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Movie Star News began in 1938 when photographer Irving Klaw struck a deal with the movie studios, then operating in New York City, to collect movie photography that was in great demand by Hollywood fans. Klaw eventually began to create an archive of Hollywood studio original negatives from which prints were made for the media and adoring fans. The collection was moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in August 2012, and when the iconic store on West 18th Street closed, it was hailed as the closing of a New York institution by many national publications.
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Sting And The Crow: Together At Last
A new comic is up. It features both Eric Draven and Steve "Sting" Borden, although the similarities between the two are never explored. After all, what fun would that be?
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Posted by Tebor on January 25th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Dude, screw NES Drinking Saga, THIS needs to be the new serial comic sit-com!
Posted by Valdronius on January 26th, 2006 at 11:34 am
That's *just* what the world needs. A sitcom about The Crow and Sting being roommates and trying to get by dealing with life in the big city. Then Hiroku moves in and they all start hanging out at a pizza joint and bitching about life. And the KISS cameos start when Gene Simmons buys the pizza joint and converts it into his own personal whore house where instead of getting fucked, you pay to see Gene flipping pizza dough which he will then autograph and give you if you pay an extra $150. That's fucking terrible. The world doesn't need anymore Gene Simmons.
Posted by Syd Lexia on January 26th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
If Gene Simmons showed up, he'd have all sorts of ridiculous accessories with him, like perhaps some gold records and a bass guitar that's also a battle axe. He would challenge Road Warrior Animal to a fight, forcing Animal to resurrect Road Warrior Hawk with the help of Papa Shango. The resulting series of events finally leads to the ultimate showdown: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss versus Animal and Zombie Hawk. Just as KISS is about to defeat the Road Warriors, Ace Frehley shows up dressed as the Ultimate Warrior and starts screaming at Gene about he never gets a fair cut of the band's profits because Gene is a bastard. Then Ace joins forces with Road Warriors and the battle continues… for about two minutes. The Road Warriors are still defeated because Ace is a little bitch.
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Paramount Pictures has unveiled the final trailer for the John Krasinski-directed horror thriller "A Quiet Place" opening this Friday.
The story follows a family of four who must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound wiped out much of the population and threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.
Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds co-star. Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller produce the film which Krasinski, Bryan Woods & Scott Beck penned.


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McDonald's - the original food industry disruptor - recently received the ultimate US accolade: a Hollywood film about its history. The Founder - starring Michael Keaton as the hard-driving, erstwhile paper cup salesman Ray Kroc - didn't do big box office and met with mixed reviews. Using Kroc's no nonsense autobiography Grinding It Out as source material, the movie finishes with Kroc in 1970 doing up his bow tie while practising a speech to be delivered in front of the then California governor, Ronald Reagan. 'Nothing in the world can take the place of good old persistence,' Kroc insists. 'Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won't; unrecognised genius is practically a cliche. Education won't; the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful.'
Although it didn't invent fast food, McDonald's is the industry godfather and changed the eating habits of a nation. And it has held this position for decades through dogged determination not to mention making the most of its bulk. It is the largest restaurant chain in the world by capitalisation - 35,000 locations in 119 countries - just edging out Starbucks. The UK is its sixth largest market - behind even France - but its British business is high margin and, more importantly, still growing.
Since its arrival in the UK back in 1974, McDonald's has woven itself into our social fabric and now has 1,250 restaurants. Where the business back home in the States has stumbled, McDonald's in the UK has delivered 11 years of consistent quarterly growth now turning over around £1.5bn. This so impressed the board in Chicago that they took the Brit CEO Steve Easterbrook and installed him as global boss to administer some Limey medicine to the ailing 14,000 odd branches on the home turf.
McDonald's entered the UK market with the tag line 'There's a difference at McDonald's you'll enjoy.' This was a dig at Wimpy, the aptly named, down-at-heel Brit burger chain that dated from the mid-1950s. McDonald's slick razzmatazz with Ronald the clown larking around on TV screens was a rapid hit. In recent years, however, the marketing has softened and adapted to its surroundings with Northern English voices in its ads, an emphasis on family and the dominant red in the brand palette giving way to green and woody tones. Many millennials don't even regard the company as American.
London's Leicester Square branch now has a contemporary wood interior and giant touchscreens for ordering. Credit: benlister.com
But it hasn't all been plain sailing. In the 90s the company unwisely became entangled in the notorious McLibel case when it sued a pair of unemployed vegetarian environmentalists who distributed a leaflet 'What's Wrong with McDonald's: Everything They Don't Want You to Know'. The case dragged on for 20 well-reported years and the hearing became the longest trial in English legal history, at the end of which McDonald's declined to collect the damages awarded by the judge. The grim episode has become a casebook study in David vs Goliath PR disaster. The saga took a final bizarre twist recently when it was revealed that the original defamatory leaflet had been co-written by an undercover Metropolitan police officer posing as an eco-warrior.
Then came the torrid years of the early noughties when many members of the British chattering class, fretting about the obesity epidemic, went to see Morgan Spurlock's film Super Size Me and read Eric Schlosser's gruesome page-turner Fast Food Nation. McJob entered the dictionary - 'an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector.' The company actually made a loss in 2002.
McDonald's had become the poster child for the ills of corporate globalisation. So huge and so ubiquitous that it became a target.
Read more: The Food Revolution - have restaurants had their chips?
The fightback here was led by Durham University natural sciences graduate Easterbrook, who became CEO in 2006. He confronted the reputation issue head-on - even facing up to Schlosser on Newsnight - and started making changes. McDonald's UK went on an exhaustive campaign to show the provenance of its offering: only the best British and Irish beef, free range eggs, organic milk, Rainforest Alliance coffee beans. They turn chip fat into biodiesel to fuel their lorries.
A trip round its beef processing plant in Scunthorpe - run by OSI which has been a supplier since Ray Kroc signed up the family business in 1955 - shows high-tech tracing and food security measures that would impress GCHQ. The machines turn out 520 patties per minute for flash freezing, which are even put through a metal detector to ensure no unwanted object gets into a Quarter Pounder. It was significant that when the horse meat scandal hit, McDonald's was able to hold its head high while supermarkets such as Tesco were humbled by equine burger content.
But McDonald's remains under attack on many fronts: from fast food rivals like Pret (once part-owned by McDonald's), Subway and Costa but also from the new wave of more upmarket or 'artisanal' burger chains such as Byron and Five Guys. And Nando's is also expanding at a serious pace as chicken grows in popularity.
The new UK CEO is the highly energetic Paul Pomroy - a McDonald's lifer who ran the property, supply chain and finance dept before getting the top job. Pomroy is classic McD's - open his vein and ketchup oozes out. He's overseeing a major 're-imaging'. In has come the gourmet Signature burger range, table service, digital ordering and every sort of Italian coffee to add to the porridge and carrot sticks plus fruit. A business that attracted Kroc because of its rapidity and simplicity is now highly complex. They are even going to get into food delivery.
'I was sick and tired of people writing myths,' he has said. 'To be honest I was pissed off about it.' He is allowed a good deal of autonomy to set his own path: 'of course there are sacred cows like the Big Mac but we can adapt ideas from France or Australia. This is part of making us a modern and progressive burger company.' He's even reasonably confident he can handle the possible adverse effects of Brexit - his wife is French.
Although in the kids' Happy Meal they have reduced the salt by 50% and sugar by 30% in the last decade, they are never going to be able to keep the hardline nutritionists happy. A Big Mac is 508 calories but a Pret Classic Super Club sandwich contains 519. When pushed, Pomroy says that he isn't advocating that people have to eat in his restaurants seven days a week. But neither would they want salad day-in, day-out.
Pomroy dealt with the increase in the minimum wage in his own way. He put through a 10% wage increase across the company including 14% for those aged 16 to 18. But, unlike fast food rivals, he left the benefits such as free lunches and overnight premiums intact. He also offered staff on zero hours contracts the chance to move onto fixed hours if they wished. The McJob tag hurt them more than almost anything as they are quite highly regarded in HR circles for investment in training and education. Nine out of 10 of their restaurant managers started as crew, and on average stay with McDonald's for 15 years. One in five franchisees and a third of the UK Executive team started out working in the restaurants.
Interestingly McDonald's has also recently unwound its controversial Luxembourg tax structure and will now put a billion dollars of European income through the UK. How much of that will find its way into the hands of the Treasury depends on the IP fees going back to the parent company in the US.
Food is these days more deeply political than it's ever been. McDonald's is still left as the biggest purchaser of beef on the planet, when the smart talk is turning to the environmental cost of raising cows and how cool it is that Bill Gates and Google are disrupting the meat game by investing tens of millions in creating synthetic meat, which even bleeds on the grill.
The newest look McDonald's can be found in London's Leicester Square where its franchisee Claude Abi-Gerges, who is Lebanese, has just spent £3m doing the place up with massive touchscreen ordering devices greeting you as you walk in. It's all warm wood and table service. Abi-Gerges has a total of 18 restaurants in the West End and City of London and must now be a wealthy man, having taken the leap from his job as head of franchising at the Finchley mothership. He's happy - unlike many franchisees in the US. One study from two years back found that average score of the relationship between US franchisee and head office, marked on a 1-5 scale where 1 is poor and 5 is excellent, was just 1.48, down from a historical average of 2.1.
In Leicester Square, Abi-Gerges is allowed to stay open from 5 in the morning until 3am the following day. Longer hours than the local police station, probably. This way he gets trade from office workers collecting breakfast to drunken clubbers wanting something to soak up the booze at two in the morning. (McDonald's in the UK, unlike many European countries, does not sell alcohol and has no plans to apply for licences.) He employs a security guard on the door. With free Wi-Fi and phone-charging, it is clean, cheap and welcoming. As such it still fulfils the same function it has done for decades: to put - increasingly varied - food into the bellies of not-so-rich and time-poor Brits. Now it faces the latest wave of change as its customers reject Kroc's cookie cutter, wanting to design their own burgers and wash them down with a toffee latte instead.
Matthew will present an episode of Radio 4's In Business on the future of McDonald's at 8:30pm next Thursday and at 9:30pm the following Sunday
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A fox hunt can be an exciting endeavor, but when the Master of Fox Hounds is best-selling mystery author, Rita Mae Brown, the experience becomes electrifying.
Eleven William Woods University hunter/jumper equestrian students, two instructors and an alumna made a 14-hour drive to eastern Virginia to fox hunt (or chase, since the fox is no longer killed) with Brown late last month.
In addition to being a prolific author (her Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries are consistent bestsellers), Brown is Master of Fox Hounds for the Oak Ridge Hunt Club in Crozet, Virginia. She also is a member of the William Woods University Board of Trustees. Her book "Cat of the Century" takes place on the William Woods campus.
"She very generously invites WWU students to participate in a weekend of riding to hounds, attending cultural events and soaking up the ambience of a part of the country with a long history of horses," said Karen Pautz, clinical instructor of equestrian studies.
"Going on the fox hunt was an incredible experience," Megan Shahinian, a sophomore from Palatine, Illinois, said. "The horses were fantastic and Virginia is beautiful. It was by far the most amazing trip I have ever taken."
"What a wonderful hunt with Oak Ridge," Kayla Cardinal, a senior from Carol Stream, Illinois, said. "I couldn't have asked for a better mount and the best opportunity to learn the skills of a whip. The field looked beautiful with the mountains to set the scene. It was so nice to be back at the place my heart calls home."
Pautz agreed, "The weather was perfect for hunting—cool and clear—and the scenery spectacular."
Following the hunts, WWU students joined members of the Oak Ridge Hunt Club at Brown's Tea Time Farm for post-hunt potluck meals and camaraderie.
"It should be noted that fox hunting is more appropriately called 'fox chasing,' because the wily quarry rarely lets the hounds get close," Pautz said.
One evening, the WWU group joined Brown and the hunt club in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a performance by the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra, featuring baritone Kevin Bennear.
Another day was spent visiting Horse Country Saddlery in Warrenton, Virginia, where proprietor Marion Maggiolo pointed to a sales rack of hunt show coats, and told each student "if you can find one that fits you, it's yours!"
"We were overwhelmed by her generosity, which then continued with her giving the students parking passes to the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase to be held that day," Pautz said. "After the races, several students continued on to attend the Washington (D.C.) International Grand Prix."
Following Sunday's hunt, and another potluck luncheon, several students traveled to Brookhill Farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a tour and a discussion by owner Lynne Beegle-Gebhard on the inner workings of a successful boarding/training facility.
"This five-day adventure was full of generosity, history and memories. Every place we traveled we were met with people willing to give us unforgettable memories. From the actual hunt to shopping to steeplechase to family style meals, it was all incredible," Louisa Geyer, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri, said.
"My favorite memories were being able to 'whip-in' the very first hunt. Whippers ride the outskirts of the field group and keep the hounds and prey reined in. This means riding with one other rider over and through any terrain at various speeds. It was exciting and secluded from the large field group."
She added, "The beautiful Virginia scenery surrounded and made for fantastic hunting. It was so valuable to learn the history of hunting and how it was adapted into the hunter show ring. Many aspects have changed in the current show ring and it wasn't until I was flying across a field and into the woods after the hounds on a sent that I realized what it meant to be a true hunter."
In addition to Pautz, Cardinal, Geyer and Shahinian, attending the hunt were William Woods students Addie Carion, Eilie Cole, Kylie Eliot, Megan Graber, Ashley Larkins, Samantha Riley, Emily Spilios, Adrienne VanMatre, alumna Colleen Harper Hertzog and hunter-jumper instructor Susie Ouderkirk.


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To say that Stanley Martin Lieber – a.k.a. Stan "The Man" Lee was a legend would be an understatement. The man's impact on the world of not just comic books, or pop culture, but the world itself is not something one can begin to measure. And the impact the man's work had on my own life – namely his co-creation Spider-Man – there's just no words.
And of course, my personal favorite scene from my top favorite animated series.
RIP Stan Lee, and thank you for not just allowing us to escape, but for reinventing what a superhero is and should be, and for teaching us all real life lessons through your co-creations, from responsibility to self-acceptance and self-forgiveness and never give up on doing the right thing.
For this month's Boom Box (as well as a tribute to the now late Steve Ditko) here is a track from a web-slinging classic!
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RIP Steve, and thank you for creating some Amazing and Strange characters!
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I really dislike spyware. Plus this Mirar thing is SO INCREDIBLY annoying. It pretends to be a pop-up blocker and installs itself without asking you, then it won't let you delete it and you have to go through this stupid backdoor, and it actually launches pop-ups instead of blocking them. Not that I need a pop-up blocker in the first place, since I have google toolbar.
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We're excited to deliver this brand new route in 2017 – it truly is a Loch Ness Monster of a drive! Beginning in the Roman City of York and finishing in Inverness via some of the UK's most spectacular scenic routes. Shorter in length than some of our European adventures so ideal for first-timers or those with limited holidays.
Registration evening: Friday - York, England
Loch Ness Monster starts in the walled Roman city of York. Nowhere in northern England says 'medieval' quite like York, a city of extraordinary cultural and historical wealth that has lost little of its pre-industrial lustre. All teams are required to register the night before the event at the rendezvous spot between 19:00 and 00:00 - so plenty of time to come straight from work!
Day One: Saturday – York to Stirling
Day one sees our bangers pass through two National Parks - the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. Sights include Kendal and Lake Windermere. As we cross the border there will be no time for quick marriages at Greta Green as head towards the extinct volcano at the base of the cobbled streets of Stirling.
Day Two: Sunday – Stirling to Inverness
Day two sees us head further North through the breath-taking views of Loch Lomond National Park. If you manage to resist a dip in the water, you'll soon be on your way to Fort William via the settlement of Glencoe. We head North East from Fort William and arrive at Loch Ness to search for Nessie. From here it's just a short drive to the Highland capital; Inverness.
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UNPO Media and Communication for Human Rights Defenders Training Program
21-23 November 2013
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On behalf of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), you are cordially invited to attend UNPO's Media and Communication for Human Rights Defenders Training Program, taking place in the International City of Peace and Justice – The Hague, between the 21st and 23rd of November, 2013.
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Basic economic principles are not rocket science. They are accessible even to children. Lance Knobel, for example, who writes the blog DavosNewbies.com, said that he'd been regaling his 11-year-old son with economic naturalist puzzles at bedtime, "and he can't get enough of them."
Curiously, my wife did a search on the Times site so she could send the link to her mother in England and the last time I appeared in The New York Times was also in Economic View — seven years ago — when Louis Uchitelle quoted me about inviting anti-corporate NGOs and union leaders to Davos. I wonder how Economic View will quote me in 2014?


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The Wall Street Journal reports Sinclair Broadcast Group is moving closer to sealing its deal for Allbritton Communications by settling a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
The DOJ thought Sinclair's purchase of ABC affiliate WHTM in a market where it already owns CBS affiliate WHP and CW affiliate WLYH would affect the cost of advertising in the market.
Last month Sinclair agreed to sell the station to Media General when the Allbritton deal is finalized.
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No one wants to be normal in Singapore. A 'normal' person takes 5 years to complete secondary education. That's too slow. Not when 'express' only takes 4 years. If a person has to take an extra year to be schooled, they must be stupid and are an embarrassment to their parents who will never be able to hold their heads up again among their contemporaries, all of whom have 'express' children.
Faith Ng's play, Normal, directed by Claire Wong, focuses on two students in their 5th and final year of secondary education. Daphne blanked out after studying too hard at her Primary School Leaving Exam (PSLE), while Ashley obtained less-than-outstanding results at the same exam — which they took when they were 12 — thus qualifying them both as 'normal', and nothing more.
Like every other normal student, they bear the label as a stigma. They have little confidence in their own abilities. Their well-meaning teachers' insistence on upbraiding them on their attire, punctuality and decorum at every slight infraction is simply focused on making the normals conform in outward appearance, but does little to challenge them intellectually where academic learning really counts. As such, with every school day feeling like prison, the normals feel increasingly convinced that they will end up not graduating and their lives will be over.
Unlike the other teachers they have encountered, the new literature teacher who runs the Drama Club takes a different approach with the normals. She believes in them and helps them work out their fears, anxieties and frustrations through theatre and convinces them that they can succeed in the end. But in a plot reminiscent of Dead Poets Society (1989), Ms Hue is alone in her efforts and the system beats down on everyone eventually.
The play is beautifully set. There is the main playing area in which all the action takes place, while a corridor runs behind it framed to look like school chalkboards when lit in front, but becomes transparent when lit from the back (the magic of sharkstooth scrim), revealing the ensemble engaged in a variety of school activities. In a genius piece of lighting design, this corridor-frame is uplit at both ends, casting a shadow that creates the illusion of an old school tower on the upper back wall of the stage.
A snappy script keeps moments of tension, bleak humour, and awkward tenderness flowing at a brisk pace. Scene transitions are done by the cast in low light while singing familiar girls' school songs — efficient, entertaining and relevant. The dialogue is liberally peppered with colloquial vulgarities, which could be shocking — if we didn't already know that schoolgirls actually do speak like that. However, in performance, because the dialogue is delivered in perfect English, the colloquialisms feel a little forced and incongruous to the lines. 'Natural' speech is still a paradox local theatre here has yet to figure out. Nevertheless, the few soliloquies at the end are vivid in their revelations of past history leading up to the decision the normals make when events that have transpired cause them believe that kindness has turned to betrayal.
For a play that turns a critical eye on the rigidity of the education system and how it adversely pigeonholes people seemingly for life, it is disappointing that the normals make the decision that they do. The characters of Daphne and Ashley are built strongly and sympathetically. As such, it seems a bit of a stretch that they would succumb to their circumstance rather than rise above it. Perhaps that is the point: that the system wastes much human potential. Like the Alpha, Beta castes of Huxley's A Brave New World (1932), the system gives few opportunities for 'late-bloomers' to excel, or even bloom at all.
But it isn't so much the system that finally drives Ashley's decision as much as her own persecution complex which locks her in a vicious cycle, causing her to interpret every interaction with her teachers as hostile, and escalating that hostility with her own defensive reactions. If Ashley is the architect of her own fate while 22 of her classmates are able to move on from where they are, then the character of Ashley is only there to play the stereotype, pander to audience expectations, and raise sympathy rather than deal with the real flaws of inequality and injustice inherent in a system that is ironically supposed to support meritocracy.
Otherwise, Normal is an excellent and realistic view of school from both student and teacher perspectives. While teachers are well-meaning at heart, their personal biases and choices in responding to their students can be very cruel, indeed.
Normal: 23 March – 16 April 2017, Drama Centre Black Box, National Library Level 5
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Please stroll down the catwalk or click here for the latest Challenge #48 – Alter it
Before we step onto the catwalk with Avril and her choices for the SS here is a gorgeous inspirational piece from Terry.
You just have to pop along and read about her Broken Heart.
Behind the scenes at FSC each and everyone of the amazing DT's have the most delicious sense of humour and TT as Terry has become affectionately known is no exception.
Just a teensy bit longer then you can scroll down for the SS parade.
Here is a sneak peak of Ellie's inspirational piece which will be on the catwalk this Tuesday, 28th May.
Just when you thought I had stopped talking 😀 here is another little treat for you, we have FIVE chosen SS pieces in the Spotlight.
Phew finally here with Avril .. thanks for waiting sweets … who is showcasing her picks for this fortnight and the reasons why.
Saturday Spotlight
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#102 – Myra
Myra – I love the vibrant background colours with these 'divas' – also love the sentiment!
#80 – Nicola
Nicola – Love all the texture you created on the various layers with so many different techniques going on.
#47 Frea
Frea – A gorgeous image so beautifully coloured and such a lovely choice of embellishments surrounding her.
#122 – die amelia
die amelie – Great choice of images bringing the 'untold history' to life.
#7 –Rosie
Rosie – Such a great combination of images and embellishments creating super texture.
Well done ladies you all deserve to be chosen for the Saturday Spotlight and well done to the Fashionettes for all their amazing inspirational pieces for the sentimental challenge. Don't forget you still have one more week to enter the …
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10. Dad's Five-Dollar Pants
10. Dad's Five-Dollar Pants
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.
~S.W. Straus
After I gave Dad his new pants, he inspected the stitching and shoved his hand in the side pocket. "What'd you spend?"
I'd hoped to avoid the money question, and even though I dreaded it might come up, I hadn't prepared. Instead, I refocused on how skillfully my sister, Susan, had hemmed them. He asked again.
"What'd these cost you?"
I'd hoped to please him, but now I felt anxious. Experience told me that confessing the price would spoil the pleasure of my gift.
I sighed, "Thirty-seven dollars."
"You paid how much?" Dad shook his head, his pale scalp showing through thinning, white hair. Then he adjusted the prongs of the oxygen tubing in his nostrils and took a big, gasping breath as if the price had sucked the air right out of him.
I'd bought my father two pairs of navy Ben Davis Workwear pants. My sister matched the length against his old, worn slacks and hemmed the new ones, stitching in the one-inch cuff that rode at the bottom of every pant he ever wore. The design contained the qualities he valued: sturdy fabric, comfortable waist, center crease down the leg and large side pockets. It didn't matter that I paid for them. Dad never distinguished between my right as a forty-five-year-old to waste my money and his determination to never let go of his.
In Dad's view, I spend too much for everything: cars, since he never paid over $8,000 for one; meals, since there is no reason to eat fancy when a smorgasbord fills you up; sweaters—he exchanged the sixty-dollar wool sweater I bought him for Christmas for two polyester ones, a package of cotton hankies, and a pair of socks—and that's only because I paid with a credit card and he couldn't get cash.
Mom use to say that Dad had "a pathological relationship with the dollar." She often told the story about one of their first dates when, in 1949, she told him she wanted to see the lights of Yankee Stadium. She hoped Dad would take her to a baseball game. Instead, one evening, he drove her to the Bronx.
"There are the lights of Yankee Stadium," Dad said, pointing into the twilight.
Mom peered out the window and asked, "Where?" He pointed again and she got a glimpse of the stadium's bright glow.
Dad proudly called himself a cheapskate.
He budgeted using "the envelope system," whereby he placed a specific amount of money for each of our expenses into a designated envelope labeled: Rent, Food, Clothes, Electric Bill…. These included two envelopes with a weekly allowance of five dollars, one for him and one for Mom. By 1999, Mom's allowance had increased to twenty dollars.
After Mom died, Dad moved in with my family. He was seventy-four. As I unpacked his clothes, I realized that his old pants were frayed at the cuffs and the pockets torn, but he clung to these clothes like a security blanket. The longer he lived, the more he looked like a raggedy old man. I wanted to spruce him up.
Now, sitting with him in his bedroom, I didn't know how to fix the price problem with the pants. After all, this had been a lifelong dilemma for me.
Mom tried to teach me how to handle it. I remember being five years old and getting new black-and-white saddle shoes. "If Daddy asks how much your shoes cost, they cost a dollar," Mom said.
She didn't take a chance on my uttering a convincing fib. I'd proven too honest even back then. Carrying the purchases into our apartment she walked swiftly past Dad.
"Cost just a dollar," Mom announced.
Dad sat at our kitchen table rewiring a lamp. By the time he looked up from his work, Mom had sped into the bedroom and I was left standing there alone in front of my father trying to hide my feet.
Back then, many items cost only a dollar: dresses, raincoats and winter boots. Slips, socks, and hairbrushes cost fifty cents. Wool sweaters were a bargain at two dollars. The floor-length, gray wool coat I got in the eighth grade cost just five dollars.
"George," Mom said, "There was a sale on coats. Five dollars."
That was the last price hike Dad suffered. After that, everything cost five dollars.
I never understood why Dad didn't ask Mom for receipts. Once I witnessed her crumple up a receipt and toss it in the curbside garbage can. And Dad seemed satisfied with the remarkable bargains Mom found.
One day Mom handed the sales clerk several twenty-dollar bills, and directed me, "Tell your father we spent ten dollars."
"But all this didn't cost ten dollars."
"I'm not going to count pennies," she said. "Just help me keep him happy."
Mom knew about pinching pennies. Her father stoked greenhouse fires in the winter and tended plants all year long. This provided less money than her family needed. They survived the Depression eating scrambled eggs mixed with onions and potatoes, and buying their shoes secondhand and stuffing the insides with newspapers. Neither of them made a lot of money as factory workers, but Mom swore off poverty and spoke proudly about being able to buy us new shoes.
It's not that Dad never bought anything. He read Consumer Reports, compared features and prices, and then purchased big-ticket items: cars, lawn mowers, refrigerators, washers and dryers. If Dad had to spend money on something, he expected it to outlive him. The avocado clothes dryer he bought when I was fourteen still worked thirty-one years later. When he moved into my home, he offered to give it to me.
Holding the pants I'd bought him, Dad leaned toward me, "You couldn't find anything for five dollars?"
I never could lie. Mom's strategy didn't work for me, and I didn't want to placate Dad by fabricating a more comfortable truth. So I just said it. "Pants don't cost five dollars."
He shook his head and looked down.
How could I meet this impossible expectation?
"Mom told you everything cost five dollars so that you wouldn't argue about money."
Dad flipped the pant legs over and looked me in my eyes. "No. She didn't."
I could see it in his face. Mom never told Dad a lie that he didn't expect her to tell. He grabbed the cuff of the pants and rubbed it between his index finger and thumb. "Susan did a nice job hemming these. Too bad about the price."
I sat there, knowing we had a values conflict. I valued the truth. Dad valued the comfort of relationship on his own terms. Mom had met his expectations. There was only one way I could satisfy us both.
"Sorry. I'm just not the shopper Mom was," I said.
My father locked eyes with me. "No, you're not."
The truth ended it. Mine and his.
But would he wear the pants? I needed to know, so I asked him.
Dad patted the pants softly with his palm like I'd seen him pet our puppy.
"Sure I'll wear them. Why wouldn't I?"
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This page started as a cool trip into our musical past...and an archive of some of the most fun all of us ever had! But now, the Pluto Jones 30th Anniversary Reunion (March/April 2008) gave us the chance to re-record the original tunes we crafted back when we were kids! Visit this page often...over the next few months we'll be adding various versions of what we recorded, and giving you guys the chance to win copies of the new CD when it's finished.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Pluto Jones is a band that existed under this name for a few years in the late '70s and into 1980. It evolved from a band formed in 1976 called The Memphis Rockers. Members of Pluto Jones were John Lubotsky (piano, organ,synth, vocals), Joey Arata (electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals), Michael Arata (drums, vocals), Jimmy Thornton (bass guitar, vocals). We played full-time, performing at many hotels and bars in the Eastern US. Other members of the Pluto Jones/Memphis included Tommy Browning (drums), Ray Gann (bass guitar vocals), Rick Harvey (guitar), Paul Foisy (bass guitar, vocals), Scott Knight (drums), Bill Brookhart (sound engineer). It was once assumed that Pluto Jones would probably never again play together. But we recently completed a 30th Anniversary Reunion...three days of rehearsing and recording in March 2008 celebrating Michael's (our drummer) 50th Birthday! We re-recorded all of our vintage originals. The new recordings will be posted in various stages of completion on this page beginning May 11th, 2008.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Not since '79 or '80...but who knows what the future holds. A special moment was the opportunity to open a show for Steppenwolf sometime in the late '80s.
Your musical influences
Pluto Jones' influences were the Rock and Prog Rock bands of the late '60s and '70s.
What equipment do you use?
On the 1980 recordings...Joey - Gibson guitars, MXR effects pedals, Fender & Yamaha amps; John - Hammond B3, Leslie & Randall Amps, Yamaha CP-70 Electric Grand Piano, Rhodes electric piano, ARP Odyssey; Jimmy - Rickenbacker 4001 bass, Fender Jazz Bass, Acoustic 360 amp; Michael - Pearl Drums, Zildjian & Paiste cymbals. For the reunion, Joey used Fernandes, Fender & Takamine guitars, Roland VG-99 Guitar Processor & BOSS GT-10 Multi-EFX; John used Roland & Yamaha keyboards; Jimmy used Ibanez basses; Michael used DW Drums, Roland electronic percussion & various percussion accessories. The 2008 Sessions were recorded with the incredible Roland VS-2480 Digital Workstation.
Anything else?
The cuts not designated with a "2008" reference posted here were recorded live at the Brass Monkey in Marathon, FL in June 1980. The sound quality is not pristine, due to the extremely primitive methods and equipment used. But fortunately, the energy and enthusiasm of the performances were definitely captured. They're best enjoyed with a good set of headphones in a quiet room. The "2008" tunes were recorded with much more care, and will appear in various forms over the next few months as we feel they're ready to listen to...there will probably be several versions of each posted along the way, until they're completed. Your comments are welcome...and invited. Ultimately, we'll have a CD that will chronicle the kick-ass opportunity we had to revisit a cool part of our lives and that , hopefully, will open the door to new Pluto Jones musical endeavors.
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by Gary Ng on March 12, 2013
Another restaurant has recently jumped to the iPad, opting for digital menus rather than traditional paper. Spring Sushi on Upper James Street in Hamilton implemented the iPads last September for customers to select items off their menus. Servers send the finalized orders to the kitchen though. As for the reason to take up the iPad? Alonzo Ma, manager of Spring Sushi had this to say:
"We were bored, basically; we … Read More


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GENESEO, N.Y. - For the second time in as many weeks, both women's soccer senior forward Audrey Reid and women's volleyball sophomore outside hitter Grace Cergol were selected by the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) as weekly award winners.
Reid was named SUNYAC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week after she extended her multi-goal scoring streak to four straight, scoring two in both games this week. Reid scored two goals against Alfred, including another direct kick from 25 yards out. She followed that effort with two more goals against Brockport on Saturday. Reid has now scored 14 goals on the season, the most by a Knight since 2014. She has recorded at least one goal in each of her last six games, tying the second-longest streak in Geneseo women's soccer history. Reid's award marked her second consecutive athlete of the week honor.
Cergol led the Knights to three victories, including two crucial conference wins, in four matches, with 69 kills, 4.6 kills per set, 50 digs, and 73.5 points. She totaled 16 kills and 10 digs in a 3-1 win over Cortland on Friday and also had 16 kills and 21 digs in a 3-1 win over Buffalo State on Saturday. In the Knights' 3-2 setback to Brockport, Cergol compiled 30 kills, which tied for the fourth-highest total in a five-set match in Division III this season, and also added 14 digs in a battle of the top-two teams in the league. Cergol's weekly honor marked the third time the sophomore had garnered the award in the past four weeks.


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In accordance with its enabling legislation, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has held hearings on the proposals comprising its Fiscal Year 2020 Capital Budget and Fiscal Year 2020--2031 Capital Program. The Philadelphia Street Railway Historical Society is sympathetic to the aims and objectives of these proposals, and we are grateful for the opportunity afforded to us on April 29 to query the staff of the Authority concerning the details of these proposals and the process of their development.
As ridership continues to decline precipitately throughout the system, it is essential for the Authority to advance the projects most likely to reverse this trend. Among these is the project identified as "Trolley Acquisition and Infrastructure." Currently programmed for Fiscal Years 2025--2031, we request that the Authority prioritize this project, shifting it to Fiscal Years 2020--2024.
At the same time, we must caution the Authority that the introduction of low-floor articulated streetcars onto the narrow streets of Southwest Philadelphia, where the majority of the Subway--Surface routes now operate, will necessitate parking, curbing and other streetscape modifications of a magnitude certain to provoke a firestorm of political protest. As an alternative, we strongly urge the Authority to consider the acquisition of partial low-floor, standard-length cars, which are currently available from several European manufacturers and potentially from American manufacturers as well. These cars can easily be equipped with couplers for multiple-unit operation during peak hours.
In the interim, we urge the Authority to initiate a program substantially to extend the serviceability of its existing fleet of light rail vehicles, acquired thirty-eight years ago from Kawasaki Heavy Industries. In their ruggedness and durability these vehicles are virtually unsurpassed, and in the course of rebuilding, they can certainly be retrofitted with wheelchair lifts. Upon the acquisition of a new generation of streetcars, the Authority can retain these vehicles for eventual operation on several crosstown, linehaul, or radial routes on which streetcars are more appropriate than buses.
Among these routes are Routes 23 and Routes 56, which the Authority has been operating with buses since the fall of 1992. Since their nominally temporary conversion to bus operation, the Authority has, until recent years, repeatedly affirmed its commitment to restore them ultimately to streetcar operation. In pursuance of this commitment, we urge the Authority to reinsert a placeholder for this project in the Capital Program.
Time and again, public transportation experts of international renown have attested to the superior ability of streetcars to attract and to retain ridership. On the City Transit Division, capital investments in this mode hold the greatest promise of stanching the continuous hemorrhage of passengers availing themselves of Lyft or Uber.
Submitted by: MARK D. SANDERS, PRESIDENT
SEPTA has selected the final route for the King of Prussia rail extension of the Norristown High Speed line.
While the Key project is not yet complete -- including its cost -- the money spent thus far would have paid for restoration of a portion of an existing rail corridor on the SEPTA system. New riders, new voters using SEPTA, and new revenue. SEPTA's priorities remain on untested gadgets.
During the winter of 2014, the SEPTA board of directors quietly signed over the out-of-service Fox Chase-Newtown corridor to Montgomery County. "Their portion" of the railroad has since had the rails and ties removed in the spring of 2014 as part of the extension of the "Pennypack Trail" from the Philadelphia county line to Byberry Road. The dream of Feodor Pitcairn of killing the railroad since the 1960's has finally become reality.
While SEPTA retains legal ownership of the land, this effectively kills off any future consideration of restoring rail service to Bucks County where existing SEPTA regional rail stations are at capacity, roadways congested, and no other means of expanding effective mass transportation possible.
As previously documented by PA-TEC, SEPTA has refused to assert ownership of the trailway with the placement of signs acknowledging the corridor as railbanked. It is certain that any future aspirations for reactivation will be vehemently opposed by trail users, NIMBYs and BANANAs (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything).
The Newtown corridor is another missed opportunity, a direct violation of SEPTA's enabling legislation, in part caused by inaction on the part of Bucks County who had the opportunity to restore RDC service in 1983, the corrupt politicians in Montgomery County, the wealthy Bryn Athyn clans, and SEPTA's own corrupt board of directors who have poorly planned investment in the region's rail system. It should also be mentioned the lack of real public support has contributed to the Newtown line's fate. Have fun.


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Preserving history, legends, and paranormal tales of the tri-state area of OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, AND PENNSYLVANIA.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Introducing The New Shirt Design For Ghosting 12!
7 comments:
very Gay , dumb and unprofesional they look absolutely like a bunch of uneducated Jerry kids came up with this .
- October 4, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Kimberly said...
You seem a bit jealous there jason alelman.
- October 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Kimberly said...
Oh,and maybe you should check your spelling and grammar skills before you accuse someone of being uneducated. Just saying...
- October 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Kimberly said...
And you better check on the definition of a Jerry's Kid, because you obviously don't know who they are either. But I think I know who you are. :)
- October 4, 2010 at 4:49 PM
i dont know you or of your group i came across it on the blog about ghost hunting and you dont know me i will assure you of that i am from north carolina. and check my spelling ? i did spell uneducated right ! i do have a socialogy degree which means i know how to spell or i wouldnt of gotten this far , so maybe you need to REREAD what i write and you need to check your spelling my last name is adelman not alelman.so yea get your shit straight i made a comment not directly to you . and now you assume you kknow me , funny how things work this way , right ? and if u think u know me who else could i be but my own self ?
- October 4, 2010 at 5:39 PM
- christianw27 said...
Dear Jason,
By gay do you mean carefree and happy, or bright and showy? I think I know who the unprofessional one here is and its not G12. Have a nice day!
- October 5, 2010 at 5:07 AM
- Kimberly said...
Actually I was speaking of the word "unprofessional" in your first comment. A person with any kind of education like what you claim would not bash gays, or say anything about Jerry's Kids, I would hope. Your attempts at sounding educated fails miserably, so stop trying. I know who you are. I have read your facebook entries, which have the same mistakes made in them.....
- October 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM


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Monthly Archives: December 2016
How to keep dogs busy while the humans are enjoying the Christmas excess
Make sure in the rush of visiting and hosting that you don't forget to take your dog for a walk. Your dog walker may be able to fit in extra sessions if you need them to. A dog that has had plenty of exercise will be calmer and happier.


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time to be jolly and happy...use JOLLY15 at checkout for a 15% discount on your entire order!
who didn't love the bookmobile as a kid!
when i was young, the bookmobile parked on a side street very close to our home, and my mom would let me ridemy stingray bicycle (with the banana seat and the plastic tassels on the handlebars!) to the bookmobile by myself...so exciting.
i would check out seven books, balance them all in the basket on the front of my bike, and pedal blissfully home... wow.. to have that simple joy again!
this hoop art pays homage to the joy of both the bookmobile and to the mobile with book art - it is composed of five hoops with fabric, quotes and words. this isforreaders and teachers and librarians... and those who just love books.
meant to twirl and float to show off both sides, each art hoop has been crafted in colors of grey, navy and black, hungfrom a grey, polkadot ribbon and tied through an eye hook that has been firmly affixed to a vintage wooden hanger.
the book mobile can be hung with the metal hanger in so many places - your front door, on a wall above a bookshelf of beloved stories, or even from a little chandelier!
Total size: 18 x 18 inches. Large round hoops measure 6 inches in diameter, with smaller round hoops ranging from 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Large oval hoop measures 9 inches across.
PLEASE READ THIS NOTE ABOUT FABRIC COLOR: these art bits are made from leftover fabric, and are very popular at the many craft events at which we sell. So the hoop that we have in stock with these words, may not be available in the fabric shown. IF this is ok with you, and you only want the words, then the fabric/colors that we choose will be a happy surprise! IF you want to choose specific colors, please message me before ordering and we will do our best to get you this hoop art piece in your colors.
Please note: this is a made to order item, and production times will be 5 days, excluding shipping.
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Here's How To Throw That Perfect Costume Inspired Stag Do
Who said that fancy dress and costume parties could bring fun to hen parties only? Here's a list of some very kinky and trendy stag do costumes, that will ensure maximum fun on your Stag Party.
You can either take these ideas as they are or maybe do a few modifications here and there and increase the fun. This is one sure-shot way to increase the wackiness level of your party.
S.W.A.T Real Morphsuit – If you wish to keep your stag party full of adventure then there is got to be this suit. You can try on one of the S.W.A.T. morph suits and be ready to go on your mission! If you are having a stag do with adventure theme, then this suit is just for you.
WWE Costumes – When it comes to WWE, we know you always wanted to be a super wrestler! A stag party would be a great place to wear such a costume. You can choose to dress up as famous WWE fighters such as the Undertaker. Your mates surely won't try to mess with you!
Piggy Back Costumes – Well piggyback costumes are a new type of costumes which includes stuffed legs attached to the costume. It gives an impression that the person who is wearing the costume is sitting on the back of the costume. You can choose Donald Trump or a Mario costume to give you a piggyback ride!
Inflatable Costumes – If you want to have fun with your costumes then the inflatable costumes are good to go. They are one of the latest costumes that can be used to make everyone laugh. You can either dress up as a fat cow or a giant panda and fun is inevitable.
Pirates Costume – Inspired a lot by the Jack Sparrow character from the movies? Then why don't you dress up as one! The pirate character has been one of the very popular themes of the parties for decades now. Having it as a theme for your stag do is only going to do more justice to it.
Gangster Costume – Finally the time has come when you get to be the ultimate mafia with the Gangster costume. Nobody will dare to mess with you when you don your full attire and head over to that party. You can even do a bit of a play while wearing this costume. Frame the groom and make him your victim.
Naked 'Costume'– If you want to pull a prank on all of your stag mates then this costume is the best one. New high-definition technology helps print these costumes in such a way that, the people who look at you will get the impression of you being entirely naked, at the first glance!
Muscular Costume – We know you were already thinking of this costume! Well if you don't have those pumped up muscles but have always wished for, then your wait is over. This costume will give you that muscular body instantly! Wear this on the stag party and the level of fun will just increase.
Beer Bottle Case – Well this costume is a bit different than all of the above ones because this it is a group costume. This costume is to be worn by two to three people at the same time. This costume would be the highlight of your party, and everyone will enjoy a hearty laugh.
So there you have it. These costumes will make sure that you don't have to worry about the fun element of the stag party that you are about to throw. Enjoy!
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In the last post, I talked about how and why I started homeschooling my eldest child.
Looking back, I can see both positives and negatives.
On the positive side: I and a good friend of mine (also a conservative Muslim homeschooling mother) did our best to provide our kids varied and interesting learning experiences, despite our poverty, lack of access to a car, very limited support even in our own insular, conservative religious community, and the pregnancies/responsibility to care for our infants that tended to limit our mobility. We dealt with these considerable challenges with a can-do attitude and lots of ingenuity. Since God (we sincerely believed) wanted us to homeschool our kids, then it must be possible for us to somehow make it work.
We took our kids outside as much as possible, so that they could experience nature and learn about it in a "hands-on" way. (We lived in a city, so nature wasn't going to come to us—we had to go out and seek it.) We wanted them to learn the names of different animals and birds, to be able to identify animal tracks, to know that some wild plants are edible and others poisonous, to recognize different kinds of trees… so, we took them out to parks as much as we could. We would take long bus rides in order to get to reasonably "wild" parks, pushing strollers and laden with diaper bags and packed lunches and whatever art or other supplies we thought we would need.
We took them to museums, the zoo, a kids' farm and historic sites as much as we could. Entrance fees were a problem, given our poverty, but we took advantage of discount coupons, family passes and free or reduced-admission days.
The public library was (thank god) free, so we went there quite regularly. The kids picked out the books they wanted, and played with the cool toys in the kids' section. We would head to the DIY section and look for books on crafts you can do with your kids, or science projects. We found some good ideas in books like that, and tried them out. Some were more successful than others, but it was a lot of good clean fun. We encouraged them to do different kinds of art projects.
The kids (and us) also got plenty of exercise and fresh air—significantly more than they would likely have gotten if they'd been in school. We walked places as much as possible, partly to save on bus fare, and partly because getting on and off buses was hard with our strollers, small kids and the bags of stuff that always accompanied us everywhere (diapers, sandwiches, changes of clothes for the babies, etc). We took them to the playground regularly. In warm weather, we'd take them wading or swimming, at times that would be as unbusy as possible, so that we'd have the place pretty much to ourselves. When it snowed, we took them tobogganing, and showed them how to make forts and snowmen.
We did our best to create a bubble in which there was no difficulty practicing Islam (as our very conservative community understood that to mean). Of course, we stopped whatever we were doing for prayers. Of course, all the food we ate and fed to them was halaal. We made du'a before and after meals or snacks, when leaving the house, when boarding a means of transportation…. We dressed "Islamically," and so did our kids. They didn't have to deal with peer pressure from non-Muslim (or, from less practicing Muslim) kids. They weren't directly faced with the differences between their lives, and those of other kids.
We made a big deal out of Ramadan and Muslim holidays, making them as festive as possible. We told our kids the stories of the prophets, read simple hadiths to them, and taught them to memorize some short suras from the Qur'an. We got kids' books from the library about the lives of kids in various countries around the world (we nearly always selected those on Muslim-majority countries), in order to ensure that our kids realized that they belonged to a religious whose followers were found all around the world.
Given our poverty, the kids' exposure to tv was very limited (we had a small, black and white tv, and no cable, and we severely limited the amount of time that they were allowed to watch it), as well as to most types of music. We had a few nasheed tapes that we played for them, and we made percussion instruments with them and encouraged them to sing along and keep the beat.
We did our best to instill a positive Muslim identity in our kids, and to show them all the many ways that it is possible to have halaal fun. We also modeled a can-do, "faith and hard work can move any mountain" attitude, even in the face of community disapproval (some people in our insular, conservative group didn't like the way we went about homeschooling, especially with our emphasis on taking the kids out whenever possible). When something didn't exist that we thought ought to, like toddler board books with "Islamic" story lines, we made it ourselves. As far as possible, we didn't let lack of resources get in the way of doing what we wanted to do.
(We just had so much determination and energy in those days—I wish I had even half of that energy now….)
On the not-so-positive side: We knew nothing about teaching, really, especially not how to teach small kids. Knowing nothing about educational psychology, ideology was what determined our curriculum, and even when it wasn't working out very well, we continued to plug away at it. So, we believed that the first thing our kids should learn as far as reading was concerned was the letters of the Arabic alphabet, so that they could learn how to read the Qur'an. Meanwhile, they were (not surprisingly) much more interested in learning to recognize English letters, which after all surrounded them wherever they went. But we insisted that they learn Arabic letters first. In the case of my eldest, this definitely dampened his enthusiasm for learning to read.
We didn't have the money to buy a complete curriculum, with textbooks, workbooks, etc, nor did we have any idea where to buy such a thing anyway (in those pre-internet days). So, we made do with "teach your child math" and such like workbooks that could be bought pretty inexpensively in department stores, along with the odd textbooks we ran across (such as when the library was selling their discards, or at Goodwill). So, our curriculum was not systematic. We would occasionally manage to get to an educational supply store, where we would drool over the merchandise (most of which we couldn't even dream of affording), and then we'd buy a few things we thought were particularly needful—usually math books. Neither my friend nor I were at all good at math, so we leaned heavily on the workbooks for teaching it. Our attempts to use Montessori methods of teaching math (using home-made sticks of beads and so forth) weren't working too well, for some reason—perhaps because try as we might, the kids were picking up on our math-phobia.
Unsurprisingly, the kids were not keen on the workbooks. As time went on, this type of sit-down learning turned into a war of wills, with the kids refusing to do their work, or rushing through it without caring whether they had gotten the right answers or not, just to get it over with. Letting up on the workbooks and tired, library discard readers in the hopes that the latent "self-directed learner" that supposedly lies within every kid would come out of hiding didn't work either. As time went on, my eldest in particular became increasingly aware that nearly all other kids his age—even other Muslim kids—were in school, and kept expressing a desire to attend. Looking back, I can see that he was beginning to feel "left behind" and excluded from something that everyone else had.
We were not always patient when we were teaching our kids, especially not when they made the same mistake for what seemed like the fiftieth time. We were sometimes just too tired (what with pregnancy, and night feedings) to teach them much during the day. Or, their resistance to sitting down and doing their work would lead to us cutting the lessons short.
We were concerned about socialization, and also wanted to make sure that our kids would get the opportunity to participate in certain kinds of sports (under carefully controlled conditions, of course). So, we signed them up for swimming and skating lessons at the local community center. When it came to swimming, we were very concerned that they should not wear "immodest" swimsuits, so we made the boys wear long board shorts, and the girls wear a body suit with sleeves, as well as spandex shorts to their knees.
We thought that we were teaching them how to be good Muslims while also being involved in the wider world, showing that they were as capable as anyone else. Looking back, I can see that what we were actually teaching them was the fine art of being apparently present while actually absent—which after all was how we lived our lives.
In appearance, we were a part of the wider society. We took our kids to parks (where they played with one another, and often ignored other people's kids), and stood in line at the supermarket waiting to pay for our groceries (where we talked to one another, and largely ignored the other women in the line), and rode the bus (while dealing with our kids, or talking to one another, or both, while mainly oblivious to our fellow passengers). Part of the reason that we behaved this way in public was to block out the stares (few women wore hijab in those days where we lived) and to deter the comments or nosy questions. But I doubt that our kids were unaware of how much we were stared at, or the sorts of things people said. They must have found this a difficult experience, and it likely also limited their ability to see themselves as really belonging anywhere.
Also in the name of socialization (as well as identity-building), we took our kids to as many local Muslim events as possible—celebrations of various types, bazaars, fund-raising events, Friday prayers, iftars and so on. The idea was that they could play with and get to know other Muslim kids. This did not always work out well. At some of these gatherings, parents would basically let their kids loose, and chaos would result. We didn't want our kids learning from those other kids' "wild ways," so we would then rein our own kids in—while they protested that every other kid in the place was having fun except for them. Occasionally, an event would have some sort of planned children's activity—but the kids (not unreasonably) often found these a disappointment. Some inexperienced teenage girls would have been given the task of keeping a group of restless little kids in a room busy with paper and crayons, or a few old, battered toys.
Far from such events being an identity-boosting experience for our kids, they often seemed to be the reverse. Our kids were both marked as coming from very conservative families (by our attire, as well as by theirs), and from an ethnically "mixed" background, which was not that common where we were living at the time. So, they were not made to feel particularly at home in gatherings like those either.
We could see that both the learning process (especially in terms of things like basic math and reading skills) as well as the kids' socialization was not going too well. But, we pressed on regardless, telling ourselves that once The Cult had managed to establish a school, that our problems in these areas would be solved. Of course, we were wrong about that….
But anyway. Looking back, I can see that we definitely over-sheltered them. Given how isolated we ourselves were from meaningful contact with people outside our conservative little group, that was pretty much inevitable, and the attempts we make to provide our kids with somewhat wider socialization were quite inadequate.
In those days, we saw the idea of sheltering kids (especially when they were young) from practically every kind of deviation from the "straight path" (as we understood that) as a good thing. We lived in a city, and of course they could see with their own eyes that most people didn't dress and behave and live like us, but we tried our best to distract them from this obvious fact as much as possible, in part by spending as much time as possible with the small group of other conservative Muslims who did share our outlook on life.
Another way we dealt with this was to focus the kids' attention on the past as much as possible—so, we read them stories about kids who lived in centuries past (like the Little House books), and often took them to visit the local pioneer village. In the past (we pointed out to them) people used to dress "modestly", children worked hard and obeyed their parents, and life was centered on religious values. Of course, this "past" we tried to immerse our kids in was romanticised, with things like child labor or the lack of rights for women smoothed over or ignored—though as we were North American Muslims, we did teach them about the Underground Railroad and they learned about heroes like Denmark Vesey and Harriet Tubman, so this wasn't completely a whitewashed past. But still. We didn't teach them a history that is interesting on its own terms—we used the past as a buffet from which we could select what we thought was beneficial to our kids' faith, and ignore all that we thought wasn't. We didn't exactly model honesty or academic integrity here.
All our over-sheltering and filtering/censorship of what our kids watched on tv, listened to, read or encountered was supposed to be in order to give them self-confidence as Muslims. In reality, we probably did more to undermine their self-confidence. We did not allow them to develop the skills required to deal with a variety of different types of people. And through our example, we implicitly communicated to them that the outside world was dangerous, and that their faith was a hot-house flower, unable to survive unless carefully protected from most aspects of reality. We also ensured that they would have little culture in common with most of the kids their age. While we saw that as a positive thing at the time, they would have to meet the wider society sooner or later—but we weren't thinking too hard about that.