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Meet the man in the silver salmon suit
Tom Murdoch's efforts to save salmon aren't always popular, but he doesn't mind swimming against the current
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Dressed as Sammy the Salmon, Tom Murdoch of the Adopt A Stream Foundation speaks to a group of children at the Northwest Stream Center auditorium in November. Education is one part of Murdoch's work to protect and restore salmon habitat.
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Wearing his Sammy the Salmon costume, Tom Murdoch noses into the Northwest Stream Center auditorium behind office manager Cheryl Hartwig.
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Tom Murdoch lifts his Sammy the Salmon costume over his head as he prepares to teach a group of kids at the Northwest Stream Center in November.
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Tom Murdoch, dressed as Sammy the Salmon, catches the kids' attention during a lesson at the Northwest Stream Center.
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Tom Murdoch teaches a group of children about protecting fragile spawning streams in November. With him is fellow naturalist Lori Powlas, wearing a salmon-fry costume.
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Tom Murdoch dresses 8-year-old volunteer Cody Wu of Mill Creek as a sac fry in front of a group of kids at the Northwest Stream Center auditorium.
Murdoch, director of the nonprofit environmental group based in Everett's McCollum Park, has been dreaming of reducing polluted runoff and restoring fish runs for more than 30 years.
"Imagine if every downspout was connected to a rain barrel that discharged to a rain garden and into the ground. Imagine if every lawn in the watershed in your city was converted to a native plant landscape," Murdoch says.
Murdoch has dedicated his life to acting on those dreams.
He estimates he's worked on about 400 stream restoration projects, mostly in Snohomish and north King counties. Along with ecologists and other experts, he's taught groups all over the Northwest how to care for creeks and rivers. He's co-written manuals on stream stewardship and restoration that are used in curriculums around the United States and Canada.
Murdoch -- sometimes dressed in a large salmon suit -- has taught thousands of schoolkids and adults about the relationship between streams, fish and people.
He's raised millions of dollars in grants and donations over the years for his small nonprofit.
Murdoch's commitment to fish is not unlike the determination of salmon to get upstream to spawn.
"Tom's very driven, very dedicated, very passionate about what he does," said Mike Chamblin, a retired habitat biologist for the state and a longtime member of Adopt A Stream's board of directors. "He's very goal-oriented, very steadfast and eternally optimistic."
When it comes to restoring salmon runs, which in Western Washington are a fraction of what they were 50 years ago, swimming upstream applies to the enormity and difficulty of the task as well.
Some of the public policy measures suggested by Murdoch and other fish advocates are costly and controversial.
Murdoch believes governments are behind the curve in requiring new development to be friendly to streams and fish.
"It costs more to do it, but it's pretty evident that we have sacrificed our salmon runs in exchange for poorly planned development. I think a good thing to think about doing is to have the stormwater management plans drive the land-use plans."
Some believe that's already happening too often.
Lynnwood residential developer Mike Echelbarger has known Murdoch since 1980, when Murdoch wrote the first drainage regulations for Snohomish County while working in its planning department.
Echelbarger said a requirement to install a retention pond for a small housing development he's building in Edmonds will add about $150,000 to the total cost, which will be spread among six properties.
"I think we have to build an Olympic-size swimming pool to retain the water off of six lots," he said.
"Tom is passionate about salmon. I'm concerned about salmon, but I'm more concerned about humans than I am fish," Echelbarger said. "I think there's a way for us to cohabitate but I don't think the fish deserve priority.
"I understand exactly where Tom's coming from, and he understands where I'm coming from. We're sort of on opposite ends of the pole. He's a good guy, but ."
Murdoch says the measures he promotes are worthwhile and can save money in other ways, such as requiring fewer drain pipes to be installed to carry stormwater.
"What value do you place on your local natural resources?" he said. "If you're thinking long term, those local natural resources are much more valuable than most people think. There're a lot of creative ways of doing things."
Actions that Murdoch advocates at the individual level don't show up on many people's radar -- such as tightening the oil pan on the car, installing "green" roofs and tearing out the lawn and planting with native shrubs. Some are expensive, some don't fit lifestyles and some simply require time that many people feel they don't have.
The key is education, Murdoch said. Plus, there are benefits of which people may not be aware.
"My front yard is primarily kinnikinnick," he said, referring to the native ground cover. "It requires absolutely no care. There's extra rewards for being a good steward. You get more free time."
Murdoch, who lives in north Seattle with his wife of 41 years, two dogs and two cats, won't tell his age.
"The guys where I play pickup ball at the 'Y' will be on me," he said, smiling.
He was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in a military family, living all over the country and in Japan.
During the Vietnam War, while in the military, Murdoch was sent to King Salmon Air Force Base in southwest Alaska.
No coincidence; it was there he found his calling.
One day during a break he took a small aluminum boat and a fishing pole out onto the Naknek River. "I knew nothing about fishing," he said.
In just seconds, a 30-pound salmon hit on his lure, he said. After a 10-minute battle to boat the fish, he set his pole down -- the line still in the water -- and tried to grab the fish to throw it back.
"I saw my pole go from the bow of the boat to the stern. I grabbed the pole to keep it from going overboard, and there was another fish on."
After another fight, Murdoch shook the second salmon loose and wound up keeping the first.
"Then I just sat there and thought, that was pretty amazing," he said.
After Alaska, Murdoch served at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma. When he got out, he enrolled in college and starting taking fisheries and oceanography classes.
He studied marine science at the University of Washington, receiving a master's degree in natural resources in 1977. The next year, Murdoch went to work for Snohomish County as a water resource specialist.
In the early 1980s, as development in the Puget Sound region accelerated, the county got federal money to help schools and other local groups to do their own stream restoration projects. Teachers and students at Jackson Elementary School in Everett drew attention for restoring a salmon run to Pigeon Creek, Murdoch said.
Media coverage attracted interest from outside the area. That led Murdoch to believe he could expand the work beyond the county.
He enlisted the help of others and started the Adopt A Stream Foundation in 1985. Terry Williams of the Tulalip Tribes was among the founding board members.
In the early years the group focused on education -- starting with large seminars, then writing handbooks on stream stewardship, including the "Streamkeeper's Field Guide."
Murdoch remained full time at the county, doing both jobs. In 1990, the foundation received a state grant to hire paid staff, and Murdoch reduced his hours at the county. He still works part-time as a naturalist for the county parks department in addition to his work at Adopt A Stream.
"He's a tireless worker," Chamblin said. "I don't know how he does it and I don't know how he's been married all these years."
As word spread about the foundation, the staff traveled on demand around the Northwest, including British Columbia, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and northern California, conducting workshops on stream stewardship.
In the early 1990s, the county granted Adopt A Stream free use of a tract of land at the south end of Everett's McCollum Park, next to North Creek, in exchange for providing environmental education programs.
Eventually, with the county's blessing, the group raised enough money to put up a building. About $1 million is invested in the Northwest Stream Center building at the park, with an auditorium, meeting spaces, a classroom, offices and a library, Murdoch said. The foundation hosts stream-keeper classes, school groups and brings in experts for talks on various types of Northwest critters, not just fish.
In the late 1990s, Adopt A Stream got a grant to start its own stream restoration work.
The group has completed 18 separate projects on North Creek alone and hundreds of others. Work comes in many forms, such as clearing out nonnative brush; putting in native plants; removing concrete pipes; restoring stream bottoms; building fish ladders and planting logs in streams to provide pools for fish.
In some cases, where salmon face impassable obstacles, Adopt A Stream staff and volunteers net the fish, put them in barrels full of water and truck them upstream.
Murdoch still gets out and does the physical work alongside younger staff members and student volunteers.
He isn't sure how many fish runs the projects have restored, but in many of the cases more fish are returning than before.
"We've been able to ease the migration process," Murdoch said.
Murdoch has high praise for his staff, which currently numbers eight, including several stream ecologists.
Despite Murdoch's zeal for his work, he works well with others, said Daryl Williams, current chairman of the Adopt A Stream board and environmental liaison for the Tulalip Tribes.
"All the projects we've done we couldn't have done without his ability to work with other people," Williams said.
Murdoch has an easygoing air about him. Those who know him know he likes to talk.
"You kind of get into this stuff, it becomes a part of you," Murdoch said.
These days he talks about the next big step for Adopt A Stream -- plans for a raised boardwalk and interpretive signs along North Creek at the stream center. The group has raised $420,000 for the project and needs $80,000 more.
The walkway will be connected to a $1.7 million trout stream exhibit the organization has already built. The concrete structure recreates a stream with living trout, with large acrylic windows for public viewing into the water. The plan was first envisioned more than 20 years ago, Williams said.
Other than $150,000 in cash from the Tulalip Tribes, Murdoch was able to attract donations for most of the cost, Williams said.
"I was shocked at how many organizations he was able to get to donate," he said.
Murdoch's latest dream: attracting 45,000 visitors per year to the center, located just a half-mile from I-5. This year, about 4,800 people attended talks, classes and other Adopt A Stream events -- a record, Murdoch said.
"Together with all these other things that are going on, we'll start making a pretty significant difference," he said.
While the big salmon in Alaska got him started, it's getting the message across that keeps him going.
Recently, after a session with kids, he asked the group, "'What is the area of vegetation around the stream that affects the ecology of the stream?' and they all yelled back, 'A riparian zone.'
"I said, 'You guys are great, because 99 percent of the people on the planet don't know the answer to that question. Welcome to the 1 percent.'
"You could see they were all beaming. That's really cool."
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SEATTLE, Oct. 19, 2004 - Swedish Medical Center announced today that on Sept. 8 it became the first health-care provider in the Northwest to begin using new technology that allows intensive-care physicians, called intensivists, to remotely monitor patients in multiple intensive care units (ICUs). With this new eICU® system, an intensivist at Swedish is able to watch over and direct care for dozens of patients at once from a location apart from the hospital. Intensivists who staff the eICU command center back up regular bedside care and help monitor ICU patients around-the clock.
Swedish is among the first 13 health systems in the country to begin using this technology, which combines telemedicine with advanced software systems. The concept of remotely monitoring ICU patients was developed by two intensivists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who, in 1998, formed VISICU Inc. and produced what is now called the eICU solution. Swedish now has 42 ICU beds on its First Hill campus connected to this system and hopes to begin implementation of the eICU solution at Swedish/Providence in the first quarter of 2005 to monitor another 33 ICU beds.
Each intensive-care room is equipped with a high-resolution video camera, microphone and speaker, allowing intensivists in the monitoring center to talk with ICU staff and observe details such as a patient's breathing patterns or movement. Critical information, including blood pressure, pulse and heart rhythm for each patient are continually fed in real time to computers in the eICU monitoring room. A database of detailed patient information, including medications, lab results, active diagnoses and therapies is also instantly available to the intensivist staffing the eICU center. A key feature of the eICU system is the ability to pick up nearly imperceptible changes in a patient's condition or vital signs. Because intensive-care patients are so medically fragile, this "early warning system" helps head off life-threatening complications.
"This is an excellent blend of leading-edge technology and bedside attention," said Curtis F. Veal Jr., M.D., pulmonary/critical-care/internal-medicine specialist and medical director of Swedish's eICU program. "It's an opportunity for us to take a giant leap forward to help ensure safety of patients in the ICU. The technology has been implemented in sites around the country and there's been marked improvements in outcomes for ICU patients, fewer complications, reduced mortality, reduced length of stay and increased comfort levels for families. The data is compelling."
This new care-delivery model enables optimal use of scarce health-care resources while simultaneously improving patient outcomes and financial results for health systems. A study of the eICU system published in Critical Care Medicine (Crit Care Med 2004; 30:31-38) proved the clinical and financial benefits. Physicians and staff at Swedish already feel it's having a positive impact on patient outcomes and it has definitely increased families' comfort level to know their loved ones are being so closely monitored.
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In 1998, Swedish became the first medical center in the area to begin having dedicated intensivists on-site from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and have physicians "on call" only at night. Now that the new eICU system is being used at Swedish/First Hill, intensivists are available to monitor ICU patients around-the-clock.
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- To read the transcript of a story that KOMO Television (channel 4; ABC) aired about this on Oct. 19, 2004, click here.
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damjam wrote:Here's an Opinion piece that was in the NYT: Can't Save? Here's Why
I can't agree with the thrust of her argument.
MN Finance wrote:damjam wrote:Here's an Opinion piece that was in the NYT: Can't Save? Here's Why
I can't agree with the thrust of her argument.
Seems her argument is that it's all about things that are out of our control. Ok, I suppose. But I agree with her assessment that the talking heads, when talking to main street, totally overstate the *small* luxuries argument. Maybe there are people that go crazy with moderate luxuries and get in trouble, but unless someone is already in a world of hurt, the lattes aren't going to drown them. It's the big rocks that make or break finances. Buy a house that's too big, get divorced a few times, and stay underemployed. Those things do it.
lmpmd wrote:She pushes index funds here. That seems wise:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ti ... 54956.html
NYBoglehead wrote:damjam wrote:I agree that most or even all of her minor points are correct: salaries are stagnating, eliminating small luxuries will not save huge amounts of money, the financial services industry is stacked against you, etc.
But her conclusion seems to be that there is no way you can save for retirement. I would say many members of this forum disprove that conclusion daily.
Of course the best laid plans ... Things can go wrong for an individual no matter how careful they have been. That is why safety net programs such as Social Security are so important, IMHO.
I just find her stance a little defeatist.
I have to disagree about the small luxuries argument. Many small rocks put in a backpack will make it heavy. NOT spending $4 per latte twice weekly for a year will save someone $416. That's easily a new suit, a car payment, or a few months of electric bills (depending on location). To me that savings is significant.
NYBoglehead wrote:And I think she is way too defeatist.
sls239 wrote:Just like the idea that you can lose weight by skipping breakfast is a myth; statistically that strategy leads to more calorie intake, not less.
bradshaw1965 wrote:The comments here sound a little Millionaire Next Door selection biased. The editorial might be a little hyperbolic, but Bogleheads have mostly won the game or are on their way to winning the game and maybe, just maybe have gotten a little lucky rather then completely won on intelligence and pluck.
Khanmots wrote:bradshaw1965 wrote:The comments here sound a little Millionaire Next Door selection biased. The editorial might be a little hyperbolic, but Bogleheads have mostly won the game or are on their way to winning the game and maybe, just maybe have gotten a little lucky rather then completely won on intelligence and pluck.
Yeah, but if you haven't gotten as lucky as many here, then perhaps taking your lunch to work *will* help and make a significant difference (she says it won't).
Personally I used to go out to eat daily for $10-15 lunches. Switching to bringing frozen dinners instead costs me $2-5 a meal. Based on my work schedule, etc, that's a yearly savings of nearly $2000. I could save another couple hundred a year if I were to start making sandwiches or bringing leftovers instead of the frozen dinners. Personally I'm well enough off that when I was eating out all the time I was simply classifying it as entertainment expenses, socializing with coworkers and breaking the day up. I could afford to do this while still meeting my financial and savings goals.
Now, if I hadn't had the opportunities that I have and I was making far less, say only $30k a year, then suddenly this $2000 *after-tax* income boost is *very* significant. It may well mean the difference between saving $2000/yr instead of saving $0/year. Having a nest egg that can provide $8k a year (at a 4% SWR assuming 4% real return on $2k invested each year for 40 years) on top of SS may mean the difference between eating dog food and maintaining close to the style of living I had when I was working.
The editorial I saw seems to ignore the reality that a few hundred here and there may not be "real money" to those of us that are better off, but it is very much so to those that aren't. In my example above, the $30k/yr wage earner will, if ceasing work at age 70 earn around $18k/yr from SS. An extra $8k/yr of income from investments would be a *huge* boon, it's nearly a 50% increase.
TSR wrote:I think the hyperbole of her arguments is the suggestion that because we need comprehensive change to our economic system to help the middle class, things are therefor "hopeless" for individuals. It may or may not be true that only real policy change will assist the middle class (again, I don't want to go into it here), but that says absolutely nothing about whether common-sense financial advice can help an individual out of debt.
Novine wrote:I'm interested in seeing how the numbers work for the median American household. Can you save for retirement, save for kids college, pay for health care, put a roof over your head and have a healthy emergency fund on $50,000 a year? I'm sure it's doable. But you won't be maxing out your 401k at $17,500 a year. If you can only save $5,000 a year in a Roth, what kind of retirement does that provide you if your only other retirement income is SS? This isn't a question of willpower or bad choices. It's simply asking what's realistic for people of low and moderate income to be able to accomplish in a lifetime of employment. Will how things currently work provide them with a retirement relatively free of the concerns of money? Or will retirement just be another period of time living SS payment to SS payment?
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lawman3966 wrote:I'm impressed that the above posters are this polite in connection with the article.
The author appears to make two basic points: (a) saving on consumption is pointless; and (b) the problem lies with the "system", not with individuals.
In other words, she's shifted the burden of ensuring financial security from individuals to society as a whole, and from an actionable issue for the reader to a grand social issue that individual readers no power over.
I assume the article would have no effect on Bogleheads and others with some financial acumen. But, less well informed people who read the article and conclude that savings is pointless could be harmed by it. An article on removing coffee stains from the carpet would have been more entertaining, and a better use of the cyberspace the subject article occupies.
The author appears to make two basic points: (a) saving on consumption is pointless; and (b) the problem lies with the "system", not with individuals.
In other words, she's shifted the burden of ensuring financial security from individuals to society as a whole, and from an actionable issue for the reader to a grand social issue that individual readers no power over.
deathb4disco wrote:I read the book this weekend. The author makes some good points, but she is an unabashed fan of both Teresa Ghilarducci and the Occupy Wall Street movement. I am a fan of neither. I don't want to get into politics, so I'll just leave it at that.
Good expose but no personal accountability, February 8, 2013
By Dale C. Maley "Index Fund Investor"
This review is from: Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry (Hardcover)
A little background on myself before I start the book review. I have an Engineering degree and an MBA. I have read over 200 books on investing and have been investing for 35 years. I am a Registered Investment Advisor in the State of Illinois. Most of my financial planning customers are family members with a few non-family members. I was a contributing author to the Bogleheads 2nd book, The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning. I am also the author of over 50 e-books on financial planning topics.
When I write stories, I computer check my writing and try to keep it as simple as possible for the reader. Olen apparently does not believe it writing a story as simple as possible. I found four words or phrases that I had difficulty with. She uses the expression "caught out". I think she means she was afraid of being discovered as a fake financial planning expert when she had no training in investing or financial planning. I had never heard of the word oeuvre with respect to Suzy Orman's ever growing oeuvre. The word oeuvre relates to an artist's complete set of works. Olen used the phrase take-up with respect to 401Ks. I think she means the participation rate of employees signing up for their 401K plan. The last word was avaricious relatives. She could have simply said greedy relatives.
Olen frames all people involved with giving financial advice as "self-helpers". She says Americans have always believed that you control your own destiny. This started with Ben Franklin's 1732 financial advice that a penny saved is a penny earned in Poor Richard's Almanac. This theory is also commonly called rugged individualism or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
Olen spends the first part of her book doing exposes of people historically involved with personal finance. She starts with Sylvia Porter. Olen's complaint is that Sylvia Porter became so successful (and rich) that she could no longer relate to the issues of ordinary people.
Next she moves on to Jane Bryant Quinn, who chronologically replaces Sylvia Porter. Olen does not really skewer Quinn.
Olen left out Venita VanCaspel. Venita wrote one of the first books on financial planning back in 1978. Unfortunately, VanCaspel got caught up in the limited partnership craze of the 1980s. The people selling limited partnerships got huge commissions and the investors were wiped out when the tax laws favoring limited partnerships were abolished.
Olen spends quite a bit of time skewering Suze Orman. I find Orman offensive and too simplistic, but some women seem to love her. Orman dropped out of the U of Illinois (my alma mater) while pursuing a degree in sociology. She became a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery. I am a firm believer that a financial planner should "eat their own cooking". This means only recommending investments to clients that the planner uses in his personal portfolio. Suze recommends investing in stocks, yet she owns no stocks and only holds tax-free municipal bonds. I did like Olen's summary of Orman. "The Buttercup Bakery was, in other words, the perfect professional incubus for Suze Orman, who would first find the love she craved by serving up rather routine food to a roomful of regulars, before going on to sell rather routine and conflicted financial advice to millions, all the while convincing her fans in both places they were receiving gourmet tidbits."
Olen then skewers David Bach. His claim to fame is the advice to skip the daily latté and grow the money into millions by investing it. There is only one problem with is claim, the math does not add up. If you figure $4 per day over 250 working days in the year, you are investing $1,000 per year. If you achieve the long-term average return of the stock market of 10% over 30 years, you end up with $164,494. If you factor in a 3% inflation rate, the ending value drops to $94,461. This is a lot less than Bach promises.
Bach has also made millions by advocating automatic savings. When you were a child, your parents probably told you that if you can't touch the money, then you can't spend it. Using automatic savings plans (like a payroll deduction for a 401K) is common sense and simple advice. Bach has been able to promote this simple idea into millions of dollars of income to himself.
Olen also spends a lot of the book on skewering Dave Ramsey. His mantra is to pay off all debt. Olen criticizes Ramsey because he declared bankruptcy when he over-borrowed for his real estate investments.........but now tells his clients they should never declare bankruptcy. Olen finds some bankruptcy experts that say most people are better off declaring bankruptcy sooner versus later. She also criticizes Ramsey because he does not recommend paying of the debt in the order of highest to lowest interest rate.
Olen also skewers Jim Cramer, the CNBC shouting salesman. Cramer is an entertainer. All the studies I have seen show that one should never follow his investing advice.
Olen missed skewering Phil Town. He has gone on national TV shows and made preposterous claims. He says ordinary people can achieve 15% annual returns and they only have to spend 15 minutes a week to do it. Almost nobody has equaled the 10% historic return of the S&P 500 over long periods of time like 30 years.
Olen also picks on The Millionaire Next Door book. Olen ignores the major message of this book which is to live below your means....which gives you money to invest. A secondary message is that many people have become millionaires by starting their own businesses. Stanley, the author, points out in the book this is a very risky proposition. Most small businesses fail within the first 5 years of existence. Olen complains that it is too risky to start your own business, yet the book clearly points out this risk.
The whole premise of Olen's book is laid out early on page 12.
"Pound Foolish will tell the story of how we were sold on a dream--a dream that personal finance had almost magical abilities, that it could compensate for stagnant salaries, income inequality, and a society that offered a shorter and thinner safety net with each passing year. The book will tell the tale of how that fantasy was sold to us by people, organizations, and businesses that had a vested monetary interest in selling it to us. Finally, it will tell the story of how we allowed ourselves to be convinced that the personal finance and investment industrial complex would save our collective financial souls--and what comes next, now that it is clear it never could."
Olen believes people have zero control over their own destiny. She argues that people can not become financially successful until government solves income and social inequalities.
This philosophy leads to no recommendations for people, except to lobby for more government involvement.
Although Olen writes colorfully about the issues of 20th century people, maybe she should go back in time a couple hundred years. An Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, made an interesting discovery around the year 1900. He found that only a small proportion of people own the majority of the wealth and income of a country. He found this to not only be true in Italy, but England as well. The rough ratio he found was 80:20. Only 20% of the people have 80% of the wealth and income. If you fast forward 113 years, you will find the same ratios in the United States.
In other words, income or wealth inequality has been around for at least 113 years. The only systems with less inequality eventually collapsed (e.g. Soviet Union).
So the real question is, if you desire to be in the top 20% that has 80% of the wealth or income.......how do you become a member of the top 20%?
The only way to increase wealth is to first live below your means.......so you have money to save and invest. I think Charles Dickens said it best back in 1849 when Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield. Mr. Macawber says, with respect to money:
"Income 6 pence a week, expenditure 5 pence a week, result happiness: Income 6 pence a week, expenditure 7 pence a week, result misery."
I don't really care for Dave Ramsey, but if his methods help some people get their spending and debt under control, then great. There are other non-profit organizations that can help people with their spending issues also.
On a sliding scale, Olen believes people have zero control over their financial health and need government intervention. I lean towards the other end of the scale. I believe many people can change their behavior and they can join the 20% that has 80% of the wealth. We should keep the current safety nets we have for people that encounter the unexpected tough times of life.
Olen focused on the people that offer very little real advice and who profit on giving this advice. On the positive side, she missed the work of Jack Bogle. Jack started the Vanguard group and led the way on offering low-cost index funds. Vanguard is one of the few institutions that is owned by their customers, and not by shareholders. Bogle could have gotten a lot richer by not offering index funds and becoming a publicly traded firm. Millions of people have benefited by investing in Vanguard's low cost index funds. Vanguard also offers decent financial plans to people at minimal or no cost.
The believers in Bogle's low cost index funds have their own online forum. Just Google the term Bogleheads to find them. They are a non-profit group that discusses investing. They will review your portfolio at no charge and give you recommendations. Political discussions are also banned.
There are also many honest fee-only financial advisors that can help you with financial planning.
All-in-all, maybe this is a good book to educate people about the conflicts of interest involved with investing and financial planning. You will not find any recommendations on how to improve your own financial health, except to lobby for more government involvement. This is because the author believes that we have no control over our own destiny.
DaleMaley wrote:I am a firm believer that a financial planner should "eat their own cooking". This means only recommending investments to clients that the planner uses in his personal portfolio. Suze recommends investing in stocks, yet she owns no stocks and only holds tax-free municipal bonds.
Kulak wrote:Bad argument. Suze has said that she's in a very different position financially from the vast majority of her clients; she doesn't need to take equity risk and so she doesn't. (Notice how she's channeling Larry here.) Presumably, if she were 25 and had just saved her first 10 grand, she'd take her own advice and buy stocks. At least once in every Bogleheads thread someone quotes Buffett or Swensen or whoever exhorting the hoi polloi to hold index funds, and this isn't considered hypocritical. Larry has mentioned his own AA and hastened to add that it's inappropriate for most investors.
midareff wrote:In the summary of the book, it mentions that saving money by not spending on lattes, etc is a myth.
Toons wrote:If you are interested Helaine Olean talks about her book ,Video- C-Span about 55 minutes
Austintatious wrote:Of course, if after I've read Ms. Olean's latest work, I conclude that my 16 bucks was poorly invested, I'll just have to put off retirement for another year.
VictoriaF wrote:Austintatious wrote:Of course, if after I've read Ms. Olean's latest work, I conclude that my 16 bucks was poorly invested, I'll just have to put off retirement for another year.
If the $16 is poorly invested then you will disagree with Ms. Olean's premise that saving on lattes does not matter, and therefore you will immediately start saving on lattes. By saving on five lattes you would recoup the cost of the book and put off your retirement by mere eleven months.
Austintatious wrote:VictoriaF wrote:Austintatious wrote:Of course, if after I've read Ms. Olean's latest work, I conclude that my 16 bucks was poorly invested, I'll just have to put off retirement for another year.
If the $16 is poorly invested then you will disagree with Ms. Olean's premise that saving on lattes does not matter, and therefore you will immediately start saving on lattes. By saving on five lattes you would recoup the cost of the book and put off your retirement by mere eleven months.
As I mentioned, I've not read her book. I think I can say, correctly, that the word "latte" was never mentioned in the 55 minute C-Span interview I watched earlier this evening, though I cannot swear to it. If Ms. Olean actually suggests that saving money by cutting back on one's lattes, and going out for lunch five days a week, instead of brown-bagging-it, or splurging on a Beamer instead of settling for a Corolla doesn't make a difference, then she would be wrong. But I haven't read her book, yet. Have you? And how about all the others posting here who have rejected her work so readily? Have they all read her book?
There is this thing called "context", and it just mioght apply to this woman and her work. Why don't you "invest" in the 55 minutes it takes to view the C-Span interview and see what you think? And if you already have viewed that interview, what do you think, Victoria?


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April 6, 2012
BRISTOL, T.N. Pfeiffer University and host King College split a Friday afternoon Conference Carolinas baseball doubleheader at the King Baseball Complex. The Falcons cruised 14-4 in the opener while the Tornado exploded late for an 11-2 win in game two. Pfeiffer improves to 20-18 overall while King moves to 22-14. Both teams stand at 11-9 in league play.
In the opener, Pfeiffer scored in seven of the nine innings played while pounding out 16 hits and taking advantage of five King errors. Those first of those five errors led to the first Falcon run in the first with the visitors eventually grabbing a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a Jacob Yates sacrifice fly. The Tornado would square game one in their fourth until Pfeiffer opened things up with three in the fifth.
Jon Gray began the frame with a RBI-double to left while Aarin Sharpe soon followed with the same thing. Dalton Lindley would finish the trifecta of three RBI-doubles to score Sharpe on the very next play. After the Tornado responded with a run in the fifth, Cole McGraw provided a two-run triple while Sharpe singled him in to put Pfeiffer up 8-3 after six.
Justin Harris got in the action with a run-scoring single in the seventh while Matt Wade did the same with his two-run double in the eighth. The Falcons finished off game one with three in the ninth on another McGraw two-run two-bagger and a Lindley single through the left side.
Harris and McGraw would each finish game one with three hits while Sharpe, Lindley and Wade each concluded with two. Tyler Ring got the opening win on the mound tossing the mandatory five innings allowing three runs on seven hits while fanning five.
Pfeiffer would strike first in game two as a Preston Lyon RBI-double scored Kevin Price in the top of the first. After King responded with two in their first, Sharpe would square things up with his own RBI double to left-center for a 2-2 contest. King would take over from there adding three in the third using a two-run blast before scoring a half-dozen in the fifth on four hits thanks in part to a three-run triple.
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The Global Standard in Facility Cost Forecasting
Data centers have proliferated among U.S. federal agencies,
growing from 400 in 1998 to over 2000 by 2010. Alarmed by growing
costs and potential inefficiencies, the Obama Administration issued
a Presidential Memorandum directing all federal agencies to "adopt
a policy against expanding data centers beyond current levels, and
develop plans to consolidate and significantly reduce data centers
within 5 years.[1]" As a
result, Whitestone was tasked by a large agency to approximate the
facility savings that might accrue from the closure of a typical
data center.
We found that the range of possible cost savings
attributable to center closures is quite broad. Our estimates span
from $175 to $540 per square foot (SF) of computer room floor area,
varying by the amount of redundant equipment and computing
intensity. The precision of the estimates can be improved with
knowledge of a center's design features, as well as its size,
location, and levels of service.
Our definition of facility costs for data centers includes those
directly attributable to the center, such as energy and maintenance
and repair (M&R), and other operating costs-custodial, grounds,
management, pest control, etc.-that reflect standard tenant
services only indirectly related to the center. Not included are
the costs of the programmatic staff-operators, engineers, and other
technical staff-that run the computing activity. Unlike most
commercial data centers, many federal centers are small and occupy
only part of a multiuse building. Accordingly, our estimates assume
a size of 500 SF of computing area.
Cost were estimated for five types of data centers, as shown in
Table 1; four are categorized as Tier I through Tier IV centers,
according to the redundancy of mechanical equipment and the
independence of electrical distribution
paths.[2] A fifth "non tier" model is the
simplest version of a data center, with no raised flooring,
redundant systems or special power equipment. For each type of
center, we defined representative models based on component
inventories derived from case studies, and then verified by Jacobs
Engineering. These are summarized in the Attachment. Energy demand
was computed using an Energy Star
calculator.[3] Costs were generated using the
MARS Facility Cost Forecast System.[4]
Our estimates of energy costs do not vary for different tiers.
This is because adding redundant mechanical and electrical capacity
changes only the reliability of computing services, but not the
demand for computing. However, energy costs do vary by computing
intensity, as shown in Table 2.[5] Note that
the energy demand from computing (e.g. power required by servers,
drives, and switches) is only part of total center demand. Other
demand sources are from cooling and auxiliary equipment (e.g.
lights, UPS). Our highest annual cost estimate, $540 per computer
room SF, assumes a high level of computing intensity (substitute
$209.86 for the Tier IV model energy costs in Table
The M&R costs shown increasing by tier in Table 1 are a
function of the cyclical maintenance and replacement tasks
associated with the added mechanical and electrical equipment. The
reported costs are based on a 50-year average (a period long enough
to include the replacement of major cooling equipment).
Other operations costs are based on general tenant costs
calibrated for levels of use appropriate for data centers. For
example, security costs are based on systems and labor required for
the relatively high level of security common in federal buildings:
This includes "access control, system monitoring and intrusion
detection systems; stationed security guard and daily patrol." Note
that these costs increase by tier with the increase in "mechanical
room" space required by additional
Our estimates provide an approximate range of savings for an
individual data center, but they can also be used to demonstrate
the savings that might accrue from closing a collection of
facilities. Specifically, the Federal Data Center Consolidation
Initiative (FDCCI) anticipates the closure of at least 800 centers
by 2015.[8] Assuming a 500 (computing area)
SF data center and multiplying by our estimated costs, the annual
savings for a single center could range from $140 to $270 thousand,
while the annual savings for all 800 closings could range from a
$112 to $216 million.
Our estimates could be refined with more information about the
individual centers to be closed:[9]
Size of the average center has a direct and
obvious impact on savings. Increasing or decreasing the average
size of a center to be closed could have a proportional affect on
costs. For an actual commercial center (Tier III, unknown computing
intensity) with 16,250 SF of computing area, we confirmed annual
costs of $230 per SF. This is less than the $361 per SF we
estimated for the (much) smaller center, and suggests there could
be scale effects for major costs such as energy, M&R, and
Location determines the labor and utility rates
and climatic conditions that drive many costs. For simplicity, our
examples assume all centers are located in the Washington D.C.
area; In comparison, operations costs in Honolulu were 35 percent
higher than the D.C area in 2010, while costs in Alamogordo, NM
were 28 percent less. Even greater variations can be seen for
international locations.
Level of Service provided substantially affects
operations costs such as M&R and management. Data centers
operated over 80 hours per week create an estimated M&R
requirement roughly 35 percent higher than those operated from 40
to 80 hours, as assumed in the estimates shown in Table 1. With
regard to management costs, we assumed in our example that these
costs are based on standard commercial practice, which is a fixed
percentage of lease costs. If the center is part of a larger
campus, then an in-house staff could handle management
responsibilities for much less (about 80 percent less) than
commercial costs.
In summary, our task was to provide a federal client with an
approximation of the savings that follow from closing a small data
center. We found that these savings can vary broadly by center
design and computing intensity, and we suggested that additional
data on size, location, and service levels could be used to refine
estimates. We also demonstrated that our approach could estimate
aggregate savings for multiple facility closures, such as those
anticipated by the FDCCI.
-Luca Romani
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[1] Presidential Memorandum-Disposing of Unneeded Federal
Real Estate, June 10, 2010.
[2] Pitt, Seader and Brill, Tier Classifications Define
Site Infrastructure Performance. Uptime Institute, Santa Fe,
[3] See
[4] MARS is a facility cost forecast system used by federal
agencies and large commercial property holders. See
[5] The range of computing intensities was derived from
data center benchmarks at http://energybenchmarking.lbl.gov/; and a
presentation by Jonathan Koomey, Data center electricity use:
what we know, EPA Stakeholder Workshop, Santa Clara CA,
February 16, 2007.
[6] We understand that a high computing intensity level in
a 500 SF data center is unlikely but thought that the estimated
cost was instructive.
[7] Our simplest (non tier) center model has a 45 SF
mechanical room.
[8] A recent update on FDCCI activities and a list of
deliverables is found at:
[9] The alternative costs discussed here are described in
the Whitestone Facility Operations Cost Reference 2010-2011,
Whitestone Research, Santa Barbara CA, August 2010.
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We don't hate Vasquez, Ceedee. We just realize that whenever we face a PG with quickness and speed (i.e, most PGs on the NBA these days) unless our gameplan is built around helping Vasquez, we're gonna get torched cuz one PGs get to the lane, nothing but bad stuff happens. Davis can't block everything.
Its easy to see why Vasquez's +/- was -12. He doesn't defend at all and he still had 4 turnovers which is terrible. He's really a bad PG and should never start in this league.
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Monty Williams very to the point in assessment of D: "Our defense is not even close to what we're used to around here."
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Andrei Kirilenko dropped in numerous easy layups for Wolves. Monty: "Our small forwards were absolutely atrocious guarding backdoor cuts."
Honestly at this point I'd move Greivis for a older PG who could help us weather the storm and deal with growing pains.
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A year after state leaders finished spending millions of dollars to resurrect a long-abandoned Gaston County railway, there's been little payoff in new business.
Al Norton is among those who watched the renovation of the Piedmont and Northern Railway with enthusiasm. But he has yet to witness a rumbling engine or a train whistle along the 12-mile line from Gastonia to Mount Holly.
"Someone spent a lot of money and did what I thought was a tremendous job on those old tracks," said Norton, a school bus driver from Mount Holly. "Now a year later, I have yet to see a moving train.
"I just wonder if it's being used at all. I think a whole lot of other people are wondering the same thing."
The N.C. Department of Transportation invested more than $9 million to reopen the P&N line in February 2012. Supporters touted the economic development it could lure, based on high gas prices that were making rail service more attractive to companies that needed to ship materials and products.
But the private firm that is leasing the line from the state and trying to coax new business acknowledged it's been a tough start.
"As with any startup, things have been slow," said Bill Bartosh, an assistant general manager with Patriot Rail.
Rail investment
The P&N was built in 1911 and heavily used for decades, but gradually lost clout. After the corridor was set to be abandoned in the late 1980s, the DOT bought it to preserve it for future transportation needs.
Though it was still technically an active railway, no one used it. Weeds sprouted up between the ties and the tracks deteriorated.
But the P&N still connects to the east and west with two Class 1 carriers — Norfolk Southern in Gastonia and CSX in Mount Holly. So Gaston County commissioners pushed to put the line back in service in 2007.
The state agreed and offered a $5 million grant to make it possible, with the county providing a $500,000 match.
The state poured in additional millions to pay for completely rebuilding the tracks, and installing new signals and crossing gates up and down the P&N.
The state signed a five-year contract with Patriot Rail – a Florida-based short line railroad company – to operate the track.
Two current customers
As the renovation was being completed in late 2011, Patriot announced the first company to use it would be ReLoad, a Charlotte biofuels company. A $311,000 state grant was used to build a side track and rail/tanker truck hub in Ranlo, where incoming ethanol would be unloaded.
But Patriot Rail and ReLoad never reached an agreement, said Heather Anckner, Patriot Rail's assistant vice president for business development.
"Unfortunately the ethanol opportunity did not come to fruition," she said.
Two clients are now using the P&N, Anckner said. Both are primarily trucking companies that are incorporating the railway into their transportation business.
Atlantic Food Carrier, based in Fort Mill, S.C., transports raw ingredients for the food, pharmaceutical and nutrition industries. It moves sugar along the P&N, Bartosh said.
Superior Carriers of Oak Brook, Ill., which has a hub in Charlotte, transports a variety of unspecified goods along the P&N, but nothing hazardous, Anckner said.
"We don't have any products coming through that pose any environmental concerns to the community," she said.
Patriot Rail uses its distinctive red engine to pull its clients' cars through Gaston County as needed. But there are no set times when people can expect to spot them, Bartosh said.
Still committed
Large companies used to locate beside railroads to move goods to their warehouses or shops. That's uncommon now, said Donny Hicks, executive director of the Gaston County Economic Development Commission.
"To have a rail spur to your facility, you've got to be right next to the rail line, and it's expensive to build and maintain it," he said.
The P&N's potential lies elsewhere, in combination with other forms of transportation, Hicks said. For example, a plastics manufacturer in Gaston County could ship its product most of the way here on the P&N, then offload and take it the rest of the way by truck, he said.
"I think the value to us is it gives us the ability to transfer products and provide rail service to companies that don't have rail spurs," he said.
Anckner said Patriot Rail remains committed to making the line successful.
"We are absolutely confident this will be a successful railroad," she said. "Railroads tend to take time to build up, but it can be done in the long term."
Norton said he'd like to see that happen. Several of the children who ride the bus that he drives live near the track.
"Every once in a while, I'll ask if any of them has seen or heard a train," he said. "They always tell me, 'No sir, not a single one.'"
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