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Friday, October 16, 2009
Former Beavercreek woman to appear Monday on “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?”
Former Beavercreek resident Elizabeth Miller-Deister promises you will be entertained by her appearance Monday on “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”
“It’s definitely going to be a fun one to watch,” the Wright State University graduate said.
Miller-Deister now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Jesse, the son of Dr. Chris and Jan Deister of Beavercreek.
Her parents, Margie and Tom Miller, now live in Byesville.
The show taped months ago will air 9:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, on ABC 22.
Several local people attended the quiz show’s taping to lend Miller-Deister support, including her sister-in-law Brooke Deister of Dayton.
Brooke Deister said she was thrilled to meet “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader” host Jeff Foxworthy and impressed by her sister-in-law’s performance.
“It was fun to see her be so poised and do a great job,” the Miami Valley Hospital employee said.
Miller-Deister had a vocal, sign wave cheering section.
“I probably made a fool out of myself on national TV,” Brooke Deister said.
Miller-Deister said she was surprised to be selected to appear on the show.
“It was amazing. It was a once in a lifetime experience,” the pregnant stay-at-home mom said.
What do you think?
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‘Abortion addict’ writes book, gets death threats
Irene Vilar has not won any friends by admitting she has has terminated 15 pregnancies in 16 years.
In fact, the 40-year-old “abortion addict” has received death threats from anti-abortion activists, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.
Vilar had her first abortion at age 16 and her last at age 33. She says the “addiction” began partly because she was trying to defy a controlling husband.
Here is an except from her new book, “Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict:”
“I had twelve abortions in eleven years and they were the happiest years of my life.” (Fifteen in fifteen years, when counting three others by another man.) I wrote those words years ago, before I came to understand the truth. I know I’m destined to be misunderstood, that many will see my nightmare as a story of abusing a right, of using abortion as a means of birth control. It isn’t that. My nightmare is part of the awful secret, and the real story is shrouded in shame, colonialism, self-mutilation, and a family history that features a heroic grandmother, a suicidal mother, and two heroin-addicted brothers. I know this account can’t resolve the moral dilemma of my actions. Yet, I wanted to understand the spell a pregnant body exercised over me, my flawed desire to become someone, or something, else. The diaries I kept guided me. My promise to the reader is to deliver an account of my addiction, a steady flow of unhappiness, the x-ray of a delusion, and ultimately, the redeeming face of motherhood.
Read more about her book, “Impossible Motherhood,” here.
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Baby in stroller hit by train survives
Here is the security video:
Australia’s Herald Sun reports:
The near-miss happened at Ashburton station as a city-bound train pulled into the station just after 4pm yesterday.The baby was strapped into a three-wheeler pram that rolled forward and toppled on to the tracks.
The pram was carried 30 metres as the desperate driver tried to pull up the 250-tonne train. It ploughed into the pram at about 35km/h, dragging the child along beneath the front carriage.
Witnesses watched in horror, fearing the baby had no hope.
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Was ‘Balloon Boy’ part of a publicity stunt?
Now that 6-year-old, Falcon Heene is safe, many are wondering if the whole thing was a publicity stunt?
What do you think?
Falcon’s father, meteorologist Richard Heene says no. He told the NBC Today Show that it was no hoax, and that there was no way he could profit from the balloon or the experiment. The balloon is not patentable, he said.
But Falcon seemed to let the truth out of the bag on CNN’s ” Larry King Live” Thursday night, saying he didn’t come out because his family “did it for the show.”
As Falcon threw up - yeah, Balloon Boy threw up - , his father explained it away on the Today Show, saying that Falcon was confused.
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He also said that such suggestions are “crap” and “disgusting.”
In light of so much pushing and pulling for media attention these days, do you agree with questioning whether if was a hoax being off limits?
The cops are convinced it wasn’t a hoax, but are still going to investigate.
