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Bridal Shower
by Shelly Hazard
Gary and Rebecca are getting married! They've set the date, sent invitations, and are busy with all the little details for the big event. Her mother and some friends busily planned a bridal shower, keeping Rebecca in the dark, of course. Then one Sunday afternoon Gary delivered a very surprised Rebecca, at the pre-determined time of 2:30 pm, to her bridal shower. The afternoon was a big success and they got many fine gifts to help get their new home started. From the clues below, determine the full names of four of Rebecca's friends, the gifts each gave, the snacks they brought to serve, and what time they arrived (all arrived between 2:00pm and 2:15pm).
1. Mrs. Parker, who didn't bring the apple pie, arrived ten minutes before Sara. Holly, who wasn't Mrs. Smith, didn't bring the coffee maker.
2. The woman who gave the coffee maker arrived at 2:00 pm.
3. Holly, who didn't bring the brownies, arrived before Sara Lewis.
4. The order of arrival was Linda, who was first, the woman who gave the toaster oven, the woman who brought the cheesecake, and Brenda.
5. The woman whose gift was a bread machine arrived five minutes after Mrs. Winter but five minutes before the woman who gave the microwave.
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Kasey Kiser, Film and Video Production
Some would say he knows every nook and cranny in and around the city of Wilmington. It's his job to, actually. As an assistant location manager for many of the major film productions that come into town, CFCC graduate Kasey Kiser works hard to solidify filming locations that Wilmington residents may even recognize on screen. His most recent project was to find locations for a new television pilot for ABC TV called Secrets & Lies. This job led him right back where he got his start in the industry – on the campus of Cape Fear Community College.
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I just logged off Secret World and realized I was grinding towards a build, but I wasn't, at least mostly, having fun.
After CoH I went to Champions, and, while there is a lot that's messed up about that game, I had at least some moments of real fun. Cryptic gets some things right.
Then, when I realized it was alt-or-nothing at endgame, and that my mains that I loved had nothing fun to do, I eventually tired of alting and moved to TSW. But I just needed my tights and cape and TRAVEL POWER!
So, I went to DCUO and that gave me my fix, but, while there were a few fun moments, it turned into Champions. My mains were all dressed up with no place to go and constant alting got old.
So, I went back to Secret world.
I WANTED to like Champions because it was Superheroes, but it wasn't consistently fun like CoH. Then I wanted to like Secret World because it is such a great story and atmosphere--but it's not a very fun game to actually play. And I wanted to like DCUO for the same reasons I wanted to like Champions.
Warcabbit has stated that the overriding goal of CoT is for the game to be FUN to play, That makes me very hopeful. One concern I have is that it's also been stated that the Endgame will BE alting. I love alting, but I also love having fun with my mature, developed heroes, and I need to be able to do that.
But, the main point is, whether it was alting or taking my mains out for a night on the town or fiddling on Mids or doing a PUG, I was almost always having FUN!
Is it just in my head or am I idealizing the past? Rose-colored hind-sight? I don't think so. I don't ever remember feeling like this with CoH. Not after 8 years.
Part of it for me was a feeling of real POWER in the animations and actual capabilities of your Hero in CoH. You were just a bad-ass.
The other was the game made things EASY, not hard just for it's own sake. Yes, there were challenges, but it was easy to solo and easy to team and easy to earn inf and craft and easy to learn how to build, etc. And you could always PvP or make a GM or AV soloer or go for Master runs if you wanted a brick wall to bang your head against (which is fun from time to time). But the game itself wasn't a brick wall.
Maybe the philosophy in gaming now is to use difficulty rather than fun as a time sink? I think fun is the best time sink. BOY did I sink time into CoH--and never regretted it.
So, what thing or constellation of things made CoH so fun for you that you are here on these forms waiting for a spiritual successor long after the game itself is gone?
I mean, seriously, would you do this for any other game?
PS- On second thought (and after a deep breath) I did spend absolutely HOURS dinkering with my look and the look of my powers. So, customization, of course, was huge.
But, then, there was actually fun stuff to go out and do with my oh-so-perfectly tailored look and powers.
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The High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, bringing more than 75,000 people to High Point, North Carolina, every six months. Serious retail home furnishings buyers, interior designers, architects, and others in the home furnishings industry can be found in High Point twice a year because if you can't find it in High Point…it probably doesn't exist.
Presented in partnership with High Point Market Authority, the Design Viewpoints Series (DVS) features a series of CEU accredited seminars for design professionals. Industry leaders will present ideas and techniques on how to grow your business, position your fees to increase your income, use legal contracts to protect your firm, attract new clients, and balance your daily demands. Midday sessions will include a complimentary boxed lunch, and all DVS seminars will be held in the High Point Theatre, at the Transportation Terminal.
Saturday, April 14
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Speaker – Tobi Fairley, ASID, Tobi Fairley Interior Design
Tobi Fairley, ASID, combines her interior design degree, an MBA, and a life coaching certification for her innovative approach to running a design business. Learn Tobi's method of blending the value of your work with your own self-worth to increase your bottom line. You will leave this presentation with the new perspective that selling clients on your ideal design fees is much more about your mindset than their willingness to invest in your services. Complimentary boxed lunch provided. 0.1 IDCEC-approved CEU.
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Traditional Home Magazine predicted: "Tobi will be like Cher or Oprah, one of those women for whom one name says it all."
Tobi Fairley has redesigned her life and her brand, launching Tobi Fairley & Associates as a full-service consulting and design company. The company provides custom-tailored education, enlightened mentoring, and common-sense tools to help companies and design firms improve their business.
Tobi's vision for her brand is to empower others to cultivate their strengths and create inspired solutions for business, design, and life. Her unique combination of degrees in interior design and accounting, and an MBA from the prestigious Sam M. Walton College of Business, gives her a competitive advantage in the design industry, and offers a creative approach to the world of business.
Since establishing her design firm over 15 years ago, Tobi's projects have spanned the nation, and her award-winning designs for high-profile and celebrity clients have been featured on television, and in top-shelf shelter publications around the globe, including House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, Coastal Living, and more.
Tobi's design blog, created in September 2008, is currently read in more than 124 countries worldwide. In 2010, Tobi introduced her DIY design service, InBox Interiors, and launched her popular intensive courses and programs, including Design A-to-Z, Designer MBA, and her MasterMind mentoring program. Designers, business pros, and design enthusiasts alike have attended these programs from across the United States and Canada with rave reviews.
The stable of businesses under the TFA brand also includes Tobi Fairley Home, which includes a collection of fabrics, pillows, and lighting in Tobi's signature style – bright, bold, and tailored.
Sunday, April 15
9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Speaker – Alan M. Siegel, Partner, Levy Sonet & Siegel, LLP
A lawyer whose expertise is interior design contract law, Alan M. Siegel will show you how to develop and use legal contracts to protect you and your business. Alan will provide critical insight from his 40+ year career working with the top designers in the industry. The author of the interior design form contracts for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Alan will focus on key clauses from the new and reformatted 2018 agreements (available for purchase) to help you protect your firm, manage risk, and safeguard compensation. 0.15 IDCEC-approved CEU.
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Alan M. Siegel has 40+ years of legal experience within the design and architectural industry and has represented the interests of interior designers, architects, product designers, and industry resources. For over twenty years, Alan served as national legal counsel to ASID, and is the author of the ASID interior design form contracts. For his years of service with ASID, Alan was named an ASID Honorary Fellow. He currently serves as the general counsel for both the Association for Contract Textiles, Inc. (ACT) and the Decorative Furnishing Association (DFA).
Additionally, Alan is a member of the National Board of Trustees of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), as well as trustee of the Angelo Donghia Foundation. Alan is the co-author of A Guide to Business Principles and Practices for Interior Designers, and is a frequent lecturer and contributor to design industry and trade group publications.
Sunday, April 15
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Speakers – Jennifer Quail, i+D magazine (moderator); John Cialone, ASID, NCIDQ, Vice President and Design Director, Tom Stringer Design Partners; Courtney McLeod, Right Meets Left Interior Design; Robert Passal, Robert Passal Interior & Architectural Design
In the constant pressure of day-to-day client management, firm leaders must balance the cultivation of new business with the effective management of current projects. In this panel discussion, Jennifer Quail, editor-in-chief, i+D magazine, will invite our panel of design leaders including John Cialone, ASID, Courtney McLeod, and Robert Passal to share their strategies to maintain existing clients and gain new ones. You will walk away from this panel discussion with new ideas to help you successfully and sustainably expand your practice. Complimentary boxed lunch provided. 0.1 IDCEC-approved CEU.
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Jennifer Quail joined ASID in January 2017 as editor of the Society's award-winning magazine, ICON, and now serves as Editor-In-Chief of i+D, the magazine of ASID and Interior Designers of Canada. She has spent more than 15 years covering interior design, furnishings, and more for magazines in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Luxe Interiors + Design, FORM, ASPIRE Design & Home, and About.com, where she served as Home Furnishings Expert. Jennifer has a history with ASID, having served on the Board of the New York Metro chapter and as editor of both the ASID New York Metro and New Jersey chapter magazines.
Throughout her career, Jennifer has been continually struck by the endless ways design effects our daily lives and experiences and is excited to bring her passion for the subject to the pages of i+D. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communications from Drexel University and has taken assorted design classes covering theory, practice, and history at Parsons and NYU (with more still to come).
John Cialone's role as design director at Tom Stringer Design Partners is multi-faceted and deploys his characteristic energy to oversee client presentations and installations, as well as the day-to-day priorities of the design staff. Prior to joining Tom Stringer Design Partners, John ran his own interior design firm, was an executive for Schumacher, and spent four years as Chief Operating Officer of luxury footwear maker Stubbs and Wootton. John has an incredibly broad range of design and business expertise, which he devotes to ensuring the flow of clients' projects is smooth and steady.
John holds a bachelor's degree in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale as well as a degree in Business Administration from American University in Washington, D.C. A Registered Interior Designer in the state of Illinois, he is president-elect of the ASID Illinois Chapter and was a National 2017 Medalist recognized for outstanding service to the Society and its chapters. John was named partner of Tom Stringer Design Partners in the fall of 2015.
Courtney McLeod is the founder and principal of Right Meets Left Interior Design, a Manhattan-based full-service design studio serving residential and commercial clients. Right Meets Left is a reference to the balance of a creatively vital mind and a sharply analytical one – encapsulating her approach to the design process.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Courtney brings a sophisticated view to her rooms, informed by her Creole background and extensive travels throughout Europe and Asia, including a number of extended visits to Paris. She is a colorist at heart and believes strongly in the power of vivid color to spark joy. Courtney inspires clients to embrace the power of beautiful design to enhance their lives. The spaces she designs are evocative of both her clients' unique tastes and her vivid, collected aesthetic.
While she has had a lifelong passion for the decorative arts, prior to founding the firm Courtney earned a business degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and pursued a successful 15-year career in the financial services industry, rising to a leading portfolio management role in a multi-billion dollar real estate private equity firm. Despite her success, at the peak of her career she realized it was time to commit to the pursuit of her true passion - designing beautiful interiors. Taking the tremendous skills gained through her experience and enhancing them with design-related studies at Parsons, Pratt, and NYSID, she confidently embarked on a new course and has never looked back. She feels truly blessed to successfully pursue her second act and live her passion.
Courtney's work has been featured in print in the U.S. and abroad, including the cover of the Spring 2016 issue of Aspire Design + Home Magazine. She resides in the vibrant Harlem neighborhood, a wonderful source of inspiration. She has lived in New York City for two decades, but remains a Southerner at heart.
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Robert Passal is one of the nation's most prominent interior designers. Based in Manhattan, he is synonymous with classically inspired yet current design sensibilities. When it comes to designing, renovating, and constructing luxury apartments, magnificent homes, unforgettable boutiques, and sporty yachts, Passal is the go-to name.
A native New Yorker, Passal has left an indelible stamp on the American home. He has worked on the interiors of elite performers, professional athletes, bankers, and businessmen who come to Robert for his ability to create comfortably unique and gracious homes. His work has been featured in prestigious editorials within Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, and other design magazines.
After multiple decades working with the world's most demanding clientele and winning a string of awards, Robert's reputation as the creme de la creme in interiors continues to grow. His current efforts are focused on Putnam & Mason, the Greenwich, Connecticut retail venture he shares with business partner Kim Alessi. At the top of his game, Robert Passal refuses to slow down. He plans to expand the Putnam & Mason brand, and to introduce a line of couture wallcoverings and fabrics with his twist on tradition.
Monday, April 16
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Speakers – Tori Mellott, Traditional Home (moderator); Alexa Hampton, Mark Hampton, LLC and The Mine; Erika Ward, Erika Ward Interiors; Michelle Workman, Michelle Workman Interiors
Hear from design leaders who are balancing their professional careers with personal responsibilities and a desire to live a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. Our panelists will engage in a thought-provoking discussion on the challenges and rewards of finding synergy among life's daily demands. Improve your balance and understand what role your colleagues and family play in the process. This all-star panel, moderated by Tori Mellott of Traditional Home, will include Alexa Hampton, Tim Schelfe, FASID, CAPS, Erika Ward, and Michelle Workman, all working parents currently managing their own design firms. Complimentary boxed lunch provided. 0.1 IDCEC-approved CEU.
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After graduating from NYU Tori cut her teeth in magazines as an assistant at House Beautiful under editor-in-chief, Marian McEvoy. She went on to serve as the associate Style Editor at Elle Décor under Margaret Russell's leadership and was then tapped in 2004 to help launch Domino Magazine where she eventually became the decorating editor. After Domino folded, Mellott branched out and became the Creative Deputy for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Tori then explored yet another avenue of design and joined Nate Berkus for his first year of production of The Nate Show. Eager to return to print, Tori joined the amazing team at Traditional Home in 2011 and is the senior design and market editor.
Mark Hampton LLC was founded in 1976, by the late designer for whom the firm is named. In 1998, upon Mark Hampton's death, his daughter, fellow designer Alexa Hampton, took over the ownership and design leadership of the world-famous firm. She has completed a wide range of designs for domestic and international projects, from New York City to Hangzhou, China, including apartments and large residences, private airplanes, and yachts. A perennial member of Architectural Digest's AD100 and House Beautiful's Top Designer list as well as a member of Elle Décor's A-list, Hampton's work is classic, and eclectic. Her involvement in design goes far past her position as featured designer of Mark Hampton LLC; she is on the board of trustees for the New York School of Interior Design, the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Institute for Classical Architecture. She was one of the three inaugural designers who launched Gilt Groupe's Gilt Home Design Boutiques, serves on the design board of MyDeco.com and was the only ever female cast member of "This Old House" and was a co-host of PBS' "Find." Over the years, Hampton's work has been featured in many national and international shelter and design magazines.
In recent years, Hampton received an honorary Ph.D. from Moore College of Art and Design, was awarded Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Female Award, Connecticut Cottage & Gardens' Design Innovator Award and the Hyland Award for Interior Design. She was the first woman to receive the Design Icon Award at the World Market Center in 2013. In 2014, Hampton was an honoree of the Women's Venture Fund and received a Crystal Kylin Award from the China Interior Design Association, one of the top honors of the design industry in that country. In 2015, Hampton was honored with the Visionary Woman Award by Moore College. The New York School of Interior Design is presenting Hampton with an honorary Ph.D. in May of 2016 at its 100th-anniversary graduation ceremony.
Hampton has a growing stable of acclaimed products for the home. These include fabrics and trims for Kravet Inc., her own furniture line for Hickory Chair Co. and its sister furniture line at Kravet, carpets for Stark Carpet, lighting for Visual Comfort & Co., mantels for Chesney's, door and cabinet hardware for SA Baxter Hardware, plumbing fixtures for Cooper & Graham, bedding accessories for Eastern Accents, table linens for La Gallina Matta, cork floors for Globus Cork, and architectural moldings for White River Mouldings. Hampton's 10th-anniversary furniture collection for Hickory Chair Co. debuted at Spring Market in 2015 as did her new accessories line with Maitland Smith. In 2016, Alexa Hampton was named spokesperson and Creative Director for The Mine where she guides the product offerings.
Hampton is the author of two critically praised books: The Language of Interior Design, and Decorating in Detail and contributed an essay for Charlotte Moss' book, A Visual Life. She is also a contributing columnist for The Wall Street Journal's Saturday "Off Duty" section. Hampton posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest under Alexa Hampton Inc. and frequently lectures on design around the country and internationally.
Hampton lives in NY with her husband and three children.
Tim Schelfe is a managing partner, co-owner, and director of interior design for JDavis, a multidisciplinary design firm serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. With offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Philadelphia, JDavis' areas of expertise include multifamily housing, urban design and planning, senior living, commercial office, mixed-use, retail, clubs, and resort projects. Tim has over 30 years of experience in the interior design profession and has built an impressive portfolio of design work, receiving over 30 design awards for his diverse work in residential, commercial, hospitality, and senior living interior design. Prior to joining JDavis in 2012, Tim was the owner and managing principal of Schelfe & Associates, Inc. for more than fourteen years, developing a reputation for strong design leadership, a keen business sense, and collaboration among design disciplines. Tim is a fellow of the American Society of Interior Designers and chair of the ASID National Board of Directors. He served as president of the ASID Carolinas Chapter, was a board member of the High Point Market Authority (HPMA), and a member of the Best Practices Network (BPN). Tim's work is published in several design books including Vision of Design and Southern Rooms II. He is a certified aging in place specialist (CAPS) and is licensed as a Certified Interior Designer (CID) in Maryland. Tim currently serves on the advisory panel of Interiors & Sources magazine and serves on the Interior Design Advisory Board for both Meredith College in Raleigh and East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
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As the founder and principal designer of Erika Ward Interiors, Erika Ward is completely vested in every project the firm takes on.
Erika began her career as an accountant managing multi-million dollar construction budgets for an internationally known design-build firm. In 2006, while still working in a corporate setting, Erika bravely started Erika Ward Interiors to satisfy her creative side, bringing her business acumen and professionalism to the residential market. After three years of performing this balancing act, Erika fully committed to building Erika Ward Interiors and never looked back.
With a degree in Finance and coursework in both Real Estate and Interior Design, Erika has managed to build trust with her clients and cultivate a spirit of service as she works alongside other design colleagues, contractors, vendors, and manufacturers. Erika also works closely with retail brands such as Home Depot, Home Decorators Collection, S.C. Johnson, and Big Lots (to name a few) as a spokesperson and brand ambassador in targeted consumer campaigns.
Erika's work has been featured in numerous local and national publications. She has been recognized by the Atlanta Tribune for having one of the top design firms for two consecutive years.
As one of America's most sought-after interior designers, Michelle Workman designs high-end residential and commercial spaces from West Coast to East Coast.
Touted as "Showbiz Royalty" by Variety Magazine, Michelle possesses an esteemed and influential client roster, from the Hollywood elite, such as Emmy Award-winning producers and actors, to Silicon Valley executives and entrepreneurs to Manhattan philanthropists; anyone who desires elegant and glamorous trend-setting design.
Recognized as a leader in the field of interior design, Michelle Workman's aesthetic and taste have garnered her accolades across the globe. Her work has been featured on German TV, HGTV and on E!, and includes multiple spreads in American national magazines such as Traditional Home, Veranda, and Interior Design Magazine. Her work has also been published internationally in Marie Claire and Luxuria. Considered a tastemaker in her industry, she has been a speaker at many interior design industry-exclusive events and venues.
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Molly, my 2 y.o. enjoys barking at me whenever she sees me. When we get up in the morning, she barks at me. WHen she's waiting to be fed, she barks at me. When she's waiting to go out, she barks at me.When I walk into the room, she barks at me. When we go to daycare, she barks like crazy. SHe seems to bark at me when she's very excited (which is a good deal of the time) She does NOT bark at my husband. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop or curtail this behavior? I have tried clapping my hands loudly while saying "QUIET" sternly. That seemed to be effective for a few weeks, but now she ignores that. Her barking is getting more frequent and lasting longer. HELP - the neighbors can hear her!


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Remember that used Tesla Model S purchased with bitcoin? Well, the buyer didn't exactly use bitcoin.
Appearing on CNBC, Lamborghini Newport Beach General Manager Pietro Frigerio said the customer bought the $119,000-ish used Model S with 91.4 bitcoins that were exchanged using BitPay – an app that exchanges the e-fake money into U.S. dollars.
"It's like if you come into the dealership and you want to buy a Lamborghini using gold bars. We will not accept that. We will accept U.S. dollars. You go out. You exchange it. You come back to us. That's how it worked."
OK, but that's not what it sounds like on your website.
Bitcoin, a fully encrypted and fully digital currency, has been used by a recent client of ours to pay for a Tesla Model S Performance we had in our inventory. That's right, an electronic currency was used to purchase a fully electric vehicle.
This is the same dealership that made a big deal about being "ready to accept bitcoin" as a legitimate payment method. But it turns out they're not equipped to handle it at all and it's up to buyers to turn bitcoin into actual money. How's that "ready?"
So, an electronic currency can be used to buy an electric car in the same way you'd buy a Citroen 2CV with chickens – you have to convert it first.
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January 2014
Feature Stories
How to create an environment to attract feathered visitors in winter.
This Southern tradition is a delicious way to guarantee prosperity in the new year.
Art by Anthony Ulinski.
Sunshine is free. Solar power is not.
By Michael W. Burnette
NCEMC is among the top co-ops in nation
Nuclear energy industry is good for the economy
Learn how to run for public office
What you should know about electric space heaters
Protecting your home's electrical system
The ACC Basketball Book of Fame
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The ring's been placed on the finger, the families have been called and the Facebook statuses have been updated. Now what? How exactly do couples begin to plan a wedding?
"First, you should kind of have a blueprint, and the blueprint starts with how many guests you're going to have," says wedding planner Yifat Oren, who has worked on nuptials for celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon and Molly Sims.
The guest list should be written with a budget in mind, says Kristen Koch, former senior editor at TheKnot.com, and that in turn will shape a discussion about potential locations. On the other hand, she points out, each of these factors has varying weight for different couples; for example, people who favor a location from the outset might be willing to trim the number of guests.
Both Oren and Koch suggest that couples use online budgeting software throughout the planning process to keep expenditures in check while still developing an event with a personal look and feel.
Use your budget to really figure out what your priorities are, Oren says. "I know people who are avid art enthusiasts, so photography is so important to them, or [they] are big foodies so the food is so important to them, and they don't care what kind of flowers are on the table."
The software is also handy because wedding planning isn't usually something that is rushed. Although there are plenty of couples who opt for a day at City Hall and Oren says her clients average between six and eight months of planning, the Knot reports that most couples are engaged 14 months before the walk down the aisle.
While timelines can be altered on a case-by-case basis, the Knot's wedding experts usually recommend that a gown be purchased eight to 10 months before the wedding, that florists are selected six to eight months before, and that invitations are mailed two to three months prior to the big day.
"Your florists, your planners, your photographers — all these key people who are going to bring your wedding to life and take lasting memories of it — they are going to book up a year or more if they are very in demand," Koch says. "It's such an important day and so personal that it's important to have the very best. You're spending a lot of money on these elements and much more money than any event or party you've [probably] ever thrown, so you want to make sure that you know the people and you're happy with them."
If all this sounds too time-consuming and overwhelming, there is always the option of hiring a professional.
"Planning a wedding is a full-time job and nobody really understands that until they get in the middle of it," Koch says. "Couples sometimes overrate how expensive a planner is. You can get a full-service planner who is with you from start to finish, and often they can save you money too because they work with so many people in the industry. If you're not going to have a planner, have a day-of coordinator" be the point person during the ceremony and reception.
Wedding planners can vary on cost depending on their time commitment, years of experience and other factors, but the Knot reports that its users spent an average of $1,753 on wedding-planner services in 2011.


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Business and technology decision makers often focus on factors such as performance and uptime when investing in new solutions. However, as the amount of data that companies collect grows, organizations have had to place more emphasis on a larger number of factors than they have in years past. Seagate surveyed data center managers throughout the United States and China to explore the most prominent issues facing facility decision makers.
The Seagate Data Center Manager study polled 651 respondents, who were screened based on several qualification criteria. Those polled had to have IT management responsibilities and work in their organization's data center (with a minimum of 50 servers or 100 terabytes of storage). In addition, individuals had to have some responsibility over storage devices. Below is a summary of the study's key findings:
This report will explore the key issues that data center managers face, as well as how storage relates to common challenges associated with running a facility. However, it is necessary to first understand general data center growth and budget trends.
As many businesses place greater demands on their IT departments to spur innovation and generate new efficiencies, it makes sense to first look at the issue of facility budgets. The good news is that a majority of data center budgets are expected to increase over the next year. This is countered by the fact that storage capacity demand is expected to grow at approximately double that rate. Below is a breakdown of how respondents plan to accommodate expanding data growth.[see Datat Growth Strategies chart below]
The most commonly cited strategies involved new investment; the majority of data center operators in both regions planned to purchase new hardware, while replacing or upgrading existing solutions was the second highest response. However, fewer respondents (30%) planned to hire new employees to manage these assets, suggesting that they will likely turn to the hardware and software to ease the burden of management. This is also reflected in the most common storage pain points, which are focused on drive management activities.
Although respondents in China tended to be more likely to have new investments planned, some of this may be due to differences in budget growth. While the amount of increase was similar for both regions, more respondents in China (75%) expected larger budgets than those in the United States (54%). This gap may also help to explain some of the key differences in concerns among data centers in the two regions.
Managing the modern data center presents a myriad of challenges, and managers are feeling pressure due to a number of different factors. While there were some regional differences in this area, one factor was prevalent in both countries. When asked to identify the top three challenges for their data centers in 2013, security topped the list with 31% of all survey respondents ranking it the highest. {see Challenges (Top 10) chart below}
Interestingly, data security was ranked below system performance and staff issues for U.S. respondents as a top challenge, but this group ranked improving security as a first priority.
Hardware management presented another top challenge for organizations, but some of the reasons for this difficulty were different depending on region. For instance, U.S. respondents were more likely to cite staffing issues as a top challenge, while data center operators in China expressed frustration with infrastructure complexity. The difference can likely be attributed to the lower frequency of budget growth in the former. However, both of these problems suggest a heightened demand for streamlining management activities. A limited number of employees will ultimately impact the ability to detect and prevent issues, while the issue of complexity can make it difficult even for a large staff to operate efficiently.
In addition to challenges, Seagate asked respondents what their data center's top three priorities were for 2013. There was some overlap in the area of security, which garnered the highest number of responses. However, this question also raised new issues and presented some significant regional differences. For example, data center operators in the United States (28%) placed more emphasis on reducing cost than those in China (19%).
The other top priorities for data centers in China were to increase agility and consolidate operations. This may be a reflection of frustration with infrastructure complexity, as it can become more difficult to incorporate new technologies when the IT ecosystem consists of so many moving parts. Similarly, the focus on operational consolidation suggests that emphasis is placed on improving efficiency to deal with expanding data volume.
It is also worth noting that these issues are not entirely separate. While U.S. respondents were more likely to deal with constrained budgets, the activities associated with data center consolidation would likely produce cost benefits, whether they stem from lower hardware costs or fewer staff hours spent managing devices. In other words, motivations for doing so may differ, but addressing the core challenges of data center operation is likely to achieve comparable results.
The importance of protecting information stored in data centers has risen in prominence alongside news of high-profile breaches. Given that it is a top priority for both regions, it may be helpful to take a closer look at this problem in particular.
Security in general has been climbing executive agendas due to three main factors: mobile security, big data and advanced targeted attacks.
Although not all of those issues are storage problems, the mention of big data does corroborate the notion that expanding volume and complexity plays a role in making data center security more stressful. In addition, the emergence of targeted attacks makes it more important to protect data in transit, while stored on active drives and after devices have been retired.
InformationWeek's 2013 Strategic Security Study revealed another layer of complexity to the issue. Although the IT industry pays a lot of attention to external attacks, organizations are comparably worried about malicious insiders. When asked about the greatest security risks they face, 53% of respondents said cyber criminals, while 51% cited authorized users.
Fortunately, the Ponemon Institute's 2013 IT Security Tracking Study found that senior-level IT professionals were well aware of the need for comprehensive security {see Important Technologies for Combating Security Risk chart below}. Encryption for data at rest was rated as the third most important technology for mitigating risk, behind security intelligence and access governance systems. Considering that more than 50% of respondents rated numerous solutions as important, businesses have recognized the need for a multifaceted strategy to address this problem.
One potential issue that could arise from utilizing numerous solutions is difficulty in managing them. For example, employing encryption for data at rest can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process, particularly if the organization does not have an information governance strategy in place.
Rapid data growth and increasing demand for capacity place storage at the heart of many data center challenges. Particularly as enterprises collect and generate larger amounts of information, understanding the issues affecting storage can lead to significant improvements in overall data center management activity. {See earlier Data Growth Strategies chart}
The leading strategy for accommodating data growth is to purchase new storage solutions, cited by 60% of respondents. This is followed by hardware replacement at 55%, suggesting a dynamic storage ecosystem in most data centers as drives are retired and new hardware is purchased. Despite the rapid rate of change in the average storage environment, fewer respondents (30% of those polled) planned to increase staffing.
This means that data center operators worldwide will likely have to follow the do more with less paradigm that has become prevalent in resource-strapped organizations. The other issues facing data centers, such as existing staffing difficulties in the United States, means that managers would benefit from adjusting storage management practices and vendors will need to implement solutions that streamline drive management activities. For example, one prominent concern regarding aging drives is that older hardware is more likely to fail and may experience performance degradation. However, retiring drives too early will result in higher total cost of ownership. In this case, it may be beneficial to adopt performance analytics software to ensure drives are working optimally and to use predictive analysis to identify potential failures before they disrupt operations.
As the research shows, data centers face a number of challenges that can all affect total cost of ownership and the difficulty of managing their hardware. Businesses are expected to continue generating large volumes of information, and addressing that data growth requires a comprehensive strategy that makes strategic purchases while maximizing those investments.
It is important to consider total cost of ownership from both a process and a technological perspective. While storage hardware management represents a core concern among data center operators, organizations would also benefit from making these tasks more efficient. For context, Payscale.com lists the median hourly rate for a data center technician as US$26.11, and Seagate research revealed the five most time-consuming storage drive activities:
** Average hours spent per drive management employee (per week)
Three of those activities are directly related to daily management tasks, meaning that organizations would see an immediate reduction in total cost of ownership by improving operational efficiency. For example, a 20% reduction in drive monitoring and analysis time alone would save US$44 per drive management employee per month. The savings would be even greater if carried out across other key activities, and improving some processes would likely create widespread benefit.
The hardware itself can also play a role in how efficiently tasks can be completed, so it is important to consider the impact of IT investments. Data security serves as a good example. Technology that makes it easier to encrypt stored data would make the process itself faster while mitigating the risk of a costly breach. Solutions such as Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) are especially valuable in the highly dynamic environments of today's data centers. Drives that leave the data center without being protected put business data at significant risk of being stolen, and even when the information is erased, there is a chance for recovery. SED technology ensures that even if an unauthorized entity gains access to the hardware, the stored data is unreadable.
It is important to consider active drive management and hardware retirement from multiple angles. While encryption is a common strategy, erasure represents a frequent activity among data center operators. Seagate found that 3% of all drives in the typical data center are erased in a given week. Because motivations for erasure can vary from drive repurposing to securely retiring old hardware, improving efficiency in this area would significantly reduce TCO. Based on median salaries, for example, organizations could save US$31 per drive per employee each week by employing solutions such as Seagate Instant Secure Erase.
Data center ecosystems have become increasingly dynamic as new challenges emerge alongside traditional issues. Seagate recommends that data centers address these challenges both from an IT process and technological perspective so that solutions are implemented as part of a cohesive strategy to accommodate expanding data volume and growing complexity.
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Based on the statistics from Trulia.com, a top real estate portal, the median sales price for homes in Riverside, CA from Dec 09 to Feb 10 was $195,000. It increased by 5.4% or about $10,000 in comparison to the prior quarter but still a 2% decrease when compared to last year. The Riverside real estate market was devastated with a huge drop of home sale prices, a depreciation in value of 44.3% over the last five years.
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If we've gotten this far in the Strong-to-Texas story—he reportedly called a staff meeting at 9:00 a.m. this morning—it seems pretty certain that Charlie Strong is going to leave Louisville for Texas. But who knows, everyone always gets so careful with these things.
Some sources say Strong hasn't been offered the job, but would accept it were it offered to him. Others say he has been offered the job but wants to speak to his Louisville staff before accepting it. Still others point out that while Strong appears to be close to taking the job, he was also close to taking the Tennessee job and decided against it. That last one is extra cautious because if we're comparing UT jobs, well, sorry Vols.
Assuming the reporting is accurate, two things make this an obvious decision for Strong. First, it's Texas. Second, the reported offer is a five-year deal at $5 million per year. If these two crucial bits are accurate—and Louisville doesn't swoop in at the last minute, offering an absurd contract—Charlie Strong will replace Mack Brown. But nothing's official yet, so on Friday night, the Louisville AD informed ESPN that Strong told him he had not taken the job. Elsewhere, a "high ranking Texas official" said he hasn't accepted the offer, but he's agreed in principle.
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From Soekris Info Wiki
Homemade Embedded BSD Systems
by Michael W. Lucas 03/11/2004
News flash: computers are expensive, film at 11.
Many people use a dedicated computer as a firewall and NAT device. It's quite true that a high-end 486 running an open source UNIX-like operating system is perfectly capable of handling network connectivity in a SOHO environment, but computers have costs beyond the base hardware. These systems are bulky, and old hard drives frequently stagger on the verge of death. Plus, if you're in an enterprise environment, your manager does not want to hear statements like, "You know that desktop that was so abominably slow that you refused to let the receptionist endure it any longer? I put it back into service as the corporate firewall." Of course, you can always use your IT budget to purchase a nice new machine with a full warranty, but we all have things we'd rather buy than a computer that will sit 99% idle. All of this adds up to "expensive."
It's enough to make even the most rabid open source advocate consider purchasing an inexpensive consumer firewall appliance, losing a bit of flexibility in exchange for low-power silence.
Or, you can build a small firewall box yourself. While there are several alternatives for small, quiet systems, my favorites are the Soekris models. Soekris boxes are roughly the size of a paperback book, fanless, low-power, and designed specifically for open source operating systems. They're sold either as a plain board or mounted in a case.
For this article, I used the Soekris NET4801 -- a high-end miniature computer with a 266MHz processor and 128MB RAM, case-mounted and with a DC power supply, all purchased direct from Soekris.
While the NET4801 can use a laptop hard drive, that's a bit much for a basic network gateway. I chose to use a compact flash card for the operating system, as firewalls generally don't have to write to the local hard drive.
To install OpenBSD on a compact flash card, you need a CF drive and an OpenBSD system with a CF reader. The good news is that the OpenBSD system doesn't have to be a server-grade system; it's perfectly acceptable to take that secretary's obsolete desktop and use it as your bootstrap platform. I used a very recent OpenBSD-current on my bootstrap station. Using this method installs the same version of OpenBSD on the Soekris as on the workstation, so your choice of OpenBSD version is important. (You can install other releases on the Soekris, but that's beyond the scope of this article.)
Hardware Information
Take the cover off of your Soekris, insert the CF card, and then hook a null modem cable to the console port and a serial port on your bootstrap station. On your bootstrap station, open up a tip(1) window at 19200 baud.
# tip -19200 tty00 connected
Plug in the Soekris, and you'll see the following in your tip(1) window.
comBIOS ver. 1.20 20030721 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Soekris Engineering. net4801 0128 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode 266 Mhz Pri Mas Hitachi XXM2.3.0 LBA 993-16-63 500 Mbyte PXE-M00: BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
The LBA space gives the disk geometry that the Soekris sees. The Soekris BIOS believes this CF card has 993 cylinders, 16 tracks per cylinder, and 63 sectors per track. Take note of those numbers; you'll probably need them. These numbers are for my 512MB flash card, which turned out to be vastly too large. My complete install, with applications, used about 20MB, or roughly 4% of that disk. A 32MB or 64MB card would have been more than sufficient and far less expensive.
Now get Chris Cappuccio's flashdist. flashdist is a set of tools to install a stripped-down OpenBSD on an attached hard drive device. In addition to a shell script that does most of the work, it includes some modified /etc scripts designed for embedded systems, kernel configurations tuned for Soekris hardware, and a text file listing every component to install to provide basic OpenBSD networking features.
I started by building a Soekris kernel using the NET4801 configuration in the flashdist distribution.
# cp NET4801 /sys/arch/i386/conf # config NET4801 # cd ../compile/NET4801/ # make depend && make
Once this finishes churning, copy the bsd file somewhere safe. I recommend renaming it to something like NET4801-bsd and moving the copy to your flashdist directory, just so you don't get confused and install it on your bootstrap station. (The Soekris kernel configurations don't bother with unnecessary hardware such as PC keyboards or video cards, so your bootstrap station would probably behave badly with that kernel.)
Now remove the flash card from the Soekris and put it in the bootstrap station's CF reader. Take note of which device the CF card shows up as, and then run flashdist.sh from the directory in which you extracted it.
# ./flashdist.sh -d sd0 flashsmall.txt ./NET4801-bsd /
Use the -d flag to tell flashdist which local device to install onto. In this example, the CF card is /dev/sd0, so we use -d sd0.
We also need a list of files to install on the system, provided in flashdist as flashsmall.txt. The third argument is the name of the kernel file to be installed on the disk, and finally we have the directory path from which flashdist should copy the files. In this case, we're copying the system files from the installed OpenBSD system. You could extract the distribution files elsewhere and use that path here, to install a different version of OpenBSD than is on your bootstrap station.
The flashdist.sh script will walk through an install, making its best guess at the disk geometry and prompting you for items such as the IP address of a logging server and a root password for the complete system. Once complete, remove the CF card from your workstation, insert the CF in the Soekris, and power the Soekris back on. You should see a standard OpenBSD bootup in your tip(1) window, ending with a command prompt.
Congratulations! You have a working embedded OpenBSD system. It doesn't do much yet, but at least it boots. Now to make it useful.
flashdist Variables
You can set several variables in flashdist.sh to make the script stop asking you questions. You will probably be repeatedly re-installing on the CF card, so making the install as silent as possible is a good thing. Once you know the install works the way you want, you can even comment out the "hit enter to continue" sections and make the script run perfectly silently.
The cylinders, trackscylinder, and sectorstrack variables come straight from the Soekris BIOS screen. (While several other disk variables appear in the script, flashdist.sh can calculate them on the fly.) You can also define variables for the syslog server IP address, or a password in either encrypted or plain text format. The etccopyfiles variable lists files to copy from the flashdist directory to the target disk's /etc directory. We'll make copious use of this later.
Also edit the rc file included in flashdist. Unlike the standard BSD-style rc system with lots of shell tricks and nifty variables, this rc script is just a basic shell script of commands to be run upon boot. There is no rc.conf or equivalent. The most obvious things to change are the ifconfig statements, to assign the appropriate IP addresses to each interface. Add any local startup scripts you have to this file.
Run flashdist.sh again once you have set all of the variables and configured the rc file, and confirm that the bare OpenBSD install still works. This is a fairly complicated process, and I recommend you reinstall until you have a customized installation process that works perfectly every time.
Customizing the Installation
While flashdist includes a very minimal OpenBSD install, you can probably strip it down further. Edit the flashsmall.txt file to remove things you don't need. This particular system will be a firewall, so it doesn't need /usr/sbin/dhcpd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/dhclient-script. There is no wireless card, so wicontrol(8) can go away. Do you need telnet, mg, or tcpdump? If it's not needed in your environment, remove it. Once you've gutted flashsmall.txt, reinstall again to be sure the system still works; if you trim too enthusiastically and without sufficient comprehension, you can easily create a non-working system. Be sure your base system works before adding programs!
Adding Programs
This particular system needs two additional programs, Snort with MySQL and libnet, and snmpd. The basic process is to build the program on the bootstrap server, identify the files absolutely necessary for the program to run, and add them to flashsmall.txt. Let's start with Snort.
Build and install Snort with the appropriate flavors on the bootstrap server, then get it running on your bootstrap system exactly as you want it to be run on your firewall. This will tell you which configuration files Snort requires. In my case, I installed the configuration under /etc/snort.
Add the list of required configuration files to flashsmall.txt. While this will handle the instructions the binary needs, what about the associated programs and shared libraries the program binary needs?
The port places a list of all its installed files in the +CONTENTS file under /var/db/pkg. This file also contains port instructions and comments, all of which are prefaced with the "at" symbol (@). Get rid of those first.
# grep -v '@' /var/db/pkg/snort-2.0.0p1-mysql-flexresp/+CONTENTS > \ $HOME/stripped-snort-contents
This creates a list of all files installed by the port. We won't be reading man pages on the firewall, so get rid of them. We won't install sample rules, so zap them. At the end, only one program file remains: /usr/local/bin/snort.
Even though the Snort port didn't install additional binaries, that doesn't mean that the compiled Snort binary doesn't expect a certain shared library infrastructure to be available. If you ask nicely with ldd(1), the program binary will tell you which libraries it expects.
# ldd /usr/local/bin/snort /usr/local/bin/snort: Start End Type Ref Name 00000000 00000000 exe 1 /usr/local/bin/snort 001d1000 201d5000 rlib 1 /usr/local/lib/libnet.so.0.0 088ca000 288d0000 rlib 2 /usr/lib/libz.so.2.0 0c47a000 2c487000 rlib 1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.2.0 01a30000 21a37000 rlib 2 /usr/lib/libm.so.1.0 09fdf000 29fe8000 rlib 1 /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10.0 055d5000 2560e000 rlib 1 /usr/lib/libc.so.30.1 08f9a000 08f9a000 rtld 1 /usr/libexec/ld.so
This really isn't surprising. Snort requires four standard libraries from /usr/lib, all of which are already appear in flashsmall.txt. We have to add in the shared libraries from /usr/local/lib, in this case libmysqlclient.so.10.0 and libnet.so.0.0. Add these files to flashsmall.txt.
By default, OpenBSD only checks for shared libraries under /usr/lib. You must tell the Soekris' /etc/rc to check for additional shared libraries under /usr/local/lib. Add the following lines to the flashdist rc file. I put them just after the ifconfig statements.
ldconfig ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib
With these additions to flashsmall.txt, re-run the installation and boot the Soekris.
In this particular case, I found that snort would not run. It complained about not being able to find libmysqlclient.so.10.0, even though ldconfig -r showed that the shared library was available!
After losing several clenched fists' worth of hair, I learned about libtool. By design, shared libraries are not supposed to call other shared libraries. libtool allows a shared library to break this restriction. The MySQL libraries use libtool to glue them together. We have the following files under /usr/local/lib/mysql:
libmysqlclient.so.10.0 libmysqlclient.a libmysqlclient.la
The .so.10.0 is a standard binary shared library. The .la file is a text file that configures libtool support for this library. Buried in this file we find the following:
# The name of the static archive. old_library='libmysqlclient.a' # Libraries that this one depends upon. dependency_libs=' -lz -lm'
So we need the libmysqlclient.a file. This library also depends on two others, libz and libm. Add these to flashsmall.txt, if they're not there. We also need the libtool binary and whatever libraries that requires. Some work with ldd(1) gives the following extra files:
./usr/local/bin/libtool ./usr/local/lib/libltdl.a ./usr/local/lib/libltdl.la ./usr/local/lib/libltdl.so.1.2
Also add /usr/local/lib/mysql to the ldconfig(8) paths in the Soekris' /etc/rc file.
ldconfig ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/mysql
Finally, add the snort startup to the very tail end of /etc/rc.
echo snort: starting daemon... /usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -Dz &
After all of this, following the same process for snmpd was trivial.
You will almost certainly have to do some troubleshooting on every application you install. I've found applications with files that look important but are irrelevant, while the developers have apparently disguised vital files as Frozen Bubble levels.
After all this, however, you will have a small silent machine that takes up a fraction of the power of a standard PC, with sufficient processing power for small network tasks. You can roll out hundreds of small systems while only having to back up the bootstrap station. By alternating flash cards, you can easily revert when an upgrade goes bad. These small systems make it possible to deploy complicated systems with a minimum of fuss.
Once you have hundreds of homemade embedded boxes, though, shuffling CF cards turns into an annoyance. Wouldn't it be easier to just skip the flash card and have the Soekris boxes create their own minds? We'll do that next time.
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Undoubtedly, one of the most tragic incidents in Atlanta history is the Winecoff Hotel fire, which occurred on the morning of December 7, 1946. 119 people lost their lives, and it's still the worst hotel fire in U.S. history.
Sam Heys and Allen Goodwin wrote the definitive book about the fire, The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire. Allen maintains a website about the fire and its aftermath, and the site contains lots of photos and anecdotes about the victims and survivors.
Sam graciously met me in front of the site of the old Winecoff Hotel to provide the basic story of the fire, including a discussion of the famous photos of the fire taken Georgia Tech grad student Arnold Hardy. After twenty-five years of neglect, the building re-opened in 2007 as the boutique Ellis Hotel.


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New Canaan forecast: After snow, a wet & windy day
Wind and icy rain continue buffeting southwestern Connecticut this morning, the vestiges of a snowy storm that swept through the nation's Northeast beginning yesterday afternoon.
The rain and wind have prompted the National Weather Service to issue a coastal flood advisory for the region from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, with the greatest risk during the high-tide period from about 10:15 to 10:30 a.m.
Rain is expected to fall mainly before noon today, while the daytime high temperature rises to the low-40s. There will be a northeast wind 13 to 16 mph, becoming northwest in the afternoon and gusting as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent.
Tonight there is a slight chance of rain showers, snow showers, and sleet before 9 p.m. The temperature will dip to a low in the mid-20s. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
On Friday, skies should be sunny, the NWS says, with a high temperature near 40 degrees. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature in the low-20s.
By Saturday, snow is likely again, with the NWS rating the odds at about 70 percent. Skies will be mostly cloudy, with a high temperature in the mid-30s. Snow is likely to continue into nighttime, the NWS says.
On Sunday, clearing is expected, with partly sunny skies and a high temperature in the low-30s. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature about 20 degrees.
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Summer Rhodes Garners Scholarships, FEb. 26, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., February 26, 2001 -- Roswell native Summer Rhodes, who is now a junior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded two prestigious scholarship awards from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS).
Rhodes was selected as this year's recipient of both the New Mexico Section of ACerS Undergraduate Achievement Scholarship and of ACerS national Hoffman Scholarship.
Before starting her undergraduate studies at New Mexico Tech, Rhodes was the valedictorian for the Class of 1998 at Roswell High School. She is the daughter of Beth Rhodes and Steven Rhodes, both of Roswell.
The ACerS scholarships were presented to Rhodes at last month's meeting of the New Mexico Section of ACerS, held in Albuquerque.
In addition to her regular classwork at New Mexico Tech, Rhodes currently is working as a laboratory assistant in the ceramics lab at the state-supported research university. She also has interned the past two summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, performing particle-size analyses of quartz, alumina, and depleted uranium.
Rhodes is a member of Tech's student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.
"I have had a wonderful experience studying in and working with the New Mexico Tech materials engineering department," Rhodes says.


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Anemia is a condition in which the body does not have enough healthy red blood cells. Red blood cells provide oxygen to body tissues.
Different types of anemia include:
- Anemia due to B12 deficiency
- Anemia due to folate deficiency
- Anemia due to iron deficiency
- Anemia of chronic disease
- Hemolytic anemia
- Idiopathic aplastic anemia
- Megaloblastic anemia
- Pernicious anemia
- Sickle cell anemia
- Thalassemia
Although many parts of the body help make red blood cells, most of the work is done in the bone marrow. Bone marrow is the soft tissue in the center of bones that helps form all blood cells.
Healthy red blood cells last between 90 and 120 days. Parts of your body then remove old blood cells. A hormone called erythropoietin (epo) made in your kidneys signals your bone marrow to make more red blood cells.
Hemoglobin is the oxygen-carrying protein inside red blood cells. It gives red blood cells their color. People with anemia do not have enough hemoglobin.
The body needs certain vitamins, minerals, and nutrients to make enough red blood cells. Iron, vitamin B12, and folic acid are 3 of the most important ones. The body may not have enough of these nutrients due to:
- Changes in the lining of the stomach or intestines affect how well nutrients are absorbed (for example, celiac disease)
- Poor diet
- Surgery that removes part of the stomach or intestines
Possible causes of anemia include:
- Certain medicines
- Destruction of red blood cells earlier than normal (which may be caused by immune system problems)
- Long-term (chronic) diseases such as chronic kidney disease, cancer, ulcerative colitis, or rheumatoid arthritis
- Some forms of anemia, such as thalassemia or sickle cell anemia, which can be inherited
- Pregnancy
- Problems with bone marrow such as lymphoma, leukemia, myelodysplasia, multiple myeloma, or aplastic anemia
- Slow blood loss (for example, from heavy menstrual periods or stomach ulcers)
- Sudden heavy blood loss
You may have no symptoms if the anemia is mild or if the problem develops slowly. Symptoms that may occur first include:
- Feeling weak or tired more often than usual, or with exercise
- Headaches
- Problems concentrating or thinking
If the anemia gets worse, symptoms may include:
- Blue color to the whites of the eyes
- Brittle nails
- Desire to eat ice or other non-food things (pica syndrome)
- Lightheadedness when you stand up
- Pale skin color
- Shortness of breath with mild activity or even at rest
- Sore tongue
Exams and Tests
The doctor will perform a physical examination, and may find:
- A heart murmur
- Low blood pressure, especially when you stand up
- Pale skin
- Rapid heart rate
Some types of anemia may cause other findings on a physical exam.
Blood tests used to diagnose some common types of anemia may include:
- Blood levels of iron, vitamin B12, folic acid, and other vitamins and minerals
- Red blood count and hemoglobin level
- Reticulocyte count
Other tests may be done to find medical problems that can cause anemia.
Treatment should be directed at the cause of the anemia, and may include:
- Blood transfusions
- Corticosteroids or other medicines that suppress the immune system
- Erythropoietin, a medicine that helps your bone marrow make more blood cells
- Supplements of iron, vitamin B12, folic acid, or other vitamins and minerals
Possible Complications
Severe anemia can cause low oxygen levels in vital organs such as the heart, and can lead to a heart attack.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you have any symptoms of anemia or unusual bleeding.
Bunn HF. Approach to the anemias. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 25th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2016:chap 158.
Marks PW. Approach to anemia in the adult and child. In: Hoffman R, Benz EJ Jr, Silberstein LE, Weitz JI, Anastasi J, eds. Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:chap 32.


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Lions' Alex Karras Dead at 77
Alex Karras, former NFL player, star of the television series 'Webster' and Mongo in the Mel Brooks classic 'Blazing Saddles' has passed away at the age of 77.
TMZ reports that Alex Karras has passed away at the age of 77 from kidney failure following his struggle with various illnesses over the last several years, including kidney disease, heart disease, stomach cancer, and dementia. TMZ confirmed the news with a member of Karras' family this morning.
Karras was formerly a player for the Detroit Lions NFL team from 1958 to 1970 before he became an actor. He made his debut appearance on the 'Daniel Boone' television series as Williams, and went on to appear in several television shows, ranging from 'M*A*S*H*' to 'The Odd Couple,' before landing a gig as Webster's father, George Papadapolis, on the beloved 80s television series 'Webster.'
The actor also starred in a handful of movies, including Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Porky's' before making his final film appearance in 1998 for Vincent Gallo's 'Buffalo '66' in which he played a TV sportscaster. Karras may not have a had a huge career, but he certainly made his mark as most people will remember him very fondly from his days on 'Webster' and his hilarious turn in 'Blazing Saddles.'


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|Portasanta, from northwest of Chora, Island of Chíos, North Aegean, Greece
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|Partially recrystallised fine-grained compact limestone. Red and yellow iron oxides are concentrated in abundant stylolites, giving a reticulated (net-like) appearance.
|Portasanta is named after the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (see the Portasanta pdf). It was first used by the ancient Greeks, and was extensively quarried by the Romans from the 1st century BC until the quarries closed in Byzantine times and for centuries their location was lost. Corsi was incorrect in believing this to be Carian marble from the Turkish island of Iasos. The ancient quarries were rediscovered on the Island of Chios, Greece, by William Brindley at the end of the 19th century. Since then, there has been sporadic extraction of the stone. Together, Corsi's specimens of Portasanta show well the typical pink/brownish red/grey/white colour palette of this breccia, and in this specimen particularly, the net-like arrays of stylolites often seen in the Chian rock.
|Borghini (1997) 285-287; Corsi (1845) 95-97; Lazzarini (2002c) 262-265; Mielsch (1985) 55-56, taf.14; Porter (1907) 70-72; Price (2007) 140-141. Other examples: NHM London Corsi tabletop (ancient) 8K; Cambridge Watson coll.W445 (early 20th century).
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|Class 1. Marbles; Section 2. Veined marbles; Species 1. Porta Santa marble
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|43.4 Marmo Porta Santa. Marmor Jasense. La cava era nell' Isola di Jaso dell' Arcipelago sulle coste della Caria nell' Asia minore, per cui da molti scrittori si è anche chiamato marmo Cario... esso corrisponda all'antico marmo di Jaso.


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From Chris Terlop of WDUZ radio in Green Bay who works with Chris Havel:
Per our Chris Havel, according to a source, LB Nick Perry has a broken foot, We will be back later this year. #Packers
— Chris Terlop (@ChrisTerlop) October 14, 2013
Lance Allan of TMJ4 says the same thing:
Can confirm what Chris Havel first reported. @packers Nick Perry broke his foot. Still waiting to hear how long he will be out #Packers
— Lance Allan (@lanceallan) October 14, 2013
Perry got hurt sacking and forcing a fumble on Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco on Sunday that led to a Packers' field goal as time expired before halftime.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Perry sprained his ankle on the play. He later returned for five plays in the second half.
Perry's injury seems to be coming at the worst possible time, with fellow outside linebacker Clay Matthews also expected to miss several weeks while recovering from thumb injury.
The second-year linebacker appeared to be coming into his own, notching three sacks in past two games.
Whether Perry is a candidate for short-term injured reserve remains to be seen.
Head coach Mike McCarthy will address the media with a 3:00 p.m. press conference and should provide an update even if he doesn't have all the details yet.
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- Ilyse Hogue: Mitt Romney says he's attacked for being successful. Not so, she says
- She says Americans do celebrate others' success, but don't need to be taunted with it
- She says Romney's gaffes -- and tax policy -- show candidate who doesn't "get" poor people
- Hogue: Many rich men have been president, but while privileged, behaved responsibly
Every time I hear Mitt Romney protest that he's being attacked for his success, my head goes to that Pantene shampoo commercial from the early '80s where the actress opens with, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Even as a kid, I remember being confused by this opening line when everything I saw around me celebrated beauty like hers.
No one hated that woman for being beautiful, although in retrospect maybe we should have harbored some animosity for the shoulder pads and big hair that passed as fashion at the time. And just as Americans celebrate beauty, we also celebrate success, despite Mitt's protestations. We're a hopelessly optimistic bunch, and we love nothing more than to project ourselves into the rags to riches narratives that pervade our media, our business world, and our politics.
So let me just address this to Mitt directly: Mitt, can we get this straight once and for all? With the exception of the people who watched their jobs fly overseas and their communities decimated when you shut down their factories to make a profit for your private equity firm, Bain Capital, no one hates you for your "success."
But taunting voters with your self-serving tax plan and your taste for expensive vehicles may not be the best way to instill confidence that you'll help people have the chance at their own success someday. In fact, your single-minded insistence that this is at the root of any concern with your candidacy only reinforces the discomfort of many voters envisioning you in the White House.
Indeed, as May Day protests once again call out growing economic inequality in our country, it's hard to imagine these cries falling on more deaf ears than Mitt Romney's.
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The problem is Mitt's tendency to remind us at every turn that he spent some of that wealth on blinders that shield him from the facts of life as most Americans know them. Nowhere was this more apparent than the speech last week at Otterbein University in Ohio. As parents and kids huddle together around kitchen tables to consider whether college is even a possibility and Ohio continues to lead the nation in job losses, Mitt's suggestion to the crowd of students was if they want to buy a business, they should borrow money from their (tapped-out) parents.
From the $10,000 wager in the middle of a political debate to his insistence that $374,000 for speaker's fee is "not very much," he continually demonstrates a fiscal consciousness orders of magnitude off from the average voter. The cumulative impact of these statements is not envy but flat-out astonishment that a presidential candidate could have so little knowledge of the typical economic conditions in our country. It almost feels like if Mitt Romney were to become president, he might have to spend the first couple years in language immersion classes in order to accurately grasp the situation on the ground.
And no one is in a waiting mood. A recent report from the Fed shows some economic improvement but not by the rate we hoped and unemployment declining but not by much. Every time Mitt unmasks his inner privilege by ribbing guys at a NASCAR rally about their Walmart rain ponchos -- "I like those fancy raincoats," Mitt said to a group of men outside in the downpour, "Really sprung for the big bucks!" -- he reinforces a growing unease that if this guy can't see the same picture as the rest of us, he can't possibly change it.
Against, this backdrop, Romney's tax plan could sink his candidacy. His most recent plan would cut his own taxes by a projected $4 million while raising taxes on the poorest Americans through a repeal of the earned income tax credit. Tough sell when he's worth $250 million and over half of American workers try to get by on less than $27,000 a year. Voters want to believe that success is within their reach, but equal opportunity is a key part of that equation. Ninety-seven percent of Americans think that everyone in our country should have equal opportunity to get ahead.
So when Romney says he is "not concerned about the very poor" while charging them to lower his own taxes, the problem is not that he has a lot of money, but that he's going to make sure other people people can't. Only one president got away with a similarly distorted tax plan, because he was uniquely able to speak the language of the average Americans. His name was George W. Bush and most folks aren't keen for a repeat, even if Romney could wrap it in the folksy tone of his Republican predecessor.
American presidents have almost always come from wealth, although no doubt Mitt Romney would rank up there at the top end of the spectrum. But our most revered leaders never lost sight of their own privilege and the responsibility that comes along with that. Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals. We know now that it is bad economics."
The Pantene girl knew that in the end we didn't hate her because she was beautiful -- otherwise, she wouldn't have sold any shampoo. The more Romney believes his problem is his success, the slimmer his chances of convincing Americans he might be the one for the job.
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Maryland Salvage Firm Tapped for Malaysia Flight 370 Search
A company that many viewers know from TV shows like "Mayday" and "Air Disaster" will assist the U.S. Navy's search and recovery efforts in the wake of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370.
The U.S. Navy said it is sending specialized underwater search and recovery equipment to the area in the Indian Ocean where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is believed to have crashed.
The Largo, Md., company Phoenix International Holdings Inc. is under contract to maintain and operate the Navy's submersible sensors and remote-controlled submarines that could be used to find and recover the aircraft. And Phoenix, which also has its own fleet of similar equipment, has a history of pulling hard-to-find wreckage from deep in the ocean.


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Hello, dear readers of Butterfly Confessions. Lauren of My Postpartum Voice here. I've recruited some of Addye's friends to write posts for her blog while Addye babymoons with hear new little one. This letter is the first guest post and it's written by the fabulous Susan of Learned Happiness. If you'd like to submit a guest post to be published while Addye is babymooning, email me at mypostpartumvoice (@) gmail with "For Butterfly Confessions" in the subject line!
Without further ado, I present Susan's lovely words for Addye…..
My Dear Addye,
You and I have been friends for 3 years, now. And in that time, I have watched you transform into a wholehearted woman. You took chances with your life and made huge leaps of faith – faith in yourself more than any one person. You have learned to be honest with yourself about who you are and who you want to be. Your integrity has been hard-fought and is well-deserved. You honor me with your friendship.
You said when you married Bert and took his name that it was the beginning of a new life – one written by you and you alone. One that speaks to all you hold sacred and points to a fulfilling life with your family. And this baby? Is a part of that new life. I can see it in your eyes – in the way you look at him and hold him. I have experienced the hope brought by a new baby birthed in joy and a sense of calm. It renews the spirit. And I couldn't have wished a better birth experience for you.
Remember that no matter how good your birth (or how much you love that amazing tiny man), having a newborn is a special kind of torture. The nights are long and the days are even longer. And no matter how happy you are, it's okay to be exhausted. It's okay to be emotional. And it's okay to still need help. This is not a test of your spirit. You are not being graded on how gracefully you weather the fourth trimester. There will be beautiful moments and there will be unbearable ones. And your tribe? Will be standing beside you for both.
I hope with all of my heart that the darkness you fear is blotted out by your joy. But if it's not, if it all becomes too much, you are armed and you are never alone.
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Democracy, equality, reconciliation, diversity, responsibility, respect and freedom: these words adorn the awe-inspiring pillars of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. They are the 7 pillars upon which the new constitution of the Rainbow Nation is based. This constitution put an official end to apartheid in 1996. The museum takes you on a multimedia journey through this poignant period in South African history.
The admission ticket reads either 'Blankes' (White) or 'Nie-Blankes' (Non-white), which determines which museum entrance you may use, letting you experience what it feels like to be selected based on skin colour. The 22 permanent multimedia exhibitions tell the story of racial segregation (apartheid) in South Africa. Unique pictures show the life of a non-white person during the Apartheid regime. A video about the release of Nelson Mandela is also shown.
After the Gold Reef City Casino received a gambling licence from the government in 1995, the consortium behind the casino promised to finance a museum in order to give back to society. That museum became the Apartheid Museum, which opened its doors in 2001. It is not a museum of facts alone – the museum wants visitors to personally experience the horrible ways in which the racist government policy was carried out. At least 131 political opponents were killed because it was legal to execute them. The nooses hanging from the ceiling in one of the exhibition rooms commemorate these victims. It is a horrifying sight that is not suitable for small children, but it does bring home the facts.
Nelson Mandela is the unparalleled figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement. His essential role is beautifully rendered in an exhibition at the Apartheid Museum. Pictures, quotes, videos and stories tell visitors how Mandela became the most famous prisoner in the world after being banned to Robben Island. From his cell, he led the negotiations that would once again make South Africa a free country and, after 27 years of imprisonment, make him a free man. Naturally, the period in which he was the first black president to lead the new Rainbow Nation also receives plenty of attention.