Monday, December 9, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
The Challenge of Aging
"Choose one of the following topics to write a post about...'
I chose to do:
"Do you have a Will?
Why is it important to make a will?
What is a living will?
What information is available online to help your classmates create a will?
Write this post to inform your readers why a Will is important and what resources are available to them."
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"Do you have a Will?"
When my husband and I were first married we didn't have a Will. We didn't really see the immediate need for one. It was just the two of us, we had just moved from San Diego, CA to Bremerton, WA. We lived on a military base, drove safely, didn't drink a lot or do drugs, had no major health issues, and neither of us had really experienced any MAJOR event that would make us push to do a Will immediately. Sure, we talked about doing one. But it was casual conversation - "Is there anything that you'd like to have go to a certain person after you die?" That kind of thing.
We didn't get serious about making a Will until after our 2nd child was born and we bought a house. Then we knew it was time to make a plan. Not for us, but for our KIDS. We didn't want them to get "caught in the crossfire" of the aftermath of our passing. We had seen that happen before with other family members and friends. People don't think straight after losing a loved one. Greed, fear, grief - all of these things cloud a persons mind and then they aren't able to see what really needs to be done. We wanted to make sure that our children (or significant other) were taken care of.
"Why is it important to make a Will?"
It's important to make a will so that the people (and things) that you leave behind are taken care of. Everyone should have one but ESPECIALLY people who have children, property, investments, etc. Without a will how are the people you leave behind supposed to know what you wanted done with your assets?
"What is a Living Will?"
A "Living Will" or otherwise known as an "Advance Directive" is a specific Will that is put into place in the event that the person holding the Will can no longer make decisions for themselves.
It can contain information like: a medical directive that states that no extra measures are to be taken in saving said person's life once their heart stops beating (no CPR, no breathing machines, etc).
Another form of a Living Will is one that assigns a Health Proxy or Power of Attorney in the event that the holder can no longer make decisions.
"What information is available online to help your classmates create a Will?"
There are a lot of websites that offer services in helping you make a Will. When we decided to do our will we used a website online. http://www.uslegalforms.com We got BOTH of our Wills through this site. It was very informative and thorough. We paid a little more to have them go over it and draw it up through all the right legal laws and channels. They then send you either a digital copy (or mail you a printed if you want) and then you take it to a Notary and sign it. BAM! You now have a legal Will.
A lot of lawyers will also offer a free consultation in helping you decide which types of Wills and programs are best for you and/or your family.
I chose to do:
"Do you have a Will?
Why is it important to make a will?
What is a living will?
What information is available online to help your classmates create a will?
Write this post to inform your readers why a Will is important and what resources are available to them."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Do you have a Will?"
When my husband and I were first married we didn't have a Will. We didn't really see the immediate need for one. It was just the two of us, we had just moved from San Diego, CA to Bremerton, WA. We lived on a military base, drove safely, didn't drink a lot or do drugs, had no major health issues, and neither of us had really experienced any MAJOR event that would make us push to do a Will immediately. Sure, we talked about doing one. But it was casual conversation - "Is there anything that you'd like to have go to a certain person after you die?" That kind of thing.
We didn't get serious about making a Will until after our 2nd child was born and we bought a house. Then we knew it was time to make a plan. Not for us, but for our KIDS. We didn't want them to get "caught in the crossfire" of the aftermath of our passing. We had seen that happen before with other family members and friends. People don't think straight after losing a loved one. Greed, fear, grief - all of these things cloud a persons mind and then they aren't able to see what really needs to be done. We wanted to make sure that our children (or significant other) were taken care of.
"Why is it important to make a Will?"
It's important to make a will so that the people (and things) that you leave behind are taken care of. Everyone should have one but ESPECIALLY people who have children, property, investments, etc. Without a will how are the people you leave behind supposed to know what you wanted done with your assets?
"What is a Living Will?"
A "Living Will" or otherwise known as an "Advance Directive" is a specific Will that is put into place in the event that the person holding the Will can no longer make decisions for themselves.
It can contain information like: a medical directive that states that no extra measures are to be taken in saving said person's life once their heart stops beating (no CPR, no breathing machines, etc).
Another form of a Living Will is one that assigns a Health Proxy or Power of Attorney in the event that the holder can no longer make decisions.
"What information is available online to help your classmates create a Will?"
There are a lot of websites that offer services in helping you make a Will. When we decided to do our will we used a website online. http://www.uslegalforms.com We got BOTH of our Wills through this site. It was very informative and thorough. We paid a little more to have them go over it and draw it up through all the right legal laws and channels. They then send you either a digital copy (or mail you a printed if you want) and then you take it to a Notary and sign it. BAM! You now have a legal Will.
A lot of lawyers will also offer a free consultation in helping you decide which types of Wills and programs are best for you and/or your family.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The science of sex appeal or the miracle of life...
I watched the videos from:
In a photo test: 8 out of 10 people found the ones with more symmetrical faces to be more attractive.
The human body can recognize the scent of a relative. Evolutionary tactic to avoid mating with a relative.
Women are more choosier about their mate than men.
Women prefer more masculine looking men when they are ovulating and more feminine looking men when they are not. Women are more likely to be prone to promiscuity because of the biological need to find a good mate.
There are certain body shapes that are more attractive to the various sexes. Pictures of different people and body types, are shown to various participants and their eye movements are tracked to see where on the bodies they linger the most.
Do humans mate for life? When your body is designed to "stray", is mating for life a real thing? Humans are special because we form long-term bonds. A "monogamy hormone" called Vasopressin is produced in monogamous animals/people.
A woman's monthly cycle changes the sound of her voice and therefore changes her attractiveness to males.
Men were given a low dose (gas) of 'copulance' while being asked to rate photos of women, the results were pretty interesting - they found almost all the photos, even the notedly unattractive ones to be highly rated.
While searching for your desired partner, you may have to "settle" for someone "in your league".
Men tend to choose women with higher, sweeter voice and Women tend to chose men who have a deeper, stronger voice.
Bodies that have more movement (hip sway) in women and broader shoulders in men tend to be more attractive to the opposite sex.
There are different brain systems for love and for lust. You can lust after someone and not be in love with them and you can be in love with someone and never have had sex with them before.
Testosterone and Dopamine affect the way we go after a mate and how we act when we are with a mate.
Women tend to change their flirtation techniques (subconsciously) when they are in their ovulation cycle. Women who are ovulating and have a steady partner tend to flirt the most and show the most skin.
When a woman is ovulating certain male scents are more attractive than others.
Why do we choose the partner that we do? We tend to de-value ourselves and shoot "too high" in trying to find a mate. We end up settling to someone that is closer to what/who we are.
We walk differently when we know that we are being watched. We tend to "perform" more when we know that someone of the opposite sex is watching us.
Facial recognition software shows us that we tend to not be attracted to people that we are related to. Our brains use both smell and sight to help us avoid mating with people that might give us unhealthy offspring (incest awareness).
Environmental Health Videos
After going to the website listed above there were MORE than "8 short videos" that were posted. So, I just picked the 8 that appealed the most to me:
#1 - "Global Warming 101" talks about how the global temperature has risen over the last century by 1.2-1.4 degrees farenheit. We produce more toxic gasses and use more resources which all traps in the 'greenhouse gasses', which warms the Earth.
#2 - "Garbage Island" talks about an "island" that is in the Pacific ocean that is made up completely of TRASH. The estimate the size of this island to be double the size of Texas. This trash makes it way to this certain area of the ocean by the current patterns that are pulled from ALL over the world. The video talks about how "we are eating our own garbage" - plastic doesn't biodegrade (it only photodegrades, and not completely), smaller animals eat the tiny bits of plastic, larger animals eat those animals and then we eat the larger animals.
#3 - "Story of Stuff" talks about how "stuff moves through a system" - Extraction -> Production -> Distribution -> Consumption -> Disposal - All together these things are called "Materials Economy". It talks about how corporations have basically brainwashed society into believing that we NEED stuff. That, without STUFF we are worthless.
#4 - "The Most Terrifying Video You Will Ever See" - The man in this video shows us a 'chart' using a Punnett Square. Using this technique he shows us how our actions vs. various circumstances will affect our future.
#5 - "Population Growth" - talks about how quickly the world's human population grows and the affect it will have on the environment.
#6 - "The Story of Bottled Water" - talks about the cost involved in bottling water: the waste, the cost, the production, etc. 1/3 of all bottled water that's manufactured in the US is TAP water.
#7 - "The girl who silenced the world in 5 minutes" - is about a 12 year old girl who flys 5,000 miles to speak at a convention. She talks about how we need to help save the planet and conserve our resources to preserve the future for our children and our children's children.
#8 - "Saving Valentina" - is a video about a group of people that were out on a boat doing research on whales when they came across a humpback whale that had been almost fully entangled in a fisherman's net. The great whale was SO entangled (and had been for a long time) that she was exhausted and near death. The crew spent all day cutting the netting away from her and freeing her back into the ocean.
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