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The release date of Superman Returns crept steadily backward—from Friday to Wednesday to Tuesday night—as Warner became nervous about a giant hulking pirate ship on the horizon. It's pretty much accepted in Hollywood at this point that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will eclipse Spider-Man for the biggest opening of all time. Thus, Warner has only a few days in which to get Superman flying before Pirates debuts on July 7.
The tracking for Superman had been frighteningly weak for a film that clearly cost in excess of $200 million—probably closer to $300 million when marketing and other costs are included. Warner was in for millions before it even shot an inch of film, having spent many years pursuing the visions of different directors—from Tim Burton to McG to Brett Ratner—before getting hold of Bryan Singer. The Wall Street Journal estimated those costs at $60 million.
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It's looking to be a long, dry summer for Warner. The costly Poseidon bombed. The less expensive but inexplicable Lake House didn't do much business. Later this month comes M. Night Shyamalan's moderately expensive Lady in the Water. In a remarkable story last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that Shyamalan cooperated in writing a new book about his traumatic struggle to get the film made. The book, which will be released at the same time as the film, blasts top executives at Disney (where Shyamalan made previous movies) for failing to grasp the beauty of his vision.
The Los Angeles Times, however, left out the punch line: The buzz on the movie—about an apartment-building superintendent who finds a sea nymph in a swimming pool—is not good. Shyamalan may be unaware of this. The director wrapped up by test-screening the film for 40 people in his barn near Philadelphia. And they loved it! If that audience was deceptively enthusiastic, Disney will have the last laugh. Warner will not be laughing at all. Shyamalan has a passionate group of fans who will probably help the movie open respectably but its success is far from assured. "He's going to make Disney look brilliant," predicted one high-level producer.
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On Mittwoch, 15. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Matthias Schwarzott schrieb: > > On Montag, 13. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >> Hi all! > > > > Hi! > > > >> is there any way to let vdr ignore any directories which do not belong > >> to it ? > >> > >> What i have seen is that vdr is recursive checking all directories even > >> on second and third video directory. > >> > >> If the logic is that all needs to be in video.0 directory and its > >> subdirectories and symlinks will be required to let vdr find the > >> recordings, it should not check the other video directories. > > > > [deleted some text that did not made sense to me] > > i did a mount --bind /proc proc/ in video.01 resulting in vdr searching > the proc filesystem resulting in plenty of error messages to the log (no > permission etc) which filled up the log, which in turn filled up my root > filesystem with within 15 min or so. > > I have a directory containing a chroot env. not readable by vdr - except > i forgot to unmount the proc in time. > > >> Think there might be others as well that are using the big disks for > >> other space consuming things - nobody else run into this ? > > > > I don't understand why people do put other stuff into vdr video > > directories? If I want to have video directory and a directory containing > > iso images why not do > > > > mkdir video > > mkdir iso > > and put the stuff there? > > That doesn't help. > /dev/hda1 3,4G 1,4G 1,8G 44% / (microdrive which is > containing video.00, with symlinks, index etc) > /dev/sdb1 932G 929G 3,3G 100% /var/lib/video.01 > /dev/sda1 932G 600G 333G 65% /var/lib/video.02 > > bindmount only works properly in newer kernels. Still on 2.6.24. If you > have an idea of how to use the big harddisks for something else without > preallocating space for other tasks (i.e. partitioning), i would be > happy to hear. I'm pretty aware that this might not be good idea to do > things like i did. On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea > and unnecessary. period. > I thought bind mount does work on even older kernels, still shouldn't a symlink work too?
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Her group hasn't had a chance to do a survey, but Rhonda Rich knows her personal preference for the play structure siting.
Rich, president of the West Keizer Neighborhood Association (WKNA), had planned to have members fill out a survey about The Big Toy at Keizer Rapids Park play structure at last month's WKNA meeting. In particular Rich wanted to know where members wanted to see the play structure go. Siting became an issue recently when Mayor Lore Christopher began lobbying for a space in the orchards on Chemawa Road, as opposed to the "Site 1" location between the amphitheater and the boat ramp.
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Just a quick one today as there's not an abundance of release news to report.
Anchor Bay Films has set Battle of the Damned coming to BD and DVD on 2/18. The action films stars Dolph Lundgren and features zombies, robots and what have you.
Lionsgate has Thanks for Sharing set for Blu-ray and DVD on 1/7, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Lionsgate also has Duck Dynasty: Season 4 coming on Blu-ray and DVD on 2/18. [Read on here…]
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Okay, we've got a couple things that should be of interest to some of you today…
First, we've confirmed with Fox that the new Robocop Blu-ray Disc due on 1/21 is remastered from a 4K transfer and it's definitely the director's cut version of the film. Extras will include audio commentary with director Paul Verhoeven, writer Ed Neumeier and executive producer Jon Davison, deleted scenes, a new Q&A with the Filmmakers, the Flesh and Steel: The Making of Robocop documentary, 5 legacy featurettes (Shooting Robocop, Making Robocop, Villains of Old Detroit, Special Effects: Then and Now and Robocop: Creating a Legend), The Boardroom: Storyboard with commentary by animator Phil Tippett, an Easter egg, the theatrical trailer and a TV spot. [Read on here…]
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Afternoon, folks! Hope you all had a nice holiday weekend with family and friends. Sarah and I spent our Thanksgiving in New Orleans with family and it was pretty swell. I ate way too much good food (NoLA is like that). If I lived there, I'd have to run about 12 miles a day just to work off the calories from everything I wanted to eat: Crawfish étouffée, jambalaya, gumbo, po-boys, tartine, beignets and cafe au lait… MMmmmmmm. They do know how to cook down there.
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"Like….wow!" Steve Dembo's closing words to our group about our project pretty much tells the story of this past week for me. I hardly know where to begin to tell you about my amazing week at the Discovery Educator Network's National Leadership Conference held at Discovery Communications Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD. How does one sum up a week spent the week collaborating with some of the Nation's most innovative educators? When I walked through the door on day 1, I was humbled by their eagerness to learn to things and willingness to share their knowledge. How does one begin to describe the words of the inspirational speakers we got a chance to meet; Alan November, Steve Dembo, Hall Davidson, and Josh Wolff (discovery educator abroad) who talked about his experience in digital storytelling from an "in the field" perspective? I learned more things in one week than I can begin to list in this blog entry, but I will try to summarize as best I can and I thank each and every person who added to that list.
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A highlight for me was getting a chance to listen to and meet one of the brightest minds in the world of Education, Alan November who spoke about how the real revolution in education is not the technology but in how we access information and communicate. He stressed that it's not about the wires; it's about what flows through them that really matters. He reminded us that we, as teachers of the Discovery Educator Network, are going to be in a position to help define Global competitiveness, to REDEFINE literacy, to impress on educational leaders that it is essential for our students to learn to work with people around the world and become self directed, self assessing and independent. I know I am only scratching the surface so click Alan November to learn more. I know that I for one am up to his challenge.
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- The World is Flat: by Thomas Friedman
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- Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning by Marc Presnky
- Empowering Students with Technology by Alan November which I actually WON by bowling a strike on our final night at the conference.
The last day was for project presentation and I was blown away by the work that was done in one week--the range of products was incredible; podcasting, PowerPoint games, videos using Adobe Premiere and photo story, products using Inspiration and Timeliner, each one incorporating the excellent unitedstreaming resources which Discovery Communications provides to member schools. I came away from the conference with so many ideas and connections to other educators who are committed to using Unitedstreaming resources to improve student achievement. I am especially proud of our project http://discoveramerica.wikispaces.com/ and hope you all check it out and join us.
Like the DEN over the past year as a part of this amazing network of professionals, I too have been have been transformed and accept the challenge to do my part to ensure that we truly change the way we teach. My thoughts are best summed up by the words of one of my fantastic group leaders Brad Fountain, Field Manager of North and South Carolina. As a result of the DEN National Leadership Conference, "I am forever changed. The more I think about it, I am convinced that perspective is everything, and the more I learn about the DEN and education at large the more my perspective changes…changes for the better." So to the field managers of the DEN, I give you MY 2 finger salute… for creating a network where educators can work together, and learn from one another ways to best prepare our students to compete in a global economy. To educators across the country, I ask you "what will you do this year to make a difference?"


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Congo's president, seeking a second term in a nation reeling from poverty and pummeled by war, was leading Saturday in early results, but his opponents insisted he step aside and accused him of trying to engineer "carnage."
President Joseph Kabila had 50.3 percent of the vote in early results from an election marred by technical problems and accusations of favoritism. Analysts had predicted he would likely win because the opposition candidates are splitting the vote.
In a show of unity, the 10 opposition parties held a press conference and accused Kabila of attempting to engineer a situation like Kenya, Zimbabwe or the Ivory Coast, all countries where rulers used the army to try to silence dissent and cling to power after losing at the polls.
"I think that Joseph Kabila could go down in history ... if he were to say, 'I'm a good sport and I lost,'" said opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe, a former speaker of Parliament. "He is preparing a carnage."
International observers noted irregularities including possible instances of fraud, but most said the shortcomings seemed to be due to technical glitches rather than a systematic attempt to rig the vote.
Due to bad weather, planes carrying ballots did not take off in time to reach the remote interior of this gigantic nation, which stretches over a territory as large as Western Europe.
Monday's vote had to be extended for three days in order to give porters carrying ballots on their heads, on bicycles, in canoes and in wheelbarrows to reach the distant corners of Congo.
Election commission chief Daniel Ngoy Mulunda released province by province tallies Saturday he said amounted to 33 percent of all voting bureaus, showing that Kabila was ahead with 3.27 million of the 6.48 million votes counted so far. Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi was trailing with 2.23 million votes, or 34.4 percent.
The gap between them is sure to close when results from Kinshasa are released, where poll workers in the four warehouses processing votes were visibly overwhelmed.
Sacks of ballots were being brought in on the backs of poll workers; there were so many they were being piled in the parking lot outside. Some had split open, and ballots had fallen into the mud or the cement floor of the warehouse, where they were being trampled by election workers.
As of Friday, less than 5 percent of the ballots in one of the four warehouses had been processed, said a poll worker who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The election official complained they were not being brought food or even water, and several of the poll workers were asleep, splayed out across tables with bags of ballots piled up around them.
The results released from Kinshasa represent only 3.33 percent of the capital's precincts, said Mulunda. In the small sample that was released, Tshisekedi had so far received roughly twice as many votes as Kabila, nearly 43,000 compared to the 23,000 cast for the incumbent. Over 3 million voters are registered in Kinshasa, so it's possible that Tshisekedi will be able to catch up once the capital's tallies are in.
Still, the opposition has clearly been hurt by its inability to unite behind a single candidate. In the results released so far, nearly a million votes had been cast for the nine opposition candidates besides the 78-year-old Tshisekedi. That's roughly equal to the gap now separating Tshisekedi from Kabila.
The opposition leaders said they are seeking a group of "African sages," to act as mediators in order to tell Kabila to step aside.
"We know who lost. We know who won," said Kamerhe. "We are asking the sages of Africa ... to go tell their counterpart, change is not the end of the world. You can come back in 10 years, 15 years. But leave the nation of Congo in peace. Because it's not worth burning Congo for one person," he said.
Tshisekedi's supporters on Saturday attacked the car of a team of foreign correspondents, accusing the international community of propping up Kabila in order to help him win re-election. Hotels were emptying out on Saturday as expatriates left the country ahead of what is expected to be a violent week.
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The hope, these genetics researchers agree, is that finding the genes that cause autism or increase an individual's susceptibility for the disease will improve diagnostic capabilities and pave the way for new biologically-based treatments, perhaps even preventions.
A problem with wiring
Proceeding in lockstep with the search for autism genes have been efforts to understand the neurobiology of the disorder. Attention has focused on defining the brain regions affected by autism, with the hope that knowing which brain regions are affected and how will guide diagnosis and treatment strategies.
Autopsies and brain imaging have revealed that brains of individuals with autism are larger than normal, on average, and that there are alterations in the brainstem, cerebellum, and "limbic" structures, like the amygdala and the hippocampus, which are involved in emotional processing. But no clear picture of an "autistic" brain has emerged.
"Could you hand a CT scan to a neurologist and say, 'Does this child have autism based on your knowledge of structure?' The answer is no," says Stephen M. Camarata, Ph.D., deputy director of Research on Communication and Learning at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. "Clearly something is wrong in the brain, but we suspect it's not going to be a gross anatomical difference. More likely, it's going to involve interactions among different areas of the brain and how these areas integrate information."
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Previewing the Rays shouldn't take more than 20 words, really. "They're really, really good." And...we're done. This Rays team is excellent at baseball and there isn't much you or anyone else can do about it.
If I was to pick one word to describe the Rays and their fanbase, it would be "aware." Rays fans are quite aware of how good this team is. The Rays themselves seem to appreciate that, too. Both sides seem acutely aware of how well-assembled the 2010 Mantamen of the Rayspocalypse are; a brilliant jumble of stars and complimentary pieces. By no means are any Rays fans content with simply making the playoffs, they're in it for the long haul. They've bought into the Process and damned if they won't see it through.
Playing against and/or watching the Rays can be, well, trying. I don't think the word unconventional quite does them justice. The roster is constructed in such a way as to ring every ounce of worth out of each non-Rocco drawing a paycheck. This leads to lots dudes playing second base and right field on consecutive nights. Expect lots of right fielders in general.
The Rays do things like load their lineup with right handed batters when facing a right handed pitcher because his best pitch is tougher on lefties. If you suggested such an idea to Tony LaRussa he would soil his pants and call you a heretic. They pinch hit with their backup catcher because he's a good bunter. They hit their starting catcher leadoff.
At the behest of enabling hipster Joe Madden, the Rays deploy crazed offensive schemes and overmanage their way to "undeserved" victories. More times than I care to reflect on, Overmanagin' Joe Maddon made a dizzying array of changes which somehow conspired to deliver a W; bringing his DH in defensively, placing his pitcher in the heart of his batting order and ordering a Malbec to go with his freshly caught grouper. CHRIST MAN, ARE YOU SOME KIND OF SAVAGE?
From their gimmicky outfits to their gimmicky ballpark, it would be easy to dismiss the team as a joke and wait for the inevitable Yankee parade. Despite the occasionally bizarre machinations of the Head Hipster in Chief, the Rays are an excellent team with a rock solid core. The rotation is strong, the bullpen even better. They run like crazy but they'll take a walk, too. This is a team you simply do not want to play. There's a good chance three different fanbases will learn that very same lesson over the next few weeks.


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Opening in September 2018, Malvern College Hong Kong will create a nurturing learning environment where the emphasis will be on stretching pupils' potential and building character. We are looking to build a team of dedicated and creative teachers with a positive outlook who will thrive on the professional and personal rewards and challenges which come with working in an international school in its infancy. MCHK will open with around 400 pupils in Years 1-9 and will grow year on year to reach a capacity of 960 pupils in Years 1-13.
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10 Content Experts Weigh in on Author Rank in 2013: Part I
Since 2011, Google has supported the use of rel=author tags to enhance the way search engine results display the content you've authored. Authors are ranked based on the authority of their content and a variety of other factors, assisting Google in determining where to rank such individuals content in SERPs. This is a relatively new concept, and many are still figuring out exactly how to take full advantage.
We reached out to ten content marketing experts from around the globe to weigh in on the future of rel=author and author rank. Each have author rank on their radar and are planning to make great strides in 2013 to focus on this concept. Learn more about author rank by reading their answers below.
How are you planning to integrate author rank & rel=author in 2013 with the work you do for clients or services you offer?
"I can answer this question as the one who used to provide full service guest blogging services for years. It is a must that a client is involved in each step (turnkey solutions won't work) even if you provide full-service guest posting services. Here's how it worked for me:
- Ask the client to assign any member of his/her team to review and edit all the articles that are placed as "guest posts" on the client's behalf
- Work with that editor to create a powerful author person he/she would represent (set up Google Plus profile for him, educate him/her on how to connect to G+ community and use rel="author" to connect all client's guest posts to that G+ profile.)
- Make sure your client knows that your guest posting services are not only good for links: the powerful author brand is what the client gets forever (even after you stop providing your services)"
Ann Smarty, Community Manager
Ann Smarty is the Community Manager for Internet Marketing Ninjas and owner of My Blog Guest, the free guest blogging community. She tweets as @seosmarty, and don't forget to Circle her on G+.
"We've already been implementing this for all of our clients since early 2012, so I don't think much will change for us. We offer this to all enterprise clients and have worked it into our first months deliverables. In our process, we set up a company author or multiple authors to tie their content to and we also set up rel=publisher for them. We then use rel=author on all content produced on the client site and offsite through guest blogging, etc."
Greg Shuey, VP Client Services
Greg Shuey is the VP of Client Services at SEO.com. Greg is an experienced marketing professional with a heavy emphasis on Internet marketing, more specifically search engine optimization (SEO) and generating online revenue via affiliate marketing. Follow him on Twitter @Shuey03 and Circle him on G+.
"I encourage my freelance clients to include author bio's on each post with the author's Google+ link as well as have them email all of the writers on the blog to add a link to it on their Google+ profiles. It's usually an easy sell once I show clients how people can click on the author's More posts by link in search results and possibly discover their content."
Kristi Hines, Freelance Writer
Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, professional blogger, and social media enthusiast. Follow her on Twitter @kikolani and Circle her on G+.
"Google Authorship is definitely something that is important to our team, and we have leveraged it internally over the course of the year. Our in-house copywriters and guest bloggers have Authorship status, are now more effectively tracking their placements, and getting into the habit of adding websites to their G+ profiles as they contribute. Admittedly, client adoption has been a bit slower, with the biggest reason being clients aren't 100% sure WHO they want to be the "author" of their company's content (business owner, VP, themselves, etc.). With our small business clients, this is pretty clear… with our medium to large clients, not so much. For content marketing and viral marketing related campaigns, Authorship is definitely in our plan for 2013 – especially for clients that have a clear point of contact or public figure in their organization."
Jonathan Bentz, Director of Client Marketing
Jonathan Bentz is Director Of Client Marketing at ProspectMX – a Pennsylvania-based Internet marketing company. His work and expertise at ProspectMX has been featured online at the Central Penn Business Journal, Ecommerce Times, and also at BtoB Online. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbentz and Circle him on G+.
"As we work with clients on content marketing, there will be a continued emphasis on establishing authorship with rel=author for their content producers, both partners and in-house. This can be considerable for clients with a solid history of content who could see significant advantages when their content library is threaded together as a network of established authors. And with clients newer to the game whose content is less authoritative, verifying authors is even more critical, potentially elevating content in search engines results with rich snippets instead of hoping it will percolate up over time."
David Gould, Creative Services Director
David Gould is the Creative Services Director at Vertical Measures, a Search, Social & Content Marketing company based in Phoenix. Circle him on G+, and don't forget to attend his upcoming webinar "Beyond Optimization – Elevating Your Content with Google Authorship" on February 7th at 11AM PST/2PM EST.
"First of all, I'm going to spend a lot more energy on Google+. This means sharing my content, interacting with users, starting conversations, getting shares, 1+s, and generally connecting everything I do online to my G+ profile.
Secondly, I'm going to be much more aware of tagging all my content with my rel=author markup so I can claim authorship and show Google that I'm the author/authority behind the individual pieces of content.
Thirdly, I'm going to do even more guest writing for various high authority blogs within my areas of expertise. I used to do guest posts for the obvious reasons: building relationships, getting links, and attracting new followers. But it looks like AR will make guest writing even more directly beneficial as all the shares, Likes, Tweets, +1s, etc. your guest posts get should rub off on your Author Rank.
This means that you'll be able to build your AR effectively and rapidly by guest writing, because readers are much more likely to share your content if they come across it on a high-authority source that they trust. Also, getting content posted on high-authority blogs is likely to increase your chances of getting shares from major influencers in your field."
Michael Aagaard, ContentVerve.com
Michael Aagaard is self-employed and a self-confessed test junkie & copywriting fanatic. His new blog, ContentVerve.com, is all about content, copy & conversions. Circle him on G+, and follow him on Twitter.
"At WireBuzz we produce custom video libraries for our clients and author rank is something we build into their projects. We ensure that all of the libraries and video content we create for clients are set up with the rel=author attribute to help build author rank, which when combined with our video content strategy really pays off in the long run."
Todd Hartley, CEO
Todd Hartley is the CEO of WireBuzz, a Phoenix based company providing video creation, social business and PR/Marketing services to clients. Todd has spearheaded digital marketing campaigns for seven of the largest national talk shows and created the first video medical encyclopedia on the Internet. Circle him on G+.
"For certain clients, we're targeting specific authoritative web properties and regularly publishing engaging content to help establish each client's authorship. But this process is just one component of our overall Internet marketing strategy for each client. While we think it is one slice of the pie, we don't expect it to be a "silver bullet" (since there's no such thing in SEO)."
Gerald Weber, President & Co-Founder
Gerald Weber is president of Search Engine Marketing Group in Houston Texas and co-founder of Viral Content Buzz which is a platform that utilizes a crowd-sourcing model to facilitate the generation of "social buzz" on quality content. Circle him on G+.
"Author rank is clearly one of the newest and most influential metrics in determining the quality of the content and the author that wrote it. In today's world of SEO, content more than ever is increasingly important. For our clients specifically, we saw the trend coming and have already begun to implement rel=author into our guest blogging and content creation activities."
Adam Heitzman, Managing Partner
Adam Heitzman is a Managing Partner at HigherVisibility, a leading online marketing agency serving clients Nationwide. Circle him on Google+.
"At SwellPath, we began advocating for the implementation of Google authorship (AKA rel author markup) early on. We set up, or were working on setting up, 10+ clients at the end of 2012 and we're aiming to get a lot more onboard in 2013. Of course, there are some clients who are a better fit for authorship than others, so that's a limiting consideration. In general, if a client has a blog or has high-profile employees/founders, they're a great fit and we will set things in motion.
By implementing rel author (authorship) early, we can help our clients build the credibility and authority that will invariably influence AuthorRank when Google rolls it out in full force. There are plenty of great reasons to work on AuthorRank preemptively as well (we refer to this as Authority Building): clients get great visibility in search results, brands are more successful on Google+, organic CTR goes up, and we seem to get a better reaction to content (links, comments, shares, etc)."
Mike Arnesen, Senior SEO
Mike Arnesen is a Senior SEO at SwellPath, he is a veteran web developer and search marketer. Mike lives in Portland, OR and is an advocate for all things related to Google Authorship, a prolific blogger, and frequent speaker at industry events. Circle him on Google+.
A huge thanks to all the experts who weighed in. Some very insightful information! As you can see from the answers above, rel=author and Author Rank are a huge focus in 2013. How do you plan to integrate rel=author and Author Rank this year? Share with us in the comments below. Look for Part II of expert answers on January 29th. Subscribe to our blog to be notified when the post goes live.
If you're new to the concept of Author Rank register for our next webinar on February 7th "Beyond Optimization – Elevating Your Content with Google Authorship".
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Kent nielsen Jan 17, 2013
Very inspirational post! Most of the views are still focussing on guest posts on authority pages and blogs. That is; building up an author authority by using traditional link building tecniques. I'm curious to know if it wouldnt be just as effective to do all the building in the social networks alone?
Kaila Strong Jan 17, 2013
Kent, I think you bring up a good point. Building up your author rank can certainly be done through social networks, but I don't think you can do so 'alone'. In my opinion, your social credibility directly ties into your author rank. Writing great content, commenting on great content, getting circled on Google + by great authors or influencers in your industry, being retweeted by industry influencers, being followed by an influencer, getting influencers to comment on your content, etc… are all great ways to build your author rank. But in the end, it all starts with content and the rel=author tag. Thanks for your comment!
Kent Nielsen Jan 17, 2013
Kaila, I completely agree. I've done some small scale checks of G+ influencers (both companies and people), and it seems to me that you can get a decent PageRank from social links alone, but in order to get a 5+ PageRank you need links from outside the social networks as well. I'm sure there's a lot more to be said in this area, but it seems to show that you need the "full link package"
Paul Jan 18, 2013
With Author rank being used as one of the factors of your search results, how does the publisher rank affect your search results?
So if you have a one author blog is it better to promote and share your content on the blog Google+ page or on your Author profile account? I understand that you really should be sharing your content on both your author profile and publisher page, but which one do you encourage people to circle?
Pamela Waterman Jan 18, 2013
There's always something new to try in the world of blogs, comments, articles, tweets, etc.! Thanks for sharing these insights. I hadn't realized how important this concept can be, but now I'll pay attention to incorporating it into everything I do online.
Kaila Strong Jan 18, 2013
@Paul Good question! Right now the benefit of author rank and rel=author for search results is not only the possible ranking factors but also the ability to occupy a larger space in the SERPs and *cross fingers* get higher click-through-rates because of it.
Google has yet to add similar benefits to content writing by specific publishers (the additional real estate in the SERPs). There aren't too many conclusive studies around this topic as it relates to which is better: building author rank or building publisher rank.
If it were me, and take this advice with a grain of salt, I'd certainly want to occupy more real estate in a SERP so I'd focused my energy on building author rank as my overall priority. Ultimately, my goal would be to build up my author rank AND pub rank. I want people to circle both on Google +. I'd encourage cross promotion of both my pub page and my personal profile, and look to get as many high authority peeps to circle me on both profiles.
Nick Eubanks Jan 19, 2013
Jonathan Bentz hits on a big point here, especially for corporations:
"Admittedly, client adoption has been a bit slower, with the biggest reason being clients aren't 100% sure WHO they want to be the "author" of their company's content "
This is something I hear companies of all sizes having trouble with – who's voice is most representative of the company, or who should be the 'face of their content'
Would love to hear more stories about how some firms are approaching this topic with their clients.
Dallas McMillan Jan 28, 2013
Nice to see how top agencies are implementing this feature. I've been amazed at how slowly people have embraced Google authorship, even top content creators and authors.
I see it as central to developing your online identity.
Kaila Strong Jan 28, 2013
@Dallas You're so right Dallas. It indeed is a huge part of developing an online identity for your brand. I think hesitation to implement is there for brands who don't know where to get started, because they don't have a persona or identity yet to represent their content. It will be interesting to see how more brands incorporate this concept in the coming years. Thanks for your comment!
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Global investment in green energy was at its lowest for two years in the first quarter of 2015, according to new research.
A report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) said that investment in renewable energy such as wind and solar power and biomass fell to $50.5bn (£34.5) in January to March from $59.3bn in same quarter last year, the least since the first quarter of 2013 when spending totalled $43.1bn.
The first quarter of each year is normally the weakest as project developers asses any changes in renewable energy support mechanisms taking effect from 1 January and banks and equity investors pause after a busy year-end, but this year the affect has been amplified by a strengthening of the US dollar that has impacted financing of projects.
A number of large wind projects in the first quarter of last year has also likely skewed the comparison and without those two factors investment would have been "pretty much level-pegging with last year", according to Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board at BNEF.
Analysts have been waiting to see whether falling global oil and gas prices would hit investment in clean energy. "These figures indicate the answer is not so much," said Liebreich. " There's a lot of ground still to cover this year. No one knows whether the oil price is going to bounce back or collapse further.
"There is good momentum towards some sort of climate deal in Paris in December. And there are certainly plenty of ground-breaking developments in the low-carbon sector, from solar at six US cents per kWh, to storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and smart grid."
By sector, the report showed that solar is up 7 per cent from last year earlier at $31.8bn, wind is down 30 per cent at $15.1bn, biomass and waste-to-energy are up 94 per cent at $1.7bn and biofuels are down 64 per cent at $447m. Investment in energy smart grid technology companies slumped 91 per cent to $281m.
Geographically, clean energy investment in Brazil slumped by 62 per cent to $1.1bn compared with the first quarter of last year, while investment in Europe fell by 30 per cent to $9.7bn and Chinese investment was down 24 per cent to $11bn.
But clean energy investment in South Africa surged to $3.1bn from almost nothing in the first quarter last year, and investment in India rose by 59 per cent to $1.6bn.
BNEF Analyst Luke Mills said: "Since 2012, South Africa has emerged as one of the most important centres for clean energy investment, as it seeks to expand power capacity and take advantage of its sunshine and wind resources.
"The first quarter saw the financing of a series of large projects in solar thermal, wind and photovoltaic that won through in the latest round of the country's auction programme."
The largest asset finance deals for the quarter identified by the report included $1.3bn for Germany's 322MW Nordsee One offshore wind project, $888m for the 100MW Xina Solar One solar thermal complex in South Africa, and $427m for the 300MW Apex Kay wind farm in Oklahoma, US.
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Best analogue watch face so far. But don't need the notification bar. Could there be a stairs counter instead? Don't need the moon phase indicator either. Could it bee replaced with current heart rate? A toggle of colors when steps goal is reached would be nice. As well as thinner hands to choose. The "Move" bar is also obsolete. Could be replaced with an intensity tracker. Lot's of suggestions. But you did a really great job. Keep on going...
15 września 2016 | Wersja 1.67
4 sierpnia 2016 | Wersja 1.65
Really perfect face. But may I ask to have the step gauge turn to green when the goal is reached?
Bob Lawther
24 czerwca 2016 | Wersja 1.65
Very nice watch face, useful and easy to read. This app needs a on/off switch for the Move function. Do not always want to see the MOVE function and can be annoying. A simple ON/Off switch would be great !.
Mindaugas Martutaitis
1 czerwca 2016 | Wersja 1.65
Very nice, simple and clear watch face. It may look simple, but it is loaded with smart functions. It is also nice to have creators back-up. Mark configured date format for me, as well notification bar for other users. Which takes quite some hassle, I believe. Thanks again, Mark. P.s.: guys, don't forget to donate some $, it is going to Doctors Without Borders. Don't be lazy.
25 maja 2016 | Wersja 1.5
Very good visibility, good job. Could I ask for alarm notification?
20 kwietnia 2016 | Wersja 1.31
I would like to have the possibility to change from month and date to day and date. Thank you for a good app.
Milos Herman
2 kwietnia 2016 | Wersja 1.2-upd
The best analog display I have seen. Would though like to have some updates, I´ll try to email them...
Philippe Beaudry
9 lutego 2016 | Wersja 1.2-upd
This is the best watch face for me. Love the nice look with the nice visual display of battery and activity.
Diogo Martins
8 lutego 2016 | Wersja 1.2-upd
Does not work in my fenix3. Do not know why. I downloaded it normally and does not assume the watch face when I sellect it. It assumes when selected, the default digital watch face that comes with the fenix3
28 stycznia 2016 | Wersja 1.2
This is the analogue equivalent to the digital X-WF. Both excellent, the best analogue face with just the right amount of information
14 października 2015 | Wersja 1.1
I really liked the initial version; unfortunatly I find the updated version a bit too visually 'loud'.
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"For the first time, I feel like I have a real viable option for my
patients which actually eliminates cellulite."
(PRWEB) January 08, 2013
Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon Dr. Andre Berger is pleased to be one the first cosmetic plastic surgery practices in Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles area to offer patients Cellulaze, a breakthrough long-lasting, anti-cellulite treatment designed to increase the skin's natural elasticity while leveling out uneven fat tissue. Other cellulite treatment methods are only temporary, and to achieve any result, the treatments must be repeated daily or weekly for the benefits to manifest themselves. Cellulaze, on the other hand has demonstrated results that last for at least a year after only one treatment.
Cellulaze is the only cellulite treatment on the market that attacks structural problems beneath the skin that cause cellulite. Performed under local anesthesia, Cellulaze utilizes a unique, side-firing laser to target the causes of cellulite beneath the skin: pockets of fat, stiffened fibrous bands and thin skin. During the procedure, a tiny laser fiber is inserted under the skin, which gently heats the skin and melts the fat Next, the laser releases the fibrous bands that create the dimpling or "orange-peel" effect and prevents them from pulling down on the skin. This release creates a smoother, healthier look on the skin's surface. Finally, the laser energy stimulates collagen production to increase the skin's thickness and elasticity for a more even appearance.
"I am very excited to offer Cellulaze to my patients in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles," noted Dr. Berger. "For the first time, I feel like I have a real viable option for mypatients which actually eliminates cellulite."
There are many factors that contribute to cellulite forming. While cellulite predominantly affects women, it is typically caused by a combination of factors, which are primarily outside of one's control. Heredity, age, weight changes, thickness and elasticity of the skin may all play a role in the visibility of cellulite. Dr. Berger added, "Cellulite has been one of the toughest skin treatments to correct, and the results rarely lasted. With Cellulaze, I am now seeing long-lasting, consistent
results in my patients after a single treatment. Simply put...it works!"
As mentioned before, treatments in the past have been largely ineffective because the underlying structural problem of cellulite was not addressed. Cellulaze is the first cellulite reduction treatment to provide long-lasting results in a single treatments finally women can win the battle against cellulite they have been struggling with.
About Dr. Berger:
Dr. Berger is a triple board-certified physician and the founder of Rejuvalife Vitality Institute. He specializes in age management wellness and cosmetic treatments. Dr. Berger has been board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, for 20 years and is a diplomat of the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and the American Board of Holistic Medicine. He received his Medical Degree from the University of Ottawa and completed his training in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at McGill University. Dr. Berger has more than thirty-years of experience in the medical fields/with specific experience in clinical and medical management, pharmacology, nutraceuticals, emergency medicine, cosmetic medicine, anti-aging medicine and regenerative medicine.
Dr. Berger strives to incorporate innovative techniques supported by clinical evidence and is proud to be one of the first to offer the new state-of-the art FDA approved Cellulaze procedure in the Los Angeles area.


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I didn't realize I hadn't published a blog post in nearly two months until I went to write this one. I don't think I've sit down in nearly two months either. So let me sit down and bring you all up to speed on the never-ending project. Because we're well into the seventh month of a project that was supposed to last four, but definitely not longer than six according to our contract. Fair warning, this post is full of crummy iPhone photos. Phone photos are just too quick and easy to resist!
Even though we're not near finished, we moved into our new space in time for Christmas and had our final professional cleaning on Christmas Eve. We just called it. So no there's no more labels on the windows, the baseboards aren't covered with plaster dust and my kitchen sink is gleaming. 'Cause when the cleaners come they do something magical that makes the sink shine.
But let's back up a little bit. Back in mid-November our order for siding was finally located. The original framing and siding crew was fired-ish (from what I understand it was a mutual parting) and the second company "bought" our order. They had it delivered and got all the siding and trim up, excluding the porch, in one day. It was a super eventful and exciting day.
Early the next morning they all came back and did a little caulking and then left the porch trim guy to work alone. He's not done yet. The porch is kind of a train wreck. I've been selling some stuff here and there on my local mom's network and I always have to warn people in advance to be careful and that the random pieces of plywood are not screwed down and are not level. It's like the most unsafe balance challenge ever for our balance beam obsessed two year old.
Our boy has currently lived through renovations for over 1/4 of his life. When the door open he hollers "hola!" to the Spanish-speaking guys who have been greeting him with "hola" for months too.
Over the past two months we also got interior doors and trim. The last bit of trim went in just after Christmas. There are no door knobs yet, but we've chosen them. Glass to match the rest of the house. The doors were all delivered with ORB hinges and as much as I like the look, they don't match the existing so they'll be corrected to satin, eventually. I hope. All the trim and doors are painted with BM's Advance in white satin finish, which is what I used on the majority of the trim as I repainted it over the past few years.
Speaking of paint, one of the coolest things that happened recently is that I discovered the perfect light gray paint for the walls. If you recall, we used BM's Iced Cube Silver when we first moved in, but it looks blue in many lights. I ended up putting a request for gray paint out on my local mom's listserv and borrowed upwards of 35 cans of paint. I put swatches all over the walls, marked the names and returned the cans.
I love Graytint so much that we decided to use it in the family room, dining room, kitchen, master bedroom and master bath. In the bedroom we did an accent wall in Gray 2121-10, which is the very dark gray that we used for the accent wall in the living room.
Then, to tie things together we also used Gray under the chair rail in the dining room - the space where I agonized over grays a few years ago.
We went with Gray Cashmere 2138-60, a gray-ish green, inside the pantry and all the closets except for mine. We use a slightly darker gray with a hint of green color in the powder room (I can't remember the color and I can't even get in there since the painters decided to use it as their storage room) and used Ocean Air 2123-50 again in Little M's bathroom with Seafoam 2123-60 on the ceiling. In our old bedroom our contractor refused to paint all four walls since they only "touched" three. Since the walls were just a can of oops paint, we tried to find the closest match. I chose Harbor Gray AC-25, which was close by not the same. I love it and would definitely use it elsewhere if I ever have the chance. For now I'll just be using the leftover can to paint the fourth wall.
Last but not least, in my closet, after much deliberation, I chose Pink Peony 2078-70, which looked like a lovely blush pink perfect for a "her's" closet. OMG you guys, it was insane. It was more neon than blush. Think Pepto Bismol.
I couldn't handle it. I repainted it myself with the lightest of light lavenders that I could find. So now it looks gray. So much for making it more "hers", but at least it's better than baby girl's nursery gone wrong.
Just before Thanksgiving, while S was overseas, Little M and I packed up and stayed with S's parents while a cabinet, a wall in the kitchen, and one of the two doorways leading to the basement were removed.
We were supposed to be back in time to make pies Wednesday night, but they weren't finished, of course. So Little M and I came back anyway and after hours of cleaning, I made pies late into the night with plastic sheeting hanging down all around me.
Right after Thanksgiving S came home for a couple days and then went to Hawaii. Once again Little M and I hunkered down at S's parents' house for several days while our new floors were finished. I found an old email from our home's previous owners and was able to contact them, which was very cool, but sadly no one remembered the color stain they'd used when they finished the floors four years ago. We tried dozens of colors, but ended up using a custom mix of 50/50 English Chestnut and Red Oak with a satin finish. It's pretty close. Close enough.
A few days after the floors were finished, my parents arrived for Little M's birthday. At this point the house was most definitely supposed to be finished. At this point we started to most definitely get very, very frustrated. So we sent Little M to daycare, went to Ikea, and bought the sectional sofa we'd planned to buy for months now. And we claimed our space.
S put up our Christmas tree before leaving for another trip.
Right. Smack. Dab. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Addition.
Then my mom and I kicked it into high gear and helped us move into the new space. We cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. Then we moved furniture and carpets and toys and little play kitchens. We dug our dining room table out from where it was buried in our old bedroom and viola, we had a home.
To this:
So we threw and impromptu second birthday party for my favorite little boy and invited his favorite people. He had a blast. And his cake was covered with "happy" aka happy Halloween candy, his favorite.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, I met with designers at the Container Store to design Elfa systems for our master closets. I finalized the designs and then price compared all the materials against Home Depot's Closetmaid systems, which we've always used in the past. I compared HD's price minus a 10% military discount v. the Container Store's 30% off Elfa sale. The two came very close, but the Container Store was the clear winner. They do ALL THE CUTS FOR YOU! Everything. You just place your order and then pick it up a few hours later. And by pick up, I mean you pull up and they load it into your car. The only issue was that the Elfa sale didn't start until Christmas Eve. So we waited. We're getting good at that.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen our two new base cabinets were installed - both have
three big drawers, which is awesome! Then two days before Christmas the granite was
installed. Our budget forced us to match the existing granite, which
I've never loved, but the price was right. And honestly, I like it just
fine. The new slab is less yellow than the old, so it just looks a
little better. It overhangs by 12" on two sides, which gives us room for four stools. We only own two, but who's counting?
The counter top came in just in time for us to use the new peninsula to lay out our Christmas breakfast.Yummmmmm
While we were waiting on the Elfa sale we also moved into our bedroom, despite bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling and master bathroom drama that deserves its own post. Then at 2am on Christmas Eve, a mere two hours after the Elfa sale began, I placed our closet orders. We picked up "his" and "her" at 11am and by 3pm our closets were installed. S's clothes were hanging in no time. Mostly because he'd stored them all on hangers at his parents' when his closet was demo'd last summer. My clothes were all in boxes in the attic where I put them a gazillion years ago when I was pregnant. Now I'm faced with the unpleasant task of trying everything on and getting rid of what will never fit again. Ugh.
But at least I have an ENORMOUS space to hang them all. I swoon every time I walk in there. And not 'cause the bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling blind me.
On Christmas we came downstairs to our stockings, hung by the chimney with care
and a huge choo-choo set under the tree in our new family room.
It was such a great Christmas - M really got it, especially since we'd talked about "the baby" and Santa for a month leading up to the big day.
Very little has happened since Christmas even though there's still so much left to do. The new space is wonderful and I'm so happy to have it, but wow. Just wow. I wish we'd chosen someone else. Who were those references I so diligently called? Apparently I didn't ask the right questions. For now I'm moving into our new spaces slowly but surely, ignoring the "warnings" that the county won't be pleased that we've moved in already, and trying my best to overlook the ever growing list of stuff that's still left to do. Slowly but surely...


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Veenstra harness design
Are you seriously considering making your own harness via instructions you found on the internet?!? Sketchy. Probably just reading this increases your chances of serious personal injury or death.
Nobody makes any claims that this design will work - you should read over the instructions carefully and decide for yourself whether or not to trust your life to the design. If you're not comfortable with that, then cough up the small amount of money it costs to simply purchase a harness which has been tested by the UIAA. This harness hasn't been tested by anybody who knows anything about harness construction, and should be assumed highly sketchy.
Basic Idea
This is an ultralight harness designed for ski touring and such. It's basically a glorified diaper sling. This has the advantage over (many) commercial harnesses in that you don't need to take your feet (or skis) off the ground to put it on. It's also fairly light at ~200g, but not as light as some harnesses.
- 5m x 1" webbing (434cm is how much I needed, including knots. If you're bigger than me you may need more - I have a 32" waist.)
- 2 pairs of 3/4" plastic locking buckles (yes, 3/4" buckles to be used on your 1" webbing)
- ~20cm of elastic webbing (1", 3/4", or 1/2")
- 1x plastic locking buckle for the elastic webbing (must be ladderlock-style adjustable on at least one side)
- ~1m of 2-3mm cord for the ass-to-leg loop string and gear loops.


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Five things for pharma marketers to know: Wednesday, December 30, 2015
1. About one-fifth of publicly funded clinical trials for cancer treatments do not enroll enough patients to ensure solid results, a new study found. This is often due to poor study design, including the geographic location of the trial. Moving trial sites to smaller towns is one way to address that problem. (Stat News)
2. Following its decision to fire CEO Martin Shkreli, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Nasdaq recently delisted the drugmaker. Kalobios had hired Shkreli in November to lead the company. (Reuters)
3. A new campaign called "This Bike has MS" uses a bicycle to show what it's like to have multiple sclerosis. The campaign was developed by Grey Australia for the MS Melbourne Cycle, a charity bike ride. (Adweek)
4. Of the 41 new drugs approved by the FDA in 2015, as of mid-December, 19 were orphan drugs. (Pharma Guy)
5. Sanofi's dengue fever vaccine received approval in Brazil. Mexico was the first country to approve the vaccine, which is called Dengvaxia. (WSJ)


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Big Blue searches BBC for Teletubbies
Cleaning up the Higgledy House
Updated: Big Blue and the BBC are teaming up to offer decent video searching of kids' content from CBeebies and CBBC.
The two are working on various projects, but the first will use IBM's Marvel technology to search video content from children's TV channels.
According to the BBC press release, IBM's Marvel can categorise images and video according to its appearance and so make it searchable. This will be used to create a search engine for kids to dig around in the archives of the BBC's kids channels.
IBM will work with Siemens, the Beeb's existing technology partner.
They will further work to create the BBC's Media Hub, which aims to act as a central repository for Beeb content.
Other projects include customer relationship management, joint research, and rights management.
BBC's press release is here.
Updated: Paul Cheesbrough, BBC's controller of digital media, told the Reg: "The deal is really with IBM's labs. Marvel creates meta data for search engines automatically - we could do this before but it tooks teams of people. It looks at character, content, colour, speech and mood. We've looked at this kind of technology before but been dubious, this time we were very impressed - they're using a new set of algorithm which gave interesting results."
The Beeb chose kids channels to pilot the technology because of the range of online content they provide.
Cheesbrough explained that the second part of the deal was to add Media Hub to the BBC's existing network. Cheesbrough said: "It adds an intelligent layer to our network so we can move digital content around and feed it into other applications." ®


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Charles Dickens Quotes About BabiesQuotes about: Babies
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The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids.
Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs.
The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.
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Shelter Insurance in Columbia, Mo., is the latest insurance company to chart an exit out of banking. Perhaps not surprisingly, the insurer is blaming the Dodd-Frank Act.
The insurer has agreed to sell $26 million in deposits and $16 million in loans to the $10.2 billion-asset Central Bancompany in Jefferson City, Mo. The companies did not disclose a price for the transaction. Shelter will pay off its bank's remaining depositors, and continue to service the remaining $137 million of loans.
Shelter follows other insurance companies that have bailed on banking in the past two years, including MetLife (MET) and Allstate (ALL). MetLife has said that its decision in 2011 to sell its bank involved "regulations written for banking institutions."
Management at Shelter also determined that it was no longer cost-effective to run a bank, given the higher expenses associated with the Dodd-Frank Act, says Ron Wheeling, chief executive of Shelter Financial Bank.
"We were a very soundly run, profitable, growing bank that provided great rates and services," Wheeling says. "The government is putting us out of business."
Shelter's specific beef is that Dodd-Frank would require it to provide regulators with two sets of financial statements, each based on different accounting principles. Those filings would have added $1 million in annual expenses, Wheeling says.
Dodd-Frank should have exempted insurers that act as thrift holding companies, such as Shelter, from having to submit consolidated financial statements to the Federal Reserve Board, says Doug Faucette, a banking lawyer at Locke Lord.
Rather, insurance companies face an "impossible position" of having to submit two sets of books. "There will be an increasing reluctance by insurance companies to hold onto" their banks, as a result of Dodd-Frank, Faucette says.
Shelter, which primarily sells property/casualty and life insurance, opened its bank in April 1999, the same year that lawmakers repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. Shelter has gradually been shrinking its bank, starting around the time that Dodd-Frank was passed.
The bank's assets, which peaked at $200 million in early 2010, totaled $160 million at Sept. 30.
Dodd-Frank would have required Shelter to provide the Fed with financial statements using "full-accrual" generally accepted accounting principles, Wheeling says. The company already files financial statements to its state insurance regulator in Missouri based on the statutory accounting principles used by insurers.
Shelter raised the issue of higher costs with the Fed, but the regulator would not budge on the requirement, Wheeling says.
Representatives for the Fed could not be reached for comment.
Shelter's management is particularly incensed because the old way the company had been reporting financials, under statutory principles, "is actually much more conservative than GAAP," Wheeling says.
"The GAAP books would actually have lower capital than the statutory books," Wheeling adds. "We're well capitalized by every measure in the regulatory tool kit and we had sterling asset quality."
Dodd-Frank's Volcker Rule would also hurt Shelter's capacity to serve as the holding company for Shelter Financial, Wheeling says.
Central's Boone County National Bank will buy $26 million of certificates of deposit and a $16 million home equity loan book, says Mary Wilkerson, senior vice president of marketing at Boone County. There is no disclosed date for the deal's completion.
Other insurance companies that have left banking in the last two years include Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG) and Prudential Financial (PRU). In the biggest insurance deal, MetLife agreed to sell $6.5 billion of deposits to General Electric's GE Capital Retail Bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved the deal last month.
Allstate decided to close its bank after an agreement to sell the unit to Discover Financial Services collapsed.
At least one insurer plans to stay in banking. State Farm Insurance, which owns the $14.4 billion-asset State Farm Bank in Bloomington, Ill., has no plans to close the bank, even though Dodd-Frank will also require the company to file two sets of financial books at an additional expense.
"We definitely plan to follow the law," says State Farm spokesman Dick Luedke.
This story originally appeared at American Banker.
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