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Sherlene Stevens: Why Winters is Better than Summer

Source: Parenting  (1994). Published with no editing. No mosquito bites. It gets dark earlier, so nine o'clock bedtime doesn't seem so bad. Flannel pajamas (with feet). Snow days (an ordinary winter) Hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows. Roaring fires in the fireplace. Holiday toys aren't broken yet. Writing your name on a steamy window with your finger. It's easier to fake a cold.  A clean slate with Santa Claus (St. Nicholas, St. Lucia, etc.) Getting to stomp through slush puddles. No skinned knees. Ice-cream cones don't melt on the way to the car. You don't have to mow the lawn.

Sherlene Stevens: Where's the American Business Style of Incoming Foreign Businesses

Should all new businesses have the same traditional, American design layout? When it's important: Communities that are in need of community development efforts should strive to have an overall (community-based) business theme which expresses a productive, community and business partnership vision. Communities that are experiencing new-mjority citizen-neighbor shifts: race or income-household levels. Business zoning policies may often require specifics of placing business signs, size/color/style of the business sign, etc. Each local community has its own commercial zoning laws and policies. New foreign company owners--in America--may want to consider blending into the current social format of local businesses. This may mean eliminating your ethnic-identity symbols and posters. If a community is exhibiting phobias of a new business based on the owner's particular race, creed, religion, or product/service offered. It is important to blend in socially, sometimes, to be