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| "Ruth McBride Jordan, A Remarkable Mother" Ruth McBride Jordan died in the early days of January. Her name may not ring a bell, but her son’s book, A BLACK MAN’S TRIBUTE TO HIS WHITE MOTHER, was on the NEW YORK TIMES best seller list for 100 weeks. Ruth, an Orthodox Jewish woman, was twice married to a black man. Her first husband died leaving her with eight children. She raised those eight children for fifteen years alone, arranging for them to be bused to better schools. With her second husband, she had four more kids, prior to his death. All twelve children graduated from college. Two are doctors, two professors, two teachers, two engineers, a finance director, a social worker, a nurse, and a journalist, make up the dozen. Mother McBride, herself, earned a social work degree from Temple University at 65. Questions about racial identity were always answered the same. Mom would only say, “I’m light skinned.” She ignored stares, snide comments and cackles. All that really mattered to her was her kids and their education. There is no power greater than the force of a mother’s will and a strong public education system. | ||
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| Themes: Inspirational, Family, Kids, Quality of Life, Education | ||
| "Teen Takes Family Conflict to Facebook" Tess, a 15 year old when grounded for drinking and missing her curfew by an hour, took to Facebook to complain. She organized an advocacy group of over 1,000 teens to protest her punishment. Her defense was that she made an honest mistake. Parents have also joined the fray. So now we have a full- blown child-rearing debate 2010 on the internet. In fact, one parent started a Facebook group, “1,000 to Support Parents Who Believe in Consequences for Serious Lapses in Judgment and Care Enough about Their Kids to Enforce the Rules”. So far, Tess’s parents remain unswayed by any Internet suggestions and have not reduced her punishment. Personally, I add my support to the Facebook site, “1,000 to Support Parents Who Believe in Consequences for Serious Lapses in Judgment and Care Enough About Their Kids to Enforce the Rules.” How about you? | ||
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| Themes: Communicating, Kids, Family, Networking | ||
| "Just Google!" I traveled over the holiday internationally so was subjected to the new security coming back to the U.S. Personally, I'm not offended by pat down, but I am offended by the inability of all security organizations and all of the powers that be to have been so incompetent. The new politically correct excuse: "failure to connect the dots". If I failed to connect the dots, I'd be out of business. So Getting Your Money's Worth has suggestions. Disband all the alphabet security organizations, send the head of security (who incidentally should have been fired) back to her state, and Google. Yes, Google. Any search engine would have done better. | ||
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| Themes: Emergency Preparedness | ||
| "Memory Loss?" The average American consumes thirty-four gigabytes of data each day. That's the equivalent of about 100,000 words both read and heard. Tolstoy's book, WAR AND PEACE, which is approximately 1,500 pages, contains roughly 150,000 words. So every day and a half, we're reading or hearing the equivalent of a 1,500 page book. Most of this happens in front of screens watching TV content. Second is radio, and third computers -- and for computers, it's mostly video games. What a relief. No longer am I going to fret about memory loss. A 1,500 page book every day and a half is pretty good. | ||
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| "Kids Should Come First" Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has hundreds of millions of dollars to dispense in Race to the Top grants. This money is meant to encourage education innovation. For states to participate, there can be no cap on the number of charter schools. But here we go again with adults first and kids last. Kids should come first! There's a movement to force charter schools to unionize, to accept so many Special Ed., so many English as a Second Language -- anything to starve charter schools of flexibility and fresh thinking; the very reason they exist in the first place. No sooner does something good happen in education than it gets shot down. Charters are more effective. Long waiting lists exist. Parents and taxpayers want them. | ||
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| "Little White Lies" The NEW YORK TIMES says there are lies, damned lies and lies you tell your spouse. I'm not talking about big, deal-breaking lies. Rather, I'm talking about the little white lies that help relationships run smoothly. After all, is there a man dumb enough to tell his wife she looks fat? For women, they fib about the cost of their hair highlights or botox. A favorite trick, the new clothes out of a shopping bag in the cleaner's plastic bag. Men do fudge: how much they drink; how fast they drive. Guys said they always tell their wives they look beautiful. Over one bad hair day, I don't want to make her mad. Most spouses know that they've manipulated the truth. They don't ever consider it lying. For me, my standard lie: "Oh, you're so smart!" | ||
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| Themes: Relationships, Communication | ||
| 60 Seconds on Value: "Top Pet Peeves" | ||
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| Themes: Quality of Life, MTA | ||
| 60 Seconds on Value: "Happiness Index" | ||
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| 60 Seconds on Value: "Holiday Host Gifts" | ||
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| Themes: Wine, Holidays | ||
| "You Can Do It!" I just interviewed Don Young, YOU CAN DO IT! And he convinced me that You Can Do It!. The best thing he said is start with a road map. You wouldn't get in your car, you wouldn't drive from Chicago to New York, without putting it into the GPS system or having a map in front of you, or certainly knowing what major highways you're going to go on. So it is with financial security. And understand and appreciate after you get your road map what the value is in compound interest. It's just like making a 7-layer cake or a 9-layer cake -- the first dollar you put in starts to earn interest and every dollar on top of that earns interest as it goes along. It's really like building a house -- a stack of bricks -- one on top of the other. Secondly or thirdly, Risk and Reward is a really important issue and certainly all of us have lived through Risk and Reward. But what I didn't know about was Target Date Funds, which are funds you can start investing in at any age and are broad based like Index Funds. And you can put it on auto pilot so at different stages of your life -- for example, when you're thirty and you're on the bottom rung of the career ladder, where you're going to want to play a little bit more with stocks -- so maybe you'll have a 70/30allocation. Meaning 70% of your money in stocks, where there's more risk, and maybe 30% in fixed income bonds, where there is a guaranteed interest coupon -- much less risk, also much less growth. And so, then as you get into your 50s or 60s, and you're pre-retirement, you're going to want to think about going back to 50/50. In real retirement, you might be 70/80. But this auto pilot concept which doesn't' sound so interesting, sounds very safe. It was Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, who said, "The best holding pattern is forever." And John Bogle, who's also very well respected at Vanguard Fund, who said, "While you're sitting down and trying to figure out what to do, the best thing in your investments is to do nothing." | ||
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The Southampton Press
By Vera Chinese
Mar 17, 09 2:40 PM
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In a troubled economy, people tend to become increasingly concerned with getting the most bang for their buck. That’s where Judith West, producer and host of the television program “Getting Your Money’s Worth,” steps in. Ms. West’s program, which airs in Brooklyn and Manhattan on public access television, is about saving money and getting the most value in everything from education to health services—and, most important, life.
