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Garnish Island Ferry
Visit the wonderful Gardens of Ilnacullin on Garnish (Garinish) Island aboard one of our fully licensed ferries. The Harbour Queen Ferries provides a regular service to the island.
Ferries depart from Glengarriff Pier every 30 minutes (Quarter Past and Quarter to the Hour) during the season (April 1 – October 31).
Our fleet of ferries are purpose built enclosed waterbuses which will whisk you to the island in safety and comfort.
Garnish Island has got to be seen to be believed. This unique Island plays host to a multitude of plant variations, and the blanket of Summer colouring which covers the Island creates a rainbow of colour. The Island has a wonderful history and its unusual micro climate allows a range of exotic subtropical plant species to flourish. There are a number of walks and interesting buildings on the Island Read more…
There is a restaurant on the Island which serves light lunches and general refreshments.
On route to the Island you will enjoy the magnificent views of the bay and also visit Seal Island with its colony of harbour seals. The seals are very photogenic and are happy to pose for photos! Read more…
Free Parking
There is free parking available for both cars and buses.
Wheelchair Access
Access to the ferries is via a custom built ramp from the pier which means it's very safe and easy to board any of our ferries. We also have special facilities for wheelchairs on board one of our ferries so please ask.
Licensed Ferries
Glengarriff Harbour is one of the most sheltered bays in Ireland and the trip to the Island is very calm (in fact a crossing has never been cancelled due to bad weather). Nevertheless Safety is a paramount and all our vessels are fully licensed by the Department of the Marine. Our experienced and professional crew are fully trained in safety procedures. All ferries carry life jackets and safety equipment. Read more…
Other Services
Fishing trips can be organised in Glengarriff Harbour & Bantry Bay where there is an abundance of fish including Mackeral, Pollack, Skate, Dogfish and many others.
Harbour Queen Services can vary their tours in the inner areas of Bantry Bay making the real beauties of one of the worlds most magnificent natural harbours open to everyone, both young and old. There is ample fishing opportunity in the area, but fishing from Garnish Island is prohibited. We can provide local knowledge and specialised itineraries to ensure you maximise your fishing experience while in the South West Region.
We can accommodate dogs on the ferry as long as they are on a leash and well behaved.
Local Accommodation and Attractions
There are many Hostels, Hotels, Self-Catering Units and Bed & Breakfasts in the region and the weary traveller will be spoilt for choice especially during quiet periods. However, this area of the country can get very busy, very quickly during warm weather and so it is advisable to always book ahead. As a general guideline Bed & Breakfast rates start from around IR €35 per person.
Coupled with the breathtaking scenery there are a vast number of other activities to partake in even for the most discerning traveller. These include Golf, Shooting, Hill Walking, Forrests, Adventure & Sport Centres, Painting Schools, Museums, Art Galleries, Heritage Centres & Distilleries to name but a few.
One thing the traveller should know about West Cork…..while it may be relaxing, soothing, and stress free it is never, ever boring or dull.
Combined with the beautiful scenery, the many activities, and the traditional Irish pubs you have the Irish People with stories and truths that you've never heard before and will never forget again. Join us for the relaxation of a different kind, one that can't be bought.
Note: We cannot process credit cards and there is no ATM or Bank in the village of Glengarriff. The nearest Banks and ATM's are in Bantry and Kenmare.


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Bloginity is now a featured App in under the Fashion Category of Pulse App.
Pulse is a stunning application that makes browsing news and social networks easier and a lot more fun by taking your favorite and most-visited websites and transforming them into an interactive, easy to read mosaic.
Bloginity's feature in the Pulse app enables readers to quickly sort through the amazing and exciting new articles, profiles and interviews on Bloginity.com.
"We have worked very hard to get this feature on Pulse. For months we've been discussing the opportunity and it's finally happening. Pulse is one of my favorite Applications to browse. I have it installed on my iPad, iPod, iPhone and I spend close to 3 hours on it a day. It is such a great achievement for Bloginity to be included in its roster." – Daniel Haim, Editor in Chief and Founder of Bloginity.com
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We are in good company alongside sites like Fashionista and The Cut. Syndicating to SnapTu and Pulse via Mobile, our readers can now find and read more content on the go! So if you have an iPod, iPhone, iPad or Android, and you haven't already gotten Pulse, get downloading!

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When you stop to think about it, humans are pretty amazing animals. Not only have we managed to stick around in various forms for millions of years, but we've also grown into a population of more than 7 billion, scattered virtually all over the planet. And we've done it despite being fairly fragile creatures. We're not particularly strong; we lack a tough hide or fur to protect us from the elements; we don't do very well without a regular supply of food and water; and we're vulnerable to a lot of infectious diseases.
So what has enabled us to thrive to the point where, for the most part, we don't spend every waking moment worrying about whether we'll live to see another day? Our saving grace, perhaps, is our highly developed brain and its ability to experiment with, dream up and collaborate on ingenious solutions to life-threatening challenges. There are a multitude of inventions that modern humans depend on to sustain their existence, but here are a few we would find it extremely difficult to live without.
The Wheel
We've all heard the expression "no need to reinvent the wheel," meaning that a solution already exists for the problem at hand. This saying has added significance when you consider the many ways in which the wheel improved human life, and how long mankind lived without it.
Archaeologists debate when the wheel was first invented. The earliest evidence of a wheel in human history occurs at about 3500 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia, but this evidence is associated with the wheel's use in pottery-making, not as a tool for transportation. It took another 300 years or so for the people of Mesopotamia to realize that the wheel could also help them to move things from place to place [source: Gambino].
Wheels evolved in a few stages, beginning with the use of logs as rollers to facilitate transportation and continuing on through the replacement of rollers with wheels that rotate on an axle [source: ThinkQuest]. By 2000 B.C.E., wheeled chariots appear in the archaeological record throughout ancient Egypt. Only by then the wheels had spokes, making them considerably stronger and lighter.
The wheel was probably the most important mechanical invention of all time. Just about all modern mechanical devices use the wheel in some way – cars, buses, bicycles, factory machines, toys, wristwatches, movie reels and more. Not to mention the wheel's continued use for pottery-making and transporting goods by cart -- both of which ancient peoples must have appreciated.
Sure, the wheel was probably a literal lifesaver for ancient humans, but you can't hunt a boar by sticking a wheel in its side, and you'll have a hard time skinning a pelt from a bear by running a wheel over it. As Crocodile Dundee would say, "That's not a knife."
That's why we come to the blade -- and its iterations as an axe, a knife and so on -- as a breakthrough that literally saves the lives of humans. In fact, new research has shown that stone tools like a blade didn't just allow humans to eat better, wear better protective clothing and make for a good fight scene in "West Side Story." It appears that 1.7 million years ago when tools began to be formed by human ancestors, they actually contributed to the evolution of how our hands work [source: Reardon].
Even before that, early humans were using sharp stone flakes and hand axes to hack at meat. An excavation in the Afar region of Ethiopia led anthropologists to declare in 2012 that human ancestors were using butchering tools nearly 3.4 million years ago [source: Viegas].
Let's start with the first breakthrough when it came to human fashion: We lost our fur. Sure, bare skin is all the rage these days, but it wasn't always the style. Researchers now suggest that humans might have developed a less Robin Williams-type look around a million years ago. They propose that early humans were at risk of overheating their brain if they couldn't cool their skin by sweating, a trick that's a lot easier when you're not dealing with tangled, dense fur [source: Connor].
Once we lost our body sweaters, however, we faced a greater risk of exposure to the elements, so we had to put on some clothes. It's hard to determine exactly when humans started wearing coverings; animal pelts don't make good artifacts because they decompose [source: Upton]. (Not to mention that hides were used for shelter and other uses besides clothing.)
So researchers at the University of Florida did something pretty cool. They decided to see when clothing lice split genetically from head lice [source: Toups et al.]. (Did you even know the two were different?) Turns out that 83,000 to 170,000 years ago -- just around an ice age -- clothing lice came into existence, as did, researchers assume, clothes. So for hundreds of thousands of years, we did have a ball running around naked. But clothes, whether pelt or pashmina, have literally saved our lives innumerable times since then [source: Viegas].
Now that we have wheels, blades and clothes, what were early humans to do with all our cool stuff? Just carry it around all day? No. We needed one more breakthrough to make life a little easier, if not actually save human existence. (Also, disclosure: None of those discoveries happened in that order.)
That brings us to shelter. Now, let's not pretend that shelter is a unique breakthrough that only humans discovered. We definitely started off like most animals -- just finding a good place to hide. For our early ancestors, that probably even meant living in nests in trees. Of course, caves and rock outcrops were probably popular choices, too.
As long as 2.6 million years ago, there were signs that early human groups began collecting food and tools to bring them back to certain favorite watering holes or sleeping spots [source: Smithsonian]. About 800,000 years ago, we start seeing fire and hearths added to the mix. But our earliest evidence of a man-made shelter comes from 400,000 year-old postholes and other archaeological evidence in Terra Amata, France [source: Smithsonian]. By building shelters, humans were not as vulnerable to their environment and could survive harsher conditions.
Sewage Disposal
Let's fast-forward to more modern times for our next lifesaving breakthrough. When the British Medical Journal asked a group of experts and readers what the greatest scientific advancement in the last 150 years was, the answer wasn't open-heart surgery or the find-my-phone app on smartphones. Beating out antibiotics and anesthesia, the majority chose advancements in sanitation [source: Katz].
The discovery that proper disposal of urine and feces could save lives wasn't so long ago. It was in Victorian England, where the Thames was glutted with waste and sewage overflowed in the streets, that former journalist and lawyer Edwin Chadwick decided that an ounce of sanitary prevention was certainly worth the cure of typhus, cholera, influenza and many other nasty germs that came with exposure to sewage.
Chadwick drafted plans for hydraulic sewage systems and drainage pumps to remove waste (one of those pathways led directly to the Thames). Of course, proper sewage disposal is still not present globally, and with great consequences: One billion people – 15 percent of the world's population -- still practice open defecation, and 2.4 billion will use unimproved sanitation facilities by the year 2015 [source: WHO/UNICEF].
Water Purification
Speaking of contaminated water, drinking the stuff can lead to a miserable bout of stomach pain and loose bowels, as many of us who've traveled in the developing world can attest. But water-related illnesses do more than just ruin trips. As the World Health Organization reported in 2005, such diseases are the world's leading cause of death, claiming 3.4 million lives annually -- more than war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction combined. Children in impoverished countries, whose immune systems already are weakened by malnutrition and other stresses, are particularly at risk [source: VOA].
It used to be even worse. For centuries, even in developed countries, mysterious, periodic outbreaks of water-borne cholera regularly killed many thousands of people [source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]. During a cholera outbreak in 1854, British scientist John Snow determined that the disease was caused by microorganisms in sewage that contaminated the water supply. Among other pioneering public health ideas, he came up with the suggestion to apply chlorine to the water to kill the microorganisms, and the illness rate plummeted. Since then, additional chemical and filtration technologies have been developed to make our drinking water much safer [source: Lenntech].
We don't know the identity of the experimenter or experimenters in the Acheulian culture in Africa who discovered how to start, control and use fire about 790,000 years ago. But their mastery of rapid oxidation was one of the most important developments that sustained the survival and spread of humanity, according to Nira Alperson-Afil, a member of an Israeli archaeological team that found the earliest evidence of human ability to make and control fire at will [source: Hebrew University of Jerusalem].
The invention equipped early humans with a scary deterrent -- flaming torches -- to protect them and their vulnerable young from predators. It also provided a source of warmth that helped them to survive temperature downturns. In addition, the ability to cook animal flesh and vegetation increased food choices for humans and helped them to avoid malnutrition. Perhaps more than any other invention, fire was the breakthrough that enabled humans to multiply and spread across the planet's surface.
Today, we've progressed beyond gathering around the campfire and gnawing hunks of charred mammoth haunches, but the ability to burn fuel remains a crucial part of our continued existence.
Agricultural Crops
If we didn't have farms to produce food for us, we'd all have to spend much of our time gathering wild plants and stalking animals to survive, the way primitive hunter-gatherers did thousands of years ago. Hunting and gathering isn't necessarily a bad way to go. For example, its inherent flexibility enables humans to use the available resources in a range of habitats efficiently, and it doesn't deplete the ecosystem the way modern civilization does [source: Washington State University]. But it would require us to continually be on the move and limit ourselves to relatively small groups. Contemporary civilization -- from standing militaries to factories to shopping malls -- would be impractical. That's why the development of agriculture is so important to our survival.
Agriculture really is not one, but a series, of scientific and technical breakthroughs -- such as the development of irrigation technologies, and the invention of crop rotation and fertilizers -- that occurred over thousands of years. But it all started when humans figured out how to gather seeds from wild plants, plant and tend them, and harvest them. According to DNA analysis of modern foodstuffs, development of the "founder crops" -- wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, flax and others -- dates back about 9,000 to 10,000 years in southwest Asia [source: Harris].
For most of human history, virtually everyone on the planet faced the risk of dying in epidemics of bacterial diseases that sometimes ravaged multiple continents. One such disease, bubonic plague -- the "Black Death" -- killed an estimated 200 million people in the 14th century alone [source: BBC].
Then, in the late 1920s, a London physician named Dr. Alexander Fleming, who was trying to develop an antibacterial agent, noticed mold that had contaminated a petri dish inhibited the growth of a pathogen he was studying. Fleming published a scientific article on his discovery in 1929, and one of his students, Dr. Cecil Paine, eventually became the first clinician to demonstrate the effectiveness of penicillin, a drug derived from the mold, against bacterial disease in human patients [source: Wong]. Since then, the use of penicillin and other antibiotics has led to reductions in the mortality rate from certain infections like syphilis, septicemia and, of course, bubonic plague [source: Hemminki and Paakkulainen]. Interestingly though, antibiotics can't claim all the credit when it comes to decreased mortality rates in common bacterial diseases. Other breakthroughs on our list, like clean water, have a big role to play, too [source: Hemminki and Paakkulainen].
Food Preservation
The cans of refried beans in your pantry might seem like a humble advance in civilization, but there's a reason civil defense officials advise everyone to keep a supply. The ability to preserve foodstuffs for long periods without refrigeration enables people to survive natural and man-made disasters that disrupt our electrical supply and make it difficult to obtain supplies of fresh food.
Canning was invented in the late 18th century out of military necessity. Napoleon's troops were suffering more casualties from hunger and scurvy, a nutritional deficiency, than they were from combat with the enemy, and the French government offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could develop a method of preserving soldiers' provisions in the field [source: Can Manufacturers Institute]. A Parisian named Nicholas Appert, who had worked variously as a candy maker, chef and beer brewer, came up with the idea of partially cooking food, sealing it in bottles with cork stoppers and then immersing the bottles in boiling water to expel the air inside. He believed the air caused it to spoil. (It would be another half century before Louis Pasteur would discover that heat actually killed the microorganisms that spoiled food and caused illness.)
French soldiers took Appert's samples of poultry, vegetables, gravy and other items along with them when they were sent on an overseas voyage, and they reported that after four months, it remained edible. In 1810, English inventor Peter Durand received a patent for an improved food container, which had a soldered lid instead of a cork. Two years later, two of Durand's countrymen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, opened a factory that put food into metal cans instead of bottles [source: Can Manufacturers Institute].
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I hope your new year is off to a wonderful start! Sarah and I are enjoying a few days visiting family here in Missouri. In fact, we're currently snowed in! Its been a beautiful start to the New Year.
2010 promises to be a landmark year in Homeschool ALUMNIs history. Not only will it be Homeschool ALUMNIs 5th anniversary, but also a rebirth of sorts for the organization.
I wanted to take a moment to share some details about two of the most exciting changes you can expect to see in 2010.
Based on the growing needs of our community and the feedback we've received over the past several years, Elysse, Riley and I are pleased to announce an entirely new online presence for HSA in 2010. We've dubbed this re-launch "HSA 2.0".
This is really the first major upgrade since weve launched in 2005 and were excited to be able to do some things that just werent possible for a fledgling online community 5 years ago.
More details will be forthcoming, but we are pleased to announce that HSA 2.0 is expected to be launched in March of 2010 12 or fewer weeks away!
The National Reunion
The second major area were focusing on is the National Reunion. The National Reunion is our flagship event, and our most eagerly anticipated gathering. The Reunion brings people together in a way no other event or online experience ever has - and yet I feel we've only begun to scratch the surface for what this event can offer the community.
We have realized, however, that while theres something to be said for flying by the seat of ones pants year after year, an event of this size and scope requires more time for planning and preparation than we've ever really taken. So this year we're going to step back and begin preparing, now, for the 2011 Homeschool ALUMNI National Reunion.
Many of you will likely share our disappointment in having to wait a year before the next National Reunion, but we are tremendously excited about how this is going to allow us to continue to serve you in 2011 and beyond.
This chance to step back and build a better Reunion is truly one of the most exciting things we've ever been able to do.
The date and location have already been selected, so mark your calendars now for the next National Reunion on July 21st - 24th, 2011. Update! [January 8th, 2010] The Reunion date has changed... stay tuned to this blog for the new announcement!
If you already know that youd like to contribute to the 2011 Reunion (in any way) please drop us a line and let us know!
5th Anniversary and more to come.
Stay tuned for more about our 5th anniversary, HSA 2.0, the National Reunion, HSA Outreach, and more opportunities to connect with your fellow graduates both on and offline. In the meantime I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a happy new year and thank you for your continued support.
On behalf of all of us here at Homeschool ALUMNI, may the Lord bless and keep you as you serve Him in 2010!
Camden Spiller
Founder / Director,
Homeschool ALUMNI
Looking forward to 2.0.
Just wanted to clarify!
Looking forward to the changes!! Y'all do a great job and I know HSA has changed many lives for the better. Thanks mucho!
Like I said the other night when we were talking about this, Camden, It'll be sad, but it'll help you guys get ahead like you've wanted to. We're all adults now, so time flies faster anyway. It'll probably only seem like one year till July 2011.
I'm looking forward to what is ahead in HSA's future.
Regarding 2.0, however, I am thrilled beyond repair! Can't wait to see it!
Prayers and support to everyone in the leadership at HSA!! You guys are a blessing!
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jeskilsson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Our company is located in Sweden and are distributing signs all over Europe. Our business idea is based of that all our customers themselves designs and custom makes their own sign through our signomatic website.
We welcome both private persons and companies as customers. We do not have a minimum amount you need to buy for. With an efficient handling, from order to production, we are able to give all our customers low prices and fast deliveries.
We want a website that above all is simple and clear for everyone - but at the same time has an attractive design.
Our target is everyone who needs a sign. Both private persons and companies are welcome.
Our target audience is everything from a nurse who wants a new name bagde, a engineer who needs to mark something, a family that needs a new door sign, a company who needs a nice company sign.
Our site is well working - but it needs to be freshened up.
We need to get it more together - under a theme.
We like our logo as it is - but if you have any suggestions how to make it better, you're welcome.
We want a light, simple - less is more - web site
All the buttons needs to be changed - and to make sense together with the design.
We don't want:
- any extreme design with strong/dark colours, animals, cartoons or similar.
1. Home page - keep it simple but renew the design, buttons, etc.
If you want to organize the disposal you're welcome - but not necessary.
2. Example page - a new design that goes with the home page
You're welcome to re arrange this site as well.
The part on the bottom of the page: "No example that fits your need? Design your own badge sign!" - needs to be more visible and easier to find.
- The design of the example signs cannot be changed, they're made from our Signomatic.
3. The signomatic
- new design that goes with the home page
-new buttons
- make the top of the page - with the categories - much more visible,
- you're welcome to re arrange the layout if you have any suggestions how to make it easier - but it's not a requirement.
- Change the "i"' buttons next to the fix methods, to make them easier to find (still not taking too much space)
- Make an help/instruction video button and place it in the right upper corner - so it will be easy for new customers to see it.
home page - http://www.signomatic.co.uk/
example page - http://www.signomatic.co.uk/signs/badge-signs
the signomatic - http://www.signomatic.co.uk/signomatic
http://www.klarna.com - simple and attractive design
http://www.amsigns.com - not like this! tacky and dark.


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It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
It is an annual tradition dating back to a couple years ago: go to the White House Correspondents Dinner and then shit all over it the following Monday. But this year, everyone had fun!
What is it that changed, exactly? It is still a crappy party in a terrible town that glorifies unprofessional friendships between journalists and sources and attracts really questionable celebs. What could possibly have changed this year? Oh, right, that dumb white guy is gone.
In May of 2006, Chris Lehmann wrote a truly wonderful, inspiring piece in the New York Observer that was all about just how much he hated the entire event, top to bottom, brunch to afterparty to following brunch.
High-toned D.C. gatherings such as this one are unfailingly unctuous, one of the many coyly winking moments in political life when every partisan, satrap and commentator on hand is asked to lighten up and affirm the ultimate shared agenda, of merely gaming the system to one's own best short-term advantage.
This year, Lehmann raved about how much fun he had, for The Awl. He has a heart-warming story about Andrew Sullivan's husband! He is amused rather than disgusted by the presence of famous people like Ed Westwick! It is a new day for America!
Could it be that, in the age of Obama the DC-Hollywood glitzeratti –described by Ann Curry, without a note of irony, in a fundraising appeal at the Tammy Haddad brunch that kicks off the weekend's frenetic networking, as "the most powerful people on the planet"-just aren't taking themselves all that seriously? That they're having actual, you know, fun?
Yes, this year it was fine for everyone to just have fun. After Colbert died at the dais in 2006, Rich Little appeared from his cave to bomb in '07, and 2008's Craig Ferguson dinner just seemed to disappear along with the Bush administration and everyone's hatred for the Bush administration, this year's event was basically just a Good Time.
Rachel Sklar had a blast and even defends the "partying with sources" aspect of the evening! And the "charity" part of it, because the dinner is actually a fundraiser to send kids to journalism school, because apparently the White House Correspondents' Association hates kids.
Instead of lengthy screed against DC and everyone in it, this year's Observer recap just makes the night sound like the sort of goofy, nerdy, good time it should be, if you don't have too much invested in it. And: the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair joint party maybe actually sounds like it was, for once, worth it?
Katty Kay grudgingly enjoyed herself! And Jim Newell apparently died!
So, yes, Prom Weekend was the lame, overhyped marathon session of unglamorous people in unglamorous settings that it always is, but this year everyone just realized that you can't complain too much about 48 hours of nonstop open bars.
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6-19-2010 PNC Park
Today would be my first Saturday with batting practice at PNC Park. All of the other days featured rain that wiped out BP.
I ran in just behind Nick Pelescak only to be stopped at the bullpen entrance to the left field bleachers by a security working who refused to allow anyone into the bleachers, despite many of us holding our Season Ticket Holder cards. "We have to scan your tickets," he said nervously as we all glared at him.
In the meantime, three balls flew into the bleachers. I had my eye on one next to the bullpen, but Nick Pelescak put a verbal claim on it, so I would instead look for another ball that hit about three rows in. It paid off.
When the man with the scanner came and finally let us all in, I ran in and found ball #1 in the front row, ball #2 in the front row another section over, and ball #3 in the left field corner.
What a great start!
Ball #4 was a home run hit by Ryan Doumit. It hit in the handicapped seats behind me and popped up in the air, right to me.
Ball #5 was thrown to me by Octavio Dotel. Here he stands and watches another ballhawk use the glove trick.
Game: 9 balls (3 hit, 1 thrown, 5 found)
Season: 243 balls (129 hit, 60 thrown, 22 device, 32 found)
Games: 37 games
Average: 6.57 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 3
Career: 821 balls
Streak: 133 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 38,008


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Abstract: This paper discusses three scenarios concerning China's recent trade negotiations and relations with the United States and the European Union. Chinese commentators and academics are sure that their country 'is firmly on the path of greater integration with the global economy' and that this is 'a path that has provided great benefits for China and for the world in general. However, they are also be well aware of the problems associated with entering a global economy where free trade/level playing field market principles have not ended either agricultural subsidies or import quotas on manufactured goods. Indeed, as argued in this paper, measures taken in the name of neo-liberal free market ideals have, ironically, spawned an ever-growing mass of quotas imposed by the EU and the US on the importation of Chinese clothing, footwear and textiles. Keywords: China, subsidiaries, WTO, USA, EU URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7398
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Short Corner
Extra Time
The Locker Room
Top Flight
Weekend German Action
What's stood out so far in the Copa?
Michael Bradley was bad but maybe that isnt his fault
Should U.S. Soccer bring back the U.S. Cup?
Absolutely. It would be far more competitive than the CONCACAF Nations League.
No. The international calendar is already congested.
Not sure.
CHRISTOPHER MCCOLLUM - Tuesday, June 26, 2012
One of the most demoralizing effects on human beings is the acknowledgment that there is no hope. This word has the power to keep (nearly) everyone on earth going for another day.
The feeling of hope gives something to look forward to; it provides motivation for staying the course and seeing yourself through day after day of life in a mental journey to your eventual dream.
A lack of hope can have grave consequences for individual and group morale, and one only need to listen to the somber tone of President Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech from 1979 to hear what the loss of hope can mean in the face of adversity. Some believe that there can be no future if there is no hope, because there will be no reason to maintain a civilized society without future goals to strive for.
The novel Children of Men by P.D. James shows a good fictional perspective of a world without hope, and it's easy to get caught in the words and accept them as a speculative truth, and perhaps what makes it so easy is the gut instinct that it is a real possibility that without hope, there is no future.
While there may be serious ramifications in the real world, there are also consequences in the sporting world for athletes who have no hope for something better than what they have. The mind of a top-tier athlete is a curious thing; when speaking with Herculez Gomez or Michael Bradley, or watching interviews with Thierry Henry or Wayne Rooney, there are certainly differences between them all and how they conduct themselves, but a common denominator is that there is an obvious, or in Gomez's case a slightly hidden, intimidating aura of competitiveness and the innate desire to succeed.
This is where hope comes into the equation for professional athletes, as the carrot to drive this desire to new heights, taking with it the athlete in question. When there is no hope for something better, does that desire diminish?
Think about it. If a player has accomplished all that he feels he can accomplish, what is left to keep him going? Jurgen Klinsmann and the US National Team enter the picture here, as we bake in the summer heat and begin to turn our eyes towards a particular "friendly" in the Azteca on August 15.
Klinsmann is famous in some circles, infamous in others for the heavy handed approach he took with Brad Guzan and his lack of playing time last year. The brusque suggestion that Guzan get more playing time led the former Chivas USA standout to end his relationship with Aston Villa this summer in order to find playing time elsewhere, in a search that is still ongoing.
Klinsmann seemed to take this approach seriously in some regards, ending the long drought of Gomez appearances with the National Team and giving a call to Michael Parkhurst, fresh off of winning the Danish League. Then Klinsmann seems to renege on this stance by giving caps to Terrence Boyd, who has never seen a minute of first team action, despite being 21-years old.
While Boyd sat in the Under-23 league in Germany, although now moving to Rapid Vienna in Austria should improve his hopes immensely, players like Sacha Kljestan do not get a call at all, unless there's an emergency such as what happened in Italy.
Despite the Kljestan frustrations, his position in the pool is deep and no one in front of him is struggling for playing time. They may not have won a league championship and made it to the Champions League (except in the case of Jermaine Jones), but they are starting players nonetheless, and there is no shame to losing out to them.
The Boyd situation is more bothersome on its face because there are players who are getting significant first team minutes, and more than that, they are producing at a high level. Given the short amount of time that Klinsmann has with his players, and the few opportunities he gets to call them together, there is an obvious limit to whom he can call in, and when he can call them in.
Gomez seemed to be a glaring omission for a very, very long time under both Klinsmann and Bob Bradley before him, but the omission was not so glaring when looking at Gomez's statistical trends. He performed remarkably well when there was little or no opportunity to call him up, and he would slump off on occasion when a National Team camp came around. Finally, earlier this year after a blazing streak of success with Estudiantes Tecos and Santos Laguna, the stars aligned and Klinsmann had a camp at the same time Gomez was performing well. Gomez got the call, and all was right in the world. Or not.
There are others besides Gomez who are not as lucky to get a call. Respect is paid to Chris Wondolowski who lights MLS on fire season after season, and opportunities have been given to Teal Bunbury and Juan Agudelo, but the same sign of respect needs to be given to other players who are performing as well.
Kenny Cooper has benefited greatly from playing alongside Thierry Henry, but there is no denying his scoring touch, as he finds himself second in MLS this season with 11 goals, behind Wondolowski. The curious case of Cooper has been going on for several years now, as the once promising National Team forward lit up MLS with FC Dallas as a 22-year old.
He was able to transition his club success to the National Team, appearing in 10 games and scoring four goals. The goals were not meaningless, either. One was the game winning goal in a World Cup Qualifier against Guatemala, one was a game winning goal in a Gold Cup quarterfinal against Panama, and a third was against Honduras in the Gold Cup semifinal.
A move to Germany saw him appear to be on the path to a quality career, and then an injury hit, and then - nothing. Cooper's well with the National Team appeared to run dry by the time he was only 25-years old, as he has not received a call since. Is the national team's forward pool so deep that it can afford to not call up productive young players? The answer is an obvious no, which begs the question, why won't Klinsmann give him a call?
A similar case is not yet ready to be made for Chris Pontius, Connor O'Brien or Andrew Wooten, but they have the makings of a similar plot. In the case of Cooper, he was clearly a case of a player driven by hope as he returned from Germany to MLS, and failed to make a big impact with the Portland Timbers. Despite his relatively low output, his skill was still there, and the prospect of something bigger and better looming ahead has drawn him back into the top tier of the MLS upon moving to New York.
He is making a strong impact with the Red Bulls, and it stands to reason that he has some impact left to make with the National Team as well. If Klinsmann is going to talk the talk, he needs to walk the walk as well. If he disparages a player for not getting playing time, he should not be calling up others in similar situations ahead of players who are stars on their teams, with stats to back their renown.
Hope is a driving force, and Klinsmann needs to foster that force among American players, to let them know that if they produce, they will get a chance to strive for an athlete's greatest honor: representing their country.
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Sunday July 8, 2012 10:48 pm
Let's see. Boyd is 18, and dangerous Whoever thinks he looked dreadful obviously thinks that Pele once wore a US jersey. As for Pontius, yes, he should be called in. But he shuoldn't replace Boyd, he should replace Wondolowski, who is unstoppable for SJ but misses from 1 yard against Panama.
Sunday July 8, 2012 1:29 pm
whoever said adu is still the most talented should go take a long walk off a short pier. he is the most overpaid player in MLS and should be dropped from philly. get off the freddy train, he is in his 30's now and is no where the player he was when he dominating u17 tournaments at the age of 23
Hugh McDonough
Thursday July 5, 2012 2:17 pm
Will Adam Henley, Seb Hines , Whitebread (he should avoid injuries), Huzeler, Brooks,
wooten, Moreles, Kreissweter, Hoillet ever play for USA ? USA should stop giving away soft goals. Klinnsmann has a trick up his sleeve. USA should not be embarassed because USA lost 0-4 to Spain or USA lost 1-4 to Brazil.
USA will get the last laugh by doing well at World cup 2014 Brazil.
Get more Germamericans to strenghten USA team for future generations.
You can do it USA. Good Luck USA in terms of World Cup 2014
Joe Hamilton
Wednesday July 4, 2012 11:26 pm
@Josh; Lichaj played very well in the 9 games which included scoring a goal against Chelsea. He faced every top team in the Prem except Man City and did well. Who did Edgar Castillo face playing for Tijuana? Tim Ream played very well for Bolton and was their top defender. The team improved after joined them but were their record was already terrible. Norwich had a much lower goals against average when Zac Whitbread played. Several other prem teams are serious considering signing him. These 3 players should be on the USMNT .
Monday July 2, 2012 7:21 pm
So.....Kenny Cooper and Wondo need more playing time? Who else besides Sacha, who is 4th-6th on the depth chart for his position, is not getting a fair shake? Don;t say Lichaj...he played 10 games for the worst team in the EPL over the last 2 months.
We need to find the future, and relying on older strikers aint going to cut it. Cooper probably doesnt have international quality. So let's find the guys that do.
Boyd was obviously included becaseu of his output for the U23's...which is the feeder for the Senior Team. All of those guys...Mix, Morales, Adu, Shea, Agudelo, Gatt and maybe even Kitchen are going to get their runs soon.
Splitting hairs over which MLS players didn't a call is beyond pointless.
See you in January.
Monday July 2, 2012 5:21 am
Good points have already been raised on lackluster Nat Team performances put forth by Klejstan, Wondolowski and others. Maybe one or two of these guys get a shot but I canât see any one of them swaying our performance so much that weâd be willing to sit other guys already coalescing into our WC team. And donât forget, most of the extra space on the camp roster is going to need to be budgeted toward our backline issues.
Klinsmann is building his team. We know heâs a fan of speed and fitness and he saw that in Boyd. Altidore and Gomez arenât built for the role of speedy attackers who can wear down a defense. Davies or Agudelo were on track to be that option. There are a few MLS players who may fit that role but not sure any outclass Boyd who we cap-tie to boot. Nice to have him as an option.
And, BTW, enjoyed the good read. Folks who prefer bite-sized chunks may want to try ESPN. I donât come here for that and you didnât disappoint.
Saturday June 30, 2012 3:12 pm
This is a lot of words to use to say that Kenny Cooper and Chris Wondolowski should get more USMNT playing time. I have no opinion on Wondo, but Kenny Cooper is not USMNT class. I have watched him with the team and he struggled every time. His first touch is bad, he is too slow, and we have at least 3 people who can do what he does better than he does.
And btw Mr. McCollum, Cooper has failed in Europe not once, but twice. He was with ManU as a teenager and failed, then MLS, then to Germany and failed. For some players, MLS is their ceiling. They can perform well in MLS but that is as good as they are ever going to be, and they can't hack it in Europe or on the international stage. Don't criticize JK for recognizing that and not wasting everyone's time.
Thursday June 28, 2012 4:56 pm
Eurofan had a good point. Let's take Klinsman for what he is. He will motivate, encourage attack and open European opportunities for US players. He is not the best tactically. He's not the most consistent with what he says... but he knows the game and what it takes at the highest level.
Team USA for the first time in its history, has enough talent that decisions are less obvious.
Team USA doesn't need to peak now. They just need to grind out results while becoming more dominant playing as a tight unit. (experiment with new players in friendly)
Main criticism of management... Not have a squad with wing options. They don't have to be in the starting 11, but you need them in the camp of 23 and as a selection option.
White Kix
Thursday June 28, 2012 10:43 am
I have been very upset about the Klinsman's hypocrisy as well. The Boyd situation is an obvious one. He has looked dreadful in his appearances with the nats. All we hear is how he scored 20 goals in the fourth division. We might as well call up the leading scorer of the PDL. Boyd's touch is awful. Against Scotland, he had multiple opportunities in the box, but his first touch ruined every one of them. When he came into the the Antigu game, he received the ball seven times, and only one of those did he NOT lose possesion.
The other hypocrisy of Klinsman that I can not stand, is all of his talk about having an attacking, possesion oriented style of play. My main gripe about Bradley was that he insisted on always having two holding midfielders (Even though in the World Cup we were outscored 1-4 when Feilhaber [the one attacking center midfielder on the squad] was on the bench, and outscored our oppents 4-1 when he was on the field). Now Klinsman plays 3 holding midfielders at a time (Bradley, Jones, Edu/Williams). We don't have the players on the field to unlock a defense. We just have more defenders, closer to the opponets goal so they can make a mess of any chance that might fall our way.
Wednesday June 27, 2012 2:44 pm
To be fair we fans do not know everything that is happening within the USSF. JK and his coaches/scouts I'm sure have a comprehensive list of players and a player grading system to help them evaluate where a player ranks within the pool. Said system should take into consideration 1) Strength of League, 2) Strength of Club, 3) Experience, as well as the player specifics...1) Player Position, 2) Player Versitility, 3) Skill, 4) Speed, 5) Age, 6) etc....
Fans, Writers, and Players all need to give a little time to this process....The work being put in now will provide dividends over the next 6 months....but will really provide growth over the years to come.
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With Armageddon only three days away, many questions remain unanswered. Who will JBL's opponent be? Will Batista and Mysterio be tag champions going against Raw title holders Kane and Big Show? And what is Randy Orton's mental state heading into Hell in a Cell? We'll find out soon, on to the report!
Match 1: The Boogey Man vs. Nunzio w/Vito
The Boogey Man starts off the show from Springfield, Massachusetts with a series of trapped headbutts on the FBI member. Boogey has worms coming out of his mouth and is chewing! Before anyone can break a sweat Boogey Man finishes off Nunzio with the Pump Handle Slam. Vito thinks about coming in for the save but backs down once he sees the crazed look in Boogey's eyes. To cap it all off poor Nunzio has worms stuffed in his mouth. Papa Shango 2000 wins again.
WINNER: The Boogey Man
We are taken to the locker room with Cowboy Bob Orton telling Randy to speak with the sports psychologist that he brought with him tonight. Randy walks into the room alone.
After the break Randy is laying on the couch speaking to the sports psychologist, who tells The Legend Killer that his decision to face The Undertaker is one of life or death.
The cameras then switch to Batista getting ready in the dressing room when the lovely Melina walks in. She wants the champ to withdraw from the tag match tonight between himself and Rey vs. MNM, and makes out with him to try and prove her point.
Match 2: Kid Kash vs. Super Crazy w/Juventud and Psicosis
Before the bell Juventud and Psicosis get sent to the back. This one has match of the night potential if it is given some time. Super Crazy start off with some acrobatics taking it to Kash. Kid Kash regains control with a nasty reverse neckbreaker over the top rope. Some miscommunication and almost sloppy spots between the two superstars in the early going. Crazy misses the top rope moonsault, and Kash capitalizes with the brainbuster for the win. After the bell Kash is not finished as he attempts to brainbuster Super Crazy onto a steel chair, before his Mexicool partners run in for the save.
WINNER: Kid Kash
Randy is shown coming out of the psychiatrist's office and tells his dad that he has an announcement to tell everyone tonight.
Cameras go to a shot of Melina putting back on her shirt and confirming with Batista that they have a deal for him not to compete tonight. Batista laughs and says no, but thanks her for the warm-up.
Match 3: Tag Team Championship: MNM (c) vs. Batista and Rey Mysterio
Melina is so upset by being tricked by Batista that she doesn't do her traditional ring entrance, much to the chagrin of Taz and all male wrestling fans. Batista waves and taunts Melina from inside the ring. Rey starts off with Mercury, and the crowd bellows a deafening "Eddie" chant. The smoke from the pyro is not clearing from the ring and there is a fog haze in the arena. Rey is moving so quickly, flipping and flopping all over Joey Mercury. Batista goes for the Batista Bomb on Mercury, but Nitro makes the save with a super kick, temporarily stunning the world champion. Mysterio hits an incredible leaping top rope moonsault to the outside on both Nitro and Mercury. After the commercial break Nitro and Mysterio are trading blows back and forth with Nitro scoring a near fall after a powerbomb. Later on Nitro nails a unique break dancing leg drop onto Mysterio. I've also noticed that to pump up Rey the crowd chants "Eddie" and Mysterio acknowledges the cheers by doing the Eddie shake. Mysterio is on fire in this match with too many manoeuvres to describe, including a reverse hurricarana from the top turnbuckle. The finish comes when Rey hits a double 619 on Nitro and Melina, allowing Batista to drive Mercury into the ground with the Batista Bomb. The world champ now has double gold as he and Mysterio are the new tag team champions. At Armageddon this Sunday it will be the Smackdown tag title holders vs. the Raw tag champs Kane and Big Show.
WINNERS: Batista and Rey Mysterio
Match 4: Bobby Lashley vs. Paul Birchill w/William Regal
These big youngsters are exchanging power moves with Lashley getting the advantage early on. After suplexing Birchill and knocking Regal off the apron, Lashley disposes of the young Englishman in quick fashion with The Dominator. Lashley remains undefeated.
WINNER: Bobby Lashley
Backstage Matt Hardy is being interviewed by Crystal as JBL on crutches interrupts him. The self proclaimed sucker punches Hardy who then tackles and pounds away on JBL until security breaks up the brawl.
Teddy Long is in the psychologist's office with the doctor as Teddy is asking what Randy Orton's mental status is. The doctor calls the Hell in a Cell match barbaric and refuses to tell the Smackdown GM any information on Orton's condition.
Batista and Mysterio celebrate their new championships when a humble Randy Orton congratulates Batista. He says that him and Batista will never know who the best out of the two are and walks away. Batista and Mysterio are confused by Orton's words.
Match 5: Booker T w/Sharmell vs. Matt Hardy
JBL makes his way down to the announcers table to take in this contest. Also, it has just been announced that JBL and Hardy will face off at Armageddon this Sunday. Hardy can really be elevated with a victory over JBL and certainly needs the win more than Bradshaw. Matt Hardy is teeing off on The Book Man and dives over the top rope to the outside. Hardy hits a big leg drop off the top turnbuckle for a near fall and then JBL drags out Hardy and delivers a Clothesline from Hell when Sharmell distracts the referee. Matt is rolled back in as Booker delivers the Scissors Kick for the three count.
WINNER: Booker T
Following a commercial Randy Orton saunters down to the ring and has a very serious look on his head. Orton runs down his career accomplishments and says that at 25 years old he now realizes that no one can kill the legend of The Undertaker. Orton elaborates that Hell in a Cell shortens careers and shocks the crowd that he is announcing his retirement from the WWE. Randy says he wants to go out on top and is killing his own legend by retiring. Teddy Long storms out and says that Orton has a contract to compete and he will sue The Legend Killer for breach of contract. Orton starts to walk up the ramp when the ominous gong of Taker's song hits, and the druids come marching out followed by The Undertaker. Orton begs Taker to leave him alone and says that he is done and retired. All of a sudden one of the druids holds up an urn and removes his hood ... it's Bob Orton! Randy kicks Taker in the groin and RKO's The Dead Man. Taker sits back up but Orton busts him open with numerous hard chair shots. Undertaker is still stirring so Orton strikes him with the urn and this finally keeps The Dead Man down. A bloodied image of The Undertaker is shown as the program goes off the air.
Andy McNamara is a SLAM! Wrestling writer from Pickering, ON. He also writes reports for The LAW and does the play-by-play broadcasts for Durham College sports. He asks: Do you think Matt Hardy will get his well deserved push at Armageddon or remain buried and main eventing Velocity? Andy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The court has erred on gun rights before, the error unnoted. Scalia decreed in Heller that "felons and 'the' mentally ill" may not legally possess firearms. As entertained as we are by "the" mentally ill, it has no legal definition. It is broad caricature. Who among "the" mentally ill may not is the issue, and it is a discrete group, those whom a court of law designates as a danger to themselves or others because of a mental illness.
When Obama made his gaffe about the Special Olympics on the Tonight show, their advocates reached him before he reached his car. When Rahm Emanuel made his similar gaffe, the response from advocates he deprecated was immediate. To date no mental health advocate or advocacy has addressed Scalia's error. No legal scholar has, and no law professor.
Why? We, every aspect of this society, continue to be entertained by this specific caricature.
Do lawyers really believe a "the" mentally ill exists? Do law professors? Do legal scholars? Journalists? They do, or their silence would not be so deafening. Do I? My voice is too small to be heard, but no, the caricature is offensive.
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Santorum: Don't forget social issues
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Friday that running for president is "something that comes to mind every now and then" but urged his fellow conservatives to not give up on social issues.
During a speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Santorum sharply pushed back against critics who say Republicans should stay away from those issues in future campaigns.
"I say, you know you guys aren't thinking through this very clearly. You're not thinking through the consequences of throwing overboard all these unpopular social issues," Santorum said. "I don't know about you, but as a leader I'm not there to follow the polls, I'm here to shape the polls."
Santorum's presidential campaign for the Republican nomination in the last election became an easy target for liberal voters who disapproved of his conservative positions on social issues. Since the 2012 election, some voices within the Republican Party have urged potential candidates to focus on fiscal issues and economic growth instead of social issues.
"Ladies and gentlemen we are engaged in the battle for the heart and soul of America. And we need to be better and smarter about how we communicate our message," he added. "Do not back away one inch from what we believe in."


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Goodbye, 2012. You were a pretty good year.
New Year's Eve has always been a bittersweet event for me. I remain a creature of possibility. A hard, fast ending that involves a countdown followed by a melancholy tune rhetorically questioning if we should forgot the days that have gone by can reduce me to tears as I realize all that could have been won't be. At least not this year. But then, poof, here comes 365 days of possibility, wonder, amazement. You can't turn down a fresh start.
I've become a little more fluid in my thinking these days and have recognized possibilities and fresh starts are available almost any time or place, but it still feels good to demarcate the beginning and ending of 52 weeks. It makes it easier to look back and say things like, "That was the year my youngest son started school;" "That was the year my oldest son grew taller than me;" "That was the year I began to feel like if I put in the time and effort, I could really become a musician;" "That was that year I felt my life had come together and I became aware and amazed by how much love and beauty surrounds me."
Actually I would never say that last sentence because it's a little too New Age-y for me. One cannot thrive on the power of failure and fully embrace the positive affirmation. It seems to me positive affirmations are tossed around far too willy-nilly these days anyway, and often I sense there is a less than positive subtext beneath. In my cynical little blackened heart I feel that the much touted "I'm so blessed" Facebook status update translates into: "My life is soooo much better than yours." Seriously, if Mother Theresa were alive and on Facebook she wouldn't be posting how freakin' blessed she is every 15 minutes! Get over yourselves, people! You're trying too hard, and I'm pretty sure all those pictures of your family have been heavily retouched!
Ahem. I feel better now. But this does bring me to the obligatory list of New Year's Resolution. My first resolution is to limit my Facebook time to one session per day (and preferably a session that lasts no more than 5 hours) or at the very least,to figure out how to turn off the status updates of the Facebook friends who annoy me. Beyond that, I should work on my self confidence, but then I realize I would never be able to do that, I just don't have that kind of strength of character. So instead I have resolved to take up a bunch of low level bad habits (like not flossing twice a day or biting my nails) and then next year I can resolve to stop doing those things, which should be fairly easy to accomplish, thereby boosting my sense of self worth. Sometimes you have to look at the big picture with these resolutions. My final resolution is to have the mess from my New Year's Eve party cleaned up by next New Year's Eve.
Seriously though, I'm looking forward to a lot in 2013, including working on my second CD, playing music with the Debora Iyall Group (DIG for short), perhaps continuing a side project with my friend Pauli Gray, and of course spending lots of time with my kids who are growing up way faster than I thought possible.
For those of you who have stopped in and read my entries in 2012, thanks so much for reading. Hope you have a great 2013!


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The January issue of Research magazine offers cutting-edge advice on communicating with clients and prospects, and assesses the tough election-year political climate facing the financial services industry.
"The Power of Words," the cover story by Jane Wollman Rusoff, draws on the thinking of communication experts Raphael Lapin, Michael Maslansky and Frank Luntz, among others, to aid financial advisors in navigating conversations with current and prospective clients. "Advisors," warns Lapin, "may be the experts in technical financial jargon, but they still aren't the experts in working with and managing clients on a human level."
Choose your words carefully, the experts advise. For instance, in Luntz's view, "imagine" is a powerful word that helps people consider not only their goals but how an advisor can help achieve them. No less important than knowing what to say is knowing how to listen. "Pick up on something the client says or their body language," Luntz suggests.
Political Monitor, a column analyzing national trends and issues of particular relevance to financial advisors, debuts with "Target: Wall Street," an analysis of the implications of public disgruntlement with the financial sector, including the Occupy Wall Street movement. Other topics covered in the issue range from helping clients deal with health care costs to how a medieval mathematician helped shape modern retirement planning.
Click through the following slides to preview the January issue of Research.
In this cover story, Contributing Editor Jane Wollman Rusoff taps the knowledge of leading consultants on communications to explore the crucial role of language and conversation in getting and retaining clients.
"The specific words you use, as well as your look, body language and tone of voice combine to create a perception as someone clients can or cannot trust," writes Rusoff.
The experts she talks with include Frank Luntz, the noted political analyst; Michael Maslansky, Luntz's former partner, who consults for financial institutions and other clients; and Raphael Lapin, Harvard-trained communications expert and contributor to Research magazine.
Careful communication is notably important in dealing with an irate client. "You need to do some very good active listening and acknowledge what they're upset about — but without agreeing with them," says Lapin. "Understand and empathize: stand over to their side and walk along with them so there are limits to how much they can continue pushing. Don't speak condescendingly. Ask clarifying questions. Eventually, the negative energy will dissipate, and you can bring the discussion back to problem-solving."
Political Monitor, a new column, debuts with an assessment by Senior Editor Kenneth Silber of the political ramifications of current popular discontent with the financial services industry.
"The question," writes Silber, "is not whether the financial industry will encounter a volatile and difficult political climate this election year. The question is just how tough that climate will be."
The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised the visibility of public disgruntlement with the financial sector. However, by late autumn, polls showed eroding support for the movement. Looking at an agenda sketched out by Kalle Lasn and Micah White, editors of the magazine Adbusters and key figures in getting the Occupy movement started, Silber questions whether measures such as a financial transactions tax are likely to win broad support.
Still, disgruntlement toward Wall Street stretches across the politcal spectrum. One idea that might gain backers on left and right, Silber contends, was sketched out by GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman: to downsize the largest financial institutions to remove their Too Big To Fail status. For financial advisors, such a policy would mean the shakeout in the industry becomes even more intense, with layoffs at the biggest firms and a scramble for assets elsewhere.
Health Care Is the New Wealth Care
Contributing Editor Ellen Uzelac reports on a trend among innovative advisors to develop expertise, either in-house or outsourced, to help clients grapple with Medicare and health costs in general.
This subject has become increasingly pressing as the oldest baby boomers have moved into retirement age. "Health care expenses in retirement can run hundreds of thousands of dollars — not exactly pocket change," writes Uzelac.
As Adam Koos, president of Libertas Wealth Management Group in Dublin, Ohio, observes: "Five years ago, I'd be the one bringing it up in conversation as we talk about expenses. Now, I find clients are bringing it up before we even get to that line item. There's a sense of urgency around this that didn't exist before."
Accordingly, advisors have become increasingly involved in matters such as helping clients vet retirement communities and pick insurance plans. That can mean collecting health information about clients so as to help them make decisions. For example, if a client has a family history of cancer, an advisor who knows that can steer that person away from an insurance policy that has a high deductible for chemotherapy.
Writer Gerald Burstyn pulls together evidence supporting what many intuitively believe: that markets have become more volatile.
Moreover, he takes a wide-ranging look at strategies for dealing with such choppy markets. These include managed futures funds arbitrage, commodity trend indexes and stakes in currencies and real estate.
For example, Less Antman, founder of Simply Rich, a financial planning and asset management firm in California, suggests using commodity trend indexes as a hedge against volatility and weakness in the equity market.
Bob Southward, investment industry veteran and principal at Greenrock Research, advises clients to focus their equity holdings on dividend-paying stocks, reduce bond allocations and consider alternative investments such as a managed futures fund.
"The water is turbulent," writes Burstyn. "Swim at your own risk."
Adapted from Moshe Milevsky's new book The 7 Most Important Equations for Your Retirement, the January Annuity Analytics column focuses on the extraordinary achievement of the medieval mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in developing techniques that are still relevant centuries later to solving complicated questions involving interest rates.
For example, Fibonacci presented the puzzle of a business traveler who doubles his money in a couple of towns before returning home while also spending a set amount in each place. "With a little bit of imagination," writes Milevsky, "you can translate Fibonacci's 800 year-old traveler into a modern day retiree who starts retirement with an unknown sum of money."
As Milevsky explains, "Fibonacci's genius was that he broke-down complicated compound interest calculations — taking place across different periods of time — by bringing the cash flows all back to one focal point in time and manipulating those values on the same date. He eliminated the messy time dimension."
Sales Seminar columnist Bill Good extracts key lessons from his annual Best Practices survey. His number crunching highlights the practices of "Winners" who have more than $200 million in assets under management, and those of "Not Winners" who have been advisors for a decade-plus yet have less than $50 million in AUM.
One lesson Good propounds is that the type of firm matters, as an advisor is more likely to reach a goal of $200 million AUM at a large national firm. Another is that having a solid support team matters, as advisors who fail to build up staff at an early stage are unlikely to generate a lot of assets later.
Another lesson is one that runs against much current thinking. "Hardly the day goes by that I don't hear that advisors should limit the size of their books. The usual number is 100 families," writes Good. His numbers suggest that having a large clientele is an important method for building up AUM. Over half of his Winners have 300 clients or more. Exhorts Good: "Never stop prospecting!"
Closing Bell columnist Bill Miller lets his mind wander through the lonely side of life as a financial advisor. When a wholesaler buddy of his announces a move to become a rep, Miller wonders if his friend knows the full implications.
"Here's a guy who, as a wholesaler, was never in an office for more than an hour at a time, and now he's going to sit in an office all day long? Who's buying him lunch every day?" the contemplative columnist wonders.
Miller remembers his own time as an advisor in a small Ohio town: "I finally understood why I went to lunch with any wholesaler who would drive down Route 67. I am secure enough in my manhood to admit, 20 plus years later, I had no idea what any of them were talking about. It just beat sitting around the office all day by myself."
View the complete table of contents for the January issue of Research.


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Frankfort >> The Mohawk Valley Blues Society presents its third blues festival on June 29 at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds. Gates open
at 11 a.m. and music runs from noon to 11 p.m.
Featured are guitar great Jimmy Thackery (former Nighthawk), Chicago soul-blues singer Tad Robinson, and nationally renowned harmonica aces Dennis Gruenling with Steve Guyger, plus MVBS's Tas Cru and his Band of Tortured Souls, Double Barrel Blues Band, Buffalo blues diva Patti Parks and the Women in Blues Revue, plus the Mohawk Valley Blues All-Stars.
There will be food and beverage vendors on site; no outside food or beverages are allowed inside the concert venue. Camping is available, including access to water and electric service, for $20/person per night. Campers must see fairgrounds personnel to check in and pay for their stay.
The festival will go on rain or shine, and a portion of the main viewing area is covered.
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(CNN) - Newt Gingrich predicted Tuesday that rival Mitt Romney will be one of the final remaining candidates in the Republican presidential contest, but that it's Gingrich's responsibility to provide a set of solutions to those still uncommitted.
Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said there's a "big opportunity for an alternative candidate," given that Romney has not attracted more than 25% support in most national and statewide polls of current candidates.
"My job I think is to reach out to the 75 or 80% who aren't currently committed to Romney and to say here's a set of solutions that would actually get us back on the right track," Gingrich told ABC News.
While Romney's poll numbers have largely plateaued, Gingrich has seen his numbers rise after his campaign was dogged by controversy throughout the summer.
If his solution-based plan succeeds, Gingrich said Romney will be forced to stop his momentum.
"I'm not worried about stopping Romney," Gingrich said. "I'm worried about reaching that 75 to 80% who aren't currently committed to him."
In an interview Tuesday with CNN's Piers Morgan, Gingrich equated his plight to an Aesop fable: "The bunny rabbit runs by and falls asleep. The tortoise just keeps coming," Gingrich said. "So hopefully in this game, Mitt Romney will be the bunny rabbit and I'll be the tortoise. That would all work out perfectly."
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Obama is a failure, has to go. Gingrich has the correct approach to increasing the wealth of those in the middle class and poverty pockets. Obama just wants to party, and his wife wants to outdo the last black Queen, Cleopatra.
Newt the philanderer doesn't have a chance in H-ll of being the GOP candidate.This guy left such a bad taste in Americas taste and memory that he couldn't win a position of dog catcher if he was the only one running for that position. I do not believe that Ginghrich likes or would vote for himself.
The Dems would have a field day with all the Newt baggage.
@Mindie from Indie...you mean Barack "Goldman Sachs" Obama....the guy has raised more money from Wall Street than anybody in history...don't kid yourself
Either one leaves a lot to be desired if you want the USA returned to 'health'.
How quickly the Christian conservatives forget about Newt's philandering ways. If this guy will lie to his wife, he'll lie to you. We fell for his shtick in '94 and he accomplished nothing. Why would 17 years change anything?
I can't understand how anyone could say Obama makes sense in 2012. What about his Presidency has made sense? Please explain that to me? If you believe the markets are in recovery mode you are kidding yourself. The market will correct itself once we get Obama out of office along with his horrible policies.
I don't know why anyone wants to push The Prrsident out of office. He has just begun to change our country. If we change Presidents now the present system can be saved. No one can really want to keep our country as it is.
Let's be like Europe. We will all be broke, but we will be rid of those nasty old Rich People
Hey, Mindie from Indie, guess who got more money from Wall Street in 2008 than all the other candidates combined – Obama! Look it up! Get informed!
Mindie from Indie wrote: ""and you're work for the rich and corporate. No thank you. I'll stick with Obama.""" Mindie, are you completely disconnected from reality? Obama has received far more money from Wall Street. Some of you never cease to amaze me
Oh, by all means... Go Obama. Liver of the little guy and Bain of corporations like GE, Merrill Lynch and billionairs like Warren Buffet
Yah. Oharvard is a real regular guy's guy
Mindie from Indie..Obama is the corperate man..Solyndra, Goldman Sachs and on..follow the money. You've been duped.
Use your head Mr. tortoise dont use your legs like the circus clown king
Wish this was over by now. Politics and the struggle for power.
Gingrich is the most prepared candidate i've seen in decades. Hopefully his substantive policy platform will win out over the type of moronic group think from most of the idiots of the internet
Obama lovers are the best.
For those interested in polls ...
Obama has a 54% disapproval rating ... only 45% approve (Rasmussen). Sunday's polls had Romney up +1 over Obama (ABC/Washington Post). Friday had Obama and Romney tied (USA Today/Gallup).
How Obama isn't running away from everyone is beyond me. Such a complete and total failure.
Don't get dressed, Newt because you won't be invited to that party.
More like a Newt and the Snake !
He will beat obama in any debate-
Newt Gingrich has never been challenged in a debate , he couldn't stand the heat of factual dialogue !
ITo be accurate the other candidates are the hair, rising and falling and Mitt is the Tortoise. He's steady at around 25: Not going up and not going down.
No Newt, you are a slimy lying disgusting fatbody and Mitt is a lying, boot-licking weasel. You insult Tortises and Hares everywhere, please stop.
What ugly comments. Prepare to lose. Big.
I can see the CNN crowd is the predictable Obama Kool-Aid drinking Marx Lite bunch. Hey, who needs free markets when everything will be given to us for "free"?
If Cain is brought down, Gingrich will be the only viable Tea Party candidate (relatively speaking when compared to Romney) left standing. Gingrich of course has personal baggage, but I doubt if Republicans or Independents will care. This next month is going to be very interesting.
Gingrich is a political genious who would be a great President if elected.


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SmartLinc is an affordable and flexible web-based controller perfect for controlling light bulbs, wall switches, lamps or appliances, thermostat and many more INSTEON devices. SmartLinc integrates INSTEON technology with any web-enabled device, allowing you to setup and control INSTEON devices from inside your home, in the backyard, at work, in the car or on vacation halfway around the world!
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Garbage.worked for a while then stopped responding. Horrific web interface. Ethernet is very sketchy. Android app locks up when trying to authenticate. Currently dim and brighten work using moblinc but not on or off. Spent way too many hours on this junk ...will wait for nest to develop something and replace.
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According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus continues to rise.
Type 2 diabetes results from an impairment of the bodys system to use insulin, known as insulin resistance, which leads to elevated and potentially toxic levels of sugar in the bloodstream. While there are many factors influencing risk for this disease, including family history of the illness, the rising prevalence seems related to the obesity epidemic in the United States.
Present statistics suggest that nearly 26 million Americans suffer from Type 2 diabetes and that nearly one-fourth of these remain undiagnosed.
The symptoms of diabetes mellitus include tiredness, vision blurring, excessive thirst and urination (including nighttime urination), weight loss and frequent infections. Because the factors lead to diabetes develop over time, many suffer abnormal blood sugar without obvious symptoms.
Recent changes in clinical recommendations have made the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus easier. Often all that is required is a simple non-fasting blood test called hemoglobin A1c that measures recent average blood-sugar levels. For those with risk factors such as obesity or family history of the disease, screening permits early diagnosis and may enhance treatment options.
Evidence now exists to support the understanding that insulin resistance exists well in advance of the onset of Type 2 diabetes. The disease process often takes years to manifest as various mechanisms exist initially to compensate for insulin resistance while maintaining normal or near-normal blood-sugar levels.
The recognition that minor blood-sugar abnormalities may precede the onset of diabetes by several years has resulted in criteria for diagnosing so-called pre-diabetic conditions known as impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance.
People with pre-diabetes constitute the group with highest risk for developing diabetes, as these conditions represent a step in the direction of the disease.
The good news from studies such as the Finnish diabetes prevention study and the U.S. diabetes prevention program is that the progression to Type 2 diabetes mellitus can be delayed or possibly prevented through lifestyle modification. This reinforces the importance of screening and early detection among those at highest risk.
People with pre-diabetes may be able to reduce their risk by almost 60 percent during three years through a program of intensive lifestyle modification. There is some evidence that a common and safe diabetes medication, known as metformin, may contribute to diabetes prevention when combined with lifestyle changes.
The most beneficial lifestyle changes combine weight-loss goals with important dietary and exercise habits. Moderate physical activity at least 150 minutes weekly is advised. Dietary changes including a reduction in total daily caloric intake as well as reduction in consumption of concentrated sweets and fats are geared toward the goal of a 7 percent average weight loss. This is often best accomplished through referral to a structured diabetes-prevention program.
People at the highest risk for developing Type 2 diabetes mellitus, such as those with pre-diabetes, should be screened yearly for the disease.
Dr. Matthew A. Clark is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and pediatrics practicing at the Ute Mountain Ute Health Center in Towaoc.