Tim Wright asked:


When my son was only about three or four years old, he and his sisters were playing a game that involved chasing each other though the house with loud giggles of laugher erupting every few minutes whenever one of them came close to tagging one of their siblings. The giggles were interrupted suddenly by a loud crash followed by a blood-curdling cry of pain.

I jumped to my feet and ran to the living room where the apparent mishap had occurred. My son had come around the corner too fast and had fallen head first into the corner of a table. I quickly picked him up from the floor where he was lying and held him in my arms both to comfort him and to examine the wound. Streams of blood gushed from his forehead.

By the time we reached the emergency room, his tears had subsided a bit, but I was nervously anticipating the slight trauma still ahead of us. After examining my son’s forehead, the doctor confirmed that he would need to stitch the wound in order for it to heal properly. The good news was that the cut would require only one stitch. The bad news was that the doctor planned to do it without any anesthesia.

“We can stick him once or we can stick him twice,” the doctor informed me. I was then told that giving him a shot to anesthetize the area would be just as painful and traumatic as giving him the single stitch. The shot would then have to be followed by a second “stick” to actually stitch up the wound. I reluctantly agreed with the doctor and opted for the single “stick.”

I encouraged my son that he was being a “brave little boy” as the doctors and I gently strapped a restraining device around his tiny body to keep him from thrashing around on the table during the procedure. Inside, I was fighting back tears as he looked at me with frightened, but trusting eyes.

“Keep looking at Daddy,” I encouraged him. “You’re being a very brave little boy.”

His huge eyes remained locked on mine as the doctor gently washed out the cut and prepared to stitch the wound shut.

“Okay, here we go,” the doctor said quietly. “It should be quick.”

“Keep looking at me,” I said, trying to smile and draw his trusting eyes into mine. “Daddy’s right here.”

With precision and swiftness, the doctor quickly stabbed the curved needle into the swollen flesh near the cut on my son’s forehead. My son’s eye’s widened as he gasped in pain. Then in a whimpering voice that carried the sweetness and innocence that only a three year-old can summon, he looked up at me and said, “Please don’t do that again, Daddy.”

My heart broke. How do you explain to your three year-old son that the pain he is experiencing—the pain that, in his mind at least, was caused by me—was inflicted with love, with a desire and design to bring healing?

Oddly enough, that is one of my most precious memories of my son’s early childhood. The procedure was over almost as quickly as it had begun and, after a few hours, my son had returned to giggling with his sisters. (Running in the house, however, was forever banned from that point onward.) His trust and sweet response to the ordeal continues to pierce my heart with love for him.

This episode is also a reminder for me of our heavenly Father’s love and care for us and for those around us who may be experiencing a painful season in life. In my mind’s eye, I can envision God holding us as our Father whenever we’re hurting and telling us to keep our eyes on Him and to trust Him, even if we don’t understand why things are happening to us.

When we’re tempted to blame Him for our pain or to cry out, “Please don’t do that again, Daddy,” we can take comfort in knowing that He is very near to us, that He loves us and to trust that, even though we may not always understand, there is a higher purpose at work in everything that happens to us.

So keep your eyes on Him. Trust Him. He’s holding you and healing you. He will never let you go. Know, too, that giggling—or however you experience joy—will soon be a part of your life again.

Tim Wright, Ph.D.

http://www.godcenteredwealth.com



Tim Wright is a freelance writer and internet entrepreneur living in Virginia.



Benjamin

Eddie Sanmarco asked:


Bigdaddy, Google’s new data centre, isn’t news to most webmasters; both Search Engine Watch and Webmaster World’s forums have discussed the technology since late 2005, and even Google’s own Chief Search Engineer Matt Cutts has blogged the topic extensively. Even the reason behind the naming convention (one of the Google staff’s kids call him Big Daddy at home) is out in the open.

How Bigdaddy will affect page rankings within Google however, still remains to be seen, although there is a lot of speculation floating around the Net. Mr. Cutt’s blog states that the new foundation will improve cannonicalization, which is the computer code that tells a search engine that

www.domain.com

domain.com

domain.com/index.html

www.domain.com/index.html

are all the same web site. It is also reported that the data center will positively impact 302 redirects, which have been a known issue for some time.

What wasn’t anticipated with the update though were the chaotic and oftentimes strange behaviors the search engine has displayed, most notably over the past several months. Although some of Google’s previously-indexed sites dropping off the face of the engine may be associated with their reported lack of server space and others due to Google’s “different datacenters get different data at different times” statement, many of the problems seem surreal, without explanation.

For instance, Webmaster World’s forums have reported large SERPS drops, changes in supplemental result handling, “home page only” results and pages dropping right out of the Bigdaddy index, while the Digital Point forums are asking if Google has cleaned their index and why the supplemental problem is reoccurring.

What little information is available on the subject is only the information that webmasters are providing each other; little explanation is coming from Google themselves right now. Some experts have shown that the supplemental deletions across the data centers have been gradual over the past several months, with the idea that perhaps the supplemental results are being deleted to free up server space. Others have noticed the inclusion of longer URLs with multiple variables, such as database-driven pages (which were not previously indexed), and the product-based sites like BizRate and Amazon generating higher search results than previously found.

Right now, the only “fixes” seem to be either contacting a member of the Google team (most notably posting in Mr. Cutts’ blog), ensuring your website doesn’t fit within the “too similar” Google guideline (as it seems that sites with slightly different page text are doing better than most) or hitting up Google’s site for a re-inclusion request. Without more guidance from Google though, there isn’t much webmasters can actively do at the moment, other than sit back and watch Bigdaddy work out the search engine-retrieval bugs, talk over the situation with other webmasters, and stay as informed on the subject as possible.



Joshua

. asked:


Where can I find a video of Danica Patrick’s crash ?
I was told she crashed Yesturday. Which caused her to wanna walk oever to someones Pit and start something.

Alvin

Christine Steendahl asked:


The rate of childhood obesity is on the rise. Unhealthy habits have led to overweight children having obesity-related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes and elevated blood pressure. These diseases were previously seen only in adults.

Obesity is a threat to the health of children in many ways. Obesity impacts multiple systems of the body including:

* Cardiovascular system

* Pulmonary system

* Gastrointestinal system

* Orthopedic system

Over 12 million children in the United States suffer with childhood obesity. This is an alarming statistic and a frightening one for parents. The incidences of childhood obesity increased 100 percent over the last ten years.

The reasons for obesity are a societal as well as physical. There are two major forces that have created this phenomenon of overweight children in our society.

The first major impact on the weight of our children is the amount of fast food that is eaten on a daily basis. The fast food industry has changed the American diet into a junk food melee that lacks healthful options. Fast food consumption combined with the sedentary lifestyles of kids who play expensive video games rather than

playing outside contributes to the high incident of overweight children.

These activities contribute directly to the causes of obesity in children and to unhealthy parents. Children need at least 90 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Parents need at least 30-45 minutes of exercise.

Children need a nutritious diet for adequate growth and development. Unfortunately, fast food does not provide the nutrients that children need. Healthy eating is almost a lost art for the normal family. Take out menus and fast food has become the normal way to get the family fed. These lifestyle choices lead to obesity, high blood pressure and a myriad of other health issues for not only adults but for our children.

A summary of the basic problems with the eating habits of a nation

are summed up by Eric Schlosser in his book “Fast Food Nation”

“A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants — mainly at fast food restaurants”. A hamburger and french fries is the quintessential American meal … thanks to the promotional efforts of the fast food chains. The typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week.”

These facts reveal the problem. Some ways to correct this problem are in the hands of adults. Some short-terminterim solutions are offered below:

* Focus the family’s diet on healthy foods.

* Encourage an increase in physical activity.

* Have a wide variety of healthy snacks on hand for snacking.

* Prepare a nutritious meal plan for the family.

Parents can take more proactive steps to prevent childhood obesity by preparing and serving nutritious meals at home. Taking the family on a hike or a bike ride after supper is a fun option for the whole family. Let children decide on some activities. Kids can get involved in their own health improvement by making physical activity an after school priority.

The goal is to follow healthy lifestyle suggestions as close as possible. Make baby steps until you can achieve the goal of good eating habits for the whole family.

It is hard to change entrenched bad eating habits. The rules will always get broken some of the time - allow for flexibility. The problems that keep us from doing all the right things is usually lack of time. No one has enough of it.



Kelly

Munish Dev Rathee asked:


Google’s commitment towards creating a healthy search environment has meant that this leading search engine frequently updates and reviews its algorithms to meet challenges. Here is a closer look at the updates made since 2003.

November, 2003. Searching on Google was just not the same anymore. Many pages that had for long been topping the results had disappeared, and it seemed like relevancy which had, in effect, become Google’s middle name, was nowhere to be found. Results were way off the mark, to say the very least.

So what had happened? There are many floating theories about what Google changed in this update known as “Florida”. One possibility was that they had put an SEO filter in place, to identify sites that had done more than the acceptable level of SEO work. The theory did not entirely fit in, because there were sites with no SEO work that had been taken off the list, and many sites that had done considerable amount of SEO work stayed on the list. There were other related theories that suggested that SEO Filter was applied only to a few select search terms, which as it is does not make much sense. Google’s preference for informative pages over commercial pages was also cited as a possible reason.

Yet another probability, and a theory that with no obvious flaws like the aforesaid ones, is that Google has different ways to compile lists for different search terms. And this was what seems to have changed with the Florida update. The obvious question is, what governs the different ways? One sound possibility is that Google employs a system where in a few websites with lots of high quality links on them are taken as reference points. The assumption is that, these pages, and those that they link to can be considered worthy of being on top of the results pages.

The veracity of the theories remains unproved, but the fact is Google was quick to bring out their next update – Austin in 2004.

Austin was released amidst lots of expectation, particularly because many people were hoping that it would rectify the damages that Florida had caused. This new Algorithm was a fusion of the Page Rank algorithm, and another called Hilltop which was created as far back as 1999. There were indications that the latter was incorporated into the Florida update.

And the new search algorithm does seem more reliable, when it comes to identifying and getting rid of websites that indulge in spamming and other unethical practices. And Google has been going all out after such sites in fact, in their attempts to make the search results as relevant as possible.

Unlike in the previous update, which seemed harsh on sites that had got SEO done, the opposite seems to be true with this new update. Recently optimized sites, seem to be doing well on the results page. While optimized sites have seen no change, with this update, the method used to calculate Page Rank seems to have changed. For instance, Google seems to be giving more importance to the thematic relevance of inbound links when calculating the Page Rank of a site. What this means is that if you link within your industry, your PR will improve, but if you happen to have links with sites outside of your industry the PR value will be negatively affected.

Google has always given importance to the relevance of content, and Google’s Hilltop Algorithm is adept at identifying sites that lead the way in terms of quality and value of links, and superior content. Superiority of the content is in terms of its readability i.e. the content must have natural flow and there must not be any unnecessary overuse of keywords. The new algorithm also takes into account the contextual relevance of title tags, and the naturalness

Attempting new techniques, trying fresh algorithms point show Google’s attempts at making the search process more relevant for searchers. Needless to say this is a sort of trial-and-error method, but the heartening fact is that Google is making continuous efforts at making amends for any mistakes made.

And Google’s next update Jagger came as part of these continuous efforts at improving existing algorithms. Jagger was announced in 2005 amidst much speculation that carried on about whether or not there was going to be an update after all. Considering the time lapse between these two updates, it was obvious that a lot was going to change this time around.

Post Jagger update, inbound links were given more importance, because it was becoming obvious that websites were just not being judicious in choosing relevant reciprocal links. Even as inbound links are given more importance, the emphasis on having relevant outbound links remains. With Jagger, once again Google has demonstrated its war against spam sites that negatively affect relevancy, and hamper revenue protection and growth. In particular, Google is doing its best to chase away spam Adsense sites which usually just employ some sort of auto content and link generating services and technologies. CSS Spam is yet another growing area of concern that Google is trying to do something about. The same holds true for the growing menace of Blog spam which has almost coincided with the growth and proliferation of the trend of blogging.

The initial response to Jagger was negative, and it took a few weeks for the true colors of Google’s efforts to manifest. And the process of finding ways to evaluate website content better which Jagger began culminated in the next Google update called Big Daddy in 2006. This last update has been different from the others mentioned so far. Unlike the previous updates, Big Daddy was a change at an infrastructural level in terms of the way crawling and indexing of websites is done. And it is very important to not that the Big Daddy update does more than just change the algorithm of Google.

Amongst the various changes affected by this update, the one dealing with links is crucial. Post this update, the links going in and out of the website would be used to figure out how many of the pages in the website would be included in the index. In other words, a site must have a good number of trustworthy links into and out of the site in order to have all its pages indexed. Many or even all of the pages will be removed for those sites that don’t score very well on this count, but had all their pages indexed before the update. This also means that reciprocal and off-topic links will stop to matter as much as they did earlier.

With this change in the style of indexing, Google has made it possible to index more websites, even if it can’t ensure that ever page of every site will be covered. At the end of the day, from a user perspective they get more number of relevant results, which makes the search a lot more comprehensive.

Big Daddy also attempted to tackle the problem of redirects. The instruction for webmasters is to use the 301 redirect which tells Google the page or a site has been permanently moved. Leaving the content available on two different locations is as unacceptable as dropping one page and replacing it with the other. The use of 301 or 302 redirects shows that a certain level of consistency, and of course commitment.

The introduction of the supplemental index is yet another addition which has attracted much attention. This additional index is meant for sites that Google considers not worthy of its main index. There are many reasons why a site may be sent to this secondary index, but the result would be that when a searcher types in a general search term it will be almost certain that he/she will not be directed to your website.

Big Daddy, it is said, will also take care of the problem of canonicalization which occurred because search engines saw a single site with two different domain names as two different sites. Post the Big Daddy update, the problem of duplicate content will no longer exist.

In conclusion, it must be said that through all the updates from Google one thing never changes – their core agenda. Creating a search environment that addresses first and foremost the needs of the end-user. Every one of the updates mentioned, and by the looks of it, one can safely say that every update that will come in the times ahead, will work to carry out this agenda.



Brandon

Rudy L asked:


When Danica won the race in Japan on fuel mileage, many people and drivers said she didn’t competitively win the race, so do you think these same people will step up and say the same thing about Jr? Also , isn’t it interesting that HMS can’t win a race this year unless it is on fuel mileage?

Ricardo

Bryan T asked:


Sugar daddy dating has been a sensation Internet super-trend since last 3 years. It has came as an alarm to the superior and more well known dating sites. The modification comes as the financial system continues to get worse, and singles are beneath added stress to uphold financial stability. With the irrefutable seriousness of the present financial state of affairs saturating the thoughts of nearly all Americans.

Sugar daddies are no longer the out of date pigeonhole they used to be. It turns out; the “neo-sugar daddy” is a much more stylish personality than the out-dated Hollywood model of yesteryear. Most of the men who use sugar daddy dating sites are under 60, too demanding to uphold a customary relationship, and looking for to ruin an often younger, beautiful woman in return for shared profit.

According to a website representative, the occasion was planned to get all of the sugar daddies and sugar babies from the site, and off the site, under one roof. It will be thrown at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in early December. So, plenty of Holiday merriment can be anticipated to melt in with all the sweet fun. The combine of people will comprise those from every country, and of every style, age and size. But one thing’s for sure; no-strings-attached excitement will be the one and only aim for this party.

Sugar babies have long expected for an easier method to place a meeting with a prospective sugar daddy. Bearing in mind how unlike this style of dating would be to a young girl who has by no means even dated a man more than 1 or 2 years older than her. It comes as no astonish that many of them somewhat meet a sugar daddy in an open place, yet still personal setting.

Sugar daddies have experienced the similar minor irritations when trying to make a deal with a potential sugar baby not being able to have the same opinion on a place, not knowing if she’ll really show up, and feeling a bit uncomfortable due to the fact that she feels edgy about meeting an older man. The planned occasion hopes to put all of these sugar daddy & sugar baby doubts to rest, while providing very tactful surroundings for them to get together for real.

VIP sugar daddies will be treated to their personal luxury suites; kept for whatever reason they so decide to accomplish. Bottle service, gourmet eats and abundance of hot entertainment can be predictable at this really one of a kind concern.



Corey