“Best bets for kids: Teen games on the Xbox 360” plus 2 more |
- Best bets for kids: Teen games on the Xbox 360
- Evans' festival set for Saturday
- Rohit Chopra: Did Board Games Help Cause the Recession?
| Best bets for kids: Teen games on the Xbox 360 Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:24 AM PDT Published: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 3:15 a.m. Thursday 4 p.m. Woodruff Library, Teen games on the Xbox 360. For teens only. Bring games rated teen or everyone to play on the Xbox 360 with other teens. Call 864-476-8770. Friday4 p.m. Westside Library, Tweens: Bingo for Books. Ages 9-12 are invited to come play bingo and win some popular tween titles.Call or come by the library to sign up in order to participate. Snacks will be served. Call 574-6815. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Evans' festival set for Saturday Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:40 AM PDT EVANS — The city of Evans is hosting its annual EvansFest celebration from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Riverside Park, 4000 Riverside Parkway, and this year's event — as the slogan says — will feature food, music and family fun. This year's event kicks off with a pancake breakfast from 8-10 a.m. Cost is $2 a plate. At 9 a.m., the Humane Society of Weld County's Paws & Sneakers 5K Walk/Run begins. Participants are welcome to bring leashed dogs, and those without dogs can rent one from the Humane Society for $10. Pre-registration for the race is $20 and can be done by going to the Humane Society at 1620 42nd St., Evans, or online at www.weldcountyhumane.org, or at Bells Running, 3620 10th St., Greeley, by 5 p.m. Friday. Registration at the event costs $25. Fees benefit the Humane Society. The EvansFest parade begins at 10 a.m. and runs east on 40th Street from the Evans Fire Department's station No. 1, around City Park, and ends at Riverside Park. Vendor booths will be up and running from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. At the food court, the first 4,000 to buy lunch will get a meal for $2. Additional participants will pay $4 for lunch. Available eateries include MeMe's, Palominos, Schwartz's Krautburger Kitchen and JC's Dogs N' Buns. Crabtree Brewing Company will offer beer, soda and water at the beer garden. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Rohit Chopra: Did Board Games Help Cause the Recession? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 04:58 AM PDT No, I'm not talking about the games corporate boards played that wreaked havoc on the economy. I'm talking about the ones that you actually play on a game board. Since the recession began, sales of board games have soared. But we should all be wondering what these board games are teaching us about economics (and life in general). The sad part is that many of the values we learn from board games are the same ones that contributed to our current economic struggles. Let's take a closer look at some of these family friendly games: The Game of Life How to win: Retire and die with the most amount of money Strategy: Buy stock, have lots of babies, and get revenge I give the Milton Bradley Company credit for updating this game to reflect some new realities. In the 1992 version, if you went to college you graduated with $40,000 in debt. And in 2005, you graduated with $100,000 in debt. (This works out to 7.3 percent growth rate in tuition, which is in the ballpark.) First of all, this game teaches us that the main purpose of getting married and having kids is to "collect presents." Oddly, you rarely have to spend any money on your kids. Neglecting them is apparently fine. The reality is that far too many new parents are shocked at the costs of raising children. The Department of Agriculture estimates that you'll need to spend about $200,000 to pay for a kid through age 17. Presents will probably not cover these costs. Go For It! How to win: Have a higher status than your opponents by owning mansions and sports cars Strategy: Unclear "Go For It!: The Game Where You Can Have It All" has almost totally faded from existence. But in its heyday in the 80s, it made clear to players age eight and up that the key to happiness is found through upgrading to a fancier car, home or vacation destination every year. If you didn't, you were a failure. The main problem with this game is that it taught us that we will almost certainly get a big promotion and generous pay raise on every Labor Day. In other words, why not borrow today and pay for it next year? Having unrealistic expectations about your future salary can cause major trouble for a family. At the peak of the bubble in the last decade, American household debt was 133 percent of disposable income. While many of these families thought they could dig themselves out with future income, the world changes too quickly for it to be a sure thing. With Labor Day behind us, don't assume anything about a big upcoming raise or bonus. Monopoly How to win: Force other players into bankruptcy and seize their assets Strategy: Build and control as much commercial real estate as possible in Atlantic City, New Jersey Did you know you can play Monopoly using a credit card and PIN? Farewell, Monopoly money. Also, isn't a monopoly supposed to be a bad thing, not a good thing? Many of the transactions in Monopoly that you need to make in order to win would not survive scrutiny from the Justice Department. One of the greatest investments in Monopoly is to control all of the railroads, since the more railroads you control, the more you can jack up prices. Totally illegal in real life. Also, we rarely "win" when we bankrupt our customers. Financial institutions who designed complicated mortgage and credit card products saw a lot of short-term accounting profits when they originated these loans. But just like their customers, banks lost big -- stuck with worthless properties and bad loans, putting the entire economy into a tailspin. A thriving economy depends on participants playing by the rules, rather than profiting through tricks. Board games are great for families and friends to spend time together without spending a fortune, but a lot of these games reinforce values that we should all be questioning in times of economic stress. Life is not a contest of who can consume the most stuff, and the we can't always depend on luck. Do yourself a favor: stick with Scrabble.
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