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Children may only earn a few dollar bills or some coins each week, but their excitement when they have their own money to spend can be seen in the candy aisle or the toy store. The youngsters spend time picking up different sweets or toys, counting out the money in their pockets and asking Mom how much they'll have left over.
Financial experts consider an allowance one of the best ways to teach a child about money, because it is often the first time a child gets to make decisions about what to buy and what to do with money.
But when should an allowance begin?
"When the kids start getting interested in money and using money to buy things," said Dr. Jon Gallo, coauthor of "The Financially Intelligent Parent."
Gallo said this could start as early as 5 years old.
However, many children might not be ready to handle money until they're a little older, according to Susan Beacham, cofounder and CEO of Money Savvy
Generation, a website that hopes help kids get smart abount finances. Beacham said 8 years old is a good age for an allowance to begin.
"Children are too young for an allowance before age 8 because they have not yet learned what to do with money," Beacham said.
Jayne Pearl, author of "Kids and Money: Giving Them the Savvy to Succeed Financially," stressed that the age at which an allowance begins should depend on the child.
"If they seem uninterested, it may be best to wait until they seem motivated to have some money of their own," Pearl said.
For example, when a child starts nagging for candy at the grocery store, parents can explain that they will give the child a little money each week, such as 50 cents, that the child can either spend or save, but the parents will no longer buy sweets, Pearl said.
Beacham said children are only ready for an allowance after they have demonstrated the ability to set and achieve goals for all four money choices, which are save, spend, donate and invest.
Cash Only
Parents should use only coin and currency for an allowance, Beacham said.
"Many young children do not understand the concepts of gift cards and checks, but they can see that when coins and currency are gone, they're gone," Beacham
By giving your children cash, they can begin to learn how to manage their own money, according to Jeff Harris, cofounder of The Family Legacy Forum, which teaches
financial success and education to families.
"If you put it in a savings account for them, they will not be able to learn from their mistakes. This is one of the most powerful benefits of an allowance --
it allows children to learn by doing," he said.
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Several financial experts said an allowance should not be used to attempt to control behavior or manipulate a child.
"They receive their allowance because they are a family member, not because they are behaving well or getting good grades," Harris said.
Gallo said an allowance should increase as parents shift the responsibility for buying items to the child. For example, if parents are spending $4 a week on doll clothes for their 6-year-old daughter, the allowance could be $5 -- 50 cents for saving, 50 cents for charity and $4 that can be spent any way the daughter wants.
But the parents must be clear that they will not pay for doll clothes any more.
"Now your child has to think in terms of choices, alternatives and consequences. This is a major life skill you're giving your child," Gallo said.
Gallo's website, fiparent.com, has a free allowance tracker and an interactive tool for parents to decide which expenses they want to shift to children.
If a child gets a job, the allowance should continue because the youngster can still share in the family's resources, Gallo said.
"Why punish the child for getting a job?" Gallo said.
Pearl agreed, saying stopping an allowance may be a disincentive to work.
"But you can suggest that now that they are working, that they earmark more of their total earnings for saving and charitable giving. You can help them set goals that are loftier and very meaningful to them," Pearl said.


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India is a large nation; it would take nearly a year to cross the nation walking from the Southern tip to the edge of the Himalayas in the North. It can be difficult to choose which destinations to visit while traveling there. First-time travelers to India often travel the "Golden Triangle" which includes Delhi, Agra (including the Taj Mahal) and Jaipur.
Each of these locations is incredible. However, one of my favorite places in India was Varanasi. Varanasi offers liveliness and real-life experiences. A local told me, "If we can detach ourselves from our surroundings, our soul will be liberated and we will live in freedom."
It is certainly an overwhelming city -- beggars are relentless, the streets are overcrowded and vendors pull you into their shop hoping you'll buy something from them. However, that did not destroy the sensation of positivity I felt while I was there.
As I walked down the ghats (steps leading to the Ganges River) at sunset I took in my surroundings. Aarti, the evening prayer ceremony, was happening. I stood among thousands of people who reached the final destination on their religious pilgrimage; thousands more people were on the river watching the ceremony from a boat. I saw flames in the river and was told they were bodies being cremated. I also saw bodies in the process of decomposition floating down the river. It is believed the Ganges is the giver of life. People, in return, give the cremated ashes back to the river that once gave them life. In return, they will go to heaven.
At sunrise I watched the city come alive from a boat on the river. Hundreds of people were practicing yoga and meditating on the steps while others bathed and drank the water. The river is not only used for religious purposes, but also practical ones. Poorer people carry heavy loads of clothes down the steps each morning and beat them on rocks until they are considered clean.
Although the main streets in Varanasi have a lot to offer, the alleyways lead you to another world. Clothing lines are hung in the windows between homes, restaurants are tucked into a hole in the wall and vibrant fabrics are overflowing from shop doors. Cows enter shops freely and can lie wherever they please.
Traveling India can be busy, stressful and altogether tiring at times. The people can be "in your face," but that is only by Western standards. India has a spirit of her own and traditions that have been alive for thousands of years. India, Varanasi in particular, is especially unique to travel to because everyone takes away a different story.


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A couple was arrested for allegedly sticking broken razor blades in doughnuts in hopes of getting a settlement from a grocery store.
Carol Lee Leazer-Hardman, 39, and Michael Condor, 35, both of in Draper, Utah were arrested for filing a false police report after allegedly sticking the razor bits into doughnuts they purchased at a Smith's Food and Drug store and then actually eating the blade-filled pastries, KSL-TV reported. Police said Condor admitted that the two had planted the metal in the doughnuts so they could get a settlement from the store, KUTV-TV reported.
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The Times, at 5906 W. Vliet St., has been closed since March, when the lender for the building and other properties, including the Rosebud Cinema in Wauwatosa, began foreclosure proceedings. Investor Lee Barczak, who owns the Avalon Theatre property in the Bay View neighborhood, bought the Times and Rosebud at a foreclosure auction in May, and reopened the Rosebud in August »Read Full Article(1)
Watch Alan Jackson's tribute to George Jones
There have been dozens of tributes to George Jones since his passing two weeks ago, but none is as heartbreaking and poignant as Alan Jackson's performance of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" during the country legend's funeral at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville last Friday.
The Opry has now made the video of the performance available online as a lasting testament to the impact Jones had on the country music community. From the stark emotion in Jackson's voice and on his face, it is clear that Jones was more than the accolades to his peers. He was an intricate piece of the Nashville family. »Read Full Blog Post
Skylight presents intimate take on 'Porgy & Bess'
In the summer of 1926, George Gershwin returned home from rehearsals for a new musical. Wired and needing to clear his head, he picked up a recent bestselling novel as bedtime reading. He didn't put it down until he had finished it the following morning. The novel was DuBose Heyward's "Porgy."
In "The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess: The Story of an American Classic," Hollis Alpert describes what happened next: Gershwin was so excited "by the story and its author's apparent musical sensitivity" that he immediately wrote Heyward and suggested they collaborate on an opera. Nine years later, it made a now-legendary Broadway debut as "Porgy and Bess." »Read Full Article(1)
Tonight show skit succeeds with real-life couple
When Jay Leno ventures out of the studio to speak with real people the results are often, well, lame.
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The Bay, the casual restaurant at 342 E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay, has been in soft-opening mode.
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Milwaukee Ballet puts 'Swan Lake' in smaller pond
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" may be one of the world's most famous ballets, but the story's ending, and even the number of acts it contains, can change with each new production.
One never knows whether the boy will get the girl, lose the girl, or whether either or both of them will even survive. »Read Full Article
Stampley returns to Milwaukee in Skylight Music Theatre's 'Porgy & Bess'
It's the terrifying call that every actor nevertheless longs to get.
Cast in the recent Broadway revival of "Porgy and Best" as Robbins - who is murdered and disappears in the opera's first scene - Milwaukee native and Whitefish Bay High School grad Nathaniel Stampley learned at the last minute one night that he would be going on stage as Porgy, one of two roles he was understudying. »Read Full Article
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A self-described "change-of-life baby," Sheri Williams Pannell was born in Milwaukee, but her parents and siblings - older by as much as 20 years - hail from Louisiana.
"Goin' Up North," a cabaret piece she conceived and will also direct, tells the story of their journey north. Except for opening night, it will be staged after each Friday and Saturday performance of Skylight Music Theatre's production of "Porgy and Bess." »Read Full Article
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In February, Ireland finally came clean regarding some very dirty laundry, admitting its long-standing role in aiding and abetting the existence of the notorious Magdalene laundries.
Ostensibly asylums for the reform of "fallen" women, these facilities enabled the Catholic Church to turn a tidy profit by using women - petty criminals, unwed mothers or simply young women deemed overly flirtatious or beautiful, in a country that has long associated women with sex and sex with sin - as a slave labor pool. The last one wasn't closed until 1996. »Read Full Article(4)
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Comedian, TV host and occasional lightning rod Bill Maher will bring his wit, rants and insights to the Riverside Theater at 8 p.m. Oct. 12.
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Fajitas Grill Centro grows, and so does menu
The change for Fajitas Grill was a big one.
The restaurant started by executive chef Arturo Napoles and his wife, Rachel, closed on N. Farwell Ave. in summer and reopened on E. Mason St. in late January. It added several business partners and tweaked its name - to Fajitas Grill Centro. It expanded its menu of namesake fajitas, and it now serves breakfast in addition to lunch and dinner. »Read Full Article(5)
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Gregg Allman, Ian Hunter and Chris Isaak are among the six headlining acts slated to perform at Potawatomi Bingo Casino's Northern Lights Theater, the casino announced Friday morning.
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Loved the book, hated the movie? Or the other way around?
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Soundgarden is about as serious as rock bands get these days, so its fun to see the Chris Cornell-fronted group loosen up a little bit in the music video for its latest single "By Crooked Steps."
The Dave Grohl-directed video opens with the guys finishing up a poker game and slipping on Crooked Steps biker jackets as they head out into the night. But just when you expect to see them revving their Harleys, a medium shot reveals the guys doing their best tough guy expressions while cruising along on some Segways. »Read Full Blog Post
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Flip Wilson: What you saw wasn't all you got
Forty years ago, Flip Wilson was the biggest thing in television.
In its first two seasons on NBC, "The Flip Wilson Show" was the second-most watched program on TV. His comic characters spawned two of the medium's hottest catchphrases, "The devil made me do it" and "What you see is what you get!" (The latter lives on in its acronym, a computer application that allows you to see what a document you're working on will look like - WYSIWYG.) He jump-started the careers of the two biggest names in comedy, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. In January 1972, Time magazine had him on the cover, calling him "TV's First Black Superstar." »Read Full Article
New Frank Lloyd Wright tour in Chicago
Chicago is known for its architecture -- and architectural tours. Now, there's a new one to add to the mix, a day-long bus tour that travels to Frank Lloyd Wright structures.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust will launch the "Wright Around Chicago Bus Tour," complete with a gourmet boxed lunch, starting June 12. »Read Full Blog Post
Dr. Dawg in Greenfield is now open
The Greenfield location of Dr. Dawg, the hot dog, sausage and hamburger shop, opened this morning at 7700 W. Layton Ave.
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Watch: Patton Oswalt's "Star Wars" filibuster on "Parks and Rec"
NBC airs a "Parks and Recreation" double header Thursday, and in one episode Patton Oswalt appears before the Pawnee City Council and engages in a citizen filibuster, drawing on the recent acquisition of the "Star Wars" universe by the Disney corporation.
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Is that a Savage or a Sedaris?
Brent Gohde, who's staging a Cedar Block show called 'May the Schwartz Be With You' Saturday at Turner Hall Ballroom, worked at the former Schwartz Bookshop on N. Downer Ave. in the 1997-2000 period.
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A Florida teenager left a parting gift for his stepfather who kicked him out of the house.
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Apparently, Cruz-Blanco didn't have a job and wasn't going to school, so his stepfather was kicking him out.
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The name of Keri Russell's new film may be "Dark Skies," but in reality, the light is shining brighter than ever on the acclaimed actress' already successful career.
In a recent interview, Russell told me that she's read several scripts in the horror and supernatural thriller genre, but there was really nothing that piqued her interest until the script for writer-director Scott Stewart's "Dark Skies" rolled overhead.
"It's one of those scripts that I read and instantly thought, 'That's going to work.' It has all the rights for me. It's scary, but fun scary, but at the core, it was like a family drama," Russell said. "For me, those are the kinds of movies I like, where you believe in the family, first, to set things up, and then things start happening -- like in a 'Poltergeist' vein. That's more of what we were targeting."
Opening in theaters nationwide on Friday, Russell and Josh Hamilton star as Lacy and Daniel Barrett, a pair of suburban parents whose peaceful existence is turned into a living nightmare as a mysterious alien presence invades their home and preys upon them.
Having played roles in everything from drama (TV's "Felicity") and romance ("Waitress"), to comedy ("Bedtime Stories") and action ("Mission: Impossible III"), Russell she didn't realize how much of a blast being in a scary movie was until she saw the completed project on the big screen.
"I brought a group of girlfriends to a screening of the film that the studio set up for me and I forgot how fun scary movies are to see," Russell said with a laugh. "It's thrilling. When the scary parts come up, you want to be frightened so bad -- and you don't want it -- but it's so fun as its happening."
The interesting thing about "Dark Skies," Russell pointed out, is while the film's "reach out and grab you" moments are exhilarating, it has the sorts of unnerving scares, too, that anybody with a family can relate to.
"It really preys on all parents' fears about losing control over being able to protect your kids and outside influences coming in," said Russell, a mother of two in real life.
And that's just the beginning, she added. Other real-life fears are plaguing the family that people can relate to, and those fears are intensified by the supernatural forces that invade them.
"They're worried that the father has lost his job and that they're not going to be able to pay their mortgage. The couple is strained in their relationship and they're worried about the divorce and how the kids would handle that. Those are all very real things that the family is dealing with," Russell said.
"Then the scary stuff starts to happen, and in a way, it's a metaphor for what's happening, since the family is a unit that's trying to keep all those outside forces away," she added. "By that point, hopefully you're invested enough to go through the scary stuff with them."
Apart from the film's satisfying premise, Russell said she loves the respect Stewart pays to his filmmaker predecessors in "Dark Skies."
Among them is a scene that recalls a terrifying Alfred Hitchcock classic, where Lacy suddenly finds her family's house under siege by birds. In fact, Russell said Stewart couldn't resist taking the opportunity to subtly paying homage to "The Birds" star Tippi Hedren.
"When we shot that scene, the costume designer put me in a robin egg blue shirt, and it was our own little homage to Hitchcock's girl," Russell said, laughing. "He always put the girl in that robin egg blue dressed, so we made sure I was wearing that for the scene."
Russell said she loved the fact that Stewart brought the best of both horror movie worlds to "Dark Skies," first with the physical presence of birds smashing into the windows of Lacy's home -- but also by prying on the fear of the unknown with aliens only being seen as shadowy figures instead of being in your face.
"For me, the suggestion of something is always more scary because you are allowed in a way to draw your own conclusions," Russell said.
Russell's excitement over the release of "Dark Skies" is also enhanced by the success of "The Americans," an FX channel espionage thriller that stars her and Matthew Rhys as a couple of high-level Soviet spies in the early 1980s in Washington, D.C., who disguise themselves as an everyday American couple with two children.
Russell, 36, said much like "Dark Skies," she's fascinated by her character in "The Americans" because it is grounded in real human emotion.
"The show is all couched in the spy world, but to me the real heart of the show is this complex and crazy arranged marriage of these two people who are trying to survive, who don't really know each other, and 15 years later, are finally starting to reveal themselves to each other," Russell said. "They have to confront how much it will affect their work and how they'll have to compromise their true ideals -- especially with my character, who is more emotionally cut off and is finally starting to see that she might not survive is she continues to be that way. The relationship is endlessly interesting in the way they set it up."
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A plea agreement has been reached in the sex abuse case of a former Ben-Gals cheerleader and her mother.
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Sarah Jones was accused of having sexual contact with a student at Dixie Heights High School where she worked as a teacher.
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Sarah Jones was facing two charges including sex abuse of the first-degree. She pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and custodial interference.
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Sentencing was set for Nov. 22, but Jones asked to be sentenced now. She was then sentenced to two years in prison, but was told she would stay out of jail if she stays out of trouble for the next five years. She will not have to register as a sex offender.
"I began a romantic relationship while he was a student and I was in a position of authority," Jones said tearfully.
Jones said the relationship began in February 2011 at Dixie Heights High School when the boy was 17. She said the two had sex, that she sent him sexually explicit text messages and lied about the relationship to police.
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That's what friends are forFebruary 11,2013
I just made the 12th payment on my car. Im not sure I can mention the specific brand of the vehicle in a column so Ill just tell you that it rhymes with zoobaru.
This is my second zoobaru. It has been a very good investment reliable, decent gas mileage and practical. However, this particular car has a minor quirk that can jeopardize a friendship.
The issue involves a rearview mirror that does not want to stay attached to the windshield. This first came to my attention a short time after purchasing the car. I was driving down a very busy road, minding my own business tailgating and weaving in and out of traffic, when the mirror randomly fell off and landed on the passengers side floor mat.
Safe driving is all about paying attention to your surroundings, so before stopping to assess the situation I bent over and looked into the mirror to see if anyone was behind me. Of course all I saw was the trash someone stuffed under the seat. I pulled over to the side of the highway and employed my very sharp observational skills to make the astute determination that, as suspected, the mirror had fallen off the windshield.
When I got home, I took out some super glue to reattach the mirror. I figured if this stuff could hold a construction worker to an I-beam with a drop of the liquid, it should be able to hold a small mirror to the windshield. I was right. For about two months the mirror stayed in place. And then one day, for no apparent reason, it dropped to the floor again. This time I took the car to the dealer and had a mechanic use an industrial strength automotive adhesive that cost almost as much as a new engine to fix the problem. I drove off happy to be able to see the money-gouging dealership in my newly affixed rearview mirror.
Again, all was good in my world for approximately two months, until the mirror, apparently tired of hanging on, once again let go and dropped to the floor.
And so the pattern has continued: Glue the mirror; its good for two months; it falls off.
Last week a friend and I were planning to go to Burlington. His car was getting repaired, so I offered to drive. We barely got onto the interstate when the mirror fell from the windshield, bounced off the stick shift and landed in his lap.
Hey, hold it in place, would you? I very politely requested.
What do you mean? he asked.
Hold it in place against the windshield so I can see whats behind us.
You mean until you switch lanes?
No, hold it in place until we get to Burlington.
You would think I just asked him to donate a kidney.
Thats 40 miles away?! He said.
Actually, its closer to 36.
Well, this guy pretty much whined about the blood running from his hand and arm down into his chest all the way to the Richmond exit, and then he stopped talking to me entirely.
I began to worry about him. Not his circulation issues; my concern was based on the possibility that he might try to jump out of the car as soon as we slowed down. Fortunately, my zoobaru has a child safety door lock feature that I was able to activate on the sly to prevent his premature exit.
Once in Burlington I purchased some duct tape and was able to affix the mirror to the windshield for the quiet ride home. The problem was that it took the better part of the roll to keep the mirror attached. I could see behind me without a problem. However, the multiple strips of tape across the windshield made huge blind spots, and visibility out the front of the car was difficult at best.
The next day I was supposed to drive old grumpy pants to the shop to pick up his car. Unfortunately, I didnt have any more super glue, and the duct tape wasnt working too well. Then I had a brilliant idea. In my basement there was an old bike helmet with an attached mirror. So I put it on and went to get my friend. Two thoughts about my experience: One, if you want to see people quickly get out of your way when you are driving, wear a bike helmet; and two, apparently wearing a bike helmet when you are behind the wheel can be embarrassing to your passenger.
At least thats what I think my buddy is going to say when he starts talking to me again.
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BARRE TOWN Sharon Linly Crafts passed away Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at her home in Barre Town after a brief illness, surrounded by her loving family.
Sharon was born in Barre on Jan. 30, 1950, the daughter of Charles W. and Geraldine B. Averill. She attended Trow Hill School and graduated from Spaulding High School. She earned her LPN and began her health care career in Hanover, N.H. It was there that she met her husband, Peter Burton Crafts.
Sharon later moved to southern Vermont to be with Peter, and she worked in various health care settings in that area. They married and moved to Starksboro, where they raised their son, Adam, and Sharon continued her health care career. This place was very special to Sharon. Following her husbands death, she returned to Barre and lived with her parents whom she loved and cared for until their passing.
Her most recent employment was at the senior living community, The Gardens, in Williamstown, as the activities director and all-around event planner, a position she loved and a place where she formed many wonderful friendships.
Sharon was creative and artistic, working in many mediums, was a master gardener and a great cook. She especially loved painting, was a member of the Barre Paletteers and won several awards at their annual summer show.
Sharon loved spending time at the family cottage on Caspian Lake where she loved to swim, canoe and kayak, as well as watch the ducks and loons. Sharon loved nature, especially the animals, and cared for many wonderful pets. Her grandchildren were very special to her, and she shared many precious times with them. Sharon was a kind and gentle soul and will be missed greatly by everyone who knew her.
Sharon is survived by her son, Adam Essington Crafts, and daughter-in-law, Jessica McNally, and their children, Anzley and Parsons, of Wolcott; her brother, Charles Averill, and his wife, Rosemary, of Barre, and their children, Alyse and Kari; sisters Ann Broad, of Roswell, Ga., and her daughters, Erin and Emily, and Arlene Averill and her partner, Kay Charron, of West Woodbury, and their son, Patrick.
She was predeceased by her husband; her parents; a sister, Mary Beth Averill; brother-in-law David Broad; and a nephew, Kevin Broad.
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- X-ray. During an X-ray, a small amount of radiation passes through your body to produce images of your internal structures. This test is good for evaluating bones, but is less effective at visualizing soft tissues. Tiny cracks or stress fractures in bones may not show up, especially at first, on regular X-rays.
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The Super Bowl advertisement by Hyundai Motor Groups Kia. In the advertisment, Kia invents a fanciful way that babies are made, blasting in from a baby planet in its Space babies ad for the 2014 Sorento crossover.
NEW YORK Super Bowl ads this year morphed into mini soap operas.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson shrugged off aliens so he could get more milk for his kids in a Super Bowl spot for the Milk Processor Education Program. Anheuser-Buschs commercial told the story of a Clydesdale colt growing up and returning to his owner for a heartfelt hug years later. And a Jeep ad portrayed the trials and triumphs of people waiting for the return of their family members.
The reason for all the drama off the field? With 30-second spots going for as much as $4 million and more than 111 million viewers expected to tune in, marketers are constantly looking for ways to make their ads stand out. And its increasingly difficult to captivate viewers with short-form plots involving babies, celebrities, sex and humor unless theres a compelling story attached.
Tear-jerking mini epics
Chrysler started the long-format commercial trend last year, with a two-minute spot starring Clint Eastwood that became very popular.
This year, Chrysler led the trend again with its two-minute salute to troops and their families. The ad featured Oprah Winfrey reading a letter from the Jeep brand to encourage families to stay hopeful.
Anheuser-Busch also pulled at heartstrings with a spot about a Clydesdale colt growing up and moving away from his farm and his trainer who raised him from birth. Years later, the trainer drives to Chicago to see the horse in a parade. The horse spots his trainer and gallops toward him, nuzzling him fondly as the trainer hugs him.
User-inspired tales
Lincolns 90-second ad was inspired by tweets by fans about road trips. The company asked people to send their stories, and Jimmy Fallon, host of NBCs Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, decided on which tales would be used.
The ad, which was based on more than 6,000 tweets from fans, shows adventures during a fictional road trip. A woman picks up a German hitchhiker, and they go to an alpaca farm, get stopped by turtles crossing the road, and drive through a movie set.
Comedy goes long
Samsungs two-minute ad showed Seth Rogen (The Guilt Trip) and Paul Rudd (Role Models) getting called in to do a Next Big Thing ad for Samsung. But theyre agitated once they realize that theyre sharing the spotlight. LeBron James, an NBA basketball player for the Miami Heat, makes a cameo, appearing on the screen of a tablet.
Budweiser, a long-time Super Bowl advertiser, also told a continuing story in two of its ads. One showed rival 49ers and Ravens fans each creating a voodoo doll for the other team with the help of R&B legend Stevie Wonder. In the other ad, fans go to great lengths to curse a rival fans lucky chair.
Its only weird if it doesnt work, the words in the ad read.
Not all ads tells a story
Although many advertisers tried to pull people in with lengthy story lines, there were a few that stuck with short, quirky spots with no particular plot.
GoDaddy.coms ad was one of them. It showed a close up, extended kiss between supermodel Bar Refaeli and a nerdy guy wearing glasses to illustrate GoDaddys combo of sexy and smart.
Some viewers thought the ad was too explicit for the Super Bowl.
I dont care who wins the game. I just dont want to see that commercial again, ever, said Stephen G. Smith, 63, an editor at The Washington Times in Washington, D.C.
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The reality of consolidationMarch 06,2014
Here are six lessons I learned about state-mandated school and school district consolidation from my experience as policy director of the Rural School and Community Trust (1997-2012). The Vermont experience could be entirely different, of course. If it is, it will be a remarkable achievement.
Lesson 1: You dont save money but you change who gets it. Consider West Virginia, the most aggressive consolidator of schools. According to an award-winning series of investigative reports by the Charleston Gazette:
During the 1990s West Virginia spent $1 billion to encourage consolidation.
State officials acknowledge no money savings.
With a 13 percent enrollment decline (loss of 41,000), they closed 300 schools but experienced a 16 percent increase in local administrators. Centralized bureaucracies do not shrink, they expand.
A higher percentage of budgets was spent on maintenance and utilities than before.
West Virginia spends more of its education dollar on transportation than any other state.
Lesson 2: Its about closing schools, not districts. Because its really about money, the issue usually is focused on inefficient administration and streamlining districts. But little money can be saved in closing districts because thats not where the money is. The only real way to cut costs is to close schools, reduce the teaching force and increase class size. Closing districts dismantles the political apparatus that protects schools. Thus, closing districts always ends up being but a prelude to closing schools.
Lesson 3: Consolidation is something the wealthy and powerful force on the less wealthy and less powerful. In Maine, protests from larger and wealthier towns won them exemptions from the states consolidation law. Fifty-five percent of the students in the state were in districts that were ultimately exempt from reorganization. Those districts forced to consolidate are mostly Down East, in the far North or in the rural rim between the interstate corridor and the unorganized Northern Territories. The anger was so profound that the Legislature amended the law to allow towns to back out of their consolidated district.
In Arkansas, where consolidation was to be about districts, not schools, the 67 districts forced to close disproportionately served African-American communities in the Mississippi Delta region, or poor white communities in the mountains. Within two years, 47 of the 134 schools operating in these districts were closed. Schools that were closed had 21 percent higher student poverty rates and served nearly three times the proportion of African-American students.
Lesson 4: Consolidation increases childrens time on buses and crimps participation. In West Virginia, thousands of kids spend over two hours on the bus each school day. Some are on the bus longer than they are in the classroom. Another result: less participation in co-curricular activities, both because of longer bus rides and because there are fewer opportunities per pupil in larger schools. Most alarming is the increase in dropout rates. Consolidation could harm Vermonts No. 1 rating in graduation.
Lesson 5: Bigger high schools offer more but dont accomplish more. A Nebraska study found that larger high schools do offer more courses. However, participation in the curriculum is narrower, with some kids doing more but many more taking fewer classes across the curriculum. Study hall participation rates were highest in the largest high schools. In bigger schools, kids participation is not as needed or as valued. They can hide from challenging courses, and no one goes looking for them, especially if they are poor test takers. Low-income children in particular do better in smaller schools.
Lesson 6: Democracy matters, and attempts to gloss over the loss of local control with community councils do not excite public participation. If you think it is hard to get people to run for the school board, wait until you tell them that they can still come to the meetings, they just dont have any power. A community council is not a bridge but a buffer between local citizens and centralized boards and administrations. They reduce public support for education.
State-mandated cooperation is an alternative to forced consolidation. Cooperation among districts in some supervisory unions has proven effective in holding down costs. More administrative functions can be centralized if the districts delegate them to the supervisory union or are required to do so. Purchasing, transportation, building maintenance and repair, bookkeeping and finance, personnel, collective bargaining, data collection and management, special education, and purchased professional and IT services are possibilities.
With more support functions assigned to the supervisory union, the district boards can focus on teaching and learning. But the key to school success is that the administrator closest to them the school principal has the authority within the bounds of supervisory union-wide policies and goals to implement their decisions. If superintendents have too many meetings to go to, they have not delegated enough authority and responsibility to principals.
Instead of being an obstacle to excellence, perhaps supervisory unions are the reason education is so successful in Vermont. Clumsy though they may appear, they have embraced genuine local and parental involvement and empowerment while providing a leading edge for the 21st century. Distancing the public from public schools does not improve schools or democratic involvement.
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Solo Sara Bareilles makes big impression in small room
The voice of Sara Bareilles could fill, and has filled, venues larger than the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center Auditorium, which sold out its 435-seat capacity when she stopped there Friday night.
Bareilles was in the midst of her first-ever solo tour and evidently wanted the intimacy of a smaller venue - combined, perhaps, with the assurance that if she failed, she would do so in front of a smaller crowd. »Read Full Article(2)
Next Act Theatre explores truth in lies in 'Perfect Mendacity'
Are Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden traitors or patriots? Can doing the right thing involve breaking the law? And can one lie to tell the truth?
These are among the questions on the table in Jason Wells' "Perfect Mendacity," a broad satire now on stage at Next Act Theatre under David Cecsarini's direction. »Read Full Article
Drink, meet dish, Part 2: A smart Cocktail Week menu at c.1880
I rarely have room in my schedule to attend special pairing dinners, those multicourse events that match dishes with wine, beer or cocktails. But I love 'em; it's such a pleasure to see chefs unleash their creativity and to hear what went into the making of a dish and the spirit, and taste how the food and drink relate.
For the inaugural Milwaukee Cocktail Week, c.1880 in Walker's Point is serving a five-course menu on Monday with drinks made with Great Lakes Distillery spirits. It opens with a riff on a Bloody Mary, in food and drink: »Read Full Blog Post
Big finish, ovation for Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra opener
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's season-opening concert Friday night at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts led to a big finish and an equally big ovation.
The orchestra, led by former music director Andreas Delfs and joined by pianist Jeremy Denk, opened with Aaron Jay Kernis' introspective "Musica Celestis" (Heavenly Music) for string orchestra. »Read Full Article(1)
Skylight takes Beethoven to Bollywood with ferocious 'Fidelio'
The Skylight Music Theatre doesn't have an official mascot, but it might think about borrowing the giant tiger Raghava KK designed for its "Fidelio." The feline could serve as a fitting avatar for the ferocious vitality new artistic director Viswa Subbaraman is bringing to the Skylight.
Subbaraman and his creative team infused this production of Beethoven's only opera with a set design, costumes, movements and gestures drawn from Indian culture and Bollywood. They brought color and movement to an opera that could easily be static on stage, and a liveliness of spirit to a show that could come across as a bit preachy, with its brotherhood-of-man lyrics, while sacrificing nothing musically. »Read Full Article(2)
Fashion Week MKE; Banned Books Week; Chili cook-off
Styling Milwaukee
Runways aren't just for Mitchell International Airport. Stylin' Milwaukeeans can attend a number of runway shows, fashion forums and parties all week as part of the Fashion Week Milwaukee Initiative. The fun starts Sunday at 10 a.m. with the Style & Shopping Market Party taking place at SPiN Milwaukee, 233 E Chicago St., and ends Saturday with a style party at 8 p.m. at Oak, 231 E. Buffalo St. Some events are free; others have a ticket price of $10. Find the schedule at www.fashionweekmke.com along with the tickets and registration for free events. »Read Full Article
Performing Arts Events
Boswell Book Company: Karen Joy Fowler "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," 7 p.m. Sept. 23, Antoine Laurain "The President's Hat," 7 p.m. Sept. 24, Paul Harding "Enon," 7 p.m. Sept. 25, Hannah Kent "Burial Rites," 7 p.m. Sept. 26, Kathleen Kent "The Outcasts," 7 p.m. Sept. 26, Andrea Skyberg and Michael Greer "Creating Books Through Collaboration," 7 p.m. Sept. 27, Alice McDermott "Someone," 11 a.m. Sept. 28, 2559 N. Downer Ave., (414) 332-1181. »Read Full Article


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Starting and stopping for separate trips to the grocery store, salon and video store uses up more gas and is worse for the environment, Howie said. Vehicles emit more pollutants in the first minutes after startup, as their emissions systems haven't fully warmed and are functioning less efficiently.
But what about the car?
Not every green driving tip focuses on changing your driving habits. There are steps you can take with your vehicle that will help save you some green and the environment at the same time.
The website FuelEconomy.gov, a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, stresses the importance of keeping your engine properly tuned.
The site suggests that a properly-tuned engine can provide efficiency savings of 4 percent. Checking and replacing air filters provides another 10 percent and proper tire pressure 3.3 percent. Using a motor oil that says "energy conserving" on the API performance label can give you another 1 to 2 percent in efficiency savings.
And even when and how you fill up your car can play a part.
AAA suggests the best time to fill your car is at cooler temperatures. That's because gas fumes heat up at warmer temps and create ozone. AAA also recommends against topping off the tank, which can release gas fumes into the air, canceling the benefits of the gas pump's anti-pollution devices.
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France recognizes America as a nation, the Wright brothers take flight, Tiny Tim marries Miss Vicki in front of millions of TV viewers, and Kim Jong-il dies, all on this day.
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Montpelier School Board mulls next year's budget already
MONTPELIER – Even before residents vote on the Montpelier school district budget this March, the School Board is beginning talks for next year's vote.
School Board member Charlie Phillips says that's about six or seven months earlier than usual. The discussion comes as the district will face increases of about $500,000 each fiscal year for three years due to negotiated contracts and health benefits that call for 3 percent increases on average, Superintendent Brian Ricca told the City Council Jan. 24.
Due to the agreements, the budget rise from $16,986,916 for the upcoming school year, which is fiscal year 2014, then to nearly $17.5 million and then $18 million the following year, Ricca said during the meeting.
"Sitting here, I'm looking at a $2 million increase over two years, and it's just sort of mind-boggling," Mayor John Hollar said at the meeting. "It's clearly not sustainable."
School Board members say the increases are needed for the district to prevent teachers from switching to neighboring jobs and that Montpelier teachers are in the middle of the pack compared to other districts in central Vermont. School Board member Ken Jones said Thursday given declining enrollment, the response of decreasing the level of staffing can take time.
"It's just hard to fathom in an area where median income in Vermont is about where it was in 2007," Hollar said. "We're lower actually than we were six years ago in household income, and yet we're proposing an increase in teacher salaries of 10 percent over the next three years."
"That follows increases (for) every one of those last six years," said Hollar, who recently chaired the city's Board of School Commissioners. "We haven't had any years in which they've been held steady. It's just hard to reconcile."
The "teachers" union contract, approved in October, has a 4 percent overall increase that went into effect for the beginning of this school year and will have increases of 3 percent for the upcoming two school years. A second bargaining unit, the Montpelier Educational Support Staff Association, negotiated a similar agreement for the same three years.
The "teachers" bargaining unit, dubbed the Montpelier Education Association, covers about 120 staff, which includes nurses and coaches. Fiscal years, which begin and end in the summer, for 2011 and 2012 for the group covered two one-year contracts, each with 1.5 percent increases.
A third bargaining unit covering 13 staffers for facilities, administrative support staff and technology support specialists is still negotiating a three-year contract that would begin next year.
Phillips, who was also an English teacher and a high school principal at the district, suggested at Wednesday night's board meeting for the district to highlight its strengths. He proposed the district re-explore moving fifth graders to the Main Street Middle School from Union Elementary School, where a growing student population currently makes space limited.
As part of the one-year budget look ahead, school officials also suggested several ideas, such as providing opportunities for high school students beyond interactions with teachers and using creative problem-solving like the district did with boys and girls ice hockey teams in the past, where the district merged those teams with other school districts.
Phillips also said afterward the district could also pursue a new negotiating process in the future that would rely more on identifying mutual goals rather than a give-and-take approach, where sides can tend to make extreme offers.
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My Summerfest: Willy Porter Band
When to see them: 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Johnson Controls World Sound Stage
Fest experience: Porter said 2012 was the first time in 22 or 23 years where he didn't perform at Summerfest. He went to his first Summerfest when he was about 14. »Read Full Article
Vitrano lifts up 'Trailer Park Prophecies'
True to its title, Jim Farrell's "Trailer Park Prophecies" — now receiving its world premiere, in a Farrell-directed production by Splinter Group Theatre — really does feature a psychic who lives in a trailer.
Charlie Wendel (Joe Picchetti) dwells there with his mother (Linda Loving), and that's where we first meet them, as the geeky and hyper Charlie dive bombs the Wendel couch, hoping it will cough up enough loose change to warrant a trip to the Tastee Freez. »Read Full Article
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, Brandy Clark coming to Riverside
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles is going solo for a new album, "That Girl," and a new tour that takes her to the Riverside Theater March 14.
But for some country music fans, that may not be the most exciting part of the show announcement: Up-and-comer Brandy Clark is opening. Clark's album "12 Stories" received rave reviews and was named top country album and one of the 10 best albums of 2013 by the Journal Sentinel. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: Board games, pinball and something everyone does
We now proclaim Monday night as game night.
Fink's, 1875 N. Humboldt Ave., kicks off its January pinball tournament at 7 p.m. Details are at Fink's Facebook page. »Read Full Blog Post


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FDR becomes the first president to fly while in office, Joltin' Joe and Marilyn Monroe elope, Bogie dies, and the Miami Dolphins cap off a perfect season, all on this day.
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How much would you pay to have snails crawling across your face?
In Japan, women are ponying up hundreds for the hot new beauty fad known as snail facials, in which several of the mollusks are placed on your cheeks and forehead and spread their slimy goo across your face, the Telegraph reported.
According to Ci:z:Labo spa, snail slime is packed with proteins, antioxidents and hyaluronic acid, which helps the skin retain moisture and reduce redness.
The treatment, which also includes a mask and electrical pulse machines, is touted as a way heal damaged skin and "promote beauty."
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Former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with another man Saturday on a Texas gun range, a sheriff told local media outlets.
Kyle, 38, and a second unidentified man were found dead at Rough Creek Lodge's shooting range west of Glen Rose, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Stephenville Empire-Tribune and Dallas Mornings News.
Rough Creek Lodge is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
A suspect, identified as Eddie Ray Routh, was arrested, according to reports.
The Star-Telegram reports a gunman opened fire on the men, then fled in a pickup truck belonging to one of the victims, witnesses told sheriff's investigators. The newspaper said a 25-year-old man was later taken into custody in Lancaster, southeast of Dallas.
"It just comes as a shock and it's staggering to think that after all Chris has been through, that this is how he meets his end, because there are so many ways he could have been killed" in Iraq, Scott McEwen, who wrote the book with Kyle, told Reuters.
Kyle wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History," detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009.
Kyle served four combat tours of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom and elsewhere, and won two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for bravery, according to his book.
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