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Bernard Freireich, a 49-year resident of the area, passed away Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at Potomac Homes, Park Ridge, NJ. He was 86 years old. Son of the late Aaron and Frieda Mittleman Freireich, he was born June 1, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY. Bernard was the widower of Joan L. Davis Freireich. He was a Retail Auditor with Korvettes Dept. Store, New York, NY and was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Survivors include his son, Arthur Freireich of Springfield, NJ and his daughter, Sandra Maldonado and her husband, Isaac of Harriman, NY; three grandchildren and his sister, Cecile Vinik of Valley Stream, NY.
A Graveside Service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 29th, at Montefiore Cemetery, 12183 Springfield Blvd, Springfield Gardens, Queens, NY with Rabbi Garry A. Loeb officiating.
Memorial donations may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 2 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 103, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-4060.
Funeral arrangements were made by Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home, 845-782-8185 or www.ssqfuneralhome.com .

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By Ian Salisbury
When Congress passed a deal to avert the fiscal cliff this month, it included what might seem like a big perk for savers: The ability to turn their 401(k) retirement plans into so-called Roth savings accounts. But retirement experts say response to the new provision has been lukewarm so far—and may stay that way for a while.
Traditional 401(k)s allow investors to build a nest-egg tax free, but require them to pay tax at regular income rates when they withdraw that money in retirement. Starting in 2006, employers have been allowed to offer Roth 401(k)s, where workers contribute after-tax dollars but pay no tax on future withdrawals. But the millions of workers who've spent their careers accumulating money in regular 401(k)s haven't been able to convert, except under limited circumstances, such as leaving their job or reaching retirement age.
The new rules in the fiscal-cliff law lift these restrictions. But experts say that a number of factors, including the complexity of the tax math for individual investors and a long-running effort to simplify 401(k) plans, mean there's been little rush among employers to alter their plans to accommodate this maneuver.
At Charles Schwab, a major administrator of 401(k)s, spokesman Mike Peterson says that "inquiries have been minimal thus far." The company's call centers, which receive 5,000 to 6,000 calls a day from 401(k) plan members, have gotten fewer than 100 from individuals regarding the new rules. Only about 50 out of 900 employers have called, he says.
ShareBuilder 401(k), another provider, plans to add the Roth conversion option automatically to most plans. But feedback has been slight there too. "We don't think most employers are aware of it," says president Stuart Robertson.
At giant Vanguard, there has been keen interest from a small number of employers who've already tweaked plans to allow for conversions in the limited circumstances previously allowed, according to Principal John Schadl. He expects the trend to gradually spread from early adapters to the majority of plans offered by employers that chose to remain on the sidelines. But, he says, "There's no rush."
What gives? One key reason is that it's not easy for individuals to figure out whether they're actually better off under a pay-now Roth tax regime or the more traditional pay-later one. To read an in-depth discussion of the pros and cons of conversion by MarketWatch's Robert Powell, click here.
Complexity can also make employers reluctant to add the option to plans, according to Jeff Belfiglio, a benefits lawyer. To comply with the regulations governing retirement plans, employers need to find a way to explain the consequences of a conversion to workers in broad, generic terms. But that's tricky because tax planning involves so many individual variables. "Some will think it's not worth bothering with," says Belfiglio.
In a similar vein, many large companies have focused recently on meat-and-potatoes issues like trying to boost savings rates and making sure employees invest in an appropriate mix of stocks and bonds, experts say. The most popular innovations, like auto-enrollment and all-in-one investments like target-date funds, have streamlined plans to make them more user-friendly, rather than adding bells and whistles. In that context, the new Roth conversion seems like a low priority, according to Bill McClain, a defined-contribution consultant at benefits consulting company Mercer. The Roth conversion option "goes in the opposite direction," he says.
The backstory behind the adoption of the new provision may also explain why it's getting a tepid reception. Other recent retirement plan changes, like the Department of Labor's new disclosure rules that target hidden costs, were backed by hard lobbying from consumer groups and some industry insiders before taking effect.
By contrast, experts say, the new Roth conversion feature seems to have been prompted as much by Congress's desire to close the budget gap as anything else. Since investors who convert retirement nest eggs pay taxes right away on the amount that they convert, government projections predict the change will boost tax receipts by $12 billion over the next decade.
But few in the retirement industry were looking out for the change. "I was surprised to see it came out," says ShareBuilder 401(k)'s Robertson of Congress's seemingly abrupt action. "I don't know that employers were clamoring for it."


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Stealth model is all black and includes the two layer abrasion areas but replaces all reflective areas with black matching fabric. A working rider's suit.
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By itself, the fully lined jacket worn alone is wonderful. Armored, lightweight, underarm and back-vented, nine pockets, cool-wearing, rotated sleeves, action back gussets, adjustable waist tabs and much more. Zipped together with the matching pants it's as fast and convenient to use as a one piece suit.
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Years of experience have proven the Roadcrafter Classic's abrasion protection and all-weather capability. Like all Roadcrafter's this suit is covered with innovations: high-visibility Scotchlite™ reflective, all those strategically placed pockets, provisions for removable arm and thigh map window pockets, optional hip and back impact armor, highly water resistant underarm and back vents, an ultrasuede collar, and a variety of adjustable tabs and zippers to fine-tune the fit.
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Liberty University's Helms School of Government hosted an all-day Foreign Policy Training Institute on Saturday, March 21.
The Jesse Helms Center conducted the seminars and offered mock television interviews and simulated remote appearances to help students learn how to communicate their policy views effectively, articulating the core values behind Sen. Jesse Helms' philosophy. Students also received advice on how to dress and the use of effective body language, and each received constructive critiques of their communication skills.
Special guest speakers included Deborah DeMoss Fonseca, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Beverly Hallberg, executive director of District Media Group; and Robert Wilkie, assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs.
The Helms School of Government at Liberty University prepares students to understand and articulate the biblical Christian sources of our religious, economic and political liberties and equip them to become Christ-centered leaders who are able to apply God's word in every area of life. The School currently offers six residential degree programs. Students from other disciplines can pursue minors in Politics and Policy, International Relations, Pre-Law and Criminal Justice.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 20 Los Angeles detectives are hunting for two men who grabbed a 10-year-old girl from her bedroom before dawn and held her for nearly 12 hours before dropping her off at a hospital near her San Fernando Valley home, police said.
LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith asked for the public's help in finding the men Thursday, saying they believe strangers took the girl to several locations in different cars.
The girl was found with cuts and bruises on her face and told police she did not know the men, Smith said.
She had been awake for much of her ordeal and has been resting at home and is going to be re-interviewed by detectives later Thursday, he said.
Meanwhile, police were canvassing the area's prolific number of surveillance cameras, checking local registered sex offenders, and digging into any possible clues related to the girl's family, acquaintances and Internet contacts.
While parents should be cautious, there are no other serial kidnappings in Los Angeles and such kidnappings are exceedingly rare in the United States.
"Right now we're looking at this as an abduction, a stranger abduction, one of those things that's very, very rare in this country but does happen," Smith said.
Police said one of the men was about 18 years old but they released no description of the other.
At the hospital where she had been treated, the girl told investigators the men held her for nine or 10 hours, police Capt. William Hayes said.
Police believe two vehicles were involved in the abduction and officers have recovered one of them, Hayes said. Investigators have cordoned off several crime scenes including houses and a storage facility in the investigation and manhunt.
"We have a 10-year-old girl that's been traumatized here. She was forcibly taken from her home," Hayes said. "If these individuals are brazen enough to do that, I'm putting all the resources I have to make sure they don't do it again."
The girl's parents reported her missing just before 4 a.m. More than 11 hours later, someone who recognized her from media reports spotted her outside a Starbucks shop and summoned police officers who happened to be nearby, police Capt. Kris Pitcher said at an earlier news conference.
Police later learned the girl had been dropped off at a hospital a few blocks away and had wandered to the area around the coffee shop, Hayes said.
The girl was wearing an oversized white T-shirt and was barefoot when she was found.
Her parents reported that she had been wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with characters from the TV show "Heroes" when they last saw her in her bedroom shortly after midnight, police spokesman Richard French said. When they checked on her a few hours later, she was gone.
There were no clear signs of forced entry into the house, Hayes said, but a gate outside that had been closed was left open and investigators believe the men somehow made their way in through the back of the house.
Police released the girl's name, description and a photo in an urgent campaign seeking the public's help in spotting the child with distinctive long red hair. After she was found, police asked media to stop using the name and photo.
Smith said the request came "due to the confidentiality of her being a juvenile and her being the victim of a serious crime," and at the request of her parents.


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TORONTO — He's had numerous newspaper articles written about him and his wartime history, along with a best-selling children's book, radio interviews, video documentaries and speaking engagements the world over. And last week, George Brady's star climbed even higher as the government of Germany honoured him with a civilian decoration.
Brady, now 85, whose story of survival and remembrance was captured in the book Hana's Suitcase, received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The medal was awarded to Brady because of his work toward remembrance, reconciliation and outreach, said the German consul general in Toronto, Sabina Sparwasser.
Brady, 85, was joined by his wife and children for a brief ceremony at the German Consulate. Dignitaries from the German and Czech diplomatic missions, including both countries' ambassadors, were also present.
In presenting the award, Sparwasser said, "Your extraordinary achievement is to have turned the horror, brutality and loss that you suffered as a child at the hands of the Germans and in the name of Germany into a message of remembrance, love and hope."
Noting the reluctance of Holocaust survivors to come to the German Consulate for documentation, Sparwasser said, "I do not understand, George, how you could find it in your heart to reach out to Germany. I asked you once, and your answer was as simple and powerful as you are: 'The hatred has to stop somewhere.'
"You have given us the most generous of gifts – the gift of friendship," she continued.
"Being here today, I hope, feels like a triumph for you – your struggles to survive the Holocaust, your efforts to honour the memories of those who perished, and, perhaps most astonishingly, your determination to put aside hatred and work for greater tolerance and reconciliation among the peoples of the world."
Speaking to The CJN just prior to receiving the award, Brady said, "I think it's an incredible turn of affairs. If you think about it, 70 years ago I was practically being killed."
He said the award shows German officials remembered the past, "are sorry about what happened and are trying to make up for it."
Brady's story first appeared on the front page of The CJN more than 11 years ago. George and his sister, Hana, were children in wartime Czechoslovakia who were imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Hana was deported to Auschwitz, where she was killed. A replica of Hana's suitcase was retrieved by Japanese Holocaust educator Fumiko Ishioka, who contacted George and set off the chain of events that led to the book, documentary and, most recently, the award by the German government.


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Egypt team honored with the gold for the fourth time
30 September 2011
Tangier, Morocco, October 1, 2011- The Egyptian fourth in row victory at the 2011 Men's African Nations Championship had a lot of echoes at the North African country as the African champions booked a World Cup berth for the third time in raw and the sixth time in total after 1977, 1985, 1995, 2003 and 2007 and stayed again as the African kings for two more years.
The first reaction was from the Egyptian Ministry of Youth which decided through the Head of Sports Council of the Ministry Hassan Saqur to double the prize money for the winners as decided in the local regulations. A high delegation from the ministry will be waiting for the team arrival to Cairo on Sunday from Morocco where they played in the 10 days competition that settled with their victory in the final against Cameroon 3-1 (20-25, 25-18, 25-20, 25-22) in a thrilling encounter.
The Egyptian newspapers covered the big victory in big titles specially in the main daily newspapers Akhbar, Ahram and Gomhuria where they described the victory as one of the best in all the sport achievements in the last three decades. Gomhuria compared between the volleyball victory 4 successive times and that of football which won only three times in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and failed to defend their title in 2012 after they were eliminated from the qualifiers.
The Egyptian media described also the big role of the team star Ahmed Salah Abdelhay who won for the second time the prize of the Most valuable Player "MVP" along with the skilful setter Abdalla Ahmed who maintained his role as the team Maestro.
The competition showed a record of number of media covering the event including about 20 local media as well as 32 other different media from the participating teams. A lot of Radio and TV channels covered the event with daily programs and the press conferences showed the attendance of more than 30 journalists.
From the technical point of view the competition focused the emergence of new upcoming teams specially the black horses Congo Brazzaville who came with a high profile team that succeeded to win the more experienced host team Morocco in their way to grab the fifth position.
What made a taste to the event was the attendance of the FIVB president Jizhong Wei at the semifinal matches and he conducted a historic press conference attended by 40 different media where he had the opportunity to send a message to all the African countries about the importance of development programs as a key of progress in the continent.
Egypt's last participation in the World Cup in 2007 was the most successful with the African champions achieving three victories over Australia, Tunisia and Korea in their 11 matches to finish 10 th between the 12 finalists.


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Sheffield man sentenced to 14 months in jail for drunken driving crash
PITTSFIELD -- Less than a month after receiving a drunken driving conviction, a Sheffield man stole a car from a party, drove drunk, crashed the car and then broke into a nearby residence, according to police.
On Tuesday, the 24-year-old was sentenced to 14 months in jail for the charges.
Calvin Jones, of Undermountain Road, pleaded guilty in a Jury of Six session of Central Berkshire District Court to a number of charges, including second offense drunken driving, driving with a suspended license due to a previous drunken driving conviction, and leaving the scene of an accident.
On Nov. 3, 2012, Great Barrington Police responded to Christian Hill Road for a reported one-car crash and discovered a 2001 Audi A4 had left the road and hit several trees before coming to a stop on private property, according to police and prosecutors.
About an hour later, police responded to a reported breaking and entering on the same road. A woman said she woke up after hearing someone downstairs. When she confronted Jones, who she caught walking up her stairs toward the second floor, he told her "I'm working," according to Assistant Berkshire District Attorney Dana Parsons.
When police arrived, Jones had fled, but was arrested a short time later in the same neighborhood. Police said his blood alcohol level was 0.14, or nearly twice the legal limit for driving.
Parsons said that the car Jones was driving had been stolen from a party in Great Barrington. Jones and the 23-year-old Millerton, N.Y., woman whose car it was had both attended the party.
Jones had a previous conviction for drunken driving from Southern Berkshire District Court from Oct. 4, according to Great Barrington Police.
On Tuesday, Jones took a plea deal brokered by his attorney, Ryan E. Bausch, and Parsons and was sentenced to 14 months at the Berkshire Jail & House of Corrections.
He had charges of breaking and entering and theft of a motor vehicle continued without a finding of guilt for two years. During that probationary period, he must refrain from drinking alcohol, will be randomly tested, and must pay restitution of more than $5,000 for the damage the car sustained in the accident.
Judge Robert S. Murphy Jr. told Jones that it was apparent his criminal behavior was alcohol-related and that he hoped Jones would be able to deal with his addiction. The judge said he would recommend to jail officials that Jones be allowed to participate in a residential substance abuse treatment program while incarcerated.
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Educators at forum say their backs are against the wall, but Cuomo says they still have ways to cut
EAST GREENBUSH — More than 1,000 people packed the Columbia High School auditorium, filling it with catcalls and gasps of affirmation over something that's usually more likely to cause sleep than fervor: school aid formulas.
School board members, parents, superintendents, students and others converged on the East Greenbush school Thursday night to hear a talk entitled "Your Public Schools in Fiscal Peril – Running Out of Time & Options." They represented 47 upstate school districts and came in such droves that a line of cars stretched more than a mile from the school to the highway exit.
The headliner was Rick Timbs, executive director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium, an advocacy group that calls more equitable aid distribution. Timbs fired up the crowd of school advocates and budget wonks with a PowerPoint presentation that showed the dire state of funding in New York's public schools, which have cut thousands of teachers and programs in the last few years and will have to do so again next year.
"I can't cut the same person more than once, I can't cut the same program more than once," Timbs said. "We are running out of options."
School leaders have complained about funding shortfalls for years as they slashed programs and education jobs, some 30,000 by teachers' union estimates. But something profound has changed this year, with a growing number of superintendents warning that they are now in a state of crisis and will be unable to offer a quality education to their students in the next year or two.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the state already spends billions on education, more than virtually every area of the budget, and cannot afford to give more than a 4 percent aid increase.
That means schools are at the edge of their own fiscal cliff and more than 100 districts face insolvency in the next two years. Thursday's meeting marked a significant shift for local school leaders, more mass rally than solemn information session. Parents, teachers, principals and others were enlisted to call their state legislators, to press for a different distribution of funding. Guilderland Superintendent Marie Wiles told them to use their anger to bring about change.
But they face significant challenges and a governor who says he has no more left to give.
At a meeting with the Times Union editorial meeting this week, Cuomo said school districts grew accustomed to large annual aid increases in the years before the recession and can no longer calibrate their budgets to those numbers. He said schools continue to sign contracts with their employees that they cannot afford and turn to the state when they can't balance their budget. More districts need to consider consolidation or other significant ways to reduce spending.
"You either have to negotiate a contract you can actually pay or you're going to have to consolidate, but it can't be rates of increase that are not possible," he said. "Schools are getting more money than anybody."
Cuomo said the upstate population of children under age 10 had decreased by 10 percent and schools need to adjust to smaller populations because they will no longer educate the same number of students.
Cuomo also said school officials are calling for mandate relief, but don't have ideas that will save significant money. He said a repeal of the Triborough Amendment, which keeps employee contracts in place during negotiations, is a "political non-starter" and that repealing expensive special education mandates could harm vulnerable children.
Timbs repeated his claim that the Class of 2012 had received the best education New York's schools will likely offer for some time. He said the state needs to fix its funding formula so that it would allow lower wealth districts to provide the same quality education as wealthy areas. He said the current aid formula would actually take away aid to some districts next year and many would not get anywhere near a 4 percent increase. He said the state had underfunded its own formula, costing districts $305 million in the last three years.
Schodack Superintendent Bob Horan said he had leaking pipes in some buildings because he wanted to put every dollar toward students, not infrastructure. He worried that more cuts would hurt students even after they graduate.
"We've always made them a promise that if they work hard, they'll be rewarded," Horan said. "Now, we're at a point where I'm afraid they won't be able to compete against students in other school districts as they apply for college."
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First a small SQL*Plus tip. I really like to know with which user I am connected to which database, so in my login.sql script I used to have this section:
define gname=idle
column global_name new_value gname
select lower(user) || '@' ||
substr(global_name,1,decode(dot,0,length(global_name),dot-1)) global_name
from (select global_name,instr(global_name,'.') dot from global_name);
set sqlprompt '&gname> '
I saw this piece of code in Tom Kyte's book Expert Oracle Database Architecture and I have used it ever since. The downside from using this adjusted prompt, is that the first line isn't properly aligned anymore with lines 2 and further, as you can see by this example:
rwijk@ORA11202> select ename
2 from emp
3 where deptno = 10
4 /
3 rows selected.
I read a tip on Oracle-L, which I now use. Instead of "set sqlprompt '&gname> '", I now use "host title &gname". This adjusts the title bar of my SQL*Plus window with the user@database information, and leaves the prompt at "SQL> ", thus leaving my SQL statements aligned while I'm still able to see my connect string all the time.
On March 22, the Dutch Oracle usergroup OGh organizes their second APEX day. Again we have a great lineup of speakers. You can read about it here. Due to the great response, we had to scale up the event. Now there is room for 250 people instead of our originally planned 150. And be sure to bring your manager with you. He or she doesn't want to miss the APEX at work track where customers will tell how they have successfully implemented parts of their business processes with APEX. I'm especially looking forward to the Northgate story as this is a huge APEX project.
Today there was good news for future Oracle searches on Google. On their blog they announced a Personal Blocklist Extension. Unfortunately it currently doesn't work for the Dutch version of Chrome. The following quote from the Google blog is very promising though:
If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.
The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) has issued their Second International SQL Challenge. You can read about it here in their journal. SQL commands for creating the required data are available here. Initially, it may look like insufficient explanation is given to solve the problem, but that's part of the fun. If you like SQL and puzzles, then you should definitely give this one a go.


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It is the CCD (Caked Crusader's Da) and CCU's (Caked Crusader's Uncle) birthday; I have mentioned in the past they are twins...and they still are! Recently, the CCD has discovered a love of mocha coffee – the sort that's more like a dessert with cream and chocolate and a small dash of coffee. So I thought I'd use those flavours for a dessert.
This is the type of recipe that looks intimidating; firstly because I always think tortes seem difficult – even though they're not; maybe it's because we're used to seeing them in patisserie windows that we assume they must be hard work. Secondly, there are three distinct stages to making the dish and, while not remotely taxing, you do have to plan ahead to allow appropriate cooling/setting time between each stage. I broke the dish down into stages and made the biscuit base one evening, the chocolate baked mousse layer the next morning and the coffee cream layer that same evening.
I didn't taste this one as my loathing for coffee is only equalled by my loathing for lemon, but the feedback was positive with one eater rating it as an all time great bake! A recurring comment was that it tasted like something you'd buy from a high end patisserie.
The hazelnut biscuit base was crisp and crumbly and surprised me by being reasonably easy to cut though: it didn't shatter all over the work top and stayed in one piece!
The rich chocolate baked ganache middle layer was the most commented on for it's intense flavour and smooth, velvety texture.
The top layer of set coffee cream was a big hit with the CCM (Caked Crusader's Ma). It has a strong punch of coffee but is light and whippy in texture.
Happy birthday CCD and CCU!
For the biscuit base:
100g chopped hazelnuts – I bought ready chopped
125g unsalted butter, diced
25g light brown sugar
40g caster sugar
125g plain flour
1 ½ tablespoons cornflour
For the chocolate filling:
400ml double cream
100ml single cream
300g dark chocolate, broken up into squares – I used Green & Blacks
100g milk chocolate, broken up into squares – I used Green & Blacks
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon very strong black coffee (I made up some espresso and used it for this stage and the coffee cream)
For the coffee cream:
2 leaves gelatine
250ml whipping cream
4 tablespoons icing sugar
5 tablespoons very strong black coffee
To decorate:
200ml double cream
75g chopped hazelnuts
Flaked chocolate – however much you choose!
Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C/340°F/Gas mark 3.
Line the inside of a 23cm round springform tin with baking paper.
Place all the ingredients for the base into a food processor and blitz until combined into a crumbly texture.
Pat into the base of the cake tin and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the base is golden. Mine took 20 minutes.
Leave to cool on a wire rack. You can make this a day ahead of the other two stages.
Reduce the oven to 160°C/fan oven 140°C/320°F/Gas mark 2.5
Now make the chocolate filling: pour the double and single creams into a saucepan and bring just to the boil.
Remove from the heat and tip in the chocolate.
Stir until melted – I used a silicon whisk to do this as I find it is quicker and produces a lovely thick, glossy chocolate.
Whisk in the eggs, vanilla and coffee.
Pour the filling over the biscuit base and level.
Bake for at least 20 minutes or until the chocolate is set but still has a wobble in the centre. Mine took much longer – about 45 minutes so don't worry if yours needs longer; once it's had 30 minutes check it every 5-7 minutes.
Leave to cool completely, still in the tin, on a wire rack.
Now make the coffee cream: Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water.
Whip the cream until it forms soft peaks and fold in the icing sugar.
Heat the coffee until it feels hot but don't let it boil. Remove from the heat.
Squeeze all the water out of the gelatine leaves and whisk into the coffee.
Whisk the coffee mixture into the cream.
Spread over the top of the chocolate layer and refrigerate to set, ideally overnight.
On the day you will be serving the torte, whip the cream and pipe a border around the top of the torte.
Scatter over the hazelnuts and chocolate.
Serve in generous slices.
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More than half of respondents choose hybrid storage with auto-tiering to meet requirements; performance remains a key challenge for data protection
SAN JOSE, CA – December 5, 2012 – Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced the results of a survey of 239 SMBs and departments in larger organizations about their current storage preferences and future expectations around protecting business data. The majority, 53 percent, chose hybrid storage with SSDs and auto-tiering to meet their primary business storage requirements. Forty-six percent of businesses revealed that they do not find public cloud storage a fit, with another 26 percent choosing to back up select data to the cloud in conjunction with an on-premises backup solution. The results indicate that SMBs are pursuing both onsite and offsite backup storage solutions.
Challenges for SMB
Limited bandwidth and quality of network between sites were the top challenges facing 38 percent of SMBs when setting up offsite backup and disaster recovery solutions. The budget for a second site and the network and infrastructure for that site were also top issues for 32 percent of SMBs surveyed. These findings indicate that the network infrastructure, budget and bandwidth for backup and disaster recovery are distinct business challenges for SMBs and need be addressed.
Storage Strategies
Some SMBs have already considered implementing new solutions for on-premises backup. Fifty-two percent of respondents revealed that for better onsite backup retention they would use SAN storage on a different box from their primary storage to save on budget. Forty-seven percent of respondents said they would use deduplication in their existing backup software to more effectively carry out their backup and further reduce cost.
Respondents also revealed that when it comes to data replication to increase business continuity, data replication would be most effectively placed within their software architecture: 64 percent preferred a software technology fueled by new virtual appliance and hypervisor-based offerings vs. 36 percent who felt storage-based replication was the best place for their architecture.
Infrastructure Considerations
The infrastructure size for each SMB respondent varied, but the top challenges and motivators were relatively consistent, indicating a preference for onsite backup with SAN storage and software-based replication to meet backup needs. Of the 239 SMB or department respondents, one third used 5 or fewer servers in their business infrastructure while 20 percent used 50 or more servers for their business. So it seems that infrastructure size is based more on business needs than the size of the company.
"The survey findings are consistent with what we hear from the hundreds of SMB customers we interact with on our live demos every week, seeking a storage solution that meets their virtualization and data protection requirements at the right cost, " said vice president of marketing at Drobo, Mario Blandini. "The architecture for SMBs like larger enterprises includes on-premises and offsite storage, where hybrid storage with SSDs coupled with new data protection software technologies fit the cost points for future buying decisions."
Survey Methodologies
The online survey was conducted between September 21 and November 9, 2012, and asked for the opinions of SMBs (75 percent had fewer than 250 employees) conducting business in the U.S.
Respondents represented the following demographic:
Titles ranged from IT Director to Systems Administrator.
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Highlights: The first joint meeting of the Chemical Review Committee and Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee was held on Sunday, 20 October 2013. This joint meeting was agreed to by the bureaux of the Committees and the conferences of the Parties to the Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, at their sixth meetings held from 28 April to 10 May 2013. The purpose of the joint meeting was to exchange between the members of the Committees.
The ninth meeting of the POPs Review Committee (POPRC-9) was held from 14 to 18 October 2013, with pre-meetings on Sunday, 13 October 2013, at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. Also at the same venue, the ninth meeting of the Chemical Review Committeee (CRC-9) was held from 22 to 25 October 2013, with pre-meetings on Monday, 21 October 2013.
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Four C-ER chamber seats up for grabs
Nine members of the area business community are seeking four open spots on the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Chamber special events director Merry Braham said two of the candidates are incumbents. Braham said votes will be accepted from chamber members in good standing through the Sept. 9 deadline.
"It has to be in our post office box or in our office by then," Braham said.
Running for reelection to the board this year are Doug Boyer and Nancy Dahlstrom. Current members Steve Strom and Kaleb Baker are not seeking reelection.
The other candidates include Fred Dyson, Shawn Osborne, Rob Sackerson, John Sims, Susan Wallen, Larry Wiget and Tom Wardaugh.
Most of the candidates are longtime area residents well-known to the business community.
Dyson is a sitting state senator; Osborne works in public relations for MTA; Sackerson is vice president of investments for Webush Securities; Sims is the corporate communications and customer service manager for ENSTAR; Wallen is a legislative aide to Rep. Bill Stoltze; Wiget is a retired public affairs director for the Anchroage School District; and Wardaugh is the general manager of Eagle River Printing.
There are nine elected two-year positions on the board.
Sims, Sackerson, Osborne and Wallen currently serve on the board as one-year presidential appointees.
Among the incumbents, Boyer is retired and Dahlstrom is the government affairs manager for Providence Health Services Alaska.
Chamber executive director Susie Gorski said there are 25 voting members of the board, plus seven past presidents with emeritus status who can vote as long as they attend at least half of the meetings.
Gorski said nine board seats are ex-officio seats given to members representing the military, the Anchorage Assembly, the Anchorage School Board, the Anchorage Economic Development Agency and Eklutna, Inc.
Pete Mulcahy is the board president. Mulcahy's two-year term is up next year.


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You may have heard that Aussie indie brand Pretty Serious recently released a limited edition polish, Naughty Night Shift Nurse, that sold out in 10 minutes. Luckily, my friend and fellow blogger Rose (Every Little Polish) ninjaed me one, and I arrived just in time for my birthday! I used it as the base for my birthday nail art (click to see the DIY nail decal tutorial I made).
Here it is in its full glory, over multichrome-boosting black:
It's a stunning purple-to-red multichrome with red-green multichrome flakies thrown in (I believe they're the same ones as those in Essie Shine of the Times, Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, Nubar 2010 et al.).
Naughty Night Shift Nurse was originally a custom created for Aussie nail blogger Kristy (The Polish Haven) who, you guessed it, is a nurse. She was generous enough to share her creation with us, but unfortunately due to ingredient supply issues, NNSN is a limited edition. There will be a second batch released later this year, along with Emma Louise, another PS limited edition.
Here's my birthday mani:
The DIY nail decal technique I used is now my favourite nail art trick - it lets you split up your nail painting into multiple sessions, which is great if you're time-poor or a bit ADD!
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2013: New year, new babes we wish were our girlfriends.
This weeks Babe of the Week contest is one for the history books, because it's the first of the new year. The victorious babe will go on to fight for a shot of Babe of the Month, and the Babe of the Year 2013. That's a lot of pressure, folks, choose wisely.
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Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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Jennifer's Mac and Cheese over at Last Night's Dinner looked so good, that's what I had to have for dinner.
Instead of bacon, I went with Chanterelle Mushrooms from Far West Fungi.
Well, that is a closeup, isn't it! Well, at least it is in focus! Beggars can't be choosers.
I'd post a recipe, except mine is pretty much the same as the one Jennifer posted earlier this year. If you want me to put it up, please post a comment.


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jpadams needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
The Concept: Life is made of important, routine, urgent and meaningless tasks. The Important things are your rocks so put those first.
We're a personal development site that advocates prioritizing the important things like family, friends, health, wellness, etc. first while still going for your goals. We want to help people learn more, do more, an achieve more without sacrificing their family, friends, beliefs, health or values.
Those individuals that are so driven that they need a reminder that there is more to life than accomplishments.
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Looking Good Norma!
I'm completely jealous
Mine comes next week. But I'll be on a cruise. So Pizza in about 11-12 days for me! Norma, your pizzas look freaking awesome!
How did you enjoy the Taste Norma ?? threy look amazing
those look awesome Norma!
Norma your pies look fantastic. And, might I say, your granddaughter is beautiful, you must be very proud of her. Congrats on the new BS!!!jon
Jon,Thanks so much! I was going to try you tiger lily pizza today, but all of the buds bloomed. I am proud of my granddaughter and thanks for saying she is beautiful. My granddaughter and great-granddaughter are now living with me. I have to get used to having a small child around again. Norma
Try just the petals. Snap a few off and taste test them. They have a mild floral bitterness that I found quite pleasant. Not as bitter as many bitter greens I like. And yes, I have the 2 granddaughters across the street, 4 & 8, and when they were toddlers I watched them like a hawk because our house is far from child proof anymore, and working in a critical care children's hospital made me even more watchful jon
Norma, other than a few I burnt, I agree that the pizza from the BS is very good - certainly much better than a home oven, with a steel plate, IMHO.
Barry,I certainly agree that the BS is the best thing to come along for any pizza makers. My home oven no matter what is used is crap compared to the BS. Norma
OUTSTANDING pies young lady, and I agree, haven't used the kitchen oven since I got my BS, one the best buys ever!!!jon


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Prime Minister Brian Cowen told Parliament on Tuesday that there will be "serious consequences" if harm comes to Irish citizens detained in Israel for their part in the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that was attacked by Israeli soldiers.
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin has accused Israel of "kidnapping" Irish citizens who were aboard the flotilla attacked by the soldiers on Monday.
And Irish former President Mary Robinson said she and other former world leaders were "absolutely outraged" by the raid.
Martin, who summoned Israeli Ambassador Zion Evrony to his office within hours of the attack, said the Irish government wants an independent, international inquiry into the incident, a view shared by Cowen and several EU countries which condemned Israel's storming of the six-ship flotilla with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid.
Robinson was in Johannesburg with a group of 10 senior international leaders known as The Elders, among them Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan.
She said the ex-leaders were appalled by the attack in international waters but also by the treatment of Gaza. She said, "It's one of the greatest human violations and the blockade is illegal and is counter-productive. We believe that out of this event must come the wider justice. There must be an end to that blockade on Gaza."
Seven Irish passport-holders, including Monaghan-born reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia Paul McGeough, were in the flotilla and were captured in the raid and were being deported or faced deportation from Israel.
Three Irish politicians were refused access by the Cypriot authorities to the flotilla before it sailed towards Gaza. They were TDs (members of Parliament) Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Chris Andrews and Senator Mark Daly.
Another five Irish people are on board the ship the "Rachel Corrie," an Irish vessel which became separated from the main flotilla for 48 hours through logistical reasons in Cyprus. It set sail after the other ships and was due in Gazan waters mid-week, but Israeli authorities claimed they would also block it.
Maireád Corrigan-Maguire, Irish winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, was one of the Irish aboard the Rachel Corrie which was carrying construction materials, education equipment and some toys. "None of our ships carry arms. They are purely humanitarian," she said.
She said it was necessary for the vessel to complete its mission "to assure the people of Gaza the world does care."
She added, "Their port has been closed for over 40 years. With 1.5 million people, it's like the population of Northern Ireland, totally cut off from the world by this inhumane illegal siege of Gaza. Their borders are closed. There is a shortage of medicines.
"Could you imagine if that happened to the 1.5 million people in Northern Ireland? The world would be absolutely crying out that this stop immediately."
Labor Foreign Affairs spokesman Michael D Higgins called on the government to demand safe passage for the Rachel Corrie.
"The minister for foreign affairs must make it clear that any assault on the Rachel Corrie would be regarded as a hostile act against Ireland and a clear breach of international law that could not be ignored by this country," he said.
Fiachra O'Luain, 27-year-old Donegal-born candidate in last year's European elections, was one of three Irish people on board one of the lead ships which traveled in the first wave of the flotilla when it encountered Israeli naval commandos.
His father, Joseph Bangert, who lives in Brewster, Cape Cod, said initially that while information was hard to come by, he had heard unconfirmed reports that his son was wounded and taken into custody by the Israelis.
His father added in an RTE interview that when he eventually saw the Israeli defense film of the arrest he could see his son was walking. "He had two arms and two legs and his head was still there so I was very happy," he said.
O'Luain, who is held in a detention camp, plans to contest his deportation from Israel.
His father said, "I'm scared for Fiachra but I am also proud of him. My son is heroic."
Flotilla organizers eventually reported that all Irish in the convoy were unhurt.
Fintan Lane, a 42-year-old Dublin book publisher who was also planning to contest his deportation, received praise from his family.
His Cork-based father Jim said, "I am proud of my son, not only for going on this solidarity mission to Gaza, but also for refusing deportation.
"He is making a point that Israel should have no control over who enters Gaza. He has done nothing wrong and I support him."
Late on Sunday night, in his final blog posting before communications were cut, Lane wrote, "Tension is mounting among the passengers. Everyone is wearing their lifejackets and preparing for an Israeli attack."
Demonstrations were held across Ireland on Monday evening after the flotilla raid. More than 1,700 attended Dublin's protest, including Lord Mayor Emer Costello, when demonstrators marched from the city-centre to the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge.
They were addressed by Sinn Fein's O'Snodaigh and Fianna Fail's Andrews who were prevented by Cypriot authorities from joining the flotilla at the weekend.
O'Snodaigh, who called for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled, said, "It looks as though this cold and calculated attack took place in international waters, in breach of all international maritime laws. There must be action from the international community."
Andrews said, "Israel has proven repeatedly that it believes itself to be above international law, evidenced by the fact that it carried out these attacks in international waters.
"I have just spent a week with several of the people who were on board these boats and I can say with absolute certainty these people were only concerned with peacefully bringing badly needed aid to the region."
At least nine people were killed after the Israeli commandos boarded the Turkish "Mavi Marmara" ship, from the pro-Islamic aid group IHH, and Free Gaza's "Challenger" in international waters more than 40 miles off the coast of Gaza. Israel said its soldiers were shot at but the activists, who said they were unarmed, insisted Israeli troops came on board shooting.
The ships were part of a flotilla attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
his meeting with the Israeli ambassador Foreign Minister Martin said, "I made it clear that the Irish government expects the immediate and unconditional release of all the Irish citizens detained.
"The seven individuals concerned did not enter Israel illegally; rather they were essentially seized from international waters, taken into Israel and asked to sign documents confirming that they entered illegally. This is simply not acceptable."
Martin added that he condemned Israel's "unacceptable and disproportionate" use of force and he accused it of "essentially kidnapping" the Irish citizens aboard the ships.
By Tuesday two Irish citizens were ordered to be deported and were expected to be put aboard flights out of Israel. They were Shane Dillon and Issan Ben Ali.
They were among the Irish citizens detained in Israel after the Gaza-bound aid flotilla they were sailing in was raided by armed and masked Israeli commandos in the early hours of Monday morning.


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The selfie from the South Lawn that Red Sox slugger David Ortiz shot with President Obama may have gone viral -- but the White House isn't happy about it.
Ortiz shot the picture as the 2013 World Series Champions appeared at the White House with Obama on Tuesday -- but it quickly emerged that it wasn't just artistic expression -- but a publicity stunt for the electronics giant,Samsung
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wouldn't say if the administration had asked Samsung Corporation to stop tweeting the selfie.
But, he said, "as a rule, the White House objects to attempts to use the president's likeness for commercial purposes, and we certainly object in this case."
He wouldn't say if White House lawyers are involved, but did say "We have objected in the past. We object now, but I'm not going to get into the manner of objection."
The Sports Business Journalreported earlier in the week that Ortiz -- the World Series MVP -- signed a deal with Samsung and that "when the Red Sox visit the White House this week to commemorate their World Series victory, 'Big Papi will be tweeting and sending photos on Samsung's behalf."


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Ed and Debby worked with John Anderson to develop John's Cemetery DataSource Software into a program that would allow the organization of cemetery data into an appealing and useful website for genealogists and family history researchers.
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In case you don't know the definition of the word change, don't worry, Webster's defines change this way, "when something is different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone." Some days I am all for new technology and some days I would like to in fact just leave things along.
Rather than writing my disclaimer at the end of this column, I will go ahead and verbalize it right now. I am doing this so folks that fight change or who normally are slow to change will not quit reading this article. If you have a passion for agriculture, I hope you will read and find the article of interest.
This article will highlight some of the high tech tools available to the assist farmers with the management of their farms. This is not to say that those that embrace the newest and greatest are the most profitable. Once a year, I prepare a report highlighting the financial performance of a small farm using a grazing approach to dairying. On a per cow basis, this small operation is as profitable as any of the best managed dairies in the country. Everyone has their reasons for doing the things they do whether it is dairy farming or managing their kitchen. We often don't make all decisions on pure economics. Other secondary factors weigh heavy in our decision making process. Things like wanting to spend more time with family or using equipment to lessen the physical demands on our bodies are a few of the aspects that are not easy to monetarily value.
The term "precision agriculture" has recently entered the American vernacular. The term can be used in regards to many of the new developments in agriculture. Global positioning is literally allowing crop producers to drive their equipment within less than inch of where planting is desired. Although the technology is very expensive, the equipment has been able to increase production while at the same time reduce input costs. When the investment in this high tech equipment is spread over enough acres, the cost per unit of production can drop dramatically. As old equipment reaches the end of its useful life, producers can weigh the decision either to replace the planter or hire a custom operator who has the high tech equipment and reap the benefits of the newest technology.
The processes of managing herd health and the milking of cows is coming under a metamorphosis. Some early adaptors are already using cloud based computer technology to find when cows are ready to be bred, when they have a change in rumen health or a spike in their body temperature. In fact, these high tech herd management tools have the ability to catch something wrong with a cow before a human can detect something is wrong or in some instances, before the cow herself knows she is getting sick.
Robotic milking has been used by a very few U.S dairymen for almost 15 years. Although only a handful of Wisconsin producers have successfully used robotic milking, European producers have made great strides adopting robotic milking. A major reason why American dairymen have been slow to adopt this technology is due to the cost of the technology in comparison to the cost to manually milk cows. Labor in the U.S. is a lot lower than other countries. I recently had the opportunity to talk with a 1200 cow Australian dairyman about their labor costs. The Australian government has strict wage and labor controls. The government mandates dairy farm labor will be paid the equivalent of $25.00 per hour U.S. and their dairy milk price is lower than the average in the United States. Therefore, it is not hard to understand that high tech labor saving tools will be more quickly adopted where a more rapid payback is possible.
I am currently working on some feasibility studies but have not found much real time data to help make a definitive decision comparing conventional parlor milking with employees to robotic milking. Each robot has a price tag of approximately $250,000 and can milk up to only 60 cows per robot. Some initial results have indicated improvement in detecting sick cows, improved reproductive performance, some flexibility in how the herd is managed and in some cases it appears production may improve. Certainly the labor paid to milk cows is way less but the investment is substantial. Time will tell how bottom line indicators like return on investment will shake out.


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Some 163,000 students graduated from Texas colleges and universities last month, and like the rest of the class of 2013 on campuses nationwide, they entered a dismal job market: The unemployment rate for recent college graduates in their early 20s is nearly 9 percent. It jumps to 18 percent when you add in those employed part-time but looking for full-time work and those who have given up looking.
With 1 in 3 of this year's college graduates reporting that they had applied for more than 40 jobs, the grim reality of post-college life has left many wondering about the value of their degree — a degree that, on average, puts a graduate $30,000 in debt.
Is a degree worth it anymore?
Despite the gloomy jobs outlook, members of the class of 2013 are certainly better off than those who failed to finish college or never went at all. The wage premium for college graduates has widened substantially in the last three decades. A typical bachelor's-degree recipient earns 80 percent more than a high school graduate during a 40-year career, more than $500,000 over a lifetime.
Those are averages and tell you little, for example, about the payoff of going to State U. to major in sociology. Higher education has long touted the economic benefits of going to college by riding the coattails of those national averages. Yet when it comes to the financial payoff of a degree, not all colleges or majors are created equal.
Going to college is still worth it, but the question students and parents increasingly should be asking these days is whether it's worth going to any college for any major at any cost, especially if they need to take on mounds of debt to earn the degree. The problem is that, until recently, families had few places to turn to make such bottom-line comparisons among colleges when it came to their return on investment.
Think about it: Before we buy a car, we can find various measures on everything from gas mileage to results of safety tests. We can turn to objective sources to check comparisons of similar vehicles and see which cars hold their value over time. Yet when it comes to potentially one of the most expensive purchases in a lifetime, the attitude from colleges has always been that we should just trust them on the value of their product.
Faith in that assurance is flagging as tuition prices and student debt rise to unsustainable levels. As a result, in the last year, a number of tools have emerged that allow for quick and easy comparisons between colleges on measures families should be weighing during the college search — but often don't — such as graduation rates, debt at graduation and net price (the tuition you actually pay after subtracting scholarships and grants).
In February, President Barack Obama released the College Scorecard, a website that he proclaimed in his State of the Union address would allow families to figure out where to get "the most bang for your education dollar." That was followed in April by College Reality Check from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Unlike the federal government's site, it includes early-career salaries of graduates from payscale.com.
Measuring the value of a degree by income makes many academics uneasy, and they are quick to dismiss the Payscale numbers as unreliable because they are self-reported by users of the website. However, while the intrinsic benefits of a college degree are important to consider, how much college graduates earn is a critical piece of information for students expected to take on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to pay for their education.
A better way to measure graduate earnings already exists and is much more accurate than Payscale. Employers report salaries of their employees to state unemployment-insurance programs every quarter. It's simple enough to match employee records to where they graduated from college and what they majored in while there. Higher-education officials have long fought efforts on the federal level to enable easy matching by creating a national "unit-record" system that would track students as they move among colleges, and eventually link their educational and employment histories.
Now, a handful of states, including Texas, are taking matters into their own hands to make those connections and, in the process, building useful databases that allow families to compare colleges, and even majors, based on the actual earnings of graduates of in-state schools. The online tool, which has also been put in place in Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee and Virginia, is still in its infancy and has some limitations. For instance, it only compares the first-year salaries of college graduates.
Even so, the early findings already are challenging the assumptions we all have about the value of higher education when we consider only the national averages long touted by the higher-education establishment. Take technical degrees, for example. The conventional wisdom is that a bachelor's degree is worth more than a two-year technical degree. But in Texas, the average first-year salaries of graduates with a two-year technical degree are $11,000 higher than those with a bachelor's degree ($50,827 vs. $39,725).
In some cases in Texas, the salaries of graduates of certificate programs in health care, construction engineering and pipe fitting are nearly double those of bachelor's degree recipients. Those differences grow when you consider that two-year degree and certificate programs are much less expensive to pursue than a bachelor's degree, and that graduates enter the workforce at least two years earlier.
Even among bachelor's degrees in Texas, there is a wide variation in earnings, depending on a graduate's major. A degree in accounting will earn you $47,000 your first year out of school, but a degree in biology will net you $25,000, just a few thousand dollars more than the median salary for a high school graduate.
It's not just the type of degree, but where you earn it that also matters to the size of your paycheck after graduation. The average salaries of graduates of four-year colleges and universities in Texas range from a high of $48,086 at the University of Houston-Clear Lake to a low of $28,451 at Sul Ross State University.
Post-graduation salaries also vary widely within majors, depending on where you earned the degree. Take the most popular undergraduate major: business. Business graduates of the University of Texas at El Paso make an average of $20,000 less their first year after graduation than those from the University of Houston-Downtown, although the difference in tuition between the two schools is only about $2,000 a year. Within another popular major, psychology, graduates from the University of Houston-Downtown earn the highest in the state, around $36,000, nearly twice as much as psychology gradates from Texas A&M University-Central Texas.
Historically, going to a state's public flagship university, even if you barely got in, yields larger earnings over the course of your lifetime. But in Texas, and in the other states where employment and graduate records have been linked, graduating from the flagship has usually put students in the middle of the pack when it comes to first-year earnings. UT-Austin comes out below 24 other universities, including UT-Dallas, Texas A&M University and Midwestern State University. (One explanation is that the salary database doesn't include those graduates who left the state, and many from the Austin campus do just that.)
All things considered, it still pays to go to college. The annual return on investment of a bachelor's degree is 15 percent, compared with 6 percent for stocks and 1 percent for housing, according to the Hamilton Project, a research group at the Brookings Institution. Of course, such returns have allowed colleges to charge essentially anything they wanted, knowing families would pay. The annual price tag for a college credential has risen about three times as fast as inflation over the past three decades.
Given those rising costs and the increasing necessity for students and their families to finance an education with loans, knowing the potential payoff at the end of college is now an essential component to consider when searching for a school. It's not the only marker to weigh, however. Students also need to look at how long it will take them to graduate, the size of their student loan at graduation, and the ease of transferring their credits between colleges. (One-third of college students now transfer once before earning a degree, so if credits don't transfer, you end up paying twice for the same classes.)
Of course, going to college is about more than just the paycheck after graduation. But to ignore post-graduation earnings as part of the equation of where to go and how much to pay for college — as some in higher education argue — fails to recognize the financial reality that average college tuition eats up nearly 40 percent of the median family income in the United States.
Too many academics worry that the more information we have on graduate earnings the less likely that students in the future will pursue low-paying careers. Well, students have long had access to salary information for different careers, and many still decide to major in English, journalism or sociology. Students who pick their major based only on the paycheck at the end are unlikely to succeed in that chosen profession anyway.
Having access to salary information gives students, parents and lawmakers a needed tool to better assess the value of a degree. In the end, that's also good for those colleges that provide the most value for the money spent; it will drive lower-quality and higher-cost programs and institutions out of business, leaving us with a stronger higher-education system. That's something we desperately need to tackle the challenges of the next decade.
Jeffrey J. Selingo is author of the new book "College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students." His website is jeffselingo.com.