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Griffin donates $12,500 for first FGCU football scholarship
Florida Gulf Coast University will have a football team one day, says one of its most ardent supporters, and there's no time to waste.
Ben Hill Griffin III on Wednesday said he donated $12,500 to create the school's first-ever football scholarship, hoping to spur other Southwest Florida football fans to do the same.
By Wednesday afternoon, someone had already pledged another $1,000, increasing the scholarship to $13,500, Griffin said.
"We've got two supporters now and looking for many more," Griffin said.
FGCU President Wilson Bradshaw and Griffin flirted with the idea of building a football stadium at FGCU's Foundation meeting Wednesday morning. In front of about 40 faculty members and FGCU big-wigs, the two briefly discussed the scholarship.
Griffin told Bradshaw he may soon have his first football team.
"Now I just have to find the first football players," Bradshaw said.
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida, also known as The Swamp, was named after Griffin III's father, a longtime UF benefactor.
"Why wait? Let's get started," Griffin told the Daily News on Wednesday.
"Webber College International has a football team, and they don't have 2,000 students. We have 13,000 students, heading to 15,000. We don't have to have a football stadium to start with. There's plenty of football stadiums around to start with."
Webber International University in Central Florida, east of Tampa, has fewer than 1,000 students enrolled and added a football program in 2002.
Ave Maria University in Collier County, which also has fewer than 1,000 students, added a football program in 2011.
Two years ago, Carr Sports Associates Inc. presented a study that cast doubt on the chances of FGCU starting a football program in the near future. According to the study, it would cost FGCU more than $100 million to begin a scholarship Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) program.
The study also said the program would operate at a loss of about $4.8 million per year. The report, led by former University of Florida athletic director Bill Carr, went on to say a football program isn't financilaly feasible.
The study stipulated that construction of a 15,000-seat stadium, with two practice fields, parking and support service facilities, would be around $90 million.
Wednesday, Griffin advocated starting the program first.
"We can start small," he said. "We've been trying to start at too high a level."
Griffin actually donated a total of $25,000 to FGCU on Wednesday, with the other $12,500 going toward a business scholarship for the Scott Lutgert Business College.
"It's an endowment," said Ken Kavanagh, FGCU athletic director, of the football scholarship.
Griffin pointed to the success of other FGCU athletic teams, including the women's basketball team — the reigning Atlantic Sun Conference champs — and baseball team, which produced Chicago White Sox pitcher Chris Sale, who is among the best hurlers in all of Major League Baseball.
"There's no reason to expect we'd have anything less for football," he said. "And a football program would just make us a complete sports university."
Waiting up to a decade for a football team to take the field is too long, Griffin said. And there's no reason to think small in terms of the competition, he said, especially with the football talent produced in Southwest Florida high school programs.
"I see it as Florida Gulf Coast being able to compete with the University of Florida, (University of) South Florida, (University of) Central Florida," he said. "I can't see why we can't be in that same league."
Sports writer Dana Caldwell and Eagle News staff writer Kalhan Rosenblatt contributed to this story.
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Ford SYNC Has Integrated 911 and GPS
Ford has integrated the SYNC system with 911 for emergency assistance that also identifies a vehicles location. The cool thing about this is that the service is free and with the new and improved 911 Assist you can expect better accuracy, all you need is a Bluetooth enabled phone.
This service is very attractive especially since the OnStar product has a subscription model. One might certainly jump to conclusions though, if they are giving it away for free does that mean I'll be advertised to in some way while in my vehicle?
I'm not going to speculate but cars have an enormous opportunity to guide people to a transaction, whether it be a carry out order called in or any time saving or preorder type scenarios.
Its really going to be interesting to watch as these manufacturers start integrating technology and which ones are careful not to try and advertise or bother people with such things.
"Unlike competitive offerings that require customers to subscribe and pay a monthly fee for such accident assistance, Ford 911 Assist remains a nonsubscription-based, no-cost feature of the SYNC system that uses a customer's existing mobile phone. The fee-free service is available in both the U.S. and Canada.
When the feature is turned on and a phone is Bluetooth-paired to SYNC, 911 Assist can make a call directly to a local emergency operator in the event of an accident involving the activation of an airbag or emergency fuel pump shutoff. With the GPS capabilities, the system is designed to not only alert the operator that a crash has occurred in a Ford vehicle, but to give the operator the option to retrieve the vehicle's GPS coordinates. The call is fast, direct, and doesn't involve a separate call center or intermediary." Read More at TheFordStory…
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text: Ever since we came across the matte-black Porsche 930 from tuner Rauh-Welt Begriff at the '09 Tokyo Auto Salon (et 7/09), we scrambled to get the story. The car became an overnight sensation online and people were hungry for information. Judging by your emails, most of you were equally as curious but we bided our time until we could get a little more information on the company. The problem is, the reclusive owner speaks no English and hides from the spotlight. As a result, several stories have been written yet little is known. What we do know is that the small tuning shop has a big following. It specializes in transforming older Porsche 930 and 964 models into the craziest widebody cars imaginable, reminiscent of the mid-'70s Porsche 934 prepared for Group 4 endurance GT racing. This was perhaps the pinnacle of 911 racing, where Porsche swept all before it, winning championships worldwide. These were also the cars that encapsulated the classic coke-bottle shape of the widebody Turbo cars that became the wall posters for generations of schoolboys. Stunning pair of RWB 964 Carrera 2 in 997 GT3 RS colors By rekindling the menace of these GT racers, Akira Nakai has achieved cult status for himself and his company. The machines he produces are instantly recognizable for their outrageous aerodynamics and bold colors that run the gauntlet from matte-black, through pastels to the bold orange and green you see here. No two cars are exactly the same, with owner's giving each a unique personality. Nakai-san remembers the moment he fell in love with speed. It was while watching an American movie aged 7. He saw a car tail-slide around a corner and it stirred something inside. The building RWB has occupied for 20 years creating automotive legends Movies like the original Gone in 60 Seconds and The Cannonball Run brought images of the Eleanor Mustang and Lamborghini Countach into the young boy's head. As a result, he now sleeps in the same workshop where he creates these amazing machines, claiming that waking up to the sight of his 911 inspires him for the rest of the day. The company was formed about 20 years ago in the building he still occupies. It's where customers become family and where he has become comfortable. The name Rauh-Welt Begriff is German and one of those interesting Japanese contrivances that doesn't translate directly into English. However, "rauh" means "rough" and "welt" means "world". This represents the way Nakai likes to drive his Porsches, "in a rough style," according to our translator. It also reflects the world he has shaped, where he does not seek perfection in his creations. Unlike most tuners, Nakai-san sees the flaws in each car as part of its character; the same way most of us view older cars, where the ritual of repairing faulty wiring or cajoling a stubborn starter motor brings you closer to the car. As a result, he builds the cars with rivets, tape and zipties, ignoring imperfections in search of the car's soul. For clarification, "begriff" is also German and translates into "concept" or "idea". We're told Nakai-san selected it "because he liked how it sounded with Rauh-Welt," and so the Rough-World Concept was born. All RWB conversions use SSR wheels 930 Even 20 years ago, Nakai preferred the older Porsche 911 models such as the legendary 930 (1974-89). So this is what he first drove and what he continues to drive today. And although the 930 was the first production car to use turbo technology, he rates the naturally-aspirated models over the legendary 911 Turbo, which established the 911 as the first modern supercar. His own matte-black 930 in our photos has a 3.8-liter motor on carbs to retain that period feel and the need for constant maintenance. It wears RWB's own 930 Racing widebody kit, as well as RWB suspension and massive SSR wheels in the same matte-black. Fitted with a full rollcage, racing seats and sliding windows, the interior is a web of loose wires for racing switches and gauges. With its bare floors, roof and doors, the owner could undoubtedly have created a tidier finish but wanted to remain true to his Rough World status. All RWB cars are dual-purpose; built for the street and track. "Neither is more or less important," we were told. However, his greatest inspiration is from driving on the street. "When he catches his car's reflection in a shop window, that's when he sees the car showcased." This response caught us off guard. Conventional wisdom suggests this sort of widebody conversion is dedicated to hardcore motorsport, but Akira Nakai's honesty is disarming. He simply loves the way the cars look. In addition to his own parts, RWB also incorporates genuine Porsche parts, as well as tuning parts from the US. Nakai-san talked of his respect for the renowned European tuners such as Ruf, Gemballa, etc but doesn't appear to work with them. 964 The stunning green and orange 964 ('89-94) models in our photos are two customer cars. "I made the green Porsche for Toshiya Ichiraku," Nakai told us. Nakai-san prefers NA engines, running this 3.8L motor on carbs "He wanted to build a car like the latest 997 GT3 RS with his 964. And after I made that one, Mr Makabe liked it so we painted his '90 Carrera 2 in the GT3 RS orange!" Both cars wear the Rauh-Welt 964 widebody and RWB suspension with 18'' SSR wheels. However, Toshi's green '93 Carrera 2 has race-spec dampers along with a carbon interior and gold SSR wheels - these are 18x10''front, 18x12'' rear with 265/35 and 295/35 Bridgestone tires, respectively. Akira Nakai's matte-black "Stella Artois" 930 has become both the company's signature and wall poster for thousands of grown-up boys Akira Nakai's matte-black "Stella Artois" 930 has become both the company's signature and Although built for the track, Toshi uses the car as a daily-driver, preferring to take his wife to dinner or pick up his kids from school in the Viper green 964. "I built it for a Hollywood movie," he confided. "I would love to see an RWB Porsche in a movie, so I made this green 911 for that. I also wanted to make the older model look cooler than the 997 GT3 RS," he explained, and we think he's succeeded with that wish... Toshi has known Nakai-san since they raced Porsches together in 1990, and he still has an RWB 930 for the track. They became friends and Toshi is now trying to help Rauh-Welt grow. So we asked him about the top Porsche tuners in Japan, and Toshi claimed RWB is undoubtedly best for bodywork. We also asked whether it was difficult to own a Porsche in Japan, surrounded by so many cheaper domestic options. His answer was typically and mysteriously Japanese: "It's not easy to own one of these cars, but if you are a real man, you can do it. There is no word for it in Samurai..." It isn't pretty, but that's how RWB likes it Despite creating some of the coolest Euros on the planet, Nakai-san will work on other cars. Yet when he started drifting in a Toyota Corolla AE86 he painted it the same olive color as the awesome Ruf 911 BTR to maintain the Porsche connection. He lives and breathes Porsche, and is keen to expand his horizons, even offering to travel to any country where a customer wants to recreate one of his RWB Porsches. He also indicated he was particularly keen to tackle the latest 997 model. If nothing else, Rauh-Welt Begriff proves there's plenty of life in the older, cooler 911 models. 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World Champion Sebastian Vettel makes a stunning comeback at the controversial Bahrain GP. Here are some assorted pictures that tell the tale of the weekend at Sakhir.
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Using a forward genetics ENU mutagenesis screen for recessive mutations that affect circadian rhythmicity in the mouse, we isolated a long period (approximately 26 hr) circadian mutant named Overtime (Ovtm). Positional cloning and genetic complementation reveal that Ovtm is encoded by the F-box protein FBXL3, a component of the SKP1-CUL1-F-box-protein (SCF) E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. The Ovtm mutation causes an isoleucine to threonine (I364T) substitution leading to a loss of function in FBXL3, which interacts specifically with the CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) proteins. In Ovtm mice, expression of the PERIOD proteins PER1 and PER2 is reduced; however, the CRY proteins CRY1 and CRY2 are unchanged. The loss of FBXL3 function leads to a stabilization of the CRY proteins, which in turn leads to a global transcriptional repression of the Per and Cry genes. Thus, Fbxl3(Ovtm) defines a molecular link between CRY turnover and CLOCK/BMAL1-dependent circadian transcription to modulate circadian period.
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Which Personal-Finance Magazine is Best?
Published on - September 22nd, 2008 (by J.D. Roth)
Beth wrote recently looking for help:
I'm a public library worker, and my library needs personal finance advice!
We feel strongly that we need to keep a personal finance magazine in circulation, but the ones we've subscribed to in the past have been met with the deafening silence of complete disinterest. We've had Money for a year with no checkouts; before that, we had Fortune for two years with no checkouts. We're thinking about replacing Money, but really, with such an overwhelming lack of response, we need to make a compelling argument to management to keep this subject heading at all.
The library is in a poor, historically working-class county with a lot of minimum-wage workers, retirees and near retirees, so the general level of knowledge is pretty low. We need a magazine that will appeal to people looking for very basic information. Is there something on the market — maybe between a home economy mag and a traditional finance mag — that might appeal more to this group of users?
This is a great question, and comes at the perfect time. I've been grousing to Kris lately about how out-of-touch the Big Three personal finance magazines can be. They write too much about buying Hot Stocks Now (which I call financial porn), and not enough about saving money at the grocery store. Both are important parts of personal finance, but guess which one we deal with more every day?
Last year I reviewed a handful of personal finance magazines. Here are updated reviews, including evaluations of several additional titles.
Money ($20 for 12 issues a year)
Based on conversations with Get Rich Slowly readers and other financial bloggers, it would seem Money is the reigning champion of personal-finance magazines. I like it, but it's not my favorite. I feel like it's too investing-centric, and that it has a tendency to go for sensationalist headlines. Still, over the last year, I've grown to appreciate Money for articles like these:
- Take charge of your health care (April 2008)
- Life without plastic (July 2008), a story about families who don't use credit cards. (By Donna Rosato, one of my favorite money writers.)
- 21 good things to do in a bad market (September 2008)
Money has big-name financial writers and slick production values. Though this magazine seems to be targeted at those just beginning to take control of their financial lives, I learn something from each issue. Most Money articles are easy to find on-line a few weeks after publication.
Smart Money ($12 for 12 issues a year)
I don't care for Smart Money. It's the weakest of the publications in this article. For one thing, it's not targeted at the average person. It's targeted at people who have a lot of money and are willing to spend it. Each issue includes articles like:
- Luxury trips for less (July 2008 cover story)
- How to find great bargains on golf club memberships (July 2008) — you can pay just $55,000 for a $200,000 membership!
- The write stuff, a guide to $500+ fountain pens (September 2008)
- Each issue features a car review (usually for a luxury vehicle)
Smart Money is especially bad at hyping stocks and mutual funds, and the magazine's once insightful "10 things X won't tell you" feature is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ten things museums won't tell you? Ten things celebrity chefs won't tell you? Celebrity chefs? Time to pack that feature in, folks.
I'll renew my subscription to this, but only because (a) it's cheap and (b) I write a blog about money.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance ($12 for 12 issues a year)
Kiplinger's doesn't get a lot of respect, which puzzles me. Many finance bloggers consider it the weakest of the Big Three, but I like it. I find the content down-to-earth and accessible. The articles are varied and go beyond just investing:
- Your essential financial toolkit (May 2008) is easily my favorite article in any personal-finance magazine this year
- How to avoid sneaky fees (July 2008)
- How to beat high prices (August 2008)
- Catch up on your retirement savings (September 2008)
Kiplinger's certainly isn't perfect. Like Money and Smart Money, it cannot resist articles like "the biggest and best funds to own now!" In fact, the most recent issue (September 2008) contains nineteen pages ranking mutual funds. As an index fund investor, this sort of thing is worthless to me. I actually think it's worthless to most investors. Most of the time, however, Kiplinger's does a good job of tackling a variety of topics.
The AAII Journal ($45 for 10 issues a year)
If you've decided that you'd like to be an active investor, your top magazine choice is probably the AAII Journal from the American Association of Individual Investors. This 36-page publication is not for novices, however. Its content is often technical and it's geared toward picking individual stocks. Still, the AAII Journal contains some of the best articles on investing that I've read.
The AAII web site allows you to freely sample the "best of" the AAII Journal. Examples of recent topics from the magazine include:
- What graduates need to know about making financial decisions (January 2008)
- The role of diversification in an individual stock portfolio (April 2008)
- The market and the media: Turn it on, but tune it out (May 2008) — the basis for my article about why it pays to ignore financial news
- Optimizing retirement income: What works and why (August 2008)
The AAII Journal is excellent, and I recommend it without hesitation to those interested in an active approach to investing or for those craving thoughtful in-depth articles on the subject. The downsides? This magazine isn't for novices and it's expensive.
(The American Association of Individual Investors also publishes the bi-monthly 28-page Computerized Investing, which is all about various computer programs and web sites for investors. This magazine is mostly useless to me.)
Consumer Reports ($26 for 12 issues a year)
For my money, the best personal finance magazine available in the United States is Consumer Reports, the venerable publication from the non-profit Consumers Union. Most people are aware that Consumer Reports publishes detailed ratings of various product classes (the best kitchen faucets, the best televisions, the best macaroni and cheese, etc.), but each issues also contains other tips for managing your money.
Recent topics covered include:
- How to buy and sell a home
- How to protect yourself from identity theft
- When to buy organic produce
- How to boost your credit score
- And, of course, the credit card jungle article I've linked to four times this week
The online version of Consumer Reports includes all of the magazine's content and more. It costs $26, the same as the print subscription. However, it costs $45 to subscribe to both. Some of the web site's content is available for free, but the selection seems random. There are a variety of Consumer Reports blogs that offer free content, however.
Consumers Union publishes several other magazines, including:
- ShopSmart ($23/year) is like a "hip" Consumer Reports aimed at women in their twenties and thirties. Though each issue features articles like "Lip color that lasts" (June/July 2008) or "The perfect bra" (April/May 2008), most of the articles offer great tips for women and men. Because most personal-finance magazines seem to be male-oriented, I'm happy to see something targeted at women. I find ShopSmart's content to top-notch and accessible. That last point makes it a great choice for the average person.
- Consumer Reports Money Adviser ($29/year) is a monthly 16-page newsletter focused on saving and investing. Money Adviser features solid information and (as with all CR publications) no advertising. Each issue contains two or three in-depth pieces about topics like protecting your identity, long-term care insurance, and coping with unexpected financial crises. Each issue contains a variety of shorter articles, too. The middle two pages always contain a "money lab", which answers questions like, "Can socially-responsible investments offer decent returns?"
I like all of the magazines in the Consumer Reports family.
Bottom Line Personal ($39 for 24 issues a year)
Bottom Line Personal is a 24-page newsletter/magazine filled with information about building health, wealth, and personal relationships. It's not really a financial magazine, although there are plenty of money articles in every issue. I think of it as Lifehacker in print form. Sample articles from recent issues include:
- Taming the bear market: A top strategist's forecast and stock picks now (ugh — I hope that by now you all realize this is the sort of article I hate)
- Heart attack warning: What we can learn from Tim Russert's death
- Why your not-to-do list is more important than your to-do list
- Seven foods proven to fight cancer
- The ultimate cheapskate's simple tricks for spending much, much less
I like Bottom Line Personal, but often I feel like it's magazine clutter. I can barely keep up with the publications I've listed above — this one is the straw the broke J.D.'s back. I'm unlikely to renew my subscription.
My recommendation
Each magazine will attract different types of readers. For some, Smart Money is the best choice, although it's my least favorite of the bunch. But if I were trying to choose a magazine for a public library, I'd go for the one with the broadest appeal.
Beth's library already subscribes to Consumer Reports (a fact I cut from her question). I think its sister publication, ShopSmart, would actually be the best choice in this case. It has top-notch content and it's accessible. That latter point is huge. The articles are easy to read, and they're filled with content relevant to everyday life.
Which personal finance magazines do you read? Do you subscribe to any publications? Do you borrow them from the library? Do you share them in a magazine exchange? Which would you recommend to Beth and her library?
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Hah – I love your term "financial porn." I guess that these magazines need, or think that they need these attention grabbing headlines about what finds to buy TODAY in order to sell. What really cracks me up is the annual stocks/funds for the long term recommendations that are entirely different from the long term recommendations made 12 months ago. Makes one wonder what "long term" means to these guys.
I too am a fan of Kiplinger's.
Personally I hate money magazine. I am an entrepreneur and I hate that money just tells you to work in your job and save money each year. it never tells you how to earn more money.
I figure if you can save 50 years to get $1 why not study and earn nothing for 15 years and then earn $1 in one year doing what you love? This is why I started an entrepreneurs blog because money magazine is too slow…sorry I know this blog is "get rich slowly" but still.
I think the library should try a budding entrepreneurs magazine
I'd like to hear what you do with old issues of these magazines. I started a subscription to smartmoney this year and have been holding onto the magazines so far. I guess I just don't feel like clipping articles.
Does Beth's library provide online access to any financial magazines, newsletters, or databases? I can access Morningstar through my local library (even from home).
We took Smart Money for a while, because MBA-DH liked it for the investment info; I didn't find the "personal finance for conspicuous consumers" to be helpful. So, I eventually stopped renewing it. DH hasn't noticed yet.
My dad's been gifting me a Kiplinger's PF subscription every Christmas for many years. I don't read every bit of investment advice, but I find the personal finance pieces helpful.
I subscribe to Consumer Reports online, and I can access the Wall Street Journal online through work (but I don't).
However, none of these magazines are helpful if you don't know the fundamentals of personal finance in general. Does the library have a lot of copies of basic personal finance books presented in a prominent display?
Personally, my favorite is Bottom Line because it's a quick read. You can get a bunch of good nuggets of information without a significant time investment.
I read Money (from the library) and I think that magazine is geared to wealthier folks. I wish they would do an article on folks who don't make $100,000+ per year.
I subscribe to Consumer Reports but I don't consider it a money type of magazine. I get it and look at what items are the best. I keep those magazines for future use (like when it's time to buy a car).
I just ordered ShopSmart to get a free issue but I'll probably cancel it after I receive it. I don't think it will interest me at all.
I think that I would recommend Consumer Reports, because it has a combination of money articles and reviews of big ticket items (but not the ones that you're rich enough to buy!) And in my years on the reference desk, it was the one I got asked for the most. I get Money because they give it to me for about $1/issue, but I think that it's geared to those who have a great deal already. I think that they're moving into the small business world a bit now.
8As a former public librarian who ran a branch in a blue collar neighborhood I can sympathize. Nothing financial ever left the building unless it was debt control or credit repair related. Periodicals may not be your best materials for personal finance. You are more likely to reach your population through books and books on tape (maybe some CD, but more tape). You may also have some luck with DVDs. Dave Ramsey was immensely popular (and this was in an African American city, too – Ramsey has wide appeal from my experience).
Personally I read Money, Kiplingers and Smart Money. I just canceled Smart Money cause it was a little too high brow for me. For instance the last edition I read had an article about the best fountain pens out there – each were hundreds of dollars. Personal finance? $300 pens? huh? But yes, Money and Kiplinger's are close to financial porn, but I enjoy them. Kiplinger's goes along more with money saving ideas than just investing.
But again – none of these are going to fit your library's needs. Your customers aren't concerned about their investments or what wine to buy. They want to know how to get out of debt, how to repair their credit, how to break the payday loan cycle and how to get some education and a better job. Those were the questions I tried to help my customers answer when I was working in the library.
I can understand the frustration of the library, but I'm curious as to how you get people to pick up the magazine in the first place.
I have Money and Kiplinger's, and find Money to be the better of the two. I skip over all of the "this is the best stock because…" articles. But you have to realize they have to keep their advertisers happy (T Rowe Price, etc.)
I wonder if there is a magazine that is geared to helping families help children learn financial skills? It seems that something like this would be able to assist moderate to low-income families work together to develop stronger financial skills. Also, many people are willing to stretch and learn new things to help their kids even if they are a little apprehensive about learning something new for themselves.
And, is there a way for the library to have workshops on personal finance? Perhaps, they could also put together a web guide and show people what they could find online?
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Cynthia @10 – check out a new PBS show called Bizkids. It's designed to teach kids how to make and manage money.
You might consider an easy way to get one or more of these magazines for "free." I fly a variety of airlines, sporadically, meaning that I have small air mile accounts with most of the ff programs. Given that I don't have a chance of getting a free flight on many of these airlines, I trade them in on magazine subscriptions. All three of the major magazines are usually represented.
Personally, I like Kiplingers, though I subscribe to the other ones you mentioned. I am thinking of letting my Money subscription run out because a few of their recent "money makeovers" suggested things like reverse mortgage (for an elderly widower), etc. I'm not big on advising people to take on new debts.
I would think Kiplingers would be the best fit for her reader's patrons. Perhaps Beth could even point library guests to relevant PF blogs, such as Get Rich Slowly, assuming the library has internet connectivity. The tone at some PF blogs is a little less high-brow than some magazines, and a little more real-world.
Thanks for putting up this review. I get Fortune and Money and certainly feel like they don't offer much to "regular folk." I'll check into Consumer Reports. I didn't realize that they cover more than just product reviews.
I'll also throw Better Investing into the mix. It's a magazine produced by Better Investing (formerly NAIC), a non-profit organization that's focused on financial education and support. Their philosophy is very much geared around individual empowerment and building wealth slowly for the long term (just like GRS). Similar to AAII, it's primarily focused on investing in individual stocks, but it's tremendously educational in understanding how financial markets work, and what makes certain companies successful in the long term. Their coverage of mutual fund investing and other personal finance topics has been growing over the last several years as well, and to Cynthia's question, have been doing quite a bit around youth financial education.
It doesn't have the 'financial porn' feel that Money/SmartMoney/Kiplingers do – they don't hype individual stocks (though they do have analysis of certain stocks each issue), nor do they cater to advertisers (advertising is minimal). Recommended.
Thanks for throwing the AAII Journal out there. I am not familiar with it, and it will give me something new to check out.
This is a basic summary of what all of these financial magazines do:
1) Collect ad revenue from large investment firms.
2) Run columns claiming sector of the month is the only way to go for big bucks.
3) Recommend only the funds in this sector from… guess who? The people who take out multiple full page ads with them.
Their pandering to their advertisers is so transparent that it is insulting to my intelligence, shows how little these publications truly care about the readers and makes all of their advice suspect.
Wow, what happened to plain old common sense? Put out a poll for the actual patrons of the actual library, with tick boxes for the various finance magazines, as well as a tick box for "none".
What we all think online doesn't matter. It's what the users of the library want, that matters.
@ Jane:
Thanks!! BizKids is my sister's show, her dream and her brainchild. She's all about teaching kids the basics of finance and money, and showing other kids that they can start and run successful businesses. Its a good place to start teaching one's kids, since a TV show is an approachable and attractive medium for them.
I also like to read Money Sense magazine…but really I think the blogs today provide as good an insight in the money world as any magazine does.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of the popular press-type of subscriptions. I would strongly recommend a subscription to the Economist – it's a thinking person's guide to finance and a larger world view. Don't discredit your population thinking that they will only appreciate "financial porn" types of magazines. Fostering economic education in a challenging format may be just what this working class population needs.
I am amazed that no one would check those magazines out.
I have to agree with Ryan. There really is nothing in any of the magazines at how or what you can do to advance your bottom line and bring in more income.
I do admit though most of the magazines are written for people who have plenty of extra cash, not someone who works 9-5 and trying to figure out how to save!
There also chalked full of get rich quick adds and the like.
thanks for the list JD.. i think i'll go to borders and check out kiplingers at lunch
JD, why the heck aren't you publishing Get Rich Slowly the magazine?? I think you have identified a market need.
I subscribed to Money for four years but let it go this year, for several reasons. I loved the "One Family's Money" feature, but month after month, there would be lines such as, "The Smiths are in their mid-30s and have saved only $450,000 for retirement." The *only* would just kill me.
Also, as many have said here, they would say repeatedly that you shouldn't try to time the market, shouldn't chase 'hot' stocks, and then they would list the 'hot' stocks for you.
Lastly, there is an atmosphere of "just do what you have to do at work so you can work your 30 years and get out." Learn to play golf, learn about sports so you have something to talk about, look important and necessary to your company, don't bring up anything controversial. Drove me nuts. So stifling, uncreative, boring.
This magazine does not speak to me or anyone I know. My friends are in their early 30s, many still paying school loans, struggling to support their families and own a home, but want a fulfilling life. Everyone is looking for balance. There is a big market out there for a new personal finance magazine. Blogs like this one are so much more useful to me.
Wow Glad to see this topic here. I was going through a similar issue. I recently dropped smart money after a year and picked up Kiplingers. I also get Money magazine but think Kiplingers might be my favorite.
@yas– that limits her only to publications her patrons are already familiar with.
A good collection development program at a library tries to also provide patrons with things that they didn't know about, or didn't know they needed, but are glad to find. (Saying she should ONLY decide what to subscribe to by asking her patrons is like saying a financial advisor should ONLY decide what to invest in by asking her clients what stocks they prefer. Yes, that's obviously an important factor, but the job shouldn't be limited to that.)
I know you didn't write the actually inquiry, but I take total offense to the following: "The library is in a poor, historically working-class county with a lot of minimum-wage workers, retirees and near retirees, so the general level of knowledge is pretty low."
I worked in the field of sociology and social work and there is much danger surrounded around labeling people who are not huge contributors to the society financially (i.e. low income, retirees) as low knowledge. I have completed several levels of education and would consider myself very knowledgeable, but maybe not so much so financially, hence why I subscribe to this great blog. Maybe that is what the inquirer meant?…I just wanted to make a note of it.
This has probably already been noted in earlier comments, but it seems to me that no personal finance magazine will be a good match for low-income people, because low-income people don't have a ton of discretionary income to spend with advertisers.
As a result, a magazine that would contain suitable advice (not "best yacht deals") for lower-income families would be boring and unappealing to advertisers.
If you listen to local advertisers on the Dave Ramsey show (not Dave's own national advertisers), you know how often crap financial products (e.g. payday loans, credit repair schemes) advertise on these shows and actually prey on people in tough situations. Surely the same dynamic would be at work in a magazine.
So, my best advice is to not worry about the magazines, and to focus on quality, accessible personal finance books, like Ramsey's Total Money Makeover.
I like Money Magazine, although I think I'll check out ShopSmart on your recomendation!
I am actually wondering if PF magazines are the best option for the library. My library won't let you check out magazines (and I tend not to read at the library) so perhaps books are better. They would be able to give almost retirees and low-income people more indepth reading and thus be more likely to actually be useful for them!
I wrote the original question.
In response to everyone who suggested Kiplinger's: that was our tentative top pick before I wrote to JD, based partly on his post from last year, but I hoped a wider range of choices had become apparent since then. It's still in the running, and so are both of the other Consumer Union titles.
KC pegged it exactly: "Your customers aren't concerned about their investments or what wine to buy. They want to know how to get out of debt, how to repair their credit, how to break the payday loan cycle and how to get some education and a better job." I wrote something almost exactly like this in the much longer, original question.
To clarify, for TosaJen, KC, and yas: yes, we have PF books – including quite a few that JD has recommended in the past – and they circulate, better than the magazines, but not heavily. Yes, we have some online resources; some of them are very new and we don't have usage stats yet, but our databases are historically underused and so I'm not hopeful; that's a separate problem that we're also working on. No, we don't have much in the way of videos – that's a good idea; I'll look into it. Yes, recommend GRS to patrons all the time!
The short version of yas' question is that yes, we've done direct market research, and what we've found out is that they don't know. They know – and I know – what their questions and needs are, but not what product addresses those questions; doing that research on their behalf is a big part of my job, and that's why I wrote to JD. Someone is right; a lot of collection development is identifying the needs that people aren't expressing, even (sometimes) when asked point blank.
JKing: JD's right, I was referring specifically to a limited category of knowledge, and absolutely not labeling my patrons so much as trying to articulate a disconnect between their self-assessed (extant and desired) range of knowledge and the information the products I've evaluated are offering. Our director had a long career in social work before moving to libraries and I have some undergrad background in sociology and qualitative research; and the concerns you offer are a very large part of the discourse of libraries, particularly in collection development and service population theory. I hope that's reassuring.
Haha! I hoped to keep this short…
What did you do to your RSS feed. I only got part of the blog in my reader. I might have to remove your feed from my reader, I'm not a fan of clicking through.
Sounds a lot like my library's situation, as does KC's library. Dave Ramsey is hugely popular, as is credit repair, getting out of debt, and making loads of money in real estate. Investing is mildly popular, but behind the rest.
There seems to be tons of interest in making money with real estate, which I don't think is going to work out for many of these people. It's all books about making $100k in real estate with no money down and the like.
Fortunately for me I'm not involved in buying the books because I'd have a hard time figuring out what to do in that case. I think that a) the library should own materials which its taxpayers want to use and b) the library shouldn't buy books which are complete frauds. A book on gaming Powerball, for instance, is probably a fraud even if patrons would like it. But some of these real estate books are likely just as unlikely to yield successful results.
I used to subscribe to both Smart Money and Money, but cancelled them both, as well as several other magazines, because a) I didn't have time to read them all, b) I was spending a fairly substantial amount of money each month on subscriptions, and c) I like to read the PF blogs like this one (my favorite). I would much rather read online, where I can get current information and opinions, and not something someone wrote 6 weeks ago.
One magazine that I do subscribe to is Bottom Line Personal. I like it because it's a fast, easy read, and gives a pretty good oversight in a lot of different areas that are of concern to me. If I want more information, I can easily find it online.
I also have a trial subscription to Bottom Line's latest newsletter, Bottom Line Wealth, subtitled How to Grow your Money, Protect It, & Pass It On. Their mission, according to the editor, 'is to provide useful information about money and what to do with it, in simple language that helps you understand what is good, what is bad, and why'. Doesn't that sound like what that librarian is looking for? Time will tell if the content will live up to that mission.
Hi J.D. — I read your blog in Google Reader and it's fine.
JD. It seems to be ok now. If it happens again I'll sent you a screenshot. BTW, I'm a fellow Oregonian. Keep up the good work.
I'm sure the library director knows this, but I'm not entirely sure you can look at a magazine and see that it was never checked out, and conclude that nobody read it. I go into the library all the time and just browse the magazines, reading the interesting ones right there. I never check them out, but I do read them.
Success Magazine is the best thus far. The rest is just fluff
You can check magazines out? I've always thought that magazines could only be read at the library. I'm pretty sure that is the policy at the library I frequent.
Re the magazines — I'm not a fan of any of them but of the ones discussed, Kiplinger's would be the first pick. I'm not familiar with BottomLine or AAIC Journal.
Rick: there's a statistic called "in-house circulation," which is collected when at intervals during the day we gather up items that people have browsed and scan them. That's one of the reasons (actually, in some ways a more important reason than the more obvious one of things being put back in the wrong place) that so many libraries ask patrons not to re-shelve browsed materials. Yes, we know that not all browses are recorded, and we correct for that in the statistics as best we can.
db: We have sixty-five subscriptions, and they're all circulating. Our magazine guy is AMAZING. (Our periodicals budget is something like $500, to give you an idea – and a large chunk of that is eaten up by the expensive must-haves like Entertainment Weekly. He works magic with freebie offers!) We also have some patrons who, rather than subscribing to a mag just for themselves, donate the subscription to us and then check new issues out, which is really nice. I know some libraries restrict all periodicals – and we do restrict newspapers – but it's become more and more common to let magazines go out. Suggest it to your local folks; they may already be considering it.
I just let my subscription to Money lapse – I thought I was getting good info from it, and it does have interesting articles now and again, but it seems to be repeating those.
I get more from sites like GRS and the discussions. So…thanks for saving me $20!
Another librarian chiming in here — I have to agree with KC. These folks don't want financial magazines because they're all aimed at people who have money (usually a lot of it, too). Buy good quality personal finance books, geared for people who are getting started learning about their finances and/or starting over.
Any time I've read any financial magazines, I've been underwhelmed. I would subscribe for a few months and then cancel. I don't think any of the magazines are geared towards average people who want to save money in basic ways. I've got the salary, but I am not like any of the folks they do articles on. I don't have the huge mortgage, shopping habits, etc. I prefer books, newsletters, and PF sites like this one. Even Consumer Reports is geared towards consuming obviously and while I think they do fair reviews, I prefer looking online to get reviews of products and talking to friends who have bought a product that I am interested in buying. It's just not often that CR writes on products I am interested in buying.
Although I have read a lot of material in the "get out of debt" catagory I have just started reading personal finance magazines. I had always avoided them because they intimidated me, I figured I wouldn't have a clue as to what they were talking about.
I have found they are alot more interesting and readable than I had thought. I found Money to be easy to read with relavant articles. I have to agree that it would be nice to have articles about people that make less than 100,000.
Perhaps education about personal finance magazines would be helpful. If people are asking questions about or checking out finance books maybe you could direct them to the magazines you already have. Highlight articles that would be relevant to your patrons. In otheer words do some promotion and advertisement.
I subscribe to Black Enterprise Magazine. Although it's core audience is the African American community, BE's articles provide info for a single parent or a low income family as well as a CEO of a multimillion dollar corporation. There is help for young readers just starting out or mature readers looking to make a career change. Articles on investing, highlights on cities to see, and words of wisdom are also part of this easy to read & understand financial magazine.
I don't subscribe to any of these magazines but I would think Smart Money would be good as they have a good website.
I have found that the Web is the best and lowest cost source for good financial inforamtion. I do enjoy the Wall Street Journal but it more news than solid numbers information. The Internet does not satisfy my love to sit quietly with coffee and read but it by far out paces the main stream publications. I'll go out on a limb here….try getting onto Financialsense.com, or Freebuck, or EuroPac…..John Mauldin's stuff is good. Look up Jim Dines……out on a limb because trust me, this is not the financial fast food that got us into this mess.
This blog has a nice tone and is very encouraging, everybody please pay attention to the open minds here, and the respect. and get out there and get informed…..


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Read Wilson talk about the piece in The Guardian.I'll never forget the very first time 20:50 was made. I had a policy of refusing to tell people what the work was when they came to see it, because if you say, "Be careful - it's oil," you're influencing their response by telling them what to expect. But one day a Japanese woman came to the gallery in a white Burberry coat, carrying a baby wrapped in a white shawl. I looked at her gleaming white clothes, and for a moment I was really tempted to warn her. I hesitated, and she went into the gallery, and clearly didn't quite know what was going on. She leaned out over the oil, trying to work it out, and her hair plopped down and she immediately threw it back, all over the white Burberry coat. It was the most unbelievable mess.
I went in and took the baby, and gave her tissues and turps and apologised, and she said: "No, that was the most amazing experience I've ever had." I was stunned that she had been so blown away that the coat just wasn't important. Of course, if the oil had hit the baby instead of the coat it might have been another story.


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Tribute held at Wilmington National CemeterySubmitted by WWAY on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 7:24pm.READ MORE:
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Still no sign of a missing swimmer off Carolina Beach. The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday afternoon for 19-year-old Fayetteville resident Angel Gonzalez, who went missing around 5:30 Saturday afternoon. Full story...»
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Georgia State rallied from an 8-3 deficit behind the strong relief pitching of sophomore Theo Asher and four hits by senior Marc Mimeault to knock off UNC Wilmington, 12-10, to win the Colonial Athletic Association championship and the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament at Brooks Field on Saturday. Full story...»
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THURSDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Prescriptions for powerful opioid painkiller drugs have skyrocketed in the United States, but identification and treatment of pain has not improved, according to a new study.
"There is an epidemic of prescription opioid addiction and abuse in the United States. We felt it was important to examine whether or not this epidemic has coincided with improved identification and treatment of pain," Dr. G. Caleb Alexander, an associate professor of epidemiology and medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, said in a Hopkins news release.
The researchers analyzed federal government data collected between 2000 and 2010, and found no significant change in the number of pain-related visits to doctors that resulted in patients receiving treatment with pain relievers.
During the study period, prescriptions of non-opioid painkillers remained stable, accounting for 26 percent to 29 percent of pain-related visits. However, prescriptions for opioids nearly doubled, from 11 percent to 19 percent, the investigators found.
Of the 164 million pain-related visits to doctors in 2010, about half of patients were treated with some kind of pain reliever: 20 percent with an opioid and 27 percent with a non-opioid, according to the study published online Sept. 13 in the journal Medical Care.
The researchers also examined visits to doctors for new-onset musculoskeletal pain and found similar increases in opioid prescriptions. There is no evidence that opioids are more effective or safer than non-opioids in treating this type of pain, however, the study authors found a significant drop in non-opioid prescriptions, from 38 percent in 2000 to 29 percent in 2010.
The findings highlight the importance of balancing the risks and benefits of pain drugs prescribed by primary care doctors, study lead author Matthew Daubresse pointed out.
"The majority of pain medications are prescribed by primary care physicians, who treat over half of the chronic pain in the United States," Daubresse said in the news release. "Pain specialists only treat a fraction of these patients."
And Alexander noted that "not only have the rates of treated pain not improved, but in many cases, use of safer alternatives to opioids, such as medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, have either stayed flat or declined. This suggests that efforts to improve the identification and treatment of pain have backfired, due to an overreliance on prescription opioids that have caused incredible morbidity and mortality among patients, young and old alike."
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The MLX90365 delivers the same position sensing functionality as recently introduced with the dual mold package MLX90364. The MLX90365 is produced in conventional SOIC and TSSOP surface mount packages which necessitate passive protection components being put on the PCB, while its 'No PCB' sibling MLX90364 allows for assemblies without attachment to a board. The sensor IC has both under-voltage detection and over-voltage protection built in. It is AEC-Q100 automotive qualified. Moreover the sensor has successfully passed extreme robustness validation tests, including long exposures to ambient temperatures of 170 °C.
Thanks to utilization of Triaxis technology, this device can measure the properties of a magnetic field in all three dimensions. The patented Integrated Magnetic Concentrator (IMC) on the surface of the sensor IC along with use of complex algorithms results in reduced signal to noise ratios and enable high accuracy levels being achieved. Among the supplication areas for which the proves suitable MLX90365 are absolute rotary position sensing, absolute linear position sensing, pedal position sensing, steering wheel position sensing, throttle position sensing and float-level sensing.
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