'Ban the box': a major milepost on a long road | MinnPost

'Ban the box': a major milepost on a long road | MinnPost

"a run-up in housing prices that is artificial, fueled by speculation from Wall Street investors,..."

“a run-up in housing prices that is artificial, fueled by speculation from Wall Street investors, setting up the affected regions for yet another crash.”

- Will Rising Mortgage Rates Put an End to the Housing Recovery? -

How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? - Jean Twenge - The Atlantic

How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? - Jean Twenge - The Atlantic:

A very good, evidence-based analysis of how long a woman can wait - biologically - to have children. 

It might be worth pointing out that raising children requires a lot of physical and emotional stamina, and that those things also decline with age. 

It may be possible to conceive children at 40, but how will you feel about still raising them in your late 50s?

Monopolistic Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Try to Crush Credit Unions as Competition by Removing Tax Exemption

Monopolistic Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Try to Crush Credit Unions as Competition by Removing Tax Exemption

Workaround for Disk Utility "Unable to write to the last block of the device"

I got a new Mushkin solid state disk (SSD) for my 2011-era Macbook Pro running OS X 10.7.5 and when I went to format the thing, Disk Utility kept returning: “Unable to write to the last block of the device".

I got the same error when I booted up in recovery mode (holding Option and then picking the Recovery HD). 

However, when I put the SSD in a USB enclosure and connected it to a 2007-era Macbook (running the exact same version of the OS, however), Disk Utility worked just fine.  I was able to format the disk, partition it (for a Recovery partition) and then use Carbon Copy Cloner back in the Macbook Pro to clone over my existing hard drive. 

So if anyone else out there runs into this problem, find yourself an old Macbook?  Not a great solution, but it’s out there.