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You get some pretty interesting problems, when you increase the number of cores in your computer.
A couple of years ago, we replaced a 4-core IBM P5 with a 32-core HP DL 580. We tested it for a couple of months with just a user, or two, at a time. Then, we took a day and tested with the entire company (roughly 250 users). Thank goodness we did before we put it into production because, for some people, it was actually slower than the P5. It looked like it was going to be a disaster.
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"Virtualization Benchmarks/Head-to-Head: How do VMware Fusion 5 and Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac compare?"?MacTech Magazine?12:10 PM
"Mac troubleshooting: What to do when your computer is too slow"?Macworld?8:23 AM
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"How to Use Smart Folders in OS X"?Mactuts+?8:46 AM
"How To Hide All Desktop Icons On Mac OS X"?ResExcellence?7:17 AM
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"Preview All Text Files in Quick Look with the QLStephen Plugin for OS X"?OS X Daily?1:12 PM
"How To Select & Copy Text From A File In OS X Quicklook"?AddictiveTips?12:01 PM
"Master The Option Key In iWork [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?8:55 AM
"The 3 Best Voice Notes Recorder Apps For Your Mac (one is free, one is half the price of the other)"?McSolo?7:20 AM
"The Easiest To Use Time Management, Task, Project, Todo App Also Has A Crazy Name"?Mac 360?7:19 AM
"2 New Ways To Add A Clock To Your Mac's Dock (both cheap, one simple, one complex)"?NoodleMac?7:20 AM
"How To Use Your Mac And A Scanner To Create The Dream: A Paperless Office"?Mac 360?7:20 AM
"iCloud, Dropbox, And Cloud Storage Rule, So Why Not Put A Corkboard In The Cloud?"?TeraTalks?7:20 AM
"This Mac App Of The Past Is The App Of The Future But The App Is Here Now"?BohemianBoomer?7:20 AM
"Here's A Strange Mac Calculator You Will Love To Use, Don't Know About, But Need Now"?Mac 360?7:20 AM
Op/Ed
"Why Parallels Not VMware Fusion Is The Best Virtualization Software For Most Mac Users"?Cult of Mac?10:11 AM
"Surgeon Simulator 2013 for Mac hilarious online craze: Surgery simulation game causes a stir across the web as gamers post images and videos of operational mishaps"?Macworld UK?9:47 AM
Press Releases
"XIMEA's xiQ USB 3.0 Camera Is also First Industrial Camera to Work with MAC OS X"?PRWeb?6:41 PM
"Watermarker offers image branding on OS X"?TUAW?2:10 PM
"Expresso is a Simple Text Editor with Calculation Capabilities"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Mac Backup Guru for OS X: Simple and Trustworthy Bootable Back Up + Sync"?prMac?7:24 AM
"JixiPix Software Releases New Aquarella Watercolor Software for Mac"?prMac?7:24 AM
"New photos of Apple's Austin campus expansion show construction of second building"?AppleInsider?6:36 PM
"Aussie resellers: Apple's business iPad is too late/Surface too strong."?CRN?3:12 PM
"Regnum: Apple Suspected of Attempting to Bribe Russian Regional Officials"?Brightwire?12:05 PM
"Bribery concerns follow Apple meet with Russian officials"?Electronista?12:05 PM
"iPad mini is on fire: Apple moving 12M units in Q1"?iDownload Blog?8:18 AM
"iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills"?AllThingsD?7:28 AM
"Hey Apple, Google: people don't trust you any more"?Computerworld?9:34 AM
"Apple drops from top 20 privacy ranking after Path security breach"?iDownload Blog?8:47 AM
"Apple, Google tumble off top 20 trusted companies list: Facebook, Yahoo! also not well-trusted to protect personal information"?The Register?2:33 PM
"Apple Plans First Berlin Store and Fourth San Francisco Store"?MacRumors?7:57 AM
"Japan & South Korea Led Google Play App To Revenue To Double From Q3 To Q4 2012, But Apple Still Revenue Leader"?TechCrunch?2:36 PM
"Google's App Revenue Increases Sixfold as It Chases Apple Store"?Bloomberg?8:58 AM
"Google Play revenue growing 10X faster than Apple's iOS app store"?VentureBeat?9:57 AM
"Can BlackBerry 10 Take on Apple?" [Video Report]?CNBC?7:28 AM
"On location at Macworld/iWorld 2013"?9 to 5 Mac?8:25 AM
"Siri Eyes Free coming to 2013 Honda Accord, along with Acura RDX and ILX"?Engadget?10:13 AM
"Honda says Siri Eyes Free will land in 2013 Accord, Acura RDX and ILX vehicles"?9 to 5 Mac?10:31 AM
"Honda Bringing Siri 'Eyes Free' to Accord, Acura"?PC Magazine?3:22 PM
"Apple to Toyota Add Face Masks, Purifiers on Beijing Smog"?Bloomberg?8:58 AM
"'What did you learn from the iPhone?': When repeatedly asked what his company RIM Europe have learned from Apple in producing the new Blackberry 10, which is launched today, managing director Stephen Bates refuses to answer." [Video Report]?BBC?2:06 PM
"Jobs goes Groucho, iPad bashful, fruity Kutcher, and Gates' kids 'aren't Apple lovers'"?Macworld UK?10:42 AM
"What it Was Like Building Steve Jobs' Super Yacht" [Video Report]?Bloomberg?8:57 AM
"Ashton Kutcher: Playing Steve Jobs Was 'Terrifying'"?The Telegraph?8:06 AM
Non-Apple News
"Want Stronger Passwords? Try Bad Grammar: Beware passwords built using too many pronouns or verbs, Carnegie Mellon security researchers say. String together nouns instead."?InformationWeek?3:34 PM
"Facebook earnings beat Wall Street's estimates, show traction with mobile"?CNET News?3:29 PM
"AT&T Trial Shows Small Cells Bring Nearly Perfect Coverage to Problem Areas"?Wired?2:41 PM
"Kaspersky updates Endpoint Security for Business anti-hacker tool"?V3?2:35 PM
"Hitachi unveils first 10K rpm 1.2TB hard drive"?Computerworld?2:25 PM
"Dropbox Launches Instant File Previews And Virtual Photo Album Sharing"?TechCrunch?2:21 PM
"Internet at its best open and free: The internet should be like a blank sheet of paper for people to write on, says the creator of the World Wide Web."?Fairfax NZ News?2:07 PM
"Symantec CEO: 'We'll absolutely have a Norton brand'"?Network World?11:40 AM
"'Fair data' logo promotes ethical standards for collecting consumer data"?Techworld?11:38 AM
"HTC sends invite to Feb. 19 event, likely to unveil M7 phone"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?11:28 AM
"Freescale attacks Cavium with security coprocessors"?EE Times?10:58 AM
"Zynga Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds Leaving Company"?Bloomberg?10:33 AM
"ZTE to launch Firefox OS smartphone at Mobile World Conference: Firefox OS will start competing with Android and Apple's iOS, with phones on the way from ZTE, Mozilla, Telef?nica, and Geeksphone"?IDG News Service?11:16 AM
"Google Puts The Nexus 4 Back On Sale In UK, France And Spain"?TechCrunch?2:22 PM
"Google Forms Gets A Refresh, Adds Collaboration And Smarter Editing Features"?TechCrunch?2:21 PM
"Google Fends Off BrightRoll in $7.6 Billion Video Market"?Bloomberg?10:33 AM
"Mozilla takes drastic step to automatically block virtually all plug-ins in Firefox: Cites security, stability reasons for move to turn on 'click-to-play' for all but the latest Flash"?Computerworld?10:43 AM
"Nintendo slashes Wii U sales goal by 27 percent, cuts 3DS target"?PCWorld?11:38 AM
"BlackBerry Bluetooth Mini Stereo Speaker Gives You A Speakerphone That Goes Anywhere For $79.99"?TechCrunch?2:22 PM
"The First BlackBerry 10 Device To Make U.S. Debut In March, Coming To All Four Major Carriers"?TechCrunch?2:22 PM
"BlackBerry maker changes its name and launches long-awaited BlackBerry 10"?CNNMoney?9:47 AM
"Yesterday Alicia Keys Was An iPhone Addict, Today She's BlackBerry's Global Creative Director"?TechCrunch?2:35 PM
"Microsoft Seeks to Challenge Google with Gesture-Based Search"?Patently Apple?4:36 PM
"Microsoft Utilizes Military Technology to Reinvent the Stylus"?Patent Bolt?1:53 PM
"Tablets poised to see higher adoption in Indian schools"?ZDNet?7:27 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"Macworld Expo opening and Apple vs Blackberry"?Your Mac Life?2:09 PM
"Kirk McElhearn Takes Control of iTunes 11"?MacVoicesTV?1:33 PM
"Behind the App: Play Creatividad and its Award-Winning iPoe Series"?PadGadget?10:01 AM
"Podcast: Do you need a 128 GB iPad? Straight Talk vs. AT&T and Windows RT or Windows 8?"?GigaOM?7:22 AM
"The iPhone 5S rumor roundup: It's inevitable...but when will it happen? The rumor roundup for Apple's next iPhone starts now"?CNET Reviews?6:42 PM
"Apple's cumulative iPad sales this quarter to increase 60% year over year"?Edible Apple?9:55 AM
"New Apple TV 3,2 is just a mid-season internal upgrade, with no external difference in size"?The Next Web?11:58 AM
"New Apple TV revealed by FCC won't be smaller, will only contain minor component change"?The Verge?11:59 AM
"Apple: Don't get excited about that new Apple TV box/The company says its updated Apple TV model, which showed up in regulatory filings this week, is a behind the scenes component change that won't bring new features."?CNET News?12:25 PM
"New, smaller Apple TV 3,2 features A5X processor, iPhone 5's Broadcom BCM4334 chip"?The Next Web?9:47 AM
"New smaller Apple TV coming, to feature A5x chip"?Macworld UK?8:07 AM
"Rumor: New Smaller, Faster Apple TV Coming Soon"?AppleBitch?7:56 AM
"Chart of the day: A decade of Apple 'computer' sales"?Fortune?11:56 AM
"Despite better demand, retailers must order iPad 4 before they can sell iPad mini"?iDownload Blog?12:39 PM
"DigiTimes: Apple Just Cut Its iPad Display Orders By 50% ? [Rumor]?RazorianFly?8:15 AM
"Apple trademarks its Stores to deter copycats"?ZDNet?2:26 PM
"Apple gets trademark for retail store design and layout: The service mark application was filed in May 2010"?IDG News Service?7:35 AM
"Apple trademarks its distinctive store design"?Digital Trends?8:07 AM
"Apple Trademarks the Design of its Retail Stores"?PC Magazine?12:40 PM
"Apple granted trademark protections for the interior of the Apple Store: It probably won't help against competitors that use similar designs, though."?Ars Technica?5:31 PM
"Apple patent describes possible flash assembly for low-cost plastic-bodied iPhone"?MacDailyNews?7:21 AM
"Apple cheaper iPhone mini patent published"?Macworld UK?7:57 AM
"Does Apple Hate RAM Upgrades?, Has WiFi Killed Ethernet?, Why Windows RT Was DOA, and More"?Low End Mac?8:45 AM
"Age of Myth HD For iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free"?Apple Sliced?8:42 AM
"ColorShift For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:42 AM
"Magic Guitar For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $2.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:42 AM
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?8:43 AM
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?8:43 AM
"iPad 3 Buyer's Guide -Prices $290 To $829 -Best iPad Prices Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?10:16 AM
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 10 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?8:24 AM
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Get a Docking Station for your MacBook Air for $46
"Valve's Gabe Newell says Apple TV, not consoles, is the biggest threat to Steam Box"?9 to 5 Mac?7:42 PM
"Rumor Has It: Will Apple go plastic for a low-cost iPhone?"?CNET TV?4:39 PM
"Google asks: How much is mapping worth?" ["The anecdotal impact is easy to assess. Look no further than the uproar Apple faced after it switched the iPhone's default mapping program from Google Maps to its own much criticized service."]?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?3:31 PM
"Why Apple is the stumbling block in Amazon's ebook transition"?paidContent?2:04 PM
"5 Things That Could Slow Apple's Success/Let Apple's example be a lesson to you: Staying on top of your game--no matter how successful you are--is a never-ending struggle."?Inc.?1:09 PM
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore"?YMP Now?11:55 AM
"Uh Oh: I Lost My iPhone 5. Now What?"?Forbes?10:31 AM
"Popularizing The Subscription Model: Would You Pay Monthly For A New Mac, iPhone, Or iPad?"?Mac 360?10:30 AM
"Major Media Fails To Fact-Check iPhone Joke"?Techdirt?9:14 AM
"Judge denies new trial, keeps Apple's $1B verdict over Samsung intact"?GigaOM?9:24 AM
"Judge Koh: Samsung didn't 'willfully' infringe Apple patents"?MacDailyNews?9:03 AM
"Dell Dude? Yup, he's a Mac user now, too"?MacDailyNews?8:47 AM
"Reality be damned: iOS 7 wish list, continued/We received hundreds of comments and e-mails about what readers want for iOS."?Ars Technica?8:46 AM
"The little-known Apple Lisa: Five quirks and oddities"?Macworld?8:23 AM
"Is your Surface Pro a bit full? Slot in an SD card, it's not from Apple: iPad a bit full? Bad luck, buy a new one"?The Register?7:35 AM
"Why Microsoft must become Apple and Google"?PCWorld?7:33 AM
"5 Things I Tell Siri That Helps Me Run My Business"?Forbes?7:29 AM
"Does An $800 (Or More) 128 GB iPad Make Sense, And If So Who For? ? The 'Book Mystique"?MacPrices?1:22 PM
"Apple's 'fat' 128 billion-byte iPad: What analysts are saying"?Fortune?10:32 AM
"Does the 128GB iPad 4 Spell Death for the 64GB MacBook Air?"?Apple Gazette?8:46 AM
"Don't be confused by the 128GB iPad. It's not for you."?ZDNet?7:27 AM
"Why Ballmer doesn't want Office on the iPad"?ZDNet?1:22 PM
"Microsoft's Ballmer Torpedoes Prospects for MS Office on iPad"?The Mac Observer?1:12 PM
"Ballmer dashes Office for iPad hopes (for now)"?iDownload Blog?12:06 PM
"Ballmer: Office with no iPad support makes 'a lot of sense'"?ZDNet?7:27 AM
"How the iPad revolutionized the public speaking occupation"?Stabley Times?7:22 AM
"Annual Subscriptions: Why Adobe And Microsoft Want You To Pay Annually To Play Daily"?PixoBebo?7:19 AM
"Opinion: Apple's Best Days Are Yet To Come"?ResExcellence?7:17 AM
Non-Apple
"10 Pinterest tips from a user with 1.2 million followers"?CNET News?3:30 PM
"Are Weak Wii U Sales a Bellwether of Shifting Game Demographics?"?Techland?2:33 PM
"Will BlackBerry ever be hip again?"?Salon?2:06 PM
"Most condemn using cell phones while driving, but do it themselves"?Salt Lake Tribune?2:04 PM
"The BlackBerry, Rebuilt, Lives to Fight Another Day"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?1:57 PM
"BlackBerry 10 Radically New, But Many Details Missing"?BYTE?3:33 PM
"RIM's BlackBerry 10 gets some rave reviews"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?11:11 AM
"RIM's Z10 and BlackBerry 10 feel a generation late"?CNNMoney?10:39 AM
"Blackberry scored with BB 10 line, but game was long over"?View from Above?2:57 PM
"Here's how the Z10, Q10 get BlackBerry back in the game"?CNET News?2:41 PM
"Dropbox Now Guaranteed Massive Success After Ballmer Dismisses It As A 'Little Startup'"?BGR?1:33 PM
"RIM Shamelessly Copies Apple, Renames The Company After A Fruit"?Cult of Mac?12:00 PM
"Should You Subscribe to Microsoft Office 365?"?Techland?8:24 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"The predicament of escaping the social media bubble."?The Joy of Tech [cartoon]?7:18 AM
"The Official Karennet Macworld Party List V. 2.1"?Thomas PR?7:01 PM
"Live Blog: Kutcher and Gad on playing Jobs and Woz/Join as at 9 a.m. on Thursday for our live blog of their Macworld/iWorld appearance."?Macworld?6:01 PM
"Official Stratego game debuts for iPad"?CNET Reviews?3:05 PM
"Satechi Energy Efficient Smart LED Desk Lamp Brightens Rooms & Charges USB Devices"?Run Around Tech?2:48 PM
"Sounds Good: Inter-App Routing System Audiobus Gets First Ever Update"?App Advice?2:43 PM
"Dropbox launches quick file previews for photos, documents"?CNET News?2:41 PM
"uTest Launches Applause, An iOS And Android Mobile App Analytics Dashboard With A Klout-Like Score"?TechCrunch?2:36 PM
"Google Forms Gets A Refresh, Adds Collaboration And Smarter Editing Features"?TechCrunch?2:35 PM
"John Martellaro Chats Apple TV & Mac Pro on Tech Night Owl"?The Mac Observer?2:07 PM
"BackBlaze iPhone app gives access to online backups"?CNET News?1:05 PM
"Rovio teases Escape From Hoth update for Angry Birds Star Wars"?PocketGamer?12:03 PM
"Prepare To Escape From Hoth Aboard The Millennium Falcon In Angry Birds Star Wars"?App Advice?12:03 PM
"Aliens vs Predator Evolution stalks iOS and Android"?TG Daily?12:00 PM
"Fab updates its iOS and Android apps with improved navigation and discovery, plus profiles"?The Next Web?11:58 AM
"Bang with Friends Coming to iPhone"?Tapscape?11:58 AM
"StoryDesk Introduces iPad-to-iPad Presentation Sharing"?Business Wire?10:13 AM
"Mextures: Free Textures To Grungify Your iPhoneography"?Cult of Mac?8:55 AM
"'500px' Is Back In The App Store"?RazorianFly?8:15 AM
"Minecraft for iOS is Updated With New Features"?iClarified?9:35 AM
"Minecraft - Pocket Edition 0.6.0 Brings Baby Animals, Fancy Clouds And More"?App Advice?8:12 AM
"Jumpin Jackabee, A Gas Gas Gas"?App Advice?8:12 AM
"Google Earth on desktop, Android, and iOS updated with 100,000+ new tours of popular sites, cities, and places"?The Next Web?7:56 AM
"Professional VSD Viewer for iPad/iPhone Released"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Recosoft - Macworld/iWorld 2013 Exhibit and PDF2Office Specials"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Here Comes the Sun(s) with DrakeEQ on the iPhone"?prMac?7:24 AM
"DrakeEQ HD on the iPad Answers the Question: Are We Alone?"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Vector Victor 1.0 for iPad: 3D Math App Takes Mystery Out of Vectors"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Learn with Jacob - Hamburger vs. Carrot - iPad App for Kids"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Harold and Cow Sidecar Bike Race: The Great Escape 1.0 released for iOS"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Former Star Wars Pirate Has Left the Dark Side for the App Store"?prMac?7:24 AM
"Dailybook (Journal/Diary) 3.0 for iOS - Save Text, Photos, Audio in Book"?prMac?7:23 AM
"Create romantic, artistic valentines - with no drawing skills required"?prMac?7:23 AM
"Balloon Adventures 1.0 now available on App Store"?prMac?7:23 AM
Further investigations into building a ?12bn underground nuclear waste store in Cumbria have been rejected.
Cumbria County Council vetoed a move to "Stage 4" of the search for a site for the radioactive waste facility.
The stage included detailed geological investigations and discussions over the social and economic implications.
There were huge cheers from environmental campaigners outside the council chamber in Carlisle when the decision was announced.
The council voted seven to three against continuing with the plans.
'Truly represented communities'
Its decision ruled out Allerdale Borough Council's own vote on the issue, whilst Copeland Borough Council had voted in favour.
At the meeting, Cumbria council leader Eddie Martin said it was the "most courageous and pivotal decision" the council could make.
Dr Ruth Balogh, nuclear issues campaigner for West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth, said she was "absolutely delighted".
"Our representatives have truly represented the communities of west Cumbria and voted against this option," she said.
"The problems of nuclear waste and where to put it is a UK problem and should not be pushed onto the people of Cumbria."
Earlier, leaders of Copeland borough councillors voted six to one in favour of moving to the next stage, however Cumbria County Council had to agree too.
On Jan. 31, Deborah Ford will retire from the U.S. Postal Service after 44 years without using any of her sick days.
Though her colleagues and the local media, including the Detroit Free Press, applaud her level of commitment, Ford, 64, doesn't see what the big deal is.
Born and raised in Detroit, Ford will be retiring from her job in payroll and timekeeping management for the city's main post office.
"I was trying to do the best I could, and that just evolved into working all my scheduled days," Ford said.
Ford said when she was sick, she would simply "shake it off." For appointments, say, with the doctor, she would use vacation days.
"It's going to be tough to replace her - not only her attendance but her knowledge of the years she has done timekeeping," said Tony Carnagie, a financial programs compliance manager, who has worked with Ford for more than 15 years.
Most of Ford's co-workers knew about her track record, when the USPS awarded her for 30 years of service.
Ford said her father, who is 86 years old and never took a sick days in 30 years, also doesn't see what the fuss is about.
"It's just part of our work ethic," she said.
Ford said she is looking forward to retirement but doesn't have any specific plans, besides spending more time with her father.
"I'll rest up and see where life takes me. Do some volunteer work, take some enrichment classes - the usual stuff," she said.
For now, she is training someone to do her job, which she says, she won't particularly miss.
"You don't miss the brick and mortar," she said. "I'll miss the people, the lives you touched and the lives that touched your life."
Not taking a sick day won't be for naught.
Ford has a sick-leave balance of 4,508 hours, which will allow her a 5 percent increase in her pension.
Some people quit whatever they?re doing to plunge headfirst into a new career.
As glamorous as it sounds to chuck everything for a new passion, it?s not practical. You need money to bankroll going back to school, start a business or make ends meet while working an entry-level job to switch a completely different profession. What if you decide that other industry isn?t for you? Back to square one.?Instead, employment experts suggest taking a career change for a test spin before committing to it 100 percent.
There are different ways to try before you buy. Volunteer or work pro bono to see if something?s the right fit. Work on a startup after hours until you?re earning enough to make it a full-time gig. Get the training and connections you need to start over by going back to school part?time.
?Trying something out first is important before investing in a whole new education,? says Paula Gregorowicz, a Philadelphia career coach who counsels small and women-owned businesses.
Here are the stories of three people who inched their way into a career change:
Back to (fashion) school In her former job as a business consultant, Yasha Stelzner dressed for success. In the one she?s working toward, she aspires to help the fashion designers who create what she wears.
Stelzner, 38, already had an undergraduate degree and MBA when she went back to school to land a fashion-industry job. It was the quickest way to figure out which aspect of the business to focus on, and to get internships and connections that could lead to a job, Stelzner says. ?Not working in the industry, you?re just isolated from it,? she says. ?You don?t know who to talk to, the resources, it?s really hard. You could probably do it, but this just makes it easier, to embed yourself into the community.?
The San Francisco resident started attending classes at the city?s Academy of Art University in early 2011 while working part time in her old job. After taking a clothing construction course, she realized she could blend her business background and passion for fashion in a job as a product developer. People in those behind-the-scenes positions turn a designer?s sketches into patterns, fabrics and notions for a factory to produce the garments at a desired price.
School led to the industry connections and internships Stelzner hoped for. She?ll finish her masters of fine arts at the end of 2013, but already has picked up a few clients. She anticipates her first job will pay about what she was previously making, with the potential to make even more.
Her advice for going back to school for a career change: ?Don?t worry so much about the grade but what you need to learn, and keep your focus on that.?
A five-year transition Moonlighting in a new job while working in an old one is one way to ease into a transition, but it can years.
Tony Magee?s journey from salesman to microbrewery owner took five years. Today, the 52-year-old is well-known in beer circles as the owner of Marin County, Calif.-based Lagunitas Brewing Co., which makes tasty brews like Dogtown Pale Ale and Cappuccino Stout. Before that, Magee was a sales rep for a Bay Area commercial printing company, and before that, a musician.
The beer bug bit after Magee got a homebrew kit for Christmas, tried it and was so enthralled, he decided to start a brewery. But even after some early successes, he didn?t quit his day job. ?I would get up at 3 a.m. and by 3:45 I was sitting in front of a Mac at Kinko?s working on labels and pamphlets,? he says. ?I?d go to the brewery until 9 when my printing customers started showing up, and then I?d start that job.?
A long span from one career to another can take a toll. While Magee worked two jobs, the 100-hour work weeks almost ended his marriage. After a few years, his wife joined him at the brewery, which helped. Now she runs the company?s plant, logistics and hiring. ?The life that it represents helped keep us together, and that?s a good thing,? he says.
Two decades after he started, Lagunitas has grown to 200 employees and sells beer in 38 states. Magee is getting ready to open a second brewery in Chicago to expand even more.
To people contemplating a career change, Magee suggests working hard and having faith in yourself that things will be OK. ?Every lesson you learned in life will apply to everything else,? he says.
Doing the homework You won?t know for sure what a new career is like until you research it.?
Anne Fleming routinely did research and product development as the senior marketing director for a Pittsburgh decorative lighting company, so before deciding to jump to a new career as a small-business owner, she spent two years investigating it.?
Fleming?s experience buying a car got her interested in creating a website where women could share their own stories about purchasing an?auto, reviews that?other women could then?use to become better negotiators. As part of her research, Fleming wrote a marketing plan, got help from the University of Pittsburgh?s small-business development center, hired a marketing firm and in 2008 launched the website, Women-Drivers.com.
She worked on the site in her spare time until 2009, when the lighting company was acquired and laid off 31 of 36 employees, including her. Fleming used her severance, along with money from selling her house, to focus full time on the site.
From 2009 to 2011, Fleming built up the business by doing more research: using data from visitors to the site to write reports on women and cars, which led to more exposure inside the industry.
For the past year, Fleming has again worked two jobs, splitting her days between the website -- which she says is doing well enough to no longer need her 24/7, seven days a week --?and working as the marketing director for a local emergency-alert system franchise.
Besides doing research, those contemplating a career switch should line up a team of supporters, she says. ?Have advisers who aren?t your BFF or your family. They?re objective stakeholders and they?re there for you and will give you feedback whether you like it or not,? she says.
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David Cameron: "It's vital for Britain if we're going to succeed in the global race"
Details of the next phase of the ?32bn HS2 high-speed rail network have been unveiled by the government.
The preferred route of phase two goes north from Birmingham along two branches, with new stations at Toton near Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester and Manchester Airport.
Prime Minister David Cameron said there were particular benefits to linking the UK's major cities with high-speed rail.
Phase one's London-Birmingham link has faced considerable opposition.
Critics argue that HS2's predicted economic benefits have been overestimated by the government, and suggest swathes of picturesque countryside will be blighted by the railway.
Chancellor George Osborne's Tatton constituency in Cheshire is among the places phase two will pass through.
But he said: "If our predecessors hadn't decided to build the railways in the Victorian times, or the motorways in the middle part of the 20th Century, then we wouldn't have those things today.
"You have got to commit to these projects even though they take many years."
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Analysis
Seven months is ever such a long time in politics.
Last summer there were rumours that HS2 was about to be quietly ditched. A Tory minister told a magazine that the project was "effectively dead" because George Osborne was going cold on the whole idea. Although, he denied that at the time.
Today, George Osborne will be all over your telly telling you HS2 is going to transform the economy, heal the north-south divide and help set us on the fast-track back to growth and prosperity.
This "dead" project is now back at the heart of the government's growth agenda; in a bid to convince voters that there is an ambitious plan to help rebalance and boost our sickly economy.
But there are still plenty of critics who claim the government's economic case for building a super-fast train line simply doesn't stack up. And that there are far better ways of spending ?33bn to stimulate growth.
The Department for Transport said that HS2 phase two would virtually halve journey times between Birmingham and Manchester - to 41 minutes - and between London and Manchester from two hours and eight minutes to one hour and eight minutes.
Speeds of up to 250mph on HS2 will also reduce a Birmingham to Leeds journey from two hours to 57 minutes, while phase one will cut London-Birmingham travel to 49 minutes, from the current one hour and 24 minutes.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "It's not just about journey times, it is also about capacity.
"We are finding the railways are overcrowded. We've seen massive growth in rail passenger numbers, so this is taking HS2 so it serves the north."
Mr McLoughlin told MPs a period of informal consultation on the exact route would start immediately and inform an official public consultation later this year, with a firm decision reached in 2014.
A proposed spur to Heathrow Airport has been put on hold pending a review of UK aviation policy, due to report in 2015.
'Fundamentally flawed'
More than 70 groups oppose HS2. StopHS2 argues the project is "fundamentally flawed", saying the majority of journeys will be to London so England's North and Midlands will lose out rather than benefit, and that projections do not take into account competition from conventional rail.
Andrew Bridgen MP: "I have no confidence in their consultation process"
StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said: "Fifty-five percent of the economic benefits are based on the cash value of time, no-one works on trains and every business user is worth ?70,000 a year - it's basically a train for the rich that everyone else is not only going to have to pay for the construction of but also have to subsidise throughout its lifetime as well."
Other opponents object on the grounds that HS2 will cut through picturesque countryside, and 18 councils along the route have said taxpayers cannot afford the line, and that it will increase greenhouse gas emissions.
The phase two announcement was welcomed by officials in northern English cities including Leeds, where city council leader Keith Wakefield said: "It will strengthen Leeds' position as the northern transport hub, and unlock major investment, jobs opportunities and connectivity to the rest of the country."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: "We can't keep turning a blind eye to the north-south divide in our economy. That is what this high-speed project is all about."
Construction on the Y-shaped extension could start in the middle of the next decade, with the line open by 2032-33.
While new stations will be built at Manchester Airport, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Toton, high-speed trains will also stop at Crewe's existing station on their way to Preston and Liverpool.
They will also be able to continue to Runcorn, Wigan, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Construction of the London-West Midlands route is expected to begin around 2017, once Parliament has approved the necessary powers, probably in 2015.
The Toton station along phase two of the route will primarily serve Derby and Nottingham, while the Sheffield station will be sited at the Meadowhall shopping centre five miles from the city centre.
'Timetable slipping'
Labour's shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: "I think it's tremendously important that we link our airports to our cities, not some station in the middle of nowhere near a city and bypass our main hub airports.
"So I think there are questions to be asked and we will be asking them, but overall this is a good thing for the country and we need to get on and give certainty."
She previously highlighted "worrying signs that the Department for Transport's timetable to deliver this vital infrastructure is slipping".
Details have also been published of the consultation on HS2 Ltd's proposed exceptional hardship scheme for phase two, which will cover compensation to affected property-owners.
Jan. 28, 2013 ? The number of people in England adding salt to food at the table fell by more than a quarter in the five years following a national campaign, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
In 2003, the UK Food Standards Agency and the Department of Health launched a national salt reduction campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of salt on health and to work with the food industry to reduce the amount of salt in processed foods.
Although previous research found that the national campaign led to an overall reduction in salt intake, this is the first study to look directly at the effect it had on the amount of salt people add to their food at the table.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine looked at salt intake from 1997-2007 in large nationally-representative samples of more than 6,000 adults living in England. They found that since the campaign launched in 2003, the proportion of people reporting that they add salt at the table dropped from 32.5% to 23.2% in the following five years.
Lead author Jennifer Sutherland from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Salt use at the table accounts for 15-20% of total salt intake. Our study shows that from 1997-2007 there was a steady decline in salt use at the table, but this reduction was greater after the introduction of the salt reduction campaign in 2003."
Researchers also found differences in the amount of salt added at the table by different population groups. Women were less likely to add salt at the table, as were those from younger age groups, non-white ethnic groups, higher income households and people living in central or south England.
Co-author Dr Alan Dangour, a nutritionist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said: "These findings indicate a need to tailor future salt reduction efforts to specific target groups. More work is needed as a quarter of adults still add salt at the table and salt intake levels in the UK remain well above the recommended amount of 6g per day. Eating too much salt can lead to raised blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke."
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"Down, down Morsi, down down the regime that killed and tortured us!" people in Port Said chanted as the coffins of those killed on Saturday were carried through the streets.
In a televised address, Morsi said a nightly curfew would be introduced in Port Said, Ismailia and Suez, starting Monday evening. He also called for dialogue with top politicians. About 200 people protested in Ismailia after the announcement.
"The protection of the nation is the responsibility of everyone. We will confront any threat to its security with force and firmness within the remit of the law," the president said, adding that he offered condolences to families of the victims of those who died in the cities.
In Cairo the newly appointed interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim was ejected from the funeral of one of the police officers who died during Saturday's clashes in Port Said, according to witnesses and police sources.
A police officer at the funeral said many of his colleagues blame the interior minister on the deaths of at least two policemen during Saturday's clashes as he did not allow the police there to carry weapons and were only given teargas bombs.
State television said seven people died from gunshot wounds on Sunday. Port Said's head of hospitals, Abdel Rahman Farag, told Reuters more than 400 people had suffered from teargas inhalation, while 38 were wounded by gunshots.
Gunshots had killed many of the 33 who died on Saturday when residents went on the rampage after a court sentenced 21 people, mostly from the Mediterranean port, to death for their role in deadly soccer violence at a stadium there last year.
A military source said many people in Port Said, which lies next to the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula, possess guns because they do not trust the authorities to protect them. However it was not clear who was behind the deaths and injuries.
In Cairo, police fired teargas at dozens at protesters throwing stones and petrol bombs in a fourth day of clashes over what demonstrators there and in other cities say is a power grab by Islamists two years after Hosni Mubarak was overthrown.
In Ismaila city, which lies on the Suez Canal between the cities of Suez and Port Said, police also fired teargas at protesters attacking a police station with petrol bombs and stones, according to witnesses and a security source there.
The protesters accuse Morsi, elected in June with the support of his Muslim Brotherhood group, of betraying the democratic goals of the revolution. Most of the deaths since Thursday were in Port Said and Suez, both cities where the army has now been deployed.
The violence adds to the daunting task facing Morsi as he tries to fix a beleaguered economy and cool tempers before a parliamentary election expected in the next few months which is supposed to cement Egypt's transition to democracy.
Deep rift It has exposed a deep rift in the nation. Liberals and other opponents accuse Morsi of failing to deliver on economic promises and say he has not lived up to pledges to represent all Egyptians. His backers say the opposition is seeking to topple Egypt's first freely elected leader by undemocratic means.
Heba Morayef of Human Rights Watch in Cairo said a state of emergency reintroduced laws that gave police sweeping powers of arrest "purely because (people) look suspicious".
"It is a classic knee jerk reaction to think the emergency law will help bring security," she said. "It gives so much discretion to the Ministry of Interior that it ends up causing more abuse which in turn causes more anger."
The opposition Popular Current and other groups have called for more protests on Monday to mark what was one of the bloodiest days of the 2011 uprising.
On a bridge close to Tahrir Square, youths hurled stones at police in riot gear who fired teargas to push them back towards the square, the cauldron of the uprising that erupted on January 25, 2011 and toppled Mubarak 18 days later.?
"None of the revolution's goals have been realized," said Mohamed Sami, a protester in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday.
"Prices are going up. The blood of Egyptians is being spilt in the streets because of neglect and corruption and because the Muslim Brotherhood is ruling Egypt for their own interests."
Clashes also erupted in other streets near the square. The U.S. and British embassies, both close to Tahrir, said they were closed for public business on Sunday, normally a working day.
The army, Egypt's interim ruler until Morsi's election, was sent back onto the streets to restore order in Port Said and Suez, which both lie on the Suez canal. In Suez, at least eight people were killed in clashes with police.
Many ordinary Egyptians are frustrated by the violence that have hurt the economy and their livelihoods.
"They are not revolutionaries protesting," said taxi driver Kamal Hassan, 30, referring to those gathered in Tahrir. "They are thugs destroying the country."
Call for dialogue The National Defence Council, headed by Morsi, called on Saturday for national dialogue to discuss political differences.
That offer has been cautiously welcomed by the opposition National Salvation Front. But the coalition has demanded a clear agenda and guarantees that any agreements will be implemented.
The Front, formed late last year when Morsi provoked protests and violence by expanding his powers and driving through an Islamist-tinged constitution, has threatened to boycott the parliamentary poll and call for more protests if its demands are not met, including for an early presidential vote.
Egypt's transition has been blighted from the outset by political rows and turbulence on the streets that have driven investors out and kept many tourists away. Its currency, the pound, has steadily weakened against the dollar.
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