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Elias, a 7-year-old piano prodigy, on Ellen

Thank Labor Force Dropouts, Not New Jobs, For A Falling Unemployment Rate

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Ronald Reagan Humor

Very good advice for parents – both dads and moms

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590425/How-and-why-to-be-the-meanest-mom-in-the-world.html

By Megan Wallgren

Very wise blog entry. Read the whole thing for the explanations behind them.

1. Make your kids go to bed at a reasonable time.
2. Don’t give your kids dessert every day.
3. Make them pay for their own stuff.
4. Don’t pull strings
5. Make them do hard things.
6. Give them a watch and an alarm clock.
7. Don’t always buy the latest and greatest.
8. Let them feel loss.
9. Control media.
10. Make them apologize.
11. Mind their manners.
12. Make them work — for free.

Snow & People who have too much time on their hands

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Christmas Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas

Christmas Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas

WestJet Christmas Miracle

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Sir Nicholas Winton – Hero who saved hundreds of children from nazis

Update 7/1/2015 – Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106. I have updated this page to also include a 60 minutes report.

Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

After the war, Nicholas Winton didn’t tell anyone, not even his wife Grete about his wartime rescue efforts. In 1988, a half century later, Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic, with all the children’s photos, a complete list of names, a few letters from parents of the children to Winton and other documents. She finally learned the whole story.

In the short video below, the survivors gathered to give him a wonderful surprise:

Here is a much longer video from 60 Minutes.