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Dec 18 2007, 10:21 PM
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Hi all! I feel a little stupid about this, but I'm glad I found someplace to talk about negative body image, especially regarding small boobs. Mine are small, and lately I've been really feeling like hell about it regardless of the fact that I KNOW that society's psychotic obsession with huge breasts is unrealistic and harmful to the female population. I'm tired of hating myself feeling either unattractive or invisible.
Dec 18 2007, 03:04 PM
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I love this thread so much! Ok, so it hasnt stopped me thinking the things i think or feeling the way i feel but it's nice to know there are other people out there who understand rather than tell me I'm being silly or that my body's fine. I've always disliked the idea of plastic surgery yet since resigning to the fact that my boobs just aren't going to grow anymore I feel myself wanting a boob job more and more. It's impossible to go one single day without having huge breasts thrust in your face (not literally of course). Just as I start to feel Ok about my body and think it isn't that important I'll be told by society that it is. TV, radio, magazines, internet, conversations, men, shops, advertizements- the sources are endless. I think it's slightly different from women who aren't happy with their legs/stomach/bum etc. I have other parts of my body I'm not happy with but none affect me like this does. It makes me feel depressed, inadequate, self-conscious, embarassed- to name just a few things. I saw some classical art last weekend and it made a nice change that the women's bodies seemed far more 'normal' than the ones we're used to seeing today. Their breasts were't large or perfect, their stomachs were'nt concave and they had normal hips. Perhaps if the images we saw today were more like this then we wouldn't all be here
Dec 18 2007, 01:53 PM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 431 From: the depths of my soul |
modegirl, that is my fantasy! baby boobs, if just for a little while.
i'm with knorl on every issue here. i never wanted boobs that were 'fake' i always wanted them to be naturally bigger. i was never hoping for a DD, good god, no thank you. i just wanted to be a b-cup, just a b?! i am heavier on the bottom as well and i've always longed to be more balanced out. especially as i've gained more weight and my tummy has gotten bigger i've been a little less satisfied with my chest. i dated a breast-man too, and you wonder how the two of you could have gotten together in the first place! he never said anything about my breasts, but all he had to do was say, 'i'm a breast-man,' once and the insecurity was there in my head. my boyfriend now absolutely loves my breasts and can't get enough of them. he's obsessed. vendetta, thanks for sharing your story. i think it is therapeutic to get it all out, especially in an environment like this one, where we've all had similar experiences. i second the advice that all the other busties have given you and i sincerely hope that you can come a positive place about your breasts. there are so many other things in this world that have value! on days when i'm feeling sad about my breasts, i try to find a different feature of my body that i actually like alot, for me it's my mouth, or my ass, or my arms. i think, wow, somewhere out there is a girl wishing she had fuller lips (like mine) or a cup-able ass (like mine). the grass will always be greener and believe it or not, somewhere out there in the world is a girl or woman who would be very envious of many of your features. i have days where i love them and days where i don't love them so much, but i stopped hating them a long time ago. i am glad knorl said something about the word 'flat-chested' however. i HATE that term. i don't like 'no-boobs' either. if you had no boobs, there would literally be nothing at all on your, chest, no nipples, no nothin'. you have boobs, i have boobs, everyone in this thread has them! just because they don't cast an enormous shadow does not mean they do not exist. and we are NOT flat-chested. say it with me ladies!! i would honestly like to ban those terms from this forum forever. all they do is reinforce the negative images we have of ourselves and each other. sorry for the rant, i'm not trying to single vendetta out for using that kind of language, but i've heard it alot in here and i'm sure i'm said those things myself. i just want to move away from that. hugs for all my small-breasted hotties!!!! -------------------- "To lose everything at the edge of such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, and featureless life."
Dec 18 2007, 05:28 AM
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Hei there Knorl, i know that in the end i'll be just fine, i think i just had to hit the bottom since i've been freaking out about it the whole year. And the experience i had of having a bit of breast tissue was like stealing candy from a child. It was like, it's good, wasn't it? Now deal with it and give back all of those fancy things that don't fit you anymore! I'm a smart girl who was raised in good education and love and i feel ashamed enough of myself for feeling this way while there's so many real problems on another parts of my life. And so many good stuff happening at the same time as i'm studying photography as i was willing for and everything in my life is just getting better as time passes by. And i'm worried cause i don't have breasts? Go figure. It's just good to know i'm not alone in this. Did you ended up loving or just accepting yourself? It's a matter of time isn't it? I should focus on the good stuff in my life and appreciate, not hate, the beautiful breasts i photograph, even though they're not mine. Baci
Dec 18 2007, 05:06 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 819 From: detroit rock city |
aw dear vendetta. it is amazing how our relationships can have such a profound affect on our self esteem.. both positively and negatively. it sounds like although your bf doesnt intend it to be, it happens to be the latter for you. i guess i've always been very fortunate that the guys i date dont really care that i've got little to barely-there breast tissue. they've always dug me for other things, namely my character. but i'm not going to pretend that i havent (and still do) use pads and silicon gel inserts.. i've got booty and thighs and i have always wanted my figure to feel more balanced. the way you describe how you tend to feel about your body, reminds me of my deeper body issues which have reflected the same sentiments. i guess, with age, i've come to not pay attention to such things as much. the water bras are just a normal part of my drobe now, and for the most part, i'm ok with that. i've never really wanted fake boobs, stuck inside of me, so thats not been an option for me. i think i'm doing pretty well as i am. so i'm not perfect.. oh the fuck well.. you know. not many people can say they honestly think they are, and those who do, as far as i'm concerned arent very interesting people anyway. in conclusion. this all comes down to your values, what is important to you.. independent of what anyone else thinks.
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You're both absolutely right in everything you say. I've been a self-confident person almost my entire life and have been pretty happy with my appearance. That is what's bothering me now, how can my self image change this much in just about a year and had started because of a guy? I have to stop blaming him just because he has preferences and forgive him for the things he've said cause he didn't mean harm. He's a caring and loving person and would do just about anything for me. I think it just has been easier to blame him for feeling this way than to accept that i'm having a problem myself.
My breast stopped growing when i was 12 years old and i still wear the same size my first bra was. I've never been ashamed of that and allways tried to focus on my good things. I didn't love my breasts, i just didn't thought of them. It's like when you're asleep and then you wake up. One day i noticed that i really didn't had those things that i was becoming so conscious of. Suddenly I looked consciously at another woman's breasts and thought "My God, those are so beautiful, it must be awesome to feel feminine and powerful that way". And then looked at myself. And then took a good look at those ultra padded bras and those huge silicone pads i use to wear. And started thinking of all the times i had to run into the bathroom to take those thing off first, just to go back noticeably smaller. Or all the times i felt so unconfortable with my high-maintenance "cleavage" and kept hiding myself from everyone to put the bra and the pads on their place. And i felt ridiculous and ashame of myself. And then i took those things off and noticed that i really don't have any breast tissue. And that being this skinny-with-no-hips-and-no-boobs just didn't felt right. Everyone takes me for an 18 year old girl, yet i drive a car, i live alone, i pay for my own bills. I'm a woman and i want so hard to feel like one. But then, i know i don't need boobs to feel womanly. I shouldn't need. Everytime i undress and look in the mirror i try to tell myself that my boyish torso has nothing to do with being or not a woman. I'll never feel the power of a cleavage, i'll never feel the weight of a bosum and i'll never have my boyfriend drooling at my chest. I don't have money for a boob job. Maybe someday i wil, but it will take a lot of time to have that money considerating that i have another priorities. I'm never going to love my chest as there isn't any, i just have to go back in time when i just accepted that. But this time, trying not to stuff myself to death in pads. Thank you for your replies, i think it has helped me a lot just being able to talk to someone that feels or had felt the same way i do. Baci |
Dec 17 2007, 09:14 PM
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Hi Ladies! I haven't been on in quite a while but I'm glad to see that you are all doing well.
Vendetta, I feel for you so much. Reading your story, I was transported back in time to a previous relationship. He was a breast guy, 100%. When he and I were together I absolutely hated the way I looked. I knew that he liked large chested women and I tortured myself with that fact. I would never let him see me with the lights on and always shied away from him touching my chest. I saw the way that he looked at large chested women and every time he did so I hated myself even more. When we had difficulty in the relationship I blamed it all on myself and convinced myself that every argument came down to me not being good enough for him. I seriously thought that if I had had larger breasts that our relationship would have worked. Fast forward five years and here I am. Looking back I realize that if my small breasts weren't a big issue to him (as he assured me time and time again), I wouldn't have felt the way that I did. I, like you, have been in relationships with men where my breast size is a complete non-issue. So why is it different with this guy? Now, I am not in any way saying that he would be valid disliking your chest, nor am I saying that your insecurities are okay but the fact of the matter is this: A breast man is a breast man. He can't help what turns him on and maybe that's a sign that you should let him go be with someone who does. Any man who truly loved you for you would not need to be told not to ogle other women in front of you or make comments about their breasts. Especially when he knows how much it bothers you. Knorl is right about needing to talk to someone, but more importantly I think you need to examine your relationship. And as far as getting that boob job, I say that you should do what you feel is right but please talk to someone first. Who's to say that after you get a boob job that you won't fixate on another part of your body? Or that his comments about other women will stop? And if they do, why should you have to change yourself to fit his standard of beauty? Doesn't that bother you? Think about it: Would you want him top change the way he looks or do you love him just the way that he is? If you need to change the way that you look to satisfy him that is a conditional love. Maybe you're better off on your own and loving your self. Once you have gained love and respect for your own body, you will be able to distinguish those who really love the person that you are from those who love pieces of you. Looking back now I realize that my low self esteem was what kept me in that relationship for so long trying continually to please him. Guess what? After me he dated a woman who was a DD and his eye was still wandering and to this day he has never been truly satisfied. Me? I love my self and am happily single. I am a beautiful, intelligent, unique individual and I will not settle for someone who is less than I deserve. My breasts are still an A cup, but if that's not good enough for some guy, then he isn't good enough for me. There are plenty of men out there who find small chested women beautiful, and more importantly, men who don't focus on physical aspects when choosing a mate. But honey, no one can love you until you love yourself. -------------------- We must be the change we wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Dec 17 2007, 11:51 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 819 From: detroit rock city |
vendetta: considering this aspect of whom you are constructs such a large part of your self esteem/perception, i would suggest you look into therapy. it is very upsetting to read that so much of your life is affected by your breast size.
i would also like to point out that although you have a very negative opinion of your breasts, it would be respectful of other smaller breasted busties to refain from using such phrases as "flat chested". derogatory terms such as these carry very harmful connotations, and our intent here is to challenge the erroneous messages and labels we hear, not encourage them. if you continue to feel this low over your physical appearance, eventually you will push your boyfriend away. i dont know your boyfriend, but it's asking a lot of him to continue reassuring you that you are beautiful when you dont believe him. just imagine if he were painfully ashamed of his penis size, and constantly looked to you for reassurance that you find him attractive. after a while, after so much time of trying to convince him you find him appealing, you'd eventually move onto someone who didnt have so many hang ups. not because you dont love him, but because it is mentally and emotionally draining to have to maintain that role in a relationship. other busties may not agree with this bit of advice i'm about to give, but oh well. the way i see it is if you feel your happiness rests in how large or how small your breasts are.... get them done. if your self image is so deeply affected by the size of your breasts, change them. but if you feel you can be happy -or if you'd like to be happy - with your body as it is, work on loving and accepting yourself just as you are. that includes to stop telling yourself you are ugly, worthless, or otherwise inferior to women with larger breasts. -------------------- We adore chaos because we love to produce order. - M.C. Escher |
Dec 17 2007, 05:44 AM
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Allright, I just need to talk / write to someone, even if it's a small breast support group! I know that no one wants to listen to this crap, i've lost my best friend on past year and since then i feel like i'm gonna blow sometimes. I've allways had a flat-chest, like a 32 A or AA, i don't even know.. i just pop into a chinese store and get the smallest and more padded bra i find. I don't even dream going braless as i'd look boyish and ridiculous.
I'm 23 years old and even though i always wanted to have breasts and faked them in all possible ways ever, i never really thought of it that seriously. Not until i started dating my actual boyfriend, for about a year. I know he loves me to death and likes my boobs and he wants me to believe there's really not a problem that i have them so small but.. He's a breast-man, he's obsessed about big boobs. He has never had a small-breasted girl before me as he says small breasts didn't attracted him. He even told me it was "funny" to be with me for the first time. I guess he can't imagine how it hurts to know that, yet i told him. At the begining i just felt jealous everytime a boobed girl passed by or when we were watching some movie. I'm bisexual so i am really atractted to girls too and never had problems talking sexually about one or another. I dated a guy for 3 years and we used to go to this fancy strip club and never even thought about my breasts with him. Now with this guy, i had to ask him not to comment about other girls as a respect for my feelings. I started an acne treatment about April this year (that worked perfectly) and the dermathologist changed my BC pill. After a month i went on a pregnancy test as my boobs were so full. Negative, thank god, it was just the pill. I think you can imagine my happiness, it seemed my whole life had changed. I started being able to wear a small cleavage (still with padded bras and silicone pads, but it worked!). They were pretty painful but i didn't care. My boyfriend started looking more at them and i was feeling really sexy. Even summer felt better. But then, they shrank. So i'm dealing with a flat-chest again and crying everytime i pick a sexy bra or t-shirt i impulsively bought at that time. Worst, i've lost all my dignity and have cried in front of my boyfriend almost everyday for the past week. He has been a bit patient as i can't ask him to be more comprehensive. Is his head, i believe he likes my breasts as he loves me for what i am and for the whole package, but in my head, he has never looked at them again as he used to on the BC pill. I'm depressed. Crying everyday for something like this, i call it depression. I dream about him getting turned on by just looking at my breasts, i dream about feeling womanly, i dream about having a cleavage and i dream about not wearing super padded bras and silicone pads just to feel and look normal. I am trying to get rid of those ridiculous bras but i just can't. Until then, i just cry. |
Dec 17 2007, 04:39 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 182 |
Hi there, i'm new here. I've been reading you and I can relate, so much..
Dec 16 2007, 08:36 PM
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hi ladies!
i too often relate to the "almost cleavage". i havent' checked in here for awhile, but wanted to add a bit to what's being written here. dj-biz: i have for most of my life so with you on the "i just want to know what it feels like" bit that you wrote. i finally got to know what it feels like because last year i had my first baby and decided to breastfeed. 24 hours after you give birth your breasts swell up big and hard. (yes i know!) and within a few weeks i couldn't believe that i, who has most of my life pretty much been a 34AA blew up to a 34b-c. after the initial few weeks, i lost my post baby stomach and i couldn't stop staring at my new big boobs! the weird thing is they were also big and firm like a boob job. the only thing is i was so busy with trying to feed baby with them that the last thing i was thinking about was how to showcase these things. also, i found out that women with boobs have to figure out what to do with them. once i was lying on my side and then i tried to roll onto my front and my boob got caught under my arm! i never learned to deal with these things.... anyways, i stopped breastfeeding about 2 months ago, and my boobies are pretty much exactly as they were before. i was glad to have gone there, but i wished i had kept a bit, like gone to a A cup! my husband said he's happy that the old me is back (he doesn't really care for large ones anyways) because many women, even tiny-boobed ones can get "mudflaps" after breastfeeding. oh dear, what's worse than tiny ones? tiny saggies, that's what. but i am glad to have experienced it, and strangely, i'm less enamored of having big ones than i ever have. just my experience, and might not impact anything, but i feel sure that we're all so loaded up with the message of "if it's not all that important, why is it always so important?". i did experience it for a while, and never more have i ever felt that i wish i could have boobs only temporarily for those cleavage outfits. otherwise, they are pretty inconvenient. |
Dec 16 2007, 07:05 PM
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You can get padded workout bras from figleaves: http://www.figleaves.com/uk/product.asp?pr...07+12%3A02%3A16
Dec 12 2007, 05:14 PM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 431 From: the depths of my soul |
'almost cleavage,' now there is a phrase i have heard and uttered all too often!
-------------------- "To lose everything at the edge of such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, and featureless life."
Dec 12 2007, 11:47 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 1,011 From: back home |
Oh yeah, halter-style is great for creating almost-cleavage, I've found.
Dec 12 2007, 09:53 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 431 From: the depths of my soul |
if only we had H&M here in the dirty south! sigh. i've always thought that i was a 34A, and generally that size fits. i wish i could work up the courage to just have the old biddies at the department store measure me. though i don't necessarily trust them either (one lady gave me the up and down and said i was a 36B, what i wouldn't do to be a B-cup!!!).
i actually bought some cute bras from the hated and despised victoria's secret, but they are an italian brand. they had one kind that can be worn as a halter style as well, i love love love it. -------------------- "To lose everything at the edge of such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, and featureless life."
Dec 12 2007, 09:33 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 1,011 From: back home |
Dj, I just bought one at H&M- underwire, sheer lace cups, zero padding, in black (36A). However it's only for the week before my period because I'm not really an A cup any other time. I bought a 34A bra a little white ago and then realized that while the cups fit, the band size is too small and leaving serious marks on my skin. Which means I'm actually a 36AA, probably.
Dec 12 2007, 08:29 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 431 From: the depths of my soul |
it totally freaks me out to see 'training' bras that are padded. i mean, my god, it's a training bra, it's for right at the beginning of your development. if you are wearing a training bra, you shouldn't be worried about the size of your breasts because you shouldn't even be concerned with being sexually attractive yet. sheesh!
i've said it before in here, but it makes me absolutely INSANO that i can't find an a-cup bra that isn't padded six way from sunday. one's with removeable pads are tolerable, i suppose. i'm not bashing all padded bras, but i would like to be able to make that choice for myself rather than be forced into by the manufacturer. -------------------- "To lose everything at the edge of such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, and featureless life."
Dec 11 2007, 09:01 AM
Hardcore BUSTie Posts: 217 From: Rhode Island |
I was on the GAP body website this morning and discovered they sell training bras, out of curiosity I wondered if they came in my size, there are days when underwire and padding make me feel like I've reverted to the times of corsets and I just don't care if my breasts don't look like a B cup. I had so much waterweight gain last month I was just wearing tank tops under my clothes, one benefit of being A, it don't matter if your wearing a bra... but I digress, turns out GAP Body does sell every size in A as a training bra and no underwire and lightly padded!!!! I may have to go and try one on now : D
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Dec 10 2007, 03:28 PM
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wow. dj biz. you were so right on with all of that. being honest with ourselves is essential to our well being, i have found. very very well said, thank you for your insight.
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Dec 10 2007, 12:42 PM
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me four, karategrrl! i had my gyno put me on the highest estrogen dose that is legal under the law. i was on it for about three or four months. all it resulted in was marked mood swings and mild insanity. my boobies stayed exactly the same. waddyagonna do? for me, i'm dealing with genetics.
with all the fluctuations in my weight, i've never had an increase or decrease in my breast size. my fat goes straight to my ass, and lately it's been collecting around my stomach, which i HATE. i wouldn't mind having a little belly if i was more balanced out on top, but since my bottom half is so heavy (in a good way) i really like having a thin torso so i don't end up looking like a log. sigh. i feel you on the cleavage thing though, sometimes i just want to know what it feels like. maybe i'll try a water bra or something. just the feeling of weight. i kinda get a kick out of how they bounce when i run. sometimes i'll just jiggle in front of the mirror to get a laugh. is that weird? probably. i'm with you on staying positive, no one, not even so-called perfect looking actresses and models are totally happy with the way they look (except for maybe linda evangelista, but whatever). it's important to compliment yourself, outloud or in your head. it reminds me of that campy, physics movie called 'what the bleep do we know.' there is a whole section about perception being reality and if you change your perception, you can actually change the structure of the tiny particles of the universe. there's that one scene where the woman is looking in the mirror, thinking that she's fat and her thighs keep expanding. i know it sounds kind of silly, but i think if you keep affirming what is beautiful about you, those things will become more apparent. ok, so maybe it's a little over the top to think that by talking to your stomach it will magically be thinner, but seeing it as beautiful will help you psychologically, and hey, it can't hurt, it might help, right?! as to what you posted knorl: in terms of widely accepted beliefs and norms influencing even the enlightened, more open thinkers, abso-fucking-lutely friend! all human beings have the desire to be accepted and loved by other human beings. it's very basic to our nature. we're a social species and no one enjoys being a total outcasts. even freaks and outliers get together with other freaks and outliers. the truly rejected, anti-social people are the kind that go shooting up schools and malls (case in point what just happened in Nebraska). so i think that no matter how much we know logically that these standards for our bodies are ridiculous and that they are set by some unknown force that wishes to make money off us by selling us make up, plastic surgery and expensive clothes, despite our knowledge and understanding of those mechanisms, deep down, we still want to be accepted by the general population. nobody likes rejection. i don't care how cool and counter-culture you are. underneath all of that tough, free-thinking exterior is still a human being hoping to be loved by the people around her/him. in order to combat this innate desire, you have to satiate it in a different way, i.e. by focusing on the positive aspects of your body and recognizing the people in your life that do love and accept you. that's why it is so validating when you have a significant other tell you that you're beautiful or that he/she loves your breasts. of course, we want to love and accept ourselves without the affirmations of others, and no one can truly love you until you can love yourself, but those kinds of affirmations are essential to our mental well-being. they satisfy the desire to be accepted. it's lonely out there on the fringe, that's no reason to adopt a cookie-cutter personality/lifestyle, but next time you are feeling tough and bold, thinking you've risen above all of this bullshit, it's important to mentally check yourself. 'I am still a human being. I am still yearning for love and acceptance. I will not achieve this love and acceptance by sacrificing my values or beliefs. I will find others that value the same thing. These people will form my community and provide me with the support I need.' that's why BUST is so fantastic and why i love having all you ladies out there for me. we're on the same page, for the most part, and we've created a positive and accepting community outside the status quo. whew. blah blah blah blah. i guess i had a lot to say on that subject. small-breasted hotties, holla back! -------------------- "To lose everything at the edge of such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, and featureless life."
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Check out these spots — declared the best by thousands of Patch readers — in the Milwaukee area.
Patch readers (and fish fry connoisseurs) throughout the Milwaukee area cast thousands of votes over the past five days, helping us determine some of the best fish fry spots in the area. This is the first in a series of stories where Patch will ask readers to give their takes on favorite local businesses and places.
The winners of the best fish fry contests were determined over the course of a week, from more than 20,000 votes cast, 145 comments left, 37 restaurant reviews and 100 Facebook Likes or Recommends.
Here's a roundup of the winners:
- DeRango the Pizza King and Steak House took top honors in the contest in Caledonia, Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant.
- The Cellar won the contest in Oak Creek.
- A church, St. Alphonsus in Greendale, was declared the best fish fry in Greendale and Greenfield. They don't have a fry every Friday, so be sure to check their schedule if you want to check it out.
- Muskego Patch readers cast more than 1,000 votes, and pushed newcomer Sauced Restaurant into the lead.
- Master Z's won the contest on Waukesha Patch.
- Rich's Bar and Restaurant pulled ahead at the last minute in the Sussex-Menomonee Falls contest.
- The Silver Spur won the contest on Brookfield Patch, in another battle that went to the end. More than 2,000 votes were lodged there between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m., pushing Silver Spur ahead of The Red Mill.
- Cranky Al's beat the competition in Wauwatosa, garnering more votes than all other contenders put together.
- In the North Shore, readers chose Jack Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn as the best fish fry.
- In Port Washington, The Patio was declared the winning fish fry.
5:08 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012
For a quick and very good fish fry, you can't beat Sendiks in Bayside on fridays. Love their beer battered cod. Get the tartar sauce..Though, not the pre-packaged one, but what they make. So very good and you're in & out before you know it.
Greg Huegerich
6:27 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012
What might be a very interesting article is one about restaurants that do NOT run a short menu during fish fry Friday evenings.
I do enjoy the fish fry, particularly at Victors, Firehouse, and Galiotos, but sometimes, you're free on a Friday and want to go to a place running a full menu.
7:04 am on Saturday, March 3, 2012
Marcileno's Pizzeria & Grill in Sussex have the best fish fry. You can have fish everyday. OMG its so good..they have cod, perch, cat fish..perch is my favorite you gotta try it
Greg Huegerich
12:47 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
PS. We did wind up visiting The Patio for the first time last night based on this article. The fish fry was fantastic, we tried both the baby pike and the cod.
Scott K
9:08 am on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Hands Down the best Fish Fry in Ozaukee County is Juice's Ghost Town.
6:22 pm on Monday, April 9, 2012
if your looking for a giid homemade style fish fry you should check out country squire supper club in muskego. Its a very friendly atmosphere and there fish fry is to die for!! The cod and perch are lightly breaded and come with either homemand thin and crispy potato pancakes fries or both homemade clowslaw and himemade tartersauce and rye bread. They also offer different varities of fish and the whole menu is open to order off of. The dinners come with homemade soup and salad bar. I highly reccommend the country squire in muskego to whoever is looking for an outstanding reasonable dinner!!
1:26 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Never been to any of these but my mom swears by the fish at Puddle Jumpers on Howell across from Mitchell airport in milwaukee.
Therese Ciofani
9:54 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Holy Family in Whitefish Bay starts their fish fries tonight and they run thru Lent. Come and try one!!! 4:30-7 the parking lot is on Marlborough just south of Hempton!
Mike B
10:43 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
I still love Cliffords in Hales Corners. All you can eat fish, fries, rolls, etc. And since we went smoke free, it's actually fun to go there.
Laura W
12:36 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
LOVE this place - grew up going there almost every week, moved farther away in western Waukesha but will have to comeback and hit it up again. thanks for the reminder :)
Mike B
12:37 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Was actually thinking about going tonight, but then my wife reminded me it's the first Friday in Lent. Not stepping foot near that place today... :)
Sussex Gal
10:54 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Try the Pan Fried all you can eat at A.J. O'Brady's in Menomonee Falls! It melts in your mouth! You also get to choose your potatoes of chips fries waffle fries or potato pancakes! MMM
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11:03 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Kiss the Cook Cafe in Racine has an impressive Fish Fry. I prefer the Cod, but many like the Admiral Platter that includes Walleye, Perch, Cod, Shrimp, and Clam Strips.
Jenny Quaderer
11:07 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Friends of my husband own Jackson's Blue Ribbon on 113th and Bluemound. And we have been there many times to eat. Their fish fry is really good, nice portions and choices of sides too. Great service!
12:09 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Always liked Silver Spring House but think they've slipped in the past few years. Really like Oakcrest Tavern on Oakland in Shorewood.
Rhianna Butske
12:35 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Mark Pioneer Inn off Janesville Rd in Muskego! They have Bluegill or Perch with a Peppercorn/Parmesan breading, it is absolutely mouth watering!
james b leonard III
7:42 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
the pan fried breaded walleye is awesome!!!!!
Pat Mitchell
12:39 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Mibb's and Viv's in Lannon - awesome Fish fry.
2:20 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
I like the fish fry at Hubbard Park lodge in Shorewood.
Farmer Dave
3:36 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Hmmm, took me a minute to figure out what was going on... this article is from last April with recent updates. The Menomonee Falls winner, Rich's Bar and Resturant is currently closed.
Mike B
3:42 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Must not have been that good then, eh? And yes, they tend to repost links to really old articles at times.
Christoph Mueller
6:33 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Yes it is now Fall's Pub and Grille. Very good try it!
7:57 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Walters' on North has a scrumptious generous portion fish fry.
I like the shrimp fry too!
8:49 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Would like to know if Walters is homemade or is it Siscos breaded or battered fish?
9:36 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
I was told, it was from his "fish man" a family owned business.
It is their own special recipe.
1:33 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Anyone notice Rich's was on the list. It is no longer in business.......
1:55 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
Between the Greens in Saukville has a great fish fry and you can't beat the price. Cod, perch, whitefish, shrimp as well as the full regular menu.
6:56 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Most all you can eats should be called all you can keep down. If you do end up at a all you can keep down dress light because if you get stuck between a couple of those 350# 400# it's like being next to a wood stove running at full bore . enjoy
Dave Bauer
8:41 am on Saturday, March 9, 2013
Ray's Butcher Shoppe in Greenfield is really good if you want to pick it up.
Mariah Kotecki
12:14 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
I also have never been to any of these restaurants listed above but i do, St. Francs Brewery and Restaurant does have a really good fish fry
Kari Stollenwerk
12:20 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
I also have never been to any of these restaurants. I'll have to give them a try sometime!
12:00 pm on Monday, April 29, 2013
Stony HIll Pub in Waubeka has the best fish fry I've had in a very long time. Great variety too!


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Wallis a natural actress, but is 9 too young?
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BEST ACTRESS NOMINEE--The film Beasts of the Southern Wild actress Quvenzhané Wallis smiles in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Feb. 13, attended by middle and high school students from the District of Columbia area and New Orleans taking part in an interactive student workshop with the cast and crew of the movie, hosted by first lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhane Wallis is an actress of talent, poise and maturity well beyond her years.
She was only 5 years old when she auditioned and 6 when she played the part of Hushpuppy, a little girl of fierce strength and resourcefulness living with her daddy in a squalid slab of Louisiana swampland known as The Bathtub. She was just a regular kid from nearby Houma, La. — she'd never even acted before, and actually pretended to be a year older than she was to be considered.
Now, at only 9, Quvenzhane (Kuh-VAHN-zuh-nay) is the youngest-ever actress nominee at the Academy Awards. Altogether, "Beasts" has four nominations at the Feb. 24 ceremony, including best picture.
While her presence is undeniable, Quvenzhane's nomination raises the question: How young is too young to compete for an Oscar, the film industry's highest honor, which has eluded performers with decades more experience and acclaim? Is a child really capable of acting, with craft, or do these performances reflect uncanny instinct?
Director Benh Zeitlin doesn't think 9 is too young for such an honor. Zeitlin, who is up for a best-director Oscar himself with just his first feature, praised Quvenzhane for the incredible sense of self she displayed from the beginning. But he also recalled one day when she seemed to be struggling on set, and he took her aside to ask what was wrong.
"'I know. I can't snap it today. Normally I can snap it,'" he remembered her saying. "The fact that she had an internal sense of when she's in character, when she's getting the emotions right and feeling it, is really special even in experienced actors, but especially someone of her age to have that sort of self-awareness."
Justin Henry, who remains the youngest-ever Oscar nominee in any category for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer," said that in some ways it's a purer form of acting at this age.
Henry was just 6 years old and had never acted when a casting director came to his Rye, N.Y., school looking for someone to play Billy, the little boy at the center of Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep's custody battle. He was 7 when he shot the film and 8 when he was nominated for best supporting actor; he lost to 78-year-old Melvyn Douglas for "Being There." (Tatum O'Neal is still the youngest Oscar winner in any category; she was 10 when she earned the supporting-actress Oscar for 1973's "Paper Moon.")
A voting Academy member, Henry said he thought it was "awesome" to see Quvenzhane get nominated for the acclaimed Fox Searchlight indie drama, which he called the best movie of the year. Now 41 with a 7-year-old daughter of his own, he looks back at his own nomination and acknowledges: "I didn't even know what it meant. ... I just remember being nervous as hell about having to give a speech in front of 3,000 people."
"That's the great thing about acting: In some ways, it's a child's game," said Henry, who went on to play Molly Ringwald's wisecracking younger brother in the John Hughes classic "Sixteen Candles" and now specializes in web video distribution. "You're just pretending, so sometimes it's easy when you're a kid. You just kind of follow your instincts."
Tracy Tofte, who was only 11 when she was chosen to play daughter Heather Owens on the 1980s sitcom "Mr. Belvedere," agreed that she didn't understand the enormity of what she was doing. She'd started acting at 9 under the stage name Tracy Wells and booked 17 national commercials in her first year, including a Pepsi ad in which she danced with Michael Jackson.
"From the adults around me, I took off their energy that it was a big deal," Tofte, now a 42-year-old real estate agent in Santa Clarita, Calif., said of being cast in the series. "As an adult, I look back and I totally get it but as a kid, no. You're just, 'Wow, my mom and dad are happy and my agent's happy and this'll be fun.'"
Tofte hasn't seen "Beasts" but said of Quvenzhane: "I'm sure this young girl did a phenomenal job and deserves the nomination, but there are veteran actors and actresses who have never had those accolades and they've been working their craft and dealing with the ups and downs of this industry."
Intriguingly, Quvenzhane is up against the oldest-ever best actress nominee, 85-year-old French veteran Emmanuelle Riva of "Amour." Rounding out the field are Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty," Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Naomi Watts for "The Impossible." The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declined a request to comment on Quvenzhane's youth.
Thelma Adams, contributing editor at Yahoo! Movies and a longtime awards prognosticator, points out that Shirley Temple was already well on her way to a career by the time she was 6, the same year she earned an honorary juvenile Oscar.
"There was a lot of craft to what she was doing," Adams said. "With (Quvenzhane's) performance, it's kind of a life force. They've captured this wonderful little girl ... but it's not an acting performance."
"I've seen her at parties," added Adams, the mother of two teenagers who perform. "I know she can get up in her party dress and charm, but I also saw a little girl who'd rather be riding a pony at a kids' party. ... To have her nominated, it's not good for her, no matter how great she was in the movie — and she was terrific — but this red carpet thing is a grind."
But it's exactly that kind of passion that drives such extraordinary kids, said John West, headmaster at The Mirman School for highly gifted children in Los Angeles, whose alumni include actors Crispin Glover, Masi Oka ("Heroes") and David Dorfman ("The Ring" movies).
"I'm not sure they fathom the importance of the honor. They fathom the importance of the work they do — that's far more important," he said. "Any of our students who have been engaged in the arts don't do it because they're looking for approval or glory. They're doing it because the work itself in some unique way touches them in their own lives."
West has no problem with Quvenzhane's nomination: "People throw around all the time that someone is an old soul packaged in a very young body, and as cliched as that may be, it's true."
But Zeitlin said Quvenzhane was still very much a little kid on the set: "She would say things to me like, 'Benh, I'm only 6 years old, you need to use smaller words,' or 'I'm gonna get cranky sometimes.' She had this awareness almost like an observer of a child."
He also points out that Quvenzhane is nothing like the girl she played.
"Hushpuppy as a character is going through unbelievable circumstances. She's damaged, she's morose, she's contemplative, she's quiet, she has this great burden on her shoulders," Zeitlin said. "Quvenzhane Wallis is the most carefree, fun-loving, goofy, playful person you can imagine, and she had to put herself in that skin on a consistent basis."
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14-year-old creates comic book series
Category: 'Y' Written by Genea Webb - Courier Features Writer
YOUNG CARTOONIST—Dante King with some of his comic strip characters. (Photos by Erin Perry)
by Genea L. Webb
While most 14-year-old boys are enamored with video games and girls, Dante King loves drawing comic books and cartoons.
"I've been drawing since I could hold a pen or pencil," said King, an eighth grade Shadyside Academy student, who resides in Plum. "I like creating the story, the characters and the places."
To date, King has created approximately 80 comic book characters.
One of his comic book characters, Jet, appeared in a "Sonic" comic book last year.
"I reached out to the editor of the 'Sonic' comic book and told him about my son and his drawings," said King's father, Steven King. "He told me to send him some of Dante's drawings and I did and one of them was chosen and appeared in the fan section of the comic book. I just wanted people to know that something good was going on here. I'm a proud parent and he's really a special kid."
King has created his own comic book series, "Amazing 8's Amazing Adventures," tells the tale of super heroes defending the world against evil.
"The characters are super heroes and super villains. I really enjoy drawing and creating the characters and the story," King said. "I especially like the characters because they're unique and I can make them who I want. It takes me a little while to think about how I want the good guys and the bad guys to do. Sometimes the bad guys fight among themselves because they are not always on the same team but eventually the good guys will always win."
King gets inspiration from a lot of different places including his classmates.
"Some of my characters are based on the personalities of my classmates and some are made up out of my head. My classmates know that some of the characters are based on them and they are excited about it. Some of them ask me to do it," he said.
The talented young artist has no formal art training.
King's mother, Cheryl King, knew her son had something special when she saw the unique way he held his pens and pencils—his thumb and the top of the writing utensil and the rest of his fingers at the bottom.
"We just let him draw but after a while we'd have to stop him because he just kept on drawing," explained Cheryl King, a stay-at-home mom. "I tried to get him to hold his pencil the right way but when I saw what he was doing I let it go."
The peculiar way King holds his pencil has become his signature and is called "the grip."
"Ever since I've been writing or drawing, I've held it that way," he said. "This feels comfortable to me. Teachers have tried to change it, but I had good penmanship so they left me alone."
King has created baseballs, T-shirts, mugs and notebooks with "the grip" logo on them. The notebook is for sale on King's website.
In addition, he enjoys reading, playing video games, the high honor roll student is currently practicing for the school's version of "The King and I." He will play the lead role in the musical. He has had parts in other school musicals including "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Annie."
Ultimately King would like to get his comic book published and into stores.
"We're looking for some help to get an agent and get his comic book published because he wants to share his book with other kids," Steven King said.
(For more information on Dante King's comic book or characters, visit www.dantethecartoonist.com.)
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Obama girls to hit teen milestones in White House
Category: 'Y' Written by Associated Press
FIRST DAUGHTERS--Sasha and Malia Obama arrive at the ceremonial swearing-in of their father President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
by Connie Cass
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — That's how it goes with kids. You hardly notice how fast they're growing up, then suddenly big sis is nearly as tall as Mom and the little one is a tween, gently sassing Dad.
On the inaugural platform again four years later, a more mature Malia Obama, 14, and Sasha, 11, smiled, sometimes giggled, and chatted with their cousin Avery Robinson as they awaited their father's arrival. Sasha bounced on her feet a bit as if chilly in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees, and later huddled in her seat. Malia, looking poised in calf-high black boots, rivaled her mother's 5 feet 11 inches. Like any girls their age, they whipped out their smartphones in the parade reviewing stand to take photos.
Both daughters appeared relaxed and oblivious to their global TV audience, unaffected by their rare status, unfazed by the fuss over their father.
Meanwhile, fashion-watchers were tweeting about the girls' coats in vibrant shades of purple. For the record: Malia wore a J. Crew ensemble, Sasha's was Kate Spade, and first lady Michelle Obama was in a Thom Browne coat with a navy print like a man's silk tie.
Such attention to the Obamas' clothes, their Hawaiian vacations, their hair — Michelle lit up Twitter last week by adding bangs — will continue as they charge into a time of turbulence for so many American families: the teen years.
In the second term Sasha, who arrived in the White House as a second-grader, moves on to high school. She expressed her pre-teen spirit Sunday, when Barack Obama took his official, nonpublic oath of office. After giving Dad a "Good job!" she added a reminder of his flubbed words four years ago. "You didn't mess up," Sasha teased the commander in chief.
For Malia, the milestones to come are many — she'll be hitting the age when typical teens start driving, dating and applying to colleges. How normally can any of this go at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?
Life in the White House is bound to feel different to a teen than it does to a second-grader.
Seven-year-old Emanuel Coleman's grandmother positioned him on the steps of the National Gallery of Art to watch the swearing-in on a giant outdoor screen Monday. The Durham, N.C., boy thought life for a White House kid must be cool, because the president has "his own private limo, helicopter and lives in a really big house."
"It would be fun to fly in the presidential helicopter," Emanuel enthused.
Sixteen-year-old Colleen Casey isn't so sure.
"They have to live their life in their dad's shadow," said Casey, part of a group of Girl Scout volunteers who came to the inaugural from nearby Woodbridge, Va. "You can't be your own person."
That's the struggle for White House youngsters, said author Doug Wead, who has interviewed 19 sons and daughters of former presidents and wrote about them in "All the Presidents' Children."
"When your mom's the first lady, and all your classmates are oohing and ahhing over her, it's hard to compete with that," Wead said. "At any given time, half the country hates your father and half the country loves him. It's hard to establish a separate identity."
Just last week, the National Rifle Association referred to the Obama daughters in an ad berating their father for opposing a proposal to put armed guards in all schools, while his children get Secret Service protection. And the president's been criticized for sending Sasha and Malia to the private Sidwell Friends School.
Even the great stuff — traveling the globe, meeting rock stars, mingling with world leaders — can go to a girl's head.
Mrs. Obama says she strives to give the girls a normal life — homecoming dances, playing basketball, trick-or-treating, slumber parties — and also to keep them respectful, responsible and down-to-earth.
There's been lots of speculation that Mrs. Obama, who turns 50 next year, may design her own transformation in the second term, when she'll be freed from the pressure of her husband's re-election. Will the first lady who dubbed herself "mom-in-chief" add to her portfolio of family-centered causes? The White House isn't yet saying.
Some feminists want to see the Harvard Law School grad take on a more forceful public role. Not all of her fans are so sure.
"I like the roles she's taken on with troops, with health, with children," said W. Faye Butts, 68, an enthusiastic Obama supporter who traveled from Macon, Ga., for the inaugural. No need to try to do more: "She has a family to raise, that's her first priority."
Associated Press writers Richard Lardner, Matthew Barakat and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Stop the Violence... Musician joins forces with youth sports leagues to create awareness
Category: 'Y' Written by Ashley N. Johnson - Courier Staff Writer
STOP THE VIOLENCE—Youth Sports Coach Jeff Marion stands with youth from various sports league to explain the importance of youth sports activities and the impact it has on keeping kids off the streets at the Stop The Violence Benefit Concert at Stage AE on Jan. 17. (Photo by J.L. Martello)
by Ashley Johnson
For New Pittsburgh Courier
Black on Black violence has been an epidemic in the Black community for years, with many feeling like no end is in sight. Many feel fed up and left with no answers to a cure. While some are getting the message out through marches, vigils and town hall meetings, one man is spreading his message through music.
Raising money and bringing awareness to the epidemic was the main theme of the Stop the Violence Concert held by musician Yves Jean, in collaboration with the Ladies Hospital Aid Society and local youth sports leagues, on Jan. 17 at the American Eagle Outfitters Stage AE on the North Shore.
"Young people are dying and we wanted to bring the public service announcement to the stage," Jean said. "The concert was successful, the audience was diverse and we raised some money, but you cannot put a price tag on awareness."
"Enough is enough. Every week we are seeing three to four deaths and they're all young people," Jeff Marion, a city youth sports coach and planning committee member said. "If we keep playing around there will not be a middle generation."
Jean, who has been in Pittsburgh for 12 years and considers it his second home, grew up in Harlem, N.Y., where he said with growing up in the inner city, violence became second nature to him. "You become numb to it and we cannot have that. In our society, it's okay if people are shooting at pee wee league games, its' okay to slap a girl around or shoot people for looking at you the wrong way. And that's wrong," Jean said.
Last year, Allegheny County lost 96 people to homicide, many of them young Black males under the age of 30, that was more than 2011's total of 73 and less than 2010's total of 100. Thus far in 2013, there have already been four murders, two of them Black males, the youngest 16.
Along with the deaths, there have been countless shootings, especially at youth football games. In August 2010, there was a shooting at a Homewood football field and in 2012, there were two shootings, one near Stargell Field in Homewood and the other at the Pittsburgh Obama School field, resulting in the death of Charlene Walters, a 64-year-old grandmother.
But Jean and Marion both agree that instilling the anti-violence message early and getting youth involved in activities are both solutions to keeping them off the streets and becoming part of the epidemic. "If a kid is involved in athletics, he or she does not have time to be involved in violence," said Marion.
"I was one of those kids, I saw my life through people (a coach) like Jeff. I want those kids to succeed," Jean said.
Although the concert was a success, Marion said he would have liked a larger turnout and more local support, but that he was happy with the individuals who did come out and support the effort.
"People complain all the time (about the violence), but never get involved. I think people are marched and meetinged out. They have their place, but it is like people have become numb to them." He said they hoped that something fun, like this benefit concert, would be the answer to getting people out and involved.
Besides the sounds of Jean's music, which he classifies as a worldly sound with a rock, jazz, soul, R&B, and reggae influence, he was presented with a proclamation by Councilman Bill Peduto from the Pittsburgh City Council, declaring Jan. 17, 2013, Yves Jean Day.
"It was a great feeling to have the city recognize my work. It makes me feel as if my efforts are not lost and are not in vain," Jean said.
Proceeds from the event will go to the LHAS, which is an organization that meets the needs of the community through a teen dating violence awareness and prevention program, and youth sports leagues in the area.
Jean plans to use this concert as a stepping-stone to getting the message of stop the violence out. He plans to expand the concert, not only nationally, but also globally.
"It takes each on to teach one. I'm just a vehicle trying to get the message out and I do it through music."
(For more information on Yves Jean, visit www.yvesjeanmusic.com.)
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First-grader creates mobile app video game
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
Harambee first-grade programmer Zora Ball
(Philadelphia Tribune Photo/Harambee Institute)
by Damon C. Williams
Philadelphia Tribune Staff Writer
(PhillyTrib.com)--Soon, officials from digital game creators EA Sports, Activision and many others may beat a path to the doors of the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, especially if the school continues to turn our prodigies like first-grader Zora Ball.
Ball has become the youngest individual to create a full version of a mobile application video game, which she unveiled last month in the University of Pennsylvania's Bodek Lounge during the university's "Bootstrap Expo."
Seven-year-old Ball has also become a master of the Bootstrap programming language, and when asked, Ball was able to reconfigure her application on the fly using Bootstrap.
"We expect great things from Zora, as her older brother, Trace Ball, is a past STEM Scholar of the Year," said Harambee Science Teacher Tariq Al-Nasir, who is also the founder of Harambee's successful STEMnasium Learning Academy. "I am proud of all my students. Their dedication to this program is phenomenal, and they come to class every Saturday, including holiday breaks."
Bootstrapping has many definitions. According to several technology resources, in computers, pressing a bootstrap button causes a hardwired program to read a bootstrap program from an input unit. The computer would then execute the bootstrap program, which caused it to read more program instructions. It became a self-sustaining process that proceeded without external help from manually entered instructions. In complex applications – such as the game Ball created – Bootstrapping allows for the input and implementation of a string of several complex commands. The exact incarnation of Bootstrap that Ball used was a standards-based curriculum and programming environment supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Technology in Education. This specific program teaches students to program their own videogames and applications using purely algebraic and geometric concepts.
Harambee was one of Philadelphia's first charter schools, and has become an important and widely recognized part of the city's system of education. Since its founding nearly two decades ago by late educator Baba Skief, Harambee has been a frontrunner in community service and development. The charter school has served as a local source for visual and performing arts and has been identified as a leader in education and training programs. Harambee has earned the support of the West Philadelphia community and the recognition of state and local officials for outstanding service.
Harambee has a strong STEM-related coursework and afterschool programming. The STEMnasium Learning Academy is but one of those resources, and that program, which runs on Saturdays, is in the midst of teaching its students Mandarin Chinese, with the idea that the students will complete several business transactions in Chinatown by speaking in the native language of many of the shopkeepers there.
The Saturday classwork is a 48-week program, not including an additional eight weeks in the summer. The collaboration between Harambee and the STEMNASIUM allows any student enrolled in a Philadelphia public school to partake in the class; the program is built for 60-plus students, and the roughly 50 that are enrolled in the program are dedicated, Al-Nassir said.
"The kids love it. As an example, over the Thanksgiving holiday break, with Black Friday and all, the kids were off from school and could do whatever it is that kids do when they are home, but we had students who showed up," Al-Nassir said. "They dedicated themselves to showing up on that Saturday. What we accomplished on that Saturday was different than what we accomplished on other Saturdays, but I was very impressed that the parents bought into the fact that we can't take a vacation, not when we're trying to reach people on a global level."
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lialab wrote:What's for dinner OMG, we celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary. and instead of going in a restaurant I decided that I would do the same menu we had for our wedding day. So here is the list. A note of warning: you might take a few pounds just reading it
Sparkling wine, thin pizza crust topped with pesto, prosciutto with melon, marinara fettuccini, cheeses with grapes, mushroom consommé, chef's salad, roastbeef porto sauce, with grilled veggies, tea, cake, and I'm not done yet, in a few hours we'll have pizza and chocolate profiterolle. so for the next few weeks I think I'll be on a diet
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A cotton seersucker jacket can be an unexpectedly lonely choice for outdoor dining on a mild evening. When the photo was taken I didn't know that I would be the only man at the restaurant wearing a jacket. Or, for that matter, that there would be only one other man wearing trousers. Ben Stein would have been outraged.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Seersucker for Dinner Alfresco
14 comments:
- Turling said...
I was going to ask, based upon your brief description of the clientelle, if you were dining at McDonald's. Then I realized, in this day and age, you could have been at Gary Danko's and that would not come as a shock to me.
Excellent look, Will. - June 23, 2008 at 7:47:00 AM PDT
- John said...
You look great Will. I like the look of a seersucker jacket with odd trousers. I have worn mine a couple of times this summer (even to the office on a Friday) with tan trousers. If I were in the restaurant there would have been 2 people in trousers and jackets/ties and I'd have sent you over a drink.
- June 23, 2008 at 7:51:00 AM PDT
- Tim said...
Splendid outfit, will!
FWIW, I have read that cloth bags of powdered white chalk were once sold to help maintain the appearance of white bucks. After brushing lightly with a non-metalic suede brush, some light taps with the bag would help restore the look.
Wouldn't think it would be too difficult to contrive such an article. - June 23, 2008 at 9:52:00 AM PDT
- Laguna Beach Trad said...
You look wonderful, Will. Truly inspiring.
- June 23, 2008 at 9:58:00 AM PDT
- El Aristócrata said...
I like the jacket. Quite popular in Spain indeed. I like also the combination of the tie with that pocket square. No so sure about white shoes. They look fine with your outfit but I do not see myself wearing white shoes.
Thanks for your help with the technical part :) - June 23, 2008 at 10:14:00 AM PDT
- oldworldgent said...
Sad to think that Messrs. Obama and McCain might be the last presidential candidates to campaign in jackets and neckties.
- June 23, 2008 at 10:17:00 AM PDT
- Tonyp said...
This is what I was talking about in the last post. I was at GD 2 weeks ago and the threesome next to me were wearing sweats. Not even a nice pair! I remember when restaurants had a dress code. I think we need to get back to that. Although most restaurants don't want to lose business and turn away clientele.
- June 23, 2008 at 12:10:00 PM PDT
- Michael B. said...
Tonyp said...
"I remember when restaurants had a dress code."
[Warning: off-topic rant ahead]
Heh. And people who used to have to dress to dine out knew they also needed to hire a sitter for their four-year-olds. I'd boycott restaurants that tolerated unruly children, but then I'd be eating at home every night...
Oh... Will, your clothing choice, as always, was spot on. It was everyone else that was underdressed... - June 23, 2008 at 2:20:00 PM PDT
- Gus said...
I have an odd seersucker jacket also and I was wondering what I can wear it with. Like Will, I've paired it with white or cream color trousers. But I'm at a loss when I try to figure out if any other color trousers coordinate with it. Any suggestions?
- June 23, 2008 at 3:12:00 PM PDT
- Donna said...
I'm a woman and I love your blog ! Is that weird? About a year ago I got a copy of Dressing The Man to get ideas to gently introduce my husband to the idea of upgrading his look, but so far no luck. However, the book became a favorite of mine ! It has so much good information about color and fabric, and the guidelines (dare I call them rules?) about what to wear and when are so simple and helpful to you men. Your blog supplements my interest in correct dressing yet makes me long for a women's version of classic style instead of trendiness.
- June 23, 2008 at 3:49:00 PM PDT
- nimbus said...
I was wondering if white bucks are usable in any context that doesn't involve seersucker? I have been loathe to buy seersucker because it would require yet another pair of special purpose shoes.
- June 23, 2008 at 6:13:00 PM PDT
- Will said...
White bucks pair well with any light trousers in season. Or, go sockless and wear them with shorts. They're unlined, and cooler than calf.
- June 23, 2008 at 6:18:00 PM PDT
- Youngin said...
I really like the juxtaposition of the formal cut of a DB with a casual element of seersucker. Great Idea!
- June 23, 2008 at 10:26:00 PM PDT
- Wayne Wilding said...
Years ago I met Noel Coward in Jamaica and he was wearing a more or less identical look. Sir Noel was always perfectly turned out, a grand entertainer (both public and private) and simply adored beautifully made clothing. Quoth Sir Noel: "A proper suit is more or less like a considerate lover. It embraces without grasping."
- June 24, 2008 at 9:27:00 AM PDT


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July 13, 2011
MEMBER BENEFITS: Shop ROA Insurance Travel Credit Cards Other Benefits Toward a care-free vacation You shouldn't have to worry when you're on vacation! When you're protected by Travel Guard through ROA you are reimbursed if your trip is canceled, interrupted or delayed because of a covered reason, or if your baggage or documents are lost, stolen or damaged. Also covered: emergency medical treatment and emergency cash transfers. Get a free quote for the Travel Guard Gold Plan today or call toll-free, 1-800-826-4919.JOBS: ROA Career Center Military.com Job Expos July-August 2011 OfficerWEEKLY NEWS CLIPS: The Intersect (7/12/11)
HISTORY:July 16, 1798 - President John Adams signs an act creating the Public Health Service. Happy 213th to the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps!
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