15 Food Myths (CBS)
This probably has to be my favourite myth, because I love carbs. Fresh bread, fresh rice, pasta… bring it on!
Myth: To Lose Weight, You Must Avoid Carbs
Bread, pasta, beans, and other high-carbohydrate foods are lower in calories than fatty foods, like cheese or French fries. That’s one reason why people whose eat carbohydrate-based diets – people living in rural Asia and vegetarians, for example – tend to be thinner than people whose diets are based on fatty foods.
Here are the numbers: one gram of carbohydrate (that is, starch) has four calories, while a gram of chicken fat, olive oil, or fryer grease – any kind of fat – has nine.
Worker at taxpayer-funded agency in Virginia plays hooky for 12 years (CNN)
Did I mention she pulled in close to half a million not including full benefits as well?
12 years x $350,000 (average) = $4.2 million
without benefits….!!!!!!
UPDATE: Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader (I guess I was reading into it too pessimistically), it is actually $300, 000 – $480,000 for the total of 12 years, not per year as I had originally thought.
Thanks for clarifying!
Still. Close to half a million is a lot of dough to pay for someone who never showed.
A worker was paid for 12 years without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say.
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CNN affiliate WAVY said that the employee, a woman whose name was not released, “earned” somewhere between $300,000 and $480,000, not including full benefits, from the board over the past dozen years.
Woman tracks down man who broke into her car (Boing Boing)
Using Facebook and some sleuthing, she tracked him down like the dog he was!
It’s a pretty amazing story.
Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver.
I cleared $60,000 in 18 months earning $65,000 gross/year.
Now I am self-employed, and you can read more about 
Gotta say, I especially enjoyed the first "myth"! Like you sais, bring it on!!! I live on carbs, and I eat tons of simple ("bad") carbs like white pasta, white breads, and rice (I can eat one cup of cooked rice in a single sitting) — and I am supposedly below normal weight for my height (5'1" and 93lbs) and I consider myself much healthier than 65% of Americans. Every time I hear someone knock pasta and white rice, I want to tell them that they're most likely unhealthy in other ways and I want to point to the examples of Asia (rice) and Italy (bread+pasta).. but no one is good at taking criticism 😮
p.s. your posts are always so interesting! Love your blog!
Hi – cool articles – but i think the total amount was between 300k and 480K, not per year, so somewhere around 30k a year on average? the kind of employee who can potentially go MIA, I imagine if you're earning 6 figures people notice when you don't show!
Oh I’m sorry! I misread your comment.
You said: the total amount was between $300 – $480k, not that it was $300 – $480/k per year.
Thank you for clarifying.
Right, which is why I put \”$350,000\” as an average. 🙂
I didn\’t want to try and figure out which amount was when, and I went on the more conservative side, closer to $300k than $480k.