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Monday, May 31, 2010
Vermont City Marathon Race Report
We arrived in Burlington the afternoon before the race (Saturday), went to the expo, checked into the hotel, and explored the city a little bit before meeting up with everyone for dinner. We ate lots of salad and pizza at American Flatbread, walked a few blocks to check out the starting line and the infamous hill at mile 15. Here is a shot of all the runners with their partners who came for support, except for Christine's husband Keith, in the bottom right corner, who also ran the marathon!
Friends Angela and Matt came out with Sandi and Suzanne, and offered up much love and signage on the course. One theme that runs throughout this post is how much we were all supported throughout the race, and Angela and Matt were a big part of that.
Everything was laid out and ready to go. I went to bed around 10 and slept well until about 3:30 and then got really nervous and had to get up.
I tried to eat enough calories but could barely choke down one bagel with peanut butter and a banana.
At 6:30 I met the girls in the lobby and we went down to the start.
The course started in the middle of town and consisted of 4 loops that all met back in the same spot (picture a very confusing looking clover pattern). Therefore, it was extremely easy for our supporters to see us a lot on the course.
When the gun went off, they were blasting U2's "Where the streets have no name" and the crowds were so loud and inspiring. Yes, we cried, and started running.
Part 1, miles 0-3.5: A loop through a residential area of Burlington. We looked at this as our warm up and took it easy. At mile 1, I heard people screaming my name and looked to see my friends Nancy and Alan and their kids with signs for me. I had NO idea they were coming. They have family in VT, and decided to surprise me. Amazing. I was feeling fine. At the end of this loop, I was with Suzanne, Christine and Amy, and Jen and Susan were just ahead of us.
Part 2, miles 3.5-8: An out-and-back on a closed highway. I had heard this was the hardest part of the course because it was isolated from the crowds. It started out fine and it was great to see the pack leaders cruising past us. It was at this point that I started (yes, already) to feel like this day was going to be harder than I thought. I must have looked visibly hurting, because Suzanne and Christine surrounded me and wanted to know what was going on. They talked me over a hurdle by reminding me how the course was broken down. "You just need to run to the top of the next hill and then it's only 2 miles until Sam is waiting for you."
The second half (the "back: of the out-and-back") was a steady climb up hill back into town. I had started the race without my camelbak, because Sam was going to have it at mile 9 if I needed it. I really needed it. The water stops were not coming soon enough, the sun was beating down, and I was hot and thirsty. I had a few really low moments on this stretch (the other theme that runs throughout the whole day). I kept thinking that if I just pushed through it, I'd get better. And I would get better, and then a few minutes later, I'd dip back down. I basically went from feeling like I had no energy for 5 minutes to feeling okay for 5 minutes and back and forth like that for hours. I found Sam just past the mile 9 marker, put my camelbak on, and we started off for the next 6 miles together.
Part 3, miles 9-15: a loop through residential areas and along the lake.
Sam was a sight for sore eyes. As we started off, he said: "How are you doing?" I said: "not good." I made it pretty clear that I wasn't feeling like talking, but I wanted him to talk to me to distract me. He told me about his morning since I left him, told me some stories about Skyler and Reed, and was really encouraging. He handed me bites of banana and told me how proud he was and kept putting his hand on my back. He did everything right. He was exactly what I needed. Every mile marker we passed, he'd say: "See? 11 miles done." "12 miles. You got this!" "13! You're half way!"
This loop went through a really nice neighborhood and then onto the bike path along Lake Champlain that offered some much needed breeze and cool air. (It never got above 75, by the way, but I was still hot). I had my name on my shirt, and everyone was so friendly and encouraging. They were not just saying"Go Emilie," but "Emilie! You are looking GREAT! You are amazing!" It was the warmest, kindest group of marathon supporters ever, and it was like this the whole way. There were kids handing out water, families with hoses and sprinklers, supportive signs everywhere you looked.
At mile 14, we came off of the bike trail and back into town to the bottom of the Battery Street hill, a 6-block climb, and the biggest hill on the course. At the bottom of the hill was a huge group of Taiko drummers. This minute that I was going past them was the total highlight of my run. The drums were so loud and awesome that you could feel the beat in your chest. I had planned to walk up the hill, but I couldn't help but run for the first half with those drummers. My sister-in-law Lisa used to play in a Taiko drum group in Japan, so in my mind, she was there drumming me up that hill. Just past the drummers, I saw Nancy and Alan again with their signs for me, and I stopped to hug Nancy and sobbed a little. Half way up, Angela and Matt held up a sign that said: "EMILIE MANHART YOU CAN DO THIS!"
Sam and I walked the last 2 blocks to the top and then we were back at the center of town again. Sam told me later that at this point that he wasn't sure I was going to make it and he was nervous about leaving me. But I asked him to get my ipod all straightened out, plugged myself in and said: "I got this. I'm fine." I kissed him goodbye and ran on.
Part 4, miles 15-26.2: a loop through neighborhoods and then back to the bike path along the lake.
The first problem that I ran into here is that I thought I had passed mile 16 with Sam. So, I was running and running and waiting to see the 17 mile marker. Instead, I ran and ran and ran and then finally got the mile 16 mile marker. Ugh. The next thing I had to look forward to was seeing my friend Jeffrey, a friend from Michigan whose wife's family lived on the course. He had told me they'd be out front cheering. I knew they were somewhere between 17 and 18, and I finally got there to find them sitting on lawn chairs and yelling and cheering, with signs posted that said: "GO EMILIE and FRIENDS FROM MAINE." I waved and blew kisses and kept slowly trucking along. After about mile 19, things started to get pretty dicey. I would stop to walk through a water stop and I couldn't will myself to start running again. So, now with 7 miles to go, I was walking for about 1 minute at every stop. My goal time of 5 hours was flitting away, and I didn't care anymore. I knew there was a downhill turn onto the bike path at mile 21.5, and I made the mistake of thinking that once I was there, I was basically home free.
Wrong. I turned down that hill onto the bike path, and I basically wanted to die. I could not believe I had to run for 5 more miles. I stopped having any fun, I hated everything about running a marathon. I thought it was stupid and pointless to put myself through this. I felt so sorry for myself. Everything hurt. I could not drink water and gatorade fast enough, and my mouth was totally parched. My eyes were heavy that I knew if I sat down for a minute, I would fall right to sleep. I needed to eat something, but I couldn't stomach the thought of any food at all.
I started to bargain with myself: run for just a little bit and you can walk for a minute. Just run to that next tree. Just run to the place on the path where the shade begins. Just run to that acorn on the path. I thought to myself: if I just laid down here, I could rest, and I might not ever see my friends or family again, and I frankly didn't care. I have laughed about it since, but the fact is I would have done anything to stop running. Being alone on this bike path for the rest of my life was a price I was willing to pay.
I had written "DEFINE YOURSELF" on my arm. I thought it would inspire me when times got tough. HA! When I got to the mental place that I was in, nothing was doing it. I didn't care about my time. I couldn't make myself care about anything. I only fantasized about sitting in the car with Sam driving back to Maine. I kept looking at my arm, and once in a while I'd think: "Oh man, I'm supposed to be defining myself!" and I'd start to run. So all this time that I was so miserable, I somehow kept moving forward and eventually I came to mile 23. And right past the water stop, I saw Suzanne standing there. She should have been miles ahead of me, so I knew something was wrong. I touched her on the shoulder and when she saw me she dissolved into sobs.
She had totally been there for me in the early miles, and even though I was so sorry she was struggling, I was so glad to have a purpose again and to be able to help her out. I grabbed her hand and we started to walk. I told her I'd stay with her for the next 3 miles, and we'd make it together. She cried about what a hard run she was having, and I totally commiserated. I squeeze her hand and tried to distract her by telling her some stories. I also tried to tell her that my muscles in my calves were cramping up, but it came out: "My sisters are stuck." I acknowledged to myself that I had officially lost my mind, and kept moving on. Pretty soon, we were able to start running. And about half mile later I was once again ready to die. I told her to go on and I'd be right behind her. I told her I was going to walk the rest of the way.
Once I saw her run ahead of me, I of course changed my mind. I dug as deep as I could dig, and I started to run again. I made it to 24. I walked for about 2 minutes. I made it to 25. at 25 1/2, I could see the finish area and people were lined up along the fences cheering us in. I could feel the end, so I ran. Sam was standing right before the mile 26 marker, but I didn't see him. In the video of me running by, he yells: "GO EMILIE! ONLY 2.2 to go!" What he meant was .2 to go, and if I had heard him say 2.2, I either would have died right there or punched him in the face. I could see the finish line just ahead, so I really picked it up. What I thought was the finish line was somebody's idea of a cruel joke. It was a huge banner that said: "You're Almost Done!" I had to turn the corner and run some more. I saw Nancy and Alan, and then as I stepped over the last timing mat, the announcer said: "EMILIE MANHART FROM HAMPDEN, MAINE!!!" 5:19. I put up my arms in a little moment of victory/ utter relief, bent over to catch my breath, and then sobbed in Sam's arms. Suzanne was right there; she had finished 4 minutes ahead of me. Then Christine and Susan came over. Lots of hugs and crying. I got my medal. I cried some more. Amy and Keith were just a little bit behind me, and soon everyone had crossed the finish line.
I tried to stay up on my feet because I always get really dizzy and nauseous when I sit down after a long run. I got some food. Sam took off my shoes and put my flip-flops on my feet. I ate a few orange slices and drank some water, and then laid down on a stack of wooden tables in the food tent because my back was seizing up. I stayed there for about ten (???) minutes until I felt like I could re-join the world and my personality started to resurface. I didn't know what to think about what just happened and why it was so hard. I had nothing in particular to blame for it. There is no real reason why I didn't finish under 5 hours like I know I could have. It just wasn't in the stars for me to have a great race. Either that, or this: running 26.2 miles is right at the very edge of what is possible for me physically and mentally. The distance is humbling and overwhelming. I bow down to the marathon. I will never under-estimate it again.
Starting to feel human again.
The Marks family and all of their loving signage!
I hit the friend lottery with these girls. I'm so proud of everyone. All 3 first timers finished strong, and all 4 of us second timers got best times (Jen and Christine by A LOT).
Christine and Keith: the proud marathon couple!!
I can't say enough about how much Sam helped me out this weekend. He made sure that everything was about me and the marathon. He was supportive and proud and happy for me, and there for me at every single turn. And he might even have a marathon in him for next year.
After everyone started to disperse, I took a beautiful ice-bath in Lake Champlain, Sam went to get the car, and we started the drive home. I replayed the race in my head for all 6 hours through the mountains and back to Maine.
Today as I write all of this, I am both happy and very teary. I also look very hilarious walking up and down stairs. I'll be back soon with a little video that captures the whole experience and some more reflections after I let it all sink in.
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Labels: race reports, running
Sunday, May 30, 2010
(sneak peak) marathon #2: check!
We're home! And we did it! I have A LOT to say about this race, and I will write out the whole race report tomorrow, and it will be long. The course was beautiful, the weather was great, and all 7 of us finished. But of course, there is much more drama than that. You name it, I went through it today: joy, elation, frustration, heart ache, misery, love, support, crying, exhaustion, chafing, blisters, pain, cramping, nausea, and back to elation and a little delirium (see photo). It was so so hard and humbling, and crossing the finish line was amazing. Despite pretty much falling to pieces during the last 5 miles, I finished in 5:19, an 18 minute PR.
I'll be back with tons more stories, photos and video. I'm going to drink a beer and get to bed.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
We're here!
Runners ready!
p.s. why is it that we don't live in Burlington?
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goal setting
At the beginning of the year, I asked my Outdoor Lit students to make a list of 25 things they wanted to accomplish in the next 15 years. They had to reserve 5 things on their list for things they can barely dare to dream that they could accomplish (like learn 3 languages, fly an airplane, complete an ironman, star in a movie... because who knows, right?). I also asked them to choose one that they would try to complete by the last day of school, and we made little goal signs and posted them up on the wall.
God love 'em, they went big. Most of them accomplished their goals, and all of them are at least in the works:
Outdoor Lit GOALS:
Get certified to become a lifeguard {check}
Learn to cook 25 dishes {check}
Break 2 school records in swimming {he came sooooo close}
Climb Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington and snowboard down {check}
Learn to play a musical instrument {in progress}
Conquer stage fright {check: she sang a duet in the talent show}
Sing in front of an audience {in the works}
Learn to play guitar {check}
Learn to juggle {check: the boy never stops juggling}
Record an album with my band {check, AND, his band signed a record deal}
Rebuild the engine of a car {check}
Read 100 books {check: he was finished by December}
Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels {check: she finished the last one yesterday}
Train for and complete a half marathon {her race starts on Sunday at the same moment that mine does, and she has trained impeccably}
Run my 2nd marathon and improve my time {fingers crossed!}
I'm a huge believer in making goals and announcing them to the world, which I tried to pass on to these great kids. They are seniors, off to make their mark on the world, and I'm really, really going to miss them.
I think the fact that they chose that Mary Oliver quote for the back of their Outdoor Lit shirt proves that they got the point.
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Labels: teaching
Friday, May 28, 2010
weeks 1-18: check!
I swear, this is my last post about the marathon before the marathon. Wait, did I mention that I'm running a marathon this weekend?
Okay, so I'm all ready to go. Packed, tapered, hydrated, rested, psyched.
With lots of help from my two girls Zoe (student) and Grace (former student), I have a great playlist of all new music on my ipod. (Everyone needs a Zoe and a Grace. I say to them: I need to know what my new favorite songs are, and they provide. Every time.)
When I started talking about wearing my ipod during the race, my marathon friends said: what, are you going to tune us out? do we talk too much?
I don't know where they got the idea that I might need a break from all the talking. Maybe it was after our 21 mile run when I finally sat down and said: OH MY HOLY GOD WHEN ARE YOU EVER GOING TO STOP TALKING? These girls (specifically Christine, Susan and Suzanne)... you should hear them. Running along bouncing from topic to topic to topic. I can do that for a while, say 10 miles, but eventually I need to focus internally and I can't keep up with their chatting ability. Like at mile 19 of our longest run, when Christine says: "Okay, new topic. Cats!" And they go on about their cats, and kitty litter, and cats that died, and cats that pee all around the house, and cats that.....at which point I find my ipod and turn it on.
I jest. Have I mentioned that I wouldn't have made it through the training without these friends? Even though I can't keep up with the chatter, I love how much laughter accompanies us on our runs. It has been known to happen that some of us have stopped running to double over in laughter. I'm sure we'll get a little bit of that on the marathon course too.
Here is the marathon plan:
On Saturday morning, Sam and I are dropping our kids of at Kimmie's and driving 6 hours to Burlington. We will arrive in time to go to the Expo, pick up my race packet and timing chip, check into the hotel, and then meet our party of 16 for dinner. All 6 of us runners are accompanied by our significant others plus some friends. We will eat at American Flatbread Pizza in Burlington, and then go off to our separate hotels
Sunday morning, the marathon girls are meeting up at 6:30 am to head for the starting line. The gun will go off at 8 am and we will start running.
I prefer to think of the marathon in thirds, as 2 nine mile runs with an 8.2 bonus run at the end. That way, I don't get to mile 1 and say: "25.2 miles to go!" My plan is to stick with the girls and (we think) a pacer that the marathon provides, at least for the first third of the race, miles 1-9.
During my 2nd third (miles 9-18), Sam will join me for a 5 mile chunk just like my sister did in San Francisco. If he can run me to mile 17 or 18, I can handle the rest on my own. If I stay with the girls the whole way, I'll be thrilled, but at some point, I have to run my own race and may not be able to keep up with them. I am not anxious about running the last third alone if I have to. That is where my ipod will come in handy. On the course, there is a turn at mile 21 that puts us on a gradually descending bike path to the finish line. If I make it to mile 21 feeling reasonably okay, I know I will make it home.
My only remaining fear is the heat. The forecast is for high 80s. For girls who trained in 40 and 50 degrees, this is not good news.
Positive vibes and cool breezes at 8 am eastern time on Sunday morning, please and thank you! Here we go!
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
On a 97 degree day in May
Echo Lake.
Just as we finished dinner, the ice cream truck!
Other activities not pictured from our May heat wave: sleeping in summer jammies, soaking in the baby pool, washing the car, running through the sprinkler, popsicles on the patio, and my favorite: sleeping with a fan. Sweet summer, we're so happy to have you!
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Labels: outdoorsy stuff
What's for Dinner?
In the spirit of easy, summery meals, here is a nice one because the only cooking is the quesadillas.
The salad is kind of the main course in this meal and the quesadillas go on the side. Sour cream and salsa are for dipping or dolloping.
Garbanzo Avocado Salad with Lime:
2 cans of garbanzo beans, rinsed
1 can of black beans, rinsed
the juice of 1 lime
about 6 scallions, chopped
2 avocados chopped
1 large handful of chopped cilantro
1 tblsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Throw it all in a bowl and mix.
I would also add if I had them: corn or red or yellow pepper.
My kids love quesadillas, but instead of bean salad, they ate strawberries, carrot sticks, and apple sauce on the side.
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Labels: What's for Dinner?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
a few isms
Skyler: "Mom, is the mop that you have a regular mop?"
Me: "Yeah, why?"
Skyler: "Well, the tv told me that the regular mop doesn't actually clean your floors. It just pushes the dirt around (she makes a circular motion with her hand for emphasis). The tv said that if you buy their mop, it will actually clean your floors. "
In Reedo's words:
"gramote patrol" = remote control
"pressing game" = video games (that he has only seen someone else play)
"smoothie bachine" = blender
"special smoothie bachine" = juicer
"up pants" = shorts
"up shirt" = short-sleeved shirt
"rolly stairs" = escalator
"meat!" = bacon
Reed, standing at the (turned off) stove, counting the burners: "one, two, three, five! Five smokes!"
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Labels: crafty things
POM Wonderful!
The kids knew not to touch the cute little bottles in the fridge because they were "mommy juice." They would have plowed through all of the bottles in one day if I hadn't done some monitoring.
I didn't end up making any exotic savory dishes or sauces with it. We just drank it, and it was good.
I find the juice a bit too intense to drink alone, but I'm not a straight-up juice kind of girl anyway.
We mixed it with seltzer water and lime wedges. Actually, this is my favorite way to drink it, so I made a lot of these "mocktails."
We mixed it with coconut water. Coconut water is all the rage these days, billed to be the all-natural alternative to gatorade, full of electrolytes and vitamins. I wanted to like it so badly, but I thought it tasted weird. It's really good mixed with POM, but what isn't?
We mixed it into smoothies. This one was POM, blueberries, a handful of kale, frozen banana and frozen strawberries.
And we made pomegranate lemonade!
I saved one last bottle for a post-marathon pomegranate cocktail that Sam, an expert drink mixer, will surely mix up for me. Cheers, and thanks POM Wonderful!
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Everything I can do.
It's marathon week, and I'm kind of out of control. A lot of people have said to me: "You must not be as nervous this time since this is your second marathon, right?" Well, could someone please tell my adrenal glands that I've done this before? They seem to have forgotten.
I'm nervous, yes. I'm not nervous because I don't think I can do it, I'm nervous because when you work so hard at something for so long, and spend so much mental energy on it, you want it to go well. You are especially vulnerable to let down or heart break if things don't go as you want them to. Everything is kind of riding on one day. So, yes. Nervous.
Here is what I can do. I can sleep well, stretch, and rest. I can listen to all my favorite running songs in the car and bounce around in my seat with excitement. I can wear my Nike Women's Marathon finishers necklace as I have since May 1st. I have everything that I'm wearing on race day already laid out on my dresser. I can drink at least 72 ounces of water a day (my water bottle x3).
I'm eating as clean as can be, no empty calories. Everything I ingest has to work hard for my body. I'm popping vitamins and probiotics and immunity boosting everythings. I've been using this Green SuperFood powder for a while, but making sure to get it daily now.
Here is what the label says: Amazing Grass Green SuperFood is a perfect blend of alkalizing greens, antioxidant rich whole food fruits and vegetables, immune boosting support herbs, and friendly pre & probiotics.
1 scoop in almond milk is really tasty and offers up several servings of greens.
I can drink green juice.
I can drink carrot/orange/ ginger juice.
I can drink Kombucha! My friend Sarah turned me on to this sparkly tea. Here is what the company says about its drink: Our Kombucha is delicately cultured - some liken it to fermentation - for 30 days. During this period, essential nutrients form like active enzymes, viable probiotics, amino acids, antioxidants and polyphenols. All of these combine to create an elixir that immediately works with the body to restore balance and vitality. Kombucha has been used for hundreds of years throughout the world as a daily health tonic.
At first I didn't like it because it has a slight vinegary taste. But I got used to it, and now I kind of crave it. I like the Gingerade flavor best. It's really bubbly and it makes me a little buzzed because of the fermentation. The label says it will restore balance and vitality, so I drink it right up.
Then there are the old stand-by friends.
If it says: "Immunity Boosting," I'll take 3.
And lots of dinners that look like this. That's whole wheat mushroom ravioli with roasted beets, squash, parsnips and asparagus. Hello, carbs!
And most of all, I can visualize myself having the race that I know I can have, and think positively.
"Now bid me run, And I will strive with things impossible, Yea, get the better of them."
-Shakespeare from Julius Ceaser
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Week 17: check!
And that's pretty much a wrap! Our last long run was 8 miles on Saturday. Once again, we did it in two groups. I ran at 6 am with Jen because she had a tennis tournament to play at 7:45. The rest of the girls ran a bit later, but we all did the 4-mile loop at City Forest two times.
It was wonderful news to hear that Amy, 2nd from left, ran 8 miles pain free after taking almost 3 weeks off of running (but doing all of her miles on an eliptical) because of tendonitis in her feet. We are all so relieved that she now plans to run in Burlington. It was really important to all of us that everyone made it to the starting line!
On the schedule, we have three short runs of 4, 3 and 2 miles left and then we leave for Burlington.
I really wanted my last long run to feel victorious and freeing, but for whatever reason, both hips and quads ached for the whole thing. There is no real explanation for this, as I only ran 11 miles during the previous week. I just don't want to hurt on the marathon, at least not for the first half. I'm toying with throwing caution to the wind and taking some ibuprofen on the morning of the race. I'll see what a restful week does for the state of my quads.
I remember this feeling from the last week of training right before the SF Nike Marathon too: my legs are as muscly as they have ever been. I'm aware with every step I take that I have really changed things up with all this running. When I'm just walking around, I love how solid my legs feel. Is this okay to be telling you? It's just that it's so true.
One more week. Please don't let me get a cold, develop a cough, eat the wrong food, trip on the curb, fall down the stairs, or strain my back. If I could just lock myself into a padded room with only water, vitamins, green smoothies, a massage therapist, and an endless supply of carbs, I would do it.
So, we made it this far! I'm very proud of all of us, and very, very excited. There might be a few posts this week that mention the word marathon. Stay tuned.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Yoo-hoo! I'm over here on the WD!
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Documentary about Will and Poetry Out Loud
Christy Hartman, a student at the SALT School for Documentary in Portland, Maine, created a documentary about my student Will and our work with Poetry Out Loud. She worked on it over the past few months and the final product was just presented this week in Portland.
The story, including two nice sound clips of Will reciting poetry and talking about the poems, and one clip of me talking about Will, is beautifully done. Reading and listening to it will help you understand the whole Poetry Out Loud experience, one of the most important and treasured aspects of my teaching job. The story also captures a lot of what makes Will so amazing.
So, I guess what I'm saying, is I really want you to check this out.
But first, you can watch this little teaser:
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Labels: Poetry Out Loud, teaching
What's for Dinner?
Cheater Homemade Pizza:
This week, we topped our pizza with a base of sun-dried tomato and garlic spread, a few cups of sauteed baby spinach and onions, kalamata olives, goat cheese and a sprinkling of mozzarella.
And baked it at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes until it looked like this:
And then we sprinkled it with a few dashes of hot sauce (which I use on almost everything), especially good when your hot sauce is named after a Red Sox player.
And then we ate it. And then, after all those onions, garlic, hot sauce and olives, we kissed a lot.
And no, in case you wondered, my kids wouldn't eat this.
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Labels: What's for Dinner?


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Limited Edition of 1,000 Copies
Kritzerland (KR200229)
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Conducted by Miklos Rozsa
Format: CD
1. | Prelude / Fugitives | 4:06 |
2. | Hatred | 3:11 |
3. | Murder / Conspiracy | 5:30 |
4. | Accident / Frustration | 2:09 |
5. | Love | 7:36 |
6. | An Idea / Foreboding | 3:00 |
7. | Memories (Part 1) | 1:49 |
8. | Double Cross / Tell the Truth / Revenge | 7:14 |
9. | Passion | 4:03 |
10. | Unmasked / Conflict / Retribution | 9:37 |
11. | End Title | 0:14 |
Total Album Time: | 48:29 |
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a terrific picture with wonderful dialogue, elegant direction and great performancesit's noir, it's melodrama, and the whole film crackles with electricity. And perfectly capturing every mood, every character and every situation is the classic score by Miklós Rózsa.
The music for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is almost a second cousin to Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, filled with the incredible Rózsa sound of that era. No one did this kind of thing better than Rózsahe seemed to have a real affinity for these darker tales. The main title is everything a classic main title should be: it draws you in right from those great Rózsa-esque opening chords, introduces its beautiful main theme and then segues directly into the first cue for the young runaways. From there, Rózsa's music weaves its magic, perfectly capturing the film's moods, situations and characters as they travel their dark roads.
The surviving music from Martha Ivers was taken from a set of incredible-sounding acetates preserved in the Paramount vaults. It's almost fifty minutes of prime Rózsa and it's nearly all of the score, with only a handful of missing cues. Only two tracks had material that was beyond repairone of those tracks was only twenty-four seconds long and the material contained therein was well represented elsewhere. For the other track, through careful editing, we were able to save ninety percent of it and, again, the material that wasn't salvageable was represented elsewhere in the other cues.
Miklós Rózsa is in the pantheon of greats, and it's really gratifying to bring one of his classic noir scores to CD.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is limited to 1000 copies only.
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About 55% of Bermuda's inhabitants are of African ancestry, descended from slaves brought to the islands during the 18th cent.; there is also a sizable population of British descent. English is spoken. The main religions are the Anglican, Roman Catholic, African Methodist Episcopal, and other Christian churches.
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2011 Student Research Exhibits
Read on for details about the student researchers and a summary of their work. For more information you can access links to the Florida Museum programs mentoring each research project and a downloadable pdf of each poster. Contact information for current Museum graduate students is available on the Florida Museum Graduate Student Directory, through links to the University of Florida departments, or via the Florida Museum mentors.
Spring 2011
Zoometric Breed Analysis and Isotopic Paleodietary Reconstruction of the Maya Dog
Author: Elizabeth Olson, B.A. Anthropology, UF
Florida Museum Research Mentors: Kitty Emery, Environmental Archaeology (Chair), Irv Quitmyer, Environmental Archaeology
Poster Abstract:Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are among the most common animals in faunal assemblages at Maya sites. In order to better understand ancient Maya dog importance, dog remains from eleven Maya sites ranging in date from the Preclassic (2350 BP) through the Late Classic (977 BP) were analyzed. Three methods were used: bone morphology and metrics, stable isotope bone chemistry, and mortuary treatment analysis. By combining these data sets this study finds trends in dog dietary pattern through time, between regions, and breeds.
Titanoboa cerrejonensis (58 - 60 Million Years Ago) Northeastern Colombia
Authors: Alexander Hastings, PhD Student, Department of Geological Sciences
Jason Bourque, M.A. Student, School of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
Edwin Cadena, M.S. Student, Department of Geological Sciences
Fabiany Herrera3, M.S. Student, Department of Geological Sciences
Florida Museum Research Mentor: Jonathan Bloch, Vertebrate Paleontology, Committee Chair for A. Hastings, J. Bourque, and E. Cadena.
Poster Abstract: The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeast Asia where high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals whose body temperatures are dependant on ambient environmental temperatures (poikilothermy). Very little is known about ancient tropical terrestrial ecosystems, limiting our understanding of the evolution of giant snakes and their relationship to climate in the past. Here we describe a boid snake from the oldest known neotropical rainforest fauna from the Cerrejón Formation (58-60 Myr ago) in northeastern Colombia. We estimate a body length of 13m and a mass of 1,135 kg, making it the largest known snake. The maximum size of poikilothermic animals at a given temperature is limited by metabolic rate, and a snake of this size would require a minimum mean annual temperature of 30-34oC to survive. This estimate is consistent with hypotheses of hot Palaeocene neotropics with high concentrations of atmospheric CO2 based on climate models. Comparison of palaeotemperature estimates from the equator to those from South American mid-latitudes indicates a relatively steep temperature gradient during the early Palaeogene greenhouse, similar to that of today. Depositional environments and faunal composition of the Cerrejón Formation indicate an anaconda-like ecology for the giant snake, and an earliest Cenozoic origin of neotropical vertebrate faunas.
Panama as a Paleo-Nursery Area for Giant Shark Babies
Author: Catalina Pimiento, M.S., Zoology
Florida Museum Research Mentor: Bruce MacFadden, Vertebrate Paleontology (Chair)
Poster Abstract: Although sharks are apex predators in the oceans, juveniles are susceptible to being preyed upon by larger individuals. Females give birth in shallow environments called nursery areas to protect their offspring from predators. The extinct shark (Carcharocles megalodon), is the biggest shark that ever lived. Fossil teeth C. megalodon are found in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation of Panama, where we have collected and measured a number of teeth. Surprisingly, no large teeth are present. We have compared these specimens with different teeth from analogous localities. In addition we have calculated the total length of the individuals found. These comparisons and estimations suggest that C. megalodon sharks from the Gatun Fm. were mostly juveniles. During the Late Miocene the Gatun was a productive, warm shallow-water marine environment. We propose that the Gatun Formations represents a nursery area during this period of time and that C. megalodon spent their juvenile stages in this area that provided them protection.
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Dynamics of Ecuadorian Amazon butterflies: implications for conserving the world's richest fauna
Author: María Fernanda Checa, PhD, Department of Entomology and Nematology
Florida Museum Research Mentors: Keith Willmott, Lepidoptera (Chair), Jaret Daniels, Lepidoptera
Poster Abstract: It is urgent to promote biodiversity conservation through sustainable development in the Amazonia, where less than 30% of forests remain and more than 75% of people are poor. Butterfly farming is a potential sustainable strategy. Temporal and spatial patterns of butterflies (where and when they occur) were determined, which helped to establish the basis for butterfly farming in the region. Material for environmental education and a book will be published containing these results to emphasize the importance of rainforest, popularize butterfly diversity and offer information for farming initiatives. This data is also useful to assess the IUCN conservation status of butterflies and determine possible effects of climate change.
Host plant choice in the frosted elfin, Callophrys irus Godart (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Author: Matthew D. Thom, PhD, Department of Entomology and Nematology
Florida Museum Research Mentor: Jaret Daniels, Lepidoptera (Chair)
Poster Abstract: Suitable habitat for organisms consists of open access to important and essential resources, such as light and nutrients for plants, and food and nesting sites for animals. While these resources may be physically present in a habitat, they may not always be accessible to the organisms that need them to survive. A study investigating host plant choice by the frosted elfin butterfly, Callophrys irus, was conducted at Ralph E. Simmons Memorial State Forest in northern Florida in the spring of 2010. Resource use was measured by conducting surveys of the larval host plant, sundial lupine, Lupinus perennis. Occupancy by eggs and larvae and presence of larval feeding damage were recorded and compared to host and non-host vegetative characteristics such as sundial lupine density and grassy, herbaceous, and woody plant cover. Statistical analysis using logistic regression revealed lower occupancy of sundial lupine where non-host plant cover was high, and highest occupancy where non-host plant cover was low to intermediate. The low occupancy of host plants that were densely surrounded by vegetation suggests that factors such as apparency, quality, or access may influence oviposition preference. Reduced occupancy from increased nearby vegetation has important effects on the population at this site, and management should take into account non-host plant crowding of sundial lupine in order to preserve and promote this population of a rare butterfly.
Mexico and the Monarch butterfly
Authors: Court Whelan, PhD, Department of Entomology and Nematology; Ian K. Segebarth, BA
Florida Museum Research Mentors: Thomas Emmel, Lepidoptera (Committee Chair for J.C. Whelan), Jaret Daniels, Lepidoptera, David Steadman, Ornithology, Jacqueline Miller, Lepidoptera
Poster Abstract: The annual migration of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is without a doubt one of nature's most spectacular phenomena. Each Fall, as the days begin to shorten, Monarchs get the cue to migrate by the hundreds of millions to a relatively small area in mountainous Southern Mexico where they will spend the winter. Clustering on tree trunks, and clinging to the needles of the Oyamel Fir Trees (Abies religiosa), these butterflies will endure night-time freezing temperatures in high elevations, along with rain, wind and intense mid-day sun for over four months. With the spec¬tacle of several billion butterflies in roughly a dozen different overwintering sites comes a demand for tourism by both local Mexicans as well as foreigners. As the phenomenon grows in popularity, tourist infrastructure continues to grow to meet the needs of travelers. At least two of the colony sites are now home to rows of shops and restaurants that are found near the parking lots and park entrances, which are about an hour's walk from the actual Monarch colonies. Other services, such as horse rentals and guided tours, add to the visitor experience and contribute greatly to the local economy.
A supermatrix perspective on the Amphiesmenoptera phylogeny
Author: Brett Boyd, PhD Candidate, Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program, Genetics Institute
Florida Museum Research Mentor: David Reed, Mammals (Chair)
Poster Abstract: The Amphiesmenoptera are a highly diverse clade of endopterygote insects that includes Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies). We built a comprehensive phylogenetic framework of Amphiesmenotpera that reflects both the rapidly growing sequence data and the computational advances that allow for large-scale phylogenetic analyses. We first assembled all potentially phylogenetic informative sequence data from Amphiesmenotpera and selected outgroups in GenBank. After pruning questionable or anomalous sequences and editing the alignments, homologous sequence clusters with more than 100 taxa were concatenated into a single phylogenetic "supermatrix" that contained 5609 taxa, representing by far the largest possible Amphiesmenoptera data set. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses on the supermatrix revealed a credible phylogenetic hypothesis that raises intriguing evolutionary questions and suggests directions for future data collection. The supermatrix phylogenetic hypothesis provides not only a starting point for large scale evolutionary and ecological analyses of the hyper-diverse Amphiesmenoptera clade, but will hopefully be a resource to promote and guide future phylogenetic studies within Amphiesmenoptera.


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The museum occupies some fifteen acres of the Astley Green Colliery site. To the south lies the Bridgewater Canal and Astley Moss, an important mossland site. The low-lying landscape ensures that the museum's 98ft high lattice steel headgear can be seen for many miles, a fitting memorial to days now past.


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From simple java phones to multi-tasking symbian phones. Check out our guides, documentations, reviews, tips, and tools.
Down-to-earth Nokia 6120 Classic Symbian Phone
Posted by Symbianizer | Filed under Nokia, S60 3rd Edition, Symbian
Nokia announced a new mid-range S60 smartphone today, complete with HSDPA high-speed data access. The new Nokia 6120 Classic belongs to neither the multimedia N Series, nor the business E series of the Finnish brand. Good at the essentials, it's set of features can't be clearly linked to a particular target of users. The "Classic" attribute refers to the phone's conservative design. On the other hand, Nokia 6120 features functions far more sophisticated than what you'd expect in this price category.
Two cameras are present on the 6120 Classic: a front-facing unit for video calling, and a 2.0 megapixel rearward-facing sensor with 4x digital zoom for easy photography. Nokia's 6120 Classic is designed with ease of use in mind, and the full S60 smartphone UI accomplishes this well, including contact management, a calendar, task list, email access, and other tools to make managing your life easy. One of the biggest draw cards for the device is its HSDPA compatibility, delivering up to 10 times faster data speeds than normal WCDMA networks.
Key features
- Conservative and elegant design
- Impeccable construction
- Symbian 9.2, S60 3rd Edition graphic upgrade and Feature Pack
- Remarkable size and weight for a smartphone
- 2-megapixel camera without autofocus
- Instant response of user interface
- Brilliant QVGA display with reflexive surface
- 35 MB of internal memory, microSD card slot
- Document viewer: Quickoffice and PDF
- Bluetooth with A2DP support
- Solid and robust body
- MiniUSB connector
- Very good keypad
- Voice recorder with 60-minute limit
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- No Wi-Fi
- No "pencil" key
- Susceptible to fingerprints
- No indication of missed events after certain period of time
- Navigation and operation keys not ergonomic enough
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Why dont they make a cell phone for people with big fingers?
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Very nice phone, just buy it 2 month ago (black) and then i give it to my sister, and then i just buy another one (white), cool feature, the phone so great, just lack of battery life, but its still ok, n then easy to heat up if i use it as a modem. but totally, i give it 8.5 to 10 🙂 if nokia give wifi on this phone, i give it 9.5 🙂
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its really great no other phone with this much features
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i have this phone!
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generally very nice mid end mobile phone.with affordable price you will get more than u expected !
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Great phone indeed! I just got it recently.
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I am now on my third 6129c. I lend them to my staff and cannot get them back. This phone is almost ideal for my in my business travels throughout Australasia. It would be perfect if it had dual SIM card support and WiFi.
Olatunji | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:23 am
I have this phone.though my uncle bought it in the uk, but i'm using it in Nigeria.the problem with it is that the phone does not instal some applications like my former phone(nokia 6600).i doubt if it is a symbian phone
Tsokan | April 14th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
@Olatunji 6120c is a Symbian v3 while 6600 is v2.Their applications ar nt compactable wit each other.
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Great phone, Today i just opened the covers and was surprised to see, that the phone was bathing in dust,still it was working smoothly. This is one nice phone
Aristotle | October 27th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Excellent fone. Used it for a yr. Resplendent features: smallest and lightest symbian smartphone ever, 2MP camera with panorama mode & flash, VGA secondary camera for pix and calls, HSDPA (3.5G) at 3.1Mbps download speed, good audio, microSD up to 16GB all in a cool silent package. This fone is award winning.
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i had this phone n i luvd it because of its cool features and excellent functions, but its lost….i had this given to me in a gift… whts the rate for this? can i hve it back again for free?
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koolbannas | January 16th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Cheap, basic funcionalty, keyboard for 'very tiny fingers'
Beware the word "classic", it means freebie for corporations,
that's why I got one for free.
Also 15 seconds at your ear, and it 'red hot',
a bit to 'wierd' for me, alo switch to loud speaker.
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Inventing Antiques
Like so much else, they're a product of the Industrial Revolution
October 1999 | Volume 50, Issue 6
Nutting was born in Rockbottom, Maine, in 1861, and the village's curious name is not a bad indication of the economic circumstances of his youth. His father died while serving in the Union army, and Wallace grew up on an uncle's farm. He dropped out of high school when only fifteen and held a series of odd jobs. His mother wanted him to be a minister, and he finally completed his education at the Union Theological Seminary and was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1888.
He served as a minister for the next sixteen years before retiring because of ill health. During those years he had developed a hobby of photographing outdoor scenes. After his retirement he began to be much more systematic in his photography, traveling around New England by train and bicycle. He became a highly skilled cameraman, working with the fine-grained platinum process, and his photographs, many hand-tinted, began to sell. At its height Nutting's business in nostalgia photos employed more than a hundred people and grossed as much as a thousand dollars a day.
In 1912 he moved his headquarters to Framingham Center, Massachusetts. At this time he purchased four colonial-era houses—in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Haverhill and Newburyport, Massachusetts; and Wethersfield, Connecticut—and restored them to their eighteenth-century appearance. A few years later he bought an old ironworks in Saugus, Massachusetts, and restored much of that as well, using it to reproduce Colonial hardware.
Nutting used these houses for his interior photographs, and he began collecting American antiques on a massive scale in order to furnish them. Although by this time he was a prosperous man, he was able to purchase so widely because American antiques were then available everywhere at prices that would break the heart of any "Antiques Roadshow" viewer.
In 1917 he began to reproduce American antiques, using items from his collection as models, and sold them widely to a fast-growing market, as the overstuffed, densely furnished Victorian look went out of style and the spare and open look of Colonial Revival became more and more fashionable. It was to a large extent Nutting who was responsible for that seeming oxymoron "the authentic reproduction," authentic in the sense that it faithfully reproduced the original. Nutting made no secret of his philosophy: "Copy and avoid bad taste," he said. "Not all the old is good but all the new is bad."
In 1923 Nutting decided to sell his enterprises and retire, devoting himself to his personal collection of American antique furniture, especially the rarest of American antiques, those of the seventeenth century. His second retirement did not last long. Unhappy with how his company was being run, he sold his collection the next year to J. P. Morgan, Jr., in order to have the funds to reacquire it. Morgan paid him ninety thousand dollars. That is something like a million dollars in today's money, but only a tiny fraction of what the collection would now bring at auction. Morgan donated the entire trove to the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut, where it remains today, by orders of magnitude the finest collection of seventeenth-century furniture in the country.
Besides collecting, photographing, and reproducing antique American furniture, Wallace Nutting wrote extensively about it. His masterpiece is the three-volume Furniture Treasury (published from 1928 to 1933), containing more than five thousand photographs, mostly taken by himself, of early American furniture. While many mistakes have been found in it as scholarship in the field has advanced, Furniture Treasury remains indispensable to the serious collector even seventy-one years after its publication, and it is still in print. Indeed, in the American antiques business it is simply known as "Nutting." That, when you think about it, is no small compliment to the minister who did so much to establish the American antiques trade as a major business.


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With Instructables you can share what you make with the world, and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
For this instructable I show how to make a monopod out of that useless display box the go pro came with!
The only materials that you might not have at home are the paracord and dowel these are both around five dollars.
Drill a hole near the end of the dowel using a 5/16 inch drill bit. Measure 2.75 inches down and drill another hole. When drilling through the dowel, be ...
To prepare the mount for drilling place it upside down on dowel with the part that holds the camera in place in between the two drilled holes. Take ...
For this step we drill a hole in each corner of the mount. The hole should be aligned with the mark you made in the previous step. When ...
Loop a 2 foot section of paracord through the mount and into the stick. You may need to use a paper clip like a needle and thread to ...
This monopod is great for getting good shots of yourself. It also makes for very interesting videos
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I am looking into hiring a seo video company and want to know if this is common practice. I personally think that we should own those videos but it was explained to me that like a video rental, you are renting/leasing the space for those videos to be placed out their on their servers and that if you stop, it is now their property.I am able to get the company I am looking at to let us own 10 or so should we decide to stop.
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Michael, the services around creating and posting videos are not comparable to building and hosting websites because the intent around video publishing is to specifically use sites hosted by others, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler and dozens of others. First and foremost, why would you even want to create and publish online videos if there were NOT going to be posted to accounts that are owned and branded with the dealership's name and information in that account's profile? It does not make sense for dealer A to create and publish videos, thereby boosting the relevancy and SEO characteristics for a YouTube account owned and branded with the name of a competing dealer... So why would you want to pay to do the very same thing for an account owned and branded with a supplier's name? Just does not make sense. What's the whole point of creating and posting videos? A big part of the value proposition is to brand and promote the YouTube Channel, and various other accounts owned by the dealership. This is very different than hiring a company to design and create your dealership website, where if you cancel their services, of course you expect the site to be removed. With video services, you are NOT PAYING FOR HOSTING!!!! The videos are hosted by third party networks, such as those I've mentioned... What you are paying for is the CREATION OF VIDEOS! Which means the dealership should own those videos... When you pay a contractor to build a new showroom. After the construction is completed, when you stop paying that construction contractor, the company does not come to the dealership and tear down the darned showroom!
I think what he means is our dealership's website is created by a website builder from Dealer.com. Thus, if we stopped their service, we would lose our website since it isn't created on our own host, Ralph. I just hope that we own our domain! I wouldn't know because this service was brought on before I started. This is one mistake I know many businesses make when hiring a web company to register their domain and create their website. The web company puts the domain registration in their name and not the company's name.
All dealerships should own and control their primary domains... and most do.
I believe Chrysler would make sure we own our domains with their partners. I just wasn't at my position when our dealership created it. But, Dealer.com uses a web builder with their hosting. So, if we stopped using Dealer.com, we would lose our website but not our domain. It is similar to using web builders with hosting for GoDaddy.com, Office365.com, etc.
Kim I was not even aware you site was hosted with Dealer.com I just know several that I work with are so that is why I used Dealer.com. I have also seen the domain name issue to and it makes it more of a pain to ever leave your current host because now you will lose all the SEO work.
Ralph you do not have to convince me I was just stating that I had seen it done both ways. It makes perfect sense for dealers to own the videos and I like Ralph urge you to host any videos you purchased or created in your own accounts.
Important step of SEO of videos is when uploading the video for the first time, they are very hard to rank if not SEO properly from the beginning. So if someone creates or purchases a video start the SEO process prior to uploading and making the video public.
With that said I really do not find it that much different than creating websites. Both involve design and creation of an asset in which the dealer has paid to have constructed. Just like videos, websites can be hosted on free hosting services, Google even has one. You spend much more money designing and creating a great website for branding than you do for creating a 30-60 second video so why would you not want to own that asset also and be able to place it on any hosting you desire. So this nice new showroom (website) that you have constructed when you stop paying to lease the land sitting on, the construction company will come and tear it down. Why do dealerships just not host these sites themselves and not have to keep paying to rebuild an asset they have already paid once or twice to have built?
Many people think the same way about videos as they do about websites as you pointed out in your post. "where if you cancel their services, of course you expect the site to be removed." I did not say it was a correct way of thinking nor did I ever say I agreed with the process. Just from my experience from working with people who are not familiar with videos and websites they make a lot of assumptions.
To anyone besides Kim who checks this post out... I know Kim's question seems pretty reasonable and simple at first glance, but after reading an article in Advertising Age this morning about how effective video is in various aspects of Digital Marketing, I would like to point out that her question, and the dilemma she faces is one of the most strategically important issues within any dealership's automotive digital marketing strategy... Who, What, When, Where and How you create, edit, post and publish your dealership's videos for marketing communications purposes is an essential and high impact part of your store's digital marketing strategy. The solutions range from the Douglas Motors (Ken Beam) approach of keeping most of the work in-house to the full scale service providers such as Car-Mercial, Automotive Media Group and others. I spoke to George Nenni of Dealer Specialties at AutoCon 2012 and he advised me that DS is currently piloting a new program where they send videographers to dealerships and record Vehicle Presentation Videos (VPV) for upload and distribution in a similar manner to what they do today for vehicle inventory photos. If this program is successful, it will leverage the reach and resources of the nation's largest supplier of vehicle inventory photos to create a whole new ecosystem of VPV's. I have also seen several locally based entrepreneurs develop businesses that take on a dozen or so local dealerships and provide video creation, editing and posting services... Regardless of which way you chose to go, I WILL PERSONALLY INSIST THAT THE DEALERS I WORK WITH HOST ANY AND ALL VIDEOS THEY HAVE CREATED OR PAID TO CREATE IN WEB BASD ACCOUNTS THAT ARE OWNED, BRANDED AND PROFILED WITH THE DEALERSHIP'S INFORMATION, INCLUDING LINKS AND SYNDICATION TO THE DEALERSHIP'S RELEVANT WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS.
@ Ralph - "of keeping most of the work in-house".........ummmmmmmmm.......Mr. Paglia this statement is a tad incorrect my friend.............ALL of the Video work created at the Douglas Auto Group is 100% totally created "in-house" - Just wanted to clarify that point.
Because I believe that branding somebody else's (including a supplier) owned and controlled YouTube Channel is such a major strategic blunder for dealers investing in video production, editing and distribution online, I am going to list a few YouTube links showcasing just a handful of dealers who have effective video marketing strategies in place that include their own dealership branded YouTube Channels:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DouglasVW 121,591 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/paragonhondainfo 47,683 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/herbchambersvideo 36,705 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/PremierToyotaAmherst 32,925 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/brickellhonda 29,832 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/KenGrodyFordOC 27,073 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/KenGrodyFordSanDiego 7,326 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/richfordsales 5,553 total views
http://www.youtube.com/user/rickcasehonda 1,691 total views
Ralph nice find are these all dealer owned sites or do you know if they are paying someone to manage them? I think that is what Kim mentioned earlier videos would be uploaded on branded sites but then we the contract or payment stops they could remove the videos.
Hopefully all these dealers are running their own show.
@ Michael - All of our YouTube work is created/edited/uploaded by myself......as is our YouTube Channels;
Hey Ralph! lol! Think you missed one of my other YouTube Channels!~
http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnWayne00?feature=mhee - 789,318 total views
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