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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Musing Monday (Aug 17)
Musing Monday is hosted by Rebecca at Just One More Page.
Today's musing is the following:
How do you react to movies made of your favourite books (or even not-so-favourite books)? Do you look forward to seeing them, or avoid them? Do you like to have read the book before seeing the movie?
Well it depends on the movie and the book. I do look forward to seeing books I read made into movies, but sometimes it takes away from my reading experience. For instance, Twilight. Sorry, but that is not how I picture Edward...not a little bit. Pattinson is nice looking but really not my cup of tea. Everyone else I could live with.
Memoirs of a Geisha was another book that didn't translate too well. Beautifully filmed, but the main character's inner struggles and such didn't cross over well. Now that is a book I would read again.
I always try to read the book before seeing the movie. I'm a wee bit OCD about that. That's why I only read half of Potter. Started with book 5 and gotta say, not impressed with the movies thus far. I know books don;t always translate well, especially the Potter books. They are big and cover a lot of material. But I just saw the last installment, and let me say this: When I have to look at my watch to see how much time is left, that is not a good thing. Acting was first rate, as usual, however the script leaves a lot to be desired.
Okay, I'm done ranting now. How about you? How do you feel about book to movie transitions?
15 comments:
- kalea_kane said...
I haven't read or seen the Twilight movies, but I definitely will not watch the films until I read the books. I definitely prefer to read the book first, and for the most part the movies can do a good job but never will measure up. I loved Memoirs of a Geisha (the book) but I simply could not get into the movie.
I can totally relate to your answer. :)
- August 17, 2009 at 3:13 AM
- Yvonne said...
I try to read the book before seeing the movie, too, but it doesn't always happen that way. I have all the Twilight books in my TBR and haven't read any of them yet, but I did see the movie. Although the movie was okay, it didn't make me anxious to read the book. From what I've heard, I'll probably enjoy the books much more than I did the movie.
- August 17, 2009 at 6:54 AM
- Susan said...
I'm with you on Twilight, but I've gotten used to Pattinson, and I've made peace (lol) with the fact that he's going to be out Edward for the reas of the films :) Oh, well...
- August 17, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- Tea said...
Yup, I like to read the book first. I'm trying to finish reading "Time Traveler's Wife" now because I don't want to see the movie before reading the book. So far, I love the book.
- August 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Rebecca Johnson said...
I agree with you on Memoirs of a Geisha - the movie fell short of the book. And while I still enjoyed the latest HP movie, I didn't think it was as good as the previous ones.
And yay on being the first responder! We almost didn't have a MM at all this week, I forgot to schedule it - oops!
- August 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Staci said...
I like to read the book first and yes, sometimes I find myself avoiding the movie until someone I trust has watched it and then take their word for it in regards to whether I should watch it or not!!
- August 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM
I guess most of us like to read the book first. Though I'm happy with Rob Pattinson as Edward Cullen :)
I'm hoping to finish Time Traveller's Wife too. I heard the review at the Daily 10 that the book was more romantic :)
- August 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM
The book always seems to be better than the movie, I don't know why!
- August 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I've seen several excellent adaptations, but I had the misfortune of bringing home "The Other Boleyn Girl" on DVD for my wife, who had enjoyed the book. She was not impressed.
- August 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I like the Harry Potter films for the visual grandeur of the magic world. The plots never cover the books, but I still can't stop myself from watching. And then telling my husband everything he missed by not reading the books!
- August 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM
I like the Harry Potter films for the visual grandeur of the magic world. The plots never cover the books, but I still can't stop myself from watching. And then telling my husband everything he missed by not reading the books!
- August 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Tudor Daughter said...
I have seen several good adaptations to film such as A Time to Kill by John Grisham that was a good movie and great book,and some lousy adaptations such as The Firm by John Grisham was a great book and horrible movie.
I saw The Other Boleyn Girl and thought it was an O.K. movie then read the book which I loved.
- August 17, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- caite said...
I rarely find the movie adds anything to my pleasurable experience of the book, and in fact, often falls far short of the book.
If anything, I might see the movie first, and then the book can flesh it out more thoroughly.
- August 17, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- Nise' said...
I like to read the book first as well and watch the movie with an open mind, but sometimes its hard... Did watch The Other Boelyn Girl prior to reading the book and am glad to hear the book is much better than the movie. It was just okay for me.
- August 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- Jenny Girl said...
Kalea: I know the movie never measures up, but sometimes I get so excited, like Memoirs. That was a great book!
Yvonne: Yes I think you'll enjoy the books better, although the adaptation was pretty good, all things considered.
Susan: True. I'll still go to the rest of the movies in the series ;)
Tea: Never read the book, but now that I can think of Eric Bana...
Rebecca: You know lightening doesn't strike twice :)
Staci: I'm a word of mouth person too sometimes.
Judys424: not saying I would turn him down, just not what I pictured ;)
Vicki: very true! must be our impressions.
Michael: I agree w/your wife. Didn't think the movie could be as good either. But the costumes were gorgeous.
Stacybuckeye: I am the same. I will still go see the last 2!
Caite: here's one I liked Mystic River.
Nise: Def best to watch that movie first than read the book. I kind of figured the translation wouldn't work too well.
Thank you gals for stopping by :)
Always a pleasure chatting w/you.
- August 18, 2009 at 10:48 AM
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Craft Project: Four Leaf Clover Card
This simple St. Patrick's Day card is made from card stock, glue and junk mail. That's it. It's an easy, inexpensive, and quick card to make.
Card Stock
Junk Mail Flyers - card stock weight preferred
Four leaf clover hole punch
1. Punch out 9 clovers in shades of green from advertising flyers, magazines, etc.
2. Cut card stock to 11" x 5.5". Fold in half. Round corners with scissors or a corner punch.
3. Lay out clovers on card. Glue in place. Done.
22 comments:
- Hope Chella said...
No! It it right around the corner seriously...especially to do a craft :)
- February 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Teresa said...
I love this simple adorable idea! Thanks.
- February 25, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Amy V. said...
Adorable! I don't have a clover punch - but I do have a heart punch and could use 4 hearts and a paper sliver for the stem!
- February 25, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Marisa said...
Love the simplicity of this card, and the recycling! By the way, you have very pretty junk mail. :)
- February 25, 2010 at 7:00 PM
- Laura said...
I absolutely love using junk mail, catalogs, etc. in this kind of tonal way. We did Valentine collages in a similar fashion, just looking for the things that were red/pink/flowery. But what really makes the classiness of this card in the geometric arrangement of the shamrocks, and of course the clean lines of the shapes themselves. Very nice. You are making me want paper-punch supplies, and I know that's a slippery slope... :)
- February 25, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- bless their hearts mom said...
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- February 25, 2010 at 8:06 PM
- Kems said...
i like the pictures...and the nice bouquet effect. =o) are you enjoying your camera?
- February 25, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Sophie.J said...
This is so easy and yet so lovely, can't wait to try them.
^-^ Love and HUgs,
- February 25, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- Lilly Higgins said...
Greetings form Ireland!I love this idea of recycling junk mail, I'll definitely be looking for one of those clover punch shapes. Thanks & love the blog!x Lilly
- February 26, 2010 at 2:55 AM
- JB said...
I can't believe that's from advertisements! I thought you were using some fancy papers. It looks great!
- February 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Amber M. said...
Love, love, love it!!
- February 26, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Alexander said...
Very pretty card. I like the colours and design. That's for sharing.
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- February 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- zakkalife said...
I think the heart punch is a great idea. Good thinking :)
Yes, I'm enjoying my new camera! I'm still getting used to it. The way it picks up light and color is completely different from my old camera.
- February 26, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- *~kAy~* said...
recycling junk mail is such a great idea! <3 I love it! <3
so simple but so nice :)
- February 27, 2010 at 12:40 AM
- Lúcia said...
Hi my dear,
I love this project. This is a nice idea.
- February 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- RobbieLee at Chickiedee said...
What a cute craft idea!
- March 1, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Kat said...
Love it! Another win in my book!
- March 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Ayie said...
very neat, cute card
- March 4, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Katie Lewis said...
This is lovely!
- March 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- luckycharm4me said...
Kawaii !!!!
so cute....
- April 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Unknown said...
hey! I love this. I hope you don't mind, I posted this on my blog with a direct link to yours. I just loved it.
- March 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM
I love using magazines and catalogs for my punch out, etc. You can save lots of $$ and they are usually shiny and full of lots of color. I'm glad to see someone using "trash" to make a "treasure".
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Early this year, Government Technology Editor Steve Towns predicted that three technology trends -- data analytics, civic innovation and procurement reform -- were the ones to watch in 2014.
In another article, Paul W. Taylor, senior advisor to the Center for Digital Government, enumerated "five things that will still matter to the public-sector IT community five years from now."
Gartner Inc., identified its "top ten technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2014," which included mobility, Internet of everything, cloud computing, and 3D printing.
Another look at technology trends for 2014, just released by MeriTalk, names data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing as the "big five" in state and local IT. Most state and local organizations plan to fully deploy the big five in the next three years, according to the report, Big Five in Overdrive: Are State and Local Networks Ready? However, 94 percent of the 201 state and local government IT managers surveyed say their agencies are not fully prepared for the resulting demands.
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Difficult terrain and threats, such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can make ground-based transportation to and from the frontline a dangerous challenge. While helicopters can easily bypass those problems, they often present logistical challenges of their own and can subject flight crews to different types of threats. Additionally, they are expensive to operate and the supply of available helicopters cannot always meet the demand for their diverse operational services.
To help overcome these challenges, DARPA unveiled the Transformer (TX) program in 2009. Transformer aimed to develop and demonstrate a prototype system that could provide flexible, terrain-independent transportation for logistics, personnel transport and tactical support missions for small ground units. In 2013, DARPA selected the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) design concept to move forward.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works® is leading a team with Piasecki Aircraft to develop the next generation of compact, high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) delivery systems under the ARES program. ARES VTOL flight module is designed to operate as an unmanned platform capable of transporting a variety of payloads. The flight module has its own power system, fuel, digital flight controls and remote command-and-control interfaces. Twin tilting ducted fans would provide efficient hovering and landing capabilities in a compact configuration, with rapid conversion to high-speed cruise flight.
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Yes, we know, being a pedestrian or cyclist can be dangerous, but that won't stop us from driving however the hell we want, as long as this futuristic design never sees the light of day. This new conceptual idea for crosswalks is a bit too i, Robot for us. Rather than just having pretty painted lines—this crossing would also include a plasma laser barrier that makes cyclists and anyone doing an Abbey Road impression more visible and helps avoid those nasty vehicular manslaughter charges. We wonder what happens if a vehicle were to cross the barrier?
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Safety innovations have come a long way
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Lewis & Clark top producer of Peace Corps volunteers in new ranking
February 02, 2011
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Lewis & Clark is a top provider of Peace Corps volunteers. Lewis & Clark tied for third in the Peace Corps' 2011 ranking, jumping nine spots from 2010.
Currently, 23 Lewis & Clark alumni are serving as Peace Corps volunteers. Since the organization's founding in 1961, 352 Lewis & Clark graduates have served. Peace Corps volunteers work in 77 countries in the areas of education, youth and community development, health and HIV/AIDS, business information and communication technology, agriculture, and environment.
"Lewis & Clark is proud but not surprised that so many of our graduates make overseas service a part of their lives," said President Barry Glassner. "Wherever they go, our alumni bring with them a wealth of knowledge about the world from their study-abroad experiences, study of foreign languages, and insights from their coursework in international affairs, economics, political science, and indeed, throughout the curriculum."
For nearly 50 years, Lewis & Clark has offered students opportunities to immerse themselves in cultures around the world through its highly regarded overseas programs. Approximately 60 percent of its students participate in an overseas program before graduation, conducting research, learning languages, and immersing themselves in local cultural and socio-political environments in places such as Vietnam, eastern Africa, China, and India.
In addition to global engagement, Lewis & Clark supports a strong commitment to public service locally and around the world. For example, local public service projects are organized at the beginning and end of each school year, students can access grants to travel abroad for self-directed projects, and students have consistently earned highly competitive Kathryn Davis Projects for Peace grants to carry out projects around the world.
"The combination of hunger for knowledge about the world and a commitment to community are what make Lewis & Clark students and alumni a good fit for the Peace Corps," said Jane Hunter, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "Students come to campus hoping to make the world better, and they leave with the skills and determination to begin to make it happen."


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If you've been supporting and/or following Texas Folklife for the last several years, you've probably heard the name Juan Longoria, Jr.
Longoria, a native of Brownsville, won the Big Squeeze accordion contest in its inaugural year of 2007. He also leads the band Conteño, a unique group that blends the sounds of Conjunto, Tejano and Norteño music traditions. In 2012, he began teaching at Los Fresnos High School. Longoria was the first music teacher at LFHS to initiate the beginnings of what has now become a thriving Conjunto education program. Preceding the establishment of LFHS's Conjunto program, La Joya ISD in the Western Rio Grande Valley pioneered this sort of program in the late 1980s when it started teaching Conjunto alongside its other performing arts ensembles, such as orchestra and mariachi. Since then other Rio Grande Valley schools, such as San Benito HS, have also started Conjunto programs. When Longoria began this journey however, he was facing the odds of entering a school that previously had no Conjunto program and worked diligently to capture student interest in his class. Originally housed in the Theatre & Dance program in 2012, his classes for accordion, bajo sexto and more moved into the Band department in 2013. These days, Longoria has no problems with student enrollment. He now has a waiting list for students eager to take his classes.
Recently, Longoria along with the hard work of his students in Conjunto Halcon achieved another first by competing in UIL under the category of Experimental Music with Conjunto:
"The group competed with the musical piece Guadalajara under an experimental ensemble in the Texas UIL form 8. The only way we were able to compete in UIL was by writing our own sheet music, being that there is no sheet music in our field. We included 5 different accordions. The first three accordions harmonized in first, second and third. The fourth accordion had a completely different pattern and the fifth accordion was the lead. We also included the bajo sexto, bass guitar and the snare drum. We had to write down every note and rhythm pattern for each instrument but at the end it was all worth it! We were able to come out of there with a rating of 1." –Juan Longoria, Jr.
Congratulations to Conjunto Halcon from Texas Folklife. See them perform live Saturday, March 29 at the Big Squeeze showcase at Los Fresnos High School.
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Doris Eleanor Mitchell, 83, passed away peacefully Sunday Sept. 9 surrounded by family. She was born June 29, 1929, in Oakland, Calif. She grew up in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School. After graduation with a degree in Social Work from San Francisco State University, she was employed as a social worker for Alameda County. She met her future husband Phil K. Mitchell through a friend and co-worker, Doreen Mitchell, who is married to Phil's brother. Doris and Phil were married on April 19, 1958. While her husband served in the United States Air Force, the couple moved to various duty locations, including Ohio, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. The couple settled down in Pleasanton, where they raised their three children, after her husband?s military retirement. They moved to Red Wing, Minn. in 2010 to be closer to their son Don and his family. Doris enjoyed traveling with her husband and family. Her favorite destinations included Mendocino, Lake Tahoe, and especially Carmel, where she and Phil honeymooned. Doris and Phil were charter members of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Doris treasured her family and will always be remembered for her generous spirit and her love of conversation with family and friends. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Phil of Red Wing, Minn.; two sons, James (Melinda) Mitchell of Richland, Wash. and Donald (Therese) Mitchell of Red Wing, Minn; daughter, Jeanne (Allen) Spalding of Sanford Mich., five grandchildren, Scott and Andrew Mitchell and Philip, Theodore, and Peter Mitchell, and two step-grandchildren, Kirsten & Tyler Spalding. She was preceded in death by her parents, Richard M. and Myra James, and her brothers, Richard H. James and Robert Carey.


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TORONTO – A revered movie master and a much-feted up-and-comer — both from Quebec — are set to make a splash at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
Organizers revealed Wednesday afternoon that Oscar-winning movie-maker Denys Arcand is slated to unveil his latest, An Eye for Beauty, at the fest, while Xavier Dolan will promote his Cannes smash Mommy.
The celebrated pair of directors are at distinctly different stages of their careers.
Arcand, 73, is a celebrated veteran who won the foreign-language Academy Award in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions. At age 25, the prodigious Dolan has been on a white-hot career ascent with a flurry of acclaimed films including Mommy, which made a serious run for the Palme d'Or earlier this year at the Cannes fest.
"I think the Quebecois are really hungry to see themselves on screen," said senior programmer Steve Gravestock. "But Xavier's a unique talent no matter where he came from. He's quite young and he's an extraordinary voice and he's a born filmmaker. That's very rare."
Dolan also stars in another feature set to unspool at the festival, Charles Biname's The Elephant Song. The adaptation of the Nicolas Billon play also features Bruce Greenwood and Catherine Keener.
In announcing its Canadian lineup Wednesday, the Toronto fest also revealed it would screen new documentary Trick or Treaty? from acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.
The documentary follows the journey of First Nations in northern Ontario as they seek to affirm their treaty rights. Obomsawin, 81, became emotional as she spoke about youth activism in the film.
"I also wanted to show in the film a wonderful large group of young people who have made up their minds to walk, some of them 1,600 kilometres, to Parliament Hill to let their will be known. It's a time that is very different from before. It says … our young people are recognizing themselves and their ancestors," she said, her voice breaking.
The festival is also set to screen new works by Sturla Gunnarsson, Ruba Nadda and Jacob Tierney.
Nadda — who won the best Canadian feature award at the Toronto fest in 2009 — will be on hand with October Gale, which stars Patricia Clarkson and Scott Speedman and tells the story of a grieving widow who rescues a potentially dangerous stranger.
Tierney, who charmed Toronto audiences a few years back with The Trotsky, returns with Preggoland, about society's obsession with babies.
Gunnarsson, meanwhile, will reveal his documentary Monsoon, about how the vast weather system affects India.
"Some people say that the monsoon is the soul of India," the 63-year-old director said. "It's a massive weather system that governs the conditions of existence for all of India. It's a subject of ritual and prayer and science. It's as close to God as a non-believer like myself is ever going to get."
Other Canadian documentaries set to screen at the fest are Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan's The Wanted 18, about how 18 cows in a Palestinian village became symbols of resistance, and The Price We Pay, a study of corporate tax evasion from director Harold Crooks.
"It's about how corporations, large corporations, and individuals are undermining the global economy by funnelling money through tax havens … It's actually one of the most unsettling films I saw all year, and one of the smartest," said Gravestock.
From up-and-coming director Jordan Canning, We Were Wolves will premiere at the fest. The drama stars Peter Mooney of the drama series Rookie Blue and Steve Cochrane as estranged brothers who return to the family cottage after the death of their father.
Another buzzed-about film set to premiere is Bang Bang Baby, from director Jeffrey St. Jules. The film follows a small-town teenager whose dreams of becoming a famous singer are threatened by a nearby chemical plant leak believed to be causing mass mutations.
Festival programmer Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo called Bang Bang Baby a "sly, genre-twisting movie" that is a prime example of a major theme in this year's lineup.
"This year we noticed there's a lot of filmmakers playing with genre in really interesting ways, either providing fresh perspectives on traditional genres or blending genres in really interesting ways to create their own style," she said.
She also noted that there were a number of strong, female-driven narratives this year — including Albert Shin's In Her Place, a story of three Korean women of different ages, and Andrea Dorfman's Heartbeat, about a musician trying to reconnect with her songs.
"The other really great thing this year is the wonderful geographical mix that we have. We have films from right across the country, from Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Alberta, and lots of films as usual from Ontario and Quebec, so it's really nice to see that," she said.
Stephane Lafleur, who won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the festival in 2007 for Continental, a Film Without Guns, will screen his latest Tu dors Nicole this year. The comedy-drama about a 22-year-old spending the summer at home while her parents are away garnered strong reviews at Cannes.
As for Short Cuts Canada, witty animation Me and My Moulton from Academy Award winner Torill Kove and Noah's Ark-inspired Day 40 from Toronto filmmaker Sol Friedman are among the 42 shorts set to screen this year.
The festival received a staggering 841 entries to the short film program — about 200 more than they did last year.
"I think more people are watching short films than ever before and that's encouraged people to make work, knowing that they will find an audience," said programmer Alexander Rogalski.
"At TIFF, we've really championed those Canadian short films for so many years and we've seen our audience and our fan base grow."
The Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 4 to 14.
– with files by Victoria Ahearn /


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Michelle Draper delivered a presentation on Wednesday on how RIAs can build powerful brands at the Investment Adviser Association Annual Conference in San Francisco. This article is an excerpt from that presentation. To view a video of Draper exploring more on this topic, see the second page in this article.-Ed.
When you think of companies with great brands, giant global leaders like Apple, McDonald's or Honda probably come to mind. But here's something you might not realize: As a registered investment advisor, you too have a brand—regardless of whether you're a one-person operation or a large enterprise.
What's more, you can realize tremendous business benefits by building and maintaining a strong brand presence. Here's how.
Promises Made, Promises Kept
As an advisor, your brand is essentially your reputation among clients, prospects and centers of influence—the sum total of other people's perceptions about you and your practice. You know you have a reputation and you already take steps to manage and protect it so that others will judge you positively.
A brand is no different. Maintaining a great brand (or reputation) as an RIA boils down to a key strategy: making promises and setting expectations, then meeting those expectations day in and day out. By consistently "walking the talk," you create a personal and professional brand that tells others that they can trust you to do what you say you will do.
A brand built on perceived trustworthiness is a huge differentiator today in the financial services sector. The good news is that independent advisors have done a great job relative to their peers at maintaining trust, as found in the 2010 Schwab Independent Advisor Outlook Study. In the Study, two-thirds of clients who made the wirehouse-to-RIA switch in 2010 said they did so because they thought they would get more personal, customized advice; 58% said they had lost trust in the full-service brokerages that had served them in the past.
If you can continue to deliver on your promises, you can maintain a differentiated brand that could drive even more business your way via referrals.
The Three Key Steps to a Powerful Brand
Maintaining a strong brand doesn't require an expensive marketing campaign.You can take several practical brand-building steps right now to help you consistently deliver on your promises to your clients. For example:
1. Focus on an ideal target client. Build your business to serve a well-defined group of investors to whom you can bring significant value and with whom you have an affinity. It might be women in transition or younger affluent professionals, just to name a few. By focusing on a few groups of investors with similar needs, you'll help ensure that you deliver the type of consistent client experience that creates a strong brand in the marketplace.
2. Be relevant in your target client's life. Do your homework and get to know your target clients on a deep level—going well beyond their financial details into their values, concerns, fears and what's important to them in their daily lives. The way you present yourself to them must fit into and resonate with their life experiences. If you remember that it's all about the client, not you, your brand should be better positioned to attract, serve and retain the ideal clients for your practice.
3. Differentiate through a unique value proposition. RIAs typically try to differentiate themselves by highlighting their fee-only models and their roles as fiduciaries. While these are key RIA characteristics, you need to go beyond them to truly set yourself apart and build a brand that speaks to your chosen target niche. Design an offering that offers a truly unique value proposition for your niche, based on your core competencies and your deep knowledge of what your clients most want.
At every step, the way you present yourself and your business—the messages you send out to the marketplace, essentially—must be informed by your deep understanding of both your target client and your own unique, differentiating value proposition. That includes:
- How you look, including your logo and business cards as well as your physical look, such as the location and decor of your office.
- How you sound, ranging from your tone and speaking manner to your phone greeting and hold music, as well as how you convey your expertise about your target market.
- Most important is how you act. Ultimately, it's your interactions with those people who can help you build your business—from an initial handshake to your consultation style to your response time to inquiries—that will do the most to create the right expectations and generate trust in you and your offering.
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The transition from medical marvel to sick man on a recovery ward takes a couple of sets of doors, half a corridor and a few seconds. Even the erstwhile wonder at the speed of my recovery is giving way to solicitation about the remaining breathing and immunological issues that are holding up the rate of my recovery. Time – all time – is flexible in here. The only minutes that are certain are those resembling a George Saunders dialogue, spacing apart the hours like lifebuoys.
Yes, a cup of tea please.
Yes, I will have breakfast. Coffee and bran flakes please.
Yes, I'll have paracetamol.
Yes please. Cup of tea.
Yes I have. Yes they did open.
Much of this could have been predicted, once we've brushed past my failure to predict any of this. I'd never picked up before on the stockings, though. Ted stockings might sound like the support your feet and calves need to prepare you to sit through a long, smug presentation by an ideas-guy with a face mic, but they exemplify my institutionalisation. When I had barely returned to consciousness, I raged against the stockings, white knee-length, muscle-stranglers that made me resemble a Regency dandy, albeit one wearing robot feet. The feet snapped every few seconds, pushing my shins, ankles and toes in random directions. Later, when the (entirely necessary) tin leg-breakers had been removed, the stockings remained in place, a monumental, ever-present itch. Any offer I'd have to be relieved of them for a short while would be accepted gratefully. Some days they'd forget to put them back on and I'd fantasise about a consultant standing above me, telling me they're ready for me to lose the stockings.
The other night, though, I noticed how puffy my bare feet were, and how cold they were in the bed, and I asked a nurse to put them back on. I think that might be a signal for a shift in how the blog's going to progress because, in all fairness, that was a really boring story.
But I hope it's fair to say it's one I needed to tell.
Banal Fabulous
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I thought I'd use the previous post to give you a break from the gloopy pornography of my hospital stay, where my CT Scan from the other week is being passed around the surgical fraternity like a link to the John Merrick Flickr account. In all honesty, though, coma, intubation and paralysis do tend to promote solipsism. For all the moments of high drama, the propensity for massive danger or hope to arrive in a second; for all the emotional churn, the life resolutions, the love that's been communicated not least via comments on this blog (for which my thanks are expressed briefly and generally but meant personally and fully); for all the scarification, hallucination and weird science, these two weeks have been overwhelmingly about waiting.
Now I'm on the recovery ward – the last bed before a potential temporary discharge until I'm pre-opped again to fix the thing they reckon I've spent my life adapting to so well it both delayed and guaranteed the implosion a fortnight ago – the blur of momentary sleep and wakeful dreaming is no longer a factor. Nevertheless, each day continues to be a glacial pursuit of banal triumphs.
The poetry is in the banal. Sometimes I feel like Primo Levi; sometimes it's more like being on a long-haul flight. I spend days fixating on how to get this tube removed or downgraded – when it happens, there's a moment of relief then I start to be irritated by another attachment I'd accepted previously. I crave taste and flavour when I'm nil by mouth then a week of banal hospital cake helps food lose its emotional heft.
It's because the pace of life is necessarily slow, the distance between a positive decision and the
liberating action stretches like pizza dough and when holes start to appear, it can be easy to fall through them. Endurance and tolerance, Solomon Northrup rather than Grundy, are absolutely necessary but there's a risk of atrophy in that too.
And then something happens.
This afternoon, Sally removed my remaining drains. I can now walk without having to negotiate the help of a nurse to disentangle my tubes and carry my bottles. All I'm connected to, for the time being, is oxygen. The bureaucracy of this situation just lost a layer of paperwork.
I'm still trying to tap these pieces out on my phone with one thumb so academic veracity is frankly a bit of a busk but when we talk about the birth of the modern short story, we go back to Poe and we go back to Chekhov, primarily because there we find the transition from the short tale as a succinct abridgement of the larger narrative to a specialised examination of the way life moves. The journey from one moment to the next.
Poe's time passed by each moment creeping up on the last, magnifying unease and shrouded in trips and traps. Chekhov could see the passage of time in the way one moment withered away to form the next. The ultimate examination of withering time is Gusev, drawn from his own experience of a ship's sick bay. There is a closing sequence, which once resembled a leap from realism to imagination but now I'm not so sure, in which Gusev, who has spent the story pinned to the ground in pain and convinced of his imminent recovery, died and is buried at sea. We follow his body floating down, inspected by a shoal of fish who then stand aside to allow Gusev his final moment with an almost disinterested shark. It is fantastically beautiful writing – the whole story – and I recommend Rosamund Bartlett's translation.
It's 6.11am in the High Dependency unit.
Sunrise Over Wavertree
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I could give you the big handover notes, talk you through my medical history and we could get puzzled or outraged as to how I got to November 4th so sick that a slightly later 999 call would have been too late.
I could go with self-accusation: Billy Grahaming up to my bad self-destructive ways; put my 20-year-old self on trial; blame it on the hot knives, the cold flats, the revolutionary delusions and of course the boogie.
I could get all Erin Brocovitch about it and resolve to find the guilty of the medical profession who didn't foresee this all happening at any point over the last 45 years.
But my concern isn't 'How the hell did I get so sick?' but 'Who the hell isn't this sick?' Because, you know, there were local factors in the case of my body, but the sickness of keeping on slogging away in desperation, in increasing depression, trudging up and down the same bastard roads for an occasional glimpse of a honey pot – yes, exactly like Cormac Mccarthy's Winnie The Pooh – that's where to find the class action.
But I'll narrow it down again because the sun just rose over Wavertree, my first sight of the sky since last Tuesday. I have rich memories of the morning skyline in Gdansk 15 years ago, waking up eye to eye with church spires, and of sky-tall building work over Dhaka, 9 years ago, watching the immense blood orange sun from my hotel window. These trips were two of the great working experiences of my life and those moments, realising that I was here, seeing this, because I made the choice of being a writer, are among the most fulfilling I've known. And this moment – I've been sat out in a chair by the window; the Ozymandian towers in construction for the new Liverpool Royal Hospital are striping the view of Archbishop Blanch school, Mount Vernon and the stretch from Edge Lane south to Runcorn; I have a coffee and a new Bolano – correlates quite precisely with those euphoric moments abroad. I am here because I'm a writer.
Here because I'm a writer: the life I've had to live to fight for the retention of that core truth; the logic I've neglected to follow because my sense of who I am and what I should be was bigger; the reward or revenge you get for making that call. Everything that put me in here. Everything it's given me while I have been here. Everything my life was supposed to be about while my insides were fermenting like squalid moonshine, while I was maintaining the distance of one microsleep on the motorway away from being shovelled into one of the cement mixers outside instead of arriving via the ambulance bay into this world of brilliant humans and caring machines.
Tell me about your plans for the rest of the day.
I'll Be C-ing U
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It shouldn't produce separation anxiety. It's not like it's meant to have been a holiday or an exchange trip or something huggable like that but there's a bed being prepared for me in High Dependency and after the induced coma, period of intubation before the first hernia op, the two seizures on successive nights and getting back to communication with the outside world the last couple of days, my shift nurse Evangeline has just brought me a jelly but I'm struggling to find anything else to keep her busy. Looks like I'll be out of the ICU tonight and, in the absence of a way home, I'm not sure I want to leave this family.
The first lesson I absorbed was to let these incredible professionals get on with their jobs. Show trust and it'll be given back. Smile and wave at everyone because each one is doing something that's going to lower the wall you're trying to climb. Like the housekeeping staff who noticed I'd been writing my conversation when intubated, so provided a little wipe-down board and marked pen. Like Jess who managed to get me to focus on my breathing during my seizure two nights ago when I was ready to declare myself unavailable for future struggle. Every wise eyebrow raised by young Max as he swings past in slow-mo.
And that's without the relationship that builds over a shift with a dedicated, alert, compassionate nurse dealing the best scientific and human care. The ICU really belongs to these nurses and, for those times when I was conscious, I'll not forget Lucy, making the weirdest feeling of my life feel normal and under control; lovely Big Dave, who felt like a trusted friend within about 10 seconds; Dave Beard who I know will wage war on my behalf and that, if I ever had another kid, I'll have to name it Sambucha in his honour; exquisite Kieron, a mighty strength applied to a precise point; Chrissie, whose last shifts before her maternity leave had got me back to what I recognised as being alive, even though I slipped back before she clocked off; Efriz, whose dancer's poise and gentle pride in his work were as inspirational to watch as Ian's care to not miss a detail or Sara's immediate capacity to spark good spirits; or Alfie, against whose rock-like strength I was never allowed to slump during the four nights he kept me going.
Evangeline has brought me some bangers and mash. I'm going to miss this place.
I grant you, this idea of blogging my recovery scores low on originality, and negligible on cultural significance. It's also turning me from a model, compliant patient to a pain in the arse who can't leave his phone alone. More weak Baubyism in the comparative hassles of winking at a speech therapist for each letter and of spigoting the thoughts I have through the single thumb and predictive text method I have to use.
Generally, Minor Writer Makes Slow Recovery isn't going to have them rushing to the hospital gates, holding out cheese pasties and Peperamis like sacred hosts for when I'm fully back on the solids. It's not as if I'm Chekhov, drinking the last glass of champagne, brought to the room by Raymond Carver's sleepy bell-boy (from the story Errand; read Janet Malcolm's charting of how Carver's fiction crept into official Chekhov biographies in the brilliant Reading Chekhov) – well, because, it's not as if I'm Chekhov.
But there's a part of the problem of being a writer that makes a stretch in ICU or something similar…let's not say appealing, let's leave the idea hanging like a distended scrotum after hernia surgery. It's something to do with being monitors for suffering.
One of the things I noticed about all the brilliant contributions to Beta – Life was how optimistic mine seemed in comparison with the dystopia on display in pretty much every other piece. Now, this work was human, compassionate and there wasn't an absence of hope from writers like Lucy Caldwell, Zoe Lambert or Adam Marek. And my story's relative neutropia came about when I asked Francesco Mondada about whether he was optimistic (optimism having been a major response in my reading of Sara Maitland's Moss Witch). Francesco was very dubious about progress coming without more powerful strides taken by commerce and military. So for a gentle family story involving writing and robots to happen in 2070, something had to have gone right.
So there is a context for my lack of dystopic gloom but…it doesn't make you one of the cool kids. So that's going to sound like I'm now catching up on the horror in order to get in that way. Maybe this is just a case of: Minor Writer Finally Finds Time To Write.
And that's all the cultural significance I need.
The Claymatian Inside
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The bed-wetting reference of the previous post – while an entirely truthful piece of eye-catching amateur Christy Brown-ing, a little league Baubyism – wasn't the story of last night. That was the piss that made its way into a bottle, held by Laura of the swinging hips, who snaffled the catch with the curly-haired aplomb of Graham Roope, dipping to his right to see an edge on a Geoff Arnold off-cutter find its way home.
Just a word of warning: you won't need expert medical knowledge to follow this series of posts. You may, however, wish to research domestic and international cricket of the 1970s and 1980s to gain full technical appreciation.
Anyway, with no further catches getting spilled, I can see this being one route out of here: on my back but pissing in the right direction.
I'm still working out all the other ways. Last night and the night before, I'd watched my shift nurses prepare the discharge notes for my transfer to High Dependency, then watched that pristine care melt as my agonised, short breaths, the knuckles pawing for the floor and seizure sweats petrified around me in the claymatian shape of the inside of the ambulance, my last memory of life before the ICU.
Before Steph switched me back on, I was aware I'd been sedated – for how long that had been and how long I was conscious of it, I have no idea – and I worked out from voices I'd started to hear that I'd already come through something, that I was now going to be held in this place before the next something but that I seemed very strong and I have a lovely girlfriend. Remarkably, the first indication ICU nurses were able to give me of the strength I could draw on to get through this, came before they'd even woken me up.
The claymatian inside of the ambulance, of my head, of a muddy River Styx with thousands of naked Morph soldiers commando crawling across it, had until last night been features of the lit-up fantasies whenever I closed my eyes. The morphine was clearly at the root of that. It's less easy to explain how much it separated my perceptions from reality in my ideas about the medical process taking place here: the casting of the staff and even other patients; the methods used to lull patients into the correct responses; the music playing under and against and sometimes within your pain; the backslang reminiscent at times of Poloni… It doesn't require anywhere near that amount of puzzling to work out how clever science and skilled, meticulous, loving care are what have saved me on four big occasions so far and been life-affirming the rest of the time.
I'm doing this because what's happening to me amongst these new friends in ICU feels like it needs more than a thank-you card. And, yes, it's the journeyman writer's hopeful step into the territory of the misery memoirist and if one way out of this is via a spot of promo on Woman's Hour during a focus on Men's Health and how we never act like we worry about our health until it's no longer there, I'll take that.
But if you want to support this blog,please keep reading, reposting, reacting, retweeting. This is raw pamphleteering and if you agree with it, please support the work of the ICU team at the Royal. Not so closely you get to write my sequel, mind you.
Last night I closed my eyes and saw the shadows of the ICU doors, windows and the corridors out. Nine days here and I've just arrived.


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Today's press release paints a very disturbing picture of Binghamton University's Department of Social Work. The department ordered the suspension of a master's student for one year with no guarantee of return, required him to apologize, and demanded that he publicly disavow his own views after he put up posters challenging the department for having hired the executive director of the Binghamton Housing Authority (BHA)—an agency the student thought was responsible for social injustice. Student Andre Massena remains in school pending an appeal, which is to be heard tomorrow afternoon.
On August 25, 2008, Massena put up posters on campus claiming that a woman and her children had been unjustly evicted from their home by the BHA. Under the pseudonym "JUSTICESPEAKS," the poster called the BHA "inhumane" and noted that its executive director, David K. Tanenhaus, is an adjunct professor at the school's Department of Social Work. The poster encouraged readers to call the department "to let them know what you think."
Massena chose anonymity after hearing stories from other students in the department about students being unjustly "advanced" (expelled) from the program. When interrogated about the posters, Massena exercised his right to anonymous speech by declining to acknowledge authorship—a decision ultimately cited as the official reason for Massena's punishment.
One week later, Massena received a "Written Plan" from his department. It failed to specify any alleged violations, but nevertheless assigned him shockingly onerous and unconstitutional requirements to complete in order to continue his master's program. Massena was required to leave the university for two semesters, with his return contingent on "departmental approval." He also was required to present a formal statement to university and governmental officials retracting his opinions, to submit formal apologies to a pre-approved list of people as evaluated by Professors Laura Bronstein and Diane Wiener, and to complete a critical reflection paper of ten to twelve pages on the topic of ethics in social work.
Yet even these humiliating, disproportionate, and inappropriate punishments were not sufficient for the Department of Social Work. Massena also was required to actively discourage others from similar activism by making "every effort possible…to end the process whereby students, service providers and community members approach the Dept. of Social Work in an effort to alleviate 'wrong' they may see as occurring at the Binghamton Housing Authority."
These outrageous requirements focused on the content and the embarrassing effects of the posters, not on Massena's alleged failure to identify himself as author of the posters. The department was demanding no less than abject groveling from one of its own students.
Massena immediately appealed his punishment to an appeals committee within the department. On September 23, the committee notified Massena that it had upheld the suspension (with no guarantee of return) and the required paper. The other requirements apparently were waived. The committee persisted in failing to name any specific charges against Massena, stating only that the hearing concerned Massena's "readiness for advancement in the social work program."
Massena appealed once more, this time to the College of Community and Public Affairs Ethics and Integrity Committee, only to find that he would be facing a series of brand-new allegations. According to policy, Massena's appeal had to be in the form of a grievance against Professor Bronstein, Chair of the Department of Social Work. In an attempt to bolster her department's case, Bronstein submitted roughly 50 pages of materials and entirely new allegations on October 21, concluding that she now believed Massena should be expelled.
Even other Binghamton University officials found Bronstein's response ridiculous and ordered that the hearing's scope be reduced to something close to the original charges—charges that still had not been specifically or consistently stated. Since the department had continued to violate Massena's due process rights, giving him just days to prepare his response to Bronstein's new charges, the appeal was postponed until tomorrow.
The letter he received from the College of Community and Public Affairs Ethics and Integrity Committee finally told him that his charges were "that you lied to University police on two separate occasions concerning your role in the distribution of certain flyers that were posted at the University Downtown Center in violation of University posting procedures." But it is unclear whether Massena violated any such procedures in the first place. Massena has been investigated separately through the university's judicial system for that, and there has not even been a hearing or any statement of charges yet. Besides, according to Brian Rose, Vice President of Student Affairs, the maximum penalty Massena could be facing through the normal judicial process is a letter of admonition. That fact alone signals that the Department of Social Work has made the bizarre choice to pursue a vendetta against a student whose opinions it finds inconvenient and unwanted.
Meanwhile, it looks like the same thing is happening with a grade dispute Massena is facing, but that's another story. FIRE almost never intervenes in grade disputes, but when a department goes to war against a student in such a severe way, we are willing to take a closer look.
FIRE wrote Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur on October 29 about the numerous, serious violations of Massena's rights to freedom of expression, pseudonymous speech, due process, and freedom of conscience. We insisted that the school acknowledge Massena's First Amendment right to freely criticize public officials, public entities such as the BHA, and even Binghamton University itself without punishment or roundabout allegations intended to punish Massena by other means.
Given the Department of Social Work's extreme and shocking overreaction to Massena's protected speech and its aggressive attempts to find any available rationale to punish the student, it is clearly trying to send the message that students dissent at their peril. In this atmosphere of repression, no reasonable person should be required or expected to admit to criticizing the department.
I encourage readers to look through the documents linked above. They paint such a disturbing picture of Binghamton University's Department of Social Work that I am reminded of the case of social work student Emily Brooker at Missouri State University. Missouri State University quickly settled a freedom of conscience lawsuit in response to an incident in which Brooker was interrogated for two and a half hours by faculty members who attacked her religious beliefs and threatened to withhold her degree. As part of the settlement, the university paid Brooker's attorneys' fees and waived her tuition for graduate school. Missouri State then solicited an independent investigation of the School of Social Work. That investigation found:
Many students and faculty stated a fear of voicing differing opinions from the instructor or colleague. This was particularly true regarding spiritual and religious matters however, [sic] students voiced fears about questioning faculty regarding assignments or expectations. In fact "bullying" was used by both students and faculty to characterize specific faculty. It appears that faculty have no history of intellectual discussion/debate. Rather, differing opinions are taken personally and often result in inappropriate discourse…
There is an atmosphere where the Code of Ethics is used in order to coerce students into certain belief systems regarding social work practice and the social work profession. This represents a distorted use of the Social Work Code of Ethics in that the Code of Ethics articulates that social workers should respect the values and beliefs of others.
Sound familiar? It may well be time for an independent investigation of the Department of Social Work at Binghamton University.


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Public radio's weekly media criticism show, "On the Media," produced by WNYC and NPR, was selected as the 2012 recipient of the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, presented annually by the College of Communications at Penn State.
With its submission, "On the Media" (www.onthemedia.org) focused on how news organizations cover elections and use facts, as well as how quickly they share information -- and especially how the race to be first impacts news judgment. With its selection, "On the Media" became the first back-to-back winner in the 18-year history of the award, which will be presented Thursday, May 23, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The Bart Richards Award recognizes outstanding contributions to print and broadcast journalism through responsible analysis or critical evaluation.
Several pieces around two themes comprised the "On the Media" submission for co-hosts Bob Garfield, a Penn State alumnus, and Brooke Gladstone, who also serves as the show's managing editor. One area of emphasis was the reporting of politics and the politics of reporting. The other area of focus was the rush to judgment by news organizations.
In the first instance, "On the Media" pointed out examples of how facts were used, or not, by the media. The program also examined little-known deals made with politicians to get quotes, a process even practiced by the nation's most respected newspaper. While focusing on the speed with which the media did its job in regard to certain stories, "On the Media" found news organizations made decisions they should have known were wrong. Such flawed reporting produced immediate and lasting consequences.
Judges for the award cited the impact and value of the work. The three judges were: Richard Cole, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina; Carole Feldman, director of news operations and finance for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C.; and Brian Healy, a distinguished broadcast news professional who crafted an Emmy Award-winning career as a producer for CBS News for more than 35 years.
"The 'On the Media' pieces explored timely yet lasting issues of importance -- especially true for a political campaign but also true for good journalism anywhere and anytime. They were presented in an interesting and compelling way," Cole said. "In addition to journalistic enterprise, they showed reason and common sense."
Feldman and Healy appreciated both the insight and entertainment that the pieces provided.
"'On the Media' looks at some of the worst in journalism, tries to make sense of why it happened and what lessons can be learned for the future," Feldman said. "Its focus on the race to be first and how accuracy is sometimes sacrificed in that race was especially poignant."
"The program provides timely, informative, accessible criticism of issues that can taint journalism and journalists," Healy said. "It's a service to journalists as well as citizens who rely on an open, unbiased media in a democratic society. The reports are also entertaining."
Garfield earned his bachelor's degree in English from Penn State in 1977. Along with his work for "On the Media," he is a columnist for MediaPost and The Guardian and co-host of Slate's language podcast "Lexicon Valley." He's been a contributing editor for the Washington Post Magazine, Civilization and the op-ed page of USA Today. Garfield has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and Wired, and has been employed variously by ABC, CBS and CNBC.
As a lecturer, he has appeared in 37 countries on six continents, including such venues as the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Capitol, the Rainbow Room, the Smithsonian, Circus Circus casino, the Grande Ole Opry, Harvard University and a Thai kickboxing ring in Cape Town, South Africa. He has written five books, most recently "Can't Buy Me Like" (2013).
Gladstone is the co-host and managing editor of "On the Media." After working in print media, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon. She became senior editor of "All Things Considered" in 1989. In 1991, she spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow and then reported for NPR from Moscow during Boris Yeltsin's presidency from 1992 to 1995.
Gladstone served for six years as NPR's first media correspondent and then joined "On the Media" when WNYC relaunched the program in January 2001. She has been the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and several others. She also is the author of "The Influencing Machine" (2011).


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Victim identified in fatal hit and run in Wakefield. Police are still seeking information on the driver of the vehicle.
Susan Harmon, 44, of Melrose has been identified as the victim of Monday night's hit and run accident on Greenwood Street in Wakefield.Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone and Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith confirmed the identity of the woman. On August 25, at approximately 8:58 p.m., Wakefield Police received several 911 calls reporting that a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle on Greenwood Street near the Melrose town line. Witnesses reported that a woman was struck by a green or tan Audi with tinted windows. The vehicle then north on Greenwood Street. The vehicle has not been located at this time and authorities are asking anyone with any information to contact Wakefield Police at 781-246-6331.
"Wakefield Police and State Police from our office are conducting an active investigation into the circumstances of this motor vehicle fatality," Leone said. "Our sincere thoughts and prayers are with Ms. Harmon's family." "We are determined to locate and identify those responsible for this terrible tragedy. I am confident that in the end we will find those responsible and bring closure for the Harmon family. We owe them that much and we will keep the family in thoughts as we move forward in this investigation. I respectfully request, that if anyone has any information relative to the suspect vehicle, owner and /or operator, please call the Wakefield Police Department," Chief Smith said. This case is being investigated by Wakefield Police and Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office.
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Third career Runner of the Week award for the sophomore; second this month
MACON, Ga. (Oct. 23, 2013) – Following a team-leading performance this past weekend at the Blue Ridge Open in Boone, N.C., sophomore runner Katie Hirko (Oley, Pa.) has been named the Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Runner of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday.
The accolade is the third of her career and the second of this month for the defending A-Sun Women's Freshman Runner of the Year.
At the Open on Saturday, Oct. 18, Hirko notched a fourth-place overall finish, out of 216 competitors, with a time of 18:01.54. This standing paced the Buccaneers who as a team turned in fifth-place standing out of 27 teams at the meet. The performance was the best of the season for the Blue & Gold in a large and highly-competitive field.
The Pennsylvania native has now been the top finisher for ETSU in all four meets this season. In addition, she currently averages a top-10 overall finish through all four events, highlighted by taking first at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational with a time of 21:32.90 in a 6K on Friday, Sept. 20.
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Forces at work in a real fall
The values of the forces at work in a climbing fall that one finds in the literature or on the Internet are mostly derived from tests and numerical models based on the standard model (rigid masses, falls on a fixed point…). So reported values are high, as they are the product of harsh tests. In order to determine the forces actually encountered in the field, we performed a series of fall tests with the climbers in three configurations, corresponding to higher and higher fall factors.
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The results shown are valid only on the tested configurations and cannot be generalized to all situations. However they help us evaluate falls involving real people. To ensure repeatability of our protocol, each test was repeated at least three times.
Despite our desire for a rigorous protocol, measurement uncertainty related to these results is significant. We can estimate at + or - 0.3 kN. The forces presented are thus the result of the average of the tests, rounded to 0.5 kN.
We made the choice to focus on the forces on the climber, the belayer, and the redirect point. However, the force value alone does not characterize a fall. Other factors come into play to quantify the severity of a fall, notably the force rise time and the direction of pull. These different factors are not studied here and will be the subject of a future publication.
Fall factor 0.3
This first series represents a common climbing situation.
Test conditions
- Climber: 80 kg
- Belayer: 80 kg
- Rope length: : 6.9 m
- Fall length: 2 m
- Rope: VOLTA 9.2 mm
- Belay device: GRIGRI 2
To ensure a certain repeatability, the climber always falls from the same position and the belayer is neutral (non-dynamic belay).
For this test, we chose not to clip the first quickdraw, in order to avoid blocking belayer displacement.
Impact force ≈ 2.5 kN
The climber experiences the fall as a soft catch.
Note the significant climber displacement, despite the short fall distance.
Impact force ≈ 1.5 kN
For the belayer, the fall is easy to stop.
Impact force ≈ 4 kN
Despite the short fall distance, the climber ends up not far from the ground. This significant displacement is explained by two points:
- the line was straight, with little friction in the quickdraws.
- the first quickdraw was not clipped, so belayer displacement was not limited.
This situation is common in the gym, where the main hazard is a ground fall.
Systematically clipping the first quickdraw reduces the chance of a ground fall, by limiting belayer displacement.
Fall factor 0.7
This second configuration represents a fall on a multi-pitch climb, at the start of a pitch.
Test conditions
- Climber: 80 kg
- Belayer: 80 kg
- Rope length: : 3 m
- Fall length: 2 m
- Rope: VOLTA 9.2 mm
- Belay device: GRIGRI 2
The belayer is tethered to the belay with an 80 cm lanyard. This length was chosen according to the location of the belay station: the belayer is below an arete, the 80 cm lanyard helps limit belayer displacement.
The belay station has no freedom of movement - it is equivalent to a fixed point. We made this choice to increase the repeatability of the test. A more common belay station gives the belayer more freedom of movement and thus yields lower forces. By contrast, the redirect point has significant freedom of movement; with a shorter anchor, the forces would be higher.
Impact force ≈ 3 kN
The fall is impressive for the climber, but not painful.
Impact force ≈ 2 kN
The force is not significant, but the belayer is stopped harshly at the belay station. Stopping the fall can be difficult if the belayer is surprised.
Impact force ≈ 5 kN
An initial series of tests was conducted without a redirect point on the belay. As the first anchor point was offset to the right of the belay, the belayer was pulled sideways in the fall, then stopped harshly by his lanyard. Sustaining such a load is hard on the human body.
A redirect point in-line with the belay (or otherwise on the belay) helps ensure a good direction of pull on the belayer, which makes stopping the fall less painful, and thus easier.
Fall factor 1
This configuration represents a fall on a multi-pitch climb when leaving the belay.
Test conditions
- Climber: 80 kg
- Belayer: 80 kg
- Rope length: : 3.6 m
- Fall length: 3.6 m
- Rope: VOLTA 9.2 mm (Impact force: 8.6 kN)
- Belay device: GRIGRI 2
The belayer is tethered to the belay with an 80 cm lanyard.
The belay station has no freedom of movement - it is equivalent to a fixed point.
Impact force ≈ 4 kN
Such a fall is impressive for the climber and is rare in the field. However, the force is quite bearable.
Impact force ≈ 2 kN
As with the factor 0.7, the belayer is stopped harshly at the belay station: arresting the fall can be painful and difficult.
Impact force ≈ 6 kN
The force on the anchor is significant.
Such a pull is no problem for a solid fixed anchor.
However, it would be critical on a dubious point such as a small wire or bad piton.
Belayer movement helps dissipate the fall energy and thus limits the force. Thus the belayer is advised to have a long tether to allow displacement. Obviously, the length must be suitable for the situation.
The first point after the belay must be solid.
These tests have enabled us to put values on falls involving real people. These values will serve as a basis to study some particular points of the fall.


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Crews are continuing cleanup efforts in central Arkansas after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured and spewed crude oil onto lawns and roadways late last week.
Officials say they've recovered about 12,000 barrels of oil and water after the pipeline burst Friday in the small city of Mayflower, about 20 miles northwest of Little Rock.
ExxonMobil and local officials say they've found two dead ducks, along with 10 oiled ducks that are to be treated in Russellville.
Workers in yellow suits waded into an oil-soaked lawn Monday as they attempted to clean up part of the area where the spill began.
The air still smells like gasoline, but officials say it's getting better.
The spill led authorities to evacuate nearly two dozen homes in a subdivision where the pipe burst.


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Hello and welcome to the discussion thread of chapters 9 and 10 of Book 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring! If you are new to this forum, please check in at the LOTR OOC thread before posting.
SUMMARY: LOTR Book 2, Chp 9, The Great River
The morning arrives with the party off-river, and they soon set back on to the river to again drift southwards. They allow the river to carry them at its pace, but rise early and staying afloat as many hours of the day as possible. Days pass and the landscape transistions from bare to bleak. Sam catches sight of Gollum in the river, and Aragorn mentions he has been aware of their follower since Moria. Aragorn tells Frodo and Sam he will watch for the remainder of that night.
Another day passes and the party comes upon rapids at night, and they quickly turn the boats aside to escape the danger. However, their turning takes them to the eastern shore, and they are assaulted by a rain of orc-arrows. After some struggle, they manage to turn the boats and land on the western shore, only to hear an evil cry in the night sky above. Legolas' bow proves a great boon, as he manages to shoot the thing out of the sky, much to the dismay of the orcs on the opposite shore.
The morning brings debate about which way the party should travel, and again it is seen that Boromir is intent upon returning to his homeland, but rescinds to support the fellowship in their travels as far as he can go, to the Tindrock. The boats are carried over land past the rapids and the party again takes to the water. After a brief journey through rain and fog, the party is awed by the sight of the Argonath, the fearsome carvings of the kings of old, seemingly warning away anyone who would venture in between. Sam's fear is put to rest by Strider, who in a brief moment of awakening, reveals his kingly stature as Aragorn.
The boats shoot past the chasm of the stone sentinels which opens onto a long lake flanked by tall hills at the far end. The falls of Rauros are audible just beyond sight past the hills, where the fellowship must decide their final path.
SUMMARY: LOTR Book 2, Chp 10, The Breaking of the Fellowship
For rest and shelter, Strider directs the landing on the west bank. Frodo is wary, and his sword Sting reveals faint orc-sign. The dawn is red with black clouds in the east. The party gathers to discuss the final path, but no one volunteers a decision, and so, given the task of choosing, Frodo asks for an hour alone to consider. Boromir quietly leaves the group and follows Frodo, feigning to guard him, but instead pleading and cajoling insistingly with Frodo for the cause of taking the ring to use in force against Sauron. Frodo steps away in fear of Boromir's apparent anxiety, and as Boromir lunges at him, enraged, Frodo uses the ring to escape. Boromir yells at Frodo, accusing him of plotting to take the ring to Sauron. However, Boromir trips and falls in the pursuit of Frodo, and crying, he comes to himself in the realization of his grievous error.
Frodo runs away to the hill top, where he looks across the land. He perceives the searching of the eye, and manages to remove the ring before he is caught. He comes to terms with the fact that he must leave the fellowship and continue on alone. His decision made, he heads down the hill, placing the ring back on his hand for concealment.
The party wonders what his decision will be, and notices the time has passed, and just then Boromir walks up and confesses what he has done. In fear for his safety, the search for Frodo commences. Sam quickly catches on and runs to the boats, and jumps into the water to follow the apparently empty boat that is leaving without him, calling to Mr. Frodo. Frodo pulls him into the boat, and the two land on the far shore, and begin making their way to the east and into the Emyn Muil.


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Choo has been featured on local and national television networks like Fox News, NBC, ABC and Cornerstone Television. Choo has appeared on television shows like "Good Fellas of Baltimore", a Fox reality show, and the new ABC Reality show "Ball Boys". As a humanitarian, Charles "Choo" Smith has and continues to touch the lives of youth throughout Maryland and across the world.
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Charles "Choo" Smith, Jr. is the only child born to Brenda and Charles H. Smith., Sr. He was born on November 30, 1970 and was raised in West Baltimore. He graduated from the historic City College High School in 1988. While he excelled at baseball, he soon realized his true love was for the game of basketball. Charles was the starting point guard for the varsity team and quickly rose to the rank of captain.
Charles attended Bowie State University in Maryland. He soon became the institution's starting point guard. After his first year of college Charles was recruited by Mr. Will Jones, head coach of the University of the District of Columbia. Choo immediately earned his spot as the starting point guard. Led by Choo, the Firebirds went seven games over .500 for the first time in 10 years. Choo was honored for his exceptional basketball skills and finished his college career as the school's all time leader in Steals and Assists. During this time Choo was voted MVP of the team, he won The Pigskin Classic Award as the "Best Player" in the region and the Reslyn W. Henry Memorial Award. Charles "Choo" Smith graduated from the University of the District of Columbia with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
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Charles founded Choo Smith Youth Empowerment, a non-profit organization that focuses on his "4L" philosophy (Love it, Learn it, Live it, Lead it) and Choo Smith Enterprise a for-profit corporation. From these organizations the Choo Smith Summer Basketball Camp was born. This camp became the platform for many initiatives under Choo Smith Youth Empowerment, Inc.
Choo has the ability to reach children and youth right where they are in life. His drive and determination will not allow him to ever leave any child where he found them. His motives and heart are pure from the sense that he wants nothing from the children and families he helps but to position them to be successful. The integrity that he exhibits magnifies itself in everything that he's involved with. Choo does not compromise his ethics and faith in Christ for any reason. He has a heart of gold. No matter what time of the day, if a child needs to talk to him about anything, he always makes himself available. He is soft spoken, but when he speaks he commands the attention of the audience he is speaking to. Failure is never an option. He pushes the athletes he trains to reach their full potential. He gives of his time, money and whatever is needed of him freely.
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