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Shepherdless Pie
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Comfort Foods, Kid-friendly, Low-fat, Quick to fix, Vegetarian
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This meat-free dish is just as good as the original version.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: Serves 4
- 11/2lb (675g) russet (baking) potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 1 tbsp butter, plus extra for dotting on top
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 celery ribs, finely chopped
- 3 carrots, finely chopped
- 7oz (200g) mushrooms, coarsely chopped
- handful of fresh thyme sprigs, leaves picked (reserve some for garnish)
- splash of soy sauce
- 1 Ã-- 15oz (425g) can aduki beans, drained and rinsed
- 2/3 cup hot vegetable stock
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). To make the topping, boil the potatoes in a saucepan of salted water for 15-20 minutes, or until soft. Drain the potatoes, then mash. Add the butter, and mash again. Set aside and keep warm.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large frying pan over low heat. Add the onion, bay leaf, and a pinch of salt, and cook for 5 minutes until the onion is soft. Add the celery and carrot and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Pulse the mushrooms several times in a food processor-you want them finely chopped, but not mushy. Add these to the pan along with the thyme leaves and soy sauce, and cook for 5-10 minutes, until the mushrooms begin to release their juices. Add the aduki beans, and season well with salt and pepper. Pour in the stock, bring to a boil, reduce the heat slightly, and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Scrape into a baking dish and top with the reserved mashed potatoes. Dot with butter, and bake until the topping is crisp and golden. Serve hot.
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7 Badass Cartoon Villains Who Lost to Lame Heroes
#3. Quellor, the Supreme Oppressor of the Monsters and Villains Organization (M.A.V.O.)
Imagine a place so vile that someone finds it necessary to form an organization of monsters and villains, just to get things working a little above pandemonium level. Now imagine what kind of badass it would take to rule this group. That's Quellor, the "Supreme Oppressor".
Quellor takes control of M.A.V.O. with an iron fist, surely in more ways we would like to imagine an iron fist can rule. No matter how odd, stupid, strange or outlandish his orders may be, they are obeyed without delay by each member of M.A.V.O. They know it's that, or a session with Quellor's iron fist.
Physically, he is huge and menacing, and throws some kind of electricity from his hands and has a ray that erases the memory of whoever he thinks deserves it. Like No Heart up there, it seems like this guy could rule the world pretty easily.
Who Was He Constantly Losing To?
Teddy Ruxpin.
Teddy is a Illiop, a bear-like creature with a kind disposition. If you're a certain age you may also remember the animatronic Teddy Ruxpin toy that talked out of a cassette embedded in his chest.
Then you've got Teddy's friends: Grubby, a kid sized worm that cares only about eating; Newton Gimmick, an absent minded inventor whose head appears to have been ravaged by Alzheimer's; a pair of 10-year-old princess siblings and some furry pink hobbit/yeti/glamorous drag abomination.
Well, nothing gay about that.
These guys have some precious crystals Quellor wants to get his hands on and, somehow, the Supreme Oppressor never supremely oppresses the fuck out of these furry dipshits.
The fist, man! Use the fist!
#2. Professor Norton Nimnul
Professor Norton Nimnul is a talented mad scientist, however he is not the head of his criminal operations, as he works for Mr. Klordane the Crime Lord. In that capacity, the man has built laser cannons, a shrinking/enlarging gun (he once stole a whole motherfucking museum with it by shrieking it to pocket-size), an aging gun, a cat gun and who knows what else. Shit on the guy, he'll make a gun out of it.
Oh, and once he made an earthquake bomb out of nothing but fruit.
Who Was He Constantly Losing To?
The Rescue Rangers.
Don't let the name fool you, this is not a group of Chuck Norrises and Steven Seagals fighting the Professor's inventions with roundhouse kicks. This is a group of five rodents who started a club to fight crime.
There is one squirrel who is clever (for a chipmunk), another who is amazingly stupid (for a chipmunk), the muscle of the group (strong for a mouse) and a mouse-girl that actually is pretty good at designing gadgets and devices, but most of the materials she acquires are coke caps, plastic packages and a diverse array of the shit you could dig out of your couch cushions right now. So all of her gadgets could be crushed if the Professor stepped on them.
Also, they had a fly.
In fact, the whole team could easily die that way. As with Gargamel, it seems the professor should be able to take these rodents out without any of his inventions. A small child could do it, completely by accident.
#1. Tirek
Mythology makes it pretty clear: Nothing good can come out a half-goat creature.
Tirek, a gigantic half-goat/half-horse/half-man and 150 percent motherfucking hellspawn, lives in his Midnight Castle. Scorpan, his Yeti-with-wings minion, executes his evil commands, which oddly mostly consists of kidnapping ponies.
Tirek's plan involves using a powerful black magic, called The Power of Darkness, to turn said ponies into dragon slaves so they'll pull his "Chariot of Darkness" and perhaps some other appliance of darkness that requires dragon energy to work properly.
Tirek's dark powers come from a magical bag that contains, uh, "The Power of Darkness." This twisted power corrupts anything it touches.
Who Was He Constantly Losing To?
My Little Ponies.
Somewhere close to Tirek's Midnight Castle is a hidden magical land where all kind of mythical creatures live, named Ponyland. The little ponies, pegasus and unicorns make their home in a valley there called Paradise Estate. This is where these bonsai horses dance, sing and lick each other.
It is true that some of these ponies have some magical powers. But most of the ponies roaming around this place didn't seem to have any kind of power at all. They couldn't even talk like the magical ponies. How the fuck were they staying alive?
Anyway, as relayed in the cartoon, with the help of a little girl, highly complex choreography and a rainbow, these ponies managed to defeat a creature that seems to be the embodiment of the devil himself.
And now we've reached rock bottom of our insultingly incapable heroes. This is a pretty cruel trick society played on the little girls of the world who saw these cartoons and played with the toys.
While boys were taught that evil giant transforming robots could only be defeated with other giant transforming robots, girls were taught that evil could be defeated with the power of rainbows and flamboyant song and dance. Which one better prepared their audience for the real world? If you'd like to find out, go perform a choreographed song and dance number in the middle of the highway while a semi bares down on you. In your final moments of consciousness, imagine how much more terrifying this would all be if that semi was sentient.
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A wild/crazy girl. Also a very hot girl who drinks alot
"We need a hot girl, call up a RUTHIE!"
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The first name of an awesome mother and grandmother. You know your girlfriend/wife is going to be a great stay-at-home mom if her first name is Ruthie. A rock and a foundation for her family. A wise counselor. An excellent judge of character. An honest and trustworthy person who admits their mistakes and makes amends for them.
That lady is a genuine Ruthie!
We can't make a decision, we need get a Ruthie!
Let's be Ruthie and get out of here before real trouble starts.
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Last night , I went out drinking with my boss after work. I think Danny might have slipped me a ruthie because I don't remember very much, and boy does my butt hurt!
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Suggestions for continuous integration, test and deploy infrastructure for a Ruby on Rails application in Amazon EC2 cloud
I think ci-infrastructure is what you are looking for. "Getting a fresh Jenkins server set up is kind of a pain and because of that, fewer projects have one than should. This project is designed to make it easy for people to fork and get set up with their very-own Jenkins server in the cloud because CI is awesome. "
You can try Railsonfire (Full disclosure I am one of the founders)
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5 Things You Won't Believe Math Can Predict
Look, we don't want to take all of the magic out of life. After all, can "science" and "mathematics" quantify something as mysterious as the beauty of music, or the evil of the human spirit, or the madness of a panicked mob?
Yeah, pretty much. Get enough data, create the best algorithm, and you can get some nice pretty graphs that tell you ...
#5. How to Write a Successful Pop Song
Music is borderline magic; great songs touch you on a spiritual level, instantly changing your mood or causing stirring memories of your youth to come roaring back. How could you ever predict whether or not people will like a song with some cold computer program? It all comes down to what's in people's hearts.
Or maybe not. We've already explained how your brain secretly loves "Call Me Maybe" due to the way "catchy" pop songs trigger an almost addictive response. You could say, "But what about the meaning of the lyrics, or the passion of the performer?" but then you'd remember that you loved "Gangnam Style" even though you had no idea what it was saying (we looked it up on Google Translate, and it looks like the song is about the time Psy got high on meth and had sex with a transvestite while riding a horse). So if it just comes down to manipulating your brain, we should be able to come up with hard data on what works.
"I don't know -- they just started playing, and all of a sudden I was married and a princess."
Scientists at the University of Bristol devised an algorithm to do just that: They analyzed songs from the U.K. Top 40 chart from the last 50 years. It takes into account 23 variables -- time signature, duration, tempo, loudness variability, etc. -- and from that they programmed software that could chew up any song and spit out the probability that it would become a hit with the public.
According to the researchers, the software has around a 60 percent accuracy rate for picking out songs that will make it to the top five and ones that won't even go above 30 on the U.K. Top 40 singles chart. That's a stunning figure, considering that it can't account for so many other variables, such as how heavily the label promoted it, or whether there was some other factor in the song's success (i.e., if the song was featured in a hit movie).
The algorithm's accuracy is also dependent on cultural context -- what worked in 1970 won't necessarily work now:
Via Scoreahit.com
Which is why the Rolling Stones have basically become the herpes of music.
You see the way the blue line is starting to shoot back up? Simplicity is coming back. "Loudness," however, is on the decline after four decades on the rise:
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You hear that, Enya? Now's your chance.
So, if you're a musician, take a look at the numbers and get to work. Before they find a cyborg that can do your job.
#4. Which Gang Is Responsible for a Crime
As we've previously mentioned, you'd be surprised to learn that the stupid premise behind Numb3rs, that crime show where a guy solves murders with a calculator, is basically a real thing that exists. Detectives with the LAPD collaborate with math professors to study trends in crime rates and try to predict, for example, which house in a particular neighborhood a criminal will try to burglarize next. Apparently, they can do this by essentially treating criminal behavior like traffic flow patterns, or even weather forecasting, as figuring out where a storm is going to hit apparently uses similar equations to figuring out which liquor store is going to get knocked off next.
PRO TIP: Always pick the ones that have wine without twist tops. Cork means money.
But it goes beyond simply following crime trends. That's kids' stuff. Now they've figured out a way to actually pinpoint which specific gang is most likely to have committed a particular crime. The mathematicians, led by Andrea Bertozzi, compiled a ton of data related to gang crime from Hollenbeck, one of Los Angeles' most gang-ridden neighborhoods. They painstakingly went through police records and dug up around a thousand crimes to try to understand how exactly each gang operated.
For instance, they found that 90 percent of the tag artists were extremely nearsighted.
Remember, while there are a certain number of crimes committed just for the hell of it, most of the time the criminals are doing it for a reason. This is especially true when they're members of an organization. Any organization, even an organization of high school dropouts who call themselves the East Side Skullfuckers, has goals -- they're fighting over territory, taking revenge, and so on. If you figure out what those goals are, and where they are in achieving them, you can predict what they're going to do.
So from there it was simply using the data to map out which gangs/members hated each other, who was in debt to whom, and who was overdue for a retaliation attack. When they plugged in the data for some known crimes (with the identities of the perps left out) to see if the computer could guess who actually did it, it was able to narrow down the suspects to one of three gangs 80 percent of the time (the neighborhood has about 30 gangs operating at any given time).
Including the most violent of them all, the Justice Biebers.
Holy shit, not even Batman's computer could do that. Although we can think of at least one program Bruce Wayne would find even more useful, which is the one that tells us ...
#3. Where Terrorists Are Hiding Bombs
As the last, oh, thousand years of war have taught us, winning isn't necessarily as straightforward as just blowing up all the other guy's tanks and airports. In battlegrounds such as Afghanistan, the military has to deal with guerrilla tactics, where the enemy hides within the general population. It's hard to fight somebody if you don't know who or where they are until something explodes. So how do you predict the behavior of people so desperate and/or crazy that they're willing to strap bombs to themselves if necessary? Once again, with the power of math.
The University of Maryland developed software called SCARE (Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine) that has been consistently able to predict the locations of guerrillas' bomb caches to within half a mile, which isn't perfect, but is infinitely better than the previous "throwing darts at a map" strategy the military was forced to employ.
"It's in one of these buildings. Go."
Because just as we saw with pop music and criminal gang scenes, hiding inside what seems like random chaos are some pretty reliable parameters. For one thing, terrorists are not likely to attack too close to home (they don't want to give away the location of their base of operations, and they're not stupid), but due to physical constraints, they're also not likely to roam too far. So right off the bat, mathematicians have a pretty good idea of what area they need to look at. But that's just the start.
The software also takes into account cultural factors such as territorial allegiances. Since different guerrilla groups may not exactly be BFFs outside of their mutual hatred of a foreign military, the areas where insurgents are active tend to be closely linked by culture or religion with the area where they keep their bomb factories.
"It's not much, but if it accidentally explodes ... who gives a crap, right?"
But this kind of thing isn't just useful for tracking down terrorists. The list of potential applications includes tracking down operating bases for criminals on home soil, as well as medical diagnosis, monitoring political organizations, and presumably tracking down the home of that dog that keeps shitting in your yard.


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How big is your backlog and how do you keep it under control? Do you actually keep track and do all of it, or do you have a method of eliminating old but valid tasks such as declaring e-mail bankruptcy?
For example, at the moment, I don't have any critical tasks/items/events which require immediate action (I typically get about 5-10 of those per working day). But I do have 674 e-mails which require my action, 113 issues/tickets/tasks which require that I either do/solve/respond/delegate them.
That's a backlog which I would in the ideal world clear before doing anything else.
And then there's scheduled work which I don't count in the "backlog" category - 87 tasks that require more than half an hour of my work and can't be delegated, and about 1000 tasks which don't have any time constraints (yet), but someday I will either have to take action on, or find a way to delegate/avoid.
I can't afford to commit my whole workday to communication and no time to "real work" so I schedule my time appropriately (between 60:40 and 90:10 in favor of the inbox) and thus accumulate "communication backlog" or things I need to respond to. I don't like it, but it seems that I'm busier than I'd like to be and this backlog is obviously something that I try to handle in various ways (reduce the number of projects, delegate etc).
Please note that I'm not looking for advice how to handle my specific case; I'm trying to get a feel how many of you consider it "normal" to have a backlog (or how big of a backlog you consider normal), and what are your write-off strategies for things you simply don't have the time to do or deal with.


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CUMBERLAND, Ga. — Mark Wilson, president and CEO of eVerifile, grew up in the housing projects in Fort Smith.
He does not remember his father, who was killed in an automobile accident when Wilson was 2 years old.
"It was very humble beginnings," he said. "I was raised by a single mother during my formative years."
His childhood pastor helped offer the opportunity for Wilson to attend the nation's oldest historically African-American college, Wilberforce University in Columbus, Ohio.
"That was my way out of Fort Smith," said Wilson. "There were not a lot of role models for me to identify with."
During college, he interned with General Motors and Western Hotels, working to pay his way through. With a degree in business management, Wilson received a job offer as a field manager with Washington, D.C.-based Peoples Drug Stores, which later became CVS.
After two years, he had an opportunity to move back to his hometown in Arkansas to work for Whirlpool in corporate management as materials expeditor. After Wilson married his wife, Shelly, the couple moved so Shelly could finish graduate school at the University of Arizona.
Wilson says it was then that things really took off for him professionally. He landed a job at Dun & Bradstreet. "I had the opportunity to go into management," he said.
The company moved the couple to Los Angeles, the first of 11 relocations over 15 years with the consulting company.
In 2000, they made their final transfer to Atlanta. In 2001, while Wilson was serving as vice president of a Dun & Bradstreet's call centers, the company decided to outsource the business.
"I asked them about giving me a chance and they gave me a contract," he said. "It gave me an opportunity to pursue a business and be a partner to them."
The new company, Kennesaw, Ga.-based Ryla, was chartered Sept. 11, 2001. "They were my first customer and remained a customer until we sold the business," Wilson
Wilson built Ryla to employ 3,000 people and earn annual revenues in excess of $150 million. In 2010, he sold the company for $70 million in an all-stock deal to Chino, Calif.-based Alorica Inc.
Wilson then did an academic stint as the entrepreneur in residence at Georgia Tech's Minority Business Development Center. Shortly after, one of his former investors, Frontier Capital, asked him to look at eVerifile, an employee- and contractor-screening company.
Wilson, along with partners Frontier Capital, The Yucaipa Companies, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Plexus Capital, purchased eVerifile in 2011. At the time, revenues were $10 million a year and the company had 35 employees.
The new ownership allowed the company to be certified as a Minority Business Enterprise — a classification that gives customers the ability to meet certain regulatory and compliance requirements.
From the start, Wilson believed the company's contractor-background screening services was the key to its growth.
He said his hunch that the market was untapped was correct and the segment has taken off.
Ashok Vairavan, the company's vice president of business development, says his boss is a "humble, yet confident and determined leader who puts his employees first."
"Creating a winning culture matters to Mark, which serves as the foundation for building a successful organization," he said.
The company provides workforce management software for security-sensitive customers from Abbott Labs and U.S. Express to vet vendors and their employees.
EVerifile also developed the eRailsafe program specifically for railroad companies to conduct background checks on contractors with access to its premises. According to the company, for one leading railroad company, the program denied 1,821 people in 2011 alone.
Today, the company has 65 employees. Wilson says he wants to grow to 200 employees quickly. He is projecting $18 million in revenues this year.
"He gets results by putting together an inspired vision and a great team to execute that vision," Vairavan said.
The home office for eVerifile is in Marietta, Ga., and a second office was recently opened in Sacramento, Calif.
"Our goal is to grow this company to $50 to $100 million in revenues over the next three to five years … We feel like the market is wide open," Wilson said.


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What does Psalm 37:29 mean when it said "The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it." Does this mean an earthly paradise that God has promised to restore?
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closed as off-topic by Flimzy, fredsbend, bruised reed, Narnian, Steve Oct 15 '14 at 2:18
Theologically speaking, the first two verses of this Psalm give away the whole point:
It is so tempting to see "the wicked prosper," and forget that even Jesus said that his Father causes "the rain to fall on the just and unjust alike." The author of Ecclesiates frets that the wicked propser. The author of Psalm 73 cries out with the same question.
Habbakuk even demands that God answer, "How long, O Lord?!"
The Psalmist is not blind to the present situation. Indeed, he is all too aware of the problem that doing good doesn't seem to help out! As we would say nowadays, no good deed goes unpunished.
But the Psalmist also knows what Peter will put into words later on (2 Peter 3:8-9)
It may not be today, but it will happen. There will be a time when the evil are defeated. And when that occurs, it will be as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount:
The righteous - the meek - those who could match injustice with power, but will not - they will eventually get it all. In God's time, the unrighteous will be destroyed, and the just will have everything that's left.
Is the planet on which we stand? Well, that might be part of it - but the point is that evil will be defeated, and the righteous will prevail, if only we stick to God.
It's going to feel like an eternity, but justice will be served.
Yes , yes it does mean that the righteous will reside on a paradise earth . Notice verse 10 and 11 of the same chapter . There is certainly by no means an abundance of peace upon the earth now . Especially considering the wars and famine that pervade . However the time is soon for Jehovah to restore the earth to the paradise it once was as seen in the garden of Eden . In doing so Jesus will crush satan and the wicked ones forever as promised at Genesis 3:15 . I hope you will note that this answer was by no means drawn out and vague but concise .


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It seems like it will play the same song I've heard before even if I downvoted it. Is it trying to figure out what style of music I like during a certain time of day?
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I'm the creator of the radio feature so if anyone knows the answer to your question it's me. ;)
First understand that radio was something I wrote in 24 hours. We have a very small team working on listen.grooveshark.com (4 developers including myself) so the time that can be spent on any one thing is pretty limited. So forgive me if it sucks. :P
Grooveshark should not play the same song in the same radio session ever, regardless of your vote. Unfortunately, since all of our content is user sourced, it might be playing different spelling variations of the same song. We try to catch the obvious duplicates but people are very good at misspelling stuff.
We use votes to tweak our recommendations for everyone, but your votes don't currently carry over between radio sessions. Voting will affect the music that gets played currently, but not historically. There are two reasons for this, one being that in order to deal with the volume of play & vote information, it's logged to a place that is good for analyzing in the background but not good for fast lookups. The other is for debugging. If someone complains that radio is doing something weird, it's much harder to figure out why that is if everyone's radio experience is completely unique.
That said, when we have more time/resources I hope we'll be able to make radio smarter. Stay tuned. :)
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Why Tweens Don't Do Their Chores
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Small Tasks, Big Decisions
Parents inevitably suspect recalcitrance when they assign a very simple chore, such as putting the casserole in the oven at 4:30 p.m., and later discover that their tween didn't do it. How do you believe a ten-year-old who claims he didn't know how, when this same child single-handedly taught himself to program the computer? How do you believe he was "afraid of messing up the casserole" when he wasn't afraid of disassembling the VCR, when he obviously knew nothing about it because he never could get it to work again?
If your tween uses the computer and VCR regularly, he probably considers them to be on his turf. He may feel confident that he can manage the computer because he spends so much time on it, although of course his confidence may turn out to be vastly overblown. He doesn't worry about how somebody else might react if he messes up because he thinks of these machines as his. The kitchen, on the other hand, is somebody else's territory. Unless he's spent enough time there and been given enough free rein to consider it part of his turf too, or unless he's familiar enough with the tasks to have developed good confidence, he assumes that to mess up his parents' property is to commit a high crime.
Don't expect your tween to start chores or do a good job on them without help. Announce when it is time to begin, set limits to ensure she gets started, check her work, and have her correct any deficiencies before she resumes playing. Don't forget to issue enthusiastic kudos for any aspects of the job she did well.
Tweens can be frozen from the uncertainty about a simple decision, such as whether to leave the casserole lid on or off when putting it in the oven. Is it worse to ruin the lid because it isn't oven-safe, or to ruin dinner because it was cooked without a lid? If a tween was supposed to put the casserole in at 4:30 but he forgot until 4:35, he's already "blown it," so now the question is what will upset Mom more. Would she rather serve dinner late? Perhaps the last time he forgot to put dinner on, they had to grab a fast-food meal on the way to his soccer practice because they didn't have time to wait. A five-minute delay seems like a short time; but being five minutes late to work makes Mom crazy and his teachers mad, so a five-minute casserole delay might be a serious problem.
A tween who has been fully involved in cooking for a number of years will be able to make the obvious decision. But a tween whose mealtime contributions have been largely confined to pouring himself a bowl of cereal and setting the table won't know what to do. If parents doubt that such small doubts and uncertainties can immobilize tweens, it is because they don't realize how much information and experience people need to be able to reason their way through problems. Many young adults on their own for the first time and single men with little cooking experience find simple dilemmas about whether a particular lid can or cannot go in the oven equally daunting. To be able to use good judgment, people must first have a good grasp of the relevant facts.
If your child can't manage to keep his bedroom clean and his possessions and homework papers in order, it's probably because he lacks a natural ability to organize and/or has never received detailed instructions on where to begin and how to proceed. That's where you come in.
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When told to straighten her room, study for a test, or do her homework, your tween may truly feel lost about where to begin. This feeling may arise because she doesn't know how to break a large project into a series of small steps and organize them. As a result, her approach is so random and unfocused that when she's finished straightening her very messy room, it looks as if she hasn't even started. When it comes to school projects, she may procrastinate and end up turning in work far below her capabilities.
It can be hard to comprehend that an intelligent child doesn't know how to pick up her room, but unless she's had a lot of hands-on help, guidance, and instruction, or unless she is a born organizational expert, this is often the case. Consider that if a twelve-year-old can solve algebraic equations, he didn't achieve this level of expertise without a lot of help. His natural math ability is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the years teachers have given him hundreds of arithmetic lessons. They have carefully explained basic concepts and procedures, anticipated and answered his questions, and helped him reason through problems when he got stuck. They didn't feel sorry for him and do the problems for him when he seemed overwhelmed, since that wouldn't benefit him in the least. Instead, he was given more detailed explanations and lots of practice problems. Teachers checked his work thoroughly and required him to fix errors so he learned everything correctly. By sixth grade a tween may have advanced to the point that he can handle complex mathematical problems that are beyond his parents' ability to solve.
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The $20 million, multi-year agreement includes further development of Solazyme's breakthrough high myristic algal oil, a valuable raw material in the oleochemical industry, as well as additional oils that Solazyme is developing for the oleochemical and industrial sectors, according to the companies.
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teaming up with Japan-based Mitsui & Co. to jointly
develop a suite of triglyceride oils for use primarily in the
oleochemical industry, the companies said on
The $20 million, multi-year agreement includes further
development of Solazymes breakthrough high myristic algal
oil, a raw material in the oleochemical industry, as well as
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If a legacy is determined by the mark you leave on the place you came from, Leon Page's legacy will live on for years to come.
A native of Glasgow, page lived in Franklin for years, and founded Franklin Bank and Trust.
Before that, he was a naval officer in WWII but his mark doesn't stop there.
"He founded Franklin bank in 1958, and made it his mission and legacy to give back," said Alex Downing, WKU College Heights Foundation Director.
In 1998, he gave back in a big way.
"Leon made the first seven figure gift in the history of WKU, it really changed the face of philanthropy, and the course for our Gordon Ford College of Business," said John Paul Blair WKU Assoc. VP of Development and Alumni Relations.
The donation benefited professorships in finance and banking, and created an endowed scholarship for the Gordon ford college of business, a fitting gift since he graduated from the Bowling Green Business University in 1943 before it ever became a part of WKU.
"The students that have benefited from the Leon and Lassie Page Scholarship Fund will always remember his legacy. By creating an endowment, he's allowed students for generations to come that will benefit as well," said Downing.
A true Hilltopper fan, he rarely missed a game, and created an endowment for the lady toppers.
"They were truly Hilltoppers at heart, and we will tremendously miss him, but we know he'll be in heaven watching the Toppers every game and pulling for us, and we'll miss him greatly," said Kyle Chapman, WKU Hilltopper Athletic Foundation.
Page is a man who will be remembered in south central Kentucky for his service, his generosity, and his legacy.
Visitation for Page will take place at Booker Gilbert Funeral Home in Franklin from 4p.m. to 8p.m. tomorrow and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday with services to follow.


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Would a rocket burn more fuel to get from Earth's surface to Low Earth Orbit, or to get from LEO to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit?
To calculate fuel consumption, you can typically use the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation shown here (without taking Relativity into account):
$$ \Delta V = v_e * ln(\frac{m_0}{m_1}) $$
The $\Delta V$ from Earth's surface to LEO from Kennedy Space Center is $9.3 - 10\;km/s$, and LEO (KSS) to GEO is $4.24\;km/s$. Source: Delta-V Budgets, Earth-Moon Space, High Thrust
Assuming an exhaust velocity of 4.5 km/s, single stage rocket, we get
$$ \frac{m_0}{m_1} = e^{\Delta V/v_e} = e^{9.3/4.5} = 7.90 $$
$$ m_{propellant} = (1 - \frac{m_1}{m_0})m_0 = (1 - \frac{1}{7.90})m_0 = (1 - 12.66\%)m_0 = 87.3\%\;m_0 $$
Just getting the rocket to LEO takes 87.3% of your initial mass. Now let's try this again for LEO -> GEO:
$$ \frac{m_1}{m_2} = e^{\Delta V/v_e} = e^{4.24/4.5} = 2.57 $$
$$ m_{propellant} = (1 - \frac{m_2}{m_1})m_1 = (1 - \frac{1}{2.57})m_1 = (1 - 38.98\%)m_1 = 61.02\%\;m_1 $$
However, this is a percentage of the initial mass at LEO, which is 12.66% of the original. Let $m_1$ be the new initial mass for the Rocket Equation achieved after reaching LEO (from above) and $m_2$ be the final mass after reaching GEO. The fraction of launch mass $m_0$ would be
$$ \frac{m_2}{m_0} = \frac{m_2}{m_1}*\frac{m_1}{m_0} = \frac{1}{2.57}*\frac{1}{7.90} = .3898 * .1266 = 4.93\% $$
$$ m_{propellant} = (\frac{m_1}{m_0} - \frac{m_2}{m_0})m_0 = (12.66\% - 4.93\%)m_0 = 7.73\%\;m_0 $$
Thus, getting from Earth's Surface -> LEO takes about 87.3% of the mass of whatever you launch ejected at 4.5 km/s, where LEO -> GEO takes only 7.73% of of that mass at 4.5 km/s, leaving you in GEO with 4.93% of what you started with.
Note: because of the difficulty from Earth->LEO, we typically use multi-staged rockets which can ease the fuel required. Because you said 'a rocket', I took that literally and did the calculation with a single-stage-to-orbit configuration.
The Wikipedia article Delta-V budget discusses the energy needed to get between various locations. The delta-v from the surface of the Earth to LEO is given as 9.3 to 10 km/sec while the delta-v from LEO to GEO is around 4 km/sec depending on what you mean by LEO. So Earth to LEO takes around twice as much fuel as LEO to GEO.
Delta-v is a difficult concept for anyone who hasn't come across it before. It's a general guide as to how much fuel is needed. I answered a question about delta-v in Difference between deltaV and specific impulse, or there's a Wikipedia article here. You can think of the delta-v as proportional to the amount of fuel needed.
If you calculate the gravitational potential energy for a fixed mass you find it changes far more going from LEO to GEO than it does from the Earth's surface to LEO. Therefore you might think getting from LEO to GEO takes more fuel. The difference is that as the rocket rises it burns fuel so it's mass decreases. By the time the rocket reaches LEO its mass is a small fraction of the launch mass. When you move from LEO to GEO you're moving a much smaller mass so even though you're moving a lot farther it takes less energy.
Fixed mass ship
The gravitational potential energy at a distance $r$ from the Earth's centre is:
$$ V(r) = -\frac{GMm}{r} $$
so the difference in energy between two distances $r_a$ and $r_b$ is simply:
$$ \Delta V = -GMm \left( \frac{1}{r_a} - \frac{1}{r_b} \right)$$
The term low Earth orbit seems to cover a large range of altitudes, so let's take it to be the altitude of the ISS i.e. about 350km. Geostationary orbit is 35,786km and the Earth's radius is 6378km, so the potential energy change per kg is:
$$ \Delta V(\text{surface to LEO}) = 3.25MJ/kg $$
$$ \Delta V(\text{LEO to GEO}) = 49.8MJMJ/kg $$
So it takes 15 times more energy to get a fixed mass from LEO to GEO than from the surface to LEO.
This is unlikely to be relevant to any spaceship, since I know of no way for a spaceship to get to GEO without changing it's mass. However it is relevant to a space elevator if we ever manage to buld one.


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(Jacksonville, Fla.)-Columbia College has opened a second campus in Jacksonville, Fla., to serve the needs of working adults in the area. The campus will be in addition to the Columbia College campus located on Naval Air Station Jacksonville. The new campus is located in Southpoint on Butler Boulevard between I-95 and US-1 (Phillips Highway) at 7077 Bonneval Road, Suite 114, Jacksonville, Fla., 32216; its phone number is (904) 338-9150.
The Florida Commission for Independent Education approved the new campus May 19. Classes will begin in August and will include both associate- and baccalaureate-level on-campus and online classes in convenient eight-week sessions. The accelerated format is ideal for working adults who balance work, family and school commitments.
On-campus degrees will be offered in general/interdisciplinary studies, computer information systems, business administration (with majors including human resource management, accounting and management), criminal justice administration and psychology. Online degrees will be available in general/interdisciplinary studies, business administration (including majors in human resource management, accounting and management), criminal justice administration, American studies, history, interdisciplinary studies, psychology and sociology. Registration for the August session begins July 10.
"Record growth in the Jacksonville market has necessitated the need for an additional campus," said Mike Randerson, Columbia College vice president for Adult Higher Education. "Columbia College continues to grow as a preferred choice for northeast Florida adult students seeking a regionally accredited college degree."
Randerson also notes that Columbia College, including its campuses in Jacksonville, is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association, which means courses taken at the college can transfer to other two- and four-year accredited colleges and universities.
Columbia College, founded in Missouri in 1851, serves nearly 25,000 students nationwide each year at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Online Campus, Graduate Studies Program and its more than 30 Nationwide Campuses. Columbia College-NAS Jacksonville was founded in Jacksonville in 1990.


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I joined WSU in 2013, and I'm excited to lead this great institution that has provided personalized learning experiences for our students for more than 125 years.
Drawing on our core themes of access, learning and community, Weber State aspires to be the national model of a dual-mission university, serving both the community college and regional university roles.
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WEIRTON - Weirton City Council is continuing discussion on its plans to apply for the state's home rule program, holding a workshop Monday prior to their regular council meeting.
Members of council plan to put their application, including the city's proposed home rule regulations, up for public review by March 7.
If the city can obtain permission from the state Legislature, the home rule application could allow Weirton to pass laws or ordinances that are not specifically permitted within existing state legislation. There are 16 other cities applying for home rule across the state.
City Manager Valerie Means began Monday's session by outlining actions the city would not be permitted to take under home rule. Topics out-of-bounds include anything contrary to environmental law, bidding on construction contracts, changes pertaining to federal laws or crimes, state crimes and punishments, pension and retirement plans, taxation, annexation, tax increment financing, extraction of natural resources, marriage and divorce laws and restriction of the carrying of a firearm, except for in municipal buildings dedicated to government operations.
"We've been talking for a long time about we want to do, and I think we've finally narrowed it down to the areas of priority that council has really had repeated problems with in the past," Means said. "I think these issues are pretty key."
Issue 1 of the plan involves probationary employment of uncertified building or zoning code officials and falls in the administrative category. The city currently is denied provisional status of a new hire in the building or zoning code department because the state fire marshal regulation does not consider "lack of certified persons able to serve" as a hardship. It takes 18 to 24 months to obtain all of the required certifications for positions in the city's Inspections Department, which would leave them understaffed for a considerable amount of time. The proposed solution in the plan is to establish, through an ordinance, a two-year provisional status for a new hire code official, which would allow the city to put someone in the field while he or she works toward achieving the existing requirements and certifications.
"Just because they get a provisional license doesn't mean I'm going to send them out to do a commercial inspection on their own. I just need them to be able to get to property maintenance and single-family dwellings," Chief Code Official Rod Rosnick clarified. "It's just that the first year of paying someone who isn't really able to do anything is a killer."
Issue 2 deals with another aspect of building and zoning code, namely enforcement provisions. State code does not provide clear authority for the city's building and zoning code officials to issue "on-site" citations for external property maintenance, building structure and zoning violations. Citing public safety as well as beautification concerns, the city proposes granting zoning code officials, again by ordinance, the power to issue city-wide citations for exterior sanitation and common nuisance eyesore violations like trash, high grass, weeds and broken windows, which would allow for expedited service and reduced manpower.
Issue 3 addresses police officers' enforcement provisions in Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission establishments. West Virginia code does not provide clear authority for Weirton police officers to enter ABCC-regulated establishments for the investigation or prevention of crime without the presence of one of the limited number of ABCC special investigators. Because of the increase Weirton sees in crime between the hours of 2 a.m. - closing time for bars and similar establishments in Ohio and Pennsylvania - and 4 a.m. - closing time in West Virginia - the city is seeking to establish authority by ordinance granting police officers the ability to enter an ABCC regulated establishment without the presence of special investigators.
"I think it's good for two reasons," City Attorney Vince Gurrera said. "Number one, a couple of years ago the ABCC came in and brought on a huge uproar over Rumorz Club and made us shut them down and do a bunch of stuff in one day, and then they said 'We're too busy to do anything.' If it wasn't for a quick meeting that the chief attended that we set up with them, we could have faced another situation where a group gets involved and then leaves us in a position where the city's left standing there with the blame. Number two, I think it will force ABCC to be a little bit more cooperative with our officers, because I don't think that they always are."
"The ABCC agents do a great job. They're good officers," Weirton Police Chief Bruce Marshall added. "But they're limited. There are not enough of them for how many bars we have in town and where we sit geographically."
Mayor George Kondik asked Marshall how long it takes on average to get an ABCC special investigator in town. Marshall explained that if they have a week's notice it's not an issue, but around 3 a.m., when response time really counts, they are usually unreachable.
Issue 4 of the home rule plan aims to win municipal authority to place restrictions on streets and highways within city limits. This would help cut down on the wait time for state entities to address road issues and allow city council the right to change or impose certain restrictions such as traffic flow, traffic lights, stop signs, speed limits, weight restrictions and any other modifications deemed necessary.
"In other words, if we deem that we need a traffic light, like at the new school for instance, that's an area that would normally have to go through the state's process and possibly be denied," Means said. "We would have the ability to put it up on our own initiative."
"It took me two and half months to get the state to put up a sign that says 'no turn on red,'" Ward 3 Councilman Fred Marsh recalled.
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Let $f(x,y)$ be a complex degree $d$ polynomial that has this particular form.
$$ f = \frac{f_{02}}{2} y^2 + \frac{f_{21}}{2} x^2 y + \frac{f_{12}}{2} x y^2 + \frac{f_{03}}{6} y^3 + \frac{f_{40}}{24} x^4+ \ldots $$
This polynomial $f$ can be thought of as an element of $\mathbb{C}^{M_d}$, where $M_d = \frac{d^2+3d-10}{2}$. Note that aside from vanishing at the origin, the following derivatives at the origin also vanish $$ f_{10}, f_{01}, f_{20}, f_{11}, f_{30}=0.$$
Let us now define a subset of $$ A_4^1 \subset \mathbb{C}^M_d \times \mathbb{C}^2$$ given by
$$ A_{4}^1:= ( (f,x,y) \in \mathbb{C}^{M_d} \times \mathbb{C}^2 : f(x,y)=0, ~~f_{x} =0, ~~ f_{y} =0, ~~ (x,y) \neq (0,0), ~~ f_{02} \neq 0, $$
$$ f_{40} f_{02} - 3 f_{21}^2 =0. )$$
I have a question regarding the closure of the space $\overline{A_{4}^1}$. Suppose the curve $x(t) = L_1 t$ and $ y(t) = t^2 $, $t\neq 0$, lies in the space $A_4^1$ for all $t\neq 0 $. Further suppose that $f_{02}(t) = L_2 t^r$, for some $r > 0$. Assume that $L_1$ and $L_2$ are fixed non zero complex numbers (they don't depend on $t$).
What happens to the derivatives $f_{ij}$ in the limit as $t$ tends to zero? We basically want to see what happens in the closure when you approach it via the path $ x = L_1 t$, $y = t^2$ and $f_{02} = L_2 t^r$.
It is easy to see that $f_{21}$ will tend to zero, using the equation $f_{y}=0$. Further, using that $f_{21}$ will tend to zero and using $f_{x} =0$ we get that $f_{40}$ will go to zero. I expect another condition to come up, using the fact that $$ f_{40} f_{02} - 3 f_{21}^2 =0.$$
In fact, I expect (but can't prove) that in the limit
$$ \frac{-f_{31}^2}{24} + \frac{f_{50} f_{12}}{40} =0.$$
In any case even if that last claim is wrong, I still expect another condition to come up. The remaining coefficients can not be arbitrary is what I think. May be we get different conditions depending on what $r$ is?
This may seem like a random question, but let me explain intuitively what I am asking. Look at the form of the function $f$ that I have taken. This curve has an $A_3$ singularity (a tacnode) at the origin. What this is means is that at the origin, the first derivatives vanish, the Hessian has a Kernel ( which we have fixed to be $(1,0)$) and the third derivative along the kernel of the Hessian is zero. The condition $$ f_{40} f_{02} - 3 f_{21}^2 =0$$ is the condition for an $A_4$ singularity. Hence, the space $A_4^1$ is the space of curves with an $A_4$ singularity at the origin and one node at a point distinct form the origin. I wish to know how much more singular the curves becomes if the two points come together in the particular way I said i.e $ x = L_1 t$, $y = t^2$ and $f_{02} = L_2 t^r$. The conditions $f_{02}=0$, $f_{21} =0$ and $f_{40} =0$ imply that the curve is at least as singular as a $D_6$-node. I expect it to be as singular as a $D_7$ node which is the condition
$$ \frac{-f_{31}^2}{24} + \frac{f_{50} f_{12}}{40} =0.$$


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Family Focused
Looking back on 30 years of family advocacy by Columbia Law School's clinical program
Within Columbia Law School's celebrated clinical program, family advocacy holds a special distinction: The Child Advocacy Clinic and its "spin-offs," the Family Advocacy Clinic and the Prisoners and Families Clinic, are Columbia's oldest continuous clinical offerings, marking 30 years in 2012. This anniversary will be celebrated with a conference to be held at the Law School on April 20, 2013.
This focus on family advocacy is distinctive in another way. The family law clinics have evolved throughout the 30 years to address a shifting set of unmet needs; a combination of legislative issues and changing priorities in services have typically been at the core of this evolution.
Sometimes the impetus for a particular clinical focus was a perceived gap in legislation. In 1981, Jane was an attorney representing children in Family Court for the Juvenile Rights Division of The Legal Aid Society. She became aware that although there was a statute mandating representation of children in cases where children had been removed involuntarily from their parents on allegations of abuse or neglect, there was no corresponding requirement of representation for children whose parents had placed them voluntarily in foster care. These parents were unable to care for the children and had sought help from the child welfare system. Jane saw that these voluntarily placed children often had needs that were not being adequately addressed by the foster care agencies and the Family Court. When she was asked to help launch the Child Advocacy Clinic (CAC) at Columbia Law School in 1982, she felt that if these children had lawyers, their experiences in foster care could be improved, and with appropriate services they might even be able to return home to their parents. The CAC thus began with a clear purpose to represent these children and change the practices in Family Court.
For the next eight years, Jane worked with former colleagues Vivian Berger (Nash Professor of Law Emerita), Steve Ellmann (Professor of Law, New York Law School), Jean Koh Peters (Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School), Nina Freedman (certified social worker and children's advocate), Dr. Mary Banach (Associate Professor of Social Work, University of New Hampshire), and several other law and social work colleagues to build a model program of interdisciplinary representation of young children and adolescents who were in voluntary foster care placements. Jane's goals were to get the system to pay more attention to these cases, to encourage other lawyers to take on this work, and to get the statute changed so that representation of children in such cases would be mandatory. Eventually, these goals were achieved—the statute was amended, and Lawyers for Children, a legal services program specializing in this representation and utilizing the interdisciplinary model that Jane had pioneered, was established.
At other times, the focus of our clinical work has been driven by the opportunity for an innovative model of advocacy created by new legislative initiatives and new colleagues. When Philip joined the faculty in 1989, he brought a devotion to legal advocacy for parents, a traditionally underserved client population. At about the same time, a new child welfare initiative had been implemented that provided services to at-risk families to prevent children from entering foster care. Jane, Philip, and Mary Banach redesigned the clinic to help parents get access to these "preventive services." The Family Advocacy Clinic operated for several years, providing representation to parents in administrative proceedings and Family Court, while helping many children avoid lengthy foster care placements and achieve reunification with their families.
Another motivation for our work has been challenges that arose as a result of new legislative restrictions. While the rights of incarcerated parents had been a concern of Philip's throughout his legal career, the issues took on new urgency in the late 1990s with the passage of two pieces of legislation. In 1996, Congress imposed restrictions on federally funded civil legal services programs that, among other things, prohibited them from providing any assistance to clients who are incarcerated. In 1997, Congress enacted the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). Among the provisions of ASFA was a general time limit of 15 months for foster care placements, a restriction with grave potential consequences for incarcerated parents, whose prison sentences typically run much longer than 15 months.
These new legislative challenges were part of the impetus for the creation of the Prisoners and Families Clinic. Philip, Visiting Clinical Professor Laurie Barron (Executive Director, Feinstein Institute, Roger Williams University School of Law), and Daniella Liebling (certified social worker), designed a clinical program that combined "preventive lawyering," through prison educational sessions on the rights and responsibilities of incarcerated parents, with legal representation in administrative and court proceedings. The Prisoners and Families Clinic has continued to operate at the intersection of the criminal justice and child welfare/family law systems for more than 15 years. During that time, the focus has shifted to parole and post-release advocacy, but the goals remain the same: protecting and strengthening parent-child relationships for families affected by parental incarceration.
When Jane returned to Columbia Law School from a leave of absence of several years to serve as the attorney-in-charge of the Juvenile Rights Division (JRD) of The Legal Aid Society in the late 1990s, she decided to draw on that experience to have Columbia Law School students work directly with JRD lawyers in representing their child clients. Many of these clients were older youth, including those with significant immigration issues. Again, a legislative impetus spurred the CAC to action. For several years, working with clinical staff attorney Ragini Shah (Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School), the CAC began to represent children in immigration proceedings, utilizing a recent federal law that provides the possibility of naturalization for undocumented children in foster care.
The current CAC makes a full circle back to addressing unmet needs of youth. Focusing on the significant increase in the number of adolescents who are aging out of the foster care system and have many serious legal needs as they attempt to establish independent adult lives, the CAC is representing these youth and young adults on issues that would otherwise go unresolved. This advocacy has been driven, in part, by two federal statutes: the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, which continues federal payments for youth in foster care until they turn 21; and the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, which requires foster care agencies to improve independent living planning. As the federal government has increasingly paid attention to these older youth, so has the CAC, as it tries to secure for them an easier and more productive exit from foster care.
Thus, during the past 30 years, as the needs of indigent families have evolved, Columbia's Child Advocacy, Family Advocacy, and Prisoners and Families Clinics have adapted accordingly. Throughout these changing times, we have attempted to maintain two constants: a transformative educational experience for students, and the provision of much-needed direct services to society's most vulnerable families.


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It's Never Too Soon to Start Planning Your Retirement
On the long road to retirement, one basic question repeats itself: What should I be doing now?
Of course, there are dozens of more specific questions that flow from retirement planning. And at any point in time, there are the ups and downs of the financial markets to navigate.
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But the major themes are, for the most part, variations of that single underlying question.
At an early age, it's about how to get started and build good saving habits. During peak earnings years, it's about maximizing your potential, such as paying down debt and working toward big goals, such as covering future health-care costs. And on the verge of retirement, the questions revolve around your post-retirement income strategy—especially the important decision of when to take Social Security.
Here are some of the big retirement questions, if you're...
...In Your 20s
In the early years of working, retirement seems an eternity away. And for most people, starting salaries don't allow much room for savings. But at this age, now is the time to start building good saving habits and a base from which a nest egg can grow for decades to come.
"It's the power of compounding," says Allan Roth, a Colorado Springs, Colo., financial adviser.
Young savers shouldn't be discouraged by experts saying they need to put upward of 12% of their income away.
"The main thing is getting used to the idea of saving," says Christopher Jones, chief investment officer at Financial Engines, FNGN -0.94 % which provides investment advice on retirement accounts.
For those working at companies that match employee contributions to a 401(k) plan, "make sure you're at least getting the company match," says Mr. Jones. "Otherwise, you're leaving money on the table and that's just foolish."
And it doesn't take having a company plan or a big pile of money to start saving in a retirement account. T. Rowe Price Group TROW 0.35 % and Vanguard Group both offer target-date mutual funds, which invest in a blend of stock and bonds that are tied to a future retirement date, with minimum investments of $1,000.
...In Your 30s and 40s
Let's face it, raising kids, buying and maintaining a home, paying for college—for most folks it's all they can do to keep their heads above water.
But stay disciplined and keep taking advantage of the company match. Mr. Roth recommends taking a portion of any raises and putting that money away for retirement.
...In Your 50s and
Early 60s
For many people, these are peak earning years and potentially a time when the kids are off the household payroll. It's time to make some serious headway on retirement savings and to look at where you stand compared with your objectives.
A big question to tackle—have you accounted for health-care costs in your savings goals? Whether it's through long-term-care insurance or through simply putting more money away—also known as self-insuring—it's a question that shouldn't be ignored.
The reality is that unless something significantly changes in the way health-care costs for seniors are managed in the U.S., this can be a big number.
Take a married couple age 65. Last year, the Employee Benefit Research Institute calculated that the couple would need at least $163,000 to stand a 50% chance of covering lifetime out-of-pocket health-care expenses, including Medicare and Medigap premiums, and drug expenses. It would take at least $283,000 to up the odds of covering lifetime expenses to 90%.
For some, a bigger salary may lead to greater comfort with borrowing more money. Ignore that temptation and instead seize the opportunity to reduce big debts, such as mortgages and credit cards, so you'll have more flexibility during retirement.
And for anyone over age 50, tax rules allow for increased contributions to 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts.
For 2013, so-called catch-up contributions are allowed to total $6,500 for a traditional IRA. "You can go into power-savings mode," says Maria Bruno, a senior investment analyst at Vanguard's investment strategy department.
...62 or Over
It's time to make some serious decisions and assess what your income streams are going to look like after collecting that final paycheck.
It's more than just figuring out how to make your savings last.
Among the biggest decisions is when to take Social Security benefits. The underlying question, says Ms. Bruno, "is how can I maximize my payout?"
That includes weighing both the levels of retirement benefits when alive and any survivor benefits after the death of a spouse.
It's a complex calculation, says Financial Engines' Mr. Jones. For a couple, when different ages and benefits are considered, there are some 8,000 different choices, Financial Engines figures.
But there are some rules of thumb. Assuming there is a comfortable nest egg, for a single person in good health, it makes sense these days to defer taking Social Security until age 70, says Mr. Jones.
Here's why: For every year you delay taking full benefits, your eventual Social Security payout will go up by as much as 8%.
While there's always the temptation to collect Social Security simply because it's there now, compare that guaranteed increased benefit to any investment available in the markets today.
"It's a screamingly good deal," says Mr. Jones.
For couples, it's preferable that the higher earner delay taking Social Security as long as possible.
Not only will that boost their payouts while alive, but under Social Security's rules, after the death of one spouse, the survivor gets the higher of the two benefits.
And, of course, there's the question of when to retire. These days, it's increasingly common to phase into retirement slowly, by working part time in some fashion rather than going straight to the golf course full time.
There's the benefit of staying engaged and active. And financially, working makes big sense when it comes to making sure your nest egg lasts.
You "earn a little extra and have less time to spend," says Mr. Roth.
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For 2013, so-called catch-up contributions are allowed to total $6,500 for a traditional individual retirement account. An earlier version of the story said the limit for catch-up contributions is $5,500.


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Preparing for Accounting Recruitment Events
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The Sacred Seeds Ethnobotanical Trail is the only one of its kind on the West Coast and will serve as a nature preserve, education site and community resource center.Read more »
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5 Best New Procedures for Wimps
If you're looking to zap sun spots, firm saddlebags, or smooth wrinkles -- but you're a big ninny -- read on. The latest dermatologist treatments get the job done and don't even require anesthesia
But you can guess how the rest of this little tale goes. Instead of glowing skin, I ended up with four days of ugly. My face was peeling and oozing, and it was covered in red, scaly patches that soaked up every drop of heavy moisturizer I slathered on. I spent the weekend quarantined in my apartment, and all I got out of it was a fear of dermatologist treatments.
But procedures have come a long way, and many of the hottest new in-office treatments claim to really, truly require no downtime -- we're talking minimal redness, discomfort instead of pain, and absolutely no oozing. "Non-invasive is definitely the trend," says Los Angeles dermatologist Lisa Chipps, MD. "I think it started with the drop in the economy. People are turning away from expensive surgical procedures and want less invasive treatments."
Skip ahead to see the latest zero-downtime dermatologist treatments.
So, I set out to investigate. Sure, these treatments may be gentle enough for the wimp who cries when she stubs her toe, but then do they really do anything? The answer, for many of them, is yes. Some of the results are so impressive you can barely recognize the person in the "after" photo -- and there's no quarantine required.
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The reason I gave this article only 6 stars is because I've heard from several dermatologists that Ulterapy can be extremely, extremely painful, and it's described here as a walk in the park.
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Performing an Unattended Uninstall of MySQL in Windows
By Jeremy Smyth-Oracle on Jan 25, 2013
The MySQL Installer is an easy way to install and maintain your MySQL installations on Microsoft Windows.
Start -> All Programs -> MySQL -> MySQL Installer -> MySQL Installer
This launches the Maintenance window of the Installer GUI, and gives you the options:
- Add/Modify Products and Features
- Check for Updates
- Remove MySQL Products.
I had a question from someone who wanted to automate a process in an environment where they tear down and reinstall MySQL to test deployments. The GUI-based way to change or remove MySQL is manual and requires human intervention, and they wanted to automate as much as possible, and thereby install and uninstall MySQL repeatedly and automatically, from a script run at the command prompt.
This is quite easy to script if you've got the MSI file you used to install MySQL, as documented here. I thought I'd go a bit further into it and explore the mechanism a little more.
Control Panel and the Registry
Before we get into the how of unattended uninstallations, the Windows Control Panel also lets you uninstall from the Programs and Features applet (which used to be called Add/Remove Programs). For MySQL, this option offers similar options to the Installer.
This mechanism (which isn't specific to MySQL) relies on a centralised repository of change/uninstall commands.
So, after a bit of investigation, I found the location in the registry:
In that location, the UninstallString key contains the following text:
MsiExec.exe /I{26FFE68D-7BD4-472A-9AB8-3517B6BF9E51}
You might recognise part of that statement from the article Automating MySQL Installation linked to above. Running that MsiExec.exe command launches the uninstall GUI, just as if you'd clicked it from Control Panel.
The GUID (the value between brackets) is correct on my machine, but differs from version to version. You can find the correct value by searching HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ in the Windows Registry for "MySQL Server" and finding the GUID that the Windows Installer uses for the program.
(Note: The Registry is a dangerous place to play around in, even for experienced people, so you should be exceptionally careful in the registry and using MsiExec.)
Tweaking MsiExec.exe
Now, to automate it, there are options to MsiExec.exe that help:
- /X bypasses the front screen and goes straight to the uninstall process
- /quiet disables the GUI entirely and automates the uninstall (if possible, which it is in MySQL's case)
- /norestart disables the post-uninstall reboot that is needed in some cases
- /L enables logging, with various options (the following example uses /L*V to log in verbose fashion)
Performing an Unattended Uninstall
Bringing all of this together, you can do the following. In a command-line started with the "Run as Administrator" option, type the following (all on one line):
MsiExec.exe /x {26FFE68D-7BD4-472A-9AB8-3517B6BF9E51} /quiet /norestart
This performs a quiet (no-gui, i.e. unattended) uninstall, without a reboot, logging in verbose format to the file C:\MySQL-uninstall.log.
Follow a similar technique to automate the uninstallation of other components that the MySQL Installer installs, or indeed of any well-behaved Windows application.


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David Pogue
A collection of columns, blog posts, videos and other multimedia by David Pogue, who was the personal technology columnist for The New York Times for 13 years.
Terrific Sound in a Tiny Package
The Jambox Mini is small enough to fit in a coat pocket and delivers sound that is richer, crisper and louder than the feeble speakers on your phone, tablet or laptop.
October 17, 2013, Thursday
Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1
After a year of tinkering with the much-criticized Windows 8, Microsoft unveils (drumroll) Windows 8.1. The changes are many and useful.
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T-Mobile's plan to eliminate international roaming charges is bold and transparent. And it suggests that we've been paying those insane charges for nothing.
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Silver Screen and LEDs Join at Last
A test run looks at seven LED projectors costing $1,000 or less, some that could fit in a pocket and some with bigger ambitions.
October 10, 2013, Thursday
A New Kindle Fire, Just in Time for the Holiday Season
The latest version of the Kindle Fire still encourages consumers to buy more stuff from Amazon. But it's a lighter, sharper and faster pleasure than the prior model.
October 3, 2013, Thursday
A Watch That Sinks Under Its Features
Samsung's Galaxy Gear watch is ambitious and even amazing. But it has too many components for one gadget.
October 3, 2013, Thursday
The iPhone 5s's Fingerprint Scanner Was Hacked, but I'm Not Worried
Yes, Apple's Touch ID can be fooled — by a determined attacker with the time and resources to do it.
September 26, 2013, Thursday
A Whole New Idea: Half a Camera
Married to a big-screen smartphone, Sony's QX cameras turn out great pictures, but the cameras themselves have flaws.
September 26, 2013, Thursday
In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons
Consider Apple's two new iPhones, the 5C (budget model) and the 5S. Not exactly innovative, but they look good and the software is more efficient to navigate.
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Yes, There's a New iPhone. But That's Not the Big News.
With iOS 7, the look of Apple's mobile operating system has been completely overhauled, and many of the iPhone's features have been improved.
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