Runners approach "Crossroads Outbound" aid station
I have taken up a new sport, of sorts: chasing marathoners. Ultra Marathoners to be exact. Hey, that’s not easy. They are able to run for a long, long time. Continue reading
Making memories: are we doing the best we can, and are we preserving and sharing the memories we make?
[The wasted spending] was just 4 days since canceling our session, already totaling over $200 for un necessary things. My nails only lasted about 2 weeks, my hair is gone, and seven weeks passed when I got the phone call from our doctor. It was not something I expected and the cancer has spread very quickly. I will be leaving my husband, my 6 year old girl and my now 2 year old – not by choice.
Via Fototails Photography, Jeanine Thurston, www.fototails.com (http://fototails.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-letter-on-my-doorstep-portraits-are-more-than-paper/ accessed 3 JAN 2011) Continue reading
Many teenagers have no dream about their future and therefore have no life goals, and the drifting often leads to juvenile delinquency. How do we foster teens’ dreams of a future?
(rejuvenating this posting which earlier appeared on Facebook and a local forum — if reading this on Facebook, please go to the blog to comment).
Zuckerberg introducing Facebook Timeline. Image by Getty Images via @daylife
The critical info about Facebook Timeline: Once you get Facebook Timeline, you’ll have 7 days before anyone else can see it. This gives you a chance to get your timeline looking the way you want before other people see it. That is also a very short period of time to clean things up if you need to. See the official announcement at http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline. Continue reading
Search engine market
What is WordPress search engine optimization? If you are reading this, then you do internet searches. Do you ever wonder why some pages end up closer to the top than others? It is called search engine optimization, SEO for short. There is now an entire industry touting search engine optimization, and willing to either share their secrets or to sell them to you :-). Continue reading
Protest against SB 1070 in Minnesota
Widespread interest exists in the Arizona law known as “S.B. 1070″ which may be about to get to the US Supreme Court. The constitutional question is one of federal implied preemption. Of course, this interest is acute in Texas and the Southwest but I would think that states formerly thinking they were immune from the problems of illegal immigration now realize that it’s everywhere. Otherwise why are there protests in Minneapolis against the law? Continue reading
I love this site. It is chock full of situations we’ve all noticed, if not experienced. You may find a jewel in here that helps you to understand your own behavior or that of people around you. Ever observed Learned Helplessness? Have you been guilty of Learned Helplessness?
Studies of the clinically depressed show that when they fail they often just give in to defeat and stop trying. The average person will look for external forces to blame when they fail the mid-term. They will say the professor is an asshole, or they didn’t get enough sleep. Depressed people will blame themselves and assume they are stupid.
Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn’t count? Yeah, that’s learned helplessness.
via Learned Helplessness « You Are Not So Smart.
Fatherhood independently predicted decreases in crime and substance use. Men who became parents well into their 20s and early 30s exhibited greater reductions than men who had their first child in their teens or early 20s.
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Turns them away from being tough guys? Continue reading
U.S. Rep. John Linder with the 2007 Tax code and complete set of Title 26 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (from Wikipedia)
What? There’s the House and the Senate. Right? In both the state governments and the federal government. How can it be said there is another legislature? Continue reading
Having grown up in a traditional extended family that included many servants of mankind (teachers, doctors, district attorney, preachers and more) and yet lived through the 60′s at the University of Texas and endured the indignation cast upon me and my fellow Viet Nam veterans, I think I know something about Givers versus Takers. Continue reading
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