Feedback from IDAT101 Presentation

The overall feedback was quite good. I think once we managed to get across the general idea it went down well.

The Revised project plan:

Possession. A simple Questionnaire (no personal details), just asking the age, profession and most importantly the favourite seat of coffee bar customers in DC. The result of this will then lead on to a mapping of the favourite seating positions throughout Starbucks and the other cafes in a similar style to that of the Worldmap of Consumption shown to us by Mike Phillips or the map of relative Ecological Footprint as it is known in other terms. This can be found at http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html



A similar map could be derived from a seating plan of the coffee bars in Drake Circus.

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Photos For IDAT 101 Presentation of a space

Presentation On A Space II

I've been considering what ideas I've had about DC (Drake Circus) and I think I've chosen some difficult ones to develop.

I have thought of another one I could present. The art of customer control. Have you ever noticed the way in which stores are laid out?

In general terms the average person's instinct when they enter a shop, is to turn right if possible. This means that whenever anyone enters a shop they will automatically concentrate on the closest items on the right. Many stores arrange their stock to entice the customer to look further throughout the shop by putting the most popular or the lower priced items to the right of the entrance.

Further still to get the customer to continue further into a clothing store the staff there might consider arranging only the biggest and smallest sizes of the popular items near the entrance to entice the customer to come inside and look for more of the same, but in a more suitable size.

In the case of retaining customers in a store for as long as possible the Entrance of a store is always much much larger and more easily accessible from the rest of the shop than the Exit. Shop exits are usually littered with the "best deals" and special offers, but some are also drab and unforgiving places. This tactic is most often used in supermarkets where barriers are used to control the flow of customers. The barriers swing one way only and there are always at least two times as many "IN" barriers as "OUT" and you often find yourself walking past the rest of the store once again on your way to the exit. A good example of this would be Tesco Roborough.

Escalators in many large stores are often arranged in such a fashion that the customer must traverse a route through a portion of the store before reaching the next one. This part of the store is often a hype of advertising and high fashion items and sometimes some quite good bargains. This entices the customer to look further around each floor before leaving it for the next.

All of these factors can be seen in DC and more if you look hard enough.

Ever useful wiki

Possession is having some degree of control over something else. In all cases, to possess something, a person must have an intention to possess it. A person may be in possession of some property (although possession does not always imply ownership). Like ownership, the possession of things is commonly regulated by states under property law. Languages have several means to indicate possession.

Sus law

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In Britain, the Sus law was the informal name for a stop-and-search law that permitted a police officer to act on suspicion, or 'sus', alone.

It was based upon Sections 4 and 6 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 which made it "illegal for a suspected person or reputed thief to frequent or loiter in a public place with intent to commit an arrestable offence" and effectively permitted the police to stop and search and even arrest anyone they chose, purely on the basis of suspicion as a crime-prevention tactic.

The law caused much discontent among certain sections of the population and was abolished following riots in St Pauls, Bristol, in 1980, and in Brixton, London, and Toxteth, Liverpool, in 1981, because its alleged abuse was believed to be a contributory factor to these events. ^[1] Following Lord Scarman's inquiry into the cause of the Brixton riots, the sus law was dropped.

Subsequent British legislation which makes provision for the police to act on the basis of suspicion alone has been denounced as "another sus law" by opponents of proposals to grant British police "stop and question" powers: ^[2]

Mr Hain said he wanted to see the details of the policy before making any judgement.

But he told BBC1’s Sunday AM: “We cannot have a reincarnation of the old ‘sus’ laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties.”

[edit] References

1. ^ The legacy of the Brixton riots. BBC News (5 April 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
2. ^ Concerns voiced over new terror powers. The Times (27 May 2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-06.

Presentation on a space

I just finished watching the directors cut of the 1979 movie The Warriors and it got me to wondering.
Every place has it's little clique, every gang has it's "turf", so who's turf is Drake Circus?

Obviously this is a new development and is considered a public place, but even public places must be "owned" by someone. But how do you rate possession? Is it the person who owns the property, who more likely than not never visits unless on occasion. Is it the leaseholders who run the stores and maintain the facility? Is it the person whom uses the builing every day and consideres it theirs?

For instance take the M&S coffee bar in the main court, or the Starbucks at the other end. There must be a thousand people that consider each table in either establishment to be their territory by right, in fact most of us feel more comfortable in familiar surroundings and will head for, or as close to these places as possible.

A fitting analogy would be public transport. Everyone refers to the transport they use as theirs. "My bus leaves in x minutes" etc. And nobody complains or says otherwise? How is it we can accept this term sometimes but not others? Is it something we let slip when it suits us? Or maybe i'm just reading too much into this...

I'm sure the Mall is a perfectly sensible place for groups of people to congregate, perhaps it is a policy of the establishment that large groups of people are unwelcome there. We sure did sense the security presence last time we went filming there.

Just how many people do they consider a disturbance? And what kind of person would they be more likely to eject for "Loitering" which has got to be one of the funniest concepts ever. A few spring to mind In particular Groups of teenagers and / or students after school hours.

Next time you go out on your bus to your local shopping centre have a look around your shops and see how many other people consider what is theirs you might be surprised.

Icarus

Early in the morning sunlight
Soaring on the wings of dawn
Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky
And I won't come down no more

Higher than a bird I'm flying
Crimson skies of ice and fire
Borne on wings of steel I have so much to feel
And I won't come down no more

Sail on, sail on, I will rise each day to meet the dawn
So high, so high
I've climbed the mountains of the sky
Without my wings you know I'd surely die
I found my freedom flyin' high
I've climbed the mountains of the sky

Floating on a cloud of amber
Searching for the rainbow's end
Earth so far below me,
I'm here alone, free
I can't come down no more

GW Plymouth Champion Painting Competition

Last week I decided to enter into a new miniature painting comp.

The title was Regimental Champion (aka unit captain)

I've had success in the past with these so i thought, hey why not! So I decided to paint an undead elf as a Grave Guard Champion... which went down well with some of the staff who are die-hard High elf players.

All I say is "Well everything's gotta die sometime eh?"

So I attempted a Green / Grey / Black colour scheme and hollowed out the face on the model ( i want it to be a ghost or a possessed suit of armour ) and decided on a weathered Bronze effect for the metallics.

Today I painted the model, which was a bit of a mission, but not all that hard. All I have left to do is the base to finish him off.

Thought For The Moment:

Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky. And i won't come down no more.

Kansas: Icarus-Borne on wings of steel.

So... I came up with this idea...

What if one's emotional state is contagious?

Now i don't mean that as soon as you enter a room feeling happy, everyone else is smiling like they just ate a space cake, oh no.

I mean throughout your daily life how many times have you considered the consequences of being rude, or short with someone, or even just the common courtesy of holding a door for someone, or saying "Thank You". It doesn't even need to be direct contact either. One could even make someone happy or cause someone harm without even knowing.

For instance; Whilst having a heated discussion on your phone lo and behold you offend someone you don't even know who is just a passer by!

What kind of domino effect could occur from just one such comment?

This person could forget it and continue on their way, but what if it clings to them ? Maybe they will go into a shop and be rude to the sales assistant, who in turn takes it out on their colleague, who is rude to another customer and so on...

Is it not true that we as a society focus on the negative aspects more frequently than the positives?

Does this mean that negative "energy" travels farther than positive goodwill?

I fear that it is impossible to judge whether this is the case because one's very presence, recording the path of the emotion would bias toward the goodwill because, lets face it, everyone wants to be seen as a good person.

This is more of a spur of the moment topic than i first considered...

Hello World

A new dawn, a new blog. Time to refresh and revive my ranting brain.