he net number of jobs added per month has been consistently higher than the net change in the labor force for about 5 years, except for a brief blip during 2012:

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Reviewed for midterms and picked courses for summer.

This is a follow-up to a Facebook conversation with Jamie: here are the pieces that I feel people just getting into Classical music (somewhat loosely defined) should know. Some of them may be considered boring these days, but if you're going to show off at a cocktail party and opine on how, for example, you tried Vivaldi but you prefer to stick ( Read more... )

So I'm applying to a job opening, and the employer's website makes me go through all these security procedures to create a user name, password, etc. Then when it comes to the part where it asks you for a security question, this particular website actually allowed you to write your own question. Doesn't this seem much more secure than all the ( Read more... )

27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

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Forbes.com has posted a counter of how many employees were laid off by the 500 largest public companies in the US ( Read more... )

Made this little discovery on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Castro_(soldier)

I went to see Quantum of Solace with some friends from high school over the weekend.  They were pretty big 007 fans, and they were disappointed at the overall tone of the movie and the portrayal of Bond.  I, however, was disturbed by the hotel.

( Here there be spoilers... )

Good job America, you didn't screw this up.

For me, the sweetest part of this is the victory in Virginia.  It's not that shocking of a victory, despite the whole thing about not going to a Democratic president since LBJ -- the area has been trending Democratic in recent years, from what I've been hearing.  But I just think it's an indictment of the ( Read more... )