| Teach your children the value of every dollar
In my household most requests for toys, video games or trips to a fast-food restaurant are met with two words: College Fund. You may not realize it, but your children do watch, listen and internalize what you say and do about money. For example, my 8-year-old son was ordering from the kid's menu and couldn't decide between a hamburger and a cheeseburger when we were having brunch one day after church. When I asked him why he was taking so long to decide, he said, "Mommy, the cheeseburger cost 20 cents more than the hamburger and we need that money for my college fund." I put my right hand across my heart. I was so proud. I let him have the cheeseburger. "I think this time we can splurge and your college fund will be OK, honey," I said. Now if you don't know how to start teaching your children about money, let me help since April has been designated Financial Literacy Month.
Your Views: Earlier thoughts on music downloading
Yes. Clearly the music industry as it has been over the last 80 years or so is history. The rate of decline of record sales and royalties will be exponential. Musicians will need to perform live to make money. That's life. Ashley
Reading the various responses on this site is enough to send a chill up anyones spine. I do not think I have ever heard so many different ways of justifying theft. Robert
The Recording Industry is always quick to blame lower CD sales as the result of piracy. They dont seem to consider the possibility that consumers are not interested in the same music year after year. I have not purchased a single CD in a couple of years now. I buy my music (legit) online. I am also more into internet Radio and Indie music as there is a lot of great unknown talent.
THE CROSSBONES Carl’s Burg
On Friday, April 27, The Crossbones will take over the Rosemount Hotel as they launch their highly-anticipated Stick Of Rollin' Dynamite record. Guitarist and backing vocalist Carl Planz tells MIKE WAFER it nearly never happened. “Melbourne was kind of ‘make or break' for us in terms of whether or not we wanted to keep the band going," says Planz, relieved that the trip turned out to be more of the former than the latter. “We got over there and, fuck me, it was totally re-energising for the band. Just playing really good shows, but actually seeing people who give a fuck ya know? People who didn't know anything about us actually gave a fuck about the band and were really into it, and that made us all go ‘well, maybe there is something in it'. ‘Maybe it is worth doing'. Because, you know, there's only so much you can play at home to the same crowd before you start thinking ‘what's the point?', because you get the feeling that no one even knows you exist." About as honest as they come, and as Australian as Ampol (proven by his ability to use the word ‘fuckin' as a comma) Carl Planz is totally not up for playing the ‘PR game'.
Sprint and Suave Partner with Leah Remini to Create Consumer ...
NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Actress Leah Remini knows all about the real-life stresses of modern moms as a busy TV sitcom star who also juggles her role as a wife and a mom to her 3-year-old daughter. Remini's latest venture will literally take her motherhood expertise to a new level as she partners with Suave, Sprint (NYSE: S) and MindShare Entertainment for In the Motherhood, a first-ever, mom-focused web series, which will appear on MSN from April 17 through June as well as an integration partnership with the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Beginning in April, moms across the country will have the unique opportunity to write and collaborate with Hollywood screenwriters to create a series of web-based films starring Leah Remini, best known for her comedic role in the "The King of Queens," which is completing a successful nine-year run this year.
People on Campus: Nina Roberts
Nina Roberts, assistant professor and project director for the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department's Pacific Leadership Institute (PLI), has a passion for revitalizing young people's interest in the natural environment. "Right now that means getting across the idea that there is just as much adventure outdoors as there is in computer games," she said. The outdoors, she maintains, is the best place to discover one's personal strengths. Born in Queens, N.Y., and raised in several towns and cities along the eastern seaboard, Roberts became enamored with the great outdoors at an early age. Eschewing the more girlish pursuits of her two sisters, Roberts spent most of her time with her brother and his friends building forts and playing outdoor sports. "When I was a kid in Massachusetts, we'd visit this quarry all the time and I still feel the excitement when I recall grabbing onto a rope hung from this huge oak tree, swinging over the water, then letting go!" In addition to her work at SF State with the PLI, Roberts teaches classes in leadership in recreation, parks and tourism, collaborative leadership, urban recreation and research methods.
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