More people than ever are using online auto showroom, classifieds and research to make car and accessory purchases. Remember the first time you bought something online?  Your purchase price was probably negligible (perhaps a book from Amazon.com or a clothing item from Sears), and yet a little uncomfortable.  There was something about buying sight unseen and sending credit card information into cyberspace that initially unnerved the most technologically savvy among us.  Yet, in just a few short years, America has gone from agonizing over minor Internet transactions to conducting major complex purchases online without batting an eye.  Nowhere is this significant economic transition more apparent than in the acquisition of cars and car insurance.

When To Use : Who and Whom

Grammar and word use reminders, tips for the busy professional from the Resources Lesson Center .   Which is right?  

Who and Whom are two easily confused words.  

Question: For who/whom should I take this to the office?

Who & Whom Resource Rule:
Use the he/him method to decide which word is correct.

• He=who
• Him=whom

 {mosimage} In the world of retail, Thanksgiving traditionally marks the beginning of the Holiday shopping season. 

The day after Thanksgiving is known in retail parlance as Black Friday, on of the major U.S. shopping days.  The origin of Black Friday comes from the shift to profitability during the holiday season. Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable ( in the red) to being profitable (in the black).  This term dates back to pre-internet when accounting was done by hand in ledgers and “red ink” was used to indicate a loss. 

Reading!  That is something you don't catch kids doing enough of.  We live in the world of TV and movies.  And let's not forget video games. 

I will say that I have played a few video games in my life and I even still have an Xbox sitting in my living room.  I'm about to be a dad and I still have my Xbox.  It is kind of funny when I think about my parents generation.  But they didn't grow up with video games like we did.  I remember getting our first Nintendo (the original) when I was about 5 or 6.  I barely even remember the Atari days.  So video games are something that our generation grew up with.  Now, my Xbox stays wrapped up in the entertainment center and only comes out every couple of months on special occations. 

I guess I say all that to say that my generation grew up on video games and TV.  And when I look at kids today who are still in school, I see them with even more distractions than we had.  Not that video games are bad or that all TV is bad.  But TV and games can not replace reading.