A few nice example business plan images I found:
Olmsted Center
Image by TAPorto
Olmsted Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Home to City of New York Parks & Recreation Capital Projects Division, Design & Engineering Construction.
Directions to:
Walking Map From Willets Point
BY SUBWAY: IRT Number 7 to Willets Point. Exit to Roosevelt Avenue. You want to be on the side of the street across from the stadium. Walk along Roosevelt Avenue with the stadium on your right. Take the first road on left into the Park. At the end of the road there is a one story white building - this is the Olmsted Center.
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During subway construction, Exit the 7 train at 111th Street, exiting at the SE corner of 111th St and Roosevelt Av. Walk east on Roosevelt Avenue toward Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Bear right onto the park path after you cross over the Grand Central Parkway and access road. At the end of the road is a low white building – this is the Olmsted Center.
*BY CAR FROM LONG ISLAND: Grand Central Parkway Westbound to Exit 9P – Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Make a left onto the park drive at the end of the ramp. After you cross under the LIRR tracks, the Olmsted Center is the white 1-story building on your right. The main entrance is on the opposite side of the building. To access visitor parking, bear right on the park drive, and make a right on Roosevelt Avenue. The stadium commuter lot will be on your right.
*BY CAR FROM MANHATTAN: Triborough Bridge to Grand Central Parkway (Eastbound). Take the Northern Blvd exit. Keep to the right on the exit ramp and bear right at the fork. At the bottom of the exit ramp you should be facing the stadium. Turn right and take the service road (Shea Road) keeping the stadium on your left. At the traffic signal continue straight. Go under Roosevelt Avenue and take the first left. The one story white building is the Olmsted Center.
*BY CAR FROM NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: George Washington Bridge to Major Deegan Expressway (southbound) to the Triborough Bridge. Follow directions above "From Manhattan."
*BY CAR FROM THE WHITESTONE BRIDGE: Whitestone Expressway to Exit 13, Northern Blvd. Turn right at the traffic signal then first left and under the highway at the Marina. At the traffic signal turn right and follow the service road keeping the stadium on your left. Go under Roosevelt Avenue and take the first left. The one story white building is the Olmsted Center.
*BY CAR FROM STATEN ISLAND: Verrazano Narrows Bridge to Shore Parkway (Belt Parkway) East to the Van Wyck Expressway. Take the Van Wyck to the Grand Central Parkway. Exit the GCP at the Northern Blvd. exit. On the service road leading to Northern Blvd., when opposite the stadium, take the opening to the right. You will be facing the stadium. Make a right turn, onto Shea Road, go under Roosevelt Avenue and take the first left. The one story white building is the Olmsted Center. To access parking turn left, go to Roosevelt Avenue, turn right. The entrance to the commuter parking area is on the right.
*Visitor’s parking is available at the South Field Commuter Parking Lot located on Roosevelt Avenue. There is a
fee for use of this facility. Upon entering, park as far to the right as you can & walk through the opening in the
fence. See “By Car From Long Island” for directions to the parking area or ask at the Olmsted Center reception
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History Of:
"Described as a “valley of ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (1896–1940) The Great Gatsby (1925) because of its use as a coal ash dump in the 19th century, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was transformed after serving as the site of the two World’s Fairs. Following the 1964-65 World’s Fair, the site was turned over to the city and it became known as Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Although most of the structures from the 1964-65 fair were designed as temporary buildings, several remain, including the Olmsted Center, which today serves as the headquarters of the Design, Construction, and Engineering Divisions of Parks.
A one-story modular building in the northwest part of the park, the Olmsted Center was designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and was originally built as the 1964-65 World’s Fair Corporation’s administrative offices. Other structures dating to the 1964-65 World’s Fair include The Unisphere, the centerpiece of both the fair and today’s park; Shea Stadium, now home to the New York Mets professional baseball team; and the World’s Fair Marina at Flushing Bay.
The building is named in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), co-designer of Central, Prospect, and Riverside Parks, and its hallways commemorate Parks architects Gilmore D. Clarke, Aymar Embury II, and Theodore Kautzky. Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Connecticut in 1822; his lineage is traceable to early Puritans. With little formal training he became one of the country’s preeminent landscape architects, working on projects at the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, DC, Niagara Falls, and estates in wealthy enclaves such as Newport, Rhode Island.
Olmsted and his business partner Calvert Vaux (1824–1895) heavily influenced 20th century urban planning; their Eastern Parkway project (1870-74) in Brooklyn, for example, introduced the concept of broad, landscaped roadways to rapidly expanding American cities. His influence can also be seen in cities like Boston, Buffalo, and the neighborhood of Riverdale in the Bronx. During the Civil War (1861-1864) Olmsted served as the secretary of the Sanitary Commission, a forerunner of the Red Cross, whose volunteers supplied and aided the Union Army’s Medical Bureau. As Central Park took shape after the Civil War, Olmsted grew disenchanted with the execution of his and Vaux’s plan, and he eventually disengaged himself from the project, moving his family and offices to Brookline, Massachusetts. Olmsted succumbed to mental illness towards the end of his life and died in an institution in 1903.
In the 1930s, Jackson Heights engineer Joseph F. Shagden approached a group of businessmen to organize the 1939-40 World’s Fair, which featured the latest technological innovations. Realizing the potential to rehabilitate the land and create a city park at Flushing Meadows after the fair ended, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses (1888–1981) became involved with the project and sat on its board. After the fair, the site sat idle for many years until the early 1960s, when Moses became president of the 1964-65 World’s Fair Corporation and tried again to pursue his grand vision for Flushing Meadows.
Under Moses’s watchful eye, planners for the 1964-65 fair designed the fairgrounds to facilitate its eventual transition to a city park. Pools, fountains, plantings, streets, paths, walks, utilities, benches, and toilet facilities were retained in plans for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Most of the buildings from the fair were torn down, as they were temporary structures built under a special building code and it was considered prohibitively expensive to bring them up to code. In February 1965, before the fair ended, Mayor Robert F. Wagner (1910–1991) convened a committee to review which of its buildings should be saved, and the city eventually decided to preserve some of the buildings, including the one which now serves as the Olmsted Center. .2 million was spent in demolishing and/or restoring structures.
In June 1967, the 1,255 acre site was officially designated parkland and named Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, becoming the largest park in Queens. The World’s Fair Administration Building was converted to Parks administrative offices for the borough of Queens."
Refactoring 2 - the epoc-changing ROI multiplier
Image by Julian Partridge
* Good factoring is behind every economic epoc change we've ever had
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Refactoring is not a new idea - it's well known and widely used; particularly in software design - it's how Bill Gates became a billionaire [and why he now has the power to do massive good for mankind].
But I think applying it with the same clarity that Bill demonstrated in his trade here, to the problem of helping mass entrepreneurship and job creation, and to economics itself could well be new.
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Refactoring is about how things are divided-up.
I recall one of Sun Tzu's arts of war was 'dividing up the numbers' for a general to effectively manage his command of his vast armies.
And Mr Smith made his big industrial revolution driver concept quite clear a millenia or two later: the 'division of labour'; and showed us how this single trick was the diagnosis of the thousand-fold gains in productivity that he saw already happening way back then.
And he rightly saw that this was to be the cornerstone of the future wealth of the British Empire.
I'd also consider that refactoring was the principle concept underpinning Mr Arkwright's innovation of the modern integrated factory town. And his enterprise system breakthrough ended-up refactoring the entire wealth-producing globe!
And refactoring was partly how we won the war, enabling us to build merchant ships in frantic plug-and-play slices instead of by the now old-hat, slow, traditional fleshed-out skeleton method, and so thankfully for all of us alive today, to build them at a much faster rate than Hitler could sink them.
And, back again to Bill and his global IT producing followers. it is in software engineering that refactoring as a managment tool became such an obvious winner. [Followers of rapid development methods like extreme programming will recognise it well.] It's here that it really shines.
As the software that people actually want to buy changes on a daily basis, the practitioners of the old 'quality', slow and steady government-certified, financially crippling one-monolithic-slab-at-a-time process, just couldn't hack it. Software producers had to reinvent themselves or die: and the slow changers did just that. RIP.
Well refactoring is not just a winning concept for engineering.
It applies everywhere.
Just like Sun Tzu saw [when 'software' just meant human education in strict moral values and methodical teachings], it applies to people-based problems as well as technological ones.
It applies to organisations of any kind, in fact.
To how companies may be restructured. To how towns and high streets are planned. How transport systems are integrated. How energy is produced and mixed before it arrives at your kettle socket. How your school years and lessons are timetabled. How your home life and work life are arranged. [whether you are allowed to have a home]
It applies to whom should pay the taxes and whom should benefit from them. It applies to who gets the good life portion and who gets the scraps.
It even effects how we think.
Adam Smith was already inseperably wedded to the cult of profit-based accounting standards when he crafted his own economics thesis at the time of his emerging industrial revolution. So he spotted the "natural" division between labour, profit, and rent. And he went on to recognise the traditional pattern of the usually complimentary, sometimes disasterously conflicting, new economic classes of entrepreneur: the merchant, the master manufacturer, the landholder, their trusty banker, and the King. [tho he didn't see the future refactoring of the role and rights of women - not a futurist thinker, was our Adam, but a very gifted enterprise architectural seeer of the here and now, most certainly.]
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I'd like to point out here that Adam Smith's factors of his economic scheme are NOT laws of God. Neither are Marx's, by the way, nor anybody else's you might wish to preach.
Same goes for modern thinking: Public Sector; Private Sector; Third Sector. For-profit; not-for-profit; Coop; Ltd Company etc etc. These factor schemes [patterns] are also entirely modernisable.
How we factor enterprise, and its big picture, the way we run the economy, and all the technological and social and governance consequences which necessarily follow, are entirely a matter of human ingenuity. [or inhuman obstinance, depending on your point of view.]
And any enterprise and economics factor scheme does *not* have to be deemed immutable once it's chosen; like a one-size-fits-all-for-all-time straightjacket, either.
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And thinking about it, go way back to the magna carta [it means 'big charter', David. It's like A POLITICIAN'S MANIFESTO! (you have to shout: he's a bit deaf sometimes!)] and, there again, you have a perfect example of a refactored end-product in action: a new division of the identity and power for the nation, a new political order, and the reusable pattern for all laws and democracies ever since.
So refactoring as a tool can be applied to any walk of life that you might deem important enough to warrant your apriori attention...
Like to the role of government departments, say; or to the desirable focus of UK production for the next hundred years or so...
Or to the scope of the Pound [ie how many jobs it serves]. And to the scope of the Dollar and the Renminbi and the Euro [if that should exist at all] for that matter...
Or to what you'd want your vote to stand for, and what our political party factions should stand for [they seem all very out of date to me... Not third millenium stuff at all!?]
You could even apply it to........ How we might build effective national programmes and systems to stimulate and nurture our fledgling growth enterprises and our massive investment in good new UK jobs! [where is Julian going with all this!??]
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You see, Bill got it sussed way back. He made his microsoft computer architecture so cleverly factored that any third party entrepreneur might quickly dive in and invent some new-fangled world-beating gizzmo for it that everyone just had to have [and which made them and Bill and all of us in the enteprise chain a shed load of profit and new joy as a consequence]. With his transformational vision of good factoring applied not only to good product engineering but to good world-dominating business models as well, I see that Bill actually inspired an avalanche of positive enterprise and social change; and it's an avalanche that just keeps on coming.
* And there's the catch.
If you don't want change, then refactoring is not for you.
Or, looking at it the other way round, if you're pants at refactoring [and design, and apriori joined-up thinking in general...] then the best way to prevent the obvious survival threat you now face in this highly competitive and insatiably changing world, would be to block and stifle all hints of change in the bud. [I'm thinking of Amish society here, as well as our good old British establishment ways perhaps, like our tittly little org known as the BBC!]
'No change' is not necessarily good or bad! It just depends on the situation that's in front of you.
And this is a point I'd stress again:
* The value of refactoring depends on the situation you face in front of you - ie in the future; not on how things used to look in the past
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So the concept of refactoring in developing good product architecture of all kinds is sound, and it's potentially very valuable to society.
You only have to think wisely how you intend to use it.
See also:
7-Level Design
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REFACTORING SUMMARY DEFINITION
Refactoring: the art of rethinking how a large object may be more beneficially divided into regular component parts, or factors. Redesigning the architecture of a product.
The power of the refactoring method is in its application to whole product lifecycles, to all aspects of the inception, creation, supply and use of a product, not just to the internal construction of a design. [Eg look at the whole future lifecycle of your enterprise and refactor it across multi-dimensions; don't just look at your currrent company headcount structure, say, and change a few heads around - doesn't achieve much except worker annoyance!]
The effect of refactoring is to increase the scope of factor reuse. So there are a number of general directions where to look for refactoring opportunities, as described here:
Known product: looking only at the product in hand. Seeking faster delivery.
Opportunistic: producing tightly factored components expecting some as yet unknown future use for them. Eg building a product reuse library. Seeking more ROI.
Future lifecycle: refactoring how your timeline is deployed and mapped to product changes. Seeking better capacity utilisation.
Process: defining repeatable process steps, to deliver a unique product perhaps. Seeking faster startup.
Pattern: refactoring the design process itself. Seeking cheaper newness.
Component: defining common parts and materials. Seeking easier development.
Interface: defining common fit and function in end use. Not requiring changes in user skills or habit, for example. Seeking lower cost of ownership.
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Another openREDtool to power your job-creating journey.
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The Money Trap (1965) ...item 2.. all of my worldly possessions ...
Image by marsmet472
Style -- The 1965 film The Money Trap portrays elements of the classic film making style known as noir. The black and white film uses the theme of a simple man (Joe Baron) drawn into crime and corruption for materialistic needs.
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.....item 1).... The Money Trap ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Money_Trap
The Money Trap is a 1965 drama film starring Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth and directed by Burt Kennedy.
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The Money trap is a 1965 drama film directed by Burt Kennedy starring Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth. The Money Trap is written by Walter Bernstein and based on the novel by Lionel White[1]
Joe Baron (Glenn Ford) is an under appreciated, under paid cop who has the ability to spend freely and live a luxurious life because of his very wealthy wife Lisa Baron (Elke Sommer) and the stock that her father left behind. Unfortunately for the happy couple, when their stock's dividends stop coming in, Joe finds himself in some serious debt trouble.
Simultaneously Joe and his partner Pete Delanos (Ricardo Montalban) receive a case where a very rich doctor Dr. Horace Van Tilden (Joseph Cotten) shot an intruder Phil Kenny in his home. As the duo visit the crime scene they find the intruder still breathing. On their way to the hospital Kenny reveals to Joe that he was after 2 bags of cash containing 0000 placed in the Doctor's safe. He also gives Joe a piece of paper that has the combination of the safe on it. Joe decides to keep this to himself and continues his own personal research on the case to find some more information.
During his intense search for more clues about the bags of cash and the intruder, Joe visits Phil Kenny's Wife, Rosalie Kenny (Rita Hayworth). When Joe meets Kenny's wife he realizes that she is none other than his childhood friend and lover. Later that night Joe leaves his house after having an argument with his wife and ends up meeting up with Rosalie. Joe's intentions are clear when he expresses his love for Rosalie and also asks for information about Kenny's robbery intentions. Continuing his conversation with Rosalie, he finds out that the Doctor has a business is selling drugs and that Kenny was an employee and an addict who was looking for a way to get some more drugs. When Joe realizes that the Doctor keeps his drug money in his safe at home, Joe finds a quick and easy way to get his hands on some money and some relief from his debt.
Through Joe's process of snooping around and planning to steal the Doctor's money, his partner Pete discovers his plan and wants a part in. They both work together and organize a plan to steal the bags of cash. The morning before the two cops plan to steal the money, they find Rosalie dead and out of the picture. Despite the tragedy, heartbroken Joe decides to follow through with the plan as the Doctor is out of town only for a few days.
As Pete and Joe are opening the safe and collecting the money bullets are shot at them and Pete is shot. Joe acts quickly grabbing the bags of cash and taking his injured partner to his home where they will take their next steps. As Pete lays on the bed he asks to see the money which is when they discover that one of the bags contains heroin. As Pete is still injured Joe decides to offer the Doctor the bag of drugs in exchange for his friend's life. During his treatment Pete doubts his friend's intentions and ends up dying. As Joe's part of the bargain, he must then deliver the drugs to the Doctor which then leads to a fight between Joe and the Doctor. During this fight Joe gets shot and the Doctor dies.
Injured Joe makes his way back home where he awaits his future in his wife's arms.
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The 1965 film The Money Trap portrays elements of the classic film making style known as noir. The black and white film uses the theme of a simple man (Joe Baron) drawn into crime and corruption for materialistic needs.
The Money Trap was one of the last noir films mad e after the style had first erupted in the 1940’s. Not only does the main plot showcase a common noir film theme but the subplot that exists in the movie portrays a theme that proves The Money Trap to qualify as a noir film.
The subplot starts off with Joe Baron and his partner heading to the crime scene of a woman being hung by her husband for participating in sexual relationships for money (Prostitution). They later show that she has a daughter that her husband loved very much. On the day of their daughter’s birthday the girl’s father chooses to meet up and spend the day with her. At the end of the day Joe Baron arrests the man whilst the young girl is left to question about the actions that took place on her birthday. This small yet crucial storyline displays the theme of the happiness in a filmic perspective being never lasting.
Another example of the noir film technique being implemented is in the last seen where injured Joe Baron (Glenn Ford) turns all the lights on and looks over his large garden, swimming pool and beautiful house symbolizing all the materialistic needs that he chose to act unethically for.
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... Glenn Ford as Joe Baron
... Elke Sommer as Lisa
... Rita Hayworth as Rosalie
... Ricardo Montalban as Pete Delanos
... Joseph Cotten as Dr. Van Tilden
... James Mitchum as Detective Wolski
... Tom Reese as Matthews
... Fred Essleras Mr.Klein
... Eugene Iglesias as Father
... Teri Lynn Sandoval as Daughter
... Argentina Brunetti as Aunt
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Yardsign .. next door neighbor ...item 3.. The Warsaw Uprising 1944 Remake / Powstanie Warszawskie 1944 ...item 5.. Warsaw 1944 ...item 9.. Warsaw Uprising ...
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Fairest ...item 1.. P!nk ...item 18.. Pink - I don't believe you (lyrics) ...item 24.. Pink - "Sober" ...item 28.. How to Neutralize Mean Girls ...
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