launched in 1927, called Model A, the famous blue oval was introduced in the logo. This was the shape and color, on which all future Ford logos have been made.<br />
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The company has experimented with different shape going from ellipse to circle, and even a diamond like shape in 1957. The 1976 logo was essentially, the last major change in the symbol, and is very similar to their current logo. Finally, in 2003, the company released a new logo, which came to be known as “Centennial Blue Oval”.<br />
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20. <u>Wal-Mart</u><br />
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The company has tried out various colors and variation of the word Walmart over the years. In 1962, when Sam Walton started, the company, the logo had simply the word spelled in a very basic design.<br />
The logo was changed in 1964, when a hyphen was added and the color was also changed from blue to black. This came to be known as the “Frontier Font Logo”. The 1968 logo shown here is the discount city logo, which was mainly used for uniforms, in-store signing etc, but it was never used to advertise or even in annual reports.<br />
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The 1981 logo changed the curly font to a more solid font, giving the company a more stable, established and balanced look. The hyphen in this logo was replaced by the star in 1992, and the familiar blue color of the logo returned for the first time after the company’s inception.<br />
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Walmart is probably one of the few companies, who have tried so many logos, but their current logo is more like the original logo, other than any other intermediate logo. The font differs a little from the original and is indeed more stylish, but the ‘Walmart’ word without a break appears for the first time after 1962. They have kept the star from 1992, but moved it to the end.<br />
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Well, the east is a geographical direction, the Chinese everyman would say Feiyue shoes, and we want a pair because PM has enormous man feet.<br />
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Feiyue (meaning ‘flying forward') were born in Shanghai in the ‘20s, worn by members of all social categories from countrymen to politicians. Some savvy French enthusiasts picked up the brand in 2006 and upped their quality - perhaps because the fighting monks were demanding robustness, who knows? Feiyues are now more durable and various than they ever were for the everyman.</span><br />
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An NBA championship ring is a symbol for an entire season of hard work and the ring ceremonies are reminders of how many men needed to take a team to the top. No team knows this better than the Lakers, whose <a href="http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2010/10/27/here-are-the-lakers-new-championship-rings/" target="_blank">2009-10 championship ring</a> is adorned with three carats worth of franchise history and facts. Even if you’re not a fan of the Lake Show, the rings and the melee they created at Staples Center were a sight to behold. But unless you were the lucky guy who won Ron Artest’s ring raffle, you’re probably ringless.<br />
But that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own version of NBA history. Yes, you can buy your own piece of Lakers history for <a href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/NBA-Los-Angeles-Lakers-Championship-Ring-2010-10-season-/290510917874?pt=US_Basketball_Fan_Shop&hash=item43a3ccd0f2#ht_3316wt_1141">only $8.99 on eBay</a>! Straight from China comes this ridiculous replica version of the 2009-2010 Lakers championship ring. It only comes in size 10 (sorry, ladies), but from a distance it’s not a terrible copy of the ring that RonRon let get away.<br />
Detail wise, the “diamonds” are glass and the ring itself is made of brass alloy instead of gold. There are sixteen “diamonds” around the Lakers basketball, representing the sixteen franchise titles, just like on the real thing. However, there is no 3D bust of a player on the side — replaced by some squiggly lines — and there’s no piece of the game seven ball inside the ring. But the few details that are there are statistically accurate and it won’t cost you $500,000 or a criminal charge for breaking and entering into Phil Jackson’s house. Plus, everything on the ring is spelled correctly. Bonus.<br />
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I can’t recommend wearing the ring every day as piece of jewelry, not just because jewelry on men can look awkward but because this thing is the size of a small paperweight. That being said, think of the possibilities of using it for a costume or prank piece. You could dress up as Kobe, wearing a ring on each finger, and go to a Heat game screaming <em>“I’m the champ!”</em> while smacking around fans in LeBron James jerseys. Or you could just mail one to LeBron as a belated birthday gift. We all know he doesn’t have his own yet.<br />
There are so many things to do with a fake championship ring. The options, my fellow basketball nerds, are endless. <a href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/NBA-Los-Angeles-Lakers-Championship-Ring-2010-10-season-/290510917874?pt=US_Basketball_Fan_Shop&hash=item43a3ccd0f2#ht_3316wt_1141" target="_blank">So get your own on eBay</a>. When you do, please send us a picture. Certain things are just too audacious and outlandish to keep secret.<br />
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Designers <a href="http://www.antrepo4.com/">Antrepo</a> have created conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products by stripping back the existing graphics in stages.<br />
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Called Minimalist Effect in the Maximalist Market, the experiment asks readers to choose which of the stages they prefer.<br />
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More information on <a href="http://www.a2591.com/2010/12/minimalist-effect-in-maximalist-market.html">the designers’ blog</a>.<br />
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The information that follows is from Antrepo:<br />
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Our last project is about simplicity and we try to find alternate simple version for some package samples of the international brands. We think almost every product needs some review for minimal feeling.<br />
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What is your choice in these 3 different variations?<br />
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P.S. This project is only a design practice for showing minimal feeling of some international samples. It is an article about unnecessary items on the global brands, any of them, second or third variations are not new packaging proposals!<br />
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A dose of minimalism and efforts for changing the perception is maybe the simplest definition for Antrepo Design Product.<br />
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Antrepo is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy. Also It produces a fresh design object for better tomorrow like posters, industrial object, fonts etc.<br />
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At the base of Antrepo are New formulas created by the Antrepo Team.<br />
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<hr />ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-89132907686280365892010-12-24T22:21:00.000+11:002010-12-24T22:21:58.486+11:00Citizens of China can no longer call the NBA by its name<h2 class="title"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Citizens-of-China-can-no-longer-call-the-NBA-by-?urn=nba-299974"></a></h2><div class="byline">By <span><span><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie?author=Eric+Freeman" title="View Posts By Eric Freeman">Eric Freeman</a></span></span></div><div class="bd"> <img border="0" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_nba_experts__67/ept_sports_nba_experts-628777202-1293144795.jpg?ymbbWSEDHMk8iOM7" /><br />
China is the most populous country in the world, and basketball is its most popular sport. Ergo, there are a lot of NBA fans in China, and not just because of <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3599/">Yao Ming</a>.</span> At various points in the last decade, they've also loved <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3094/">Allen Iverson</a>,</span> <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3118/">Kobe Bryant</a>,</span> and <span class="ysp-player"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3704/">LeBron James</a></span> as if they were their own.<br />
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Now, they can't refer to the best league in the world by it's real name due to the Chinese government's language purity initiatives. <a href="http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/22/5696127-china-cracks-down-on-medias-use-of-english-">Bo Gu has more on Behind the Wall</a> (via <a href="http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/23/you-can%E2%80%99t-say-%E2%80%9Cnba%E2%80%9D-in-china-anymore/">ProBasketballTalk</a>):<br />
<blockquote>As a result of practices that damage the "purity of the Chinese language," the regulator prohibited the "arbitrary" use of English words or acronyms from foreign languages mixed with Chinese. It also forbade the use of "ambiguous" words that are neither Chinese nor foreign.<br />
When words in a foreign language have to be used, the government decreed that a note or annotation in Chinese must be added. And the names of foreign people, places and science terms also have to be translated into Chinese. [...]<br />
In April, TV channels were told to ban English acronyms like NBA, which translated into Chinese in as long as 10 characters: "Mei Guo Nan Zi Zhi Ye Lan Qiu Lian Sai."</blockquote>This is obviously an unfortunate situation, and not just because the Chinese translation of NBA is laughably complicated. One of the greatest things about the contemporary NBA is that it's a truly global league featuring players from all sorts of backgrounds and nations. It's partially defined by the multiplicity of experiences that make up its member athletes and franchises. That makes the league indicative of the world as it is rather than as a few people would like it to be.<br />
The Chinese language purity movement applies to spheres that reach far beyond the NBA, but it's reason for being runs antithetical to what the NBA is currently trying to be. Even if Chinese fans call the NBA by its "pure" name, they will still be watching a league in which "purity" is an impossible ideal with no grounds in real-world experience.<br />
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If the government is devoted to this initiative, is the next step to ban the NBA entirely? I doubt that's in the offing, but that suggestion should prove just how ridiculous this plan is. The NBA, like the world, is a complicated place, created in the United States but consumed by people all over the world; its name belongs to no one language or creed. At its best, it's an amalgam of backgrounds, and it'd be a shame to deny that wonderful fact in pursuit of a foolish notion of linguistic perfection.<br />
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The <em>Herald Sun </em>has covered them all, but you can refresh your memory of an incredible year, where you can see all pictures, video and most strident opinions again, as well as everything you missed.<br />
The most popular stories on our website were not surprisingly reports about some of the best known faces in the country getting into strife, whether they were those we loved, or just love to hate.<br />
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Arguably the biggest global story of the year, was the incredible rescue of all<a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/coutdown-to-trapped-chilean-miners-great-escape/story-fn6rv4vw-1225937883843"> 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine were rescued</a> who had originally been given up for dead 66 days earlier. One by one, the miners emerged from 600m underground as a live TV audience watched with bated breath.<br />
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But the miracle of their rescue was underlined by the <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/australian-miner-william-joynson-had-bags-packed/story-e6frf7jo-1225958885425">deaths of 29 trapped miners in New Zealand’s Pike River coal mine </a>after multiple underground blasts. There was no shortage of grim news through the year, not least of which was the <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/suspected-asylum-seekers-feared-dead-after-boat-crash-off-christmas-island/story-e6frf7l6-1225971476936">shocking deaths of nearly 50 asylum seekers as they tried to land a rickety boat on Australia’s Christmas island.</a> That tragedy was dwarfed in January by a <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/catastrophe-as-earthquake-rocks-haiti/story-e6frf7lf-1225818713332">catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti killing at least 230,000</a>. Pakistan also reeled from disaster in July when <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/pakistan-floods-kill-up-to-1500-as-disease-spreads/story-e6frf7lf-1225900330905">one-fifth of the country was flooded affecting 20 million people in as crops, homes and infrastructure were wiped out</a>. And a <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/bp-spill-is-biggest-environmental-disaster-in-us-history-officials/story-e6frf7lf-1225873274236">gigantic oil spill by BP off the Gulf of Mexico in the United States</a> in April 22 is now considered the worst ever ecological disaster in the US. <br />
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The same month an airline crash in Poland sent the nation into mourning and triggered a political crisis after <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/plane-crash-kills-polish-president-lech-kaczynski-and-and-his-wife/story-e6frf7jo-1225852207018">killing President Lech Kaczynski </a>and much of the Polish leadership. But it was also a year of draws and close calls, and in an early prediction of Australia’s close-run political race, a <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/british-election-2010/story-e6frf7lf-1225863121564">hung UK Parliament </a>eventually fell to the conservatives. In Australia, political watchers witnessed the first hung Federal Parliament for generations after <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/how-they-planned-rudds-execution/story-e6frf7jo-1225884008781">Julia Gillard’s bloodless coup against Kevin Rudd</a> in June. Weeks later our first female Prime Minister’s honeymoon was over, leaving Labor forced to deal with the independents.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/world-cup-2010">FIFA World Cup is</a> now in the hands of Spain after the soccer superpower defeated the Dutch in South Africa. For many Aussie rules fanatics, there was no more dramatic moment of the year that the 2010 AFL Grand Final, and one the most dramatic draws ever seen on the sporting scene. In the gripping game, St Kilda fought raging favourite Collingwood a standstill, leaving fans and players gasping with shock at the siren and the drawn scoreboard. The <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/fans-flock-to-hte-mcg/story-e6frf9jf-1225929198990">Pies romped into history with an emphatic win at the following week’s rematch</a>, ending a 20-year Premiership drought and easing the pain of the dreaded Colliwobbles.<br />
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Global celebrities endured a rough ride of break-ups, deaths and sex scandals. And among the biggest shocks was for Sandra Bullock when she learned then-husband Jesse James had been up to no-good with the inked star "Bombshell" McGee in March, only days after the high of picking up Oscar gold.<br />
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As the year drew to a close, one of the biggest stories on the planet was about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. As the embarrassing revelations uncovered about 200,000 leaked US diplomatic cables continued to mount, furious governments called for him to be arrested or assassinated. Ironically, <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assanges-hq-the-perfect-setting-for-a-james-bond-villain/story-e6frf7lf-1225968548208">the WikiLeaks files are stored on servers in a Swedish cold war nuclear bunker </a>30m underground.ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-77442210436733101962010-12-17T11:40:00.000+11:002010-12-17T11:40:32.748+11:002010 in photos - The Big Picture - Boston.com<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html">2010 in photos (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html">2010 in photos (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html">2010 in photos (part 3 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com</a>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-91681267994967314692010-12-08T18:42:00.000+11:002010-12-08T18:42:02.515+11:00Top 10 Dunks: November in NBA<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-T3qzaln01M?fs=1" width="480" frameborder="0" height="295"></iframe>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-10489075865720365752010-12-04T16:36:00.001+11:002010-12-04T16:36:56.450+11:00What Planners mean when they say . . .<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-AU</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>ZH-CN</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;">What the Planners say</h3></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;">What the Planners mean</h3></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;">What the Developer hears / understands</h3></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“I like it.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I like it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">They like it.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Well done!”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Well done!</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We’re done!<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“I wish more projects had this feel.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>“I wish more projects had this feel.”</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">They like it so much maybe they’ll give us more.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Lets review this”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I don’t like it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">It’s taken their breath away!<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Does this meet the regulations?”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Can we kill it through technicalities?</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We’re OK, it meets the regulations...I think<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Well...?”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">We don’t like it, do we?</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">They have some minor questions.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“What do you think?”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">You don’t like it either, do you?</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We’re in trouble, they’re thinking.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“I have some concerns.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I don’t like it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Well, Planners are only one vote!<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“It’s... too...”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I don’t think I could ever like it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Maybe we overdid the gargoyles.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Is the applicant here?”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Can we talk, or do we have to be diplomatic?</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">No! After spending all of this energy, to say nothing or a King’s ransom in fees, the applicant has decided to go to the racetrack where the odds are better.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Have you tried...?”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This doesn’t work.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">There’s not enough in the budget to do it once, let alone twice.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Let’s look at the landscape plan.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Maybe we can just hide it.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">There goes the landscape budget!<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“That’s an...‘ interesting’ approach.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What planet did this come from?</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">They like it.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Lets get other staff involved.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Maybe the other staff can tell you what we’ve been unable to communicate.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Who do they think got us into this mess? There goes another month.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“It’s too...er...googie.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There’s no way I can teach them what’s good design, so I’ll get technical.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">He doesn’t like the gargoyles.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">“Yes, we’ve heard the argument that planners breed design mediocrity.”<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 33%;" valign="top" width="33%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">We’d be happy if this was even mediocre.</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> <td style="border: 1pt inset blue; padding: 1.2pt; width: 34%;" valign="top" width="34%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">They know we’re going to blame this “camel” on them.<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div></td> </tr>
</tbody></table>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-53519121587136161052010-11-23T09:23:00.000+11:002010-11-23T09:23:44.932+11:00Top 10 Urban Planning Books of the Year for 2011 | Planetizen<a href="http://www.planetizen.com/node/46975">Top 10 Urban Planning Books of the Year for 2011 | Planetizen</a>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-8511515445638736292010-11-17T17:51:00.000+11:002010-11-17T17:52:10.657+11:00Planning Jokes<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whose Profession Came First?</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">A Doctor, a Engineer, and a Planner are going out golfing. They are trying to decide whose profession came first.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The Doctor says, "My profession came first because when God removed Adam's rib he performed surgery."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The Engineer then says, "No, no, no. When the earth was dark and void God created light. That was engineering."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The Planner says, "You're both wrong."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The doctor and engineer reply, "Oh yeah? What makes you think yours came first?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The Planner replies, "Who do you think decided to grant the planning permission for the light?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;"><br />
</span></div><h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Who is the greatest?</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A judge, a bishop, and a Planner were having a discussion. All three were rather vain , and their talk soon turned to the question of which of them was the greatest.<br />
"Well," said the judge, "my position is one of dignity and power. When I walk into the courtroom, the bailiff says 'All rise!' and all the people stand to pay me honour."<br />
"That's very nice," said the bishop. "People stand in your honour; but when people have an audience with me they kneel, kiss my ring, and they address me as 'Your Eminence.'"<br />
The Planner snorted and said, "I think I got you both beat; when I walk into any room as a consultant, the people look down, put their hands over their eyes, and say 'Oh, my God!'"</div><h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></u></h3><h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Three Professionals</span></u></h3><h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Three professionals were in the bathroom standing at the urinals. The first, an architect finished and walked over to the sink to wash his hands. He then proceeded to dry his hands very carefully. He used paper towel after paper towel and ensured that every single spot of water on his hands was dried. Turning to the other two, he said, "As Architects, we are trained to be extremely thorough."</span></h3><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The second, an engineer finished his task at the urinal and he proceeded to wash his hands. He used a single paper towel and made sure that he dried his hands using every available portion of the paper towel. He turned and said, "Engineers, are not only are we trained to be extremely thorough, but we are also trained to be extremely efficient."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner finished and walked straight for the door, shouting over his shoulder, "In the Planning Department, we don't pee on our hands."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Planning students learn about engineers!</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Three Planning students were gathered together discussing the planning of the human body.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">One said, "It must have been a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has lots of electrical connections."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The last said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u>Talking Frog</u></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A young planning graduate happens across a frog in the road. The frog pipes up, "I'm really a beautiful princess and if you kiss me, I'll hang out with you for a week". The planner shrugs his shoulders, bends down and puts the frog in his pocket. </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A few minutes later, the frog says "OK, OK, if you kiss me, I'll be your girlfriend for a week". The planner nods and puts the frog back in his pocket. </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A few minutes later, "Turn me back into a princess and I'll be your girlfriend for a whole year!". The planner smiles and walks on. </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Finally, the frog says, "What's wrong with you? I've promised lots of fun with a beautiful princess for a whole year and you won't even kiss a frog?" </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"I'm a planner," he replies. "I don't have time for girls.... But a talking frog is pretty neat."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Measurement Techniques</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A mathematician, a physicist and an Planner are each given 50 pounds (do the Euro conversion yourself) to measure the height of a building.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The mathematician buys a ruler and a sextant, and by determining the angle subtended by the building a certain distance away from the base, he establishes the height of the building.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The physicist buys a heavy ball and a stopwatch, climbs to the top of the building and drops the ball. By measuring the time it takes to hit the bottom, he establishes the height of the building.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner puts forty pounds into his pocket. By slipping the doorman the other ten, he establishes the height of the building and heads for the happy hour in the nearest pub.</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Five surgeons discuss which is the best type of patient</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The first surgeon says,<br />
"I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered." </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The second responds,<br />
"Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour coded." </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The third surgeon says,<br />
"No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order." </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The fourth surgeon chimes in,<br />
"You know, I like building workers ... those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would." </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed,<br />
"You're all wrong. Planners are the easiest to operate on. There are no guts, no heart, and no spine, and the head and ass are interchangeable." </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Chief Planner, two Deputy Chief Planners in a city Planning Department were walking through a park on their way to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out in a puff of smoke. The Genie says, "I usually only grant three wishes, so I'll give each of you just one."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Me first! Me first!" says the first Deputy Planner. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Poof! He's gone.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Me next! Me next!" says second Deputy Planner. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of pina coladas and the love of my life."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Poof! She's gone (yes, there are women Planners too!)</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"You're next," the Genie says to the Chief Planner. The Chief Planner says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Hard working Planners 2</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">An Architect, an Artist, and an Planner were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there. The Planner said, "I like both."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Both?" asked the Architect and Artist in unison.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner replied, "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume that you are spending time with the other woman, so you can go to the office and get some work done."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Planners' fees</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Man goes goes to <span lang="EN-GB">Planning Consultant</span> for help.<br />
Man: What's your least expensive fee?<br />
<span lang="EN-GB">Planning Consultant</span> : 80 euros for three questions.<br />
Man: That's pretty expensive, innit?<br />
<span lang="EN-GB">Planning Consultant</span> : Yep. So what's your third question?</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Planners and Developers</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">In a recent WHO study, doctors who were conducting studies on test drugs administered weekly doses of VIAGRA to an equal number of Planners and Developers.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">While the majority of the Planners achieved enhanced sexual prowess, the Developers simply grew taller.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The researchers are at a loss to explain.</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">The first job interview</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Department person asked the young Planner, fresh out of University, "And what starting salary were you looking for?"</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner replied, "In the neighbourhood of £35,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The HR person said, "Well, what would you say to a package of eight weeks of holidays, fourteen paid holidays, full medical and dental, non-contributory retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a complimentary car leased every 2 years - say, a red Honda Accord?"</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you joking?"</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">And, the Human Resources person said, "Of course, but you started it."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Another job interview</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">An Engineer, a physicist, <span lang="EN-GB">an economist </span>and a Planner were being interviewed for a position as chief executive officer of a large Local Authority. The Engineer was interviewed first, and was asked a long list of questions, ending with: "How much is two plus two?" The Engineer excused himself, and made a series of measurements and calculations before returning to the boardroom and announcing, "Four."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The physicist was next interviewed, and was asked the same questions. Before answering the last question, he excused himself, made for the library, and did a great deal of research. After a consultation with the European Standards Authority and many calculations, he also announced, "Four."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Then the interviewer<span lang="EN-GB">s</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">then </span>call in the economist and ask the same question: "What do two plus two equal?" The economist says: "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Planner was interviewed last, and was asked the same questions. At the end of his interview, before answering the last question, he drew all the shades in the room, looked outside the door to see if anyone was there, checked the telephone for listening devices, and asked, "How much do you want it to be?"</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">A very different job interview</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The European Space Agency was interviewing professionals they were figuring on sending to Mars. The touchy part was that only one person could go and it would be a one way trip, so the person selected would never return to Earth.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The interviewer asked the first applicant, an engineer, how much he wanted to be paid for going. "One million euros", the engineer answered. "And I want to donate it all to my alma mater -- The Engineering School."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The next applicant was a doctor, and the interviewer asked him the same question. "Two millions euros," the doctor said. "I want to give a million to my family and leave the other million for the advancement of medical research."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The last applicant was a Planner. When asked how much money he wanted, he whispered in the interviewer's ear, "Three million euros."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Why so much more than the others?" the interviewer asked. The Planner replied, "You give me three million, I'll give you one million, I'll keep a million, and we'll send the engineer."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">More about Student Planners</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">One afternoon, a Planning student was riding across campus on a shiny new bike. He ran into a friend of his, also a Planning Student, who said, "Wow! That sure is a great bike. Where did you get it?"</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Well, the darndest thing happened," said the first Planning student. "A girl came riding up to me and got off the bike, threw off all her clothes, and said that I could have anything that I wanted."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">"Wow," remarked his friend. "That's great. Good move. Her clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Planners investigate</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">It had come to the attention of the Planning Department that there was a small town in the region where the birth rate was unusually high and there was a need for a lot of crèches, schools, etc. The Chief Planner decided that the phenomenon had to be investigated. A proposal was formulated for a special study. This was sent to Brussels to get a special E.U. funding grant. A very large heap of money was allocated, and a special project task force was set up. The project team rented a large suite of offices in the town and acquired the latest expensive computer and other equipment. On the first day of operation the project leader decided to have a break, and went to a near-by coffee shop for refreshment. There he explained to a waiter what the project team were up to. "You wouldn't know why the birth rate is high in this town" he said. The waiter replied that there was a train station in the middle of the town, and that every morning at about five-o-clock the first train came through blowing its whistle wakening everyone up. "Well at that time, its to late to back to sleep again, and too early to get up . . .!"</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Doggy Planner</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">This Mafia Godfather, accompanied by his planning consultant, walks into a room to meet with his former accountant.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Godfather asks the accountant, "Where's the 3 million bucks you embezzled from me?" The accountant does not answer.<br />
The Godfather asks again, "Where's the 3 friggin' million friggin' bucks you embezzled from me?"<br />
The planner interrupts, "Sir, the man is a deaf mute and cannot understand you, but I can interpret for you."<br />
The Godfather says, "Well ask him where my damn money is!" <br />
The planner, using sign language, asks the accountant where the 3 million dollars is.<br />
The accountant signs back, "I don't know what ye are talking about."<br />
The planner interprets to the Godfather, "He doesn't know what you are talking about."<br />
The Godfather pulls out a 9 millimetre pistol, puts it to the temple of the accountant, cocks the trigger and says, "Ask him again where my damn money is!"<br />
The planner signs to the accountant, "He wants to know where it is!"<br />
The accountant signs back, "OK! OK! OK! The money is hidden in a brown suitcase behind the shed in my back yard!"<br />
The Godfather says, "Well....what did he say?"<br />
The planner interprets to the Godfather, "He says... 'go to hell, you don't have the guts to pull the trigger'."</div><h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><u><br />
</u></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;">Riddle me this</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 125%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Q: What is the difference between a Planner and a toilet?<br />
A: The toilet only has to deal with one asshole at a time.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Q: How many Planners does it take to change a light bulb?<br />
A1: None. They are all too busy trying to plan the perfect light bulb.<br />
A2: Only the one with the approved plan<br />
A3: None. "According to the plan, the problem doesn't exist."<br />
A4: Two. One to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure.<br />
A5: None, but it takes 15 to prepare the plan for coping in the dark.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u>"The Cannibal Planners"(warning, this one's reeeeeally bad)</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Five cannibal planners are appointed as assistant planners in a Dublin Planning Consultancy (no names). During the welcoming ceremony, the boss says: "Right mateys, you're all part of our team now. You can earn good money here, and you can go to the staff canteen for something to eat. But whatever you do, don't trouble the other employees." Fair enough, say the cannibals, and they promise not to trouble the other staff.<br />
Four weeks later, the boss returns and says: "You're all working very hard, and I'm very satisfied with all of you. Great stuff, lads. But one of our cleaners has disappeared. Does any of you know what happened to her?"<br />
The cannibals deny all knowledge of the missing cleaner. After the boss has left, the leader of the cannibal planners says to the others: "Right, which one of you eejits ate the cleaning lady?"<br />
A hand raises hesitantly, to which the leader of the cannibals says: "Jimmy [for that is his name], ye feckin' fool! For four weeks we've been eating Team Leaders, Task Leaders, Engineering Consultants and Project Managers so no one would notice anything, and you have to go and eat Mrs O'Brien."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u>The </u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB">P</span>hysicist, a </u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB">C</span>hemist and a Planner</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A physicist, a chemist and a consultant are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. Suddenly a tin of delicious Campbells Condensed Chicken Soup washes ashore. So the physicist does a quick mental calculation and says: "Let's smash the tin open with a rock." The chemist scribbles a few notes and after a minute says: "No, no, let's build a fire and heat the tin up first." The <span lang="EN-GB">planner</span> looks up from his spreadsheet of figures and says: "OK, all things being equal, let's assume for a start that we have a tin opener..."</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u>The Smartest Hunting Dog</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">A doctor, an engineer, and a <span lang="EN-GB">planner</span> go out hunting in the <span lang="EN-GB">forest </span>one day. Each of them brings along his hunting dog, and they spend most of the morning arguing about which of the dogs is the smartest. Early in the afternoon, they discover a clearing in the forest. In the middle of the clearing is a large pile of animal bones.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Seeing the bones, the doctor turns to the others and says, "I'm going to prove to you two that my dog is the smartest. Watch this!" He then calls his dog over and says, "Bones! See the bones? Go get 'em!" The dog rushes over to the pile, rummages around for a bit, and then proceeds to build a replica of <span lang="EN-GB">a deer</span> skeleton, perfect down to the last detail. The doctor grins smugly; after all, his dog has just built a <span lang="EN-GB">deer</span> skeleton from<span lang="EN-GB"> the pile of </span>animal bones.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The engineer, however, is totally unimpressed. "That's nothing," he says. "Watch this." He calls his dog over, and points out the pile. "Bones! Get the bones!" The dog rushes over, tears down the skeleton, and in its place builds a perfect replica of the Eiffel Tower. <span lang="EN-GB"> </span>It even has a little French flag waving at the top. The doctor is forced to agree that the engineer's dog is, in fact, smarter than his own.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The <span lang="EN-GB">planner</span>, however, is still not impressed. "My dog is smarter," he says. "Watch." He then calls his dog over, points to the pile, and says simply, "Bones." The dog rushes over to the pile, tears down the tower, eats half the bones, buries the other half, and takes the rest of the afternoon off.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b><u>Another Planner with a smart dog</u></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Five men were bragging about how smart their dogs were. One was an engineer, the second man was an Accountant, the third<br />
man as a Chemist, the fourth was a Computer Tech and the fifth was a Government Planner. </div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">To show off, the Engineer called to his dog, "T-Square, do your stuff". T-Square trotted over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen and promptly drew a circle, a square and a triangle. Everyone agreed that it was pretty incredible. But the Accountant said that his dog could do better. He called to his dog and commanded, "Spreadsheet, do your stuff". Spreadsheet went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen biscuits. He divided them into four equal piles of three biscuits each. Everyone agreed that that was good. But the Chemist said his dog could do better. He called to his dog and said, "Measure, do your stuff". Measure got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a litre of milk, got a pint glass from the cupboard and poured exactly a pint without spilling a drop. Everyone agreed that it was more than a little impressive. The Computer Tech knew that he could top them all. "Hard Drive, do it". Hard Drive crossed the room and booted up the computer, checked for viruses, upgraded the operating system, sent an e-mail and installed a cool new game. Everyone knew that it was a tough act to follow.</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Then the four men turned to the Government Planner and said, "What can your dog do?" The Planner called to his dog and said, "Coffee Break, do your stuff boy". Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the biscuits, drank the milk, erased all of the files on the computer, sexually assaulted the other four dogs, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for workers compensation and went home for a six month sick leave.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Planning Consultant</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road in the Wicklow Mountains. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Suddenly a brand-new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie gets out and asks the shepherd; "If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?" </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the large flock of sheep grazing on the hillside and replies, "Okay." </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a EU Commission Website, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms and pivot tables. He then prints out a 150-page report on his high-tech mini-printer, turns to the shepherd and says; "You have exactly 1,586 sheep.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The shepherd smiles, "That's correct, you can have your sheep." </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The young man takes an animal. He puts it in the back of his Porsche. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The shepherd looks at him and asks, "If I guess your profession, will you return my animal to me?" </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The young man answers, "Yes, why not?" </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The shepherd says, "You are a <b><i>Planning Consultant</i></b>." </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"How did you know?" asks the young man. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Very simple," answers the shepherd. "Firstly, you came here without being wanted. Secondly, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew, and thirdly, you don't understand anything about my business... <br />
.....now may I have my dog back?"</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Seasonal Offering</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Consider the following:</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) You never actually see Santa, only his "assistants".<br />
2) Santa keeps his job until he decides to retire.<br />
3) Santa doesn't really do the work; he directs a bunch of helpers to do all his work for him, but he's the one who everybody credits with the work.<br />
4) Most grown-ups think he doesn't exist.<br />
5) Santa doesn't work anywhere near a 40-hour week.<br />
6) Santa travels a lot.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yup, exactly, elementary dear Watson: Santa is obviously a Director of Planning.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A hypothetical train or tram-line that cuts across (rather than reinforces) Melbourne’s largely radial inner metropolitan public transport system to form the beginnings of a grid.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
A crossing point for intensification and transformation was selected as a new precinct, and multi-modal and multi-directional transport exchange within metropolitan Melbourne. The project will explore the various dimensions of designing such a precinct as a center of connection and generator of activity. </span>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-80849788536159213212010-11-09T18:05:00.000+11:002010-11-09T18:05:27.036+11:00Frank Gehry and the Simpsons<a href="http://blog.miragestudio7.com/frank-gehry-and-the-simpsons/113/">Frank Gehry and the Simpsons</a>ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-1872682387018566262010-10-22T22:22:00.000+11:002010-10-23T17:11:01.088+11:002010-2011 NBA Season PredictionsMVP- Kevin Durant<br />
DPOY- Dwight Howard<br />
ROY- John Wall<br />
Sixth Man Of The Year - Ben Gordon<br />
Coach Of The Year - John Kuester <br />
GM Of The Year - Daryl Morey <br />
Most Improve Player - Arron Afflalo<a href="http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=3187"></a><br />
<br />
All NBA First Team<br />
Chris Paul<br />
Kobe Bryant<br />
Kevin Durant<br />
Leborn James<br />
Dwight Howard<br />
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All NBA Second Team<br />
Deron Williams<br />
Dwyane Wade<br />
<span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"></span><br />
Carmelo Anthony<br />
Dirk Nowitzki<br />
Amar'e Stoudemire<br />
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NBA All Defensive First Team<br />
Rajon Rondo<br />
Kobe Bryant<br />
Shane Battier <br />
LeBron James <br />
Dwight Howard<br />
<br />
All NBA Rookie First Team<br />
John Wall<br />
Jordan Crawford<br />
Evan Turner<br />
<span class="vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>Wesley Johnson<br />
<span class="vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>DeMarcus Cousins<br />
<span class="vcard"></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeMarcus_Cousins" title="DeMarcus
Cousins"></a><br />
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Atlantic Division:<br />
1. Boston Celtics<br />
2. New Jersey Nets<br />
3. Philadelphia<br />
4. New York Knicks<br />
5. Toronto Raptors<br />
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Central Division:<br />
1. Detroit Pistons<br />
2. Chicago Bulls <br />
3. Milwaukee Bucks <br />
4. Indiana Pacers<br />
5. Cleveland Cavaliers <br />
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Southeas Division:<br />
1. Miami Heat<br />
2. Orlando Magic <br />
3. Atlanta Hawks<br />
4. Washington Wizards <br />
5. Charlotte Bobcats<br />
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Southwest Division:<br />
1. Dallas Mavericks <br />
2. Houston Rockets <br />
3. San Antonio Spurs<br />
4. Memphis Grizzlies <br />
5. New Orleans Hornets <br />
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Northwest Division:<br />
1. Oklahoma City Thunder <br />
2. Denver Nuggets<br />
3. Utah Jazz<br />
4. Portland Trail-Blazers<br />
5. Minnesota Timberwolves<br />
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Pacific Division:<br />
1. Los Angeles Lakers <br />
2. Phoenix Suns <br />
3. Sacramento Kings <br />
4. Los Angeles Clippers<br />
5. Golden State Warriors<br />
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East Conference Final - Miami Heat VS Boston Celtics <br />
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West Conference Final - Los Angeles Lakers VS Houston Rockets <br />
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NBA Finals - Houston Rockets VS Miami Heat<br />
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Winner - Miami Heatochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-77038784032756745462010-09-29T20:54:00.000+10:002010-09-29T20:54:17.024+10:00My top 10 urban planning/design thinker1. Jane Jacobs <br />
2. Andrés Duany<br />
3. Kevin A. Lynch<br />
4. Jan Gehl<br />
5. Rem Koolhaas<br />
6. William H. Whyte<br />
7. Ebenezer Howard<br />
8. Léon Krier<br />
9. Camillo Sitte<br />
10.Lewis Mumfordochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-19410272802621808162010-09-21T22:31:00.001+10:002010-09-21T22:31:46.291+10:00Four Freedoms“In the future days,….we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression–everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way–everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want–which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants–everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear–which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor–anywhere in the world.”<br />
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---- Franklin D. Rooseveltochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-871341762286364072010-09-18T19:17:00.000+10:002010-09-18T19:18:44.812+10:00From NIMBYs to DUDEs: The Wacky World of PlanneresePlanning Glossary<br />
BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything<br />
CAVEmen: Citizens Against Virtually Everything<br />
CEQA: Consultants Employment Quality Act [California Environmental Quality Act]<br />
DBTD/DBTN: Two common vaccines used by planners to “fix” a project they don’t like. DBTD is technically Death By a Thousand Days and DBTN is Death By a Thousand Nicks [also known as the BED Principle—“Bleed ‘em Dry”]<br />
Disneyfication: Architectural fad on a community scale.<br />
Doczilla: Any technical report that should be caged rather than shelved.<br />
DUDE: Developer Under Delusions of Entitlement<br />
Fauxburb: Modern suburb replicating post WWII suburbs with eclectic architecture.<br />
PowerPoint Poisoning: Nauseous state of mind and body induced by viewing “professional” presentations.<br />
Sense of Immunity: Mistaken belief that land use regulation does not apply for a particular neighborhood or site.<br />
SLAPP: Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation<br />
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Additional Terms<br />
Spinoffs of NIMBY:<br />
BANYs Builders Against NIMBYs [Not In My Backyard Activists]<br />
GOAH Gedoudaheah<br />
GOOMBA Get out of my business area<br />
GUMBY Gaze upon my backyard [Opponents of residential walls and fences]<br />
KIIMBY Keep it in my backyard<br />
NIABY Not in anyone’s backyard<br />
NIMD Not in my district<br />
NIMEY Not in my election year<br />
NIMFOS Not in my field of sight<br />
NIMFYE Not in my front yard either<br />
NIMTOO Not in my term of office<br />
NITL Not in this lifetime<br />
NOPE Not on planet earth<br />
NORF No observable redeeming features<br />
NOT None of that<br />
NOTE Not over there either<br />
NUMBY Not under my backyard<br />
PIITBY Put it in their backyard<br />
QUIMBY Quit urbanizing in my backyard<br />
WIIFM What’s in it for me?<br />
YIMBY Yes in my backyard<br />
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Repetitive, monotonous design of buildings and places:<br />
Anyplace syndrome: No ‘sense of place’<br />
B4 and after: Big, bland, beige box…still. Less than inspiring architecture even with extensive landscaping.<br />
Comprehensive Flan: The relatively bland, custard-like filling in many Comprehensive Plans.<br />
Custard development: Bland clustered development.<br />
Déjàvenue: An impression of having seen or experienced the same street before.<br />
Gagplanistan: A place of massively meaningless planning.<br />
Generica: The stores and strip malls you can see in any town in America.<br />
McPlace: Standardized “sense of place.”<br />
Nullibiety: State of being nowhere.<br />
Pablumia: A universal name for urban communities whose ambiances of uniqueness and regional flavor have been eradicated in favor of cookie cutter chain retail stores, restaurants, background music, entertainment and interchangeable local residents all dressed as Americans. The word is from the baby food, Pablum, which has a bland consistency and is completely tasteless.<br />
Placebo: A place that has the appearance, but none of the value of a real place.<br />
Oatmeal Architecture: Contemporary bland, beige, stucco architecture.<br />
Ranchburger: A one-story generic southwestern tract house.<br />
Replaceable places: The same drive-ins, prefab motels, offices, and salesrooms on every road and corner.<br />
Second Street: Average, lackluster or normal. Stemming from the fact that Second Street is the most common name in the United States.<br />
Taupeville: A neighborhood that requires buildings to be all neutral colors, usually beige and taupe. Generic, non-descript, lacking in personality and boring. ‘Over the taupe’ implies something more creative or excessive.<br />
Terrorforming: Extremely bad urban designing. The opposite of “terraform:” to change a planet’s surface and atmosphere so that life as it exists on Earth is possible.<br />
Urban fabric softener: Generic zoning that smoothes out the distinctions between areas.<br />
Vanilla: An adjective for a bland or boring design or plan. <br />
Suburbia: <br />
Betty Crocker Suburb: A suburb without child care facilities.<br />
Blurb: Indistinguishable suburban neighborhoods.<br />
Peter Pan Suburb: Suburb designed without consideration for the elderly.<br />
Sitcom Suburb: Neighborhoods of traditional Cape Cod or colonial houses with neat front lawns.<br />
Suburbidity: A thick, hazy condition of sense of place.<br />
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Practitioners:<br />
Blandscape architect: Minimalist landscaper.<br />
Bungalow Bill: Tract house architect.<br />
CAVEman: Citizen against virtually everything.<br />
Designosaur: Designer with an enormous impact.<br />
DUDE: Developer under delusions of entitlement.<br />
Hippodamist: A city planner [from Hippodamus, a fifth-century Greek architect, who planned the first city].<br />
Inferior desecrator: Interior designer.<br />
Landscraper: Landscape architect.<br />
Meisterplanner: An artistic or epic planner.<br />
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Sense of place:<br />
Scents of place: The odors, smells, aromas, and fragrances associated with a place. The most powerful of the senses is also the most overlooked in planning.<br />
Sense of entry: The front door is big and far away.<br />
Sense of immunity: Mistaken belief that land use regulation does not apply for a particular neighborhood or site.ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-5545761352595403412010-09-16T14:28:00.000+10:002010-09-16T14:28:22.468+10:00Fortress Australia: Ground Hog Day<div style="color: #555555; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 140%;"> <span>Posted:</span> 11 Sep 2010 10:12 PM PDT From <em>Ross Elliott</em></div>A decade ago, politics in Australia lurched to embrace all things rural, happily demonizing urban interests. This happened in response to a renegade Politician – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson" onclick="onClickUnsafeLink(event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pauline Hanson</a> – who for a time captured public sympathy with populist anti-immigration sentiments, threatening to unseat entire governments in the process. <br />
Now the result of the recent National Election in Australia has seen not only the return of anti immigration sentiments, but the ascendency of anti-growth statements in mainstream politics. For a large country with only 24 million people, it’s a dangerous development.<br />
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Two things are shaping in the aftermath of the 2010 Federal Election as portents of things to come for our economic future. One is the rise of an increasingly orthodox view that Australia at 24 million people is reaching its maximum sustainable population. The second is toward appeasing the agrarian socialism and social conservatism of rural politics. Together, this could mean we are about to usher in an era of low growth, high protection policies. Fortress Australia could easily become a reality no matter which side ultimately claims the keys to the Government benches.<br />
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Prior to the recent Federal Election (August 2010) both major political parties have become shy of the country’s long term population growth patterns. In September 2009, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan released some early findings of the <a href="http://www.treasury.gov.au/igr/igr2010" onclick="onClickUnsafeLink(event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intergenerational Report</a>, which predicted Australia could reach 35 million by 2050. Although this rate of growth was pretty much the same as the preceding 40 years, the figure was greeted with alarm by media, the community, and much of the political herd. ‘Australia Explodes’ went the headlines and the lemmings followed over an ideological cliff. (See <a href="http://thefingeronthepulse.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html" onclick="onClickUnsafeLink(event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this blog post</a> from a year ago). <br />
A month later, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was proclaiming that he believed in ‘a big Australia’ but by mid 2010 his later nemesis Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was proclaiming she ‘did not believe in a big Australia.’ Gillard replaced Rudd in a Labor Party coup, and then as Prime Minister declared we shouldn’t ‘hurtle’ toward 36 million but instead plan for a ‘sustainable’ population, renaming the recently created portfolio of ‘Population Minister’ the ‘Sustainable Population Minister’ in the process. The word ‘sustainable’ in this context stands for ‘slow down or stop.’<br />
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Then came the election campaign with Opposition Leader Tony Abbot promising to ‘slash’ the ‘unsustainable’ immigration numbers (that his mentor John Howard had been responsible for as conservative Prime Minister for over a decade) and to ‘turn back the boats’ of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, mainly from south east Asia or Afghanistan. Population growth was to be cut to 1.4% (a long term trend anyway) and migrants potentially forced to settle in rural areas (some dodgy form of zipcode migration policy).<br />
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The message from both political leaders was clear: support for a ‘big Australia’ (35 million population by 2050 or the same rate of growth we’d seen in the last 40 years) was gone. <br />
Add to that the quixotic Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith and his population TV documentary ‘<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/populationpuzzle" onclick="onClickUnsafeLink(event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Population Puzzle</a>’ where he alleged Australia was at risk of running out of food, out of space and out of control, comparing us (oddly) with places like tiny Bangladesh (population 160 million). Smith might be mad but you can’t discount the impact he has on Australian popular opinion. People believe him, politicians included.<br />
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Could it get any worse for the prospects of maintaining even modest levels of population growth in Australia? The last election outcome means the answer is yes. The balance of power in the Senate of the Australian Parliament will now be controlled by ‘The Greens’ (a left wing environmental party). The Greens’ view on population growth is clear: they don’t support it (unless oddly if you’ve arrived illegally, by boat). "This population boom is not economic wisdom, it is a recipe for planetary exhaustion and great human tragedy” said Greens leader Bob Brown when the Intergenerational Report was released last year.<br />
In the House of Representatives, the balance of power is now held by a handful of independents, representing rural seats. Socially conservative but economically protectionist, the independents’ views on population suggest they would lean toward the Abbot view: turn back the boats, and slow the overall rate of growth. They are quite likely to also push for a redistribution of economic riches to a range of projects for rural and regional areas. The irony that the election result hinged on big swings in urban seats but that a handful of rural independents are now trying to call the shots shouldn’t be lost on anyone.<br />
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Joining the growing chorus of slow or no growth chants is municipal government. The Local Government Association of Queensland’s annual conference this year talked of limits on population growth unless bountiful riches are showered on local governments to cope with ‘unsustainable’ rates of growth. Association President Paul Bell says “councils cannot let population growth exceed infrastructure needs.”<br />
"Where we find water supplies no longer match the size of the community, where we find roads are congested, where we're seeing other infrastructure whether it be health or education are falling behind," he said, population growth was by implication to blame.<br />
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The bottom line? Population growth is now a dirty word in politics and for any business which relies on growth for its prosperity, this is not good news. Everything from airports to property to construction to farming to retailers, manufacturers and tourism will be affected by slowing growth. <br />
Even social services could suffer if growth is deliberately slowed. Why? Because in 50 years time, without migration or natural growth, the ageing bubble of post-war baby boomers may mean there are two working adults for every five retired. You wouldn’t want to be one of those two and paying their tax bill in 50 years’ time or dependent on the kindness of those workers.<br />
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How has this come about? The answer is simple: growth itself has never been the problem. Instead, it’s been a notoriously inefficient planning approach which has misdirected precious infrastructure spending, pushed up housing prices through artificial restraint on supply combined with usurious upfront levies, which now <em>average</em> $50,000 per dwelling in Queensland (often more) and considerably more in NSW. <br />
In the last decade, can anyone honestly claim that our planning schemes are now more efficient and quicker, or more easily understood, or better targeted, than a decade ago? I doubt it.<br />
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Would it be too much to ask for a sensible, evidence-based approach that ties population growth to urban and regional strategies, which emphasises economic progress while maintaining lifestyle and environmental standards? How about some decent plans to link regional urban centres to major cities, based not on pork barrels to influential independents but based only on the business case and community mutual benefit? Or how about putting the ‘growth’ back into smart growth, with policies that allow our urban areas to expand in line with demand matched to infrastructure spending, rather than policy dogma?<br />
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Those same questions were being asked a decade ago. Welcome to ground hog day.ochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025881705957602651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511983703138642763.post-10498593938754084842010-09-06T19:00:00.000+10:002010-09-06T19:00:49.240+10:00Australia 2010 unstable politics<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-AU</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>ZH-CN</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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On 24 June prime minister of Australia was dumped before facing the voters a second time. This was the first time ever for such an early exit. Then the election on 22 August produced a “hung parliament”, an outcome not seen since the 1940s. Having fallen short of enough seats to form government, the major parties are scrambling for the support of four independents and one Green in the House of Representatives.<br />
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So why did the Labor government, elected in 2007, fall apart? There was certainly a lack of governing experience after eleven years in opposition. But in a broader sense, the political class is struggling to cope with Australia’s increasingly regionalised economy, and the divergent sources of its new-found prosperity. <o:p></o:p><br />
The booming commodities export sector, dominated by mining, is concentrated in the northern and western states of Queensland and Western Australia, which account for 74 per cent of onshore mining production. By 2007, there was a widespread view that the benefits of the resources boom were not being distributed fairly. The service sector professionals of the south-east, especially in the public sector who dominate the national media, began to shift to Labor as did outer suburban workers, who saw the dream of home ownership slipping beyond their reach. Forced to compete for investment in the open economy, south-eastern state governments, controlled by Labor, were constrained to keep taxes low. An ever larger proportion of their budgets was channelled into health and education services, partly due to close links with powerful public sector unions. There was little left to pay for urban infrastructure on the booming fringes.<br />
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At the 2007 election, Labor leader Kevin Rudd claimed to have the solutions. Paying lip service to Howard’s fiscal conservatism, he signalled plans to divert mining boom proceeds towards infrastructure and services, including a new deal on health funding and an “education revolution“. Much of this was wrapped up in the rhetoric of climate change, talked up by Rudd as “the greatest moral challenge of our time”. His environmental centrepiece was an Emissions Trading Scheme (cap and trade), a massive revenue raising device for the federal government. In essence it was a mechanism for transferring wealth from the mining states, and their fossil-fuelled economies, to the populous south-east.<br />
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Rudd’s electoral success, and apparent public support for climate action, drove the agenda forward until the crash at Copenhagen. This precipitated a revolt in the opposition Coalition, which replaced ETS supporter Malcolm Turnbull with climate-sceptic Tony Abbott. When Abbott labelled the ETS “a great big new tax on everything“, and blocked its passage in the Senate, public interest in the scheme melted away, particularly in the mining regions. Rudd lost his nerve and shelved it until 2012. For many Australians, he was exposed as a weak leader without the courage of his convictions.<br />
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Rudd refused to give up his dream of redistribution though, turning to Plan B. Having commissioned a review of Australia’s taxation system, he announced a Resource Super Profits Tax, a complex device confiscating up to 40 per cent of mining profits above a threshold. Adopted without consulting the resources industry, it attracted furious opposition from the global mining companies, which launched a powerful advertising campaign against it. Opposition leader Abbott labelled the measure ”a great big new tax on mining”. Opinion polls showed strong opposition to the tax in mining states, and mild support in the south-east. Rudd’s poll ratings fell through the floor. He was soon deposed by his Labor Party colleagues.<br />
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Julia Gillard, the new prime minister, substantially modified the proposal after negotiations with the large miners, but smaller operators remained opposed, along with most of Queensland and Western Australia. Gillard quickly called an election to capitalise on her status as the country’s first female leader. But the legacy of Rudd’s undelivered promises shaped the outcome.<br />
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Well over half of Labor’s lost votes moved left to the Greens, who more than doubled their share of the vote, rather than right to the Coalition. Increasing numbers of south-eastern professionals consider the Greens their preferred agent of redistribution. Handing the Greens the balance of power in the Senate, and possibly the House of Representatives (only one seat this time), may prove a better strategy than sticking with a fractured Labor Party. Inevitably though, regional and outer-suburban voters, with their divergent priorities, will react to a green-dominated agenda, which tends to dismiss suburban interests. Over time, and perhaps after the next election, this may mean a shift back to the right and a clear Coalition victory. <o:p></o:p><br />
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