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Lauren Elizabeth Rhodes of Raleigh and James Shepard Harris of New Bern were united in marriage on Oct. 5, 2013, at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Raleigh with the Rev. Michael Tolar officiating.
Lauren Elizabeth Rhodes of Raleigh and James Shepard Harris of New Bern were united in marriage on Oct. 5, 2013, at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Raleigh with the Rev. Michael Tolar officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Rhodes of Raleigh. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Rhodes of Raleigh, the late Mrs. Gwen Rhodes and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Austin.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Harris of New Bern and the grandson of Mrs. Jasper Hassell of Edenton, the late Mr. Jasper Hassell, and the late Mr. and Mrs. William Harris.
The bride was given in marriage by parents.
Nuptial music was provided by pianist Anne Moody.
The maid of honor was Lindsay Skinner of Boiling Springs.
Bridesmaids were Alyson Stanley of Raleigh, Hannah Wilson of Rocky Mount, Audrey Pharr of Concord, Meghan Shelton of Pilot Mountain, and Erin Summerlin of Spivey�s Corner.
Best man was Tyler Harris of New Bern, father of the groom.
Groomsmen were Brandon Rhodes of Raleigh, brother of the bride, Richard Stout of New Bern, Jordan Godwin of Meadow, Andrew Sherman of Frederick, Md., and Charles Freeman III of Winston-Salem.
Ushers were Tanner Briele of New Bern and Carlton Price of Lumberton.
Assisting with the wedding were Teresa Ivey of Garner and Dawn Davies of Clayton.
A reception, hosted by the bride�s parents, was held at Hinnant Vineyards in Pine Level.
Assisting with the reception were greeters, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Rhodes of Raleigh.
The couple took a honeymoon trip to St. Lucia.
The bride graduated from N.C. State University and is employed by Printelect as a marketing coordinator.
The bridegroom graduated from UNC-Wilmington and is employed by BB&T as a sales and service officer.
The couple will reside in Trent Woods.


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Earlier today, I did a lengthy interview with Dean Voelker on his Improving Your Financial Health radio show. Dean's very much into preparation, so I actually wound up doing a substantial amount of prep work for the interview.
Since I had accumulated such a pile of notes for the interview in advance and Dean asked so many worthwhile questions, I made something of a transcript of the interview and am sharing it with you.
Tell us about your background.
I grew up in rural Illinois. My parents didn't have much money and, sometimes, they struggled to make ends meet. I learned a lot about frugality from them, but I didn't learn as much about pure money management skills. I attended Iowa State University and graduated with a degree in the hard sciences, after which I spent about six years working in various jobs in research fields. Recently, I've been a full time writer.
How long have you been writing The Simple Dollar?
I started writing the blog that would become The Simple Dollar in October 2006. I launched The Simple Dollar publicly in November 2006.
How did you decide to do that?
In April 2006, I experienced a personal and professional meltdown of sorts. I had always dreamed of being a writer, but it felt as if my dreams for doing that were slipping away in the flow of my professional life. I was unhappy with some aspects of my current job. To make things worse, we were in dire financial straits, with a large pile of consumer debt over our heads.
I decided that things had to change. After a while, I began to see that a lot of people my age were going through similar crises – a "quarter life crisis," if you will. They were finding themselves in serious financial problems and sometimes were deeply questioning the path they had chosen in life. However, most people my age were very reluctant to actually talk about these problems with anyone outside of their immediate family and maybe a very, very close friend or two.
I started The Simple Dollar because I felt that this was a conversation that people needed to have. I felt that by sharing my story and my experiences, both in the positive sense and in terms of my own failings, I would open people up to think about their finances and career more and talk about it, whether by sending me emails or comments or by talking to people in their own lives.
Where did the name 'Simple Dollar" come from?
One night shortly before the launch of the site, I just brainstormed a long list of names. I crossed some of them off that I didn't like and my wife took a turn at the list, too. Eventually, The Simple Dollar is the name that stuck out.
Looking back, I'm glad I didn't choose a name like "Trent's Financial Failings."
About how much time do you spend on this per week?
On The Simple Dollar alone, I probably spend fifteen hours purely writing and composing posts. I spend another five to ten researching posts and doing reading related to it. I probably spend another ten hours on site management, approving comments, and answering emails – but, frankly, I have more emails and comments and other things like that than I can cover in ten hours, so I sometimes have to pick and choose.
I spend additional time on other writing projects, such as my upcoming book.
Where do you get most of your information?
Books. I'm a voracious reader. I read, on average, three books a week, of which one is usually something geared towards personal finance or careers.
What are your "14 Money Rules"?
My 14 Money Rules is simply a list of what I think are the true core values and ideas of what I talk about on The Simple Dollar. I keep these rules posted on every page on the site, in the right hand bar. The 14 Money Rules are:
1. Spend Less Than You Earn.
2. Don't Over-Think Your Investments.
3. Stop Wasting Time.
4. Eliminate (and Avoid) High-Interest Debt.
5. Talk About Money (And Be Honest).
6. Stop Trying to Impress Other People.
7. Watch Your Progress (But Make It Fun).
8. Take Care of Your Things.
9. Do It Yourself.
10. Plan Ahead Every Time You Spend.
11. Find and Work Toward Your True Passions.
12. Build Real Friendships and Relationships.
13. Improve Yourself Every Chance You Get.
14. Give Without Strings or Regrets.
Which 'Rules' generate the most discussion?
Doing it yourself tends to generate the most discussion. Many people argue that it's better to pay someone else to do something for you if you're earning more than that person's hourly wage. My argument against that is twofold: first, you only earn more than that person's wage if you're earning more post-tax and you actually spend the time you've hired someone in gainful employment. Two, and perhaps more importantly, doing things yourself teaches you things and makes you more resourceful. Almost every skill you have in life has value – if nothing else, it can help you build relationships with others. If you know how to fix a toilet, for instance, you can share that skill with a new friend or acquaintance in an effort to forge a stronger bond.
Tell us about your free E-Book "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page."
A long time ago, I wrote a very popular post entitled "Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on the Back of Five Business Cards". After posting it, several people contacted me and suggested that I try to turn it into a book of some sort.
Over the next several months, I tossed the idea around and eventually developed it into a fifty page short book, intending to use it to shop around to various book publishers. I incorporated a lot of original writing, pieces of various Simple Dollar posts, and lots of other interesting elements.
At some point, I just decided that it would be a very worthwhile move – in terms of helping people with their finances and encouraging people to think about it and talk about it – to simply give the short book away, which is exactly what I did.
What are your thoughts on the new credit card regulations which just went into effect this week?
I think, on the surface, they protect consumers. However, the credit card companies are businesses that are out there with the purpose of making money. If you close one door on them, they'll open another.
I think we're in a period where they're going to try different methods of earning money, since some of their previous methods have now had the door shut on them (such as young card holders). What form will that take? Whatever it is, the end consumers will be the ones paying for it. It might be the return of annual fees. It might be higher interest rates. It might be something entirely new, like a minimun number of uses required per month. Only time will tell.
You also have some downloadable books. What can you tell us about that?
The "downloadable books" on The Simple Dollar are simply collections of older posts on a common theme. I'd write a series of posts on a certain topic – say, building a blogging business – and then I collected all of the posts together, edited them a bit so that they made sense as one long document, and turned them into a downloadable PDF. Since the posts are available for free anyway, I have a minimal charge on these donwloadabe books – they cost two dollars a piece. Some people buy them because it's convenient for the purpose of printing them out for a trip or something like that; others buy them simply as a way to support the site.
The Simple Dollar has some great open discussions which readers participate in. How were you able to come up with 25 Gadgets That Save Money?
One big thing I like to do when writing an article is look for things that have something interesting in common, sometimes in an unusual or unexpected way. In that case, I simply collected a list of items that can actually save you money, including paying for themselves, over a long period of time.
The idea started from looking at programmable thermostats. If you buy one of those and set it so that your furnace doesn't run when you're not at home or when you're asleep – or the same thing with the air conditioning during the summer – your energy bill savings will add up to much more than the cost of the thermostat after a few years.
A few of the items in the article were a bit extreme, such as a wind turbine, and I think most of the discussion came from those items. You can, indeed, save money with the purchase of a wind turbine, but it takes quite a while.
I loved the McDonald's article! You compare a McDonald's double cheesburger to making a cheesburger at home. What did you learn?
If you take all of the short term costs into account – time and money, in other words – the two roughly balance out. The homemade burger is slightly more expensive, but it's also more tasty. Of course, I did add a lot of toppings to the homemade burger that weren't on the double cheeseburger from McDonald's, such as lettuce and such, but it wouldn't be a homemade burger if I didn't.
If you're making just a single burger for yourself, then there's a decent argument that McDonald's provides a better value in the short term. If you're making several burgers, the homemade ones are much less expensive. The real advantage of fast food is the convenience – it's not really all that cheap, as you get lower quality food than what you can make at home for a similar price.
How long did it take to gather your research?
It took a surprising amount of time. I had to plan out what I intended to do – make a burger and compare it to the McDonald's one. I had to shop for the ingredients for the homemade burger. I had to visit McDonald's to get the double cheeseburger. I had to make the actual burger at home. I also spent time documenting all of this with pictures and time recordings as well. I spent on the order of six hours on the post.
Have you seen the documentary film "Super Size Me"? (2004 by Morgan Spurlock)
I think that movie touches on what would be my real concern with eating fast food – it's unhealthy. It causes you to gain weight. The high amount of salt in the food can cause high blood pressure. It can definitely leave you feeling lethargic. It's not exactly good for your heart.
Thus, the long term costs of that double cheeseburger is quite a bit more than the ninety nine cents you paid at the drive-thru. You'll have health care costs and lost productivity costs as well.
I see the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" books and seminars by Robert Kiyosaki everywhere. What should people know about him and these books?
I am not a fan of Robert Kiyosaki's work. For starters, he severely underestimates risk in nearly everything he discusses. He paints a picture that makes it seem as easy as a run down to the courthouse steps to make thousands of dollars. It's no different than any other "get rich quick" scheme – there are opportunities out there, but it takes a lot of hard work to find them and there's a lot of risk for failure along the way.
The biggest problem, though, is the utter disdain he has for people who make the choice not to do things the "Rich Dad" way. He actually refers to people who work at a job and make an honest wage as "hamsters," right in print in the book.
He's right in that a steady job will not make many people wildly rich. A 401(k) will not make a person wildly rich. What it will do, however, is make a person secure, both in the sense of not having to worry about the future and in the sense that their future life won't have financial need. That's the goal that a lot of people have in their life, and achieving that goal revolves around low-risk choices. Kiyosaki ignores risk and calls such people "hamsters." I don't really have much respect for that attitude. Different people value different things in life, and an awful lot of people value steadiness and security – that doesn't make them "hamsters," it makes them the backbone of America.
Have you met anyone who said that his advice really worked for them?
I've never met people face to face who have said positive things about Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I've read many positive comments from Simple Dollar commenters about the book, but it's often hard to tell whether the people are legitimate or whether they're people who have paid thousands of dollars for a seminar and want to feel as though they've made a good decision.
You also wrote an article about buyng your car – 2009 Toyota Prius. What were some of the main reasons you bought it?
We bought the car for two reasons: fuel efficiency and reliability. My wife commutes almost forty miles one way to work about three days a week, plus all of our family lives about four hours away from where we live and we visit them regularly. Thus, we rack up a lot of miles on our cars.
We sat down and ran the numbers several times on a multitude of cars available, both new and used. We took the Consumer Reports reliability data on makes and models into it, and we also calculated fuel costs up to 200,000 miles on the car's odometer assuming gas prices at $2 a gallon and at $3 a gallon. We simply couldn't find a better deal than the Prius that we purchased, even after a multi-month hunt. We found ones that exceeded it on total cost of ownership questions – the cost of buying the car, getting it road-worthy, and paying for fuel up to 200,000 miles – but they all had reliability concerns.
What types of concerns have you had with recent news about Toyota?
Every large manufacturer is going to eventually have some sort of product problem that warrants a recall or a fix. You simply cannot test everything – you just have to do as much due diligence as you can and ship the product.
The current Toyota issue is a tricky one because it's apparently very hard to replicate. I've read on messageboards where one person claims to have caused the problem by doing some specific thing, then another person can't replicate it.
The real question is how Toyota deals with all of this over the next six months. They have to absolutely make it right by their customers, but we won't know the full story for a while yet.
I know you are not an advisor, but what are your thoughts on municipal bonds?
I think they're good choices for people in a high tax bracket who want something pretty safe that has returns that aren't a big tax burden. Municipal bonds definitely have a place in a larger portfolio. However, I'm not sure that they're the best choice for beginning investors who are often not in a really high tax bracket and would often be better off chasing larger returns with a bigger risk.
There is a lot of information out there. What is ONE THING someone listening today should do if they are having financial difficulty?
Talk about it. Don't be ashamed of having financial difficulty. There are many, many people out there going through similar problems to what you're going through. If you feel you can't talk to your friends about it, go online and look for others sharing your problems.
Knowing that there are people out there who share your concerns and are willing to offer you helpful words and helpful advice can make an enormous difference when it looks as though the chips are down.

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Photographers - be careful
Posted 05 September 2004 - 06:49 PM
Just a note to suggest that we all try to be as careful as possible when diving and taking pictures.
This scientific study indicates that photographers contribute to around four times :!: the amount of damage to the reef when compared to non-photographers. :?
Hopefully we can all consider this and be as careful as possible.
Posted 06 September 2004 - 03:16 AM
What about new divers and those who only dive a couple of times a year on their annual vacation. From what I have seen they basically have very little buoancy control and frequently damage corals etc with bad finning.
Posted 06 September 2004 - 05:42 AM
The type of person who damages coral is simply a person who doesn't care about the environment they are in, and is looking out only for themselves, be it underwater or above. Combine that with a lack of knowledge of their own abilities and you get people crashing into corals because they are trying to do something they aren't able to; like getting a closer look or hovering close to the reef when their bouyancy control is not perfect. Going through a swim through and banging the exit and or entry points up because they use their arms to push or pull through or kick wildly to get out.
It is very much a mind set of being better than you actually are and not caring about the damage you do. Anyone could be like this .. a wolrd class photographer, just because they can be (not implying anoyone there) ... or a brand new diver, just because they know no better.
Blame the instructors not the people, they weren't eductaed well enough in my point of view, if they were told about the damage they can do then they may not do it ... ?
thats been my opinion for a long time, but unfortunately diving has become about money, and so it's through put of customers not quality of output, BUT there are some damn good divers out there, and some damn good instructors. so keep up the good work ...
Posted 06 September 2004 - 07:13 AM
Do not mis-interpret this, i am not advocating being wreckless, but if we really want to improve things, lets start with the "big fish" first, and then move on to the smaller ones once we got the big ones squared away. ( in Asia anyway )
Posted 06 September 2004 - 07:21 AM
It's not exactly a study showing diving trends ... it's the sort of information you could gather in a weeks vacation, and when they talk about coral reef being touched by photographers are they noting if it is steadying on dead reef or live reef ... I am not paying membership to read the full text, but I am guessing it's a study done for points in a University course.
Posted 06 September 2004 - 07:56 AM
Blame the instructors not the people, they weren't eductaed well enough in my point of view, if they were told about the damage they can do then they may not do it ... ?
thats been my opinion for a long time, but unfortunately diving has become about money, and so it's through put of customers not quality of output, BUT there are some damn good divers out there, and some damn good instructors. so keep up the good work ...
Absolutely, I have met divers who because they have done two back to back courses are now advanced divers even though they have only done 9 dives, and consider themselves superior over others who are still basic open water divers even though they may have done many more dives.
It is all about money in several places there is no doubt about it, and while I think its great to get kids in a pool with scuba gear etc there should be more emphasis on environmental issues and proper buoancy control. My daughter recently became a junior Open Water diver, to be honest I would not have passed her, the buoancy control test was a complete farce, (I witnessed it - and she will not be returnng to that dive establishment for future courses) which is why I took her to a nice easy place to dive in Malaysia where she quickly learned (the way I was taught) what to do.
And as for photographers in the survey - what credentials made a diver a photographer? My guess it was just any diver carrying a camera from a Fuji / Kodak disposable job to ... well what most of us on the forum use
I'll get off my soap box now before I really get carried away
Posted 06 September 2004 - 08:15 AM
It is quite interesting.
They did break the photographers in to two groups, non specialists with disposable and specialists with expensive cameras. They fond no difference in the two groups.
The study consisted on 26 weeks of observations. In 2 13 week periods, one during the winter=high tourist season, and one during the summer=slow season.
The biggest complaint I have about the study is their definition of "diving impacts" this includes any contact with the substrate, be it sand, dead rock, or live coral. Also, you dont even have to touch the substrate to be classifyed as an 'impact'. Any action that causes sediment to be released into the water is classifyed as 'impact'
They blame shore divers as being considerbly worse on the reef than boat divers, after all you have to walk through that sand in order to get out. They found that 97.9% of shore divers contacted the reef. I question how the other 2% got in the water without touching the sand. Pier maby??
Divers holding onto the substrate with their hands and resting against the substrate with their knees were the next most problematic actions
I am suprised that they dont note open water classes as the epitome of evil, after all 50% of the time is spent resting on your knees on the substrate=sand.
Then they finish off the study saying it is unknown if direct physical contact with live coral causes damage. They refrence a study that found there is no damage done to a coral by touching it. Yet they also explain that touching the sand is bad because you stir it up and later a sand partical may land on a coral. OHH NO
Of the impacts that actually caused damage to the reef = 'breakage' they found that photographers are to blame, after all there is a week correlation.
Photographer status was the only significant predictor of breakage rate among the independent variables for boat and shore dives, although the regression was weak......Coral breaks by divers were few, but it appears that when they did occur, being a photographer had some, albeit small, influence. Predicted number of breaks min−1 for any one dive for photographers was 0.032 and for non-photographers 0.006.
So photographers may be likely to sit in the sand or push off of a dead piece of rock but when it comes down to doing anything that definately causes damage to the reef, it is so rare, that the difference could pretty much be explained by a single photographer who kicked a piece of A. cervicornis and broke a dosen tips off.
It looks like to me that divers cause so little direct damage to the reef it would have taken them years to gather enough data to produce any strong results if they just counted direct damage.
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Posted 06 September 2004 - 08:29 AM
I have regularly seen that divers are less than 1% to blame ... the biggest normally being costal constructrion .. followed by marine harvesting be it fishing or coral collecting.
But something that people don't take into account is that marine harvesting of coral is not always damaging and can be good.
Here in Cayman when a cruise ship ran aground on the reef .. divers went around picking up live bits of reef .. taking them back to where they had been broken from .. (general area) and glued them back on .. and the reef is quite healthy. Took time and money, but it happened. Although if you had watched that period of diving ... you would have seen 20 people a day touching hundreds of pieces of coral.
Now although touching coral doesn't always damage it .. it's obviously not good .. I mean if you stand on an ant .. 1 in ten time you are likely to squash it .. other times it will be ok.
If you want to get really pedantic .. the nutrients divers remove from the water must do some damage as well .. having to clean a dive boat .. you get to notice how dirty the boat can get after one dive .. just form the water coming off the gear and the people .. the dirtyness has to be nutrients .. so we are stealing there food .. I think this study can be dismissed as not looked at on a wide enough scale .. I mean .. what is the point in studying something that is only an overall 1% cause of the topic at hand .. It's like studying rainfall in an area and syaing it causes obesity because the rain makes the grass grow which cows eat .. and cows make burgers at fast food restaurants. It's not the full picture, did anyone watch these people doing the study to see what they stirred up .. or what they touched .. or how they got in the water to watch the shore divers ?
I too am done, i'm starting to get on my high horse as well .. and i sometimes need a big ladder to get back down again .. otherwise the fall hurts.
Posted 06 September 2004 - 09:54 AM
Studies like this do have a good underlying point -- animals can suffer & die from accumulated small stresses. The net result can be a depleted reef. Reef managers need to understand the impact caused by every sort of human activity so they can regulate the level of usage and protect their areas. I think one of the other points here is that dive masters are the key to how divers behave underwater. It's obvious from the discussions here on wetpixel that most of the members don't need to be told not to touch or kick sand but you all are not average divers or photographers!
And Giles - the problem with nutrients isn't that humans take too much away, the problem is that we add way too much..... think agriculture, fertilizer, and sewage! That's one of the main reason we have algae overgrowing reefs in the Caribbean & jellyfish blooms in the Gulf of Mexico. You can wash down your dive boats with a clean conscience
Posted 06 September 2004 - 05:13 PM
Posted 06 September 2004 - 06:29 PM
That photographers are not the main cause of the fact that "the degradation of coral reefs worldwide has now reached a critical stage". The main culprits are "over fishing, development of the coastal zone, including dredging and landfill, and terrestrial run-off. Moreover, the increase in sea surface temperatures, the decrease in carbonate levels as well as sea-level rise, caused by increasing anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere, all act synergistically to stress coral reefs, which lead to severe bleaching and extensive coral mortality". These quotes come from the Okinawa Declaration signed by the scientists that participated in the 10th Int Coral Reef Symposium in June this year.
The photographers probably do far more damage driving gas-guzzling pick-up trucks at home, demanding new hotels to stay in and eating seafood every night on dive vacations.
That said some photographers do damage corals and harass marine life and that is unneccessary and unacceptable. These papers are useful in highlighting the problems - particularly of dedicated photographers who sometimes go to far the top to get that image. I am always glad to see here at Wetpixel that when this subject comes up we are always united in supporting the correct code of minimum contact uw photography.
p.s. the earlier work of Rouphael & Inglis 2001 (Biol Cons 100:281-287) is also worth a read, but their data are limited, and am very surprised that it passed peer-review considering it seems to be high on speculation and conjecture, and low on data. I can't download the paper pointed out by anthp until I am back on a University IP address, but will comment then.
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Posted 11 September 2004 - 06:54 AM
The fact that the second Palm Island project is built on a marine reserve appears to be of no consequence and most likely the population of dugongs on Jebel Ali Reef is not going to be taken into consideration over the extensive amount of money that will be made from selling property on these islands.
Seven years ago just before I left Jeddah, there was a lot of reclamation in the lagoons on the North Obhur beaches with the lagoons being filled and concrete jetties constructed to allow limited people access to the reef from which they would fish, through garbage such as unwanted CDs etc.
I used to dive from a private beach there (Blue Beach) and I took photographs underwater where a bulldozer was operating inside the lagoon destroying our visibility.
The purpose was to record the pinnacle that stood out from the reef edge rising from 18M to 6M below the surface, before it disappeared forever.
I can happily say that when I dived in Jeddah last June, the pinnacle still stands and is very much alive.
However, the reef edge and slope down to 30M is completely devastated with only a hint of some corals beginning to populate the gray mass of dead corals reminiscent of a Soviet housing area.
Unfortunately money overules everything.
Posted 14 September 2004 - 07:58 AM
Is it possible to get the article (here/by mail)?
Tn'x, Arnon
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Posted 04 October 2004 - 03:04 PM
You would think a photographer would be more careful with his equipment since it was much more expensive than mine. And then the lout had the audacity to tell a story where he was the victim on a previous trip. What a jerk! :evil:
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Dear Stata list -
I am using Stata 10.1 on Mac and am seeking advice about the best way
to fit the following model:
Yij = bo + b1 * Tj + b2 * Ci + b3 * Cj + eij + ej
Tj = v0 + v1 * Zj + epsilon j, where...
Yij = the dependent variable is a proportion (0<Yij <1), for person i
from group j.
Zj = encouragement to take up one of two types of treatment - applied
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Tj = treatment take up - takes place at the group level j. Tj is
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Argh, I am so bad with blogging. I feel like I never have time to just sit and pump out a good post! I haven't had a whole lot to write about as I haven't been as strict with my workouts as I was a few weeks ago. Nick is working and involved in a ton of campus activities and I'm still trying to get into a schedule. We have been eating out a lot because we're at school from 2-8:30 on some nights and by the time we get home it's 9 and I'm definitely not in the mood to cook. I know I need to start cooking meals or prepping them in the morning so they're done or ready to go by the time we get home. I know this is what I need to do and yet I haven't practiced what I preach and just do it already!
Tomorrow night this will all change. I'm going grocery shopping and stocking the house with healthy lunch materials that can be taken on the go as well as quick dinner fix-ins. I am researching our campus gym so I can't let school get in the way of my working out. It's about $50 or so per semester which isn't bad. They just tack the cost onto your tuition, so you don't have to pay up front if you don't want to.
All in all, I'll be getting back on track here in no time.
As if one blog wasn't enough for me to keep up with, I've decided to add another blog. It's called, My Life as a Disaster. This will be a humorous personal project where I'll write about the daily happenings of life in general. I've added the link to the top of this blog, so please check it out and hopefully it will blossom into something fun for you all to read as well!


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DALLAS – Central Freight Lines Inc. has agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $400,000.00 to be paid to eight former dockworkers, the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 3-10-cv-1954-K in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division), Central Freight Lines, Inc. discriminated against Ricky Curry, John Bean, Paul Elwell, Richard Harris, James Thurmond, Keith Vessels, Purvis Carter and Reynaldo Tijerina by selecting them for termination because of their age in an August 31, 2007, reduction in force. The EEOC charged that the company used a reduction-in-force as a ruse to fire eight dockworkers, some of whom had worked at the company for 20 or more years and were approximately 50 years old and older.
A consolidated suit filed by the EEOC and the private parties alleged that workers were called names like "grandpa," "old farts" and "old bastards" by their supervisor, who also had been tasked with preparing a list of the men to be terminated. According to the EEOC, the company also changed its attendance and disciplinary policy so that the men, who had not had more than a few disciplinary write-ups, were suddenly put on corrective action and eligible for termination under the new policy.
The company then replaced the older employees with younger hires.
Discriminating against an individual because of his or her age violates The Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA") of 1967. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. On the first day of a scheduled eight-day trial, the attorneys for the parties reached agreement to settle the case by Consent Decree filed with the Court and signed by U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade on May 9, 2012.
In the Consent Decree, the company agreed to pay $400,000 to the claimants and to train management and supervisory personnel at the Central Freight Dallas and Ft.Worth Terminals on equal employment opportunity policies and procedures. The company will also commit to enforce a written policy against age discrimination.
"It is an injustice to terminate these loyal workers who gave so many years of their lives to Central Freight," said William C. Backhaus, Senior Trial Attorney for the EEOC. "Laying people off because of their age is a violation of federal law."
"Central Freight treated these experienced dockworkers like they were expendable," said Suzanne M. Anderson, Supervisory Trial Attorney. "This case shows that EEOC will remain vigilant in our protection of older workers."
"Reductions in force are unfortunately not unusual in tough economic times, but a freight business should realize that unloading more experienced older dockworkers while pushing to hire younger ones is not the answer," said Robert A. Canino, Regional Attorney for the EEOC's Dallas District Office. "The costs that can result from age discrimination can lead to yet a heavier load to bear."
Six of the dockworkers in the EEOC's suit--brought on behalf of the class of older workers-- were individually represented by attorneys Claudine Jackson and April Robbins of the Brackett & Ellis law firm in Ft. Worth.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Okay, after going through 300++ photos 4 to 5 times, I'd have to say that it's not an easy task to pick the winner. If you read my previous post (see below), I used the CoolIris plug-in to view the photos from the group. This allowed me to scroll through the gallery quickly as well as view them in a large monitor (and full-screen). Just to let you know, they look awesome on an Apple 23″ Cinema Display! Okay, eough with the boring stuff…
I don't think it will do justice if I just mentioned the winner outright because there are a LOT of great photos. So, I thought I'd like to share with you the TOP 10 photos that I picked and they're displayed here in no particular order.
Before I begin, 'What's the criteria?', you may ask. Well, I really have a simple criteria – I picked the photos that I felt had an impact and either told a story, or captured the scene of Manila. I also had some inputs from various friends, but at the end, I had to come up with a list of my own. I know you can't wait much longer, so here they are:
Veinte Tres by Ricky Ladia:
Calamansi Lady by Sam Rosales:
Newspaper Lady by Sam Rosales:
Fly On by Stephen Lavoie:
5 Kids by Dindin Lagdameo:
Binondo 2 by Jared Posion:
Photo by Chris Yu:
image 3 by Ma-Anne Roque:
Long Day in Binondo by Joel Garcia:
And finally, the WINNER – 'My Manila by Joel Garcia'!
Joel – Congratulations! You will get a free copy of Scott Kelby's Lightroom 2 Book!
The details here are also posted in the Manila Group Page (including the winner).
To all those who joined – thanks so much! Looking forward to see you all again in next year's photowalk! Again, I just wanted to let you know that it wasn't an easy decision to make.


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Daft Idea Of The Week: Giving People Copyright In Their Faces
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Copyright maximalism has proceeded along two axes. The first is the term of copyright, which has been steadily extended from the basic 14 years of the 1710 Statute of Anne to today's life + 50 or 70 years, depending on the jurisdiction. The other is the scope of copyright, where there are constant attempts to make yet more fields of human endeavor subject to it – for example fashion or food.
It's a sad sign of how pervasive this idea of granting a copyright monopoly on everything has become that all sorts of people are starting to offer suggestions - like this proposal from privacy groups to give people copyright in their faces:
The Federal Trade Commission recently held a workshop on facial recognition technology, such as Facebook's much-hated system, and its privacy implications. The FTC has promised to come down hard on companies who abuse these capabilities, but privacy advocates are seeking even stronger protections. One proposal raised was to provide people with copyright in their faceprints or facial features. This idea has two demerits: it is unconstitutional, and it is insane. Otherwise, it seems fine.
The author of those words, Derek Bambauer, points out two Constitutional problems. First, that it's the author of a work that gets the copyright, and that would be the person who fixes your face as a photo, say. This would lead to the fun situation where somebody else would own the copyright to your face. The other issue is that you can't copyright facts, and your face, however expressive you might make it, is just a physical fact in its natural state.
Bambrauer also notes deep practical problems with the idea:
So, the proposal is unconstitutional. It's also stupid: fixing privacy with copyright is like fixing alcoholism with heroin. Copyright infringement is ubiquitous in a world of digital networked computers. Similarly, if we get copyright in our facial features, every bystander who inadvertently snaps our picture with her iPhone becomes an infringer – subject to statutory damages of between $750 and $30,000. Even if few people sue, those who do have a powerful weapon on their side. Courts would inevitably try to mitigate the harsh effects of this regime, probably by finding most such incidents to be fair use. But that imposes high administrative costs, and fair use is an equitable doctrine – it invites courts to inject their normative views into the analysis.
Much the same could be said of existing copyright works in the online world. "Bystanders" of digital content – for example, people who record their children dancing to music - are regarded as infringers by the recording companies, even though their "use" is entirely a function of the ubiquity of material covered by copyright.
Fortunately, courts do indeed try to "mitigate the harsh effects of this regime" by declaring such things fair use - in some countries at least. But it's a pity that the stupidity of trying to enforce copyright for such incidental uses isn't as manifestly self-evident as it is for the idea of giving people copyright in their faces.
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Halloween in Mayfield, Kansas – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 31, 2009
The following is the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings! Thanks, Randy!
Hey boys and girls, it's Hallowe'en, and time for some Saturday Night Genealogy Fun! Play either before or after your trick or treating experiences, or even on Sunday morning after your extra hour of sleep (you did remember to set your clocks back, didn't you?).
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along – cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Think about your most memorable Hallowe'en – was it when you were a child (candy, games, carnivals), a teenager (tricks and treats), or an adult (perhaps a party)?
2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post.
3) Have fun!
Looking back at my own memories I realize how lucky we were. We lived in, or in my case near, a wonderful small town where the residents were patient and the bank roof was sturdy.
What was so important about the bank roof being sturdy?
The goal each Halloween, for at least two generations, was to block off the three-block Main Street so no traffic could get through, (at all) soap car and business' windows, (there were five in my time prior to that six or seven) and to …
Pile as Much Stuff on the Bank Roof as Possible!
In our defense, it didn't start with my generation.
In my father's time, horse drawn buggies were pushed, pulled, and hauled up on the bank's roof.
In my time, for whatever reason, it became the preacher's kid's swing sets that made their way onto the bank roof each Halloween.
Just in case one of the p.k.'s (preacher's kids) read this someday it didn't mean we didn't like you or your folks, i.e. it was not a negative reflection on the preacher's popularity, it was probably because the family was well liked.
And, it was also because the swing sets were handy to the bank and very easily moved.
In Mayfield, in the 1950's, it was safe…
In Mayfield, in the 1950's, it was safe for children to go around by themselves. Maybe it wouldn't be now, maybe not even in Mayfield which is still has about 100 residents, and isn't that a sad commentary on our times.
My very first Halloween memory is when I was about three or four years old and not much taller than the paper grocery sack my mom sent me off to trick or treat with.
One of the 'big girls', Anita Biles or Ginny Barry, took me by the hand, and walked me around the town along with a crowd made up of all ages and sizes. I felt very short, very small, and kind of scared.
My next memory is being big enough not to hold anyone's hand and going around with friends in home-made costumes. I remember being a hobo often, because the bandannas and ratty clothes were easy to come by.
By the Time We Were Old Enough, the Privy's were gone…
By the time my generation was big enough to join in with creating havoc, some of the buggies and horse drawn wagons still sat in yards and town fields, but the outhouses (privy's) were gone. My dad's generation was known to push over outhouses.(Occasionally some resourceful person moved the outhouse, and the prankster's fell IN the outhouse hole) and one Hallowwen someone was actually IN an outhouse when it was pushed over.
Looking back, I marvel at the patience of the men who got up the next day, and took everything back to its proper home, because if it was movable, if it could be drug, rolled, pushed or pulled, it made its way to Main Street on Halloween night amidst joyous laughter and much camaraderie. (And for those who cleaned up the next day, please know that I'm grateful.)
We Were 'Too Old' to Go Trick or Treating…
As teen-agers, though we considered ourselves too old to go trick-or-treating, we were still expected to make an appearance in each of our town "Grandma's" homes to receive our treats.
We started out at Grandma Mabel Stayton's, where my mom, Dorothy Stocking, and my best friend's mom, Wanda Stayton, both farm wives, sat with Mabel to hand out candy along with Mabel. From there, we traveled to visit at Grandma Eva Downing's, Grandma Jenny McCreary's, Valley Heasty's, Mrs. Washburn's, Dode and Bonnie Anderson, and Nancy and Rosa Weber's home.
At each home, we were welcomed with candy and choruses of "My how you've grown!", "What grade are you in now?" and "Be sure and come back next year!"
We had no idea then, how lucky we were to grow up in a small town with such a family friendly atmosphere.
But Traditions Change…
It wasn't too many years after we Tricked and Treated that the traditions were changed to ones that were safer and were less work for all involved, but looking back, well, memories just don't get any better than the ones we were lucky enough to create.


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Growers will face sticker shock this fall when checking some seed prices, particularly those of Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans. Monsanto recently announced it is increasing the price of RR soybeans in its Asgrow and Dekalb brands by $4 to $5/acre and RR corn about $2/acre.
While licensing agreements are confidential, industry experts assume a similar price increase is online for Monsanto's seed partners, the regional companies contracting with Monsanto for its trait technology. This means that a substantial portion of the U.S. seed market for RR soybeans and corn will be priced higher.
When asked about the price increase, John Raines, Monsanto's director of U.S. marketing, states, "We've taken the RR soybean royalty up, and we've strengthened Roundup WeatherMax through Roundup Rewards and lowered the list price of Roundup OriginalMax. So the total cost of buying RR soybean seed and Roundup OriginalMax in 2005 sould be similar to the cost of buying both this year. In addition, growers who purchased generic glyphosate products in the past because of price will find Roundup OriginalMax more competitively priced today."
Monsanto is increasing its Roundup Rewards elements for both Roundup WeatherMax and Roundup OriginalMax. For example, crop loss and replant provisions in RR soybeans are now available for Roundup OriginalMax.
"We knew when we introduced RR soybeans that we would face competition with Roundup herbicide, starting basically in 2000 when Roundup went off patent," Raines says. He points out that the cost of conventional soybean seed and herbicides in 1996 was $45 to $50/acre. Last year, he says, the price of RR soybeans and the average price of Roundup combined was $38/acre.
"The cost of the RR soybean weed control system has been flat to down since its introduction in 1996," Raines says. "As value has shifted away from the herbicide, we have shifted more of that value over to the trait. We are a company that invests in research and development to bring farmers new technology for their operations. Our products have to provide farmers more value than they cost and we have to earn a return on the investment that we sell into the marketplace."
Monsanto's research and development investment is $500 million a year, according to Kim Magin Sutter, Monsanto's director of global industry affairs. This large budget allows the company to continue work on new traits and technology that benefit growers and consumers.
Raines believes growers will continue to use the RR soybean weed control system. "In feedback from growers and dealers, many customers prefer to spray a Roundup brand herbicide that has the safety, convenience and consistency that they've come to appreciate in a brand that is at a much lower price," he says.


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Mayan Apocalypse Believers Take Refuge in French Town
Could a small secluded French village survive the end of the world? Many believe so.
Bugarach, one of the poorest and least populated areas of France, is becoming a doomsday destination among "the esoterics," The New York Times is reporting. According to the piece, believers have concluded the town will be the only location saved from the reported Mayan calendar destruction that will occur on December 21.
Jean-Pierre Delord, the mayor of Bugarach, found out reading Internet forums that scores of believers in the 'Mayan Apocalypse' plan to take refuge in the village this year, alarming him.
"Some web sites in the U.S. were selling tickets to come here," said Delord. "We are 200 locals; we don't want 2,000 to 3,000 utopians showing up in Bugarach."
Several web sites dedicated to the apocalypse theory believe the mountain of Bugarach is "a sacred place that will protect them from the end of the world."
"Some even believe that, on doomsday, they will be spirited away by a group of aliens who live under the mountain," states the newspaper. "The date in question is when a 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar supposedly comes to a close."
Sigrid Benard, a local innkeeper, told the newspaper she has received numerous calls from people wishing to reserve rooms and mobile homes from the beginning of December 2012 to the end of January. She offers rooms only in the summer. She reveals many people wanted to arrive three weeks before the apocalypse and book the week afterwards to see what would occur.
Delord is worried Bugarach will become a safe haven for "apocalypse believers and lunatics."
"Those people belong to a New Age circle of influence," said Delord. "Today, they do business on pure fables; they build inns and organize collective therapies."
Several reports online suggested former President Francois Mitterrand visited the peak of Bugarach by helicopter. There was also allegedly a "halo of cloud shaped like a spaceship around the summit and that plans never flew over the mountain because of supposed magnetic waves."
Residents even stated they sometimes see crowds of people with their arms crossed in an X shape, climbing the peak with figurines of the Virgin Mary in their hands. One Finnish reporter said he once spotted groups of people carrying a ball and a golden ring hung by a thread. Some, he insisted, were dressed in white. Others were naked.
Meanwhile, Delord is wondering how he could save his village not from Doomsday, but from the masses.
"If it happens as in Mr. Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' it would be necessary to call in the army," said Delord.
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Yesterday Randy Seaver of Geneamusings.com posted an "Ahnentafel Roulette" challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun; the mission this week:
- What year was one of your great-grandmothers born? Divide this number by 125 (use a calculator!) and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."
- Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel" - your software will create this - use the "Ahnentafel List" option, or similar). Who is that person, and what are his/her vital information?
- Tell us three to five facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number."
Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.
- NOTE: If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then "spin" the wheel again - pick another great-grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, yourself, or even your children!
I love playing Ahnentafel Roulette, so even though I'm a day late, here's my submission:
My paternal great-grandmother Sarah Belle Forshee was born in 1856. Her birth year divided by 125 is 14.848, rounded up to 15.
On my pedigree chart, #15 is my maternal great-grandmother Ruth Franklin.
- Ruth Franklin was born 12 March 1851 in Ohio, probably Union County, the eldest child of Joseph Franklin and Rhoda Cary, and died 28 August 1914, in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. She married David A. Snider on 5 January 1871 in Union County, Ohio.
- Ruth had eleven children—nine sons and two daughters. Her eldest daughter, Myrtle Arminta Snider, was my grandmother.
- Ruth and David moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1880. They were enumerated in the census in Leesburg Township, Union County, Ohio, on 17 June 1880, but their fifth child Byron Lee was born in November 1880 in Kansas.
- Ruth was the great-granddaughter of Luther Cary, a soldier in the Revolutionary War; it is through this line that I joined the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
- Ruth (Franklin) Snider shared her mitochondrial DNA with her daughter Myrtle (Snider) Yawman (my grandmother), her granddaughter Beaulah (Yawman) Sherrell Spurlock (my mother), and me and my sisters, Deanna and Jennifer. I had only a son, but her mitochondrial DNA continues down to the daughters and granddaughters of Deanna and Jennifer.
© 2013 Denise Spurlock


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The Furman Counseling Center maintains an extensive referral network of psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to whom we make many student referrals each year. Sometimes students come to us knowing from the outset that they would like to begin longer-term treatment, and/or that they would prefer to pursue counseling with a practitioner outside the Barnard campus. In these instances, we are happy to provide referrals to therapists who are either in private practice in Manhattan, or who are affiliated with a clinic in the area. We can also make referrals to area psychiatrists who can prescribe medication for you if needed, or who can monitor and continue treatment that you may have begun before coming to Barnard.
On the other hand, you and your counselor at the Counseling Center may decide together that you would benefit most from longer-term therapy. This may be apparent in the first or second meeting with your counselor. At this point, your counselor will work with you to provide referral options that will allow you continue your progress. We make every effort to identify treatment resources that fall within students' financial requirements.


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Lawmakers go after tax scofflaws
Owe back taxes?
Lawmakers want to cancel your passport.
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They want to give the IRS more power to investigate you. And enlist private debt collectors to help track down your old debts. If you're a doctor, they want to seize your Medicare payments. They'd also like a bit more information about the mortgage interest tax deduction you're claiming.
Congress may be deadlocked over tax increases, but lawmakers are finding lots of agreement on another way to raise revenue: throwing the book at tax dodgers.
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"Making cheaters pay their taxes is way more attractive than making honest taxpayers pay more," said Len Burman, head of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
What's prompting the quiet outbreak of bipartisanship?
They need money.
Lawmakers are scrambling to find almost $10 billion just to keep a roads maintenance program running through the end of this year, and another $3 billion for new tax cuts promised to start-up companies and other small businesses, bike-sharing programs and theatrical productions, among others.
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Going after tax scofflaws also allows both parties to claim victory. Democrats can say they're raising revenue, heading off more cuts in funding for government programs, while Republicans can say they held the line on tax increases.
Though the proposals increase tax revenues, Republicans say they're hardly tax hikes.
"We're not anarchists," said Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at antitax advocate Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. "We do believe that if the law imposes a tax liability on somebody, until you can change the law, it's your responsibility to pay it." He said, "that's not a tax increase just because it results in extra money coming in because the extra money should have been coming in all along."
At least one of the proposals is nevertheless drawing protests.
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National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, an IRS watchdog, warns that one proposal, to tap private debt collectors, means the public will face much more aggressive efforts to recover unpaid taxes.
"Outsourcing the collection of federal tax debts is a bad idea," she said in a 21-page letter to lawmakers urging them to drop the idea.
The push to empower the tax man comes even as House Republicans continue to complain about an overly zealous IRS harassing tea party groups, and as House appropriators slash the agency's annual budget — making it harder to recover unpaid taxes.
A highway budget bill now before the Senate Finance Committee includes almost a half-dozen compliance measures, including one ordering the State Department to deny passports to people owing more than $50,000 in back taxes.
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It demands more information about taxpayers' mortgages, including how much is still left on their loans and whether they've refinanced. Currently, only the interest paid is required to be reported. The additional information would make it easier for the IRS to determine when people no longer qualify for the hugely popular mortgage interest deduction, which is limited to interest paid on $1.1 million in mortgage and home equity debt. That's likely to be no small thing in places like the East and West coasts where mortgages topping $1 million are increasingly commonplace.
Another provision would give the IRS, which generally has three years to assess taxes before statutes of limitations kick in, more time to investigate people low-balling how much they made selling property and stock. Under the measure, the IRS would get twice as long — six years — to examine such cases.
One would slap $500 fines on tax preparers who don't take certain steps to ensure their clients aren't wrongly claiming the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which subsidizes college expenses.
All of that is in addition to tax compliance provisions included in a tax "extender" measure approved in April by the Finance panel. That bill revives a raft of expired tax breaks Congress routinely renews, and lawmakers are not paying for those with tax cuts. But the legislation also includes several new tax breaks, such as one that will allow start-up companies to claim a corporate research credit even if they are unprofitable and therefore don't pay income taxes, that lawmakers would have to offset.


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News International will screen the one-off event outside of the paywall, as News International uses the event as a marketing exercise to lure in new paid-for subscribers to the site.
Earlier this year News International took the paywall down during the Queens's Diamond Jubilee.
Walsh will discuss his 13-year fight to prove seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong used drugs to win the cycling event during a live stream of a Times+ event hosted by The Sunday Times news review editor Alan Hunter.
The event is being live streamed after tickets for the live discussion, which is taking place at 7.45pm on Thursday (13 December), sold out.
Viewers watching the discussion at home will be able to ask Walsh a question via Twitter using the hasthtag #WalshLive.
Armstrong's fall from the grace this year has dominated sports headlines and resulted in Walsh being named British Journalist of the Year and Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.Follow @mattchapmanuk


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From Biomedical Computation to Imaging and Back Again: Lessons Learned and Advances Gained from Two Decades of Research at Thayer
Keith Paulsen, Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
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This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
Advances in computational power and imaging technology that have occurred over the last twenty years have enabled extraordinary opportunities to advance clinical science through the merging of classical engineering modeling methods with conventional (and unconventional) medical imaging methodologies to produce new kinds of information that could serve to improve clinical practice. Activity at Dartmouth involving faculty, students and other personnel within Thayer and elsewhere across the institution has a long history of involvement in this area of research investigation and discovery. This presentation will look back over a number of biomedical computation and imaging developments with roots at Thayer and Dartmouth in order to highlight lessons learned and advances gained through these experiences.
About the Speaker
Dr. Keith D. Paulsen, Ph.D. is the Robert A. Pritzker Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Professor of Radiology at Dartmouth Medical School, Director of the Advanced Imaging Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Co-Director of the Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. His research specializes in cancer imaging techniques in the breast and brain. Dr. Paulsen has published over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature and has received numerous awards for funding his research from the National Institutes of Health. He has maintained an active research program with funding from the NIH for more than twenty years that is currently focused on the development and evaluation of imaging methods for diagnostic and therapeutic clinical decision-making in the identification and management of cancers, primarily of the breast and brain. Dr. Paulsen served as a member of the Radiation Research Study Section from 1996-2000 and the Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section from 2002-2006 within the Center for Scientific Review at the NIH. Dr. Paulsen received the B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 1981 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1984 and 1986, respectively, from Dartmouth where he studied advanced computational methods for biomedical modeling of cancer treatments. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering with a joint appointment in Radiation Oncology in the Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Paulsen returned to Dartmouth where he became an Associate and then Full Professor of Engineering Sciences in 1994 and 2000, respectively.


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People are social beings, so for many of us, it doesn't make sense to try and lose weight alone. Many people do better in a group program such as Weight Watchers. In fact, Weight Watchers has been one of the most successful weight loss programs around for many years now. It operates on a simple, yet ingenious formula that makes weight loss simple for the majority of people.
The first element is the grading of foods according to points. The key is that it's a simple system. Different foods are given a different number of points based on their fat and calorie content, and you are given a daily 'allowance' of points depending on how active you are and how much weight you want or need to lose. This means that you don't need to stick to pre-planned menus, you don't need to buy special foods or supplements, and you can eat the foods you love. There are no forbidden foods.
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This is very different from a lot of other diets and weight loss programs, which tend to target a particular type of food and blame it for everyone's weight problems. For people who subscribe to the low -carb approach to weigh loss, simple carbohydrates are the 'enemy'. For fitness guru Susan Powter, fat is the enemy. The problem is that all of these diets lose their appeal after you have been on several different ones, and they all tell you different things. In fact, as a society, we almost expect a new approach to eating to come along every year or so, just to confuse us!
At Weight Watchers, though, they just let the numbers speak for themselves without judging the foods. Some foods are simply higher in calories, so if you want to eat them, you have to eat less in order to lose or maintain your weight. It's very simple. So, for example, if you want to plan to have dessert, you can cut back on some of your other food for the day, or just exercise a bit more.
Another thing that makes Weight Watchers so successful is the group approach. Everyone comes to meetings together, a little bit like AA or any other support group. There, everyone is weighed in public, though there is no scolding or shaming, Psychologically, though, that really does make people try harder to lose weight. People know that if they slip up, everyone will know. Everyone will probably be very understanding, but by the same token, everyone is likely to applaud you when you do stick to the plan and lose weight.
Weight Watchers is the original, but there are many other weight loss programs that are based on this group approach. It's very helpful to many of us, much as exercising with a friend can be much easier than doing it on your own. Basically, eating is a very social thing, and one of the reasons why people fail to lose weight may be that they feel the need to participate in the social aspect of eating.
Weight loss groups deal with this need very constructively. You have the opportunity, on a regular basis, to be with a large group of people who are in the same boat, so to speak. Weight Watchers also has qualified counselors on hand to help you with any trouble you might be having with your weight loss plan. That kind of support is definitely well worth the very reasonable fee you pay for joining.
Weight Watchers is a diet, not a way of life - you set goals, and when you meet them, you're 'finished', so to speak. However, one of the aims of this program is to teach you certain skills that you will be able to keep for life. These include a sense of portion control - because we are often served huge portions of food in restaurants, for example, some of us seem to have lost touch with what a reasonable portion of food looks like, or what it feels like to eat it. This, in and of itself, leads to a lot of weight problems. Weight Watchers and other similar weight loss programs help you reinstate the sense of portion control by limiting the amount of food you eat at a single sitting down to a more reasonable size.


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We have talked about both these guys. She seemed annoyed about me not wanting to see the one she had sex with before, but she didn;t want me seeing a friend of an ex of mine. There was no past between me and this girl, nor was I attracted to her, but I respected her feeling on the matter. I thought it would only be fair for her to respect mine as well, especially considering the sexual history there. She has not been in touch with him because she says she doesnt care for him and loves me. So I have no worries on her part of anything happening. As I have said, I am not worried about my g/f doing anything, I know she wouldn't, but I don't like the thought of someone trying it on with her and putting her in that situation...and then me hearing about it! I think anyone would feel that way though.Bel Bel wrote:WELL THE ONE SHE HAS HAD SEX WITH AND ONLY OCCASIONALLY SEES I HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU- sorry on caps
The other guy i see differently. She has never done anything with him upto now so why do you think she might in the future.
If he was her friend before you met then i don't think you have the right to stop her seeing him
Why are ypou so sure this guy would try it on with your girl? So what if he fancies her, you cn't stop peopel fancying other people but that doesn't mean they don't have bounderies.
Also if your g/f did decide to do something with him it just shows she isn't committed to you, maybe it would be better to find that out sooner than later
The problem is if you try to stop her that could be what ultimately pushes her away. People don't like to be controlled and told what to do.
Have you spoken with her about this and what are her feelings on the subject?
As for the other guy, he is a sleezy person. I have met him, and the way he talks to women is cheesy and sleezy, and I know he has fancied my g/f for a long time. I know she wouldn't do anything and she told me that nothing has or would ever happen, but let slip about a 'thing' they do. He is a local dj (not really a close friend, but they are friendly), and he knows her and all her mates. When they go out, my g/f greets him by them both giving a kiss on both cheeks and a peck on the lips. I told her I wasn't happy about it, and saw it as cheating not in a serious way, but because I see kisses as being quite an intimate thing between people. And I wouldn't like the thought of kissing her after he had 'been there' so to speak in that intimate way. Call me old fashioned (even though I'm 20 lol), but I wasn't comfortable with it because of his feelings towards her. I think that's going over the boundary, which I think is fair. He was chatting her up and trying it on, saying that he didn't like me cus she was going out with me (while was in another country at Uni!). She told me about it and I was really pi**ed off by how cheeky that was, he knew I was with her, but yet was sayng stuff like that! How can I let a guy like that be friends with my girlfriend? I know I can't stop people fancying her, she gets looked at left right and center when we go out, but I just ignore it because I know she loves me and wants to be with me (this was a big issue for a while as I thought she was looking at other guys because they kept looking at her, but we talked and sorted it out). This is my first serious relationship, and it's been a big learning curve.
The main point I was making is don't judge people if they do these things or feel this way, as it may be the things you are doing, or other people or are doing to you, that is causing it. Maybe not major things to you, but others see things in different ways, and in a loving relationship I feel that sometimes people have to make some sacrifices every now and again to respect their partners feelings. I don't think I am overly jealous and/or controlling because of this, as I have good reasons to feel this way.


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"The Startup Chef" cookbook, which just launched today, shows a more personal side of the people who power the tech community.
It features recipes from Dennis Crowley of Foursquare, Daniel Ek of Spotify, and 75 other prominent founders, investors, and writers in the tech industry.
Contributors even wrote a personal backstory to accompany their respective recipes.
"[The cookbook] shows a side of the tech community that you don't really get to see that much, especially if you're not in the Valley," the book's co-creator Maya Baratz tells Business Insider.
Baratz, a product executive at ABC News, and Hunter Walk, a product executive at YouTube, started this project about two months ago to help raise money for charities aiming to end hunger (No Kid Hungry) and to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy (Rockaway Plate Lunch Project).
"We thought maybe we could get a handful and we were really quite floored with the fact that we got 75 recipes," Baratz said.
Some of the recipes include "Eggnog Cinnamon Chip Scones" from Randi and Donna Zuckerberg, "Mom Crowley's Sausage Soup", a family recipe for Italian pasta sauce from GroupMe founder Steve Martocci, and chocolate chip cookies from Union Square Venture partner Fred Wilson and his wife, Joanne.
Since it's an e-book, Baratz says they will continue to update the book with more recipes. Anyone who is interested in submitting a recipe can fill out the online form.


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View district events and key school year dates on the Seattle Public Schools calendar.
No school Mon., Nov. 12, 2018 in observation of Veterans Day.
One-page calendar with 2018-19 key dates
Do you want to delete all occurrences of the recurring appointment "Veterans Day: no school", or just this one?
Delete this occurrence.
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Apple chips serve as lunchbox-ready snacks that are crispy (baked – not fried) and have just a touch of cinnamon and sugar. Even store-bought apple chips are wonderful treats, but when you make homemade apple chips, you can not only control how much sugar you add (you don't need to add much), but you can also make your homemade apple chips in fun shapes!
I used tiny harvest cookie cutters to cut my apple pieces into leaf and apple shapes. Using the apple cookie cutter was the literal version of the game Apples to Apples.
How To Make Homemade Apple Chips
Homemade Apple Chips in Fun Fall Shapes
- Any variety of apple that you like two medium-sized apples will make about one large cookie sheet of apple chips
- Sugar to taste
- Cinnamon to taste
- Tiny cookie cutters
- Preheat oven to 200 F.
- Slice the apples. But how?
- Everything that I read about making homemade apple chips said to cut the slices as thinly as possible. They even recommended using a mandoline. I tried the mandoline method, but found that the apple chips were too thin. They didn't provide the same satisfying crunch as the thicker apple pieces.
- I also tried using an apple peeler and corer to core and slice the apples. If you've ever worked with one, you know that you end up with apple rings with a missing center, like you see in the cookie cutter photo above. The thickness was perfect. However, the ring pieces were too narrow for the apple cookie cutter (they worked splendidly with the leaf cookie cutter).
- In the end, I found that the best way to slice the apples is by hand with a good kitchen knife (I swear by our Wusthof). Cut the apples about 1/8" thick (if it's a bit thinner or thicker, you'll still be fine, so don't worry about breaking out your ruler).
- Use the cookie cutters to cut the apple slices into shapes. Don't throw out the apple scraps! They make great chips too.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat and fill with the cut out apples and the scraps - making sure that nothing is overlapping.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Although I didn't try it, I think these would even be good without sugar. Most varieties of apple are naturally sweet.
- Load the cookie sheet(s) into the oven.
- The bake time of your chips will depend on how thick your apple slices are. The paper thin apple chips that I made using the mandoline took about two hours. However, the other chips took almost six hours. Check on your chips every hour or so to see how they are doing (they like visitors). You'll see them transform from the baked apple stage to the chewy dried apple stage to the crispy apple chips that you are looking for. Once they start to get crispy, remove them from the oven and flip them. Sprinkle a little bit more sugar on the flip side and bake for one more hour.
- Store in a paper bag or any container that is sealed but not airtight (tightly-sealed containers will make them soggy).
Scraps are Pretty Too
Here's the glam shot of the apple scraps turned into apple chips. It also gives you a sense of how pretty these apple chips would look even if you didn't use the cookie cutters at all.
Don't Be Shocked, But…
The apple chips also happen to look adorable on top of cupcake.


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Audi Sport Quattro plug-in hybrid
Vehicle type: Plug-in hybrid coupe
Engine: 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 and a 110-kw electric motor, for a combined 700 hp
Who designed it: A team led by Audi design chief Wolfgang Egger
What's cool: Design similar to the iconic 1980 quattro rally car, a honeycomb version of Audi's "single pane" grille, Matrix LED headlights and a choice of EV, hybrid and sport modes
Will it be built: Probably in some form. The car shares architecture with the next-generation A5, which is due in 2015. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said a model similar to the Sport Quattro may make sense in the "midterm."
Show reaction: It drew easily 10 times as many gawkers as its neighbors at the Audi stand - the new A3 cabriolet and refreshed A8 sedan.


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Trainers in the standardbred game were milkshaking their horses when Richard Nixon was president, in the belief that the stuff would deter muscle fatigue and increase endurance. The practice came to the thoroughbreds late, as though a trainer in the boondocks had come across an old veterinarians' handbook and the word had spread like a rumor about the vicar at a church picnic. By the mid-2000s, the integrity police in California heard about milkshakes without going to McDonalds. They began testing.
As usual, the trainers were several steps, if not years, ahead of the chemists. "We think Doug O'Neill is doing this," a member of the California Horse Racing Board told me in 2005. I never felt that the conversation was off the record, but I never printed it or even asked O'Neill about it, because it was only a theory. At the time, the O'Neill stable was cresting. His horses earned more than $9 million that year, with Lava Man, a remarkable gelding, the bell cow of the barn. Lava Man has been retired, but O'Neill has marched on. Since 2002, his horses have earned more than $60 million, and when I recently looked, he ranked 12th nationally in purses.
In May of 2006, one of O'Neill's horses did go over. And there have been a series of overages for milkshakes since then, for O'Neill horses that have run both inside and outside California, the latest being a violation this summer at Del Mar, where O'Neill was the leading trainer in races won. O'Neill's milkshake transgression was the only violation of its kind the entire Del Mar season.
O'Neill has denied culpability at every turn, and he is expected to contest the Del Mar violation. The racing board, which has a history of cowering and foot-dragging when big-name trainers wave big-name lawyers in their faces, has never thrown the well-known book at O'Neill, or ever suggested that it might lock up his horses and throw away the key. This is a racing board that speaks loudly and carries a little stick.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, O'Neill made some comments that are bagatelle in the scheme of things, but startling just the same. He said that if he was really going to fiddle with a horse, why would he pick a race that was worth only $9,000 to the winner? We're all adults here, and a few of us even lay a bet from time to time. Left unsaid are the betting patterns on the horse in question, and whether the barn, or anyone connected with the horse, stood to make a killing at the wickets.
"I want to be a positive mover in this game, which I think is on the upswing," O'Neill also told the newspaper. "I don't understand why something like this, an eighth-place finish in a small race and high test, couldn't have been in-house while not bringing negativity to the sport."
Put the two statements together and you have O'Neill saying that a cheap race isn't worth tampering with, and then isn't worth public dialogue once the tampering is discovered. I once successfully sued a publishing company after it reprinted one of my stories without permission. Before the trial, the editor who had overstepped his bounds, and was asking me to drop the case, said that the payment might come out of his own pocket and he had a bunch of kids. I think the number was six. I said to him, "How many kids do you have to have before you can start stealing somebody else's work?" At the trial, the number of children never came up. Nor should the the purse of the race when Doug O'Neill's day of accountability comes due.


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BRISTOL — Chris Casey of Bristol returned to Addison County on Sept. 10 after fighting wildfires in Colorado and Montana. Casey spent a total of 50 days out West this summer, fighting four different wildfires.
When he's not battling wildfires, Casey works for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes division of the U.S. Forest Service as a silviculturist, a specialist in forest management.