http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/ Marriage, birth, divorce, transitions, widowed, career, retirement, transitions, death, moving, rules of life, aging, caregiving, life events, life changes en-us jillfallon@gmail.com Jill Fallon Copyright 2010 Jill Fallon 2010-03-19T10:31:01-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/19/bad_credit_dera.html If you're looking for a job, you have to realize that More Employers Are Conducting Credit Checks on Job Applicants. Companies typically look back over a period of years for patterns in applicants' behavior, says Mike Aitken, the professional... Jill Fallon Career 2010-03-19T10:31:01-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/19/omega_males.html You've heard of alpha males and beta males, but omega males? Jessica Grose examines men who have trouble being a man -"they're unemployed, romantically challenges and they're everywhere". Omega Males and the Women Who Hate Them - the liberal... Jill Fallon The Sexes 2010-03-19T10:24:21-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/19/talk_deep_not_s.html Deep conversations made people happier than small talk, one study found.  Not stop-the-presses news, but a good reminder. Talk Deeply, Be Happy? Would you be happier if you spent more time discussing the state of the world and the... Jill Fallon Happiness 2010-03-19T10:12:02-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/19/little_evidence.html Just how are all those diversity programs working? Turns out there is little evidence diversity training works to change attitudes or behavior. A paper published last year by the psychologist Elizabeth Levy Paluck of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2010-03-19T10:06:28-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/19/check_under_the.html Missing mother found under hotel mattress in Memphis.  After two months!  Even though the room had been cleaned 'numerous times' after being rented five times to unsuspecting guests of the Budget Inn. Joseph Scott, Memphis police's deputy chief of... Jill Fallon Death and Dying 2010-03-19T10:03:59-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/17/happy_st_patric.html St Patrick was a Slave The accepted facts of his life are few. In his major work, "The Confessio," Patrick described how he was snatched from his Christian home during raids on the west coast of Roman Britain and... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2010-03-17T10:30:28-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/16/being_green_can.html Why environmentally friendly shoppers are more likely to lie and cheat In a provocative experiment researchers showed that people who buy environmentally friendly products are more likely to lie, cheat and be unkind than ordinary shoppers. While many will... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2010-03-16T13:16:24-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/16/readability.html I don't like to print things out that I want to read.  But on too many websites, there is so much clutter and ads, it's hard to keep one's eyes focused on the main article I want to read.... Jill Fallon Organizing and Practical Tips 2010-03-16T11:47:14-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/16/not_easy_but_si.html William Kristol on what it will take to reverse the direction we're headed towards.  Common sense and courage will suffice. Do we have to curb our profligacy today so we can be prosperous tomorrow? Common sense says yes. What... Jill Fallon Culture and Society 2010-03-16T10:47:29-05:00 http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2010/03/16/some_say_2012_w.html 2012, Junk Bond Avalanche Looms When the Mayans envisioned the world coming to an end in 2012 — at least in the Hollywood telling — they didn’t count junk bonds among the perils that would lead to worldwide disaster.... Jill Fallon Disasters. Katrina, tsunami, pandemic 2010-03-16T09:52:23-05:00