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The Rule
Nearly all of the problems faced in any economy could be avoided or corrected by simply heeding one little rule. Because governments tend towards some degree of state interference in markets, economics invariably becomes politicized. At one point or another you have probably been faced with questions such as these:
- How can we end poverty and increase the standard of living of the poor?
- What should be done about income inequality and the wealth gap?
- How can we lower unemployment?
- How can we ensure that all children receive an adequate education?
- How should we fund the construction of roads and other transportation systems?
- What are we going to do about the trade deficit with China?
These are major societal issues that affect millions of people. They are, of course, not things to be ignored or taken lightly. Due to their magnitude, much sound and fury are discharged by various groups who have conflicting methods of making improvements. But we must be careful, for rash, ill-informed, or untested actions may lead to unintended consequences that exacerbate the very problem that they are trying to ameliorate, or they may create new ones.
We must have a method of evaluating proposed or implemented policies for their trade-offs and effectiveness at accomplishing intended outcomes. Most politicians, pundits, and even many economists forget to do the very first step. This is the most important rule in economics:
When evaluating any economic action or policy, one must not only look at the obvious, immediate consequences, but also at the unseen, long-term consequences. Alternatively, one must not only look at the consequences for one group, but for all groups.
Failure to follow this rule is known as the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences. It is what separates good economists from bad economists. The bad economist looks only at the direct or intended consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks at the longer, indirect, and unintended consequences. The bad economist sees only the effects of a policy for one group; the good economist questions the effects on all groups.
We all know the story of the prodigal son, some through foresight though others may have required experience to learn that particular lesson. Squandering one's money on parties and booze, flashy clothes and beautiful women may afford desirable immediate outcomes, but the long-term effects are debt, disease, and a bad hangover. Yet it is incredible how quickly this lesson evaporates when we enter the arena of public economic policy. Here we have men regarded as brilliant economists, Nobel-laureates even, who "deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation". It is an unfortunate feature of the study of economics, absent in large part from the natural sciences simply because of the special pleading of selfish economic interests.
A vast majority of the fallacies of economics could be corrected by following this simple rule. Here is one of the most famous examples:
The Broken Window Fallacy
Imagine that you are a homeowner and a young, misguided vandal hurls a stone right through your living room window and shatters it. As you are mourning your loss and being rather loose with your language, you will almost invariably be visited by a smug friend of yours who, in a vain attempt to consol you, offers this pearl of wisdom: "You know, on the one hand this is actually a good thing. If nobody broke any windows, what would happen to the window-makers? They'd all be out of jobs. Your broken window is actually helping the economy by stimulating employment!"
Well, why stop there? After the glazier (window-maker) gets the money he will spend it on other goods and services, where it will then go to other goods and services, and so on, providing money and employment ad infinitum. If you take this out to its logical conclusion, the vandal, rather than being a public menace, was actually a public benefactor.
To evaluate this claim, we must look at the direct consequences (what is seen) as well as the indirect consequences (what is unseen). When we look at what is seen, it is obvious that your loss of a window is a gain to the glazier and that this money will in fact circulate through the economy, being of benefit to others. What is unseen is what you would have spent the money on had your window not been broken in the first place. Perhaps you were planning on buying a new suit, this would have given business to a tailor who might use it for groceries or a computer or investments. In this way, the stimulation to the greater economy is equal whether your window is broken or not, but in one situation you have only a window, while in another you have a window and a new suit. On net, society has lost the value of one broken window.
Imagine what the policy decisions would be if this fallacy were in fact true. We would say that we should enlist an army of ill-behaved vandals to go around throwing rocks in peoples windows. This would stimulate the economy! It would reduce unemployment by providing more demand in the glazier industry. It seems a ridiculous proposal, but it is precisely that which is endorsed by innumerable politicians and special interest groups, albeit in different circumstances in which complexity veils the comprehension of the fallacy.
Do not forget that in situations such as these, there are three key players. First there is you, the homeowner, who is reduced by destruction to one luxury instead of two. Then there is the glazier, for whom your loss is his benefit. The third, who is so often overlooked as he is absent from the transaction, is the tailor, who is the essential character in exposing the fallacy. Through him and his loss of business we see the absurdity in the notion of gain or stimulation through destruction.
I hope to later expand upon some contemporary issues to relate them to the parable of the broken window and other fallacies that do not account for unseen consequences, but for the sake of expediency here are a few brief examples:
War-time Economies: Wars stimulate economies only in the industries of defense contractors. The opportunity cost is how all the money that goes into building guns, planes, and bombs would have been spent on the goods and services that the citizens truly needed or desired. On top of that opportunity cost is the fact that much of what is manufactured for wartime, like munitions and ordnance, has no lasting value as it is destroyed almost immediately after production.
Hurricanes: After Katrina, a number of "informed" economists, journalists, and politicians used their talking platforms to explain the "silver lining". The Labor Secretary at the time said, "[W]hat will happen — and I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes — there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created." A journalist at the Economist actually wrote this bit: "While big hurricanes like Katrina destroy wealth, they often have a net positive effect on GDP growth, as the temporary downturn immediately after the storm is more than made up for by the burst of economic activity that takes place when the rebuilding begins." What this person failed to account for in his calculations was how all the money being spent to "grow GDP" would have otherwise been spent had there been no hurricane.
Green Jobs: When government programs subsidize certain industries, such as the more recent subsidies to green jobs, they necessarily take money from other sectors of the economy through taxation. In an attempt to grow a new industry and create new employment opportunities, these programs often decrease employment in other sectors. A Spanish study concluded that for every green job created through subsidies, 2.2 jobs in other areas were lost.
The principles of this article were first expressed in Frédéric Bastiat's landmark 1850 essay "What is Seen and What is Unseen". The full English text of this article can be found here.
The same principles were brilliantly retold by Henry Hazlitt in Economics in One Lesson, first published in 1946. This is in my opinion the best book that one can read to understand elementary economics. The full text of an updated edition is graciously offered for free by the Mises Institute here.
Here you can watch an excellent brief video created by Learn Liberty that explains the broken window fallacy in detail.


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Saturday, October 15, 2016
PARIS 2016: Will This Be Us with Hillary's No Borders? ...
6 comments:
- October 15, 2016 at 10:43 PM
- Sarkazein said...
Here is what the US Mexican border looks like now.
- October 16, 2016 at 9:06 AM
It already is us. Many parts of Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York and many others mirror your picture. Unless the 55 million illegal aliens are expelled from this country, our culture will be changed forever. November 8th is pretty important. Too bad establishment thug Republicans, the same ones who choose illegal aliens over American citizens year after year, don't think so.
- October 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM
- Sarkazein said...
The PARIS 2016 video shows the absolute uselessness of the UN. Conservatives have been calling for the US to get out of the UN for decades. It's members are sipping white wine and eating Brie while these poor refugees live in squaller (sp).
- October 16, 2016 at 11:03 AM
- Sarkazein said...
- October 16, 2016 at 2:27 PM
You are dead on. The UN is a waste of money for the U.S. Whenever you see blue helmets bobbing around somewhere in the world on television, you can rest assured that nothing is getting done. Purely useless organization.
- October 16, 2016 at 5:56 PM

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And so it happened: after all the anti-immigration bullshit that went down last year in the UK, which radically limited my chances to secure a job in London, I decided to jump at the opportunity to work in Scandinavia and moved to Copenhagen a month ago, to work as a Creative at independent digital agency Hello.
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The Salvation Army store in Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, will celebrate its first anniversary next month but it's not been plain sailing.
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SUMMER 1968: _________ UNDER CONSTRUCTION_________Now THIS was a relaxing Summer. I forget if I flew back or took a bus back. I know I shipped my stuff via Greyhound. But I was doing regular flying now. My parents were back in Astoria, NYC and thats where I stayed that Summer. But we did take visits to the house in York,Pa. I recall that as I used to watch the Tv show "The Prisoner" on the third floor when we'd visit and they had an Oldies show on WSBA I used to listen to. I spent the Summer doing NO work and every day I would sleep as late as i wished and I would then stroll down 21st Street under the triboro Bridge and buy a NY Daily News at the Astoria Square "Towne Square Shoppe" in order to follow baseball ESPECIALLY Denny McLain's run for 30 games and the Tigers and AL KALINE FINALLY taking the pennant.,,,,,, Some time during this Summer of 1968 I finally went to the hospital about my bad stomach pains. I wound up going to the hospital just past STEINWAY STREET near BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL where my mother took Accounting courses in Summer 1963 and where most of the people from Steinway Junior High went when I got stuck going to LIC HS in Fall 1965. I would take the bus down 21st St under the Triboro Bridge while both my parents were working and Id get off some blocks down where there was another main street. It wasnt Broadway. I would then transfer with a crowd of people. I had never realized that intersection was so important. It had only a couple of small stores yet was a major transfer point that I passed every day in high school 64/65. I then got on (using a transfer was unusual to me) and Id go a bunch more blocks to where that avenue crossed Steinway stret and another third street came in at an angle behind it and stopped at the intersection. So there were five streets instead of four. At that triangle was that restaurant that served both inside and out which had the GREAT char-broiled bugers I ate in Summer 1963 while seeing the eye doctor. I would eat there either before or after I went to the hospital. I think I was there more than once. I recall I was told to not eat anything at all for a long period of time until coming in for my GI series (Gastro-Intestinal) the next day. So I went there, starving, like any other lanky 18 year old and I had to put on a hspital gown and wait. Of course, it all took a very long time. I was sitting there and I suddenly remembered I wasnt wearing anything under my gown and my legs were open so I closed them in embarrassment. I went into the X-ray room and the guy had me drink a BARIUM milkshake and he put me on the cold slab. I think the guy was a bit weird as he was handling my rear under the gown. Then he complained about the barium going through me too quickly. Well, what did he expect? I had no food in so long and I wasnt a 60 year old. Guess he was used to only 60 year olds having possible ulcers. So he gave me a SECOND helping of Barium and i was a bit nervous to consume TWICE as much radioactive material. I eventually got out of there. I walked down to across the street from the restaurant (I proably ate there right afterwards as I had been so hungry). I stood not on Steinway but on the street crossing it, on the north side looking at the diagonal street going into the 5-street intersection. That street was where my father and I saw that lady squatting back around 1960,1961. Behind me was the corner smoke shop/gift shop that had always been on that corner. I get on the bus, pay my fare, and glance into the mirror. My God! There was crud all around my mouth from the Barium that looke just like that weirdos mouth at the Port Authority bldg when I got off the bus from York in 66/67. So I wiped it off. It kept coming back!! I might have even wiped it off once before getting on the bus. So I go to 21st St, transfer and go home to await the results. ,,,,,, I hung around with Gary, Dale's younger brother. We went to Times Square or near it to see 2001, A Space Oddessey. We had to dress up in coats and ties as it was a really fancy movie house. We go in and inside each entrance from the lobby to the theatre has a wooden bridge going over a stream! Inside the movie house! The seats were all separate from one another and you could move them in all directions. The screen was HUGE, even bigger than the regular huge screens of the day. The movie was great and on a wrap around screen with wrap around music. We were also given big glossy magazines to go with it. At intermission we went outside where they were serving alcoholic drinks in the lobby!!! Then we went home,,,,,, We used to go to PALISADES PARK together. He knew how to get there and showed me. All the way over the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey. We'd win and win for some reason. And even when we'd just walk in the girls moved on us there. It was nothing like NYC. Once we barely got in and two girls immediately told us when they were getting off work and all we were doing was walking past hem as they worked in a booth. Young and pretty. Another time some guy tried to win one of the huge things I won. There used to be one booth in particular that had a wheel with numbers and Id watch the wheel for a while and then Id go in and bet on what looked like it would come up next and, bang, Id win! It was amazing. But I learned never to do it when the wife was there as she'd only give the small prizes while her husband gave the big ones. The park also had the worlds biggest pool of some kind and it had the CARDIFF GIANT that I had read about. A big stone man that PT Barnum tried to pawn off as a petrified ancient man and thus got famous in its own right. I did not know that Cardiff was the capital of Wales then. It was just an eerie name to me. I recall being in the bumper cars there. ,,, 1-24-00: This was my LAST Summer in Astoria, Queens and my LAST time as a New Yorker. What had started on July 13, 1964 when my relatives showed up for the Worlds Fair would finally come to a close when my parents moved out of Astoria in November 1968. Thats four-plus years moving. ,,,,, Day after day Id go on the Elevated Train over to the other bouroughs and day after day Id come back the same way. I recall thinking over and over while turning off Hoyt Avenue along the Triboro Bridge and crossing over to the triangular 'Cheesebox' concrete park how I had made that turn over and over and over again since I was nine and now I was still doing it more than ever. Those thoughts and the view at that turn are burned into my brain. It seemed that I had made that right diagonal turn forever and that Summer I made it 100+ more times. Day after day. It still seems like the times I did it lasted vastly longer than the time from then until now. I did it from 1959 to 1968 and those 9 years took far longer than the 32 years since. Its like I did them forever and ,bink, suddenly its 32 years later. 1-24-00, ,,, In Summer 1968 I was in the living room and there was a live show from Berlin. Was it the president going there? I knew German well enough that I could actually easily understand what the Germans were saying. I was lousy in memorizing whether a word was male or female and all the silly endings BUT I had no problem with the words themselves when I was just listening,,, 1-24-00,,
_____JUNE 1968:______ SATURDAY JUNE 1, 1968: CALCULUS FINAL 745am to 945am,,,,, I recall showing Grant something I had wrapped up to shipo to NYC as I had way too much to carry back and I was on my bed along the wall by the door (We switched places sometime in the second semester) and he said "Better wrap that up like a mummy, man" Becaus eof the way they abuse everything. Well, I gave it extra wrapping and shipped it via Greyhound. Then Greyhound LOST most of my packages I was even invited to go downstairs at the PORT AUTHORITY TERMINAL to search the huge room. And on one shlf on the end I saw my GERMAN BOOK which I took. But most of my books and souvenirs were gone forever!! Inclding my very first ASTRONOMY BOOK with all my notes in it. Unlike most males Im the very nostalgic type and wanted to save a lot from my first year in college BUT between my wallet being stolen out of a locked locket next to an open one and greyhound losing my boxes I lost almost everything!! And the little I got back was broken. Including a plastic bottle of shampoo they somehow managed to break all over everything else. I then struggled with the Greyhound bureaucracy all Summer and then into my Fall 1968 semester in Briscoe when i recall vividly still writing them letters in the lunchroom and filling out forms. So much clothes gone as well.!!! I think I flew back into NYC in June 1968 but Im not sure.,,,,, I know that soon after i got back my parents and i went to a new Gimbels in Queens which shocked me as I had always thought of there being just one Gimbels by 34th Street that I went to all the time. (Or was it a Gimbels? It was a big brand new dept store in Queens). I still have mental images of walking thru it especially on the forst fllor roght towards the doors for some reason which I did repeatedly. I bought an epee there that I would later hang above my bed with tiny metal chains that came in plastic eggs from vending machines. I recall leaving via the back to where our car was parked in a huge, huge lot. I recall carrying a game out once as well. Was it a new Clue game? Lie Detector Game?,,, 12-16-99,,,,_____________ ____________ _____June 3, 1968 Andy Warhol shot,,, _____ JUNE 4: RFK beats Eugene McCarthy in California Primary,,, _____JUNE 5: RFK shot!, First Anniversary of 6-day War, Arabs on strike in Israel,,, Denny mcLain beats boston 5-4, now 9-1,,, _____JUNE 6: D-Day: RFK dies!, I think that I didnt even know he was shot until I got up on this day and my parents may have told me. I then recall being in a car for some reason going by the RFK national HQ in Lower Manhattan and seeing his supporters out on the sidewalk stunned,,, age 18,,, 1-21-2000,,, US Scorpion sub presumed lost,,, _____JUNE 7, 1968 : France A-Bomb atmospheric test, RFK body in StPatricks, NYC,,, _____JUNE 8: ML KINGS alleged assassin James Earl Ray arrested in London, Ted Kennedy gives "Some see things as they are... " speech, (Numerous things happening in VIETNAM all Summer and US and USSR keep launching satellites and doing underground nuke testing))),,, _____JUNE 14: Egypt and Isreal fire shells across Suez Canal, Dr Benjamin Spock convicted of violating Draft Laws,,, _____JUNE 15: Gene Mauch out as manager of the Phillies. So much for the 1964 flopper _____ JUNE17: Senate passes law making it a federal crime to harm flag,,, JUNE 18: US Supreme Ct rules illegal to discriminate for selling or renting homes,,, _____JUNE 19: LBJ signs OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, Thieu signs GENERAL MOBILIZATION order,,, _____JUNE 20: mcLain beats Boston 5-1, now 12-2,,, WARSAW PACT holds military exercises in Czechoslovakia,, US deaths in Vietnam over 25,000, ((( Students rioting all over the world in Summer 1968))), ((( Israel and Egypt shell each other all Summer 1968))), _____JUNE 24: McLain beats Cleveland 14-3, now 13-2,,, House passes bill making it a crime to harm flag, _____JUNE 25: TRUDEAUS liberal party wins big victory,,, Over half of the Red Chinese Central Committee of 1965 have been purged,,, Ralph Abernathy sentenced to jail,,, _____ JUNE 26: Poor Peoples Campaign caravan mules impounded,,, ((( satellites and nuke tests still going on with USA and USSR))),,, _____JUNE 27: Confirmed that US troops leaving Khe Sanh (Balt Sun 6/24), LBJ wants CONGRESS to approve lowering voting age to 18. Const. Amend.,,, _____JUNE 30,1968: My dog Majors birthday.Got presents. Age 9,,, DeGaulle wins huge election victory,,, USSR forces down US airliner near USSR north of Japan...,,, I was still really into the "probability and statistics' kick I was in since late 1965 with baseball stats. I could focus mentally on them for hours for some reason yet nothing else. Somehow the combo of math and reality worked wonders. The math actually represented something I could see form,,, I was really following Denny McLains try for 30 wins. Each morning Id walk from home down 21st St under the TRIBORO BRIDGE to ASTORIA SQUARE, buy a NY DAILY NEWS at the TOWNE SQUARE SHOP and check all the baseball, especially if he pitched,,,,, Little did I know that the next Fall Id meet the best collection of friends I ever had,,,, We would go to York,Pa to be at the house there and visit my fathers relatives quite often. It was 200 miles exactly. No US 30 then, though. Went by way of either Easton or Trenton, I forget which, except that right before getting to the city on the NJ/Pa border we had to go in a big circle to it. Then we'd go across to Harrisburg and down. Later on my uncle? told my father a better way which may have had something to do with US30 creeping closer from the east. I also always recall making a turn where a factory had a turning sign which switched from cow to milk carton to bread. But we'd return to the empty furnishe dhouse frequently and I always looke dforward to it,,, In York I'd listen to WSBA while on the third floor all alone and I had an old radio on the floor in the room with the bay window to pick up the station better. I think I may also have had a TV up there that would barely get some stations without a roof antenna. On wsba i waited for the oldies show as I was just learning what I had missed in the early 60s,,,, When Id go to my aunts house she was her normal rude self and Lora was rotten to me as always. I was too young and experienced to know what she was yet,,, 1-21-2000,,,
JULY 1968:,,, I dont recall July 4th, 1968,,,--------________ JULY 1, 1968: 62 nations sign nuke non-proliferation treaty,,,, Che Guevaras diary published,,, Canada free medical starts,,, JULY 2: ((( BIAFRAN WAR going on all Summer1968))),,, Carl Albert (D) against all gun control bills,,, RAMPARTS mag publishes Che diary,,, JULY 3: McLain now 15-2,,, Sniper slay in Central Park causes LBJ to call for gun control,,, JULY 4: France announces tests of its ICBMs,,, HHH heckled by anti-war 42: ,,, July 5: July 6: July 7:McLain now 16-2,,, July 8: July 9: July 10:, July 11: July 12: McLain now 17-2, July 13: July 14: July 15: July 16: McLain now 18-2,,, July 17: My mothers 41st Birthday,,, July 18: July 19: July 20: McLain now 18-3,,, July 21: July 22: July 23: McLain now 19-3,,, July 24: July 25: July 26: July 27: McLAIN NOW 20-3!!, July 28: July 29: July 30: July 31: McLain now 21-3 1-24-2000______________ __________________ _______________ I dont know if it was JUly 1968 or August 1968 but: Somehow I heard that some place up in a bldg near Macys/Gimbles was selling tens of thousand sof old comix in an upstairs warehouse. I had never even thought of what they had up in those places. I went up there and it was like a block long of zillions of comix on metal shelves to way above my head. I got a few oldies really cheap. The guy up front told me that the old DCS would be worth money someday but the MARVELS would never be worth anything so they were simply going to destroy whatever comix they didnt sell including all the original Marvel comix,,,, I went into an AUTOMAT, perhaps the last one left, near Macys/Gimbels and put in coins for a coffee. I forgot you have to put a cup undeneath first! The coffee came out straight into the drain and I panicked. I stupidly, instantly tried to stop it by putting my hands under it!! Stupid Polak! All I did was scald my hands. That was my last trip to an Automat because they were gone by the next time I returned to NYC,,,, I still followed McLains quest for 30 every day by walking to Astoria Square under the bridge and back,,,, Still went to York,Pa in July and August. Same route. Visited mean relatives,,, Listened to wsba in York,,,,And I discovered THE PRISONER that Summer. It was my first LIBERTARIAN INDIVIDUALIST show and i couldnt wait to see it whenever we returned. I could get it in on the third floor barely. And I even taped the theme song on that huge tape recorder I had,,,, Still into 'probability and statistics' in regard to baseball history. trying to locate old time stats. there was no big encyclopedia with all of them in those days,,,, 1-21-2000, 446pm,,,
AUGUST 1968:__________ ... I went to YANKEE STADIUM in the Summer of 1968. I think it was August. I actually PAID for a ticket for the first time in my life. I may have gone to more than one game but I think it was just one. I was going to get GENERAL ADMISSION and thus have plenty of money for food and a scorecard. Then I looked at the prices and decided to get the next highest one which left me very little money for spending. And then when I got to the front (only a couple of people ahead of me. It was a day game and the Yankees stunk in 1968 and their fans were mostly front-runners) the ticket seller told me that if I went up ANOTHER step I could get a great seat as almost noone was there. So I did it and I had no spending money left. But I did see MICKEY MANTLE play one last time. He didnt do anything of note, though. I dont know what day it was and I believe he just pinch-hit in a meaningless game with the TIGERS way ahead,,,,, Across from YANKEE STADIUM I discovered MANNYS BASEBALL LAND which was a huge warehouse with a tiny room inside. I was REALLY into baseball history then and I bought what I could afford. I think I looked at a list and he went back to get it all out of the back. No one lese was into that stuff in 1968 so I got the stuff really cheap and wished I could afford a lot more. But I got a bunch of good stuff I still have. Once I asked for photos of Mantle and Snider and he brought them out. Sniders was in black and white and I asked if he had a color one and he said, "Are you kiddin'?". He also advertised in the comics and mags for mail orders. I remember being on the elevated train going from The Bronx to Manhattan all alone in the 'subway' car wondering why other baseball fans never had any interest in this stuff. (Then they went nuts in the late 1980s). I went there a number of times without going to the games across the street. I recall a sheet of stickers of the 1943 Yankees was one thing I got,,,,, I played BATTLE OF THE BULGE with Gary and I had won every war game I had played against everyone since 1963. I finally agreed to get rid of a lot of rules to give him a bigger and bigger chance and he finally won. He then ran into the kitchen to brag to his parents that he won. Good for him. Must have been miserable to keep losing. He later became a US Marine like his brothers and was assigned to Shirley Temple Blacks embassy bldg in Africa,,,, In Aug 1968 the weird soap opera 'Dark Shadows' debuted but I had no interest in it,,,, During the Summer of 1968 I spent a lot of time pitching a Spaldeen under the Triboro Bridge. i started at the handball courts but then I went to the farthest concrete park area under it where the actual abutments were and I drew a strikebox against one so i could stand farther back. I was under there often including a couple of times when it rained but I was dry under there. _____ ______ ______ ______ _______ ________ _______ AUGUST 4, 1968: McLain now 22-3, Statue to Stan Musial unveiled outside Busch Stadium, 1-31-00 ,, August 8, 1968: McLain now 23-3,,, August 12, 1968: McLain now 24-3,,, AUGUST 14, 1968: August 16,1968: McLain now 25-3. I believe I was in the Mellinger car turning the corner off 23rd Street to home at night when I heard this. August 20,1968: McLain now 25-4,,, August 24, 1968: My fathers 43rd birthday, McLain now 25-5 after losing at Yankee Stadium where he may have been working,,, August 28, 1968: McLain now 26-5,,, 1-24-2000,,, _____ ______ _____ I WAS STILL IN ASTORIA, NY IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 1968: ... SEPTEMBER 1, 1968: McLain now 27-5,,, SEPTEMBER 6, 1968: McLain now 28-5,,,


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Lately I feel like I have nothing too exciting to blog about... totally having writers block!
I would post some new designs, but that seems pretty blah. Plus I am under the weather and about to cough up my lungs(never used to get sick until having a child.)
Plus I forget how to relax, my mind won't stop thinking about my to do list... do you know what I mean?!? I should be resting, but here I am working!
ok I just can't help myself... just two new holiday invitation designs, because I love them so!I soooooo want some wonton soup right now!
Random blog post I know, but this writers block is killing me and I need some new things to blog about!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Boring Blog Posts...
Lately I feel like I have nothing too exciting to blog about... totally having writers block!
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I'm so happy to know I'm not the only one going through this right now. I go in spurts where I could write for days and then NOTHING...just emptiness in that braine of mine. It will go away soon I'm sure.ReplyDelete
hope you feel better soon! i dont think i got sick as much since having a child as i ever did my entire adult life!ReplyDelete
We have the cough in our house to, not fun! Cute designs!ReplyDelete
How about getting back to where it all started and blogging about how you began this wonderful venture! I'm a new stay at home mom who has dabbled in invitations/party planning and would love the advice of a pro on how to go bigger. Advice!!!ReplyDelete
- ChristyNovember 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
You could talk about your wonderful friend Christy and how you are due for some cocktails together!ReplyDelete
Okay, okay, how about some product faves of yours...reviews?
I like this blog,please give more information about the topic.It's interesting.ReplyDelete
I am with you, I have it too... nothing to write about lately! Somehow I can come up with something, but they are always random ha!ReplyDelete
haha I just wrote a post pretty much saying the same thing, that I'm boring!!! : )ReplyDelete


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Bonnie Bartley, Soapsmith, The Allegheny Hearth, conducted a year long experiment using the additives recommended by HSMG Conference Speaker, Dr. Kevin Dunn, Caveman chemistry, for the prevention of DOS.
Here are Bonnie's results: One year ago, July 2008, I began an unscientific test using Dr. Dunn's recommended additives for the prevention of DOS. On the same day, using the same identical supplies, I made two batches of my Vestal Castile Soap. The soap is 100% certified organic olive oil, distilled water and lye. Nothing else. No fragrance, no color. I did cold process, soaped between 4 & 5% superfat. To the second batch, I added .1% each of EDTA and Sodium Citrate and .05% BHT. The EDTA and Sodium Citrate was dissolved in water, the BHT dissolved in warmed oils. Both batches were brought to full gel. At all times, the test bars were kept together in identical curing and storage situations. They were cured in my soap studio for 8 weeks. One bar of each was put in muslin bags (I have always sold my bars in muslin), and one bar of each was left unwrapped. They were kept, untouched on a shelf in my office at the store. This would be the same retail environment as my soap cart. We only maintain the heat and AC during store hours, so the soap was exposed to fluxuating conditions, some very hot humid during the summer months, and 55 to 60 degree cold during the winter months.
Here are the pictures of the results:
As you will note, the two bars with the additives are sparkling white, pristine with no signs of DOS. The wrapped bar with no additives shows one small, very light DOS developing in the upper right hand corner of the bar, the unwrapped bar with no additives is almost completed covered in DOS on all sides. This did develop throughout the year, starting as typical smaller round DOS that spread to the full bar. It is also interesting to note the unwrapped, no additive bar shows great difference in shrinkage and cracking.
I have always believed that selling in muslin gives the best protection. I have had bars deteriorate on the display shelf while bars from the same batch wrapped in the muslin bags stay perfect. When I compare the bars that had no additives, the one that was unwrapped is drastically impacted by exposure to light and air. My beliefs that muslin is best for my soap have been validated.
More about Bonnie:
The Allegheny Hearth line of soap is handmade in small batches, in Bonnie's studio located in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. Food and cosmetic grade oils, butters, pure essential and fragrance oils are carefully blended to create a rich, emollient soap. When color is desired, Bonnie uses natural pigments, herbs, and cosmetic grade micas and colorants
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I have this to say: wow!
What an experience. Now, surfing the net and doing things on the Mac are just about swiping, pinching - all natural gestures - like how you would use an iPad.
I love the Magic Trackpad and would recommend it to anyone!
It's really magical!
Edit: let me elaborate why I think this is such a great device that, to me, totally replaced the need of a mouse; yes, you don't need a mouse anymore. It is that good!
When I browse a website using Safari, I could just two-finger push up and down to scroll up and down a page. Scrolling was smooth, much like in iPad. I could just swipe left to go back to the page before and Safari actually animates the page being swiped out - if you use Twitter for iPad, you will know what I mean. Swipe right to emulate 'forward' button. (somehow, Chrome for Mac supports the same gesture but it wasn't as smooth as Safari, so Safari is the preferred browser at the moment).
4-finger swipe to launch mission control, so I could easily see all the available apps. Similarly, 4-finger swipe will move between virtual desktops. Very useful when I use Desktop 1 for mails, twitters, RSS news, facebook, etc and Desktop 2 to read PDF manuals and Desktop 3 for Xcode 4.
3 finger tap to click and hold a window so I can resize and move them about. 2 finger tab to emulate right click (or Ctrl-Click)
These gestures are applicable in iPhotos, iTunes, Sparrow, Caffeinated, you name it.
Watch this video and be prepared to be blown away!


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Essay on "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley
"An Inspector calls," by J. B. Priestley was written in 1946 and set in 1912. Priestley was a politician and a socialist who believed in equality and equilibrium for all, sex, race and class. Priestley had a long but arduous life, 1894-1984. He lived through both world wars, the unsinkable Titanic sank in 1912, the general strike in 1926, labour government resigning in 1931, and the two destructive atom bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Priestley deliberately set the play in 1912 because the audience watching the play had to have lived through all of this and would have empathised with him. Priestly tried to put his non-capitalist views across to the public through different mediums giving 10 minute radio broadcasts and writing articles in the news papers, however using these means, he could never be sure of his audience. He couldn't know if they were paying their full attention listening, or if they were just skimming his articles or even if they were being read or listened.
Hence Priestley decided to use the theatre for his plays, where he had the full undisrupted attention of his audience.
"An Inspector calls," is a play which highlights the importance and relevance of equality and social respect in the community, the story is interesting and gripping with a twist. Priestley is trying to show us how a moneyed, status freak middle class family of the Edwardian Society of 1912 acted, upon their values and their morals. The mysterious Inspector Goole reveals by his interrogation how all of the different Birling family members contributed to the suicide of a low classed, unsupported, innocent, young girl, Eva Smith, and how they have all, in their own shameful way, let her down and killed her through a...


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Almost all human beings do have something to ask for from Almighty. Some have a craving for some lawful worldly objects, some have to ask for solutions of their problems, some longing for remedy of illness and getting good health, while some have the far-sight of asking favors of the next world. Thus everyone has something to ask from his/her own angle of view.
Imagine for a moment that you find yourself with a flashlight in your hand in a room that is totally dark. You turn on the flashlight and see a beautiful painting hanging on the wall. You might think, "Sure, this is a wonderful work of art, but is this all there is?" Then, all at once, the room becomes illuminated from above. You look around and see that you are in an art museum, with hundreds of paintings on the walls around you, each more beautiful than the last. As these possibilities stand revealed to you, you realize you have a lifetime of art to study and love. You are no longer constrained to view just one painting lit by the weak glow of your flashlight.
(Excerpted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra. Copyright © 2003 by Deepak Chopra at deepakchopra.wwwhubs.com)
Can anything be classed as real when our perceptions differ greatly on so many things? Just because we see something a particular way does not make it so. We can be so insistent sometimes that our way of seeing something is more right than someone else's way.
Let's take the example of war. There are some people who believe that war is necessary sometimes to get peace and then in order to keep the peace. There are other people who will believe that war is evil and should never be entered into no matter what. Who is right? Is war right or wrong? That's just an example.....
What you see as real is only defined by your belief structure. Your version of what is real is only your perception of it; not what is so.
Here's another example: Let's say an event occurs in your life. You have the choice about how you respond to it. Let's say you have a death in the family. You can choose to see that event as something terrible and tragic to which you will respond accordingly. Or, you can choose to see that event and something that inspires you to make something more of your life; living every day as if it was the last, so to speak.
From that example you can see that you may or may not have control over the events in your life but you can certainly take control of how to respond to them. That part of life will always be within your power. This is where life gets interesting because you shape your own reality through your beliefs.
Your belief structure determines your perception which then ultimately determines how you respond to events. Going by that sequence you can then see that there is another place to start. You can choose to examine your beliefs and then choose to change them.
(Adaptted fron Perception vs Reality by Amit Sodha on March 22, 2006 at unlimitedchoice.org)
We have a very narrow view of things. Naturally, the imperfect existence cannot be the source of perfect consciousness. The imperfect perspective of the human mind cannot be expected to give a complete picture of things in their true state of affairs.
There is a habit of the mind by which it looks at things in a linear fashion, in a line or a straight vision, as it were, as a series of objects, a line in space and time, and this is what may be succinctly called the three-dimensional perspective or the individualistic perception of the human mind – to look at things as bodies, as isolated existences, with the feeling that you and I are different, that things are isolated from one another in such a manner that there cannot be intrinsic or organic connections among them. This is perhaps the historical way of things. There is no organic connection between events in history. They are mathematically or causally related, so that one follows the other.
(An Analysis of Our Perception of Historical Personalities by Swami Krishnananda at swami-krishnananda.org)
The ultimate source of our problems is in thought. Our thinking determines our actions and our actions determine the quality of our relationship with each other. Society is the result of relationships. Problems arising out of human relationship appear to be intractable. There is conflict at all levels of human relationship. There is conflict between husband and wife, between parent and child, between one group and another, between nations, religions and within the same political and religious organizations. There is enormous confusion, violence, brutalities, the wars, terrorism and endless division of religion and nationality. Roots of disorder lie in the state of human mind.
Unfortunately we use the same thinking ability to find solutions to the numerous complex and intricate problems that thought has created. Past history clearly demonstrates that despite all the knowledge and experience accumulated through centuries, man has not been able to produce a harmonious and healthy society. We do make some improvements here and there but the overall situation remains grim. The momentum at which the problems are being created is quite overwhelming. It is obvious that there must be a serious flaw in the way we think.
It is amazing that two distinct systems of thought operate within the framework of human consciousness, one that creates the problem and the other that tries to find solution to the problem. Both arise out of the same source. That source is self-centeredness. Thinking arising out of self-interest, self-concern creates numerous problems. Problems like greed, jealousy, anxiety, anger, hate and violence arise out of the conditioned state of mind. Any problem that arises in the mind poses a challenge and there is an automatic response to meet the challenge. This response generates thought process that has no clue as to how the problem got created.
It is extremely important that we should understand the nature of the self because most of our actions spring from this center. Our perceptions and responses to the challenges of life and our basic urges, desires and demands are determined by the nature of the self. Human relationship is based on the operation of thought that is self-centered. Only a profound understanding of the nature of the self can bring about inward revolution.
(Adapted from Clarity of Perception by SardarSingh, September 17, 2009 at lifeisrelationship.com)
One of the things people are quickly becoming aware of is the media's nonstop repetition of the same old themes and always trying to keep us scared and manipulated, whether it be who to vote for in an upcoming election or the suppression and total disregard of information which paints things in a different picture to the one that they are trying to impose on us. Another is how democracy is just two sides of the same coin so to speak, they offer us choice but that choice is limited inside of their choices.
Freedom is more than a word. It is everything and the only thing that is in our way of obtaining it is our own perception. What we perceive is what believe. Consider this, if we were walking along and spotted a house and someone said that it was a nice house and you disagreed, then which one of you is right? The thing about perception is that more often than not it is not even your own perception; it was manipulated from the day you were born and constantly conditioned by outside forces, from parents to school and work. We are being bombarded with influence and the problem with that is we don't realize it until we become someone else's perception altogether and we cry out inside to ourselves.
If someone said the words planet earth most people would immediately conjure up visions of the earth from space as we know it, a giant sphere covered in ocean, dotted with land and surrounded with clouds. But what if you could see ultraviolet light, or x-ray or even gamma rays? Than earth would look incredibly different to you and would therefore provoke different thoughts and feelings, you see everything is symbolic and just because you see something does not mean you see all aspects of something; you just have an idea of how it is and this is one of the biggest problems in the world today as Governments, Media, religion and society in general are constantly trying to take other peoples freedom to see things from many angles and points of view and limit them to only the ones they want them to see. Parents are some of the worst offenders for this.
Everything expresses itself in many shapes and forms and your perception is the only thing that holds it in that myopic and preconceived view you have. You must open yourself up to possibility and when you do that you can let the information flow freely and make an informed judgment. But that is not the world we live in now; the world we live in now is the same world that burnt people alive at the stake for ideas just a few hundred years ago, and although we may not be as physically brutal anymore, fear of changing the way we look at things is still alive and kicking in today's social structure.
(Adapted from How Everything is a Symbolic Representation of Your Perception, by AndrewCalvisi Mar 2nd, 2010 at bukisa.com)


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Quick & Easy Mother's Day Gift Ideas
Nannies, you still have time to make these for the mum of your charges... in secret!
It is not uncommon for kids (and adults!) to put off gift making until the very last minute. If your charges are one of those, offer these quick arts & crafts ideas for Mother's Day. They probably have the materials for these on stock at home or, if not, they can be easily bought at any supply store. Most will not take more than an hour to create so you can do these in secret and surprise mums on their special day.
1. 5 Things I love about my mom
Easily made with cardboard paper and crayons. If they have stickers lying around, you can use them to!
2. Love Notes Jar
If you are looking after two or more kids, a love notes jar might be better than the card above.. Each kid can write things they love about their mom on a piece of paper and put them on a mason jar taken from the kitchen. No mason jar? Just about any container will do.
3. Flip the Flower Card
It will be fun thinking of short words (or sentences) to describe mom in creating this flip the flower card.
4. Photo bookmarks
With many photos store digitally nowadays, you might have to print photos before you can do this. But this would be a great gift for a bookish mom, don't you think?
5. Mother's Day Coupon Book
All you need is scraps of paper, whether colored or not, markers of different color, a puncher and small piece of ribbon. Kids can give coupons for a foot rub, 10 minutes of no talking, an afternoon nap with no argument. The more creative the coupon is, the better.
6. Pasta Art
We love the message of this very simple past art. You can use any pasta available, really. But make sure that the paper you paste it on is thick enough to hold the pasta.
7. Hand card
Add a bit of sass into a normal Mother's Day Card by tracing a kid's hand into cardboard paper and connecting it with strip of paper.
8. Hand print + poem
Add rhymes to hand prints and you will have an artwork that mom can frame to remind her of the time when her child was small.
We hope you have fun making these!
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Colgems Artist-The Fountain of Youth
Not much is known about this group, but they put out several singles on the Colgems label in the late 1960s.
I have uploaded a selection of their recordings at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/musicrewind/.
If anyone can update their story, please fill us in.
(Thanks to Ken Friedman for the pictured, previously unavailable to me track, which is, due to his kindness, posted at the Music Rewind site.)


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This is a very brief post about the new Facebook Timelines and a quick way of maximising the exposure your company's page can get on them.
For most people, there timelines will really come in to play from January of this year. Sure, they'll have their photos and posts from previous years all documented out for them, but will they follow Facebooks dream of going back to every significant moment in their life and adding it? A few Facebook geeks may do, but most probably won't.
However, this doesn't mean they can't. If you look at the new set up of Facebook, to fully complete your profile you need to put schooling dates in, sport achievements, work achievements, life achievements, etc and add a date to them. This means they can go on your timeline at the right place.
It also gives you the option to add in your own achievement.
Forward thinking
Now, if I was a forward thinking company (like I'm sure you are...hint hint), I'd be adding a small Facebook widget or competition that allows people to post about your product at previous times in their timeline.
For example, if you are a beer company you could quite simply add a widget saying when was the first time you legally drank our beer? Then it's posted on their timeline. If widgets are beyond you, why not just provide them with an image, like your logo through the ages (maybe something they can super-impose themselves on) and then just ask them to add it to their timeline at the point they started drinking your beer.
Gotta love competitions for engagement
You could even set up a competition for people to post about their first experience with your product and then screen print it and send it in to you - the most inventive wins!
Ie, if you are a clothing company - where was the craziest place you wore our hat and why?
This can be most beneficial for charities. Why not get people to go back over their timelines and post any time they have done something for you. Did they run the marathon for you? If so, give them a marathon medal logo with your brand on it to put with the post. Have they attended an event for you?
It could be as simple as when they started supporting you and why or even every time they've donated and why.
Get involved to get them involved
Design logos for them for each achievement and ask them to post.
Soon people's timelines are full of actions that involves your organisation. It helps build awareness, it brings people back to your page, it increases your visability in Facebook and google searches, and it will appear in news feeds attracting others to your page
So fresh, it's hot!
I normally like to litter my blog posts with photos or screen shots of examples. But I've done a pretty extensive google search of this already (and I'm thorough with Google), but it doesn't appear like anyone is doing this yet.
Could you be the first? Get on it - but don't forget me when it makes a huge success - a simple tweet about me or link to my page is a sufficient way of saying thank you for letting me make you stand out ahead of your competition!


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In response, I have decided to compile an "Anti-Rant" of a few of the things I do like about waiting. Oh, I'm not glamorizing it in any way - it most definitely has its downsides - I'm just showing a few of the ups.
- It's relatively easy to get into. (Perfect for college students, hopefuls, recent grads, and never went)
- It has an excellent earnings:hours worked potential. (Note the word potential. While a waiter can make $80-200 in 5 hours depending on the restaurant, he can also walk out having wasted 5 hours of the day)
- It can be pretty flexible. (Mainly, that depends on the managers, though)
- It's different every day. (Okay, that's halfway true. You're doing the same thing each day, just with different people, which brings me to my next point.)
- You meet some of the weirdest, funniest, craziest, smartest, dumbest, and most interesting people. (Sure, they're maybe 2 tables out of your whole night, but hey, they're gems from the dross and the crap - yes, you take a lot of crap, too, but I'm just highlighting the ups).
- You have some interesting conversations (I know, this point ties in with the one above it, but for me it's a facet worthy in its own right.)
- You get to work magic. (I have made ladies cry on their anniversary from a simple "Guest Appreciation" cupcakes with a "Happy Xth Anniversary" message written across the plate in chocolate sauce. Yes, that particular lady may have had a couple of drinks already, but who am I to judge?)
These are just a few highlights of serving. I'm under no illusions that waiting is the most illustrious career, nor is it always the most pleasant, but it's a stepping stone and it's one I don't mind taking.


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Aside from straight racing, the Sprint Driver Challenges are reasonably fun, letting you work on mastering all the NASCAR prereqs: drafting, pack navigation, pitting and steering clear of those oh-so-lovely wrecks we'd like to see more of. In addition to earning Rep, you'll earn Performance Points by completing Challenges and the tests you'll subsequently unlock (there are more than 70). While your Rep determines your sponsorship, contract and team standings, Performance points can be spent to upgrade your garage in four categories: road course, short track, speedway and superspeedway.
Online, the game plays virtually identically, pitting your skills against up to 13 other players in a variety of customized races (turn flags on/off, pick tracks, etc.). This wasn't all that compelling, especially on PS3; on either platform, we waited over five minutes just to get a race populated and started, and those were the short waits. One session that took over 20 minutes to get going over PlayStation Network was particularly troublesome, and makes us wonder about the longevity of the online mode.
Normally, high-octane racing is exciting stuff, but for whatever reason, NASCAR 09 feels homogenized, almost to the point that it's downright underwhelming. Now don't misunderstand us here: the dev team at Tiburon has assembled a competent racer that works well and delivers lots -- we mean lots -- of stock car racing. But here's the thing: It's just not NASCAR. It's as if this year, for whatever reason, the lack of any true NASCAR personality has been put into relief by the shiny, G-rated presentation.
Seriously, where's the NASCAR attitude? Where are the pile-ups and wrecks (we saw like three, after running some 50 races)? And where are the chicks, and the booze, and the beer-bellied dudes in trucker hats getting into fist fights defending Kyle Busch's honor over Dale Jr.'s? It's as if the same execs that castrated the NFL Street series, giving birth to its bastard offspring NFL Tour in its wake, have kept this NASCAR series as straight-laced as a Coca-Cola ad. The result: This ain't your Daddy's NASCAR.
Fanboys Only
There's no denying that serious stock car fans that own an Xbox 360 or PS3 will enjoy hitting the track with this racer; it's just a shame it doesn't crackle with the personality the real sport has been known for. In the end, this may not even be EA's fault; even insiders within NASCAR are keen to the ever-increasing homeliness of the sport, what with Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage offering a $15,000 reward last April to the first driver to throw a helmet in the five weeks prior to his TMS-hosted Samsung 500. Sadly, Gossage held onto his cash. Unless you can overlook these flaws, and unless EA makes some move to infuse this mediocre, sterilized stock car racing game with the unmistakable spirit of NASCAR, we suggest you do the same.


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We are sorry to report that Charles Gardner, State Geologist of North Carolina from 1990-2002, died on September 22, after a very short illness with metastic melanoma.
Charles was also Head of the Division of Land Resources for the state. His obituary reports that upon his retirement in 2002 Charles was awarded the "Order Of the Long-Leaf Pine", by the Governor.
Charles also served as President of the American Association of State Geologists and of the American Association of State Dam Safety Officials.
Charles wanted said of him: "He stood in awe of the beauty of nature"


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Candelabrum Of The Salle De La Paix, And Other Objects In Nave
Photographer: Delamotte, Philip Henry (1820 - 1889)
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1855
Sculptural exhibits sit in the nave of the reconstructed Crystal Palace exhibition hall in Sydenham Hill. The building, originally designed by Joseph Paxton, housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park. It attracted more than six million visitors to a showcase of the century's technological and artistic achievements. P H Delamotte's photographs of the rebuilding of Crystal Palace (1852-1854) in south-east London leave us with a unique record of Victorian Britain at the height of the Industrial Revolution.


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Good morning SOTGC readers. Here is another post by the lovely Bridget Venus Grimes. When I read this post before pre-loading it into the blog, I started to tear up. I took a look at my childhood, how privileged I was to have two loving, involved parents who made sure my brother and I wanted for nothing, and I wish I could have been less selfish towards the underprivileged children my Mom used to bring around us as part of an outreach program she was involved in. How many times do we forget how truly lucky and blessed we are? We have a house to go home to, we know exactly where and when our next meal will be, and the idea of "not getting a holiday present" is so foreign to most of us that it actually makes us stop and think for a minute. Thank you Bridget for sharing this, and for reminding us what giving is all about.
This is a time of year when people spend a lot of money on gifts. I follow the statistics of Black Friday sales, the strategies retail stores employ to increase sales, same store sales versus last year, and other numbers to see how companies and the economy are faring during this time of excessive gift purchasing. It is apparent that many of us get caught up in the buying frenzy. The stories of people lining up overnight at department stores for the outrageous deals and the unbelievable altercations over consumer goods are really eye opening, and to be honest, disheartening.
Don't get me wrong: I love the holidays and I love the idea of gift giving. It brings me great pleasure to buy gifts for my children that I know make them happy. But I think that our gift giving can make an even greater impact. As a friend of mine pointed out over lunch yesterday, we have children who are truly blessed. Our children are loved and cared for. They have safe homes, food and shelter. They truly want for nothing, and we work hard to provide our children with this quality of life. At this time of year with a focus on giving, I would like to offer that we reconsider how we spend some of this money so that it truly makes a difference.
My friend runs a successful company that considers outreach an important part of their company culture. This year they have partnered with an organization that helps at-risk adolescent boys and truly transforms their lives. As part of the support of this organization, donors are sought to provide Christmas gifts to the boys. My friend shared with me that some of these boys have never received a Christmas present.
For $100, a donor can fulfill the holiday wishes of one of these children. So on a recent shopping expedition, my friend found a gift that was perfect for the child she is sponsoring and she pointed this out to her teenaged son. His first response was not that this was a great idea and would fulfill this child's wishes, but rather that this toy was about the cost of a video game he wanted and that she had recently denied him, and that if it were up to him, she should buy him the video game instead.
My friend realized that it was a terrific teaching opportunity. At the holiday party for this organization, my friend and her son will present the gifts they've purchase for the child they have sponsored. Her son will have the opportunity to meet this boy and the others at the organization for whom these gifts may very well be the only Christmas gifts they receive. While this may not seem like a life-changing event, incorporating her son in the giving process, introducing him to others who are not nearly as fortunate, will hopefully make an impression on him.
I mention this single instance of gift giving because I feel that by teaching our children the importance of giving they will become better people. By helping them see through the eyes of those less fortunate, we hope that they learn to help others. The gesture my friend and her company has made to help these boys is a small one, but the point is that the smallest amount of effort can have tremendous impact on the lives of others. I will continue to give gifts to those I care about, but I will carve out a portion to those for whom a gift will truly make a difference.


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5 tips for encouraging children to read
Inculcate that for our children the plesure for reading can be without doubt one of the best gifts we can offer them in life.
Reading plays a major role in their learning and development since it promotes the linguistic skills and at the same time exercises their brain for the acquisition of languages.
It boosts their emotional and psychological growth and gives them the opportunity to experience sensations and feelings that make them enjoy, mature and learn.
All are advantages, this is clear. But how can we get our children to like reading in a so digital environment like ours?
We propose the following 5 tips:
- Be an example: it will be easier for a child to start liking to read at a home where their parents also like to read. They realize that it is a habit which is part of the family culture and by imitation it is easier for them to copy the habit.
- Stimulate their interest: reading should be fun and never an imposition. Books must not be inserted in a everyday environment for a child, only when they start school or whilst they are learning to read. The contact with books should begin soon.
- Read out loud: it's an ideal practice that strengthens ties with child and family. Dedicate each day a bit of time to share the pleasure of reading with your children, away from distractions like the television.
- Encourage them to participate. Ask them what they imagine what can happen to a character, or even encourage your children to guess what will happen in the end.
- Give books as a gift: a book becomes a prize. Whenever you have to reward your child with something important, give him a book on his favorite subject.
"To travel far, there is no better ship than a book". Emily Dickinson


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A 56-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Southwest Baltimore Thursday night, and victims of two other shootings walked into area hospitals, police said.
Homicide detectives were called to a shooting in the 4100 block of Walrad St., a side street in the city's Irvington neighborhood, just before 7 p.m. The victim was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Andre Coleman, 36, waited anxiously outside police tape as detectives examined evidence in the middle of the street. He said he is friends with the stepson of the man who was shot.
"He's a real good guy who minds his own business," Coleman said of his friend's stepfather.
Coleman said the victim worked as a roofer and was always generous in trying to help others: "He even tried to get me a job."
"He never messed with nobody," Coleman said. "This city is crazy."
With 25 murders in the city in 30 days, January 2014 has seen a sharp uptick in the city's homicide rate, the highest in a year's opening month since 28 people were killed in January 2007.
Anyone with information in the shooting may call the homicide unit at 410-396-2100.
Police were also investigating two gunshot victims who walked into area hospitals. The first man came in at 5:42 p.m. after being shot in the stomach. Detectives determined he was shot in the 2100 block of W. Lexington St. He was scheduled to undergo surgery and is listed in critical but stable condition.
At 9:14 p.m., another man came to a hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Police believe he was injured in a drive-by shooting in the 1200 block of Woodbourne Ave. He was listed in stable condition. Police believe the car was white but have few other details.
No suspects or motives were identified in any of the three shootings.
Baltimore Sun staff writer Justin George contributed to this report.