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Back in October, I took a look at NAPFA's infographic, "Why Financial Planning is Important" (see "What Consumers Want," on AdvisorOne.com), so it only seems fair to see how the CFP Board's public awareness campaign, which rolled out in April 2011, is faring. As you're probably aware, the Board's campaign is a much more ambitious effort, including a media relations campaign, and broadcast, print and online advertisements spread over four years and myriad media outlets, at a projected cost of some $10 million per year. To pay for it, the Board increased the annual fees that CFPs pay to renew their certification 80%: from $180 to $325 a year. That kind of change just begs the question of whether it's worth it, or at least, how's it going so far? The answer reveals both the challenges of marketing financial planning and, for the CFP Board itself, avoiding taking a stand on some key professional issues that clearly resonate with the investing public.
In an era when we seem to throw money at problems like we're printing it up ('cause, hey, we are), the Board, to its credit, built in a feedback loop to monitor the progress of its massive campaign, with a benchmarking study after one year and a formal review of the program after two years. "We realized that effective measurements of the progress are crucial to the success of our public awareness campaign," Board chair Nancy Kistner said in a July 13 presentation of the first year study. "We've hired an outside firm to collect as much data as possible through significant consumer research."
What does that research show so far? The data, such as it is, is encouraging. Kistner set expectations by pointing out that the Board has two staged goals for the campaign: in the short term, raise public awareness of the CFP mark and longer term, increase financial consumers' preference for financial advisors who are certified financial planners. The one-year market data, when compared to the baseline data gathered when the campaign began (based on 604 online interviews), is increasingly encouraging on the awareness front as investors gain affluence—and even more so when asked about advisor preference.
For instance, the percentage of people who think about CFPs first when asked about a designation for financial planning professionals increased three points when picking from a list (top of mind) and four points without the aid of a list. When the sampling was limited to investors with at least $500,000, top-of-mind awareness of CFPs increased seven points; unaided awareness grew five points. For mass-affluent investors, with up to $1 million to invest, both top-of-mind and unaided awareness increased by seven points each. As for preference, when asked if they thought CFP professionals are appropriate and beneficial for someone like them, the total sampling who said "yes" was up four points; investors with more than $500,000 in assets were up seven points, and the mass affluent were up eight points.
Of course, without knowing the size of the base numbers (which were not disclosed in Kistner's presentation, and at the time of this writing, I have been unable to get), it's a bit hard to know how impressive these increases are: For instance, a three-point increase from 3% to 6% awareness is pretty impressive, whereas a jump from 86% to 89%, not so much. Given the unlikeliness of a large public awareness of the CFP market, I'm willing to give the Board the benefit of the doubt that these increases are, indeed, encouraging.
What about tangible benefits to CFPs? Judging by the fact that no substantial increases in visits to the Board's website or flood of clickthroughs to the Find-a-CFP section were cited, I'm guessing we haven't seen any yet. But, to put a number on it, Kistner pointed out that the exposure generated by the awareness campaign resulted in 731 articles in magazines, newspapers or websites with a combined readership of 886,000, creating "media impression" worth a total of $45 million.
For the record, that's a pretty fair way to value a media campaign—assuming, of course, that the message contained in those 731 articles was one that the Board would have paid for and that ultimately benefits CFPs. After all, they're footing the bill for all this. If there has been any negative press from this campaign, I haven't been able to find it, so we can probably rule out any negative consequences from those articles. That leaves the question of what benefits might result from the Board's message?
The Board's public awareness campaign is divided into three parts: banner ads on websites, print ads and the "Let's Make a Plan" TV commercial. While the graphics are simple and direct, undoubtedly to appear non-threatening to a skittish investing public, the message is curiously diverse.
For instance, the "interactive" banner ads (you have to roll over them to get the punch line) have two themes. The first is "Bring your finances together with the help of a CFP," preceded by notions suggesting fractured financial lives, such as: "Most advisors can only help with some of your finances" and "Don't address your finances piecemeal." The second addresses the conflict of interest and fiduciary issue by asking, "Is your advisor more interested in growing your finances? Or taking her cut?" and "What's more important to your financial advisor: that you make money or that he makes money?" Both are followed by "Put your needs first. Work with a CFP professional."
When we get to the print ads, though, the message seems to focus on the "Bring your finances together" theme: "You can let your finances pull you in every direction, or you can decide to do the pulling for a change," or "Something to consider if you have your finances on autopilot: There is no such thing." Each of these ads has the "Let's Make a Plan" tagline and the CFP logo. Finally, there's the TV commercial, which is back to the "Bring your finances together" theme.
So, we have three themes here: "Let's make plan"; "Bring your finances together"; and "Put your needs first." They are all delivered and addressed with professional quality production, which one would expect with an eight-figure price tag. Yet, I have to admit, my overall impression is, "Eh, so what?" There's nothing wrong with it, but as Andy Warhol said of Los Angeles, "There's no there, there." I'm sitting here asking myself if I was going to spend $40 million on advertising financial planning, is this what I'd say? I certainly hope not.
Is making a "plan" and bringing one's "finances together" why people go to a financial planner? Sure, that's ultimately what they will get from a planner, but it's hard to believe that those are really the driving forces. In fact, the only theme in the CFP Board's campaign that appears to be tailored to what's on the mind of today's investor is "put your needs first," which at least addresses the conflict and lack of a fiduciary standard for brokers that was brought to the public's awareness by the Dodd-Frank Act. Yet, it seems a curious pitch for the Board to make considering it allows brokers to become CFPs and wear their fiduciary hat sometimes and broker hat other times, and leads to the very behavior those ads seem to be saying that CFPs don't engage in.
The other pressing issue that is curious by its omission is that of independence. Independent advice is regularly shown to resonate with investors, yet the Board finds itself conflicted on that score as well, also due to the certification of brokers who are W-2 employees of their BDs. But even without those two consumer hot buttons, we still have 40 years of financial planning experience to tell us why people go to financial planners.
History shows time and again that events drive people to seek financial advice. Market crashes are a good example, as are changes to tax laws, hot new investment opportunities, looming retirement and the sudden emergence of new needs. As the global economy continues to struggle to recover, people face a whole menu of new needs including: underperforming retirement portfolios, mortgage problems, health insurance, working longer, and the threats of higher tax and inflation rates. Yes, each of these issues can be addressed more effectively via a financial plan, but to really get people's attention, wouldn't it make more sense to tell them which problems you're going to solve, before you tell them how you're going to solve them?
View AdvisorOne's CFP Board landing page for more on the Board's initiatives.

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OpenMoko, a FIC spin-off that was originally founded with the ambitious goal of building a completely open source smartphone handset, began developing the WikiReader this year after significant financial and technical challenges forced the company to discontinue phone development. The WikiReader was announced to the public last month and is available for purchase for $99 from the company's website.
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The WikiReader's navigation model is simple but effective. In addition to the "search" button, which is used to invoke the keyboard, the device has a "history" button that will display a list of recently viewed entries and a "random" button that will show a randomly selected entry. When an entry is selected from the history list, it will start at exactly the same scroll position where it was when the user left it. This is useful because it makes it easy to switch quickly between multiple entries, much as you would with tabbed browsing on the desktop. Entries load very quickly, so there is virtually no lag. In general, the entire device is highly responsive.
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In order to conserve energy and extend its battery life, the WikiReader will automatically turn itself off when it is left idle. It never turned itself off while I was actually reading, so the idle timer is set to a reasonable duration. When you turn it back on, you can use the history button to get back to where you were last time you used it.
The WikiReader's screen readability is acceptable, but not ideal. Limited contrast and glare from the reflective display make it difficult to read the text at some angles and with certain lighting conditions. The text is crisp and clear when you have the device angled so that an ambient light source is hitting it directly. In rooms with ceiling lights, this means holding it almost flat. At other angles, it was somewhat difficult to see the text.
The readability issues are not a dealbreaker, but will be annoying to those of us who are accustomed to the clarity of color LCDs. The screen on the WikiReader is comparable to classic monocrhome displays like that of the original Gameboy or Palm Pilot.
The WikiReader's software platform is open source and available for download from GitHub. It uses a modified version of GCC that has been customized to cross-compile code for the device's Epson S1C33E07 microcontroller. The software is loaded directly from the micro-SD card that also stores the Wikipedia content. The card slot is located in the battery compartment. If you put your own cross-compiled binary on a micro-SD card and name it KERNEL.ELF, the device will automatically attempt to load it on startup. This means that you can write a custom software environment for the WikiReader without having to overwrite the flash memory.
The software platform also comes with a FORTH interpreter that can run several small programs that are stored on the SD card. To access these programs, you hold the "random" button down while you turn on the device. It will display a menu of the FORTH programs and allow you to run one of them by tapping it on the touchscreen. The apps that are shipped on the SD card include a simple drawing program and a calculator. There are also a few diagnostic utilities for performing various kinds of tests.
The WikiReader is an intriguing product with an intuitive interface. People who already have a smartphone are obviously not the target market, but the device offers a lot of value for users who do not have constant connectivity. I think that $99 is a bit steep for what you get, especially when you look at the PMP market where you can increasingly find more functional multipurpose devices at a comparable price. The WikiReader has an advantage over those in battery life, however. If the cost doesn't put you off, I think it's a pretty compelling device that is enjoyable to use.


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Throughout this document a number of acronyms and terms are used that may seem unclear. The following glossary may be helpful:
ALO (or HC -highly capable): Advanced Learning Opportunities. Building based program that serves students with a designation of advanced learners.
BLT: Building Leadership Team. A school's
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Official Crustacean
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Posted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 13:12
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eowens2 that is very useful.
My inclination was to start with Debian and this confirms it.
A shame about Fedora as I thought they had optimised the driver for the broadcom graphics component . . .
10 seconds is a good boot time - well done to Arch.
Starting with stability is a good approach to bootstrap from. Debian will include a C compiler . . . and away we go.
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Posted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 16:12
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However, also on the same site
Fedora recommended by non-expert non-linux user
The Fedora Remix seems to be the recommended option on the Raspberry Pi site. If you don't know much about installing Linux distros, then this is the route to take because a special image installer program is provided which runs under Windows
We'll get there, ....real soon
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Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 19:46
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eowens2 wrote:
Here is an interesting review of of real-world performance of major distros on an honest-to-goodness R-Pi:
Thanks from me too.
Right now I am downloading the Debian image, and I was wondering what others to download. After reading that review, the only other one that I will download will be the Arch Linux image.
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Posted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 20:18
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slackware will be releasing a version for ARMv6 too
helping Wiki for help
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Location: Blue Springs, MO
Posted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 20:35
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I didn't get in on the 1st round of shipments, so I won't be able to do this myself, but I will put it out there.
We may try rebuilding the kernel with localyesconfig (with all necessary modules already loaded), followed by an allmodconfig to pick up any extra modules. This will improve boot speeds and reduce the size and init complexity a bit.
Check out my
github repositories
. I may eventually get around to updating my
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Location: Tasmania, Australia in the mountains.
Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 03:51
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ive bought a few of the 7" tablets running android to try to get a sense of how to set things up for ARM but its a crap shoot if the tablet will actually boot a linux from a micro sd card, i have struck one that doesnt. Im glad the raspberry will be released soon so we will all have a hardware standard that we know will actually work.
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Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 04:06
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I have the Debian image working in Slacko under QEMU, but no network!
If anyone know how to get the network thing working, please let me know!
In the mean-time, is there any other way of getting JWM source code into the VM?
My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 04:13
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antiloquax and John Murga (Aka Judge Dredd - our forum hoster) are the latest to get Raspberry Pi Hardware.
I would like to thank everyone who is committing to this Puppy adventure. BarryK is getting a board, Raffy, Ttuuxxx, Mick who worked on Lucid and lead developer on Puppy 5.3.3 are all joining us . . .
I am still learning the hardware and hard way. Try and fry.
Some tips for early adopters:
- Focus on what you can do. For example in the Debian release language and programming is very much available.
- Arch is closer to the Puppy speed but it puts you at a prompt . . .
- Woof2 will be fun to test
- Get a better browser. Chrome for Debian and Netsurf for Arch.
- Help each other. I got invaluable advice from Sickgut, antiloquax, rhadon, 01micko, tman, BarryK etc. when I was the only one with hardware. Thanks guys.
Guys be aware the hardware works. I have found it reliable.
The software is now our task to get going for all our keen Puppys.
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 10:01
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I am hopefully about to retry starting X in a few minutes. I've tried various approaches, but in the end I had to start from scratch with the official arch image. I've got my wifi working and my powered hub seems to be okay (using it to provide the Pi with a swap partition on a usb drive).
Baby steps at the moment.
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Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 17:42
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Anyone tried Redsleeve?
apparently should work - see a few comments down on this page
The userspace should run just fine on the R-Pi. I don't have a kernel for the R-Pi (yet), but you can use the kernel they ship with it, just copy it over to wherever you extract the RedSleeve rootfs.
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Posted: Thu 02 Aug 2012, 22:09
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Thanks headfound
Any chance of a new Puppi style song?
Here is our progress to date. No one tried the redsleeve that I know of.
Sickgut now has hardware and will be creating something with apt-get and Debian and game playing if we are lucky.
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Posted: Fri 03 Aug 2012, 15:37
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I believe that Bohdi has released their Alpha for the Raspberry, but they are not calling it Bodhi-pi. I suppose that it is not quite enlightened yet
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Posted: Sun 05 Aug 2012, 08:52
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letting yall know that i have uploaded my first slimmed debian image for the Rasp Pi:
It is 114mb but compared to SAP, its the same size on the linux OS partition. If i compressed it using .xz like barry has with SAP then it would be within 1 or 2mb the same size.
This is only stage one, and that is to use the Debian image provided by the Rasp Pi people and remove all the crud. The default image uses more than 90% of the 1.7gb linux partition, but this version only uses 18%.
Other than removing stuff that isnt needed for the type of OS we are aiming for, the ssh server is installed and working on first boot, this means that you can immediately log into your Rasp Pi using ssh protocol (the ssh command in a terminal or using something like the Putty program) and there is no need to attach a monitor or mouse and keyboard at all. The Rasp Pi people have a well sorted out dhcp client working and i have kept that intact. Simply connect to your network, switch it on, and then look on your router to find the address or try pinging the ip address that is one more than the highest ip address on your network. If you get a response then you know your Pi is on that ip.
JWM is installed as the window manager and dillo is the web browser.
I havent entered any menu entries into the JWM menu so you may have to launch dillo by opening a terminal. Xterm has been installed so that xinit will work for those of you who want more control over the xorg environment, this launces xorg with no WM.
If you are logging into your Pi via a network then use root as the username and pussy as the password. If you are using a monitor and physically sitting infront of the Pi and have a keyboard connected then use pi as the username and raspberry as the password. I dont know why it doesnt allow root logins that arent from a network. If you want to use root then after logging in, type: su root
then when you are asked to enter the password, enter: pussy
Note: to use the apt-get system to install things you need to use su or sudo and be using apt-get as root.
This isnt a real pussy yet, and it isnt even the promised server pussy. Server pussy will be released shortly and will have web, ftp, telnet and ssh servers working on first boot and no need to even connect a monitor.
This version only has the ssh server working, the others arent installed yet, however modern ftp clients that allow you to use sftp connections (ftp over ssh) will let you sftp into the rasp and you will be able to access its filesystem just like you can when using ftp.
Right now its roughly the same size as Puppy, but it will end up being bigger than Puppy as we have alot of stuff to add to make it a pussy.
All the device drivers work as they should as they have not been messed with and remain the same left over from the original Rasp Pi official debian image. This image runs a mixture of wheezy and squeeze as far as i can make out, and its repo that it uses with apt get is the raspberian repo not the normal debian one, but it seems to contain everything the debians ones have + all the specific rasp stuff so we will keep this as the main repo.
This version will not be of any use at all to normal users that expect a Puppy or Pussy type system, this is a only a bare bare bare minimum and the X session is only a tool to help you organize your Xterm sessions or to use dillo to surf the web, nothing else is there. This is only a base that will be useful to developers or hackers or those brave enough to apt-get everything they want to use. I dont mind if other developers want to use this to make their own debian based OS. The Rasp Pi logo is still visible on boot. This hasnt been changed because even tho this is a very bare raw OS and not even a pussy yet, your still running it on a Rasp so the logo is still there and will stay there in future.
let me know if there is any technical issue with the image, i kinda had to guess the byte sizes when i was imaging it and i cant test it correctly until i get my 2gb sd cards in the mail, the source sd card i was using was 8gb but i only used the first 2gb and compied the first 2gb to the .img file then zipped it then uploaded it. If you have problems with it then please let me know and i will fix it in the next few days.
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Posted: Tue 07 Aug 2012, 02:31
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TV has been hijacked for some sporting event . . . Will have to wait for next release sickout . . .
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Posted: Tue 07 Aug 2012, 04:23
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Lobster wrote:
TV has been hijacked for some sporting event . . . Will have to wait for next release sickout . . .
Pussy Pie Server Edition is released now, it isnt like Puppy, it is purely a serverish type OS with only a vary sparse X environment. The X session is more to be able to manage your terminal sessions better and to use dillo to surf the web. There is nothing else there, but it can be added with apt-get. This could be a small and compatible base to start another OS project with.
The ssh, ftp, telnet and webserver stuff works first boot and you dont need to use a monitor at all if you wanna run the server, there is no configuration you need to do.
You can login via ssh with username: root and pass: pussy
but if you are sitting at the Rasp using a mouse and keyboard and monitor then you need to login as user: pi and pass: raspberry, then if you need to do anything with root then su root and enter password: pussy, after you have logged in. This isnt ideal behavior and i will sort it out if i can, so that you can log in as root via network and normally and not have to mess with other users.
This will be on no interest to anyone not wanting to run a server or a home vps style linux box with no monitor, but it is a supported release and the first of the Pussies i will be supporting. To install stuff run apt-get update then apt-get install <programname>
A more game/ media/ desktop orientated Pussy will be released for the Rasp soon. It will depend on what apps the Pi is capable of running that determines what is added to Pussy Pie from this point on. Im not going to add anything that doesnt perform how its supposed to, and i will play to the Rasp Pi's strengths.
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11:20 a.m. — Animal news continues, with dog poop in a Willey Street yard.
12:27 p.m. — Grondin's Funeral Home suffers broken windows.
1:32 p.m. — A Play Station and more have been stolen from a Granite Street home.
2:53 p.m. — A loose dog on Salmon Falls Road is reunited with its owner.
3:48 p.m. — Walmart detains a shoplifter, but that person leaves before police get there.
6:53 p.m. — Doors are kicked in by a burglar on Salmon Falls Road.
Wednesday, Jan. 16
8:28 a.m. — A Winter Street man finds a pill bottle stuffed in his dryer vent.
9:39 a.m. — An Eastern Avenue woman on workman's comp thinks private investigators are peeking in windows.
10:05 a.m. — On Washington Street, a mother is bit "while getting her hair done."
10:32 a.m. — A sidewalk plow clunks a vehicle on Maple Street.
11:37 a.m. — Teresa L. Gordon, 31, of 6 Wanda Lane, Exeter, is charged with conduct after an accident.
1:10 p.m. — A toter has gone missing on Brenda Lane.
1:18 p.m. — Chamberlain Street School asks for help with an unruly student.
3:15 p.m. — A Riverview Drive resident reports being the victim of a check fraud for $63.
4:11 p.m. — A woman with long, dark hair staggers in Eastern Avenue near the Legion. She has lurched out of sight, when police get there.
4:18 p.m. — Someone has lost two prescriptions on Wakefield Street.
5:25 p.m. — Police are asked to adjudicate a dispute over a vacuum on Punch Brook Way. It is resolved.
6:21 p.m. — A Crockett Street man gets home to find a strange man shoveling his driveway and path. Money is requested, but presumably not handed over.
6:41 p.m. — Three rowdy males, expelled from Dunkin' Donuts on South Main Street, return to vandalize the store.
6:57 p.m. — Snowballs are being fired from atop a building near the Square.
Thursday, Jan. 17
6:42 a.m. — A vehicle heading the wrong way down Brock Street almost causes an accident.
7:28 a.m. — A bucket loader heading towards town has allegedly been cutting people off.
8:50 a.m. — Cars have been rifled through on Capital Circle.
10:25 a.m. — A hit and run is reported at Rent-a-Center on Milton Road.
10:41 a.m. — Tires are slashed on Portland Street.
11:51 a.m. — A Rochester Hill Road apartment is burgled, and $300, a GPS and phone are taken.
12:33 p.m. — A GPS was stolen from a Ledgeview Drive car overnight.
2:41 p.m. — A man at the Northgate Apartments office asks about a rental, but flips out when asked questions. After making threats to a lady, he takes off on a bicycle.
3:04 p.m. — Christmas trees on Academy are given the official eye, but pass muster.
3:43 p.m. — Another report of a GPS theft on Ledgeview Drive comes in.
4:04 p.m. — A Sherman Street resident reports a credit card fraud.
4:41 p.m. — There is concern for three children sledding near the post office.
6:48 p.m. — A backpack containing personal property has been stolen from a vehicle on Ledgeview Drive.
7:30 p.m. — Robert Cameron Gorham, 27, of 137 Franklin St., is charged with false report to law enforcement, and two counts of simple assault.
10:11 p.m. — Christina Demanche, 37, of 29 Chestnut St., Apt. 5 is charged with driving after suspension.
10:14 p.m. — Benjamin McGovern, 20, of 5 Woodland Green, is charged with unlawful possession of alcohol; Nathan Sweeney, 18, of 4 Harvard St., Apt. 1, is charged with unlawful possession of alcohol; Haley Brennan, 18, of 12 Garfield St., Farmington, is charged with transportation of alcoholic beverages by a minor.
11:51 p.m. — Five people yell and scream on Congress Street. They are moving stuff, and are told to keep the noise down.
Friday, Jan. 18
7:20 a.m. — Angela Marie Chick, 29, of 123C North Main St. is charged with operating with a suspended registration and driving after suspension.
8:22 a.m. — Vehicle windows have been smashed on Eastern Avenue.
8:25 a.m. — A robbery victim is sprayed in the face with mace on Northcoast Drive. Money and a cell phone are stolen.
11:08 a.m. — Medications are stolen again from a Sofield Apartments woman.
11:42 a.m. — Shawn Chamberlain, 24, of 1116 NH Route 11, Farmington, is charged with false reports to law enforcement.
12:30 p.m. — A baby highchair delivered to a Norway Plains Road resident has been stolen.
12:57 p.m. — A Pine Street woman driving on Pine Street has her way blocked by seven people. When she beeps at them to get out the roadway, they yell and go after her car.
1:45 p.m. — Daniel Murphy, 51, of 1223B Route 11, Farmington, is charged with willful concealment at Walmart.
2:37 p.m. — A Rochester Avenue man reports that he paid $1,700 to a contractor in December to have his roof replaced, but the man hasn't shown up and won't return calls. Later the resident calls back to say an agreement has now been reached.
3:15 p.m. — A toter is taken from Loon Lane.
4:46 p.m. — Danielle Nacy, 32, of 3 Fairway Drive, Apt. 2, Farmington is charged with willful concealment.
7:31 p.m. — There's a request for a man to be removed from a River Street home. In the background, a man is yelling, "You dumped gas on me and tried to burn me." A second caller says they can't hear the TV for all that yelling.
8:09 p.m. — Anthony Seward, 49, of 28 Savin St., Boston, Mass., is arrested on a warrant.
9:09 p.m. — Natalie McNally, 29, of 210 Poplar Hill Road, Lebanon, Maine, is charged with receiving stolen property.
9:44 p.m. — Aaron George McGuire, 18, of 11 Reagent Drive, Apt. 113, Dover, is charged with receiving stolen property and arrested on two bench warrants.
11:33 p.m. — William E. Hallinan, Jr., 26, of 3 Periwinkle Drive, is charged with simple assault and criminal mischief.
Saturday, Jan. 19
1:48 a.m. — Trailer windows are smashed in Amazon Park.
8:13 a.m. — On Moose Lane a coyote is worrying a wounded deer, which eventually gets up and walks off.
8:24 a.m. — There's an issue over a tool box at Rochester Truck.
11:12 a.m. — Someone keys a vehicle, which is caught on Coyote Creek's video.
11:25 a.m. — Three numbskulls are driving the wrong way down Brock Street.
11:36 a.m. — A woman reports the theft of cash and a credit card, which someone in Rochester is using.
1:14 p.m. — People fist fight at Collonade Apartments, and then go their own way. There is "one girl left crying."
2:43 p.m. — Rite Aid on Wakefield Street reports a credit card problem.
3:58 p.m. — There's a fight on Portland Street.
4:47 p.m. — Paul Lupo, 42, of 360 Portland St., is charged with willful concealment and contempt at Walgreens.
5:10 p.m. — A man in an orange cap is bugging people for money on Farmington Road.
5:45 p.m. — A lady and gentleman fight by the roadside, near Market Basket.
6:45 p.m. — A Summer Street resident, being texted by an ex-boyfriend for money, quotes "he will not be happy until she is a pool of blood."
6:53 p.m. — Anthony Barratt, 18, of 21 Norway Plain Road, Apt. 4, is arrested on a warrant.
7:10 p.m. — A man on North Main Street reports $60 has been stolen from him.
7:42 p.m. — Joshua David Greig, 32, of 34 Drake Hill Road, Strafford, is charged with willful concealment.
7:46 p.m. — A window is smashed on Sylvain Street. Four youths take off running.
8:22 p.m. — There is a "bunch of intoxicated people in the common room" on Pine Street. One is relocated to the county jail.
8:29 p.m. — Jason Dean Cole, 32, of 182 Milton Road, Apt. 14, is charged with two counts of resisting arrest and two counts of stalking. He is arrested on a bench warrant.
Sunday, Jan. 20
8:49 a.m. — A lady is "very shook up" because she was almost in a head on collision on Brock Street due to scofflaws ignoring one-way signs at night and on weekends.
9:03 a.m. — Back tires are slashed on Academy Street.
10:00 a.m. — David Michael Harriman, 32, of 141 Flagg Road, Gonic is charged with willful concealment.
11:15 a.m. — A juvenile on Brock Street finds a credit card and gives it to a police officer.
1:12 p.m. — Police ask public works to respond to a tree limb down on Preston Street.
1:27 p.m. — A Concord Way resident reports the theft of a laptop and bank file from his vehicle.
1:32 p.m. — Laundry has been stolen from a dryer at Varney's on South Main Street.
4:10 p.m. — Holly Lyn Wall, 42, of 16 Pine St., Apt. 1, is arrested on a bench warrant.
7:07 p.m. — A Laurel Terrace resident fears she may have been scammed, via a telemarketer.
11:20 p.m. — Eric J. House, 31, of 13 Fox Lane, is arrested on a warrant.
11:36 p.m. — At Sunset Arms a resident reports their ears are ringing, because of someone screaming, or maybe it is singing.


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At this point, gamers are used to free-to-play games that make most of their revenue from "pay-for-convenience" features. These games essentially let you quickly purchase features that you'd usually have to unlock through hours of gameplay, in effect letting you spend your money instead of your time. Now, it seems, that "convenience" is starting to creep into traditional, single-player retail titles like the upcoming Dead Space 3.
Eurogamer discovered a pay-to-upgrade option during some recent hands-on time with the game, noting a button prompt for "downloadable content" when crafting new weapons from component resources. Those resources can be collected normally in the course of the game, but impatient players can lay down real cash in the in-game store to get around that gameplay requirement.
Associate Producer Yara Khoury was quick to explain to Eurogamer that the game would never require the player to spend extra money to get certain items, and that you can't simply spend your way to the best weapon as soon as you start the game.
"There are a lot of weapon parts that are only available to buy later in the game, unless you're playing through it again [on New Game Plus]," Khoury said.
Still, it's a bit off-putting to see a big-budget third-person shooter letting players pay to skip the "grind" of resource collection. It's a bit like having an optional, built-in cheat code (or using a Game Genie-style device), except players have to pay the developer every time they want to use the cheat.
It's one thing to have this kind of "pay-to-win-faster" option in a free-to-play casual title, where the business model pretty much demands you offer in-game perks to make any revenue at all. It's quite another to try to tack the business model onto a AAA single-player (or cooperative) game that already retails for $60.
The pay-for-convenience model has been creeping into some big-name online titles for a while now. Subscription-free MMOs like Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic let players pay for convenience as well as vanity items. The option is also showing up in competitive multiplayer modes for primarily single-player games like EA's Mass Effect 3 and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 3, which let players buy consumable improvements rather than earning them through matches.
But the pay-for-convenience model has run into its fair share of controversy even in the online realm. Back in 2011, CCP had to fight back a player riot when a leaked document suggested it might let people pay for gameplay items in its popular Eve Online.
Online or single-player, simply adding pay-for-convenience to a standard game has the potential to affect game design decisions. This can happen overtly, as we've seen with the kinds of mindless, casual clickfests that still dominate Facebook and mobile revenue charts. Developers routinely design those kinds of games to maximize things like ARPU and Lifetime Network Value rather than, I don't know—fun?
Even aside from that extreme, though, offering in-game incentives in exchange for money can create a perverse incentive for developers to actually design games to be more annoying to the player. After all, the less enjoyable the grind is, the more likely players are to pay the developer additional money just to skip it, right? There are limits to how far this concept can go—if a retail game is nothing but annoying, pay-to-skip portions, no one will want to buy it in the first place, for instance—but even at the margins, it can cause subtle alterations in the way a game plays.
Or maybe I'm just being old-fashioned. Maybe we'll look back in 20 years and wonder how the business of gaming managed to work without games constantly offering the player the opportunity to buy more power at any time with a tiny, quick, almost invisible transaction from their GoogleZonPal account (powered by SteamOS 6). And maybe the gamers of the future will see that as an inherent part of the way games should be played. From our perspective in the present, though, it feels a little troubling.


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VRTACEK, CHARLES: Heaven Comes To Town (vinyl)
Side one successfully essays a fascinating project - to invoke a half-distracted internal world moving within, and sometimes responsive to, a half-heard external world. Snatches of melody, echoing a kind of stream-of- consciousness, emerge from and sink into documentary sound which runs parallel with it. Not random but embodying a complex and subtle aesthetic. Side 2 consists of pieces, mostly for piano and guitar, that stretch into silence but wholly absorb. Zen, Satie, Hitchcock... THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE - LAST FEW COPIES.
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It�s been a good 12 months for Hugh Jackman. He voiced the boomerang-slinging, Australian-accented Easter Bunny in �Rise of the Guardians,� was Oscar-nominated and won a Golden Globe for his Jean Valjean in �Les Miserables,� and got rave reviews from fans and critics for his sixth screen appearance as Logan in �The Wolverine.� He actually plays a contemporary character in the new thriller �Prisoners� � Keller Dover, the concerned, angry, vengeful dad of a young girl who�s been kidnapped and who is convinced that the detective on the case (Jake Gyllenhaal) isn�t doing enough to find her. Jackman, definitely one of the nicest guys in the business, spoke about the film and his approach to his character at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
On the page and even in the trailer, �Prisoners� looks like just another entry in the kidnap-revenge movie genre. But it�s much more than that.
JACKMAN: The script came to me about a year before [director] Denis Villeneuve came onboard, and I loved the script. It was the kind of script that could have become a more generic thriller. It could have veered that way. But in the DNA of the script was a more ambitious thriller, not just one that grips you and keeps you on the edge of your seat, but one that actually makes you contemplate and think for many days after.
You have kids. How hard was it to make a movie with this theme?
JACKMAN: As an actor, you do everything you can to convince yourself to pretend to be someone else, and dive into their shoes and their experience, and bring that to life. Part of the research I did was looking into what REALLY happens in this situation. Like what happens on day one, on day two [after a kidnapping]? Do you print fliers? How do you react? What happens emotionally? This touches on really elemental fears that we all collectively have. That�s why I think the film is cathartic to watch. There�s a reason we don�t just go to see comedies. Somehow as humans we also need to touch on the real fears that we push down every day of our lives.
Did you speak to any people that have gone through the experience of a child being kidnapped?
JACKMAN: I read something from a father whose kid was gone, and he said the most maddening part of the whole thing was the powerlessness of a parent knowing that the child was waiting for YOU and can�t understand why you�re not there. The movie takes place over eight or nine days, and part of the research I did was on sleep deprivation for my character, because the idea of to sleep is to fail your child.
Some of the most intense scenes are between you and Jake, and the sometimes furious disagreements your characters have over the handling of the case.
JACKMAN: The relationship between our characters is very important to the story. We talked about that a lot. We only had four or five scenes together, and we wanted to make the most of them. It was one of those occasions where as actors neither of us wanted to leave the scenes. We wanted to dive into them and investigate them.
Viewers are going to be divided as to the vigilante nature of your character, especially when the film gets into his relationship with the kidnapping suspect (Paul Dano). Please share your own feelings about whether he does too little or too much.
JACKMAN: I can�t make up the minds of audiences, and I�m thrilled that Denis and [screenwriter] Aaron Guzikowski made a film that forces that moral ambiguity. It is uncomfortable, and that�s what I like about it. It almost subverts the genre. You think, OK, we�re going down this path with this guy and, yeah, let�s enact some rightful justice. But all of a sudden you feel uncomfortable, and what that forces you to do is to question why, if you went along with him, why you so easily go along with that way of thinking. And then you ask, what would I do in that situation. That�s where the film�s power lies and where it transcends the genre.
�Prisoners� opens on Sept. 20.
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Images from the past
A collection of photos showing how far we've come — and how the CWA is still making a difference.
Much better after 40 years of the Clean Water Act
Two massive oil spills into Minnesota rivers devastated fish and wildlife in the early 1960s. At the time, no laws required that spills be reported or cleaned up.
By the early 1970s, such catastrophes were becoming common. In Ohio, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland was so polluted that it caught fire—for the tenth time. Time Magazine reported that Lake Erie was dying from all the waste dumped into it. St. Louis took its drinking water from the muddy Missouri River because the Mississippi was far worse.
With the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, an environmental movement swept across the nation to the halls of Congress, which passed the federal Clean Water Act on October 18, 1972. The act's goal was simple—all waters should be fishable and swimmable where possible.
"The Clean Water Act was has forever changed how we monitor and protect our water," says Commissioner John Linc Stine of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). "The Clean Water Act has raised the bar of our expectations. Those expectations are high in Minnesota because 99% of the water found here, started here. This means our water protection efforts have an exponentially positive impact on the many states to our south, east and west, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico."
When the Clean Water Act went into effect, Minnesota had already started its water cleanup efforts, having established the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in 1967. This agency faced a daunting task in the 1970s with 450 communities failing to adequately treat their sewage or industrial waste. More than 40% of industries in the state were simply dumping their wastes into rivers and lakes.
Dramatic improvement
In the past 40 years, Minnesota and other states have made great strides in treating sewage, industrial waste, and other pollutants that damage water resources. The Clean Water Act is the backbone of that work.
The act embodied a new federal-state partnership. The federal government, through the Environmental Protection Agency, established guidelines, objectives, and limits. The federal government provided technical and financial assistance, most notably matching grants to local governments to build systems to treat wastewater and stormwater. The states carry out the law with their own monitoring, assistance, and enforcement programs.
The act states that all discharges into the nation's waters are unlawful unless authorized by a permit and sets controls for municipalities and industries. This is why wastewater treatment plants in Minnesota are required to have a permit from the MPCA. The act requires all dischargers to meet additional, stricter pollutant controls where needed to meet water quality targets, and requires federal approval of these standards.
It also protects wetlands by requiring "dredge and fill" permits. The act has robust enforcement provisions and gives citizens a strong role to play in watershed protection.
Congress has occasionally revised the act to address toxic pollutants, stormwater runoff, and groundwater protection. Notwithstanding these improvements, the 1972 law, along with its regulatory provisions and the institutions that were created 40 years ago, is still the framework for protecting and restoring the nation's rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and coastal waters.
The difference the Clean Water Act made to the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities is profound. Once a dead river from raw sewage, industrial discharges, and slaughterhouse waste, this part of the Mississippi now boasts game fishing and a designation as a national recreation area. That progress stems from the Twin Cities' investment in wastewater and stormwater treatment, including grants from the Clean Water Act.
New challenges
The Clean Water Act remains a vital part of protecting Minnesota's rivers and lakes, which are essential to the state's economy and quality of life. In spite of 40 years of progress, new challenges to clean water protection arise frequently. Today the challenges include sedimentation of streams and rivers, invasive species, and pollutants from farm and residential runoff. A decade from now new challenges will be uncovered.
Before being elected to Congress, former U.S. Rep Jim Oberstar was the lead staff on the committee that wrote the Clean Water Act. Congress was driven to action by the pollution problems threatening unique, finite water resources. "NASA has spent billions over the years sending men to the moon and on dozens of other space missions, and very often the thing they most wanted to discover on these missions was fresh water. That should tell us what we need to know about protecting the fresh water we have here on earth," he said in a recent interview.
Throughout the next month, the MPCA will highlight the rippling effect of the Clean Water Act, taking a closer look at the changes in the Mississippi in the Twin Cities, the work of local communities to overcome water pollution, improvements on feedlots in Minnesota, and the historical role of Congressman Oberstar.


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Special issues with fisheye lenses
Fisheye lenses and adapters are very popular because they allow full-spherical panoramas to be constructed from just a few images -- as few as 2 or 3, more typically 4-7. Their vast Field of View is achieved by a special mapping of the reality to the flat image. See Fisheye Projection for details.
Types of Fisheye Images
Consider the following five images:
- The first image, for reference, is from a conventional rectilinear wideangle lens. [*]
- The second image is "full-frame" fisheye, using a lens with supposed 16mm focal length to fill a 36x24mm frame on film. The usable fov of this image is about 98 degrees horizontal by 147 degrees vertical. However, the widely used Zenitar 16mm fisheye has only about 82 degrees horizontal and 125 degrees vertical FoV, which suggests that its actual focal length is slightly more than 17mm.
- The third image is "full circular" fisheye, using an 8mm focal length lens to place its entire 22.08mm image circle within a 36x24mm frame on film. The usable fov of this image is 180 degrees horizontal and vertical.
- The fourth image is "portrait cropped circular" fisheye, using the same 8mm focal length lens, but now with a Canon 300D digital SLR whose sensor size is only 22.7x15.1 mm (crop factor 1.6). The usable fov of this image is only about 120 degrees horizontal by 180 degrees vertical.
- The final image is a "diagonal cropped circular" fisheye, using the same 8mm lens and Canon 300D digital SLR, but now tipped so that the diagonal of the sensor is vertical. The usable fov of this image is about 145 degrees horizontal by 180 degrees vertical.
[*] Actually these images are all computationally extracted from a spherical panorama, using Panorama Tools and Photoshop. They agree well with real images from a Sigma 8mm F4 EX on Canon 300D, but comparison with other lenses will be approximate.
Number of Images Needed for Full Spherical
- For full-frame fisheye, the number of frames depends on the focal length. The illustrated case should work with 4 around plus zenith and nadir (6 total). For the Zenitar 16mm it is at least 5 (better 6) around plus zenith and nadir. (All for 36x24mm film or full frame sensor in portrait orientation).
- In theory, 2 full circular fisheyes are enough, but quality around the seams will probably suffer.
- 3 full circular fisheyes are enough to give good overlap at the equator.
- 3 portrait cropped circular fisheyes are not enough -- there will be small holes at the equator.
- 3 diagonal cropped circular fisheyes are enough to get good overlap.
- 4 portrait cropped circular fisheyes are also enough. 5 should be better but is not talked about much. (Maybe odd numbers make people uncomfortable.)
- 6 portrait cropped circular fisheyes seems to be popular.
Zenith and nadir (the poles) are liable to be soft if the camera is perfectly level, because those areas come from the very edge of every frame. They can be improved by shooting separate zenith and/or nadir images. If you shoot the equatorial images tipped slightly up or down, then you can get overlap and improved quality for free at one pole. The other pole can be covered by a separate zenith or nadir shot, or with a reflective ball, logo, or Photoshop clone tool if it's not important.
When shooting handheld or on monopod, more overlap is safer than less. Many people get good results with 6 around plus zenith and/or nadir if those are important.
Entrance Pupil (No-Parallax Point)
Fisheye lenses and adapters do not have a fixed entrance pupil (no-parallax point), as most rectilinear lenses do. Instead, the entrance pupil of a fisheye lens depends on the angle from the lens axis, typically moving forward as the angle increases from 0 degrees to 90 degrees.
In theory, this means that it is impossible to get a perfectly stitched panorama from a fisheye lens.
In practice, stitching can be almost perfect if you calibrate your camera mount using the same angle from lens axis that you usually use for stitching.
Control Points
The autopano program often does not find control points that are good for fisheye stitching. It has a tendency to clump many control points in a small area, leaving large areas with no control points at all.
Manual control point placement is more reliable and often worth the trouble.
You do not need a lot of control points to get good stitching with fisheye lenses. If you have properly calibrated your a/b/c lens distortion parameters, then placing only 3-4 control points on each seam often yields good results.
Chromatic Aberration
Some fisheye lenses show significant color fringing caused by lateral chromatic aberration of a type that is well corrected by the Photoshop RAW converter. The Sigma 8mm f4 EX is one such lens, as described for example on Michel Thoby's page
Other fisheyes suffer from non-linear lateral (also called transverse) chromatic aberration which is not easily corrected with the RAW converter since correction in one area causes fringing in another area. This can be solved with the Panorama Tools Plugins Correct-> Radial Shift filter which allows for very sophisticated corrections. There is an excellent way to determine correction parameters using PTShift from Eric Gerds page
Other Links
See John Houghton's tutorial for tips. See Luca Vascon's FishList for a complete catalogue of all fiheye lenses. For highly technical discussion, see "Fisheye lens designs and their relative performance" (Kumler and Bauer, SPIE 2000).