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Review of "The Dumbest Generation" a Book by Mark Baurlien
More than an elder shaking a finger at misguided youth, the effects of contemporary kid's toys prove to be more far reaching. Economic as well as societal concerns blame illiteracy due use of electronic gadgets.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1496492/review_of_the_dumbest_generation_a.html

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Legacy of a News Giant - Quality Shows Moral Fiber
From the generation of noble pursuits, Charles Scripp's held up a good role model for others to follow. Folks are talking about internet news replacing daily newspapers - it could be up for grabs.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1485146/legacy_of_a_news_giant_quality_shows.html

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Personal Impressions of Martin Luther King's Dream
First hand experience of a little girl from the north who was transplanted to the deep south. Segregation, mistreatment of blacks, and hateful language leaves a deep impression.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1385766/personal_impressions_of_martin_luther.html

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Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin - Review
Will internet marketing reflect a change in consciousness?
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1410063/unleashing_the_ideavirus_by_seth_godin.html

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Dyslexia - Parents Who Took the Challenge
First hand insights of this author's dyslexic experiences and research finding how dyslexia shows up in brain scans. How parental input is very significant.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1314532/dyslexia_parents_who_took_the_challenge.html

Life and People

Garden Divas
A folklore of unseen elements in the garden. Every growing thing has a spirit to address. . .likes and dislikes just like people.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1416130/garden_divas.html

Here's a potato recipe I stumbled upon, and it turned out to be really simple. Every recipe I do is prepared for the getting the most nutrition. Sometimes the easiest way is also the most nutritious.

I don't peel potatoes, just clean them really well and remove eyes.

I try to avoid using cornstarch. Corn products give the least amount of nutrition per calories consumed. So, in this recipe I used oatmeal for the thickener.


QUICK AND EASY SCALLOPED POTATOES

Oil the casserole pan you've chosen for the number of servings. Use one potato per person.

Slice your nice clean potatoes into the bottom of the casserole making only one layer.

Dot with little squares of Cheddar or mozzarella cheese. Then sprinkle with a thin layer of of oatmeal (avoid the instant kind if possible.) I also sprinkle flax seed with the oatmeal. Add salt lightly between each layer, too.

Alternate layers of these ingredients till you reach the top of the pan. For an interesting effect, cut the last layer of potatoes into small cubes. You can add some thin wedges of onion with these. The onions turn dark brown on the tips.

Now add milk till it fills the casserole to about a half an inch from the top.

Bake at 300 degrees or until bubbling. . .about thirty minutes.

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Flawed Economic System - Could Neurosis be the Cause?

A more sophisticated economic theory leaped out at me one day when I decided to leaf through the alumni publication sent out by my old alma mater. Usually nothing interests me about those days of old because nothing is same there anymore.

Page turn. In this beautifully done publication, a photo of an interesting looking man was situated next to a caption. It pressed for an answer : “What kind of shopper are you ?” I hoped it wasn’t anything trite like a ten question quiz. It wasn’t.

The man in the photo, Paul J. Albanese, studied economics but changed over to psychology when he couldn’t agree with the teachings of economic theories regarding human behavior.

He believed the predictions and forecasts about people in modern day society are different now. Marketing forecasts should be based on a few more categories of types of people and what kind of behaviors come from each.

According to this new perspective on economics, four different personality categories branch out in varying degrees of intensity. Believed to provide market researchers with more accuracy and detail – Albanese describes normal, neurotic, primitive, psychotic in that order. More gray area to ponder is that the not-normal folks have good days when they may pass as normal.

The Normal type consumers earn their namesake category because of being consistent and predictable. Neurotic shoppers are ambivalent, indecisive individuals. Primitives are a pain in the neck to everyone around them. Compulsives will max out a credit card, and spend every dollar they have when binging on excess. Psychotic shopping is the low end extreme where people have been arrested for passing bad checks.

Albanese: “Typically when marketers do research, there’s an implicit assumption that everyone they’re using as research are [functioning] at the normal level. And unless they are at the normal level, their behavior might not be consistent, causing the research to be flawed.”

Does he mean to imply that greed isn’t part of the equation? What about avarice?

The flawed research may be what Greenspan referred to in his public apology speech in late October 2008. He seemed to be quivering as he spoke of the flaw in his thinking. He stood up to take responsibility for his part in the financial crisis. apologize for the errors of his wrong thinking.

If we have a new economic reality to deal with – what is it? And if we are suddenly supposed to do business by this new reality, what was the old one? How did we succeed with the old reality if indeed it was so very wrong? I think it comes down to morals.

A generation of noble folks is passing on. Now we have people doing business who are of a new belief system, can be from any part of the world, of any religion or lack thereof.

More on the psychology of economics: Ignoring these nuances could influence the premises that the marketers use for judging a trend as well as the motivations behind the trend. After twenty five years of research, the economic psychologist states that a marketer must be able to distinguish someone who has bipolar disorder from someone who simply operates at the primitive level.

We’ve had fun with statistics and calculating the variables with the amazing speeds our computers have computed, but now it’s time to soften the edges of the cookie cutter. The economic system that once operated on trust, can do so no more – that’s where the tear in the fabric became a flaw.

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Mysterious Creature Spotted in Lake Erie
A Good Omen of Cleaner Water

A tall fishing tale of a huge creature living in Lake Erie has been around for ions. So much controversy has gone around about supposed sightings, and whether or not this amphibious creature is real has become something to poke fun at.

A landowner whose property butts up against route #2 actually floated a goofy looking replica of this monster for all passerby drivers to see.

That may be the reason I peered with suspicion at the strange, yet beautifully exotic depiction of an other-worldly looking creature in the local advertising/newspaper flyer. By the greenish tint of the photo, I could tell this was taken my an underwater camera.

Hanging around the mysterious, free-floating object were some friendly blue gills who appeared to be curious about the bulbous underwater creature too. Still, I couldn’t guess what this thing could have been. Anyone who lives around Lake Erie has heard a plethora of fishing stories. I thought I had heard them all.

Fishing Lake Erie throughout the years, I had dropped thirty five feet of fishing line into her mysterious depths. I had snorkeled in the lake, the bay, off of the islands, but this mysterious creature was an unknown entity in my experience. The photo of the colorful, translucent and gelatinous creature had never been portrayed in any of the fishing yarns I’d ever heard of, so I thought it must not be real.

The photo did not look doctored. The lavender colored surface markings reminded me of global continents on the earth. Other smaller red markings dotted the creature’s exterior. Oranges and yellows against a translucent backdrop followed an irregular line suggesting the quivery movement reminiscent of a jelly fish.

“This cannot be,” I remarked. “Jellyfish only live in the ocean.” I showed the picture of the mysterious creature to my husband who then told me of the swimming hole he and his friends visited as a young child. He said there were always two inch jellyfish inhabitants there swimming all around them.

So, I went on to read the article, and sure enough the mysterious creature in the photograph was a freshwater jellyfish! The good news about the mysterious creature is that it’s a sign that Lake Erie is finally getting cleaner water.

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