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While the number of wirehouse advisors continues to shrink, the assumption that a large number of them are going into the independent channel is flawed, said Chip Roame, head of Tiburon Strategic Advisors during the group's CEO Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. "I don't buy it," said the consultant.
"The fact is that 12% of wirehouse and regional advisors typically move in a year, and 90% of them do so because they are fired," he explained during a presentation on industry trends. "Of the remaining 10% who chose to leave, 70% stay within the channel that includes the wirehouse and regional firms."
"So what are we talking about? Maybe 300 to 500 successful advisors choose to go independent each year and take between $100 billion and $200 billion with them," said Roame. In contrast, about 5,000 wirehouse advisors were let go last year, he shares, and these brokers have about $17 million in average assets vs. the overall wirehouse average of $94 million in AUM.
Some of these fired advisors may indeed go independent. But since it is not a step they are taking of their own volition, this movement is far from the much-hyped "breakaway-broker" trend, Roame says. "Anecdotally, my understanding is that many of them become wholesalers or take similar positions within the financial-services industry," he explained.
At Bank of America, for instance, some advisors who are being pushed out of the FA channel can move over to the Merrill Edge, BofA's mass-affluent Web-focused channel, by working in branches or phone centers.
"Why is the breakaway shift so small? Advisors need more landing pads. They don't want to be their own RIA," said Roame. This situation, he adds, is helping consolidators who can handle the back-office issues, such as HighTower, and firms like Schwab.
It's also leading the wirehouses to consider ways for their captured advisors to embrace the RIA model in what he calls "halfway-house" developments. Such hybrid models could be introduced over the next few months by wirehouse firms like Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, according to Roame.
On the flipside, however, some independent advisors such as Ron Carson, are moving out of the independent broker-dealer space dominated by LPL Financial in order to have their own RIA. "There's a lot of polarization going on these days," Roame shared.
For the broader financial-services industry, the distribution system is generally moving toward more independent structures of all types, Roame said. This trend, along with the continued dominance of high-end advisors and expansion of self-service or partial-service investing models (like Merrill Edge) will continue to be major industry trends, he believes.
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In 2005, there were 338,909 financial advisors, while in 2010, that number was down to 320,378, according to Tiburon Strategic Advisors, representing a drop of about 18,500.
There were about 62,500 wirehouse/regional advisors in '08 and roughly 55,500 in '10, according to the Northern California-based consultancy. The number of independent reps fell from about 104,300 in '05 to 97,800 in '10. But the total number of dual-registered reps or RIAs grew from 23,500 to 33,400 over that same period.
The total number of advisors–320,000–is stagnant, Roame says. "It's ironic that it's gone down with the markets but as Baby Boomers are getting ready to retire," he explained. "But self-service shops have jumped in to fill the gap on the retail side, and higher-end advisors are taking more market share; it's the 80/20 rule."
Some of the wirehouse firms may be struggling with "strategic issues," the consultant says, "but their advisors are still amazingly successful.
As measured by assets, the wirehouse and regional firms managed about 58% of total assets in 2010, down from 63% in '07 but still way ahead of the independent channel–which had about 35% of industry AUM last year, Roame explains.
Follow the Money
As with the "breakaway-broker" trend, there has been a flawed generality when it comes to advisors and pricing methods, Roame notes. "Wirehouse advisors are 56% fee based and 44% commission based," he said. Regional reps are 53% fee based and 47% commission based, while 51% of independents' production comes from fees and the remaining 49% from commissions.
"The message to IBDs is, 'Don't beat this drum of fee-based focus and how special you are on this distribution point,' " said Roame, because the data says otherwise.

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Brooke Burke is recovering after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer on Wednesday.
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I visited the cemetery a number of years ago and couldn't find it, but there is a picture in Findagrave. It's cataloged under Jens A Overson:ReplyDelete
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When he started at Purdue, Kyle Ruddy planned to become your friendly neighborhood pharmacist. Fortunately, he realized that computers were way more fun than chemistry. Otherwise, he wouldn't be in Technical Marketing at VMware and we wouldn't have the story about that time he accidentally deleted every desktop in his employer's VDI environment.
We sat down with the Indianapolis native (who currently lives in Tampa, Florida, in part to take advantage of the incredible weather and scuba diving) to learn more about him, his career path and why he geeks out about those APIs in vSphere 6.5.
I learned about VMware when I was working at a company that had just started using vCenter and ESX, and it was just amazing. I never really thought VMware was a place I could ever work. However, one of the really nice things about VMware's community is something called the VMware User Group, or VMUG. I started volunteering with the Indianapolis VMUG and after a couple years, I was one of the leaders. The next thing I knew, some folks from VMware started talking to me about roles that might appeal to me. I was still brushing it off as something unattainable. But eventually I gave in, started the interview process, and here I am.
Technology-wise, vMotion was one of those mind-blowing experiences that floored me. I remember thinking, "How did this happen? How did it work?!" I wanted to learn more and more about it and show it off to anyone who would watch. As far as people, certainly Alan Renouf and Nick Weaver, both of whom hooked me by showing me some of the things that you can easily do with automation. I started out as someone with little to no coding experience, who was tediously clicking within a UI. I turned into someone who could create and run a single script that can deploy entire environments. It's still magical today.
Oh, I have a good one. Look, automation is great. It's a fantastic tool. But you need to be careful about what you're doing. In this case, at a previous employer, we were staging up a VMware Horizon environment. Some of the automation pieces were apparently rough around the edges, to put it nicely, and I ended up deleting pretty much every desktop that was available in the environment. Every single one. That was a tremendous setback, and it probably cost about a week's worth of work. Plus, I was basically instilling fear into these people who were now going to have to use this environment—in their minds, they just saw it go up in smoke for little or no reason.
That taught me a lot about testing, the need for test environments and owning up to whatever you did. It's easy to say, "I don't know what happened." But I think it's imperative to take ownership when this type of thing happens. I still talk to some of those former coworkers, and they still bring that up to this day. It really was that bad.
vSphere 6.5 introduced some new APIs that are REST-based. For a long time, vCenter and vSphere have offered what are called SOAP-based APIs. Those are a little hard to use and they have a steep learning curve. By transitioning some of our APIs over to REST, they're a lot easier to use and understand. We've also been able to redefine how to access those APIs, too. Admins who have stalled on automation (saying, "Well, I'm not a developer so I'm not going to automate anything because that's not my job") are now discovering the time savings they can get from learning and using these REST APIs.
The move from a Windows-based virtual center to an appliance-based virtual center is huge because that makes everything a whole lot easier in terms of management. You don't have to worry about Windows services; you don't have to worry about a separate database or even an external database. Everything is self-contained on that single appliance. That greatly condenses the amount of upgrade time from what they were doing previously.
When he's not helping customers upgrade to vSphere 6.5, Kyle swims with sharks.
Usability and user experience. From the RESTful APIs to the HTML5 web client, the interaction is simpler and so much easier.
It's light years from where it's been. It's an amazing transition. You go from managing everything—from putting a physical box into a rack, running all the wiring, making sure that it has proper amounts of power, installing the operating system, working with your developers or your end users to make sure the proper applications are there—and you really don't have to do most of that today. You can use services like VMware Cloud on AWS, where you never, ever see the physical equipment. Also, I've been talking to a lot of customers about configuration management lately, where the entire infrastructure is managed as code. You can essentially have your entire infrastructure documented in code, so if something were to happen, you can run an incremental check where it will verify and change anything that needs to be changed. Then you have everything back up and running.
Oh, it's absolutely key. It will continue being that building block. Once vSphere is in place, then you start having access to this wealth of other resources and services you can add on top of it to make the most of the VMware stack. In three years, you may see some more integration with containers, software-defined networks and software-defined storage. But vSphere will continue to be that core building block.
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Personally I'd love the full sized dummy with Boba's outfit on it. It's very cool but about 5 grand. Bummer hey (Probably not rare either).I saw the original costume once when the exhibition came to Australia. It was damn tempting to break the glass and steal it - I had a fellow Fett fan with me at the time too
Mind you I have a friend who has the Stormtrooper outfit on a dummy. They named him Graham.
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Brayden Hamilton-Smith found his calling while studying at Trent University in Peterborough when he volunteered for the medical team that provided first response for emergencies on campus.
That sparked his interest in the paramedic field and members of Peterborough Emergency Medical Services (EMS) steered him to community college. Hamilton-Smith enrolled in the Humber College Paramedic Diploma Program, which offered both hospital and field clinical components. He graduated in 2008.
"While there were positions available all over the province, many of us were competing for the positions available in the Greater Toronto Area," he says. "Bigger cities tend to offer better salaries and more opportunities for advancement."
He joined the Toronto EMS, Canada's largest at 850 paramedics, that same year. The service hired 47 paramedics in 2009, 54 in 2010 and 24 in 2011. It intends to hire approximately 24 paramedics this year.
Hamilton-Smith attributes the growth of the force to paramedics' efficiency as first responders. "In the past, there was the perception that paramedics were simply ambulance drivers offering blankets and oxygen," he says. "Today's paramedics offer the latest technology in combination with an expanded skill set. They can provide anything from intravenous medications to pacing the heart using electrical impulses, intubating someone with difficulty breathing or placing a needle into someone's lungs to relieve pressure at a car collision."
Hamilton-Smith is certified as a primary care paramedic, one authorized by a physician to perform a specific range of medical procedures. There are also advanced care and critical care paramedics, who are authorized to perform a wider range of patient services.
Typically, Hamilton-Smith spends a 12-hour shift working from a response vehicle in the vicinity of his home base. He and a partner take turns driving to calls. People are surprised, he says, to find that many dispatches aren't life-threatening emergencies and don't conclude with a trip to a hospital.
The dispatcher assigns priorities to calls, ranging from "alpha" at the lowest, to "echo" at the highest. Alpha calls include responding to a person with a recurring or chronic condition, or to someone who has fallen and needs assistance getting up.
"High priority calls are for someone who is choking or experiencing cardiac arrest, for example," says Hamilton-Smith.
"When we arrive, establishing communication is the most important thing. If you can't talk to them, it limits what you can do in a short time. You try to project a cool and calm exterior to the patient and quickly establish a sense of trust, and then show them that the trust they've given you is well founded. In some cases you're also dealing with family or bystanders."
It isn't necessarily severe injuries or serious situations that have the greatest impact on him.
"It's the little things," he says. "Like answering a pediatric call and seeing a child who looks like your own child or an older patient who resembles a relative. That's when it really hits home that you're here to make a positive difference in the outcome."
Chris Hood, president of the Paramedic Association of Canada, says advanced care paramedics are currently seeing the greatest opportunities for employment across the country.
"There are still always positions for primary care paramedics, especially in rural and remote areas, but the overall demand for primary care is going to increase over the next six or seven years as significant numbers of paramedics reach retirement age," he says.
Critical care paramedics will also see employment gains over the next three to five years as they're increasingly assigned to non-traditional roles, he says.
"We're seeing paramedics who once worked in ambulances now assigned to such locations as hospital emergency rooms," says Hood.
Hamilton-Smith recommends that applicants at any level make efforts to improve their employability.
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Every spring after classes end at Norfolk County Agricultural High School (NCAHS), ten juniors join the crew of the Arnold Arboretum as interns to learn how public gardens and arboreta care for their important plant collections. The students spend a month at the Arboretum working in the landscape and attending specialized classes. Marc Mertz, arboriculture instructor at NCAHS, and Arboretum living collections staff guide students through a hands-on exploration of the vocation of public horticulture.
This year students got their hands dirty working much of their time with Horticultural Technologist Jen Kettell in the Bussey Brook conifer collection. Jen demonstrated some of the rough and tough requirements of landscape maintenance while developing students' knowledge of current horticultural practice. Working together, the team improved the health and appearance of many plants in the collection by mulching and edging beds, removing invasive species, and taking soil samples for cultural analysis. Jen also coached interns on the families and individual species of conifers, using branch and cone samples from the collection. Then, following a class on best planting practices with Kit Ganshaw and Jen, students transplanted hollies from the Arboretum's nursery to the hickory collection along Valley Road.
Interns also spent a week in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden, where Horticultural Technologists Brendan McCarthy and Rachel Brinkman mentored them each day on a different aspect of public garden maintenance. Arboretum arborists taught a class on pruning techniques for woody plants, helping interns to prune shrubs and vines and maintain planting beds in the garden. Since approximately 40 million acres of lawn cover the United States and thus play an important role in horticulture, students learned about turf care using a variety of professional landscaping mowers, string trimmers, and blowers. The critical importance of good soil and soil maintenance was explored over two days, and included the use of a compressed air spade to loosen soils in compacted beds and to excavate buried trunk collars to check for girdling roots and monitor plant health.
Between workdays in Bussey Brook and the Leventritt Garden, interns rounded out their experience through interactions with Arboretum staff. Director William (Ned) Friedman shared his own vocational path in plant science, stressing the importance of pursuing work that is meaningful. Librarians Liz Francis and Lisa Pearson shared the Arboretum's extensive collections of books and images in the Horticultural Library, and Kyle Port and Kathryn Richardson tutored students on collecting and maintaining plant records. Near the end of their internship, a day was also spent with arborists working on larger trees, including instruction in tree climbing and bucket truck operation.
The interns' determination and enthusiasm showed in the quality of their work at the Arboretum, and all remarked favorably on their experience. Abby, a floral design and horticulture major, called it an "eye-opening, once-in-a-lifetime experience." Gabe, a landscape operations major, was excited about how much he had learned—especially about digging and drumlacing nursery plants. Caitlin, an urban forestry major, summed up the feelings of many of her companions: "I love being outside and doing the real hard work of a horticulturist. I just love it."
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Once you have spotted a mathematical problem that (presumably) fits your degree of expertise, whether you are a phd student or an established professor, you have to deal with the following non mathematical problems:
- How to know if somebody else in the world is already working (or has already been working) on the same problem?
If the other guy has already completed a certain amount of (say, not yet published) work on that specific topic, knowing this would help you to avoid waisting time to try to re-do something that has already been done (at least with the same methods).
On the other hand, if the problem is broad enough, knowing of some other's interest in the same context would also be fruitful because you'd may have somebody with whom to talk and to whom to ask questions, without overlapping the specific research goals. Or you may even find a collaborator.
- In some cases the very choice of an interesting specific problem can be a nontrivial task by itself. So, in case you want to ask around if some previous/present effort has/is been made in that specific direction or related ones, should you worry about the possibility that somebody with a higher degree of expertise would just "take your problem" and solve it faster than you would do?
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Ahead of CBS News' 48 Hours special on bullying, ConnectSafely.org co-director and CBS News and CNET Technology analyst Larry Magid spoke with with Justin Patchin, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. You can listen to the entire interview as a podcast and read more at CNET News.com.
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LARRY: Larry Magid, CBS News and CNET. There's been a lot of talk about bullying and cyberbullying and sometimes what we hear might not actually reflect the facts, which is why I had a chat with Dr. Justin Patchin, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eua Claire and Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. I started out by asking the differences and similarities between cyberbullying and regular bullying.
JUSTIN: Oh they're very similar. Basically cyberbullying would be bullying behaviors carried out using and facilitated through technology. So a lot of the same kinds of things that we see occurring at school and neighborhoods like harassment or disrespecting or rumors or gossip are now being carried out online. And while they're not fundamentally different there are also unique challenges created by technology – the perceived anonymity, the vulnerability, the fact that the target can be anywhere at any time and be susceptible to attacks from the bully. The problem with, I think, a lot of parents keeping up with what teens are doing online so they have a tough time monitoring their behaviors, good or bad. I think technology really creates certain challenges for adults who are trying to keep up with the relationship problems among adolescents.
LARRY: When I grew up there was a saying that I'm sure you've heard a million times, "sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me." That doesn't seem to be the case, does it?
JUSTIN: It's definitely not the case. I mean talk to Tina Meier or John Hallahan or Mark Neblett or any of these parents who lost kids being directly related to experience of cyberbullying. When you had a number of adolescents that got lost, something is really wrong. I think it goes back to certainly some of us can better handle certain types of harassment or humiliation than others and while being called names or rumors being spread about us may not seem like that big of a deal to us, it certainly is to many people, especially adolescents. You have to remember to an adolescent the primary influence are his peers and what they thought and so while certainly physical assaults or bullying is bad, even just the verbal or the relational aggression can be equally as bad for certain kids.
LARRY: Are there certain kids or certain types of kids that are more vulnerable, kids who for one reason or another stand out or are different than many of their peers?
JUSTIN: That's a good question. And certainly we're seeing certain teens targeted while in general, anybody is susceptible to bullying or cyberbullying. We've been exploring certain issues, we know that teens who have low self-esteem are more likely to be the target of a cyberbully. We know that there is a connection to depression. What we don't know is, for example, whether or not the experience with bullying or cyberbullying causes one to have low-esteem or causes one to be depressed or if these teens just have low self-esteem or are behaving in a way that sort of makes them a more attractive target. We do know that those students who tell us they are non-heterosexual are more likely to be targeted by bullies and cyberbullies and we also know that they're more likely to engage in cyberbullying and bullying behavior. So, as much as we'd like to find and identify a profile of a target or a bully there are a lot of factors that come into play and there's really no one perfect scenario. But any time a teen identifies another as being different in some way, whatever that is, they are a likely target.
LARRY: You mentioned suicide and indeed we have seen some very high profile cases of teens who were bullied or cyberbullied and then went on to take their own lives. But based on what you just said before where you said essentially if there are correlations but we can't prove causation, what do we know about the relationship between bullying and suicide? And what don't we know about that relationship?
JUSTIN: There's a lot more that we don't know than what we do know. We do know that those who experience bullying or cyberbullying are more likely to experience suicidal ideation, to attempt suicide, but again, I'm not aware of any research that has been able to isolate the causal ordering of this. To be able to say that X causes Y, there haven't been any longitudinal studies exploring this relationship. But again, we do know there's a relationship, we just don't understand fully the nature of that relationship and while we can't say for sure that one causes the other, it's certainly something we need to take note of. So saying or drawing the conclusion that bullying causes suicide is probably an over-reach at this point but again, like you said, we see tons of examples or at least many examples in the media where we sort of allow them to draw that conclusion when the research really hasn't been collected in a way that makes that relationship any clearer.
LARRY: Speaking of research in the media, there is also this notion out there that bullying is an epidemic and that bullying is on the rise. Is there any empirical data that tells us to, No. 1, whether it is on the rise or perhaps even on the decline? And No. 2, just how prevalent is bullying and cyberbullying? Perhaps you can break those into separate numbers if you have them.
JUSTIN: Sure. We've been studying cyberbullying specifically for almost ten years. We've done seven or eight formal studies and we've defined cyberbullying pretty consistently over those years and we've looked at different populations, different samples, different schools, different regions and in general across the board we estimate that about one in five teens had experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lifetime and we asked them about certain types of behaviors that they'd experienced in the last 30 days, like rumors being spread around them, view of technology or cell phone text messages. We have nine different behaviors that we look at. We feel about 10% of teens have experienced two or more of those, one or more of those two or more times in the last 30 days, about 10%. We still see more traditional school yard bullying going on today than cyberbullying, which is kind of interesting and some will call it intuitive, perhaps it will change over the next several years. I'm not aware of any longitudinal data that has demonstrated a significant increase in the behaviors. We are certainly hearing about more cyberbullying, it's coming to the attention of researchers and the media more often now than it was seven or eight years ago. Teens are slightly more likely to tell adults about their experiences of cyberbullying. When we first started studying this less than 15% of targets of cyberbullying told adults about their experiences, now it's maybe 25% to 30% at best. It's still low, but it's getting better. So if adults were to say that it's increasing significantly, it's certainly not an epidemic when we're only talking about one in five, but it's still a concern that we need to take very seriously.
LARRY: I'm sure you're familiar with Norm's research which suggests that if you think all of your friends are smokers, you're more likely to smoke. If you think all of your friends have a healthy lifestyle, you're more likely to have a healthy lifestyle. Does that Norm's approach in any way apply to bullying? Could we be in a way going about this the wrong way by implying that there's an epidemic as opposed to saying behaving properly is actually normal and bullying is kind of the odd way that a small percentage of people behave?
JUSTIN: I agree 100%. I think it's very important that we are very specific and very clear with adolescents the nature of this problem. In fact, one of the activities that I deal with in some of my seminars is ask students to give me an estimate about how many, for example, how many teens have cyberbullied others. And somebody will shout out a number like 60% or 70%. And then I'll ask them, "okay raise your hand if any higher than that," the vast majority of students will raise their hand and will be shocked when I tell them it's only about 10% or 12% who have done it in the last 30 days. We have an expression about that and say, "look, the media and many adults don't trust teens these days because they assume they're engaging in really bad behaviors online and off." And it's really their responsibility, I tell them it's their responsibility to demonstrate to the adults in their lives that they are using technology safely, responsibly, appropriately and for them to sort of take some ownership over that, and if they see or hear about one of their classmates engaging in inappropriate behaviors to deal with it, to tell an adult that they trust, to get it addressed so it doesn't spill over to them, where again, it makes it seem like they're engaging in inappropriate behaviors. So I think it's very important to have this discussion with teens so they know that the vast majority of teens are doing the right thing online.
LARRY: And speaking of that, let's talk about what to do in the case of bullying. And let's take three groups. One, the teens themselves, because you just kind of touched on that. Should you go to a friend if you're bullied or should you just go to a trusted adult? Second, let's talk about parents, and third of course, let's talk about teachers and other educators. Starting with peers: What should we do or what should peers do to support each other and what should kids do in terms of reaching out or not reaching out to their peers?
JUSTIN: I think teens should reach out to those who are being bullied or cyberbullied. Now, that could mean a number of different things. It doesn't necessarily mean them jumping in the middle of a fight at school. There's a lot of things that bystanders can do without getting involved that explicitly or immediately. So certainly if a teen sees that something inappropriate is going on, if they feel like they need to get it out from an adult, that's usually a good choice and hopefully every teen has somebody, an adult that they can go to, that they feel they can do the right thing. But I think even just the subtle message or the direct message to the target, so maybe there's bullying or name calling or something on Facebook, whatever it is that you see, just expressing to the target of those words, that "look, I saw what was going on and that's, you know what? I side with you, I mean, that stuff is wrong, it's inappropriate, if there's anything I can do to help, let me know. I mean, and so the more teens that get behind the target, I think the better off they'll be and we've certainly heard examples. A number of examples where that's been very effective at least in terms of giving the target some hope.
LARRY: And what about if somebody's being bullied? Should they reach out to peers? Is that a safe and often productive thing to do or could that actually backfire?
JUSTIN: Right. So if a teen is being bullied or cyberbullied, they could certainly talk with a friend or try to get some help from a peer. Again, part of it depends on what kind of friends they have. If they don't have a lot of good friends, they will have to reach beyond that. But what we tell kids who are being bullied or cyberbullied is to keep a record of what's going on, keep the evidence, keep a journal, a diary, whatever it is. This is what happened, this is what the person did, this is how I responded, this is who I told, and this is how they responded, to keep a detailed record of these things. And if it gets to the point where you just can't handle it anymore, you got to get help, whether it's from a trusted friend or an adult. And a lot of times, sort of skipping ahead of this, the adult response. We know that teens are reluctant to come to adults about their experiences. And as I've said, in the best case scenario, only 25% or 30% of targets are telling adults about these things. In my mind, that's our fault as adults because we're not taking it seriously, we're not responding effectively. And so if we just did a better job responding, if we were more effective at what we did, then these targets would feel more comfortable coming to us and knowing that there'd be a more effective resolution to this. And so we need to give targets of bullying some hope that the behavior will stop. And that's all that they want. And oftentimes these targets don't really want the bully to get in trouble, they just want the bullying to stop. And so whatever we can do as adults or peers or friends to get the behavior to stop is priority number one.
LARRY: So in terms of adults. What should you do and what shouldn't you do if your child or someone close to you either says they've been bullied or you have reason to believe that they've been bullied?
JUSTIN: The number one thing for an adult when confronted with a bullying situation is to listen, to take in information to better understand the nature of the situation. If a teen confides in you that they're being bullied or cyberbullied, it's a big deal. It's gotten to the point where they can't handle it, it's a serious concern in their lives. Maybe as an adult you're hearing what's going on, you're thinking to yourself this doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal, it's just words on a screen, it's just a text message, what's the big deal? But again, you've got to remember what it was like to be an adolescent. So if it gets to the point where a teen is talking to you about it, it's a big deal. So take it seriously, convey to them that you'll take this incident seriously, you'll do everything in your power to get it to stop. And I like when parents and educators work together, sort of behind the scenes if it's possible to get the behaviors to stop. So I'm not a big advocate of the parent of the target running over to the parent of a bully's house and knocking on the door and saying, "You need to tell your kid to stop bullying my kid." I think that can backfire too many times. I think that's a little bit too direct of an approach. But for a parent to work with a counselor or an assistant principal to say, "this is what's going on, what can we do to stop it?" Then maybe there are some things that the counselor can do sort of behind the scenes and letting the bully know that these kind of behaviors will not be tolerated, but doing it in a little more subtle indirect way without directing any more unneeded attention to the target.
LARRY: Okay, we're just about out of time. Let's just talk very quickly about educators. What should they be doing at this point?
JUSTIN: Educators are in a unique position because they see everything that's going on at school and bullying and cyberbulling are essentially relationship problems. I think educators, probably more than anyone, understand these relationships. And so if there's something going on, if there are changes in relationship problems that they identify, they need to address them immediately. Even if they hear a student calling another student a name or they hear somebody mis-using a term, maybe a student in back of the room is telling another student, "that's so gay." Right? And the teacher in the back of their mind thinks, "What? That's inappropriate but I just don't have the time to deal with it right now, I've got to grade these papers, I've got to do this, I've got to do that." It's important for teachers to deal with that immediately because if it's not handled it can just bubble up and eventually escalate to something more serious, additional harassment or actually physical altercations. So any time that any adult sees or hears any instance of harassment or humiliation or mis-use of language, they should address it immediately so that it doesn't escalate to a more serious problem.
LARRY: And one last question and hopefully a fairly quick answer. I remember the time when racism was considered socially acceptable and when it was okay to make sexist jokes and homophobic jokes and things have gotten better, maybe not perfect but better. Are we headed in that direction when it comes to bullying?
JUSTIN: Well, I hope so. I am hopeful that we are. It took many generations before we as adults acknowledged school yard bullying as something worth stopping. And there are still some today who think it's a rite of passage and something that everybody must go through but I think you're right. I think the fact that most of us have moved beyond using certain words in certain ways, and I think it runs hope to this promise that we can make bullying sort of a behavior of the fringe, even more so than it is now. And I think we're headed in that direction, I am hopeful that we're headed in that direction. It's an uphill battle with scarce resources and technology constantly changing and behavior always changing but I think that's definitely the direction we want to work towards.
LARRY: Justin Patchin, the Co-Director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, and Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin, Eua Claire, thank you very much.
JUSTIN: Thanks Larry.


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TORONTO (Reuters) - A former executive of SNC-Lavalin (SNC.TO) has been indicted in Switzerland on allegations he laundered money in connection with $139 million in payments by the company, according to CBC News and RTS, the Swiss public broadcaster.
Riadh Ben Aissa, a former vice president, has been charged with fraud, corruption and money laundering involving transactions executed in North Africa, according to the report.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are working with Swiss police on the investigation, according to the CBC, citing unidentified police sources.
Swiss authorities have tracked funds that flowed from SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest engineering company, to Swiss bank accounts. The accounts were registered to companies in the British Virgin Islands, according to the report.
Ben Aissa was arrested in Switzerland last year on suspicion of money laundering and corruption of public officials but had not yet been formally charged.
SNC-Lavalin could not be immediately reached for a reaction to the report.
The company, however, told the CBC it was not commenting.
"Because these investigations are ongoing and we continue to cooperate, unfortunately there is nothing further that we are able to add at this time, except to reiterate that we hope that if anyone is found to have committed any wrongdoing, they are brought to justice," a company spokeswoman told the CBC.
Ben Aissa's Canadian lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
The Globe and Mail reported that the Tunisian-Canadian executive was in charge of SNC's international construction projects and a key link for the company to the former Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
SNC-Lavalin's former chief executive Pierre Duhaime resigned in March on accusations from the company that he authorized $56 million in payments to unknown agents on nonexistent construction projects. Canadian police are investigating.
They are also investigating bribery allegations against SNC executives involving a $1.2 billion bridge project in Bangladesh. The World Bank has suspended its loan for the development and temporarily banned an SNC subsidiary from bidding on its contracts in the country.
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13 Summer Cocktails and Frozen Drinks
Chill out at your next outdoor party with a few easy summer cocktails and frozen drinks. Here are 13 delicious ways to savor the season.
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Tom's Mellow Melon Margarita
Like its name promises, this fruity twist on the traditional margarita will leave you refreshed and feeling mellow. Get the recipe>>
Frozen Irish Banana
Want to feel as though you've escaped to the tropics without leaving home? Take a sip of this coconutty cooler and slip away. Get the recipe>>
Wed Wabbit
With an infusion of carrot juice, this Bloody Mary-esque drink feels downright healthy. (Well, almost.) Get the recipe>>
Oyster Bar Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary cocktails pair well with so many kinds of dishes. Many say the drink is a dish in itself. The lemon and lime juices in this version add a refreshing tartness. Get the recipe>>
The Steve-O 3-O Favo-O-Freeze
If you can say that name three times fast after drinking one of these, well, you need another! Can you spot the three Os in the ingredients? Get the recipe>>
The Frozen Texas Twister
When you want to blow people away and celebrate in true Lone Star style, use the best tequila in this frozen confection. Get the recipe>>
Hop Skip and Go Naked Punch
This beer punch will make your party guests cheer. Get the recipe>>
Frozen Margie-Cadorita
Guacamole and tortilla chips are the perfect amigos for margaritas, and this version includes guacamole's essential element. Get the recipe>>
Frozen Hurricane (N'Awlins Style)
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Texican Tailgate Cocoa Freeze
Craving hot chocolate but the temperature outside is 100 degrees in the shade? Consider cooling your guests off with this chilly drink. Get the recipe>>
Frozen Mint Julep
This is the perfect Southern way to celebrate and cool off this summer. Get the recipe>>
A Very Berry Brazilian
This delicious cocktail gets a little sweetness (and style) from muddled summer strawberries. Get the recipe>>
The Bloody Clam
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By: Becky Kreienkamp, Midland Division
Despite her mother passing away, losing her home and living with strangers in a homeless shelter, Ruth Ann Bonnell is endearing and positive above all else. Ruth moved into the Alton Salvation Army Homeless Shelter on April 7, 2011.
"I came in on a Friday night, and I was so scared I just cried all night," admits Ruth Ann. But if Ruth Ann has one strength, it's the ability to pick herself up and look toward better days.
She took advantage of the shelter's life skills and job skills classes in which she learned how to eat healthy and how to find a job. Ruth Ann made it clear The Salvation Army not only taught her how to find a job, but also how to pursue one. She explained the process.
"Fill out the online application. Fill out the paper application. Go into the establishment and find an HR Representative and say, 'Hi, my name is so-and-so, and I want to work here.'"
This exactly is how Ruth Ann obtained her job at Schnucks.
"I nagged them, that's how I got my job," she claims. "Be persistent. Stay the course. Be annoying!"
Ruth Ann has loved her job at Schnucks ever since she was hired. She has been trained in almost every department, starting out at the food bar, then to fruit cutting, produce, liquor, cashier training and she now is working in the deli. Ruth Ann's diverse training goes to show her dedication and hard work since leaving the shelter.
"Is it a perfect job? No. But it's a job! I like the people I work with. I like what I do," says Ruth Ann, which proves she can spin any situation to appear positive.
She is especially proud to claim she recently celebrated her one-year anniversary of working at Schnucks on June 7. She declares she wants to continue working at Schnucks, "because the longer you work here, the better it gets!" she says with an upbeat voice.
Ruth Ann not only chooses to view her situation in a positive light, but also uses it as a learning experience. Her time in the homeless shelter made her realize how much she, as well as the rest of America, takes for granted.
"Everything we think is important in this world is really not," says Ruth Ann. "How many wooden spoons do you need in your life?"
Anyone who has ever witnessed poverty would say Ruth Ann is correct. Homelessness takes away more than a home, but diminishes every day pleasures as well. Living in the shelter also taught Ruth Ann to appreciate simple satisfactions such as privacy and a space to call your own.
"If you sleep in a room with four people you don't know, it's a waking experience," says Ruth Ann. "It builds tolerance. You learn their quirks."
After being back in the real world, Ruth Ann has a new admiration for every aspect of her life.
"It totally reevaluated my life," she explains. "For the past six to eight months I had a stove. I could bake a chicken! It's the little things. You got a blanket, you got pillows, you got food in the fridge. It's all good!"
If there was only one thing Ruth Ann could tell the public regarding homelessness, she would remind the world to not criticize homeless people. In this trying economy, everyone is at risk for poverty. Homeless people are not always brought down by drugs and addiction, which is the general stereotype.
Ruth Ann explains it simply.
"A lot of Americans out there are one or two paychecks away from being homeless. You are hanging on by a thread. You can't judge them."
Ruth Ann might have received these hypercritical stares or disapproving remarks, which is a shame since her personality and optimistic demeanor do not fit the stereotype to which she is being subjected.
"I was a normal person," says Ruth Ann. "I made a couple bad decisions that affected my whole entire life. It just happens."
She hopes the public views her the way she views herself, as a hard working woman who is recreating a solid life for herself.
"I'm a very positive person. It will all get better," she says affirmatively.
One thing is for certain: our society needs more personalities like Ruth Ann Bonnell's.


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Will he or won't he?
That's the question many political watchers are asking of Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and whether he will run for mayor in 2013.
"It's very much under serious consideration and the election is almost a year and a half away," Yaroslavsky said. "There's plenty of time to make that decision."
Yaroslavsky would join a crowded pack of candidates in the 2013 campaign race including Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti, City Controller Wendy Greuel, Councilwoman Jan Perry, and former Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner.
Also rumored to be considering a run is billionaire mall developer Rick Caruso.
Yaroslavsky said he has his "plate full" with the LA County Board of Supervisors but said the final decision will be based on whether he wants to do it.
"It's something that I've warmed up to very much. I love this city. I served this city and the county for 36 years," Yaroslavsky said. "One way or the other I want to have an influence on the direction this city takes for the rest of my life."
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The Genie TS camera series by Teledyne Dalsa has three new color models in addition to CMOS imaging sensor technology and GigE Vision-compliance.
Teledyne Dalsa has expanded its Genie TS camera series with the addition of three new color models. The Genie TS uses Teledyne Dalsa's advanced CMOS imaging sensor technology.
The Genie TS color cameras include 5M, 8M and 12M models and reach speeds up to 29 fps. The perfect blend of form and function, the Genie TS is engineered to meet the ever increasing speed and image clarity requirements of machine vision. All features are easily accessible with Teledyne Dalsa's advanced software tools or GigE Vision compliant third party software.
The color of the camera provides important information beyond grayscale imaging and adds a new dimension for analyzing data. Industries such as food processing, automotive, print, pharmaceutical, part presence and/or detection, PCB assembly, Intelligent Traffic/Transportation Systems (ITS) applications, and many quality and grading applications can benefit from color machine vision inspection.
The Genie TS Series is GigE Vision-compliant, based on the AIA (Automated Imaging Association) GigE Vision Standard. This series of Genie cameras takes full advantage of Gigabit Ethernet technology, transmitting data over standard CAT-5e and CAT-6 cables to distances of up to 100m allowing for a greater distance between the camera and inspection system.
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Nearly 4,000 workers at a Taiwanese footwear plant in Vietnam have gone on strike to protest alleged ill-treatment by their bosses, state media reported Sunday.
The workers, mostly women, said managers from mainland China had beaten and humiliated employees at the Sun Jade company in Thanh Hoa province, according to the Thanh Nien daily.
Thanh Nien and other newspapers said the workers had also reported being denied sick leave and days off for deaths in the family, and were often docked an entire month's pay if they failed to show up.
Company and local trade union officials could not be reached for comment. Rpeports said it was the plant's third strike since June.
Last year, as Vietnam was hit by double-digit inflation and an economic slowdown, workers downed tools at hundreds of factories, demanding better pay and conditions.
The Lao Dong daily estimated there were 775 strikes nationwide, mostly in the industrial south, compared to 541 the previous year.
Industrial unrest could flare up again before the Tet lunar New Year in late January, a time when workers often ask for extra pay and time off to visit their families.