Danny Kaye would have been 99 today.
He was one of my first loves – in an entirely innocent and I didn’t want to miss his show on TV kind of way.
Danny Kaye would have been 99 today.
He was one of my first loves – in an entirely innocent and I didn’t want to miss his show on TV kind of way.
Hangry – feeling of frustration and/or irritability resulting from lack of food.
Hat Tip: Dim Post.
Eat up those carrots – Michael Edwards at Molecular Matters (via Sci Blogs) – on the beauty benefits of caretenoids.
Wednesday whimsy Larvatus Prodeo has found the Cake Wreck Blog.
Judges rule on on landmark case of Sod’s Law vs Parkinson’s Law – News Biscuit reports from the court.
Politics is a poor process for resolving issues – Eye to the Long Run show how the market can be bettter than politics.
The crash from an Austrian perspective – Anti Dismal has six good points.
Tall toilet tales – Around the World across the spectrum from low hygiene loos to high tech ones.
Vegetables were the key contributer to the fall in food prices last month:
Food prices fell 0.8 percent in the December 2010 month, Statistics New Zealand said today. This follows a 0.6 percent decrease in November 2010. Seasonal falls in vegetable prices were the key contributor to lower food prices in November and December 2010.
Vegetable prices fell 7.9 percent in December with lower prices for tomato, lettuce, capsicum, cabbage, and broccoli. This decrease follows a 9.9 percent fall in November. “Prices for green vegetables were affected by unseasonal weather in September and October, and prices in November and December 2010 were still well above usual levels,” Statistics New Zealand prices manager Chris Pike said.
Wonder if Labour still thinks its a good idea to remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables when once more we see that weather and seasons have a far greater impact on price?
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Take a house once lived in by one of Scotland’s great thinkers, Adam Smith.
Set aside to deteriorate.
Throw in a rescue plan and the money to carry it out.
Beat with assorted regulations and bureaucracies.
Leave to stew.
The whole story is in The Scotsman, but it couldn’t happen here, could it?
Hat Tip: Anti-Dismal
A positive parenting course advised us to use natural consequences where possible.
That means do nothing and let the child face the consequences of his/her wrong doing.
If however, the natural consequences were either too pleasurable, too dangerous, too expensive or had a negative impact on someone else or their property, the parent should intervene and impose a logical consequence.
An example given was the natural consequence for the bike left in the driveway when the child had been told to put it away is that it gets run over. That’s expensive so the logical consequence is for the parent to put it away where the child couldn’t get it for a specified length of time.
I saw a policeman use logical consequences to great effect when he noticed a boy riding a bike without wearing a helmet. The cop called the boy over, asked if there was a good reason he wasn’t wearing and helmet when it was illegal to bike without one. The boy said no. The cop let the air out of his tyres.
Judith Collins has applied logical consequences to boy racers with the law enabling authorities to crush their cars.
She was criticised for introducing the legislation but it’s worked:
Government measures to stop boy-racers from cruising neighbourhoods and doing burnouts brought an 18 per cent drop in street-racing offences last year compared with the year before. . .
. . . Police report not only a fall in the number of boy-racer offences, but boy-racers have been congregating on the streets far less than they did a year ago.
The number of calls to police about boy-racers peaked at 1023 for February last year, but has since nearly halved to 519 in October.
Logical consequences are leading to behaviour changes with boy racrers just as they do with most children.
Where else could they be employed to good effect to counter anti-social behaviour?