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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Allowance by App

An excerpt from the New York Times -

How Parents Teach Smart Spending With Apps, Not Cash
By Ann Carrns

Jonathan and Erin Kraftchick started out by paying their two children’s allowance the old-fashioned way, using paper money.

“I tried the cash thing,” said Mr. Kraftchick, an accountant and financial-literacy advocate in Raleigh, N.C. First, they used glass jars, then switched to a system that involved slipping money for different purposes into separate paper envelopes, for each child.

But keeping up with multiple envelopes became unwieldy.

“It’s a lot of hassle,” Ms. Kraftchick, an artist, said with a laugh.

So when Mr. Kraftchick read about a “smart” debit card called goHenry earlier this year, he quickly signed the family up for an account.

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“We got tired of having a drawer full of dollars,” said Brandi Tzonev, a sales manager and personal trainer in Lawrenceville, Ga., who uses goHenry with her 15-year-old son, Alex, and 10-year-old daughter, Gabriella.

Some banks have long had accounts aimed at children and teenagers, and many families use prepaid debit cards — rather than traditional debit cards, linked to a checking account — as a way to help children manage money. But the newest generation of “smart” debit cards are managed by advanced mobile apps that give parents detailed control over how much the young people spend — and even where they spend — with a few taps on a phone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/business/children-allowance-apps.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

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What Would He Think

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

I was Pat Tillman’s wife, but I can’t speak for him. Neither can you.
By Marie Tillman

I think that patriotism is complex, like Pat himself. It is not blind or unquestioning. And it’s a fool’s errand to argue over who’s allowed to claim sacrifice. Many of the kneeling athletes say they are protesting as American patriots who want the nation to be better than it is. When I look around at the vitriol aimed at them for expressing their beliefs, and at the compulsion to simplify complicated issues to pit people on opposing sides, I want to kneel, too. Because I believe we are at our best as Americans when we engage in constructive dialogue around our differences with the goal of understanding one another.

This mind-set is where change happens, progress is made and bridges are built. I believe that in our hearts we are all the same: We all want our children to be healthy and safe and to have opportunities. We may have significant differences in how we think we should get there, but divisive rhetoric will only deepen the chasm and make us forget all that we share.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-pat-tillmans-wife-but-i-cant-speak-for-him-neither-can-you/2018/11/08/18374652-d8a0-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.6b244a1f165c

Kane Brown - American Bad Dream (Audio)

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Luke Bryan - Most People Are Good

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Getting Into Harvard

An excerpt from the NY Times -

Getting Into Harvard Is Hard. Here Are 4 Ways Applicants Get an Edge.
By Anemona Hartocollis

Harvard gives advantages to recruited athletes (A’s); legacies (L’s), or the children of Harvard graduates; applicants on the dean’s or director’s interest list (D’s), which often include the children of very wealthy donors and prominent people, mostly white; and the children (C’s) of faculty and staff. ALDCs make up only about 5 percent of applicants but 30 percent of admitted students.

While being an A.L.D.C. helps — their acceptance rate is about 45 percent, compared with 4.5 to 5 percent for the rest of the pool — it is no guarantee. (One of those rejected despite being a legacy was the judge in the federal case, Allison D. Burroughs. She went to Middlebury College instead.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/getting-into-harvard.html

Talking to a Jacka**

Friday, November 9, 2018

What Gay Conversion Therapy Is Really Like

Finding Peace at the Spot



https://bittersoutherner.com/why-am-i-on-this-stage-ray-christian-storyteller?utm_source=The+Bitter+News&utm_campaign=3fa05c3f0f-97s_2018_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8269ec3593-3fa05c3f0f-92175213&goal=0_8269ec3593-3fa05c3f0f-92175213&mc_cid=3fa05c3f0f&mc_eid=0b6dd8ed2d

Calling It Like It Is

An excerpt from the Atlantic -

America's Problem Isn't Tribalism—It's Racism
Only one of America’s major political parties relies on stoking hatred and fear against those outside its coalition.
By Adam Serwer

In the fallout from Tuesday’s midterm elections, many political analysts have concluded that blue America and red America are ever more divided, ever more at each other’s throats. But calling this “tribalism” is misleading, because only one side of this divide remotely resembles a coalition based on ethnic and religious lines, and only one side has committed itself to a political strategy that relies on stoking hatred and fear of the other. By diagnosing America’s problem as tribalism, chin-stroking pundits and their sorrowful semi-Trumpist counterparts in Congress have hidden the actual problem in American politics behind a weird euphemism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/racism-not-tribalism/575173/

Don't Be This Guy

They Do It Better

An excerpt from CNN -

10 things the UAE does better than anywhere else
By Manar Al Hinai

The United Arab Emirates is famous for its relentless sunshine, its golden dunes that roll on for miles and some of the most ambitious, opulent building projects of modern times.

But it's not all super-tall skyscrapers and shifting sands. The country founded just 47 years ago by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is now home to more than 200 nationalities and a world pioneer in many sectors.

Each year, we welcome millions of tourists from around the world to explore the rich and diverse experiences that our Arabian gem has to offer.

Here are 10 things that make the UAE special when you travel here:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/uae-reasons-to-visit/index.html

From FAMU to the Daily Show

An excerpt from the Tallahassee Democrat -

Roy Wood Jr. of 'The Daily Show' grew into comedy at FAMU
By Mark Hinson

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Stand-up Roy Wood Jr. was a student at FAMU in the late ‘90s when he took the Greyhound Bus from Tallahassee to do the opening spot at an Atlanta comedy club.

He bombed. Stunk up the joint. Tanked.

“They rattled their keys at me,” Wood, 39, said on the phone and chuckled from Manhattan recently. “The worst part of them rattling their keys is that they do it under the table. You can’t tell who is rattling and who is not.”

Instead of leaving, Wood stuck around to learn from other comics performing that night. Maybe he could get a few pointers. That is when a server walked up to his table.

“There is a two-drink minimum at this club,” she said.

“But I’m talent, I did comedy earlier tonight,” Wood said.

“No, you didn’t,” she said, offering a withering critique.

Wood ordered two bottles of water and then took the bus home. Chalk it up to tough lesson learned. He has never forgotten the trip.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/2018/11/07/roy-wood-jr-daily-show-comedy-central-famu-trevor-noah/1905991002/

Winners in Texas




An excerpt from Upworthy -

19 black women ran for Texas county judge posts. Every single candidate won.
by Leo Shvedsky



Tuesday night’s midterm elections had a series of historic firsts, including a record-breaking year for female candidates across the nation. but the results out of one Texas county may be the most feel good story of the year.

In Harris County Texas, 19 black woman ran for judge posts. And guess what? Every single candidate won their campaign.

https://www.upworthy.com/19-black-women-ran-for-texas-county-judge-posts-every-single-candidate-won?c=upw1

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

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HBCU!

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

The Candidates Embracing Their Black-College Roots
Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams are part of a wave of black politicians who are playing up their HBCU bona fides, and in turn raising the profile of the beleaguered institutions.
By ADAM HARRIS

Another, perhaps unforeseen renaissance, however, has been the rise of black politicians who graduated from these colleges. In addition to Gillum, Stacey Abrams, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, and Mandela Barnes, a candidate for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin, both attended historically black colleges. The prospect of so many black-college graduates being elected to statewide office in the same year is unprecedented, Keneshia Grant, an assistant professor of political science at Howard University, told me.

Now, of course, there are HBCU alums across all levels of government. Senator Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University, and the mayors of Atlanta, New Orleans, and Birmingham—all of whom were elected in 2017—also attended HBCUs. And there have previously been governors who attended black colleges: In 1989, Douglas Wilder became the governor of Virginia and the first elected black governor in the United States. In the 1870s, there was P. B. S. Pinchback, who very briefly served as the governor of Louisiana. These candidates—Abrams, Gillum, and Barnes—are continuing that black political tradition.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/gillum-abrams-and-blue-wave-hbcu-politicians/574921/?utm_source=feed

VOTE!

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Barbra Streisand Carpool Karaoke

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Comfortable in His Skin

An excerpt from HuffPost -

Andrew Gillum Is At Home With His Blackness
Florida’s Democratic nominee for governor is black in a way that is commonplace in real life but basically nonexistent in high-level American politics.
By Julia Craven

See, it’s homecoming, y’all. And Gillum is a fixture of FAMU’s homecoming parade. They love him here, not in the way that fans love a celebrity or adherents love their leader. It’s simpler than that — something like a mother doting on a long-lost son. Except that Gillum is at home here. He served on the Tallahassee City Commission from 2003 to 2014 before he was elected mayor, a position he has held since. He’s a Rattler, having graduated from the university in 2003. This is his element.

Around here, Gillum needs no introduction, and he don’t meet no strangers. These are his talents. He is at home everywhere, and everywhere he is loved like someone who finally came home.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andrew-gillum-florida-governor-race_us_5bdc8bc1e4b09d43e31ec713

A Grim Education: 72 Years of School Shootings





http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/school-shooting-survivors.html

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