JANUARY 26, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER Robert Lee Satcher Jr., a specialist in child and adult bone cancer, a chemical engineer, and astronaut was born on September 22, 1965, in Hampton, Virginia, to Robert Lee Satcher, from Coffee County, Alabama, and the president of Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia and Marian Hanna Satcher from […]
From learning how to count change, to the pitfalls of credit cards and debit cards, to living on a budget, our kids have a lot to learn about money before they go off on their own. It would be great if personal finance was taught in school, but it rarely is, so it’s our job as parents to equip them with the knowledge and practice they need to develop a good relationship with money.
Those lessons can start even earlier than you might think, and you can build on them gradually over the course of their childhood. Here’s a practical guide for the knowledge to impart and the skills to help your kids develop—starting when they’re just 2 or 3 years old.
Teaching kids about money at ages 2-3
It may not seem like a toddler or young preschooler is ready to learn the ins and outs of budgeting, saving, and investing (they’re not), but they do like coins. A 2-year-old won’t be able to grasp the fact that a penny is worth less than a dime—nor will they care. But you can begin to introduce coins to them by letting them sort them or trace them, naming them as they do, so they start to become familiar with what each coin is called.
An everyday stroller might be referred to as a full-size stroller or a traditional stroller. These are your base-style strollers that might have some bells and whistles or might not. Traditional strollers usually fit kids from newborn to around 50 pounds, depending on whether it includes a bassinet mode (see below) or if it can hold an infant car seat.
Lightweight strollers are also called travel or umbrella strollers—the latter name comes from the shape it (usually) has when folded up. These strollers have lighter builds and better folding options to make them easier to tote around but often lose out on other features. These usually fit little ones from newborn to around 50 pounds, depending on whether there’s a bassinet mode or infant car seat compatibility.
Jogging strollers have better suspension and higher quality wheels to make it a smooth ride while on the move but are usually much larger and have heavier frames than other types of strollers. These usually fit kids until about 50 pounds. They don’t typically hold newborns unless you convert it to hold a car seat or if the manufacturer has a bassinet attachment you can add.
JANUARY 27, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER Evan Dale Abel, a pioneering endocrinologist, and advocate for more Black men being accepted into medical school, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on February 4, 1963. His father and mother were educators and parents of five children; three of whom today are doctors, and two are engineers. Abel would […]
The above is a post from Tru2Day1528. Nelson Mandela must have studied the following scriptures.
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Daniel 11:21
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21 “The next to come to power will be a despicable man who is not in line for royal succession. He will slip in when least expected and take over the kingdom by flattery and intrigue.
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Luke 22:25
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25 Jesus told them, “In this world the kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called ‘friends of the people.’
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Isaiah 32:6
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6 For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans. They practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord. They deprive the hungry of food and give no water to the thirsty.
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Isaiah 32:5
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5 In that day ungodly fools will not be heroes. Scoundrels will not be respected.
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Proverbs 26:1
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26 Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.
“I’ve run into instances in work when dealing with a city, and we’re asking questions about consultants or contractors, and a lot of times they [can’t give the] answer because of the anti-affirmative action ban,” says Charity Marcus. She’s a consultant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who works with cities, mapping out strategies for economic and community development.
In 2012, the Oklahoma legislature passed a ballot initiative known as the Oklahoma Affirmative Action Ban, or State Question 759. The amendment passed by over 230,000 votes. The first attempt to ban affirmative action in Oklahoma came in 2008, but the validity of the signatures for a ballot measure were questioned. In 2011, Republican state senator Rob Johnson authored the resolution. The measure was modeled after affirmative action bans in other states (currently nine states have affirmative action bans).
Unintended consequences
Jennifer Jezek, who is Native American, is the president and CEO of York Electronic Systems in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She says that she first learned about the ban around 2019 while serving on the Oklahoma Governor’s Minority Business Council.
Jezek says that when she was researching legislation to create the Oklahoma Supplier Diversity Initiative, she was told to “tread lightly” by associates at the Department of Commerce because of the ban. She dug deeper and had conversations with local attorneys who had worked on cases that were used as precedent for the law. Eventually, she ended up speaking to some of the original sponsors of the bill. State Senator Johnson and State Representative Leslie Osborn introduced the bill. Cosponsors of the measure included John Trebilcock, Mike Jackson, and David Derby. Jezek says she was told that the original bill was recommended by the legislature “in an attempt to avoid bias in college admissions.” But the unintended consequences, she says, were in state government hiring and public contracting.
Joseph, a 48-year-old network engineer from Texas, never set out to work three full-time remote jobs at the same time.
But last year, he earned a combined $344,000 doing just that, according to documents viewed by Insider. While the stress is starting to take a toll on him, he said the extra income had made a huge difference for his family and that he planned to keep it up as long as he could. In August, for instance, the extra income helped him pay off the remaining $129,000 on his mortgage, according to a document viewed by Insider.
In early 2020, when Joseph had one job, which paid $117,500 a year, he accepted a new remote role in the IT field with a $120,000 salary. But before he was out the door, he said a colleague convinced him to stay and try to work both jobs at once.
Joseph said he was doing only four to five hours a week of “actual work” in his position at the time, which made him think this was feasible. And if it became too much, he knew he could always quit one of the jobs.
“I hadn’t really heard anyone doing this before,” he told Insider. “My colleague mentioned it and I gave it a shot.”
He said he started working the second job that May, which initially required 30 to 40 hours of additional work a week. Roughly six months later, his new company announced a strategic shift that Joseph feared would put his role in jeopardy. He began looking for a new opportunity.
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REUTERS/Kevin Coombs via Business InsiderJoseph (not pictured) works three full-time remote jobs without his employers knowing.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: TRUDY LEE WRIGHT Peter Crosby was born in 1844 and lived twenty years in Clark County, Mississippi. He moved to Vicksburg in 1864 and enlisted at the age of 20 where he became a member of the US Colored Troops in Company C, 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery. Cosby was a […]
In the world, human beings are facing various problems. People who are full of greed, anger, and ignorance are seen to be fighting with each other in words and deeds. As the fighting continues, various problems such as civil wars, wars of aggression, and wars of aggression are occurring. As world peace is being destroyed, humans are facing unbearable problems. Innocent children and women are not getting the rights they deserve and deserve. I can't think of one thing every time. What is it? The United Nations. If we look at the responsibilities and duties of the United Nations, I think it is not suitable for solving the problems that are happening in the world today. In fact, the United Nations and the World Security Council, such an organization must rule the world, must be able to give orders, and must have various ways to obey orders. There must be no organization that can influence more than that organization. There should be experts from each country. They can even dominate the superpowers like the US, China, and Britain. Only then will global peace be achieved quickly. Now, if a country with power develops more militarily, economically, or socially than its own country, then powerful countries will jealously seek out enemies and wage war. Or they will attack with fighter jets. In this, innocent people are losing their lives. No one understands the value of a life. You should think about how to achieve global peace by controlling these. If the US continues to be the permanent president of the UN, world peace will never be achieved. If you think carefully, no one sees that they are working for the common good, but for their own benefit, for the benefit of their own country. The permanent president of the UN and the Security Council has rejected this, As a young Rohingya, I have come to realize that only by electing the president and secretary from among the countries in the world through a secret ballot system and governing the world fairly can we achieve global peace. The United Nations and the Security Council are organizations in which any country must govern, give orders, and make them obey their orders. For example, only when a defendant is tried in court can we hold the leaders of the countries in check and control them, can we achieve global peace smoothly. Otherwise, it will not be easy for powerful countries to use various excuses to end this war every year, every year, for the benefit of themselves and their countries. No country's leaders pay any attention to the words of the United Nations and the Security Council. If we look at it in practice, look at the Rohingya issue. Myanmar is a small country. Even that country has been under siege for 8 years. What action can be taken? Why is the UN and the Security Council Powerless? Without such Power, how can the organization bring about global peace? Everyone should think about it. Whether there is a veto or a strong one, all countries in the world can only achieve global peace if they are subject to the UN and the Security Council. Seek peace in the quiet embrace of nature. Peace is an indispensable need of the human race. It is not as if one person can kill another person, and it is as if one country can attack another country, but instead of trying to build peace, we must try to destroy the peace now, and the world is getting hotter and is on the verge of collapse. I especially appeal to all the world experts to urgently try to bring about peace in all parts of the world. Mr, Noor Muhamed Arkhan Rohingya Youth Myanmar
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