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A conversation with Bucs president Coonelly
MLB.com sat down for an exclusive conversation with Frank Coonelly, president of the Pittsburgh Pirates, between games of the National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
MLB.com: Thanks for taking the time for this sit-down, at what must be an extremely busy time for you.
MLB.com sat down for an exclusive conversation with Frank Coonelly, president of the Pittsburgh Pirates, between games of the National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
MLB.com: Thanks for taking the time for this sit-down, at what must be an extremely busy time for you.
Frank Coonelly: My pleasure.
MLB.com: Whether you've had any interaction the last week with executives of other teams, or walked into a room of dignitaries, are you holding your head a little bit higher, speaking with a voice a little bit firmer?
Coonelly: The reaction from others around baseball is certainly different, but I've held my head high from the time I got here. I'm very proud of Pittsburgh, proud to be from Pittsburgh, proud to be a member of an organization with such a rich history. So my reaction is certainly the same, but you certainly get different accolades from your colleagues.
MLB.com: When you awaken these mornings, do you ever do so with the first thought, "Wow, this is really happening?"
Coonelly: I did Tuesday, I will tell you that. From my career at the Commissioner's Office, I had the good fortune to go to many postseason baseball games, and saw a lot of great crowds ... I never saw anything like I saw Tuesday night here in Pittsburgh.
MLB.com: A matter about a specific player, because he has been so instrumental in the team's success: Francisco Liriano. When that whole issue was in limbo, during the two months between the broken right arm that voided his original deal to when a renegotiated deal was struck, as general manager Neal Huntington tried to work it out, did you ever say, "Hey, Neal, let it go. Let's go somewhere else"?
Coonelly: No. We were intent on bringing Francisco here to Pittsburgh. We understood that once he had the arm issue, the original contract wouldn't work, and once that was cleared, Francisco had other options to pursue with other clubs. There was no contractual obligation to Pittsburgh, and we had none to him. But we wanted him here for all the same reasons we wanted him originally, so we were very intent on bringing Francisco in, while recognizing he had other options.
But we're thrilled that he decided he wanted to be in Pittsburgh. Obviously, he rehabbed extraordinarily hard and got himself back much quicker (May 11) than I think anybody expected, and obviously he's been a difference-maker. He's been a big-game pitcher. He's stopped some losing streaks, kept some winning streaks going. Then he had that outstanding outing in the Wild Card Game.
MLB.com: I've been at some public forums where you, Neal and assistant GM Kyle Stark got a lot of criticism. And people weren't shy about letting you have it in person. How do you not have a sense of, "Ah-ha! How about now?" in you?
Coonelly: I don't. Because this was never a personal journey. If it had been, maybe there would be some of those thoughts. But from the beginning, from day one, this was a collective journey, and for us ... we believed in us, and the plan and the process. And obviously are very grateful that Bob Nutting, the owner, agreed as well that while we finished in a very disappointing fashion last year, the team and the plan were the right ones to go forward.
MLB.com: Was it difficult, after the second consecutive season did not end the way you wanted it, to stay the course and not make any drastic revisions?
Coonelly: It was very difficult going through those two finishes, for sure. We needed to learn from them -- how we could do better, how we could finish strong. But in terms of staying the course -- no, we believed in who we were, what we were about, and where we were going.
MLB.com: Everybody always talks about getting here being one thing, but sustaining a competitive level is more challenging. As you look at the makeup of the team, do you feel secure about the future?
Coonelly: We feel good about where we are and where we are going. As we approached the Trade Deadline the last several years, there were times when some of the players who we think will be large pieces for us in the future were players other teams wanted in trades. We were willing to give up good prospects, this year in particular, but we had finally built up a deep farm system, and we needed to keep the players who will be major contributors to the Pittsburgh Pirates, because this is so much fun, we don't want to do it just one year. We want to have a consistent winner.
MLB.com: It's an ideal situation: You have a team that won 94 games, is in the postseason, and your farm system is consistently ranked among the top six, seven in Major League Baseball. A perfect dynamic, is it not?
Coonelly: It's a good combination. But as the history of baseball shows, year in and year out, you take nothing for granted. The fact we're in it this year doesn't guarantee us anything next year. We start from scratch. As soon as this season is over -- and we hope it's not until we're almost into November -- we need to get to work on next year, because nothing is given you in this game.
MLB.com: Hardball question. You have a couple of core players whose contract situations are coming up in the short term: Neil Walker and Pedro Alvarez. Is there any interest in, have there been any conversations about, Andrew McCutchen-type deals with these players (the Pirates center fielder signed a six-year contract in February 2012)?
Coonelly: Both Neil and Pedro will be eligible for arbitration -- Neil for the second time, he was eligible last year as a Super Two player, Pedro this year for the first time. They'll both be members of the Pittsburgh Pirates for the next three years, if nothing happens in terms of long-term arrangements. There have been discussions in the past with Neil, and I suspect we'll have those discussions again, and we look forward to keeping them as key members of the organization.
MLB.com: There are always attempts to define the difference between big-market and smaller-market teams. I imagine team stability and the challenge of keeping players such as them are the prime differences between market sizes?
Coonelly: We know that while we did well in the free-agent market this year, bringing in Russell Martin and Francisco Liriano, that's not where we're going to build a championship-caliber organization. It's by drafting and signing players, and developing them in our system and then keeping those core players as long as we possibly can. So that's certainly been part of the plan from the very outset. And will continue to be for us to be successful.
MLB.com: Are you able to truly enjoy what's happening now? Because you do have so many commitments, and you have to be in so many different places, do you have time to revel in it and enjoy it?
Coonelly: Not revel ... but enjoy. It's a lot of fun. It beats the preparation for the offseason beginning a month earlier. We don't mind waiting a month to begin the preparation for next year.
MLB.com: Thanks very much. We appreciate the time.
Coonelly: My pleasure.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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In what feels like their 50th Sunday morning matinee game of the season, the Knicks defeated the hapless Phoenix Suns 106-99. Basically the game went like this. The Knicks started well, then Phoenix came back at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Knicks blew out the Suns 35-22 and went into halftime with a comfortable 17 point lead. New York's second half defense was pitiful and the Suns had a 30 point third quarter. Luckily for the Knicks, the Suns defense is horrible and the Knicks also had a 30 point quarter. In the 4th, the Knicks defense was bad and the Knicks offense was bad and when your offense is bad and your defense is bad, you usually don't play very well. Phoenix beat the Knicks 27-17 in the 4th, but the Knicks were able to hang on at the end and escape with a 7 point Knick lead.
Here are my notez from the game:
- Rasheed Wallace played 85 seconds in this game before he got a pair of technical fouls on the same play and got ejected. It was infuriating, but also really funny. Here is the hilarity:
- Also infuriating and really not so hilarious was JR Smith today. For some reason Woodson played Smith 37 minutes tonight despite the fact that he shot 1/11. Either Smith was drunk, didn't sleep or both, because he was horrifically bad. Clearly he couldn't shoot and he didn't make up for it with passing, rebounding or defense. Woodson seemed to forget about his whole accountability spiel, as he usually does with JR, because there wasn't really a good reason why he should've been in the game.
- Ray Felton gets the game ball today. He scored 23 points on an efficient 10/17 shooting and dished 7 assists. This was probably Felton's best game of the season, at least statistically. While he did some things that usually make me hit myself in the face, such as pulling up for long twos, he did play a really good game. He hit his open threes, shooting 3/6, and as I mentioned he hit his jump shots. I thought Felton did a good job keeping the offense in rhythm and he only turned the ball over once today. Good job Duck!
- Melo was cool beans today. The box score reads 34 points on 11/27 shooting, but I thought he played better than 11/27 shooting. Let me explain. A few of those shot attempts were misses in which he grabbed his own board and put it back up. I believe he scored twice on those and I know Tyson put one of his attempts back. Yes, they're still misses but he was attacking the rim and the Knicks were still getting points out of it. One shot was as the shot clock ran down and he had no choice but to take a silly shot. I would've liked to see him attack more and I think he shot too many jump shots, but that is what happens when he plays small forward as he did for much of the game. He didn't have the driving lanes and space down low that he usually does and so he settled for more jump shots. Either way, he played well on offense. I know he is shooting 44% on downtown this year and he hit 4/10 in this game, but I think ten threes is way too many.
- Tyson Chandler has bounced back quite nicely from his early season struggles. He played another great game, scoring 15 points on 6/8 shooting and grabbing 13 boards. Chandler is now shooting 71% on the season, including 81.1% over the past five games. Stay being awesome, Tyson!
- Novak was 4/9 from downtown. He too has bounced back from his early season struggles and it has been great to see. One shot in particular stood out to me as Novak was smothered but was able to quickly catch and shoot a three and stroked it. This stands out to me because it was a glimpse of what Novak was trying to accomplish by quickening his release. Miami totally shut Novak down in the playoffs last year and he deemed he needed a quicker release to help prevent teams from taking him completely out of the game. His release has caused him some problems this year, but those problems seem to be disappearing and Novak has shot well lately.
- The Michael Beasley 'hilarious play' count was just 2 today, mainly because he only played 21 minutes. He threw the ball out of bounds and then threw his headband into the stands and then he had a really egregious travel. Either way, he was fun in his limited minutes today.
- I watched the game on TV here in Arizona, and at one point the Suns broadcaster said Shannon Brown is a mini Kobe Bryant. I couldn't really figure that one out.
- New York's defense wasn't very good today. They allowed Phoenix to have an eFG% of 53% and gave up an 110 offensive efficiency to the Suns. I don't know how much you can take from Sunday morning games without Jason Kidd and Sheed, so I won't look too much into this. The defense has been consistently average lately, but I don't want to put too much into today's game.
This was a game the Knicks would've lost last season. They almost blew a big lead in the 4th quarter, but in winning time they were able to bear down and get the win. The Knicks are now 7-0 at Madison Square Garden, which is cool beans. New York plays Charlotte on Wednesday. Have a good day everyone!
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sideline Money, Sideline Docs.
But there is something no one is talking about, and that's the 'sideline doctors'. Every single physician in this country is watching this election with keen interest. For many it will be the deciding factor in whether they practice to retirement or they retire early and cut back on work (under Obamacare).
Academic physicians are the only ones I have met who are consistently FOR Obamacare. The ones who will be honest with me are scary statists, and I would dearly love to punch them in the nose. It is, I think, the only thing they would understand.
So just like with investments, real estate, and finance in general, medicine also has TONS of it's resources now 'on the sidelines'. Hard to plan for the future when you don't know what the rules will be. Hard to start a practice, much less build one, when you aren't sure what Obamacare will mean to your bottom line. Hard to commit to the hardest profession in the world when it might mean that you work for a government flunkie (with a G.E.D.) reading from a manual, and lecturing you about compassion and diversity. Again, punching in the face seems one's only option here and doctors are averse, as a rule, to going to re-education camps.
In all seriousness. If Romney wins and Obamacare is scrapped then I predict the following.
1. The impending doctor shortage will be averted by physicians choosing to continue practice, or return to practice. Also, applications to medical schools will boom.
2. Research and development of new treatments and drugs will take off.
3. Many who are now choosing to become Physician Assistants may reconsider and go to medical school.
4. The left will have a seizure.
Because of # 4 above and because there is a large portion (20% ?) of citizens and illegal aliens who will continue to favor beer, cigarettes, and cell phones over health insurance, I think Romney will have to replace it with something.
But that something, while it will no doubt have it's problems, will not turn the great American health care system into the N.H.S., or Brazil.
Go Mitt
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Had a first year Med Student in my "Office" the other day.ReplyDelete
We talked about 1st year experiences, Gross Anatomy, the White Coat, being called Doctor, Pawning your TV for gas money...
Just kidding.
We didn't get white coats until THIRD year.
And then I gave him $30 for his shitty 32 inch Vizeo, which corrected for inflation, is less than I got for my shitty 19 inch Magnavox.
And as he drove off, I spotted the "O" bumper sticker, and thought to myself.
"Dammit, I should have only gave him $20"
Frank "thats DR Shylock" Drackman
- Anonymous7:52 PM, November 04, 2012
Hmm, I seem to have a problem finding my really tiny violin. I swear it was around here somewhere....ReplyDelete
Sorry, but medicine is hardly the "hardest profession in the world". Your training isn't that much harder or longer than PhD programs, pretty much guarantees work at completion (unlike those other fields), and pays really well compared to those other fields. If you want a specific example, think Chemistry.
Second, there is no doctor shortage. We have plenty of doctors. There are shortages of certain types of doctors and doctors in certain areas.
Third, if you want more doctors, there is no shortage of students applying to medical school (see the stats). However, I don't see those schools accepting more students (unlike the vet and pharmacy schools).
Don't give me the excuse that there are no "slots" or that the government won't pay for it. You don't get to complain about government interference and then demand money from it without being called a hypocrite. After all, if there is a shortage and it isn't being filled by the market, maybe there really isn't one of either.
I doubt doctors will do anything other than whine. It's a pretty good gig. Not as good as it used to be but still quite good. And in the end, the only way to reduce costs in the system is to reduce unneeded use of the system. Less use of the system means less income for everyone. That includes doctors. I would have thought this was obvious.
- Anonymous12:40 PM, November 05, 2012
Do us all a favor....when you need a doctor.....be sure to ask for a PhD in chemistry.....it is all the same to you ...right?????
- Anonymous7:08 PM, November 05, 2012
Anon 12:40 please retire that old saw. And depending on some of the docs I know, I might fare better with the PhD in chemistry.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:40 PM, November 07, 2012
- Anonymous9:27 AM, November 09, 2012
Anonymous. 3:40 PMReplyDelete
Whining by whom? Just curious as to the vague reference.
- Anonymous8:42 AM, November 10, 2012
Anon 3:40, listening to the docs whine about how terrible their jobs are, how hard it is, how they can't make any money, the patients are terrible, ad nauseum.ReplyDelete
It just is surprising to me how naive people were going into medicine. It's like a minister who is just shocked he has a congregation of sinners. Correct me if I'm wrong but an average ER salary of $250, 000 is not a bad compensation.
And , yes, Ocare is uncharted waters. But move forward. The present system isn't working.
Just so you know, I am an a nurse and my father was a doc.
The " Go Mitt" really slayed me. This from a man who said we have a healthcare system delivery in place...just go to the ER. The very thing that drives you guys nuts.
I just don't get it.
- Anonymous7:08 PM, November 10, 2012
Thought salaries were not that high anymore....can any docs give ballpark salary lines that are happening today? Salaries before taxes. ThanksReplyDelete
That's great I am also looking for some instruction for sideline docs and finally I got this article which helps me to rich my knowledge about sideline docs. Thanks for this post.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:00 AM, November 21, 2012
I don't have anything to say, just wanted to join the crowd with an anonymous comment with no real content. ;)ReplyDelete
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On Jan. 3, the night of the Iowa caucuses, ABC political reporter Jake Tapper appeared on Nightline from Des Moines, where he reported live on Mike Huckabee's surprise victory.
Afterward, he caught an overnight flight on the Hucka-plane to New Hampshire, where, around dawn, he filed a story for Good Morning America.
That evening, he was back in front of the cameras yet again, this time from Henniker, N.H., reporting on Mr. Huckabee for ABC World News With Charles Gibson.
"It was pretty nuts," said Mr. Tapper.
But evidence suggests that Mr. Tapper's recent flurry of productivity was no fluke. According to a new study, of all the hyper-driven personalities reporting on network nightly news, Mr. Tapper is quantitatively the least likely to lollygag.
The Tyndall Report—a Web site that encyclopedically chronicles the weekday nightly newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC—recently published its annual year in review, including a study of the "Top 20 Most Heavily-Used Reporters" (anchors excluded) of 2007. The results?
Mr. Tapper triumphed. Over the past year, the 38-year-old reporter scored more airtime (231 minutes) than any other network correspondent, including blue-chip regulars such as NBC's Andrea Mitchell (220 minutes) and CBS' David Martin (217 minutes). Most impressively, Mr. Tapper pulled out a narrow—upset!—victory over NBC's robo-newsman, David Gregory (230 minutes), who practically owns the Tyndall Top 20, having finished No. 1 in two of the past three years.
Mr. Tapper had never previously landed in the top 10. How did he do it?
On Friday evening, we caught up with Mr. Tapper, who was briefly back home in Washington, D.C. He said he was enjoying time with his 5-month-old daughter, Alice, and preparing to ….
NYTV interrupted. Mr. Tapper had topped Mr. Gregory (and David Martin and Martha Raddatz and Pete Williams and Lara Logan and David Muir) during a year in which he became a first-time father? "My wife, Jennifer, gets a lot of the credit," said Mr. Tapper.
He downplayed his professional achievement. "I attribute Mr. Tyndall's finding to the fact that it's been such a huge political year," he said. "The bottom line is that I am a political geek."
But the ranks of network news chasers are well populated with political newshounds. What sets Mr. Tapper apart?
In search of a Just-So story, we called David Carr of The New York Times. Roughly a decade ago, in the early days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Mr. Carr, then the editor of the Washington City Paper, published a freelance cover story by Mr. Tapper under the infamous banner headline "I Dated Monica Lewinsky." Afterward, Mr. Carr gave Mr. Tapper his first full-time job in journalism.
Regarding Mr. Tapper's prolific output and rapid ascent to the upper echelon of the news-gathering business, Mr. Carr offered a theory. "The dude is relentless," said Mr. Carr.
According to Mr. Carr, as a staff writer for City Paper, Mr. Tapper's filing appetites quickly outstripped the paper's ability to process his copy. "If he worked for Tony Soprano," said Mr. Carr, "he'd be called an earner."
"A lot of these people who are productivity machines are not collegial," added Mr. Carr. "They're just tyrants when it comes to the craft of journalism. He has none of that. He will always help you when you call. I don't think ambition precisely describes what's going on with him. He's got whatever editors look for in terms of a combination of personal neediness and endless, bottomless curiosity that tends to result in a lot of stories, many of them good."
Despite The Observer's best efforts on Friday night, Mr. Tapper refused to gloat.
"There's a line in Broadcast News—what do you do when all your dreams are realized? And Albert Brooks says, 'Keep it to yourself,'" said Mr. Tapper. "That's kind of what I'm living right now."
NBC's Nevada Nailbiter: Last-Minute Court Battle With Dennis Kucinich
On the morning of Friday, Jan. 11, Steven Cobble, a political strategist for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, received a phone call from Chuck Todd, the director of politics for NBC.
Mr. Todd had some bad news. He explained that Mr. Kucinich was no longer welcome to participate in the MSNBC Democratic debate, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas. The invitation was off.


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Idaho bill would require students to read 'Atlas Shrugged'
In a symbolic move to teach "personal responsibility," an Idaho lawmaker has proposed requiring every high school student in the state to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."
State Sen. John Goedde introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require Idaho secondary students to read and pass an examination on the iconic 1957 novel touted by conservatives like Rep. Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh.
The lawmaker, though, says the bill is meant more as a statement than an actual proposed policy. Goedde, in a statement to FoxNews.com, said media outlets have thus far "totally missed the point" of the bill — he described the bill as a protest to a state Board of Education decision to roll back online class requirements.
"Traditionally in Idaho, the State Board of Education sets graduation requirements in rule," Goedde wrote in an email Thursday. "They recently repealed a rule dealing with online class requirements and failed to move another rule forward dealing with administrators demonstrating proficiency in evaluating teachers. I felt both were important and wanted to remind them that the legislature could also set graduation standards."
The "Atlas Shrugged" requirement, Goedde said, was simply a vehicle to deliver that message. He said he has "no intention" of establishing this requirement.
Still, the bill was formally introduced Tuesday.
The bill reads: "The student shall obtain a passing grade on the examination in order to satisfy the graduation requirement provided for in this section. Such examination shall be approved by the state department of education."
When asked by state Sen. Bob Nonini why he chose that particular book, Goedde reportedly replied to laughter before the state's Senate Education Committee: "That book made my son a Republican."
Goedde told The Spokesman-Review the legislation was merely a "shot over their bow" to indicate other ways to adopt high school graduation requirements.
The book — Rand's fourth and final novel — is touted as her masterwork and explores her "unique vision of existence and of man's highest purpose and potential in life," according to the California-based Ayn Rand Institute (ARI).
Yaron Brook, ARI's executive director, said it's not the job of lawmakers to dictate what high school students read.
"However, every student in America would benefit from reading Atlas Shrugged," Brook said in a statement to FoxNews.com. "Not only does the book explain, in economic, political and philosophical terms, the challenges facing this country, but it also shows what's required to restore the ideals of the Founding Fathers. Atlas Shrugged is not a Republican or conservative book, but an American book: a hymn to the ideals of individualism, capitalism, and the free human mind."


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Kyle Smith is the developer of the Debt Bomb application for mobile devices. We posted an item on the app when it was released this past spring. Developer Kyle Smith now writes to let us know that he has just updated the app:
Thank you so much to those who downloaded Debt Bomb when I released it last spring. For those who are unfamiliar with Debt Bomb, it is an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app that allows users to input basic demographic information about a household. The app then produces projections of how much more that household would have to pay in taxes if the federal government were to forgo spending cuts and resort to tax increases to stabilize the debt or balance the budget. As you can imagine, the results are sobering.
One of the suggestions I received when I initially released Debt Bomb was to improve its model by accounting for the dynamic effects of tax increases. Version 1.0 assumes "static effects," just like the Congressional Budget Office does when it makes long-term deficit projections. In short, static effects mean that taxpayers do not change their behavior in response to higher tax rates. We know intuitively that this is unrealistic, so in light of this issue and the current debate in the presidential election over America's fiscal troubles, I have created an update to Debt Bomb. The app's input page now has an "Advanced" option that allows the user to specify to what degree taxpayers would respond to higher tax rates.
You will probably want to maximize your Roth IRA contributions after seeing the updated app's results.
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In this series of reports, Investment Advisor columnist and psychotherapist Olivia Mellan and financial behavior specialist Kol Birke of Commonwealth Financial Network address some common scenarios that advisors face in getting their clients to follow through on their advice. This advice for advisors flowed out of a web seminar hosted by Investment Advisor and ThinkAdvisor editor Jamie Green late last year.
When clients run into problems because they didn't follow your advice, they may be able to recover if they're still earning income. It can be a bigger problem, however, if they're in retirement with a limited pot of money.
Scenario 5: Overspending Retirees
Jamie Green: A client couple has finally entered retirement, and you've carefully planned for their withdrawals. However, the couple's spending is far higher than you planned.
Their requests for special outlays—to buy a boat for themselves, then a car for a grandchild just graduating from college—worry you because their portfolio is shrinking faster than you planned, plus it's become an administrative nightmare for your staff. What should you do?
Olivia Mellan: It's very important to meet with a couple together—and, if they have any bad will or any kind of power imbalance, possibly separately as well—to revisit their goals and assess whether they're positioned to meet those goals.
I sometimes ask a couple to agree on the time frame for their short-, medium- and long-term goals, then go off separately and list their own personal, couples and family goals several times to see which ones they can really trust. Last, they look at each other's final goals and try to harmonize the two lists. If clients are spending money more quickly than you thought they would, I think this is a good exercise to see how aligned they are.
Also, you need to take time to bond with them and empathize with what they want to do with their money. It doesn't help just to say, "Listen, you really can't afford to do this." They won't listen to you, and if either one of them is a spender, that person will feel very rebellious and resentful and probably won't take your advice. But if you really bond with what they want, and see what the underlying need is—do they have an underlying need to support their grandkid, for instance?—then you can try to suggest other scenarios. Could they support him in a more affordable way than buying him a car?
After sufficient listening and patience, you can brainstorm with them about what they will do if they don't have adequate funds to meet all their goals.
I would highly recommend my friend Dorian Mintzer and Roberta Taylor's book, "The Couple's Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Transitioning to the Second Half of Life." I think this resource can help couples flesh out their vision in a way that is more realistic and has better will behind it.
Kol Birke: I love what Olivia said, especially in terms of digging into what clients care about.
In a negotiation class I took years ago, the biggest thing that stuck with me is the difference between "interests" and "positions." For example, a position might be "I want to pay for my kids' college." But there are interests driving this position, such as wanting to support the children's future. Once you figure out what the client's interests are, you can potentially find a new position that might work almost just as well or maybe even better without putting them in financial peril.
That said, in many of these situations you can get away without as much conversation by simply reframing. Let's say these clients have $1 million in their portfolio and they need to be drawing income from it for the rest of their lives. Whether you use a bucket approach or a simple 4% withdrawal rate from that portfolio, let's say they'll need $800,000 to support their lifetime income needs. The remaining $200,000 becomes their discretionary fund.
So if the wedding for their kids goes from $10,000 to $20,000, instead of them thinking, "Oh, what's another $10,000 against a million dollars?", they're now comparing that extra $10,000 against $200,000, which is the only discretionary money they'll have for the rest of their lives. So now they'll tend to be more careful.
Whether you actually create a separate account, which is what Minnesota-based financial advisor Jonathan Guyton does, or you just describe it to them as a separate pool of money, this approach tends to have a really nice impact. And it gives them choices. If they start to run down that $200,000 too quickly, you can say, "No problem. As we've discussed, $800,000 should be able to provide you about $2,500 a month to cover your expenses. If you'd like to move some of that $800,000 to your discretionary fund, we can adjust the $2,500 a month down. It's your choice."
By framing it nicely with this separate $200,000, as Jonathan Guyton suggests, it puts the decision in the clients' hands. "Over the course of your life you can make whatever decisions you want, whether it's a vacation, a new car that you hadn't planned for or whatever else. You can use your money for anything." This tends to be a nice, practical approach to curb clients' overspending in retirement.
Read the original Investment Advisor column and the entire series of scenarios.


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Handmade jewellery from That Vintage, by Tasmanian designer & artist Sophie Hill. Ive had my eye on one of Sophie's birdie brooches...
Handmade jewellery from That Vintage, by Tasmanian designer & artist Sophie Hill.
Ive had my eye on one of Sophie's birdie brooches ever since my sister did an ESTY swap with her last year.
Sophie's Feather Brooch was also featured in the latest issue Frankie Magazine!!
LINK: That Vintage ETSY
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it's lovely jewelry!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year Liss! Wishing you the very best in 2010!
Thanks for the link. Tasmania produces the best artists. Happy New Year to you. xxReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, January 01, 2010
the feather brooch is really cute!ReplyDelete
beautiful jewelry and happy new year xoxoReplyDelete
Love the jewelryReplyDelete
Happy New Year
those are so lovely! happy new year!ReplyDelete
xo katherine aka. urban flea :)
they're so cute! love them!ReplyDelete
love jewelry:)ReplyDelete
happy new year.
absolutely beautiful!ReplyDelete
happy new year.
the birds are so sweet!ReplyDelete
Thankyoooou so much for the lovely mention :o)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year! x
I love that it's all wooden! I thought there was a layer of plastic, but no!ReplyDelete
Oh, and happy new year!
très beaux bijoux et très bien porté on ne se lasse pas de ces belles photos Happy new yearReplyDelete


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The Pentagon revealed today that some partial, incinerated remains of 9/11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill.
The Pentagon revealed today that some partial, incinerated remains of 9/11 victims that could not be identified were sent to a landfill.
The number of victims involved was unclear, but the report said the remains were from people killed when a terrorist-hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon, killing 184 people, and another crashed in Shanksville, Pa., killing 40, in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
There was no indication that remains from the attack on the World Trade Center in New York were involved.
The report was by an independent committee that had been asked to examine practices at the military's mortuary at Dover, Del., the first stopping point for fallen troops coming home from war overseas.
The panel was formed after an investigation last November revealed "gross mismanagement" at the Dover facility and found that body parts had been lost on two occasions. After that investigation, news reports revealed that some cremated partial remains of at least 274 American war dead were dumped in a Virginia landfill until a policy change halted the practice in 2008.
Tuesday's report was explaining the old policy, which, it said, "began shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, when several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pa., crash site could not be tested or identified."
The partial remains were cremated, then given to a biomedical waste disposal contractor who put the remains in containers and incinerated those. The residual matter was then taken to a landfill, the report said.
"We don't think it should have happened," the committee chairman, retired Gen. John Abizaid, told a Pentagon news conference called to release the Dover report.
It was unclear whether families of the 9/11 victims were aware remains had gone to contractors and then to the landfill. In the case of the war dead, officials previously said that the remains were given to contractors only in cases where families had already buried their loved ones and had informed the military that they did not want to be told if additional remains were later found.
Such a development was not uncommon as the wars wore on in Iraq and Afghanistan, where bombs were the main insurgent weapon.
In the case of 9/11 victims, some remains from the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed, were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the first anniversary of the attacks. Three caskets of unidentified remains from the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field in Shanksville, Pa., were buried there last September.


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Last edited by rexoe; December 25th, 2011 at 19:33.
I have no Problem with the old pack.
The new pack are .Dat
PJ 1.6 will not load it.
I will testit with Glide and Rice, no way. :-(
Could somebody please upload the OOT textures to some other website because megaupload is blocked where i live. Thanks
How do you get the texture packs too work with PJ64 1.7? Can't really understand where to put the files.
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One of the menu screens to seems to not load on my computer. What are other people's settings on Glide64 plugin?
Last edited by ChaoDrake; December 25th, 2011 at 15:57.
newest Glide64 plug-in. I did have a similar problem, but unchecking "Alternative CRC calculation" fixed the problem with some textures not loading.
Edit: I checked this exact screen and I do have the same texture not loading regardless of the settings mentioned above.
Last edited by rizz768; December 25th, 2011 at 15:57.
Can anyone hier post a Step by Step Tutorial?
My pj1.6 will not load this pack.
I have the folder hires_texture i have the newest Glide Plug in.
I dont know what i should do, to load this pack. :-(
- Go into your Texture enhancement options and enable ""Save texture cache to hard disk" and "Use alpha channel fully"
Last edited by rizz768; December 25th, 2011 at 17:33.
I have Create a folder Cache in the Plugin Folder.
I have enable Save Texture to Hard Disk.
PJ1.6 is checked als Admin.
But they will not load the new pack. :-(