Lexus Group Consultancy in Tokyo, Japan: 5 Big Retirement Money Mistakes to Avoid

It’s never too late to start getting smart about money. Maybe you’ve made it this far with few problems … you’ve done pretty well all alone just by winging it. Good for you. But retirement planning isn’t about the past 30 years of your life — it’s about the next 30. And that’s harder. There are decisions you can’t undo, and mistakes are tougher to recover from when you don’t have a paycheck to back you up

The Limits of Rational Belief Revision: A Dilemma for the Darwinian Debunker

We are fallible creatures, prone to making all sorts of mistakes. So, we should be open to evidence of error. But what constitutes such evidence? And what is it to rationally accommodate it? I approach these questions by considering an evolutionary debunking argument according to which (a) we have good, scientific, reason to think our moral beliefs are mistaken, and (b) rationally accommodating this requires revising our confidence in, or altogether abandoning the suspect beliefs. I present a dilemma for such debunkers, which shows that either we have no reason to worry about our moral beliefs, or we do but we can self-correct. Either way, moral skepticism doesn’t follow. That the evolutionary debunking argument fails is important; also important, however, is what its failure reveals about rational belief revision. Specifically, it suggests that getting evidence of error is a non-trivial endeavor and that we cannot learn that we are likely to be mistaken about some matter from a neutral stance on that matter

Letter Written by Katherine Trickey to Her Folks Dated November 13, 1945

[Transcription begins] 13 Nov – 1945 Dear Mother & Dad, I guess I’ve slipped on writing again! Can’t even remember when I wrote last! – Nothing particularly exciting here yet – same old grind. I rather expect that orders will come in on some of the girls this week which will be the beginning of the end of the Detachment. You know, for all I’m anxious to get home, I still feel sad about leaving. – It looks now as if I would not get held here except until a quota comes through from Separation Center. I have a replacement to train this week and there is a lieutenant who is doing all the storage of the records – so Saturday I’ll submit my letter requesting discharge and then it will be a matter of from one to three weeks before there is an opening in the Separation Center. – So It won’t be long now really. Marj is not getting out when I do so I shall visit Phil a day or two and go to Washington for a day or two – I want to look around New York in the day time before I come home. I may stay in Boston overnight & see Frank & family & Edith – but I’ll see about that later. Probably when the time comes I’ll not want to waste the time getting home. – Maybe I’ll come home first – and you & I Mother can go back to Boston for a short trip together. I’ll be sending Boxes & Bags home from now on – I don’t know where you’ll put all the junk I’ve collected. You’d better open each as it comes as I may have things you can use in them – Love Kay [Transcription end

Determinants of quality, latency, and amount of Stack Overflow answers about recent Android APIs.

Stack Overflow is a popular crowdsourced question and answer website for programming-related issues. It is an invaluable resource for software developers; on average, questions posted there get answered in minutes to an hour. Questions about well established topics, e.g., the coercion operator in C++, or the difference between canonical and class names in Java, get asked often in one form or another, and answered very quickly. On the other hand, questions on previously unseen or niche topics take a while to get a good answer. This is particularly the case with questions about current updates to or the introduction of new application programming interfaces (APIs). In a hyper-competitive online market, getting good answers to current programming questions sooner could increase the chances of an app getting released and used. So, can developers anyhow, e.g., hasten the speed to good answers to questions about new APIs? Here, we empirically study Stack Overflow questions pertaining to new Android APIs and their associated answers. We contrast the interest in these questions, their answer quality, and timeliness of their answers to questions about old APIs. We find that Stack Overflow answerers in general prioritize with respect to currentness: questions about new APIs do get more answers, but good quality answers take longer. We also find that incentives in terms of question bounties, if used appropriately, can significantly shorten the time and increase answer quality. Interestingly, no operationalization of bounty amount shows significance in our models. In practice, our findings confirm the value of bounties in enhancing expert participation. In addition, they show that the Stack Overflow style of crowdsourcing, for all its glory in providing answers about established programming knowledge, is less effective with new API questions

Nurturing enterprise in work-based learning

Laura wrote a Chapter called Nurturing Enterprise in Work Based Learning – this work brings together case studies and research that she has conducted into Work Based Learning and packages it for a wider audience, with a specific aim of informing placement providers. “To any graduate seeking employment, it is not just about getting a job, it’s being employable throughout life, something that is so important in the film and television industry because of the very nature of the work, with its ever-changing technologies, funding and patterns of work (for example, the growing use of freelances instead of employing staff). Learning the skills is all very well, but they need to be transferred effectively back into the workplace; this is why enterprise is becoming ever more important as a tangible skill and why it is important that it remains a fundamental principle of higher education.

Early Fieldwork at the Beijing Farmers’ Market

Now that I’ve passed tenure review, published a book, cemented my teaching skills, and learned how to be a productive member of a college committee, I feel confident, self-assured, and filled with certainty about every aspect of my career as a professor. The same certainty extends to research and fieldwork. From choosing a topic to developing research questions to getting a good start in the field—it’s all a piece of cake. Ha! I wish I felt this confidence. The truth is that passing the tenure phase two years ago, as wonderful as it was, opened up a whole new set of questions: Who am I as a scholar? What truly interests me now? What kinds of fieldwork am I able and willing to pursue at this point in my life? (excerpt

Letter Written by Katherine Trickey to Her Folks Dated February 4, 1944

Dear Folks, WAC Det IRTC Camp Wheeler, Georgia 4 Feb 1944 (Friday) I did receive your nice package as I mentioned in my last letter. The was[h] cloths are OK and I have plenty now. The presser cloths are fine. I pressed my skirt last night and for the first time felt satisfied with the way it came out. I have been using one of the commercial treated press cloths. But a good old fashioned rag works better! I took three shirts in to be done up at a laundry in town last Saturday and they said they would be ready last night, so Crockett and I went to town after them. No luck, they weren\u27t done after all so I had to come home and iron me a shirt after all. I shall have to go in again Saturday night now. We ate at the Candlelight again and enjoyed it as much as before . There is not much news this week. I\u27ve stayed in nearly every night just doing odd jobs, washing, writing letters, etc . My corporal is still here on the job with me so I don\u27t have all the work to do; in fact, he does the daily work and I am getting acquainted with the back papers so as to know where to find them when he leaves. I have made some indexes and am checking the set of Army regulations which haven\u27t been fully posted, as they should have been. My boss here is Lt.Poslik. He is an older man who has been in the army quite some time. He has been a master sergeant before going to Officer School. He was stationed in Ireland until last year when they sent him back to this country to attend Officer Candidate School. He is very nice, and it is going to be nice working for him I think. He said yesterday he would arrange it so that I didn\u27t have K .P. anymore. That makes him very very nice! I should like to see Bobby walk even those few steps which you say he takes. He msut[must] be getting cuter every day. I did get the income tax things and am going to have to pay about 60 dollars I think. Has Dad got the Registration Blanks for the Car yet. I have to sign them so he\u27d better get them down to me . It is too cold to type anymore.The furnace here at the office went on the bum yeasterday (sic) and it is really cold here this morning. By the way did I tell you that the last two or three weeks have been so warm here that the grass has started to turn green and the bushes have budded and I saw some violets blossomed the other day. However the natives say that this is unsesonable weather and they are worried for fear it will harm the bushes .etc . It is getting colder again this week. Love . Ka