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Friday, September 22, 2006
The Inner Critic
a) This is my fifth novel. I know all the work that must come between now and the words "The End". Starting means finishing.
b) My inner critic, the one I just let loose on novel number four, must be captured, contained, and confined to the calaboose during the first draft phase of the new novel. My inner critic resists this procedure.
c) The first few chapters of a novel is the period when I know my characters the least, when I have the least invested in them, therefore care about them the least. Though I like all my characters at the beginning of a novel, it isn't until we've spent a significant amount of time together, until I've dragged them to the highs and lows of the story, that I feel I really know them and don't want to quit working until I get them out of the trouble I've dreamed up for them.
That being said, I have managed a few thousand words on the novel, and I need to set some writing goals in the near future to keep myself on track. I have a nebulous goal of First Draft by Christmas, but am wondering if that is too imprecise. I'm liable to goof around and not do much until Thanksgiving is suddenly upon me. A daily or weekly goal will be much better, as long as I keep it realistic.
How about you? Do you have an inner critic that keeps you back at the start of a new book?
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- Donna8:53 PM
Absolutely!! My inner critic appears in the form of all the people who told me, all through the years that I was dumb, or couldn't do anything right, or that nobody would want to read THAT. Of course, I can put up a pretty good fight these days, having just sold my first book. I'm not dumb, I did something right and someone did want to read it! Enough to pay me so that others can read it too.ReplyDelete
I think we need to develop--instead of an inner critic--and ability to see ourselves as God sees us. We need to see His vision and not what we feel is our own unworthiness. I like that bumper sticker: God don't make Junk.
Maybe we all need to learn to silence the inner critics by something as simple as: With God ALL THINGS are possible. Book five? Piece of cake! Tell that inner critic to take a long hike!
I definitely have an inner critic, but mine comes out at the end, after revisions, to tell me that it's not good enough. It tells me that it's all GAR-BAGE, and what was I thinking?ReplyDelete
But you're totally right about the beginning, knowing the characters the least, and how it affects a story. I re-write beginnings SO many many times, then the end seems to come together more quickly.
My inner critic dogs my heels all the way through! And it's so tempting to go back and revise, revise, revise before finishing, but I've had to force myself to just write, not worry about editing while writing the first draft, and keep notes on what I feel needs to be changed when I go back for the second draft.ReplyDelete


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From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Southwest England 23/11/13/13 hotspot
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:21:24 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Southwest England 23/11/13/13 hotspot
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <>
> . When I identified the bulge in
>> DYS390 = 23 R1b in Greater Frisia in June, 2004 I did not yet feel that
>> was
>> a variety with its own founder --- it was only a cline in Europe as
>> plotting
>> the percent of R1b by region on a map clearly shows. It was only after
>> overwhelming statistics at DYS447 and H4 and DYS464 which differed from
>> Atlantic R1b also went with DYS390 = 23, could one say there was a
>> variety
>> with a founder of its own [quoted from Nordtvedt]
> Peter, You really have a bee in your bonnet. The above clearly points
> out
> the difference between simple 23,11 R1b which has a cline in Europe, and
> the
> more extended haplotype with 447 = 24, H4 = 10, and 464 = 15,16,17,18
> which
> has a founder and is more highly concentrated in Greater Frisia. This
> distinction has been pointed out on many occasions. Ken
Ken I was responding to a point made
by another poster that this has not about
origins. The part you snipped is relevant
> All the same goes for "Scot" R1b. It has a collection of unique marker
> values and a strong geographical origin in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
> And the same with "Irish" R1b --- several unique markers and a strong
> tendency to be found with origins from Ireland.
I am not going to speak for your views
now. I was noting that origins has been
a part of the discussion in the past. One can
search the archives for this and see for
themselves. You repeatedly state (as you did
again above), as if it were fact, that your
Frisian combinations are "more highly"
concentrated in Frisia. I have and will continue
to remind people that this is not necessarily the
case and have noted other areas with more
concentration of the basic 23/11/13/13. South
west England being the latest location I noted.
Enough said by me this time. Une autre fois.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Amatsuki (あまつき)
I didn't see this thread, so I'll take the opportunity to start one.
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Amatsuki is a new Spring anime, starting April 4th 2008 on KBS Kyoto;this anime is based on the unlicensed manga by TAKAYAMA, Shinobu, serialized in Comic Zero-Sum.
You can see the newly released preview here: http://amatsuki.com/web/tv.html
Official Site: http://amatsuki.com/web/index.html
Spoiler for Manga Covers:
Manga Summary: History isn't Tokidoki's strong subject. He's even forced to do make-up work at a high-tech history museum to bring up his failing grades. After losing an eye to a virtual reality monster in an Edo-period simulation, he finds himself unable to leave the game. Could it be real?
Animated by: Studio DEEN
Directed by: FURUHASHI, Kazuhiro (Real Drive; Samurai X OVAs; Hunter x Hunter...)
Short Cast list:
Kon Shinonome by YUSA, Koji
Kuchiha by PAKU, Romi
Tokidoki Rikugō by FUKUYAMA, Jun
You can check ANN for more cast and crew info
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|2008-03-26, 19:25
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Gairyu Isle, Japan
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Cast is great. The trailer was pretty good as well. The backgrounds are really nice the music is great too. I like the art from Studio Deen, but I wish that it was more like the manga. Another 1 of the spring anime I'm going to follow.
|2008-03-28, 15:05
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: France
Age: 27
Ah, finally a thread. Thanks for opening it!
I must say the trailer has surprised me, in a good way. I somewhat expected the series to receive the same treatment as Hatenkou Yuugi (pretty manga, visually disappointing adaptation) - replacing the series in the same timeslot, I thought it'd get the same sponsors (since Bus Gamer has the same ones too), which would make sense anyway as one of them was Ichijinsha (the publisher of Comic-Zero Sum in which are published Hatenkou Yuugi and Amatsuki).
Yet the budget seems totally different. And satisfying animation usually does not go well with the name of Studio DEEN It was nowhere near mindblowing, but it did have interesting elements that seem to imply the action scenes won't be made of stills only, what the people at DEEN seem to love so much...
I was really afraid to see another failure, especially since the direction is working on Real Drive at the same time and I thought RD might have been more 'important' than this - but the trailer has relieved some of my worries. Of course it may just be the best-looking stuff...
|2008-03-28, 17:45
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Yeah I watched the trailer about 30 minutes after last posting in this thread. Seems like this is "the" Deen title of the season since it looks a lot better than Vampire Knight. Jun Fukuyama seems to be making it a habit in voicing characters who have had something done to one eye and Paku Romi seems to be voicing another bad ass female swordsman, awesome.
|2008-03-28, 18:08
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Your local dark deity.
I'm actually reasonably surprised with this show. When I first glanced over this thread I was under the impression it was going to be fairly crappy, but now I'm not so sure. Hum.
|2008-03-28, 18:19
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Yeah I have to admit I wasn't expecting much but the trailer surprised me, it can of course still turn out to be crap but with zero hype for it atm it has a good chance of being one of the sleeper hits of the season. i like the song used in the trailer, I'm hoping that's the intro.
|2008-03-28, 21:16
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Wow, I've been reading the manga for this, and didn't notice that they're making an anime. The plot is pretty interesting (IMO) with the main character's eye. Though, I felt like an idiot once when I read it. At first, I thought Kuchiha was a man, been seeing too many bishounen I think...
|2008-03-29, 17:24
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Based on my previous experiences, I've learned not to judge an anime based on popularity, hype, or the trailers/previews. Trailers/previews are a marketing ploy to get you interested in watching the show, so it can make a crappy show look great. Or if not done correctly it can also make a great show look crappy (sometimes the trailer is so vague, as to avoid spoilers, it ruins the concept of marketing the show). I've had those experiences of watching a trailer or reading a synopsis and thinking it was a dull and uninteresting a show only to be proven wrong once I browsed the blogs or forums...and then watching for myself. I want to reserve judgment until I've watched a few episodes, but naturally I'm not immune to a good-looking trailer and so I did get a lot more interested once I'd seen it. I mean I've got 18 animes (out of some 30-odd new entries) that interest me this season, but what turns out good remains to be seen.
I'd heard of the manga and it's been on my "to read" list, so I wasn't unfamiliar with the story though. The voice cast is also great and even if Studio DEEN isn't known for it's works of genius, I like their art and they may just create a gem this Spring season. I agree with Westlo, I hope the music used in the trailer is their OP, I thought it was great.
|2008-03-29, 17:52
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The Commissar Vanishes
A guy in a mediaeval parallel world with fantasy beasts and swordsmen? What is this, reverse Twelve Kingdoms?
While I am not terribly impressed by the style, it is Kazuhiro Furuhashi and it has got to have redeeming qualities. I will be checking it out, if only to see if I am wrong to suspect that this is a waste of time.
Because, it does feel like a typical waste of time adventure, yet it's by Furuhashi. DOES... NOT... COMPUTE...
|2008-03-29, 18:44
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|2008-03-30, 08:15
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Join Date: Jan 2007
I found this summary of the manga on ANN:
Rikugou Tokidoki, a common Japanese high school student, has failed his last history test. So to make up for it he has to study at a museum that uses state of the art virtual technology to place you right in the middle of the Edo period. However, when he runs into a being called a nue, a masked man riding an enormous monster, he loses the sight in his right eye. After realizing that he is no longer wearing his goggles, he discovers that he is trapped in the Edo period, where he meets Shinonome Kon, another person in a similiar position as him, and Kuchiha a female samurai who saved his life.
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Miranda Neville
Confessions from an Arranged Marriage (Burgundy Club, Book 4)
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In London after a two-year exile, Lord Blakeney plans to cut a swathe through the bedchambers of the demimonde. Marriage is not on his agenda, especially to an annoying chit like Minerva Montrose, with her superior attitude and a tendency to get into trouble. And certainly the last man Minerva wants is Blake, a careless wastrel without a thought in his handsome head.
The heat and noise of her debutante ball give Minerva a migraine. Surely a moment's rest could do no harm ... until Blake mistakes her for another lady, leaving Minerva's guests to catch them in a very compromising position. To her horror, the scandal will force them to do the unthinkable: marry. Their mutual loathing blazes into unexpected passion but Blake remains distant, desperate to hide a shameful secret. Minerva's never been a woman to take things lying down, and she'll let nothing stop her from winning his trust ... and his heart.
I view the opposites-attract trope in romance fiction with trepidation. While I appreciate that the conflict in such stories will be strong and organic, too often the book leaves me doubting whether reconciliation between such different people is possible and concluding that once the fires of desire burn low the H/H will lead separate lives.
My concern was magnified in the case of Miranda Neville's Confessions from an Arranged Marriage because Minerva Montrose's intelligence, humor, youthful confidence, and undisguised ambition to be a political hostess made her a particularly appealing secondary character in The Dangerous Viscount and The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton, and the last person I expected to see her paired with was the insufferably superior Marquis of Blakeney. The opinion Sebastian Iverley (The Dangerous Viscount) expressed of Blake, his cousin and enemy, was one that seemed accurate to me:
"He was an arrogant ass at the age of ten, with very little reason I may say, and he never got any better. He's an idiot without a worthwhile thought in his head."
The first chapter of Confessions from an Arranged Marriage is a classic example of opposites clashing before attracting. This exchange is typical:
"I suppose you seek to embarrass me by mentioning your mistress," she said.
"No," he said. "Just to remind you that I have better things to do than cater to the consequence of an ambitious miss."
"Then we find ourselves in perfect accord," she retorted. "I have better objects of my attention than a spoiled wastrel without a thought in head except for sports." She favored him with a sweet and utterly insincere smile.
It's clear that Blake will be Minerva's hero. Frankly, had I not been reading an eARC for review, I would have marked the book as DNF. No one could have convinced me that I'd end up loving this hero and believing in the HEA. Only reading the book could do that.
When mistaken identity and a trick gone awry lead to Blake's being forced to propose marriage and Minerva's being forced to accept his proposal, both are bitterly disappointed that the life now confronting them is very different from the one they had expected. Blake thinks longingly of his mistress.
Instead of Desiree's endless skill and creativity, he was sentenced to a lifetime of sleeping with a sharp-tongued little snip of a girl with no idea of how to please a man in bed, and doubtless little interest in learning.
Minerva realizes that her ambition must be sacrificed for her reputation.
She faced an existence utterly different than she'd planned since she'd first become enthralled by politics at the age of eight. . . . Ever since, she's burned to make her mark on the world. Instead of a worthwhile life supporting her husband in the betterment of their country, was she to wed a dissolute idiot with whom she had nothing in common?
It was the "nothing in common" that bothered me. I had no doubt that Neville could make me believe in the passion that I knew would flare between the ill-matched twosome, but how could I ever believe that these Minerva and Blakeney could become friends and companions as well as lovers? I questioned whether they could even have a conversation without sniping at one another. Even when more of Blake's history is revealed and I viewed him more sympathetically, I still didn't believe he and Minerva belonged together. I cringed when she responds to his accusation that she is pompous in a burst of anger that shows her valuation of him.
"Better pompous than irresponsible. You were born to a position where you could do some good in the world, and as far as I can see you've done nothing to prepare for it. You don't read the newspapers or study the issues of the day. You don't even try! You may be handsome and you may know all about horses but I made a huge mistake in thinking you might be worth more than that."
Since this outburst is followed by a physical separation and an emotional separation that continues even after they are together, I saw little to change my mind about their future. Blake could not become the man Minerva had dreamed of marrying. But as Minerva's perception of her husband changes, so does the reader's. First, she begins to value what he does well. She watches him fence and appreciates the skill, strength, and stamina that he displays.
Minerva hung over the railing in shameless admiration. In years past she'd seen Blake compete in a horse race and knew him to be a rider of unparalleled skill. She wouldn't mind seeing him box too. It was always a pleasure to watch an expert at work, no matter what the avocation.
Minerva's deepening respect for the man Blake is empowers him to become more, and he is able when she needs him most to be commanding and powerful, every inch the duke with generations of dukes behind him. Perhaps the greatest evidence of the changes in Blake is his acceptance of what he is and what he is not, a self-acceptance tempered by his regret that he cannot be the man Minerva wants. And Minerva's response to his self-acceptance is a lovely reminder that these two have grown into two people who like and respect one another as well as healthily lusting after one another.
"I'm not going to lead the party and I'll never be a member of the government, let alone Prime Minister. I wish I could be the man you want, Minnie, but I don't have it in me."
"You are the man I want. You don't have to be anyone different."
Sigh! I'm a believer. Happily ever after all the way.
Janga spent decades teaching literature and writing to groups ranging from twelve-year-olds to college students. She is currently a freelance writer, who sometimes writes about romance fiction, and an aspiring writer of contemporary romance, who sometimes thinks of writing an American historical romance. She can be found at her blog Just Janga and tweeting obscure bits about writers as @Janga724.


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I ended up here for Game 7 of the NLCS and it made for a nice spot. We had a caesar salad which was pretty blah, but sort of what I was in the mood for so it wasn't a big deal. We also had a large sausage pizza. The crust is homemade and very thin, with a thin layer of toppings...it reminded me of pizza that I would make at home, and was cut into squares. Like pizza I'd make at home, it was pretty tasty, and was bubbling hot with cheese, but it was quite different from pizzeria pizza.
We tried a saison that was on tap (good) as well as a pomegranate cider (gross IMO, though my DC liked it), and finally an unoaked Chardonnay that was part of Happy Hour $4 wine special.
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Battery A, was a battallion at Fort Sill Army
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I have for several weeks now been making enquiries into setting up a club in the Neath /Swansea area. I have a number of contacts with land owners from my work covering Mx events etc but as with everything its finding the right piece of land with good accesss and good shooting potential.
Did think Neath and District ( NaD) would be a name and we could use different grounds each time to host a Wafta shoot.
Thus we would become the Go-Nads club!
Anyway. There are quite a few tondu FTC members travelling from the Neath / Swansea area and indeed there have been many past members that have come from the area. I know the cost of travelling has put some off keeping up membership at tondu and of course there is the Road access.
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ive got a 9mm rws bolt thru on my full sus and wondered if i can get adaptors to make my hope pro 2 front hub to take 9mm bolt thru . cheers
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can you get 9mm bolt thru adaptors for hope pro 2 hubs ?
Drill the QR adaptors out with a 9mm drill.
i thought of this but dont have a vice a drill or indeed any technical ability im limited to shooting guns and putting out fires lol
I asked hope. They don't make them, but said they'd consider it if there's enough demand.
So send them an email, let them know the demand is out there.
You'd need a lathe to drill them out properly, if it's not perfectly concentric you'll get disc wear issues.
Also, there's not much (5mm each side) left to support the wheel on the skewer, so with bigger discs at least you end up with some wear on the skewer (from pics I've seen). If/when I get around to making some, I'd also turn some spacers on a lathe to spread the load better.
ive just mailed hope. cant be that hard for them to do can it lol
betd would probably knock something up. Don't know what the cost would be though.
Guys on MTBR have machined/lathed the ProII QR adapters to suit but agreed, it's not really a suitable long term solution.
i got the engineers in my work to drill them out on the pillar drill, but they fuct it up!
i really wish hope would make some
ive emailed em too
I reckon we should also email Hope suggesting they offer a competing 9mm axle... RWS is pretty good but quite expensive. However, for the riders out there who can't afford (or don't want) to change their forks to bolt through but who have ProII hubs, 9mm bolt through is a great interim or permanent solution that is significantly better than a normal QR.
Now where's that email address for Hope...
A 9mm wouldn't even need to be QR. They could just make a nutted (at one end) thru axle in alu like you get at the back end of DH bikes. Nice and light and would do the job.
Exactly. I reckon there's space in the market for a cheap, simple and robust alternative to DT's RWS, especially if ProII (and Bulb) adapters were available.
sounds good, I will email them also.
Just a thought but you could buy one of the on-one 456 front hubs which are 9mm and come with a 9mm QR skewer. I got mine for £25 but I've seen they are going for £15 in the current sale. Even if you throw away the hub (!) you still get a 9mm skewer a lot cheaper than a DT RWS. I've got the hub and skewer on some Revelations and because of the wide clamping area it seems to stiffen the fork up significantly.
I got a 456 hub today, but I only paid £10 for it (its now 15). The 20mm to 9mm adaptor unscrews - I am hoping it will fit into the 20mm pro2 conversion.
The 20mm should arrive tomorrow, so I will let you know if it works or not.
It won't work with the Hope adaptors immediately, but I am going to get the machined down at work.
The 456 hub obviously needs adaptors to go from 9mm to QR
got any pictures of the on-one adaptors and skewer? as I am tempted to put a 9mm axle on one of my bikes.
Has anyone tried the DT 9mm adaptors in a Pro II?
I've managed to get hold of some converters and Im using these axles/quick releases
Seems quite stiff, but easy to take the wheel in and out but the axles are quite heavy.
Can't I just drill out the QR adapters on my ProII?
yes, but they have to be square or else the wheel will be wonky, and people aren't sure if the small surface area of the drilled out adapter will wear through the 9mm axle.
Hence it's worth emailing hope to let them know that there is a demand for these adapters.
It really does seem like a silly gap in the market here that no one is paying attention to,
using QRs based on road biking standard is crazy when dropouts will take a larger and stiffer axle
especially in these financially unsure times
i wish i could afford 150 quids worth of new lowers and then new brakes and hub adaptors to fit a QR15s
i managed to track down a 10mm/ 9mm QR axle set from ebay US about half the price of 1 rws skewer
ive upgraded my back end but (pro II) but cant upgrade the front
surely hope could do some of their excellent QR skewers in 9 and 10mm in a kit with adaptors for their hubs
let a lot of folks upgrade their older bikes and swipe some business away from the very expensive DTswiss
even a tube 15mm external and 9mm internal would let you use the qr 15 adaptors with your 9mm axle
right im off to email BETD and see what they say!
scu98rkr, where did you get the converters from? It wasn't the set that was sold in the classifieds on here was it?
I found them on ebay. Chumba were selling loads of them but they seem to have stopped now.
This was the link
To be honest I wish I'd brought a second pair cant find them anywhere now.
i got the same chumba QRs and they are ace!
ive emailed betd and hope but no replies yet
...so are those 456 hubs any stiffer then? I might get one in the sale for a rainy day.
I think if you're going to bother with 9mm front/10mm rear axles then they need to have something other than a regular QR lever to clamp them or you're not really going to gain that much. Clamping force is as important as axle stiffness. I'd settle for a really simply nut/bolt style arrangement myself...
using a 10mm QR on my rear end was noticeably stiffer over a regular QR
at least on my kona dawg
yeah I think it would be best it some one could cheaply produce them with just a allen key end.
Nut a bolt is annoying as you have to carry a spanner as well as allen keys.
They should do it like a lot of DH axles:
One end has a hole drilled thru the cross section, so you can slide any old allen key into it to hold it steady, then the other end can be an allen bolt.
erm just got this back from hope??
We make a 9mm conversion for our Pro 2 hubs to suit the DT axle. These
are available through all good bike shops.
Customer Service
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Fernbank Mill
Fernbank Avenue
Hmm When I've emailed them they said they didnt any idea of price ?
They're not on Wiggle, at least they weren't the other day.
do they mean a standard one. Ive not had a reply but cant find any info or links to a nine mil one
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I had a breast reduction on Aug. 13th and I am still having a lot of discomfort. The left breast seems to be healing very quickly and the right seems very stretched, tight and is still draining slightly under the breast. I am having a hard time getting some answers because my doctor is away and I am hoping you can advise if this is normal. I am 65 but in very good health. The surgeon used dissolving stitches. Thank you.
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NCUA Executive Highlights Plight of Small Credit Unions
OCEAN CITY, Md. — Small credit unions present an anomaly and a challenge for those that regulate them.
Most credit unions nationwide have experienced unusually high share growth since the economic downturn and corresponding consumers' flight to safety that has tampered with their net worth. But credit unions under $10 million in assets are facing a very different problem and a very real threat: Shares are declining, according to NCUA Region II Director Jane Walters.
During a general session at the Maryland & D.C. Credit Union Association's annual conference last week, Walters noted that Maryland and Washington both have many small credit unions, as does Region II in general.
"Every year for the last five or six years, we've seen shares go down," the regulator said of small credit unions. So far in 2011, half of credit unions under $10 million in assets are losing shares.
While recognizing the resource challenges small credit unions face, she also lamented that the agency was not sure how to further assist smaller credit unions and invited suggestions. The NCUA offers special training workshops for small credit unions.
In response to a question on the matter, she said, "A lot of times, we have a lot of longtime managers who just don't want to change. Or we have boards that way."
Walters told the MDDCCUA that share growth for federally insured credit unions nationally is up around 7% annualized, and in Region II, it's up more than twice that at approximately 15%. Washington in particular has experienced share growth of about 8% annualized and Maryland is at around 13% share growth.
That share growth is demonstrated in the net worth ratios she provided, which are solidly near 10% nationally and in Region II, with Washington over 11% and Maryland nearing 10.5%. Back in 2007, the net worth nationwide was close to 11.5% for federally insured credit unions and Region II stood at 11%. At the same time, Washington was over 13% while Maryland was approaching that level. A key consideration in reviewing these numbers though is that California has since been added to the NCUA's Region II to better deal with the economic crisis.
Maryland and D.C. credit unions' ROA is below the national and regional averages of 0.74% and 0.87%, respectively. Maryland's ROA sat at 0.42% and Washington credit unions' reached 0.68%. All are on an upward trajectory.
And delinquencies were heading down for all except Washington, which experienced a slight uptick. Still delinquency levels for Maryland and Washington were below the regional and national averages as were charge-offs.
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Walters Takes On 'Problem' Trend
Because the NCUA has been experiencing increased insurance losses due to fraud, examiners are going to be taking a harder look at the general ledger, particularly in smaller shops.
"We don't examine for fraud; that's not what our job is," NCUA Region II Director Jane Walters asserted. "But that seems to be what our loss is in." As a result, in credit unions with just a few employees or less, examiners will be scrutinizing the general ledger more.
In 2010, there were 368 CAMEL 4 and 5 credit unions with an aggregate $43.8 billion in assets; 10 of those were over $1 billion in assets. CAMEL 3 credit unions grew to 1,827 by year-end 2010, $156.7 billion in assets and 23 of those were over $1 billion in assets.


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To compete, credit unions should ensure their mobile systems are up to par.
At the CFPB, a checking account is a right, not a privilege.
As if credit unions didn't have enough regulatory burden already, the CFPB threw another iron into the fire when it hosted an Oct. 8 forum on checking account accessibility.
Will Wal-Mart's new checking account product create a competitive challenge for the financial services industry? A senior financial analyst and a credit union CEO don't think so.
A credit union CEO and a financial analyst say Wal-Mart's new checking account won't directly compete with credit unions.
One technology executive predicts mobile banking users will soon eclipse online banking users.
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so much has happened since i last blogged so i think i'll just ignore all of that and start fresh! i think i'll do a catch up post next.(for my benefit really, i'm sure no one cares!)
anyway the point of this post is pugs. if you've read my blog, followed me on twitter or met me you'll know i love pugs.i'm sorry if i've ever made you stalk pugs with me. anyway, so i'm sure you've all seen the three mobile advert with the pug in (!!!), i obviously fell in love with it right away. three very kindly sent me a box full of pug things which is quite possibly the best bit of post i've ever received. they also asked me to share 3 things with you...
3. favourite songs.
this is difficult. does anyone else find this difficult? WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT? okay..
tina turner; proud mary. this is my happy song. it's also my favourite song to sing on karaoke.
bruce springsteen; i'm on fire. this is one of the first songs i ever remember hearing/knowing the words to. my dad used to sing it to me when i was a baby.
q lazzarus; goodbye horses. it makes me an emotional wreck but it's beautiful and holds a lot of sentimental value.
2. favourite places in london
this is also quite difficult! i've been living in london since last christmas and i love ALL OF IT. well most of it.
angel; i love love love angel. it's definitely one of my favourite places in london in general. it has really cute bars and shops and it's just lovely. luckily i work right by so i'm there a lot!
broadway market; this is my favourite place to be at the weekend. lots of cute and interesting foodie things and bloody lovely in the summer!
1. picture of loulou.
i love this picture because i think you can tell how much i love him and how fat and grumpy he is about it all.
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Réalisateur : Kazuchika Kise
Acteurs : Maaya Sakamoto, Ikkyu Juku, Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Tarusuke Shingaki
Genre : Animation, Action, Science-Fiction
Durée : 55min 0s
Date de sortie : 28 Juin 2014
Année de production : 2014
Critiques Spectateurs : 3.7
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The anime's story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.


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Adriene Hill: Part of the fun of the new year is looking backward to the economic year that was, and to indulge in a just a little crystal ball gazing to the year ahead.
Joining me now is Fortune magazine's Allan Sloan.
Allan Sloan: Good morning, Adriene.
Hill: So markets today are almost exactly where they were at the beginning of the year. Did all the volatility and up and down actually mean anything?
Sloan: Well, the question is: If you get on a rollercoaster, it goes up and down and swings around, and you get off at pretty much the same place you got on -- has it meant anything? The answer is: You had a lot of fun, and your stomach lurched.
Hill: A lot of adrenaline.
Sloan: Well, that is what we do here, isn't it?
Hill: So what is the business story of the year that maybe we didn't talk about as much as we should have?
Sloan: Now, I think the business story of the year is, I think things may actually be getting better. But one of the reasons we didn't talk about it is that I can't prove that. It's a feeling I have because it's been now, depending on when you start the count, five or six years since things started falling apart, and it's time for them to get better. And I think they probably are.
Hill: Well, that's a story to look forward to in 2012. But tell me that next year we won't have to keep talking about Greek debt over and over and over.
Sloan: I'll tell you that, but I don't mean it. I suspect I'm going to learn how to pronounce drachma correctly -- that being the Greek currency -- because something is going to happen. Now, if I knew what it was, I would A) be rich and B) more than happy to tell our listeners. But I don't know. But it's going to still be a story in 2012.
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Having Dog fights are pretty cool, but in GTA SA they can be pretty hard to come across.
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2Pass enough levels that will become available in the airplane graveyard or you can just use a cheat to get one .
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Director Doug Joiner is known for bringing dark and often violent fare to the stage at Le Chat Noir.
The Clean House , his current production, does feature odd incidents of mortality, but he insists that House is feather-light -- by his standards.
"This is as close to romantic comedy as I am ever going to get," he said.
The play revolves around Matilde, a Brazilian housekeeper with comedic aspirations. Motivated by the perfect joke that killed her mother and, tangentially, her father, she makes finding a gag that powerful her life's work.
While she quests, she observes the human comedy of a household wracked by love, loss, infidelity and aspiration. As the play progresses, she discovers that comedy isn't found in a single punch line, but rather the living of life.
Although far less extreme than many of his productions, Joiner said, The Clean House shares a lot with those plays. He said he was attracted thematically to House , just as he was to plays such as The Goat .
"In fact, it shares a lot with the other stuff I do," he said. "The thing I look for in everything I do is stories about redemption of some kind."
Nicole Swanson plays Matilde, the ad hoc Greek chorus of the piece. She said her character, who opens the play with a dirty joke told in Portuguese, is the perfect observer because she has a foreign perspective, a cultural innocence.
"She is that voice that we all have," she said. "That voice that tells us to deal with what we have in life."
Swanson said that although learning to present jokes in another language was challenging, the real trick is making the transition from Act I, which is relatively standard storytelling, to Act II.
"That's when things get pretty strange and surreal," she said. "But the writing is so good that the audience won't have any trouble keeping up."
Though the play deals with complex issues, it manages to do so in a streamlined way.
"Yes, it is a very simple play," Joiner said. "But it's a very simple play compellingly written about the most compelling of subjects -- sex and love and death."


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Savvy search marketers are increasingly leveraging search for branding purposes, and not as an afterthought, but deliberately blending both old and new strategies & tactics.
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, February 27-March 2, 2006, New York, NY.
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members offers insights on recalibrating your search efforts to support your branding goals, tips on protecting your brand's use by other search marketers, bugeting and measuring results for branding rather than traditional metrics, and more. Click here to learn more about becoming a member.
The "Branding & Search" session at featured Cam Balzer of Performics, Jessica Koster of Danskin, Jonathan Mendez of Digital Grit, Ron Belanger of Yahoo Search Marketing, and Rand Fishkin, of SEOMoZ. The panelists spoke of the new branding trends online, and the as yet untapped potential of search marketing to build and strengthen brand recognition.
The Big Ad Agencies Start to Catch On
This year, marked perhaps most publicly on that galavanza of media marketing Super Bowl Sunday, ad agencies show signs of waking up to the power of Search as a branding tool. They're starting to integrate it with other more traditional media buys. And a few hiccups notwithstanding, they're seeing some pretty impressive results. This heralds some potentially big changes, and big opportunities for those SEMs who are ready to capitalize on this shift.
As deep pockets open their eyes-and coffers-to search's potential for branding, they could change the playing field of paid search marketing as we know it today. One panelist described one big brand client's relationship to capturing the #1 position on the SERP. They were prepared to bid whatever it took, no caps, no limits, and no need to justify the bid costs in relationship to clicks or orders to hold that top spot for the days surrounding their big media drop. Because their intent was brand awareness not sales or clicks.
New demographics are entering different vertical spaces, online. They're up-and-coming consumers, many in the 18-30 age bracket, who may not have been brought up with the tried and true brands of yesteryear's advertising media. Ad agencies need to learn how to find these searchers, know what they're looking for, and test the best messages that will leave a lasting brand impression with them.
Reconfigure Your Goals to Brand (Not Sell) with Search
Rand spoke of 6 basic Search branding goals. Simplistic as they may seem to veteran marketers, these oft-repeated goals are still the pillars of brand awareness:
1. Improve the visibility of your product or company
2. Create brand association with events or product categories
3. Position against competitors in specific market sectors
4. Build buzz for viral marketing
5. Leverage brand awareness to support your natural and paid search campaigns
6. Reach the 18-39 year olds by branding within the online marketplace
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If you've built your brand name over decades, protect your message, look, and feel in the online space. Jessica Koster at Danskin is working to marry their traditional brand with the new online space. As a company that's built its reputation over 100 years, for loyal customers, Danskin means dance. They get over 30% of their online orders from brand related listings.
If You Brand It… They Will Come
Mendez took the audience through a case study with one of the master branders SONY. The campaign goal? Build buzz. Not sell product. Build buzz. The product was a new Vaio notebook and all media pointed to the same landing page. An informational page without a single call to action. Not bad if the goal is to increase awareness but still, you had to really work if you actually wanted to buy the product.
As you dissect current campaigns online, and you find-or design-these four elements, you'll be looking on a solid online branding campaign:
1. Consistent creative messaging
2. One landing page collecting visitors from all media
3. Media or keyword buys in generic product or industry spaces
4. No specifically strong calls to action or promotions
Consolidate Your Message, Work At Higher Levels
Cam Balzer, Director of Search Strategies for Performics, has long been leveraging search for their nationally branded advertisers. Their clients have brand awareness in the public mind. But up until relatively recently, Balzer and colleagues leveraged search for ROI driven goals. That meant they looked for immediate click-through-rates or purchases to measure campaign efficacy.
But as they started to look more broadly at the metrics coming back to them, the behavior patterns indicated by search, and the potentials of this self-selecting medium, they realized Search could easily be used for purposes beyond ROI driven goals. They could extend brands and tap into more of the market and mindshare of the 60 million Americans who use search every single day.
As Cam simply said, "Search is becoming synonymous with being a consumer." As you go more deeply into analyzing large volume of search behavior, an interesting fact is unearthed. Consumers actually depend on search to build awareness, to learn about a brand or product, more than they use search to buy a product.
Work Online Ad Mediums Cooperatively
Ron Belanger of Yahoo Marketing dropped a few nuggets of insight to wrap up the formal presentation of this session.
As a sign of our more accurate appreciation for Search as branding tool , Yahoo has changed the names of its display ads. They used to call the display ads Brand Ads and keyword ads Search Ads. Now, more aptly, Yahoo offers Display and Search ads, working with clients to find the sweet spot where the balance of ad spend in each compliments the other and builds a more robust campaign
Recently Yahoo has seen, through their larger spend clients, a direct commensurate increase in search demand when clients purchase display, in conjunction with search. So next time your search ad rep calls, and tries to sell you more Yahoo display, listen up. It might be more worth your while than you thought.
Amy Edelstein is the founder of Ascent Copywriting and the author of numerous articles about innovations in Search Marketing.
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Happy New Year everyone
January's numbers
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I'll keep trying. I have a 22" monitor at work so I can see it fairly well, but would like to enlarge, draw lines, etc… I just don't know Google Docs.
It's bizarre. It would work, and then it wouldn't. For awhile I thought that it was tied to whether I had the spreadsheet open or not, but that's not the case.
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And the numbers. The running end looks good, guess that a lot of us are waiting for spring before hitting the pedals.
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Its been very quite recently so now the weather is picking up at last how are you all doing?
I have a hilly 100 miler at the weekend and I'm looking for a new road bike to use now I have more time on my hands and longer days.
Last week I did around 157 miles cycling and 21 running
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I'm preparing for my first duathlon on Sunday. Weather is supposed to be shit. Meh. We've had minimal rain all Spring, so the forecast on race day is 80% chance of rain.
It was cold and wet for my first duathlon and frosty for my second, is your's an Olympic distance one?
I always find its a problem balancing the clothing for the run compared to my clothing for the cycling, I generally wear my cycling glove at the start as I can always blow my nose on them
It was cold and wet for my first duathlon and frosty for my second, is your's an Olympic distance one?
I always find its a problem balancing the clothing for the run compared to my clothing for the cycling, I generally wear my cycling glove at the start as I can always blow my nose on them
I'm debating about the dress thing, too. I *think* I will wear a short-sleeve cycling top and my tri shorts with thin tights that come below the knee for the first run (it's sprint distance, so 5k run, 30k bike, 5k run), water/wind-resistant jacket over that ensemble for the bike, then take the jacket and tights off for the last run. I wasn't planning to wear gloves, but now I think I will do like you and wear them for the first 2 legs.
I found out about a women's-only du in August...I may have to register for that one so that my 2nd can be WARM!
Zoom, Zoom if you are putting a top on you will need your number on a belt, have you practiced transitions? I managed 49 / 52 seconds for my two transitions in the last event timed from entering the paddock to leaving it.
If you are "damp" after the first run will the top go on easily I screwed a triathlon transition up once when I couldnt slide my top down.
I put loads of talc in my cycling shoes to help get them on and I have a profile drinks bottle on the bike so I can drink on the way round. I don't put my shoes on the pedals like most people I can't see the point.
I've suffered from cramp ( the only times in my life ) in my first three events whilst transitioning from bike to run two, at the last event I put salt in my energy drink and had no problem.
I find arm warmers are useful as they give you more flexibilty
I had planned to wear arm-warmers and I will probably bring them along, but right now I'm fairly certain that I will be fine without for the running portions (I like bare arms for rainy runs in the 50s) and will want a real wind jacket for the bike.
I won't be attaching my shoes to the bike, since they aren't actual tri shoes. What I have are technically mountain-bike shoes (Sidi Dominators), since I wanted the ability to walk a little and am contemplating cyclocross maybe as early as this Fall (that means a second bike, ha...but it would be nice on our chip-sealed and unpaved roads).
I haven't really practiced fast transitions, yet, but have done several brick workouts. They are definitely working. The first few I did were godawful for the run post-bike, but now I don't get Jello-legs nearly so bad. I have a friend who is a major cyclist, but hardly runs. I think she is going to be in for a shock on Sunday, as I don't think she's really done any brick workouts.
Funnily enough I wear MTB shoes as well as they are easier to run in when in transition, good luck let me know how you get on.


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