text:
39 Comments| comments closed
|trackbacks off
|Another Inequality
Jun. 22nd, 2012 at 12:14 pm
When I was 18 during a New Beginnings or Night of Excellence, I could never tell the difference between the two, I received my personal progress necklace and certificate. My parents were not there, they were sick, and the bishop noted how important this award was. Little did he know I already knew it.
According to Mom she was wearing hers when she met what would eventually become her husband. Every time they went on a date she would proudly wear her necklace to ensure he knew she was a force to be reckoned with. This was a woman who did the female equivalency of 10 years in Boy Scouts.
I'm sure my parents didn't mean for it to come out that way, but my young mind meant the story to mean if I got this award I would be granted two things for my righteousness. #1 a deserving husband, #2 a way to stand out from the crowd. Things sure have changed since they were dating.
A month before the medallion was given to me, a girl who turned 12 seven months ago was receiving hers. She talked about how special it was to her and her mom. Spending Saturday morning reading scriptures and Sunday afternoon cooking dinner helped her learn the important homemaking skills needed to fulfill her role as a mother someday. Turns out in the ward we moved into when I was 15 it was a major thing when a girl didn't have her personal progress by the time she was in Mia Maids. So seeing a beehive receive an honor that should take at least two years to complete was not odd in anyone's book.
As I've gotten older and received numerous might-as-well-be-spam emails from the Relief Society presidency about wearing our medallions for the month of January to show support for the program I have come to the following conclusion and have learned a few facts.
Personal Progress and an Eagle Scout award are not the same. One is recognized only by a certain religious realm with most people unaware it even exists. The other is so widely known universities and the military offer incentives for teens to achieve it. One can be bought online for $10 brand new the other costs more than five times that. Personal Progress focuses on spiritual development. Scouts focus on community and survival techniques. Comparing the two might as well be comparing apples and oranges. Both are fruit, but that's about it.
The unbalance between young men and young women is quite frankly embarrassing. One would think the opposite would be true in regards to who Personal Progress should be for. Young men are expected to serve a mission for the Lord at 19 years of age wherever they are called to. Surely they would be the ones to benefit the most in reading the entire Book of Mormon. Missions are hard. Spiritually, emotionally, psychically draining to say the least. All of those aspects of personal development are covered in the Personal Progress program, with the major emphasis being on the spiritual.
The average woman even if she were to serve a mission wouldn't be needing the spiritual development until she turns 21. Sure knowing 1st Nephi comes before 2nd Nephi comes in handy when raising children, but is that really what Personal Progress is all about? Simply educating women about the faith they were most likely born into on the off chance they meet a man and produce children? Are we still hung up on fertile uteruses being the only value female church members have? When will this endless comparing apples and oranges to make oranges feel better stop?
My personal progress medallion means SO little to me- I'm not sure I still have it around. I was always jealous of the scouts and their activities, going on 50 milers while we made picture frames out of popsicle sticks.
Though, to be fair, the church has established the Duty to God aware now for the young men, which is probably a better equivalent than an Eagle Scout. I don't know a ton about it but my understanding is it may ease some of the inequality you see. Or it will make YM slightly more lame to bring it down to the par of YW. ;)
I know this sounds silly now, but I hated that the leaders kept giving out gold medallions long after gold was out of style. I was so glad when I talked them into getting me a silver one. I tried wearing it for a while a couple of years ago, but I'm just not a necklace person.
Men put that they're Eagle Scouts into their bios, but women rarely put anything about personal progress. I think it's partly because a lot of men need prodding to do that kind of stuff, and one big project takes up a lot of time and focus in one's life, whereas a bunch of smaller projects are easily forgotten. I'm not sure how the PP program is now, but when I did it, there wasn't really a pinnacle project.
My son is a scout, and basically, the troop half-a&&es it to get it done as soon as you can. Don't believe the hype – no one cares about an Eagle anymore (and most companies can't recruit for it because of the gender discrimination issues).
I love the PP program – my daughter (who wants to be a scientist) says that she has grown immensely from it (she's 15 and maybe 40% done). I think the Duty to God program is more on par with the PP program.
I know this is negative and cynical, but I think the church should start with a clean piece of paper and devise a co-ed youth program. The whole thing is cobbled together from bits and pieces of everything but the front bumper of a 1962 Oldsmobile, but then maybe I should look closer…. From any rational evaluation on retention, they are a massive failure for all but a few. Our ward is a long way from typical but we have 130 inactive young single adults (in one average size ward). Tweaking it tends to make these programs worse, not better. And while they are at it, have some normal person, who has actually met a teenager, re-write "For the Strength of Youth."
Whew, I feel better.
Jim – What in FSY do you not like? What in the current setup do you think drives kids away?
I think that as we deemphasize Scouting, the youth program is looking better and better. DTG and PP allow them more opportunities to do service together, Scouting does not.
I'm not pollyannish — YM/YW gives the cheerleader leaders more of an opportunity to socialize them toward one great goal and they don't try very hard to include kids who are outside the norm, but it's hardly worth throwing out.
My oldest son is about ready to start his Eagle Project. I'm glad he enjoys scouting but I wonder where the mission prep, priesthood prep, fatherhood prep, and husband prep is in scouting? This is a church. Aren't those the things we should be emphasizing for our young men?
I see how scouting builds character and leadership and is fun and friendships form. I'm not saying scouting is bad. It just confuses me as a religious program because there's not much religion in it. Duty to God is much more equivalent to Personal Progress than scouting but the young men rarely work on it on youth nights.
The whole thing just makes me scratch my head.
Oh, and I never earned my YW medallion despite being Beehive and Laurel class president and having other youth stake callings. Nobody ever explained it to me as a beehive and I didn't see the point. My mom never said a word about it. I've never cared much for jewelry anyway.
I'm clinging to the hope that once BSA accepts gays the church will stop sponsoring it and the DtG program will take its place. That way all the teenagers can equally participate!
Though I honestly do wonder why it is young women get necklaces at the end. When everyone was sitting down trying to decide what grand prize should be at the end, did some guy in his 60s say "Well my wife (who just turn 59) loves gold necklaces, so lets give them a gold one."
It just seems counter-intuitive to give something that represents wealth at the end of a project on humility. Jenn, you're not alone. I forgot about my necklace the second I got it. Found it in a shoe about year ago. The necklace had a few broken chains.
>What in FSY do you not like?
I don't like the condescending grand parent-y tone, the micro-managing (e.g., dating), the one-size-fits-all-ness, the pointless conformity, and the laundry list of don'ts. What happened to correct principles? I'd like more emphasis on gospel ethical principles and less on imaginary Western North American Mormon cultural "norms'. Modesty does not equal appearance any more than virtue equals chastity. For a prudish bunch, we have sex on the brain. It's mostly attitude. That why I said re-written.
>What in the current setup do you think drives kids away?
I think that Scouts is a soul-killer for a healthy majority of boys. I think it is like hockey. For those who want to do it, it's a wonderful sport and teaches dozens of virtues, I say, go for it. But would you make everybody play hockey? I think the emphasis on wifehood and motherhood for teenage girls is almost perverse. A healthy teenage girl should have oh, say, a dozen things of more importance on her mind (speaking as the father of daughters). I would make the youth programs coed and not assume that mixing boys and girls inevitably leads to copulation in the shrubbery. Hell, I'd let the 12 and 13 year old kids go to the dances. They are the ones who want to go—perhaps, I admit, because they can't.
I just think we should start over with a clear set of first principles, one of which ought to be basic equity. The tinkering and 'evolving' has left us with a dodo bird—it's ugly, can't fly, and will eventually be extinct.
I know I sound cranky and angry, and I'm not really. I apologize for the stridency.
I think you've made some very good points, Jim.
I completely agree wtih JD. Excellent points.
My 12 yr old daughter loves her middle school dances. I enjoy the look on faces of ward members who frown on us allowing our kids younger than 14 attend school dances.
FSY needs a major rewrite or it runs the danger of largely being ignored or honored in the breach.
I also think JD made some good points.
my perspective on the yw medallion itself has raised some eyebrows over the yrs. i never got my medallion and i didn't ever want one. i could have earned it – if i remember correctly i sort of skated thru the requirements sans passion and befuddled my leaders when i told them i really wasn't interested in receiving "that necklace". i not only didn't like it on an aesthetic level, but i didn't want to have to sit thru another meeting to receive it. i'm a convert if that helps explain my strangeness…. (of course i also dumbfounded my leaders when i inadvertently thwarted a reverse psychology attempt on their part. after i behaved badly at girls camp – which i loathed – they held a very sombre meeting one sunday where they told me they had decided i could not come back to camp again. it just seemed fishy to me so i asked them point blank if this was a joke, and after assuring me they were serious i gave out a gleeful hoot. i seriously cheered. they just sort of sat there looking dazed, only lending to my opinion that a lot of grown up mormons were a little strange. it was years later when i became a leader myself that one of these women admitted to me that they had thought i would become penitent and then promise them that if they allowed me to come back i would agree to behave.) (HAR!)
anyway i suppose my lack of the award would not be a big deal except that over the past 2 decades i have served in yw leadership callings 8 times, a whopping 5 of which as el presidente'. so, when the bishops learn that i don't have a medallion most have them have tried to convince me that i need to get it. i just don't agree. i mean, i have happily helped hundreds of girls achieve theirs, but it just isn't for me.
i think for me, NOT having it has been more beneficial in a strange way than having it would have been. our young people have a lot of pressure on them. obviously they are not all cut from the same cloth and when they miss the medallion mark they often feel like complete failures – like they have let their families down and will never be seen as "acceptable" in mormonville. i'm so glad that i've been able to quietly take these beautiful and tormented girls to the side and explain that i don't have mine either. that its ok. they are not worthless or less-than – they still have enormous value and that most importantly they are loved.
maybe my reasoning seems convoluted, but just today i saw one those girls, some 5 years after our chat. we talked and laughed and cried a little. she's still a free spirit and still struggles with fitting the mold, and i still think she's amazing even in her unmedallioniness.
The nicest and best behaved kids in our neighborhood are not Mormon, they're members of an evangelical Christian congregation. They're the first kids I call when I need something done because I know I can count on them. They're reliable, responsible, and genuinely Christian, as are their parents. The boys are not scouts; the only daughter, now in college, has never given her parents a minutes trouble.
The problem I see with the type of program NH so ably writes about is that, once again, it focuses on the task and tempts us to compete and decide who's better and more worthy based on outward accomplishments.
My neighbors down the street? I'm not exactly sure how they did it, but they achieved intrinsically what many of fail to achieve, programs notwithstanding.
Renee, I had to laugh at the thought of you being a YW leader–it's that "I hope you get kids like you" (I know, people hate it, but the thought is funny) deal. I think you hit on something that's key–you attempt to reach them on the inside, not the outside—to love what's IN them, because all are worthy.
An aside: teenagers, as a group? Not my most favorite.
My 14 year old daughter is almost done with PP. It is a good, nice program. She has benefitted from it. It is nothing like Scouts and it bothers me when people say it is like an Eagle.
In my opinion, you (and those like you who would compare apples and oranges in the way you do) are the ones doing the disservice to the oranges (assuming, as it seems, the oranges represent the female side of the whole).
The yin-yang symbol is much more closely representative of the truth about men and women. Apples and oranges… well, I suppose, but it is an incomplete comparison.
Spiritual preparation IS the most important preparation for any human. Paul spoke on that in the Bible. However, given the importance and necessity that men fulfilling their divinely appointed role of/as Provider; the focus on training such would necessitate a broader focus than those whose divinely appointed role is that of Nurturer.
Given that co-creating, birthing, and raising a human being is THE most strenuous physical and SPIRITUAL task (and I would argue that the Spiritual strain is far greater than most comprehend) that any "adult" could have to aspire to (yet only women have been blessed to be charged to fulfill), it is well to prepare women to fulfill their divinely appointed role as best we can. The Personal Progress Program does not do that job if a YW can fulfill it's requirements while still a Beehive. However, parents who are more interested in their child's true spiritual development rather than their child's comparison against peers, will make their own adjustments to the program.
Should girls have lessons in temporal preparedness and stregnthening activities? Yes, of course. Should the Church and its programs be responsible for administering all? Nope. Of course not. The church is supplementary to parenting, not replacement of.
The Boy Scout Program was adopted by the Church. It did not originate within the LDS church. Therein lies a huge part of the difference between PPP and TBS.
One way to bring greater equality to the two awards would be for those who have influence (like you), to begin changing their own minds about it and writing in support of the award, petitioning Church leaders to change the requirements so that it is an award that only a Laurel can earn, and so forth.
There is no way to compare two parts of a whole unless you take the pieces apart. Those who heed wisdom know that it is foolish to attempt to do so. If you choose to ignore wisdom, you are left with two parts that cannot fulfill their potential because they are not whole. This is eternal truth exeplified by the Doctrine we know of our Father AND Mother in Heaven. And we're just here trying to become like them. I am absolutely sure that our Heavenly Mother knows Her true worth and does NOT sit up there behind Heavenly Father griping about the INEQUITY OF IT ALL. I truly believe that she sits in Peace beside Him. His full equal. Completely satisfied with all that is Her duty and all that comprises aspects of Her role.
Just because it is different does not mean it is LESS THAN.
We are all the same. AND. Always different.
Who is comparing men and women? We are talking about the youth prgrams, not symbols for male and female. What does that have to do with the yin yang symbol? Nothing.
So the purpose of the YM program is to teach boys how to become providers? That's a new one. Most of the scout program is concerned with environmentalism, wilderness survival and hobbies. Most of the Duty to God program is concerned with religious issues. Where is the provider training? Please point it out because I haven't seen it.
As for the nurturing aspects of the YM program, I don't know what you mean about nurturing being less "broad" but I don't see a lot of training in nurturing in that program either. It seems mostly designed to promote self esteem and homemaking skills. Please point out the nurturing elements.
You seem to have taken the proclamation on the family a little too seriously. It is not scripture, and it is not the final word on gender roles. Please take it off the wall and stop reciting it every day.
I'm glad we have you to comprehend for us how stenuous the spritual aspects of raising children are. We are so grateful for your insight from on high. But why is the word "adult" in quotes? Are you saying the rest of us are not adults? How nice of you. Please ket us know how we can mature to your level.
Really? Since when does the church allow that kind of improvisation in one of its correlated programs? Are you saying the prophet didn't know what he was doing when he created that divinely inspired program? Gasp! Bite your tongue tori!
Well, duh. Thanks for stating the glaringly obvious, tori. But so what? If it's not working (and it's mostly not) then why not get rid of it? By the way, it's not called TBS. That's a cable station. It's called BSA, emphasis on the A, because it's not used outside of the US. That being the case, because the Church is becoming more and more glogal, it is probably on its way out. In the meantime, I guess we just have to live with a dying program that has little relevance or interest for most of our boys.
Why do you assume that hasn't been done? We are just discussing things here, tori, not making suggestions to Church leaders, but I know that many people have made suggestions about the YM/YW program that have mostly been ignored. I think change is coming, but it comes very slowly in the Church.
This is just complete garbage. The YM/YW programs are not a whole. they do not function together. They were not designed together. They have little to do with each other and nothing at all to do with the doctrine of our heavenly parents. You are just making stuff up. And putting some words in caps does not help your argument. It makes you look like an idiot.
I'm glad you have such specific beliefs about our Heavenly Mother, tori. You must have received revelation about it since our Church doesn't actually have any teachings about her and we are left to speculate about her on our own. But again, thanks for your insight into her. I'm sure she is grateful for you speaking for her like that. You might want to teach a lesson bout these beliefs in YW. The girls could really benefit from it and I'm certain it won't get you into trouble with Church leaders.
That's theoretically true, but in actual practice in the real world, it often does mean exactly that, especially when it actualy is not just different but it is, in fact, less in every way. The most obvious way is that the YM in the US have both scouts and DtG. Do the YW have a temporal activity program to go with their spiritual one? No. Say it with me tori: less than.
Three cheers to MCQ: Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!
As I read Tori's WELL EXAGGERATED comment, I was full of fabulous ways to say, "What in He– are you talking about?? But now I don't have to.
Not trying to be rude here, Tori, but I couldn't disagree with your perspective on the youth programs. Having gotten 3 teenagers ( two girls and a boy) through the programs and on paper very successfully, both girls recieving PP awards and our son an Eagle Scout, I can tell you none of it meant squat in terms of helping them be prepared for the real world. My son got his Eagle in spite of his YM leaders, not because of them. He did it because he is that rare kid who actually likes camping, etc. He decided on his own to spend the last four summers working at a Boy scout camp. He would be a scout even if we were atheist.
All of our kids have had the typical young adult struggles deciding what level of church they will participate in. It is interesting to talk to them and realize that not once has any of them referred to church programs as being part of their thought process. It is like each of them have the perspective the youth programs were there as just place keepers – something to fill time until they grew up. Not a bad way to waste time, but could have been so much more than just a babysitter.
LIZ reminded me of one of my favorite observations: As many people are active in spite of church programs as because of them.
Love that, Jim.
Tori, I appreciate your loyalty and celebrate your good fortune in being able to apply the principles of programs in your life. Thank you for having the courage to go against the wind here.
I agree with Mcq and LIZ in their disagreements, though. I powered my kids through all that stuff and we don't even want to talk about how badly that turned out.
How do you feel about what I wrote about my born again Christian friends? They live the spirit. The programs teach people to live the letter.
There must be a better way. I know too many sexual predators who were Eagle Scouts and too many YW recognition girls who've left the church entirely to not agree with Jim's conclusions.
When the Explorer program was a Boy Scouts of America program for older Scouts, before Exploring was moved into the Learning for Life subsidiary, many Explorer Posts emphasized career exploration and, in that way, helped to prepare Scouts to be providers.
For part of the time that I was an LDS Explorer Scout, basketball seemed to be the main activity, but there were periods when the main focus was career exploration. I liked that aspect of the program, and I still think that it was a good idea.
I'm reading all of this thinking, as parents, why isn't it our job to teach our children about being good people and preparing them for life? Not the church, not programs, not peers, but us? So.. let me explain. I have 4 kids ranging in age from 12-2. Last year was a difficult year with my oldest daughter going to middle school. The homework is different there-and it's all the time. It took me a good trimester to learn that if I wanted to teach her that she could be successful in school I would have to help her. I would have to take the time and sit with her and do homework, answer questions, and check up on her status. She's only 12 and some of the responsiblities can be daunting. I know, I was 12 once and my parents didn't care about school unless I was failing. Anyway, I wanted her to know that she is smart, and that as overwhelming as things can be she has a place to turn. We had some ups and downs, but the next two trimesters she was getting all A's. I really wanted her to know that she could be successful and that some of that success is work. You actually have to work and sometimes work hard, put all your efforts into to make it happen. I imagine that we will go through the same ups and downs this new year, but I think it was a good experience for both of us. My son– now that is another challenge. He is so much like his mother. He's is more worried about the big things in life and gets distracted easy, but man he's a smart kid, yet still it is my job to teach him/her to be a good person in life. To love, to help, to be respectful, to follow through, to be a good human being. I don't think church can do that as well as the example of a good parent.
Okay.. now that's over, I was also thinking that I hate the YW pp program. It's lame and boring, and boring… and so freaking boring! My son is going through cub scouts right now and I might just ask if my daughter wants to participate in some of the things we are working on for him too. My husband has been fixing up our trailer and took her and to replace a light fixture. He let her do all of it and I was sooo soo proud of my wondeful husband. When I was a girl I was a girl scout and loved the camping. Loved it! Especially when I got to go to a horseback riding camp. Funnest time of my life, and no boring dumb stupid crafts made out of popsicle sticks, either (actually I think there were some, but there were horses… whenever you wanted to ride them). I think we do such a disservice to our YW. I hated the lessons on being wives and mothers… blah.. go horseback riding. Change a tire, fix an engine, be whatever makes you happy. Oh– our ward does a wood haul ever fall and my husband told me of one year he went. There were a couple of older women from our ward right in the mix of it. They loaded there cars and others cars full of wood and stuck right there with them men. In fact, one woman wanted this stump put in the back of her car. Most of the men just patted her on the head and said "that won't fit", but then she ask MY husband. He's like "sure thing. if I cut it here and here we can make it fit" and it did. Women are smart, and strong, and powerful, and men are kind and gracious, and tender. I just wish we would embrace that more.
Our YM and YW recently returned from a mutli-night/day High Adventure trip. They went somewhere out of state and did both white water rafting and spelunking in the same trip. It was not the touristy cave thing either, the kind with cement flooring for paths. This was a crawl-on-your-belly-and-get-dirty cave thing.
BS, I need to move to your ward!! Where are you again?
Amen Sunshine. All the "divinely appointed role" crap makes me seriously sick. I can't imagine God sitting there creating "divinely appointed roles" and then insisting we stay in our assigned seats. He's not a fourth-grade teacher.
And there's a huge difference between asking for better programs and saying the church isn't true.
I embarrassed the hell out of my husband one time because a family in our ward had their garage burn down. An activity was organized for the guys to go out and clean up the mess. A few sisters made lunch for the the menfolk. I went along with Rob (which he didn't mind) because our kids were driving me crazy and I wanted out of the house. At the fire scene I pulled on my gloves and started working next to the guys. Rob was razzed about bringing along his ball and chain and several times the women in the house sent word I should go in and help them with the food. I was ticked and determined to stay. I did, but Rob was uncomfortable. The men stopped talking when I was around. It was weird and stupid. I didn't help with the food, I didn't even go in until it was time to eat. None of the women spoke to me, either. I won't do that again because it obviously made people uncomfortable. The funny part of the whole thing was it wasn't a big deal, nothing more than the work I do at home all the time. I trim the hedges, I paint the house, I mow the lawn, I work in the garden, I unclog the drains, I fix the vacuum.I learned all of that after I got married and we didn't have the money for someone else to do the work. I've always been Rob's right hand man. Now that I think about it, Rob has gotten a pretty good deal. I can't say he used all his free time to learn how to cook and clean. He just takes off and goes fishing. So much for "divinely appointed roles."
LIZ, our ward once had a murder scene to clean up, the victim was an inactive member who had no family who would admit it. Guess who did the clean up?
The women.
I get so frustrated with the notion that the only place for a woman is in the kitchen. Now, how many Top Chef's, Iron Chef's and Food Network Chef's are men? A lot!!!!! (I should probably count so that my argument is more solid, but I don't want to) So, make your own dang food. Liz, I think you should do things like that more often. Don't let them bully you into going back into the kitchen.
Jim, that's disgusting.
Wow, the comments were as interesting as the OP, though they bring up, together, real issues.
Well, now I have to know all the details or I won't be able to sleep tonight, Jim. Thanks a lot.
Are you sure?
Jim, curious minds want to know.
Plus I really want to find out how a group of women got assigned to clean up a murder scene. Isn't that the job of police officers/evidence collectors? Or is this after the body and evidence is collected? I guess in all my years of watching Law and Order: SVU it never dawned on me someone else has to clean up the broken glass. I feel horrible for the folks that have to clean up after their spouses or children. Talk about traumatic.
According to the awesome movie Sunshine Cleaning, which I watched on Netflix when my family wasn't around (yes, it's rated R)cleaning up after a death/crime can take specialized products to properly remove the blood and tissues. Yeeeccckkk.
The movie, awesome. Funny, smart, real. Thinking about crime scene cleaning – not for me.
I'm of the opinion that women, in general, have stronger stomachs than men. What with giving birth, changing diapers, cleaning up vomit. And in the old days, butchering farm animals, etc. And human females, like most mammalian species, are more fierce than the males could ever be when defending their young.
LIZ, re #26: if, God forbid, anything should happen to Rob, and you find yourself back in the marriage market, please let me know. (PS. Please send a picture of the fishing boat.)
Well…. if you are sure…. OK…
I checked the facts with my wife (she was one of the women who did the cleaning and still has disturbing dreams about it). We were unaware that the woman, the victim, was a member. Her name wasn't on the ward list. The bishop was contacted by members of her family who were coming into town to pick up her things. My wife was the Relief Society president. The assignment came through normal channels, like the need for a casserole. The evidence had already been collected by the police and my wife remembers that some of the floor coverings had been cut out. But there was still a lot of blood on the walls of three rooms of the apartment, and bloody footprints all over. The murder weapon was either a knife or some implement that caused lots of bloodshed. The blood stains were still there after the police finished and no one wanted her family to have to encounter that. Bleach and ammonia. Compassionate service of a sort. This was a few years ago and I'm not sure there was general knowledge of companies who regularly perform crime scene clean up.
So far as I am aware, the crime was never solved.
Men just don't know how to tell a story. No offense.
I've cleaned up some pretty bad spaces; my first job, at 14, was a hotel maid. It wasn't that bad, I actually liked it. Once, an employee, who lived there, went on a drunk and totally trashed his room. I walked in with my boss and was struck dumb. "Where do we start?" I asked. She was resolute: "make the bed and take out the trash." Amazing how much difference that made. That training has served me well when, as compassionate service leader, I've had to clean some pretty dirty homes.
In this case, yeah, I'd be pouring clorox all over the place. And praying for that poor woman.
I loved Sunshine Cleaning!
I'm with Ann. My husband just doesn't know what juicy details a person must know. "Oh, they were talking about ME? What did they say?" husband, "Oh you know something like about your hair? I can't remember." Agh! Details husband, details.
And seriously, I.HATE.VOMIT! And I will not clean that shiz up unless my husband is out of town. I don't know why it bugs me so much that it was the women, and not one single man, that got to clean that blood up. I mean sure, a messy house, casserole, flowers, but blood? *Shiver*that's just gross!
Regarding FSY and it's Western World?"orth American bias…
I totally agree that it's too one-sided. But my kids live in US suburbia. Is there some hint that it encourages the wrong behavior? I think not. It's completely appropriate for North American white kids.
And since white North American kids are the future leaders of the church it's completely appropriate that the materials are tailored to them.
Comments are closed


text:
By the '70s graffiti in Philadelphia was out of control. A 1972 Camden Courier-Post article reported that it cost $1,000 a day to remove graffiti from the City Hall complex. The city appointed a 20-man graffiti squad.
In 1971 a woman wrote to the Evening Bulletin "in white heat and in rage" over the problem. "Will the Liberty Bell be next?" she implored. Not quite--they had to wait until 1976 for that, when KAP the Bicentennial Kid slammed the Bell with his tag two weeks before the Fourth of July.
Philadelphia was the undisputed graffiti capital of the world, but to most people this was no badge of honor. The tags that covered the city were stylistically complex, near impossible to read and communicated little more than urban decay to the average commuter. While some championed it as "folk art," or a kind of thwarted creativity, the vast majority of people, when they looked at graffiti, felt angry and discouraged.
"The city was tore up so bad that shit even got on my nerves," Sub says.
Even Cornbread, who'd left the city in 1974 for seven years to follow an acting career that never took off, couldn't believe his eyes when he came home again.
"When I got back the whole town looked like a war zone. It was a nuisance; it was a sight. I felt bad because I felt responsible," he says.
Wilson Goode's election pledge in 1983 was to clean the mess up, and in 1984 he initiated the Anti-Graffiti Network.
"Mayor Goode sent a letter to my house!" Sub recalls with glee.
The letter said he had 10 days from the time he received it to turn himself in. "I bombed those 10 days," he says, even getting off an especially good one: Ha ha hee hee you can't catch me. When he did report himself it was for the promise of a job.
"When the city addressed the issue of graffiti it was already dead," Stallings says. "There was no place to write your name because the city was already so marred."
Around that time graffiti moved to New York and got itself a fancy new association. No longer a gang thing, wall writing was now a hip-hop thing. Graffiti became hopelessly intertwined with the new urban party culture when Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu Nation took a troupe of DJs, breakers, MCs and graff writers on the road. In 1983 Henry Chalfant's groundbreaking film Style Wars solidified the association in the public's mind. Hip-hop sensibilities spent the next 15 years mushrooming out to white suburbia, and while graffiti hasn't gone away, it's never been the same since.
"The scene sucks now," laments Soul, a writer and DJ at Drexel's radio station, WKDU. But while he decries the art-school kids from the suburbs who have infiltrated the culture, he would never deny the legitimate white graffiti experience: "Them cats was straight thugs."
In a suit and a silver BMW, Suroc doesn't look like he was ever once a scruffy street kid. Today he's a family man, a salesman and a musician, but when he sat in his fifth grade classroom, thumbing through a math book filled with doodles and tags a decade old, he was already deeply knowledgeable of the currency in being tough. Graffiti was like a varsity letter, something worth earning.
"Nobody really aspired to be a good boy in my neighborhood," he says, referring to the Overbrook section of the city where he grew up. "Whatever art education you can say I had was probably trying to copy Spiderman and draw on my own the comics I would get from the local drugstore," Suroc says, noting that he always had an affinity for the bad guys.
By 1983 Suroc's finely tuned--and oft-practiced--ideas earned him the title "style king." In Stephen Powers' book The Art of Getting Over, Powers recalls calling him "Hollywood" "because he was so good at being conceited." Suroc was a tough kid, but also smart kid, with big dark eyes that didn't miss a beat and a black book full of high-concept ideas about graff and the things it could say to people.
His battered book shows the synthesis of many masterpieces, yet an admonishment blazes off one page as if in anticipation of a snooping journalist some 10 years ahead of time: "It's graffiti; don't call it art!"
"I read the piece and it brought tears to my eyes. My brother was from TNT (10th and Thompson St) and Lil Sonny Lived 1312 north 10th st, he was killed in 73 by his sister's boyfriend, Devil (Keibo) was on the 1300 block of Perth, he passed 12/08. Otto (Kevin B) he's still around doing his things...He has a bunch of children 9 or 10...The tag was on the center and around the corner on the other wall the names of Slack, Snake, Lamont, and other members of the TNT gang could be found...Those were the days"
"Wow... I never knew there was so much more to Graffiti. I grew up in a close family in the country and we hardly ever went to any major city's until I was thirteen. Then we started going on world trips to the major city's of the world such as London, and Rome. I saw a little graffiti but the little I did see was on the historical monuments and statues. I despised it. Then I at eighteen I started college and had to live in Kalamazoo, MI. I saw more and more graffiti lining walls and street signs... It just seemed like people disrespected the things the city had to offer. I'm amazed that it could mean so much more to people. That there was another side to what I always thought was vandalism. I looked at photos and even suggested in my own hometown that they hire someone to graffiti the skate-park for the kids. Some of the artist works are beautiful and creative and graffiti benefits more people than any over-prized painting in a gallery. Thank you for the new view."
"This is an amazing and very informative Article. I used this in a research project for my english class !! The author has very good facts and information that is hard to get elsewhere. I would recommend this article to anyone looking for info on the origins of graffiti!"
PW's 2015 Gift Guide
Food Fest: Neighborhoods unite for discounted food and drink specials
Judah Friedlander steps off the stage to put pen to paper
Dinner with Luke Palladino
A stage for our stories: First Person Arts & the art of storytelling
Apply within: PHL Live helps keeps talent within the 215
Thrill-a-delphia: Halloween happenings all around the city

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Be the first to know about new publications.Follow publisher Unfollow publisher Sound Publishing
- Info
Spread the word.
Share this publication.
Organize your favorites into stacks.
Like this publication.
Arlington Times, November 07, 2012
November 07, 2012 edition of the Arlington Times
THE NEWSPAPER AT THE HEART & SOUL OF OUR COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 WWW.ARLINGTONTIMES.COM 75¢ 2011 GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER Scan this code and start receiving local news on your mobile device today! The 11th Hour... Remembering Those Who Served on Veternas Day ~ 11-11-12 COMMUNITY: Variety of events set to honor veterans. Page 6 SPORTS: Lakewood football advances to state. Page 10 Trafton celebrates Fall Festival BY KIRK BOXLEITNER firstname.lastname@example.com TRAFTON — At the end of September, the Trafton Community Co-Op commemorated its first anniversary and the centennial of the former Trafton School that serves as its facilities. At the start of November, barely a month later, the former Trafton School was packed with families again, as the Trafton Community Co-Op staged its second annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Nov. 3. "We've had about 75 kids so far, running in and out and around," said Pastor Gary Ray of the Oso Community Chapel, who coordinates the Trafton Community Co-Op with his daughter Randi. "We just wanted to offer something fun for the whole family for not a lot of expense. It's small and simple, but there's a lot of variety here." Indeed, the four-hour festival took up space on both floors of the former Trafton School. On the ground floor, Allen Sheran practiced his golf putting while Kylie Barton did her best to keep her hula hoop circling her waist and not falling on the floor. On the upper floor, Kael Baker practiced his pitching with a velcro ball toss while Ryan Ray, son of Gary and brother of Randi, did his best to pass on his recently acquired juggling skills. "I just started doing this over the summer," Ryan Ray said, and he demonstrated his moves to Triston Moss and Orion Webb, with varying degrees of success. "I SEE TRAFTON, PAGE 2 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo Ryan Ray's contribution to the Trafton Community Co-Op's Fall Festival on Nov. 3. was passing on the juggling skills he learned this summer. North Trailhead of Centennial Trail opens BY KIRK BOXLEITNER firstname.lastname@example.com INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 14-18 12 LEGAL NOTICES 4 OPINION 7 OBITUARY 10 SPORTS 8 WORSHIP Vol. 123, No. 48 Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo From left, Tom Teigen, Tyler Andrews, Mark Crandall, Rich Patton, Connie Reckord, Richard Meshlep, Mike Remle and Joe Adams cut the ribbon for the North Trailhead of the Centennial Trail on Saturday, Nov. 3. ARLINGTON — The northernmost end of the Centennial Trail in Snohomish County was officially opened nearly 30 years after the Pathfinders Task Force first met to turn an abandoned railroad line into a community trail system that now spans 30 miles. John Wynne resided in Lake Stevens when he joined the efforts to pave the trail, which were picked up by the Snohomish-Arlington Trail Coalition. Although he now lives in Alaska, he came down from Juneau to take part in the dedication ceremony for the Nakashima Heritage Barn and North Trailhead of the Centennial Trail on Saturday, Nov. 3. "The Pathfinders Task Force was only able to go so far, because the Snohomish County Council at the time wasn't listening," Wynne said. "That's why we formed the SnohomishArlington Trail Coalition." Wynne credited many individuals and agencies with helping carry on the work on the Centennial Trail, and noted that both he and Arlington resident Bea Randall are former chairs of the Trail Coalition, but Randall simply said of her role that "this was a marathon run and I was privileged to carry it in the middle." Snohomish County Parks Director Tom Teigen served as the emcee for the morning's program, introducing not only Wynne but also Beth Hill, SEE TRAIL, PAGE 2 697992 GET OUR FREE MOBILE APP


text:
A Trip to Grocery Outlet Makes The Wino See Red in a New Light
By: Leslie Kelly
"If you've got a crew coming over for a holiday shindig, grab a box of easy sippin' Big House Red. That's right, those boxed wines have come a long way since they were the hallmark of standard swill…Buy this clever box and for about $18, you get the equivalent of more than four bottles. It's almost like shopping in the bulk section.


text:
advice(8 Posts)
Jeebs Wed 26-Jun-13 11:22:46
Mumma2cutiepie Wed 26-Jun-13 08:30:58
ilovemulberry Tue 25-Jun-13 10:25:24
Shelster84 Mon 24-Jun-13 22:17:07
Mumma2cutiepie Mon 24-Jun-13 19:32:45
Shelster84 Mon 24-Jun-13 13:52:40
cloudhands Mon 24-Jun-13 11:13:18
ilovemulberry Sun 23-Jun-13 20:54:04
Join the discussion
Registering is free, easy, and means you can join in the discussion, get discounts, win prizes and lots more.Register now
Already registered with Mumsnet? Log in to leave your comment or alternatively, sign in with Facebook or Google.
Talk: Customise | Unanswered messages | Getting started | Acronyms | FAQs
Threads: Active | I'm on | I'm watching | I started | Last 15 minutes | Last hour | Last Day
Please login first.


text:
Maliki Orders Elected Sunni MPs Detained as Vote Dispute Turns Ugly
PM Got Secret Ruling From Supreme Court to Block Allawi Victory
It is only one day after the results were announced, and already the battle to form the next government in Iraq is turning ugly, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems intent on eating into rival Ayad Allawi's two seat plurality any way possible.
Earlier today it was revealed that Maliki had quietly sought a ruling from the Iraqi supreme court just before the election results were released that would allow him to bypass Allawi's plurality through recruiting new bloc members after the election.
But beyond that and perhaps more galling for the Iraqi voter, the Justice and Accountability Commission, which saw several members of Allawi's bloc barred from competing in the election, has suggested it may block some of his elected members from serving, and replace them with members of some other political faction. Allawi's narrow two seat lead could scarce stand up to this possibility.
Yet the Maliki government is being even more brazen than this, it would seem, as reports have emerged out of Diyala Province that four Sunni MP-elects from Allawi's bloc are being targeted by security forces. One has already been captured and is being held incommunicado by the Maliki government, two others have gone into hiding, and the fourth is nowhere to be found.
Maliki had promised to contest the results of the vote and reports have him considering pressing the United Nations to overturn the vote and force a recount, though the UN had already praised the election's transparency. All the arguments about recounts appear to be very much beside the point, however, if the battle for the plurality has already escalated into summary detentions.
Last 5 posts by Jason Ditz
- Israel Sees Communication as Key to Avoid Air Battles With Russia - November 29th, 2015
- British PM to Risk Parliament Vote on Syrian Airstrikes - November 29th, 2015
- Al-Qaeda Recaptures Aleppo Town From Syrian Army - November 29th, 2015
- 16 Killed as Pro-Saudi Forces Advance in South Yemen - November 29th, 2015
- Pentagon Claims ISIS Fighters Defecting in Iraq - November 29th, 2015
5 Responses to "Maliki Orders Elected Sunni MPs Detained as Vote Dispute Turns Ugly"
The first..?? So…WTF are we to think?? The CIA guy wins, the Americans said so… and the U.N. is going along..!! The presumed loser is the current TOP PUPPET of the empire. (sorry Mr. Karzai) Even with a score card, I'm afraid this 1 will be a tough call… It's jut the everyday trials and tribulations of the bankrupt EMPIRE…. It might be fun to visit, but I wouldn't wanna LIVE there….!!!!!!!!! The real question will be…… how will this election fiasco play out with the " withdrawal"????? It's alot of oil to just walk away from….. I'm not buyin the official "gee whatz going on??" posture.. Howabout you..???
[…] Reports antiwar.com: But beyond that and perhaps more galling for the Iraqi voter, the Justice and Accountability Commission, which saw several members of Allawi's bloc barred from competing in the election, has suggested it may block some of his elected members from serving, and replace them with members of some other political faction. Allawi's narrow two seat lead could scarce stand up to this possibility. […]
Maliki is a puppet for the Wall Street-controlled U.S. government.
The US and UK tried, we are told, to "impose democracy". This latest of many squalid Zimbabwe style farces proves what self-deceiving mass-murdering swindlers (to be charitable) Blair and Bush were. Only with the return of the Ba'ath or some other authentically national force dedicated to purging the country of the US and its Quislings can democracy be achieved by the Iraqi people/s. From the British unprovoked attack in 1915 to the national revolution of 1958 was a long time. Genuine democrats will be prepared spend another 43 years (minimum?) bringing to hatred, ridicule and contempt the AngloAmerican imperialists and their puppets. Reparations against this gang and the Zionist Osirak criminals (check Osirak Criminal pilot Zev's reflections in yesterdays' antiwar.com) should follow. But make sure that they do not, like Goering and Himmler, evade the hangman.
[…] done everything it can to neutralize the Allawi coalition's razor-thin margin of victory, such as arresting successful candidates, etc. However, the Allawi-ites are no angels, as their leader's personal history illustrates. In […]


text:
- Age / Gender:
- n/a, Male
- Location:
- Location not disclosed
- Joined:
- 11/18/09
- All Stats >
Why are you reading this. Creep.
User Statshot
- Community Stats
Level 9 Writer
Normal Whistle
Ranked as Civilian
Contact Info / Websites
Recent Game Medals
The End The Game 100 Points Finish all the levels... Oh, but that's JUST the levels! Medal Stats.
Charged With Battery 50 Points Finish two thirds of the levels. Medal Stats.
Unzipping in the No-Fly Zone 25 Points Finish one third of the levels. Medal Stats.
adept 5 Points Kill 10 enemies. Medal Stats.
There 25 Points Sit there, shut up, and watch the entire thing...ALL THE WAY TO THE BITTER END. Medal Stats.
Asteroid 25 Points Crushing the Asteroid Medal Stats.
Coast Bomber 25 Points Crushing the Coast Bomber Medal Stats.
Osama 25 Points Killing Osama Bin Laden Medal Stats.
Containers 50 Points Crushing 65 Containers Medal Stats.
Tram 25 Points Crushing the tram Medal Stats.
Total Medals Earned: 189 (From 52 different games.)
Favorite Audio
|Miscellaneous Song
|Lullaby De Amor
|Miscellaneous Song
|Rose At Eclipse
|Video Game Loop
|The Sound of Magic 2
|Miscellaneous Song
Favorite Movies
Madness Combat 7.5 Rated 4.4721 Stars Madness Combat 7.5 Action Ragtime with a Vengeance Rated 4.4256 Stars This guy wants to Avenge Hatman's death Action Madness Duel Rated 4.4174 Stars The final duel between HANKS and SAVIOR ! Action Madness Depredation Rated 4.4312 Stars Madness Combat 5: Depredation Action


text:
September 13, 2010
Patio Prom Date
by Kari
Theme: The STARS Burn Bright for You My Love
(We decided to include ANOTHER giveaway with this date….just cuz we love our readers sooooooo much!!)
Please check out our Facebook Fan Page to see who the WINNER is!!
Will You Go To Prom With Me?
When I was planning this date I realized that I needed to actually ASK my husband to go with me. That's how it goes in high school, right? And sticking with the high school ideas, I needed to ask him in a super fun and super corny way. 😉 My top two choices were #1) Do an outline of myself on our driveway with a rock on top of a note saying, "I would DIE if you would go to prom with me." Or #2) Decorate his car while it's in the parking lot of his work.
I opted for the second choice because the first choice no one would see but him and the second choice sounded like so much more fun. So I had my sister help me trash the inside of his car. I used confetti, balloons, crepe paper, and a big poster board that said, "Will you go to PROM with ME? Love, Ginger". I slapped some lipstick on my lips and went to town with kissy marks all over the poster board.
The Reaction?
Or rather, his co-workers reaction? {LOL} My husband's co-workers were scratching their heads trying to figure out why someone trashed his car. Then when they read the poster board the question was, "Who in the heck is this Ginger girl and how OLD is she?" Haha! I got a good laugh about that. Well, my husband got made fun of and hassled quite a bit about "going to prom". Good thing I'm married to a man who would react to his co-workers this way: "They're just jealous 'cause their wives don't do cool stuff like this!" {LOL}
I wanted our prom to be a date we could do at home after the kids were in bed. I didn't want to pay for a babysitter and I LOVE our back patio because we have a fantastic view of the city. So once Adam and I were all dressed up we got the kids fed and in bed before our date official started.
The Clothing
I didn't want to have to purchase an actual prom dress or rent a tux for this. Obviously that would have blown our budget out of the water. So I picked one of my summer dresses to wear and told my husband to match his outfit with mine as best he could. I think he did a pretty amazing job! I did, however, purchase a second dress to wear later on in the evening from Ross (it was on clearance for $7). We'll just say that it's more like my Little Black Dress, but with a little less material…;) I wore my summer dress for our pictures and dinner. Then I "excused" myself to use the "restroom" in order to do my quick change. When I walked out in a different dress my husband took a double take and then his face went completely red! Haha! I love to throw him off like that. He loved it…until he got a little paranoid about our neighbors seeing me in a scantily-clad dress (that may or may not have resembled bedroom attire). That only made me laugh even harder as I invited him to dance with me. And then he seemed to forget all about the neighbors for a while.
I used white LED lights that I purchased from Wal-Mart a few Christmas' ago. Any white lights will do – I like mine because the bulbs are larger and give off more light. I stapled these lights around the top of the lattice on my patio. I also strung them around the poster and stars that I stapled to the actual lattice. It turned out way better than I thought it would! It looked so official!I made up a poster using vinyl (it would work just as great with stenciling – just so it looks more official). It says "2010 Patio Prom Presents: The STARS burn bright for you my love." My theme was stars, which was perfect since it was right after the 4th of July so it was easy to find cute "star" themed accents on clearance. Then I also made some larger stars out of poster board to accent around it.
The Pictures
What prom night is complete without pictures? We've had to have some great shots to put in the scrap book. So I had a friend of mine, Vanessa, come over and take our official Patio Prom Pictures. I love them – they turned out so cute. If you don't have a friend/family member take pictures for you, use a tripod or grab a neighbor.
The Dinner Ice Bucket
This was such a fun find! I have searched for these online to give you a reference for them, but they range in price from $7 up to $60. Amazon.com has a really good selection of these. I actually found mine by chance at JoAnn Crafts for $8 on their summer clearance shelf. I wasn't even looking for something like this, but it was so cute that I couldn't pass it up! You could really use any kind of ice bucket for this. Plastic ones work great too. Just something that you can fill up with ice to put your drinks in. If you want to add monogrammed vinyl, it is $1.50 (doesn't include S&H) at http://www.sisterssayitall.com/. I grabbed a bottle of Welch's Sparkling Red Grape Juice Cocktail to put in the bucket.
I picked up two black plates and two black bowls from the dollar store. I thought this would be a fun addition to our meal. I'm all about having a "souvenir" from our date nights together. I added auto vinyl to the plates and bowls to personalize them and have them add to our star theme. The plates have one big star and have our names on them. The bowls just have smaller stars on them. I used the auto vinyl so that I can wash them without them peeling up easily. The vinyl cost $4.50 (doesn't include S&H) from http://www.sisterssayitall.com/.
His & Hers Wine Glasses
I used the His & Hers glasses that Lisa M. made for all of the divas. These were a really cute addition to all of the monogrammed dinnerwear. Check out her post HERE. Lisa M. was sweet enough to contribute a set of these adorable glasses to give-a-way to one of our lucky readers!
All you have to do to be eligable for this giveaway is leave a comment below stating what you love about this date and be a public follower of our blog! Good luck!
In an effort to keep this date easy and inexpensive, I decided to do a hors d'oeuvre theme. Instead of cooking myself (which would have taken the better part of my day and time I just didn't have) I went to Fred Meyers and actually purchased our dinner in their deli. What I love about Fred Meyers is they have a very good selection of gourmet hors d'oeuvre items and they are very reasonably priced. If you don't have a Fred Meyers where you are, pick a grocery store that has an amazing deli & bakery section. Grocery stores like Albertson's or Smith's usually have a selection of gourmet items to choose from. So you get the look & taste of a fancy meal without the restaurant prices. Here is my food list from Fred Meyers:
Crab & Avocado Sushi
Japanese Shrimp Dumplings
Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad
Deli Turkey Wraps
Victorian Dessert Cup
Fancy Chocolate Cupcake
Napoleon Dessert
Chocolate Éclair
(…and NO, we didn't even eat 1/4 of the dessert that I purchased. LOL It was a fun look though and our kids had a fun treat the next day for being good and going to bed early.)
Let's Dance
I have a small speaker system for my iPod that is portable ($8 at Ross if you don't have one). I set this on our dinner table so we got to listen to some nice music during dinner. We used this for our Prom playlist too. I incorporated music from our wedding reception and new releases for us to dance to. I don't know about all of you, but I LOVE to dance with my hubby. It is very romantic to me. While we danced we talked about the Top 10 reasons why we fell in love with each other (that didn't include physical traits, LOL). A few of my favorite music/artist picks are:
Paramore – The Only Exception
Brian Adams – Everything I Do
Nickelback – Far Away
Nickelback – Never Gonna Be Alone
Colbie Cailat – I Never Told You
Michael Buble` – I Wanna Go home
Gavin DeGraw – We Belong Together
Taylor Swift – Today Was a Fairytale
OneRepublic – Secrets
Incubus – I Miss You
We can all pretend that this doesn't happen, but we all know that it does. And what prom night doesn't include a make-out session? Haha! So my hubby and I got into the backseat of our car (that was parked in the garage) and DOT. DOT. DOT. 😉
Don't forget to leave a comment below stating what you love about this date and that you are a public follower of our blog so you'll be eligable to win a set of His & Hers wine glasses courtesy of Lisa M.! The giveaway will end at midnight on Wednesday, September 15th and the winner will be announced on Thursday the 16th on our Facebook Fan Page….so be SURE check and see if you won!!
Please check out our Facebook Fan Page to see who the WINNER is!!
You Might Also Like These Related Articles
Recent Comments
63 Responses to "Patio Prom Date"
"The Dating Divas showed me how to ROCK the Prom……Who ever said that you have to attend High School to do it!"
I found your site googleing about ideas to do with my boyfriend. We are together for a while ago and sometimes I just want to do some fun with him. Since he is younger than me (pfeh cougars ) we would had the choice to go his senior prom together a couple of years ago but because of several reason (for example that 6000 miles between us) we couldn't make it and I was so so so upset about it. Which women doesn't want to show up all nice dressed up with her love? When I started to looking through your date ideas my heart stopped for a beat when I found this one. I LOVE IT!!! Since I have some nice dresses at home from previous events and he has a nice suit we could also do it dressed out and we can finally have our own prom!!! I am sooo excited about it!:) Thank you so much, you are awesome!
a used-to-be LDR girlfriend from TX
Okay, I LOVE this idea. New to the site, lovin' it, etc… but dying to see the little black dress and the link takes me to a PDF of raspberry pork chop recipe… Is that on purpose?
So excited about planning this date with my husband. Even though we are about to celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary, we were prom dates waaaaay back in 1987! He could not have been a better or more fun date then or now (we were apart for 20 years!) and since reuniting we have made it a point to go to our prom date restaurant each year on our prom anniversary to celebrate. Last year he surprised me by having our local florist recreate my prom corsage (a black lily – extra huge like the 80s hair) to wear on our "Promaversary" Date. But, this year I am going to throw in some of the ideas from this date (including the music and "Parking" at the same place…lol). Love your site and all the ideas! We plan to live in the newlywed phase for the rest of our lives to make up for missing the 20 years together.
I posted our original prom picture from 1987 and then a picture of the corsage he gave me last year on your FB Page. I think they are only a local Japanese place – there is one in Spartanburg (the one went to) and one in Greenville (I think this is a newer one). He always says he is more comfortable eating there with me now than on the original date – because he was worried about all that taffeta and lace on the dress and the open flames! LOL!!
I LOVE this idea!!!! My husband works two jobs right now. With 3 kids and him working, me being a FULL time Mom…time just slips away! We have been married for 18 years Seems like after having kids, and jobs, school parties, life etc. We just dont make time for US like we need to! Thank you for this idea and your website…LOVE!!!
Recent TrackbacksCheck out what others are saying about this post...
Leave A Comment
OOoooohhh!! We LOVE comments! Thanks for leavin' us some "love"! P.S. If you want a pic to show up next to your comments, go get a gravatar!


text:
Comments by bamma
Such a letdown tonight. CM usually leaves us hanging, with a need to see what happens next. Ever since they let Emily go, the writers have gotten soft. Personally, I was hoping that Blake would be killed ( can't stand that woman ) and the last scene would have been Prentiss gettin on a plane to DC. Now THAT would have been a great finale.
What a major letdown. Joe Montagna went on Twitter and said that "one of the TEAM" would not survive the finale. Strauss was NOT a member of the team, she was the bitchy boss who wanted to bring the REAL Team down. No cliff hanger, no shocks, NOTHING. The writers of this show had best get their acts in gear.


text:
- SCU Home Page
- About SCU
- Admission
- Academics
- On Campus
- News & Info
- Alumni
Nicole Kelly '13
International Ambassador
Why do you want to serve as an International Ambassador?
I think that studying abroad is the opportunity of a lifetime. Travel is essential in this day and age to understand our increasingly global world, and to take the opportunity to incorporate it into you studies will only help you understand where you want to go in life and how you can fit into the rest of the world. Traveling helps you understand who you are and your own culture much better becasue you are able to step outside of your usual mental and physical framework. I have had an incredible experiance abroad, so I really want to help other Santa Clara students find an experiance of their own. I also would love to see more Santa Clara students come to Spring Hill Bologns. I cannot say enough good things about the program, and I think it is a good fit for Santa Clara students overall.
Deciding factor for studying abroad?
I chose my location because I have always wanted to go to Italy, yet I did not want to go to a city like Rome or Florence where most Americans tend to study abroad. I wanted a city with a lot to do, but also a place where I could really practice my Italian and build relationships with the Italians and the community around me. I liked the Spring Hill Bologna program becuase Bologna sounded like the perfect, small, Italian university city, and I was given the opportunity to live in a dorm with other Italians. I also wanted a program with a social justice focus because that is something I am very passionate about. At the Spring Hill program, I was able to travel to human rights conferences, take social justice focus classes, have an environmentally focused internship at WWF and form relationships with the immigrant and Rom minority communities around Bologna.
Defining Moment Abroad?
For our fall orientation, we traveled to Croatia and Bosnia to focus on social justice, human rights, and the history and aftermath of the war in the Balkans. In Bosnia, we visited the small, isolated town of Screbrenicia, the site of genocidal killings during the Bosnian war, where thousands of men and boys had been brutally murdered by Serbian forces. It was there, visiting the graves and new memorial sites, and speaking with people my age who held memeories of the atrocities that I realized I was meant to be there. Hearing the stories of these people truly solidified in my mind that I want to use this time and my education in general to fight against these horrendous human rights violations and help prevent them from occuring anywhere else. The experiance was incredible, and nothing made me understand more the opportunities I have been given in my life, and how hard I want to work not to waste them.
Advice to Prospective study abroad students?
I would have spent more time researching and preparing my understanding of the history and cluture of Italy, especially the region I am living in. I feel that learning these basics have enriched my experiance, and I would have gained more much sooner if I had prepared more before arriving. i would also practice the language much more early on. I can be quite shy, so I tended to not practice until I got to know people better, yet this definitely impeded my learning of the language.


text:
Because You Have Better Things To Do!
A Daily Email List of New Homes for Sale as they Hit the Market!
njandpahomesbyemail.com is a FREE service to help area home buyers find their dream home. Your first email will list all homes currently for sale that meet your search criteria. Then each morning you will be emailed a list of all of the new homes for sale and price changes since your previous search. No more having to rely on manual searches. Fill out the form below and start your auto-email home search today! It's just that easy!
Equal Housing Opportunity
A free service of
Jennifer Tome-Berry and Maury Tome
Keller Williams and Bridge Street Real Estate
100 Canal Pointe Blvd Suite 120 Princeton NJ 08540
Copyright © 2003-2015 Real Pro Systems LLC. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy


text:
How many transporter rooms on TOS Enterprise?
View Single Post
January 11 2013, 11:00 PM
Location: North Wales
Re: How many transporter rooms on TOS Enterprise?
blssdwlf wrote:
Good observation Mytran. Yeah, that wall looks to be wild or modifiable given it's different configurations. Do you know offhand if there were any episodes where we were shown the version that sticks into a corridor and in the same episode see characters walk that same corner?
My episode notes have yet to be unpacked, but I have a feeling that it only happens once, in the early part of
Mirror Mirror
. Even then, we don't really see that much of the offending parts of the Transporter Room, a bit of squinting might get us though that one.
View Public Profile
Send a private message to Mytran
Find More Posts by Mytran


text:
Stylish men take hold of center stage at Pittsburgh's Fashion Week
Presentation is everything.
Whether it's the way food is expertly displayed on a plate or how a model is dressed impeccably on the runway.
Kevin Watson will demonstrate both.
The executive chef at Savoy in the Strip District is one of the celebrity models at the "Rediscover ManStyle" Fashion Show at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Pittsburgh Winery in the Strip District. It's the second day of the fourth annual Pittsburgh Fashion Week. Watson will be a fashion plate with a serving plate when he walks the runway in a Calvin Klein suit, carrying a platter of food.
"I am happy to be a part of fashion week," says Watson, who has modeled in the past. "Food is fashion. It's important how it looks and, of course, how it tastes. The first thing our customers see is how it looks before they take one bite."
Watson will join WPXI-TV news anchor Vince Sims, KDKA-TV news anchor Rick Dayton and former Pittsburgh Penguin Rick Tocchet onstage. The celebrity models will wear clothing from Macy's. There will be 18 models who have been invited to express their individual style through wearing their own clothing.
This will be fashion week's first show at the winery. The space was attractive to the event's executive director Miyoshi Anderson with its bold red and black walls and wine barrels, as well as the overall ambiance of the space in the wine cellar.
"I am so excited about our men's show," Anderson says. "We have some wonderful celebrities, and the male models in this show will offer a variety of individual styles. It's about going back and re-discovering what's already in your closet. You will see the look of everyday men who will show how to dress in style."
Pittsburgh Winery owner and wine-maker Tim Gaber says he enjoys hosting events that are different and that might introduce the rather new establishment to people who haven't been there.
"I like to do unconventional things so I felt it was a good partnership, Gaber says. "It should be a fun evening."
Watson agrees.
"Sometimes, I need to get out of the chef's jacket," says Watson, who has ideas to design a creative clothing line of chef's jackets. "This is awesome that Pittsburgh has its own fashion week. Pittsburgh has so much to offer. It's one of the most livable cities because of its great sports teams and a wonderful cultural district and top universities and medical facilities and amazing dining. We have it all, and fashion plays an integral part in that. Just like some people savor a good meal, which takes time to create, fashionable individuals appreciate the look of a well-dressed model which also takes time to put together just the right look."
The event benefits Capacity Developers, a non-profit organization that provides service and of support to help individuals and families realize economic stability, self-reliance and well being.
Project Pop Up: Fashion
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is teaming up with Pittsburgh Fashion Week for a day of Project Pop Up: Fashion. This market will feature nine retailers to showcase the diverse and exciting fashion offerings available Downtown.
Participating retailers include All Flavorz, Boutique 208, Boutique La Passaralle, Larrimor's, Macy's and Serendipity.
"Project Pop Up: Fashion is the perfect way to highlight the outstanding range of fashion purveyors in Downtown Pittsburgh," says Jeremy Waldrup, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership president and CEO. "From established national brands like Macy's, to nationally known trend setters like Serendipity and relative newcomer, Boutique La Passarelle, we have a wide range of fashion tastes Downtown and look forward to showcasing them."
Pittsburgh Fashion Week executive director Miyoshi Anderson says it's the perfect collaboration. She views this event as a platform to expose the fashion industry in Pittsburgh that has been cultivated over the past four years.
"We love to try new things and view this as the perfect opportunity to grow our customers," says Tom Michael, president of Larrimor's.
"We are looking forward to a fun event and the opportunity to be in Market Square will all of the fashionable Pittsburghers," says Joe Hladiuk, vice president and store manager of Macy's Downtown.
Fashion truck retailers Broke Little Rich Girl, Style Truck and The Vintage Valet will be joining the event. The Vintage Valet specializes in contemporary apparel with a vintage flair. Style Truck carries many American-made and fair-trade pieces, while Broke Little Rich Girl's inventory features selections from designers in Pittsburgh and other cities.
Dress for Success will be on-site collecting donations of professional clothing and accessories.
Details: www.downtownpittsburgh.com
Show commenting policy
TribLive commenting policy
You are solely responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree to our Terms of Service.
We moderate comments. Our goal is to provide substantive commentary for a general readership. By screening submissions, we provide a space where readers can share intelligent and informed commentary that enhances the quality of our news and information.
While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. Because of the volume of reader comments, we cannot review individual moderation decisions with readers.
We value thoughtful comments representing a range of views that make their point quickly and politely. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments either by the same reader or different readers.
We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. A few things we won't tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING. Don't include URLs to Web sites.
We do not edit comments. They are either approved or deleted. We reserve the right to edit a comment that is quoted or excerpted in an article. In this case, we may fix spelling and punctuation.
We welcome strong opinions and criticism of our work, but we don't want comments to become bogged down with discussions of our policies and we will moderate accordingly.
We appreciate it when readers and people quoted in articles or blog posts point out errors of fact or emphasis and will investigate all assertions. But these suggestions should be sent via e-mail. To avoid distracting other readers, we won't publish comments that suggest a correction. Instead, corrections will be made in a blog post or in an article.


text:
November 26, 2015
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's first experimental hemp crop has grown with the arrival of another shipment of imported seeds that went into the ground.
The state's Agriculture Department says nearly 950 pounds of Canadian seeds cleared customs without any legal drama. An earlier shipment from Italy was detained for a time by customs officials in Louisville, setting off a legal fight between the state agency and the federal government.
Adam Watson, the ag department's hemp coordinator, said Monday the Canadian seeds were planted last week.
Those plants have a lot of catching up to do.
Watson says seeds put in the soil in late May have sprouted into leafy plants that are 6 feet high or taller.
Test plots across the state will help researchers and farmers determine the crop's potential in Kentucky.
Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File
Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below. Questions or concerns relating to the accessibility of the FCC's online public file system should be directed to the FCC at 888-225-5322, 888-835-5322 (TTY), or email@example.com.


text:
Create a free account to check out faster, store multiple shipping addresses, view and track your orders in your account, and much more.
Please enter your password to continue.
I enjoy carrying a flask with me. But I'll be honest...the most important things to me in a flask are size and functionality. This is a nice looking flask but it's not going to hold enough liquor to get you past two drinks. I tend to share the wealth when I carry a flask but it won't be possible given the small size of this flask.4
I keep a stash of these around for emergency gifts. No one I have given this to as a gift has been disappointed, in fact they've all been delighted. Make sure to buy the accompanying funnel, though, since the opening is a little on the small side. I wish that Birchbox kept more in stock (i.e., with different inscriptions to choose from), so that I could give a bigger variety away. The size is perfect.5


text:
This is the January 8, 2013 news archive. View today's Bucks rumors and news.
Scott Skiles, Milwaukee Bucks agree to 'part ways' effective immediately
yahoo.com dimemag.com ESPN.com nba.com CNNSI.com grantland.com Updated Jan 8, 2013
When the Milwaukee Bucks take the court to face the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night, they'll do so without Scott Skiles on the bench for the first time in four-plus seasons. The notoriously hard-nosed defensive coach and the team he's led since 2008 reach…Share Tweet
Bucks Win Boylan's DebutJan 8Brandon Jennings scores 29 points to lead Bucks to 108-99 win over Suns in coach Jim Boylan's debut.
Scott Skiles Out In MilwaukeeJan 8Marc Stein explains why the Milwaukee Bucks parted ways with head coach Scott Skiles and handed the reins to assistant Jim Boylan for the rest of the season.
Sports Columnists
Heat Reaction: Miami Heat at Indiana PacersJan 8Quick takes at the buzzer on Heat-Pacers.
Ian Thomsen: LeBron poised to pull away in MVP race; more mailJan 8What would it take for LeBron James to NOT win the MVP award? You wrote recently that even though Chris Paul is the current leader, you still expect James to capture the honor at season's end. Would it take a Heat collapse for voters to honor the contri…
Coast to Coast - Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics issuesJan 8We discuss two storied franchises having disappointing seasons.


text:
- Age / Gender:
- n/a, Male
- Location:
- Location not disclosed
- Joined:
- 7/28/10
- All Stats >
i honestly have no idea what im doing
User Statshot
- Community Stats
Level 5 Blank Slate
Normal Whistle
Ranked as Civilian
Contact Info / Websites
Latest News
i have some good ideas but i really dont know what im doing so......... ill just do whatever i want i guess.......
Favorite Audio
|Techno Song
|Blue brass of the beast
|Drum N Bass Loop
|Techno Song
|Drum N Bass Song
Favorite Art
Favorite Movies
Bunnykill 4 Rated 4.4373 Stars The 4th installment of the bunny-slaughtering flash series is here! Action Bunnykill 3 Vol.1 Rated 4.3225 Stars The first part of Bunnykill3 Action Bunnykill 2 Rated 4.3242 Stars The Sequel of Bunnykill Action Bunnykill Rated 4.3302 Stars Bunnies killing each other in the most brutal ways imaginable. Action
Favorite Games
This is the Only Level Rated 4.4276 Stars Adventures in singularity! Action - Platformer - Hop and Bop Monster Evolution Rated 4.2392 Stars Play as a monster. Create havoc, feed on humans, and evolve!!! A stylish and unique game. Action - Platformer - Other How to Raise a Dragon Rated 4.4344 Stars The dragon: a majestic and complex beast. How is it born? How does it live and die? Action - Platformer - Puzzle Madness 4 Scene Creator Rated 4.3925 Stars Madness Combat 4 Scene Creator Gadgets - Dress Up


text:
the african seed company
Seed Co Limited, a public listed company incorporated in Zimbabwe and quoted on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, is the leading producer and marketer of certified crop seeds in Southern Africa.
Agri-Seed Co Limited
Mombasa Road (next to Mabati rolling Mills)
P. O. Box 616 - 00621
Village Market, Nairobi
Phone: +254 20 3228000 / 8046358
Fax: +254 20 8046360
Main contact: Kassim Owino
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact form Request Info
Interpretation of scores:
Note: SC 701, ZS 206 and SR 52 are specialised maize seed for "Green Mealies", "Roasting" and "Baby Corn" and are available on request.
Currently Seed Co has operational units or supplies seed to a total of 15 African countries.
We will keep you up to date with news, events and Seed Co product information.
Get email alerts
Get rss news
Download our PDF documents


text:
Our first stop in Italy was Florence and the surrounding Tuscany area. Overall an amazing time. Shout out to Sari Ugell who was with me on this trip. Day 1: Tuesday Flight + Relaxation We left Ben Gurion Airport at 6:00am local time to arrive at Fiumicino Airport in Rome at 10:00am local time. After arriving in Rome, we took … Read More
Thinking Small Yields Big Results
Innovation can be disruptive or incremental. In the past few decades, the best innovation has disrupted our lives in ways we could not have even fathomed before. New markets have been created along with billions of dollars in value. Telephones replaced the telegraph, Wikipedia replaced volumes of traditional encyclopedias and iPods replaced CDs. These are some of many life changing … Read More
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!


text:
HAGERSTOWN >> Two people were charged with assault following a disturbance at Sheetz.
Hagerstown Police responded to the Sheetz at 700 Potomac Ave. around 12:50 a.m. Tuesday.
A large group became involved in a confrontation that turned physical. One person was struck in the head with a baseball bat and went inside the Sheetz store while bleeding.
The store was subsequently closed for biohazard cleaning.
Two people were charged in this incident.
Craig Dashawn Wright, 25, 410 Guilford Ave., Hagerstown, was charged with second degree assault, malicious destruction of property, and disorderly conduct.
Connedious Green, 22, 157 S. Potomac St., was charged with second degree assault and disorderly conduct.
The investigation is continuing. Anyone with information should call the Criminal Investigation Division at 301-790-3700 ext. 247


text:
JoLayne Cooper of Americus, Ga.
- Filed Under
Versatile oats are known as a nourishing breakfast, but they also star in some deliciously decadent baked goods!
Home cook JoLayne Cooper's recipe for Oatmeal Cake came from her mother and is a longtime family favorite. Sweet, nutty and moist, this recipe is chock full of flavor and texture. Delish with or without the coconut topping, the whole family will love this cake!Oatmeal Cake
Cake: ...


text:
Topical oestrogen can stop the spread of HIV by preventing the virus from infecting men when applied to the penis, a new study has claimed.
Researchers at Melbourne University have found that the application of oestrogen to the human penis increased the thickness of the natural keratin layer on the skin, which can prevent HIV infection in men, the PLoS journal reported.
According to them, the epithelium of the human penis is richly supplied with oestrogen receptors, which suggests it could respond to topical oestrogen.
"We have found a new avenue to possibly prevent HIV infection of the penis. Keratin on our skin acts as a barrier to viral infection. We hope to enhance this protection with the use of a naturally, occurring weak oestrogen," Prof Roger Short, who led the study, said.
The Melbourne University team analysed tissue samples from 12 foreskins to make the discovery. Topical oestrogen was applied to the human foreskin for a two-week trial, the result being a rapid and substantial increase in keratin thickness.
"Our study suggested that oestrogen could induce a thickening of the keratin layer of the foreskin epidermis in the same way as it acts in the vagina," said co-researcher
Prof Andrew Pask.
According to Prof Short, HIV is on the rise particularly in countries where males are not circumcised. "In countries where circumcision is not religiously or culturally accepted, oestrogen treatments to the penis could be very effective in reducing the spread of the disease," he said.


text:
Former Dream Theater vocalist Charlie Dominici has launched a kickstarter fundraiser campaign for a project that tries to turn his O3 trilogy into a movie, and to carry it out Charlie has the help of screenwriter and author David Sakmyster, and best-selling international author Steven Savile, who will be responsible for creating the movie screenplay adaptation.
If you wanna get more information and to be part of it, please visit the official page of the project HERE
O3 conceptual trilogy is composed by the albums released on 2005, 2007 and 2008, of wich the last two are progressive metal pieces and the first one is an acoustic effort.
Let's support Charlie to make this happen!!
NOTE: Everyone who participates will receive a reward ranging from the appearance in the credits of the film to be a character on it and spend time with Charlie (with a personal show included!).


text:
Let's Talk E. coli — Again
Last week America heard more news out of Atlanta and the Center for Disease Control about another deadly E. coli outbreak. They say this time that it's a different strain of Escherichia coli, one labeled O145. Usually CDC blames a serotype named O157:H7 but this time O145 is getting the headlines. What's good about that is that the American public may finally realize not all E. coli is the same and that the most...
Pick: Exquisite Lifeforms
June 15
Exquisite Lifeforms: Exploring Creation from the Micro-to the Macro-cosm
Gallery 72, 2709 Leavenworth St.
Reception 6-9pm, exhibition thru June 24
New York-based Pyramidologist and fine artist of pyramids Lester Loving has been researching the practical applications of pyramid science, molecular biology, physics and holistic design for the last fifty years. The Exquisite...
The Sport of Dedication
The sport of roller derby is physically striking – pun intended. The athletes are a visual masterpiece, a hodgepodge of women of all shapes, sizes and colors, united by tight clothes, helmets, and of course, skates. The sounds are stunning, from the crack of pads on the track to the flat smack of moving bodies being stopped abruptly.
It's well-known that violence draws many fans to a roller derby bout. The Omaha...
Pick: Maps & Atlases
June 18
Maps & Atlases w/ The Big Sleep and Suns
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com
Intricately off-kilter Chicago band Maps & Atlases have built a steady following of indie rock fans, thanks to their indie-pop take on math rock. The band incorporates straightforward elements of folk-pop, which they then dismantle and distort into odder,...
Pick: Ceremony
June 20
Ceremony w/ White Lung, Slut River and Gag Reflex
The Sandbox, 2406 Leavenworth St.
8:30 p.m., $10, slowburnomaha.com
Ceremony have evolved from typical hardcore house-show punk rockers to one of the genre's leading hopes. The California band's growing stature is a credit to their ability to grow and adapt, slowing down the tempo without losing their impact. Basslines now are more likely to lock into...
Page 180 of 375 pages ‹ First < 178 179 180 181 182 > Last ›


text:
Bogumil Kasprzak
Found 10 Records, 10 Photos and 3,598 Family Trees
Born in Hajnowka on 28 Jun 1934 to Private Kasprzak and Private Szablowska. He passed away on 16 Nov 1999 in Warszawa.
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Potential photos and documents for Bogumil KasprzakView All 10 Images
Top record matches for Bogumil Kasprzak
Surname meaning for "Kasprzak"
Polish: patronymic from the personal name Kasper (see


text:
Newegg.com - A great place to buy computers, computer parts, electronics, software, accessories, and DVDs online. With great prices, fast shipping, and top-rated customer service - once you know, you Newegg.
If you are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh" button). Please email us if you're running the latest version of your browser and you still see this message.
Newegg.com - Computer Parts, Laptops, Electronics, HDTVs, Digital Cameras and More!
Sold and Shipped by HealthMegaMall
Bivalve Spinal System: Oasis Tlso Lp 4 Panel, With PPX (Pectoral Pad Kit with Extension Adjustment)-XSOPTEC USA''s Oasis is our most popular bivalve spinal system and ideal for patients who require maximum support, but cannot tolerate rigid braces. The new traction closure system provides easy compression adjustments. Revolutionary spacer fabric offers increased breathability, heat and moisture removal, less bulk and longer life span than trilaminates. The Oasis truly lives up to its name and offers comfort beyond illusions.The Oasis TLSO is available in various designs, including 3 panel and 4 panel versions.TYPICAL INDICATIONS• Burst Fx• Chronic Back Pain• Compression Fractures• Degenerative, Herniated or Bulging Disc• Kyphosis• Laminectomy• Osteoporosis• Paraplegia• Post-Operative• Spinal Stabilization• Spinal Stenosis• Spondylolysis• Spondylolisthesis Product photo may not exactly match the product offered for sale. Please refer to the product description.
This item is eligible for Newegg Premier benefits. Are you a Newegg Premier Member? If not, sign up today and get:
Your request will be processed within the next 24 hours.
Please add "email@example.com" to your address book to ensure delivery.See Today's E-Blast Promo


text:
Posted: 08/22/2007 - Sex Predators are living, lurking and looking for kids, right in your very own neighborhood.
Posted: 08/22/2007 - Sex Predators are living, lurking and looking for kids, right in your very own neighborhood.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - New Bern police are asking for your help in catching a man responsible for snatching two purses and trying to steal a third one in two days.
Posted: 08/22/2007 - Police say a Mebane man drove half-way across the state to have sex with a 14 year old girl.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - School administrators say someone took six laptops and three desk-top computers from HJ McDonald Middle School in New Bern.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - The University of Illinois has canceled a partnership between its police-training institute and a Currituck County contractor best known for providing security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted: 08/22/2007 - Coy Privette pleaded guilty today to six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - The state says many farmers have reported significant losses in corn and soybean crops and a lack of hay to feed cattle.
Posted: 08/22/2007 - Hurricane Dean was closing in on the Mexican mainland Wednesday, battering evacuated oil platforms on the Bay of Campeche.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - Nearly 130 fires were burning yesterday and forestry officials say dry weather is making the situation worse.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - An early morning fire in Atlantic Beach destroys two million dollar beach homes and lightning could be to blame.
Updated: 08/22/2007 - The FAA said the Piper PA-25 experienced engine failure.
Posted: 08/21/2007 - Local economy doing better than state and national.
Posted: 08/21/2007 - Beaufort, Scotland and Gates Counties split 3 million dollars.
Posted: 08/21/2007 - Graham spent the day with family.
Posted: 08/21/2007 - Residents can register and vote the same day.
Posted: 08/21/2007 - Research divers are head to the sunken ship some believe belonged to the pirate Blackbeard to recover a cannon and other artifacts.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - Officers have charged two men with trafficking cocaine after a traffic stop Monday.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - Charles Poole is charged with attempted murder and first degree burglary.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - The open burning ban means that all burning is prohibited if it is 100 feet or more from an occupied dwelling.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - Officials from Rocky Mount & Wilson meet today to look at options available on how to get more water to Rocky Mount.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - Charged with murder is Lenwood Pettaway. Deputies say he confessed to Monday's killing of 62 year old Willie Bazemore.
Updated: 08/21/2007 - Dean lashed remote Mayan villages as it raced across the Yucatan Peninsula to the heart of Mexico's oil industry.
Posted: 08/20/2007 - Capital One Financial says it's cutting 1,900 jobs and will close its wholesale mortgage banking business.
Updated: 08/20/2007 - After dropping last week, gas prices have gone from $2.58 a gallon, to around $2.70.
Posted: 08/20/2007 - Police say so far this year the ring is responsible for at least 22 thefts or burglaries.


text:
Mario Balotelli tie clip shock! See Italy's new Dolce & Gabbana kit for Euro 2012
By Jamie Millar 08 June 12
Sure, the Italian national team may be mired in allegations of match-fixing and suffering from an untimely loss of form, losing their last two friendlies to Uruguay and the USA. But they still look good for Euro 2012 - chiefly thanks to the talents of style players Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who have kitted the side out in blue suits from their Sicily line. (This being Italy, they've also provided the squad with a typically put-together "casual look" and a set of matching luggage). Any Azzuri fans suffering the same dispiriting lack of expectation as England supporters should take heart from the fact that the duo even managed to get Mario Balotelli into a tie and tie clip - so miracles clearly do happen.
Click here to see Peter Schmeichel's Euro 2012 predictions.


text:
Elizabeth Halen could've gotten a doctorate. Instead, she bakes Elvis-inspired cakes. And loves it.
Elizabeth Halen has a problem. A disorder, really.
"I have a special form of attention disorder," says the Temple sociology doctoral candidate-turned-full-time-baker. "I'll try to sit down and watch a movie, but 20 minutes into it, I'll get bored, get up, go to the kitchen and start softening butter so I can make brownies."
Which begs the question: Can we come over for a movie?
If you've had Halen's brownies or her fluffy oatmeal whoopee pies or her blackberry muffins—served at Home Slice and A Full Plate Café in Northern Liberties—then you know they're worth being forward for. But Halen, who also caters, bakes special orders and chronicles her chocolate-frosted adventures on her blog Foodaphilia, also didn't plan to become a baker.
Halen arrived in Philly in 2003 a graduate of Ripon College, a small liberal arts school in Ripon, Wis.—"ironically home to a cookie factory"—to get her sociology Ph.D. from Temple. When she wasn't working on her dissertation, the self-taught baker was whipping up mint-chocolate bundts and peanut butter-pretzel pies for friends and classmates. "I finished with classes, passed my thesis and comp exams, too. I have a master's and [put] years of work toward a final dissertation—just never finished it," she says. "[Graduate school was] not a place that ever made me feel good or appreciated in the way I do when someone swoons as they bite into a piece of my cake."
Cornbread was the gateway. While still in school, Halen's friends Shannon Dougherty and Liz Peterson were looking for a baker to make cornbread for their new neighborhood cafe on Liberties Walk, A Full Plate. Halen volunteered, and cornbread was the beginning. "Now I try to have four or five different things available on any given day and at least one that is vegan," she says.
"I did enjoy teaching, and during my time at Temple I worked on a great project, but the time spent on those things felt like a chore or work, even though it was enjoyable. I'd find myself thinking about what I was going to bake at home later, or what I could do with bananas that week at the cafe instead of my dissertation."
Speaking of bananas, the fruit figures into one of Halen's most popular inventions: Elvis Cake, which is always available at A Full Plate. This named-for-the-King confection marries chocolate chip-studded banana cake with thick waves of peanut butter buttercream frosting. When people swoon over it, the way Halen likes, she's the one saying "thank you very much."
A seminal moment in Halen's decision to quit Temple and put all her efforts in baking was when she met James Barrett from Metropolitan Bakery. "James invited me over for a tour and I spent nearly four hours there talking with his staff and getting some hands-on training," she recalls. "He would show me how to fashion the shape of their baguettes and let me help their baker make cookie dough. I remember very clearly thinking that all of these people I was meeting spend their whole day close to food, concerned about its production and the ultimate product they're working toward creating, and they were happy about it. And I was jealous. Because that's what I wanted."
And she's got it now, even if baking is still only a part-time profession. Halen bakes at A Full Plate two full days a week—the day before we spoke, she was "up to her elbows in cookie batter"—and can often be found in their kitchen baking for commercial and personal purposes and for special catering gigs.
So will we be seeing Halen in her own bricks-and-mortar bakery soon? "The idea of having my own place is definitely appealing, but I'm not in a financial position to make that big of a step yet," she admits.
Which means one thing, thankfully, for all of us: More Elvis cake. ■
"The Rust n' Root cupcakes that E made for A Full Plate's Rib Cook Off on Saturday were delicious, too. They are like red velvet rootbeer chocolate goodness. She's just straight-up a really talented baker!"
"I'm a particular fan of E's chocolate dipped, peanut butter pretzel sandwiches. Those things are A-MAZING."
"There are two kinds of people: Those who have eaten red velvet bon bons and no-bake chocolate peanut butter balls prepared by E, and those who have not. You want to be in the first group...trust me."
"Spot on! I have yet to make the trip out to Philly, but when I do you'll find me at E's sharing a treat with my husband and son!"
"You have to try E's coconut cake. It is the best I have ever had. She makes it for my birthday. And, now the toffee cookies. I can't decide which I want this year."
"For my birthday, E made me a crapload of those oatmeal creme pies. They were by far the best present I got that year, and every year after. She knows the way to anyone's heart is through baking, and I couldn't ask for a better food psycho buddy."
"Fabulous article. I'm so glad E got highlighted! Not only is she an incredible baker (she could make the most heavenly of frosting in her sleep, I'm sure), but she is one of the most welcoming people I know. Perhaps it was from all the moving she's done, but she's always made me feel at home and included when I'm around. I can see her now, bustling around her bakery, baking up goodness and serving it with the residual warm of her warm oven heart. GO MARGE!"
Food Fest: Neighborhoods unite for discounted food and drink specials
At Bud and Marilyn's, welcome back to the new
Bon appetit, people: Taste of Philly returns
Dinner with Luke Palladino
Abe Fisher's Yehuda Sichel meshes old, new traditions
Experience new foods and flavors with fall tasting menus
Hungry for a change of pace? KQ's a great meating spot
Competitive eaters will have a field day at the first Cheesesteak Festival