Ozarks At Large

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks: trying to weigh all of the factors that could have an effect on Arkansas’ economy for the rest of 2013 and into 2014, including home sales, employment numbers, civic infrastructure, the Farm Bill and more. Roby Brock hosts a roundtable to discuss the state of the state’s economy. Plus we continue our series on what the Affordable Care Act may mean for Arkansas with a report about how an insurance company is preparing for change. And our monthly wrap up of visual arts in the region.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.
"Dream Sequence" by Spyro Gyra
This week a business plan from Picasolar took top honrs, and big money, at a competition at MIT.
"La La La Means I Love You" by Jackie Brown
Charles Banks Wilson, an American artist, was laid to rest on Tuesday in his hometown of Miami, Oklahoma. He was born and passed in Arkansas. Wilson is best known for his works of the American Indian. Wilson's works are housed in some of the most renowned museums and art galleries in the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington's Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery, the Oklahoma State Capitol where four 13 feet tall and 27 feet wide murals line the rotunda, and the Gilcrease Museum, which owns more than 300 pieces of the artist's work.
Bear hunts, mermaids and dinner, Becca Martin Brown offers plenty to occupy your Mother's Day afternoon. Plus, the upcoming season at the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
Here is a guide to clips used in our Sunday montage salute to computers: The band Kraftwerk sings "Computer Love." A seemingly innocent beginning to a complicated relationship in the movie War Games. A computer discussion from The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, released in 1969. Styx and that very odd song, "Mr. Roboto." A not-so-innocent continuation of a complicated relationship in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A computer foul up in 1957’s Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. "You’ve Got Mail!" A very terse answer that reflects a complicated relationship in the movie The Social Network. An ominous warning about a complicated relationship in the original, 1982 version of Tron. The Jetsons theme.