Category: Parenting
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Turning Point for Success
“I found every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.”…
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This is what you shall do
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to…
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Lock and load alarm clock appropriate for back to school?
I happen to know some students who would appreciate this “lock and load alarm clock” advertised in Cabella’s back to school flyer.
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How to write good
How to write good By Frank Visco Avoid Alliteration. Always. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.) Employ the vernacular. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. Contractions aren’t necessary. Foreign words and…
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A review of Section 529 Qualified Tuition Plans for 2012
I was rusty on Section 529 Qualified Tuition Plans so these research notes were gathered to help answer questions. Most of what I know was written more than 10 years ago prior to the much publicized 2010 review of these plans by the Department of Treasury. The IRS Web site addresses most questions. A few…
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Temple University Fox School Of Business named one of eight on the rise nationally by U.S. News
The Temple University Fox School of Business was recently recognized as one of eight Business Schools on the Rise by U.S. News & World Report because of the school’s continued ascent in rankings. As an alumni of Fox Business School and the step-parent of a current Fox student, I am certainly pleased by the news. We chose Temple…
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In memory of alums who made the ultimate sacrifice
Last Friday afternoon I visited the campus of Delaware Valley College, my alma mater, in Doylestown Pennsylvania. I happened, by chance, to spend a few quiet minutes reflecting at the veteran’s memorial outside Allman Building while strolling the quiet campus. As a freshman at DVC 34 years ago I walked by this memorial every day. I was aware that the…
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“Virus of the mind” – margin notes
This book was published in 1996 by Richard Brodie, the original author credited with publishing Microsoft Word. Although I may be reading it 15 years late, it seems that some of the concepts are more relevant today than when the work was published. These are unformatted margin notes from my reading, published here in my customary…
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A short reflection on accepting change
Robert Frost wrote: “When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. I suffered like a metal being cast. I went to school to age to learn the past. Now I am old my teachers are the young. What can’t be molded must be cracked…
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Less than half of us believe in the American dream
Americans increasingly see tension between rich and poor. A sharp change in American attitudes is summarized in this report: A new Pew Research Center survey of 2,048 adults finds that about two-thirds of the public (66%) believes there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the rich and the poor—an increase of 19 percentage points since 2009.…