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October 2009
Area grad to appear on “HOUSE”
Meadowdale High School grad William Christopher Stephens will mix it up with the cast of “HOUSE” Monday, Nov. 9, according to his online site.
The show airs at 8 p.m. on Fox.
This will not be the former Sinclair Comunity College student’s first time on the small screen. He has appeared on “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Cold Case,” “General Hospital, ” “Chocolate News” and “Young and the Restless.”
Stephens, also a graduate of the American Musical and Drama Academy and Ohio State University, was the guy in the bright red wig featured in the hilariously outrageous t Wendy’s commercials from a few years ago.
HOUSE stars actor Hugh Laurie as a grump medical genius.
What do you think?
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TweetWayne grad Rachael Ray’s makeup artist
Kim White broke her dad’s rule about no makeup when she was a kid and in retrospect, that might have been a good thing.
“What I understand now that I didn’t know then is that the first thing she would do when she got to school was rush to the bathroom and put makeup on,” Jon Henri Ball of Huber Heights said. “The last thing she did at the end of the day was go to the bathoom to take it off.”
Ball said the Wayne High School graduate would have been in big trouble if he would have discover her love affair with mascara, lipstick and eyeliner back then. Now he could not be prouder.
“I get to see her work when ever I look at Rachael Ray,” Ball, who has a financial services business, said.
White, a University of Dayton grad, has been a freelance makeup artist for Ray for about three years.
With peppy celebrity’s active schedule - not only does Ray hosts a talk show but she also has cooking programs on the Food Network - White is kept hopping. She has traveled with Ray around country and world. Her favor stops have included Sydney Australia and Provence, France.
White said she constantly seeks ways to update Ray’s look.
“My basic goal with Rachael is to keep her fresh and approachable,” said White, who left the Dayton area in 2004 and had a brief pit stop in Miami before jetting off to New York. “ I try to use colors that are warm and light.”
Ray favors the color orange and White, a former model, incorporates that into the look. The color is always there be it in the form of orange blushes or peach lipsticks and shiny gloss.
“The set is perky and fun and relaxed,” White said. “I try to mirror that.”
The mother of one recently launched the upbeat blog Do I Have Lipstick on My Teeth. The site feature product reviews and a segment called “Mugshot Mondays” in which White gives makeovers to random people and explains her approach.
White, who hope to eventually launch a cosmetics line, recalled fondly the days she was the girl in too much makeup.
She says she picked up a love of fashion and flare from her grandmother, Ludia Goldsby of Huber Heights.
“I always thought she was very chic and I wanted to emulate that,” White recalled. “I was always girly-girl and I never shook that.”
Read more about White in the Dayton Daily New’s Life section on Tuesday, November 3.
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TweetPilots typing while flying: do you feel safe in the sky?
The revelation that two Northwest Airlines pilots where typing while flying has to make you wonder what else they are doing in the cockpit while you are snacking on your pretzels in third class.
The pilots - Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first officer, and Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain - told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the Associated Press reported Monday.
Air traffic controllers in Denver and Minneapolis repeatedly tried to reach them and authorities became so alarmed that National Guard jets were readied for takeoff at two locations.
OOOPSIE!
It is almost enough to make one buy a bus ticket. What do you think?
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TweetBeavercreek couple goes big with Halloween display: 30,000 lights, Michael Jackson
Dare Richard Rempes of Beavercreek and he’ll do his best to show you up.
A challenge is part of the reason 30,000 lights and a ton of Halloween decorations - pumpkins, vampires, ghost, a Michael Jackson mannequin in a red jacket - cover Rempes’ yard.
Rempes’ says a coworker dared him and others to duplicate Carson Williams of Mason’s famous musically synchronized home Christmas light display.
Four years after taking on the challenge, Rempes, a musician and computer programmer by trade, said it has turned into a labor of love for he and his wife, Jayne.
“You should see the look on little kids’ faces,” the associate professor at the at the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management said of his display at 2466 Glenboro Drive.
Rempes syncs Halloween-themed music with lights and decorations using computer programs. This year’s show includes a crowd-stirring rendition of “Thriller” features the new of Michael Jackson mannequin.
The project is addictive, Rempes said.
“I do Christmas too and it is even bigger,” Rempes said. “Basically four months out of the year I am not available for anything else.”
The show is 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. nightly - weather permitted - until Nov. 2.
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TweetEvent raises more than $400,000 for needy cancer patients
To call the Grandview Foundation Memorial Gala and Auction a success is sort of an understatement.
The first-time event raised more than $400,000, about $100,000 more than projected, earlier this month, said Kelly Fackel, the foundation’s vice president of development.
An additional $100,000 was raised during the Eagle Seekers Classic golf tournament held as part of the effort to raise funds to support cancer care for needy patients of the Cassano Health Center.
Proceeds will also fund Dr. Amanda Laubenthal, who next year will be Grandview Hospital’s first endowed fellow in Hematology and Oncology under Greg Gordon and Joe Lavelle. The gala was in memory of Marcy Mills. Mills, the wife of local developer Bob Mills, died in March after a 15-month battle with bladder cancer.
Fackel said she was concerned about the plight of cancer patients who did not have her financial resources.
The auction items were pretty impressive. They included vehicles, jewelry, parties and lavish vacations. Two trips to New York on a private jet were auction for $30,000 each.
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TweetShould Balloon Boy’s parent serve jail time?
If you believe a warrant, Falcon isn’t the only Heene to let the cat out of the bag.
Balloon Boy’s mom, Mayumi Heene, told investigators that she and her husband lied when they claimed they thought their son was in a flying saucer-like balloon the world watched sail across the sky Oct. 15, according to the Coloradoan.
The former ‘swapped wife’ said she and her husband knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the house. They told their three children to lie, the warrant on the Coloradoan’s web site says.
The flying saucer was made to carry out the hoax.
“The motive for the fabricated story was to make the Heene family more marketable for future media interest,” according to a report.
Charges are expected to be filed against the Heenes this week.
They could face up to 12 years in prison and a $500,000 fine if convicted of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
What do you think? Do you think they deserved to serve prison time?
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TweetBig Bad Wolf to battle Little Red Riding Hood at Saturday’s Hauntfest
An epic battle will be waged at The Oregon Arts District’s “HauntFest on Fifth” Saturday, Oct. 31.
The Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood will be among the costumed characters doing battle during the EGO Pro Wrestling exhibition set to begin at about 9 p.m. near Fifth and Brown streets.
Freddy Krueger may even take on Frankenstein in the ring.
It is the first time the wrestling event will be apart of Hauntfest.
“It is a nice fit,” said Mike Martin, president of the Oregon District Business Association.. “People at the entrance will be able to hear it and see it.”
“HauntFest is 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday along Fifth Street between Patterson Boulevard and Wayne Avenue downtown. Admission is $5.
This years festival also features a beer and wine garden.
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For more on Hauntfest, click here.
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TweetNorthmont students form a giant, pink ‘N’ for breast cancer awareness
Northmont Middle School students used their bodies as a symbols of breast cancer awareness this week.
More than 800 of the school’s students, administrators, teachers donned pink Wednesday, Oct. 21, and formed a giant letter “N” for Northmont.
Northmont middle schoolers hope to raise more than $3,000 for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
The breast cancer awareness month effort is being led by the Team Kennedy eighth grader group and intervention specialist Debi Tamplin, a three-year breast cancer survivor.
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TweetDrunken La-Z-Boy driver admits guilt
A Minnesota man maybe guilty, but you’ve got to admit he found an interesting way to get from point ‘A’ to the bar.
Dennis LeRoy Anderson plead guilty Monday, Oct. 20, to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk, the Associated Press reported.
Apparently hopped up on eight or nine beers, the 62-year-old drove the converted lawnmower-powered invention a way from a bar and crashed into a parked car in Aug. 2008.
A judge stayed a jail sentence and ordered two years of probation for Anderson.
Not sure if Anderson is still driving the stereo and cup holder equipped chair.
What do you think? What is the strangest vehicle you have ever seen on the road.
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TweetKFC offers free chicken again, this time no rainchecks
Despite the headaches it caused consumers, its seems someone over at KFC thought the whole grilled chicken giveaway thing was a success.
KFC is preparing to give a way several million pieces of chicken, according to Jessica Heffner’s Here’s the Deal: Bargains in Hamilton and Middletown.
More than 5,000 Kentucky Grilled Chicken stores will offer a free piece of grilled chicken on Monday, Oct. 26, to the so called “Grilled Nation.”
The company promises there will not be the repeat of the problems experienced last May during its “Oprah Winfrey Show Kentucky Grilled Chicken Two-piece Meal Coupon” promotional.
Customers complained of long lines. Several stores ran out of grilled chicken and the company offered rain checks.
This time KFC promises there will be no need for rainchecks.
KFC President Roger Eaton says things will be orderly and efficient.
“We gear the shifts up so we make sure we’ve got the staffing, we make sure we’ve got the chicken,” Eaton told the AP.
What do you think? Will you collect your chicken or are you over KFC and its offers?
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Tweet‘Thriller’ dance practice tonight in Yellow Spring for world record
One of the freakiest music video dances of all times will be practiced in Yellow Springs tonight, Thursday , Oct. 22, as part of an effort to best a world record.
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance will be re-enacted at 8:30 p.m. sharp Saturday, Oct. 24, at the John Bryan Community Center gymnasium, 100 Dayton St., Yellow Springs.
The dance will be videotaped that night and counted as part of ‘Thrill the World’ and its effort to top the world record for the most people-dancing “Thriller” at once.
There are two opportunities to get your fright practiced before the free dance.
Rehearsals are from 6-8 p.m. tonight at the Yellow Springs Senior Center, 227 Xenia Ave.; and 6-8 p.m. Saturday at the John Bryan gymnasium.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/ttw09yellowsprings or email Judith “DJ Juju” Wolert-Maldonado.
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TweetNew games based on Balloon Boy fake-adventures hit the net
As if throwing up on national TV wasn’t bad enough, now there are a handful of Internet video games mocking Balloon Boy and his non-adventure last week in his dad’s weirdo helium balloon.
Heyzap is among websites offering Balloon Boy based games.
Its game is aptly called “Balloon Boy Game.”
The game has Falcon Heene, forever more known as ‘Balloon Boy,’ hanging from his dad’s silver helium balloon. The objective involves shooting birds and other items before they get Balloon Boy.
Balloon Boy was never in danger of being attacked by birds or anything else.
In what is being called a publicity stunt, Falcon’s parents told authorities last week that the 6-year-old had sailed a way in helium weather balloon. He was found hiding in his parent’s Colorado home.
Turns out the child was never in the balloon and popped his parents bubble during a taping of CNN’s ” Larry King Live” Thursday, Oct. 15.
In the CNN interview, Falcon said he didn’t come out of his hiding place when called because his family “did it for the show.”
Officials now say Balloon Boy’s parents cooked the whole scheme up in hopes it would land them a reality show.
Fort Collins, Colo. officials say findings will be forwarded to prosecutors next week to decide if Richard and Mayumi Heene should be charged with falsely reporting that Falcon had drifted away in a large home-built helium balloon.
TweetWright State grad wins $250,000, proves she is ” Smarter than a 5th grader”
In a show that aired Monday, Oct. 19, former Beavercreek resident Elizabeth Miller-Deister proved she is smarter than a 5th grader.
The 29-year-old Wright State University graduate became the first person to win the top prize - $250,000 - on the syndicated version of “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?”
The pregnant stay-at-home mom correctly answered ‘Haiti’ to the following World History bonus question on the game show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy :
Q: In 1804, an army composed primarily of former slaves defeated their colonial masters to form what modern Caribbean country? question:
See a clip of Miller-Deister’s victory here.
Miller-Deister and her husband Jesse, a Wright State grad raised partly in Beavercreek, moved from Beavercreek about a year ago. Several Dayton area people attended the show’s taping.
The Deisters said there has been nothing but excitement since the show aired.
The couple was featured on an LA FOX station and in a front page article in the Los Angeles Daily News.
They were also interviewed by “Inside Edition.”
Miller Deister said the show was tougher than it looked.
“I really thought about the questions for a long time,” she said. “They cut out a lot of my reasoning.”
Jesse Deister didn’t know the show’s outcome until after watching it. He said he didn’t want to know and his wife wasn’t suppose to say.
“I wanted to build that suspense… We just made rules not to talk about,” he said. “The only thing I really cared about was if is she had a good time.”
Deister, the son of Dr. Chris and Jan Deister of Beavercreek, said that he was stumped by many of the questions his wife correctly answered.
“She just keep coming up with answers,” the medical sales worker said. “I feel blessed to have the opportunity and even more blessed to have a wife smart enough to capitalize on that opportunity. ”
The couple said they are not sure yet what to do with the winnings. In an effort to ‘pay it forward,’ they will donate or gift a portion of the money.
“We will probably do something boring like invest it,” Jesse Deister said. “It’s not a very fun answer, it not a very Hollywood answer.”
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TweetFormer 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.
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Tweet‘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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TweetBaby 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.TweetThe 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.
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.
TweetWife Swap videos featuring boy who ‘didn’t float away with balloon’
Let’s just call Falcon Heene the boy who cried “I floated away in the balloon.”
Turns out he was not in a helium balloon that sailed the air Thursday, Oct. 15, as the world watched and worried.
Read Associated Press story here.
Falcon will get a lot of attention for this one, but he isn’t a stranger to attention.
The boy and his family appeared twice on the often crazy ABC reality show “Wife Swap.”
The clan was last on the show in February.
Watch a somewhat crash music video feature Falcon and his brothers and one made using clips from “Wife Swap.”
Someone is going to have to rethink this whole making homemade balloon thing.
What do you think?
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TweetNew photos of kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard hit ‘People’ magazine
The world has gotten its first look at kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard.
PEOPLE Magazine has printed exclusive photos Dugard, who was allegedly held captive for 18 years by a man who impregnated her at least twice.
“I’m so happy to be back with my family,” Dugard says in a statement to PEOPLE.
Police say Phillip Garrido kidnapped Dugard when she was just 11 years old.
Dugard, now 29, was rescued two months ago.
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Dugard now lives in a secluded location with her mother and the two daughters Garrido fathered, Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11.
Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have been charged with kidnapping and rape. They have pleaded not guilty.
Read more about Jaycee Dugard here.
The PEOPLE featuring Dugard’s photos will hit newstands by Friday, Oct. 16.
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TweetFree charity breakfast tomorrow
Here is a way to make a difference with free morning grub.
Sheroes and heroes will converge on Sinclair Community College’s Ponitz Center, 44 West Third St., 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, to eat breakfast.
The YWCA Dayton’s “Heroes & Sheroes Breakfast” is expected to attract hundreds.
The free event recognizes women who have escaped domestic violence and/or homelessness as well as YWCA’s male and female staff, volunteers, donors and community partners.
Donations will be accepted at the event, an annual tradition since 2002. Organizers hope to raise $20,000.
Reserve a spot by noon today by calling (937) 461-5550, ext. 179. For more information, visit www.ywca.org/dayton
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TweetArea man among Cosmopolitan’s 50 hottest bachelors
Washington Court House grows them good looking.
Matt Smith, a third grade teacher from Washington Court House, is representing Ohio in hottness.
The 24-year-old is one of “Cosmopolitan” Magazine’s 50 hottest bachelors in the nation.
A representative is selected from each state.
This is why Smith’s friends nominated him according to Cosmo:
“Matt is such a catch. He strives to be a good role model for his students and is always so positive about everything he does and dreams of doing.”
And the best compliment Smith ever received:
“Someone told me that I was humble. I’d never thought of myself as that way until then.”
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See pictures of Smith and the other bachelors (he’s number 35).
Smith appeared on the NBC’s “Today” with the other catches representing their states.
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Tweet‘Smashing’ burger joint offers free burgers to contestants who rock the hardest
Now here’s a way to get a gig and a few free, juicy Angus burgers.
Smashburger is searching for musicians willing to battle for the Dayton area in an online contest.
The “fast casual” restaurant opening Saturday, Oct. 17, at 2315 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, Miami Twp., is hosting a ‘Rock Your City’ band competition.
The winning band will play an hour set at Smashburger starting at 7 p.m. Friday, October 30, and be “paid” in Smashburgers - Angus beef burgers smashed on a flat grill.
Here’s how to enter: upload a brief video performance to YouTube.com by Sunday, Oct. 18. Send the YouTube link, you band contact info and questions to bands@smashburger.com.
The winning band will be determined by online voting at www.smashburger.com/bands . The winner will be announced Monday, Oct. 26.
TweetVideos: Masquerage “freak show” preparing to invade fairgrounds
The Montgomery County Fairground Roundhouse will be invade with lions, tigers and a lot of ‘oh my’ during Masquerage 2009, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17.
The grown up, side show-themed party will attract about 700 revelers hoping to dance and be mesmerized by a bearded lady, aerialists, fortune tellers, sword swallowers, whip artists and dancers painted to look like lions and tigers.
Regular admission is $50. The price is $140 for the VIP section which includes admission to the Red Ribbon Lounge, a loaded swag bag, a champagne bar, table service, butler-style hors d’oeuvres and special performances.
(Click here to see Masquerage 2008 pics.)
Proceeds will benefit AIDS Resource Center Ohio’s local efforts. The organization provides HIV and AIDS prevention and education programs in addition to testing, counseling, support services and linkage to care throughout 35 Ohio counties.
Oddities will roam around the venue or preform on three stages.
The Morbid Sisters contortionists team, world famous knife thrower Jack Dagger, “The Latina Queen of Burlesque” Miss Viva Las Vegas 2007 La Cholita and sideshow troupe Freakshow Deluxe will preform.
Dayton’s own Rubi Girls drag troupe will also perform, but this is not a party centered around the stage.
For more info, call (937) 461-2437, ext. 2025, or visit the Masquerage.
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TweetAre working moms happier than stay-at-home moms?
Think you’d be happier if you stayed at home with the kids full-time?
Maybe not.
Working moms are as happy or slightly happier than stay-at-home moms, according to “The Harried Life of the Working Mother,” a reported released last week by the Pew Research Center.
Though many working women feel conflicted about the competing roles they play as mother and laborer, they basically are just as happy as their counterparts who stay at home with the kids, the center found.
Thirty-six percent of working moms said they were “very happy” with their lives, according a 2008 Pew Research Center survey. An equal number of stay-at-home moms reported being “very happy.”
Forty-nine percent of working moms reported being “pretty happy” compared to 44 percent of stay-a-home moms.
Fourteen percent of both groups reported being “not too happy.”
Seventy-eight percent of working moms said they were “very satisfied” with their family life compared to 75 percent of stay-at-home moms.
Women make up nearly half of the workforce, up from 38 percent in 1970, the study says.
Fifty-nine percent of women now work or are actively seeking employment. About 75 percent work full-time and about 25 percent work part-time, according to the study.
What do you think?
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TweetLevi Johnston “protected” by pistachios in new ad, Is it funny or tacky?
Looks like Levi J. may just build his fortune and fame one nut at a time.
Bristol Palin’s baby daddy is up to his eyes in controversy. This time it has to do with the protective power of pistachios.
In the ad for Wonderful Pistachios, paparazzi snap photos as the caribou hunter and his body guard walk and Levi enjoys the wonders of pistachios.
The announcer says: “Now Levi Johnston does it with protection.”
The “joke” is:
A) Pistachios have protective shells. A protective shell is something Johnston apparently didn’t have when he impregnated Bristol, the daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
B) Paparazzi would bothering snapping photos of Levi.
Burn!
Either way you have to give it to Levi. The precious cherub is trying really, really, really hard to be a star.
The 19-year-old’s attorney announced Wednsday, Oct. 7, that Levi will appear in PlayGirl.
He appeared in GQ and hung out with Kathy Griffin at the Teen Choice Awards.
What do you think?
Is the ad funny or in bad taste?
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Tweet“Whatever” named the most annoying word in the nation… whatever
Want to annoy someone? Say “whatever.”
“Whatever” is the most annoying word in the union, according to a Marist College poll released Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Whatever (pronounce it “WHAT’-ehv-errr” if you really, really want to be annoying) was named most annoying word by 47 percent of those polled by the college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
People in the Midwest were particularly annoyed by “whatever.” Fifty-five percent of Midwesterners selected it as the most annoying word.
Whatever beat the competition easily nationally.
“You know,” was named most annoying by 25 percent of respondents.
“Anyway” was named by 7 percent or respondents, “it is what it is” by 11 percent and “at the end of the day” by 2 percent.
TweetBarcode’s 57th anniversary today, Troy played a major role
Barcodes have come a long way since June 26, 1974, the day the very first one was scanned at a retail store - Marsh Supermarket in Troy.
Google is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent today, Wednesday, Oct. 7.
The search engine is using the black-and-white bar code design as its logo.
The Miami Valley’s influence on the barcode’s history can’t be overlooked.
Then Dayton-based, NCR made and installed the first ever retail store scanner used for retail at Marsh’s in 1974.
A 10-pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum was the first product ever scanned in a retail store.
That pack of gum is now at the Smithsonian Institution.
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TweetFirefighter prank check list: plastic bags, condoms, paper towels …
A gaggle of Florida firefighters might face criminal charges for a bizarre prank gone to the toilet, reports WTSP of Tampa, Florida.
Seven members of the Hillsborough Fire Rescue decided to teach a lesson to a firefighter who skipped a baby shower.
They firefighters were going to toile paper their comrade’s house, but when they got there, the door was unlocked.
Hijinks ensued.
Miguel Ruiz arrived home to find the following according to WTSP:
* clothing removed from this closet
* his TV wrapped in paper towels
* plastic bags and a pile of pubic hair stuffed in the toilet
* A floor covered in a collection of unused condoms
* toilet paper outside of his house
* dish washing powder in his grass
The firefighters may face charges because they went into Ruiz’s home.
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TweetKettering native on the big screen of a theater near you
Kettering skate god Rob Dyrdek is on the big screen, but this time it is not in a film.
Dyrdek is a new pitchman for Movietickets.com.
If you haven’t already, you’ll surely see his new commercial featuring antics by his cast mates from his MTV show “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory” the next time you go to the movies.
This isn’t Dyrdek first spin at the movies.
The pro skateboarder made his feature film debut in “Street Dreams” in June 12.
He pulled a ‘Tyler Perry’ in the film about a skater who dreams of going pro. Dyrdek was the film’s star, producer, writer and financier.
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TweetKitties wear wigs in book released today
If a dog can wear a top hat and tails, surely a kitty can wear luxurious flowing locks.
“Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs ($15, Chronicle Books)” by Julie Jackson and photographer by Jill Johnson provides no less than 60 whacked out photos of cats and kittens in wigs. The book was released today, Oct. 1.
Find your own kitty wigs here.
Wigged kitty hijinks = fun.
Yes it is ridculous.
Yes it is cute.
Cuteoverload.com says the coffee table book achieves a new level of “redonkulessness.”
These cats put Tyra Banks to shame with their fierce modeling skills.
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