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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Crisis Nursery Needs Your Vote for $20K

Saint Louis Crisis Nursery is nominated to receive a $20,000 grant from Monsanto's Grow St. Louis program. Vote every day, now until May 19th, on the Grow St. Louis Facebook page to increase the Crisis Nursery's chance at winning.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

How to Help Children Care About Others

Parenting blogger Deb Moberly writes about how to to help your child become empathic, emotionally mature, and develop the morals that you believe are important.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Moms Blog: Mama-palooza Raises Thousands for School Supplies

"Scary Mommy" Jill Smokler and Melissa Gerstein of The MOMS spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at the Crescent in Clayton with the National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis Section on May 2.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Blame the Victim? Do We Encourage Burglaries?

A couple of readers debate whether victims bear any responsibility for crime. What do you think?

In Des Peres last week, a handful of cars and homes were burglarized in a residential neighborhood—a serious enough "spree" that the city blasted an email and text alert to the neighborhoods. As it happens, the burglar got into some unlocked cars, used the garage door opener and walked into a pair of houses in which the inside door was not locked. The report brought on this comment from a reader: "A person would not lock their car outside overnight (or anytime) because? And with a home garage door opener and valuables inside? Is this laziness or stupidity?" Another reader who said she was was one of the victims took offense: "I hope you are never a victim. You are acting like it was our fault." What do you think? Do we bear any …

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Rockwood 25

10:16 am on Sunday, May 12, 2013

Agreed. Just because a thief or vandal else clearly does wrong, does not mean the victim is necessarily "right" or blameless. It also doesn't mean they have equal blame or most of it. Such black and white thinking on this board. Sometimes victims couldn't have done anything better. Sometimes we can all learn something from the situation...like locking things up and keeping valuables out of sight.   more ›

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Movie Reviews: Iron Man 3, The Angels' Share, Starbuck

Find movie reviews and movie times for theaters in University City and the St. Louis area.

Are you a movie buff or fanatic? Or maybe you just enjoy the occasional dinner and a movie date? Either way, Patch would be thrilled to have you on board as a movie blogger! It's free, quick and easy to do so! All you have to do is shoot a quick email to Brian Feldt at brianf@patch.com. --- Iron Man 3 Patch Blogger Mark Glass: *** Here’s what you need to know about the third installment of this wildly successful franchise from the Marvel Comics superhero stable. If you haven’t seen the first two flicks, don’t start here. You’ll be missing too much backstory to get into the flow. For veterans of the first two blockbusters, Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are back as the leads, with Don Cheadle and Jon Favreau reprising their …

Friday, May 3, 2013

Senator Chappelle-Nadal Blog: Finding the Sweet Spot

Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal writes on her Patch blog all the latest updates from Jefferson City.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ask the Patch Pro: Experts Answer Your Questions About 'Going Green'

Our panel of experts are waiting in the comments to answer your questions.

It's time for another edition of Ask the Patch Pro, where each week we tackle a different topic and open up the comments section for questions. Our team of experts stop in to help you out and answer your questions. This week we're talking about "going green." How can you make your home, business or just life in general more eco-friendly? We want to help you find the answers to all your questions, but we need can't do it alone. Patch wants to help you get your questions answered, but we needed some help. We've compiled a team of experts to help us out. Meet the experts:

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Sensible? I think so

12:34 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013

Wrong again, Mr. Revere. You brought up your Professional experience. How much relevant experience do you have, with what companies or self-employed, and in what capacity?   more ›

Blog: Remembering My First Meditation

U. City is actually where I had my first real meditation experience, blogs Nayana Hein.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Nutritious Bites

Now You Can Judge Your Food By Its Cover

Facts Up Front should help shoppers in the grocery store.

Have you ever felt like you spend too much time grocery shopping? Does reading labels, lists of ingredients and health claims on food labels cause more confusion than they help? If this is how you feel when you grocery shop a new tool might make things a bit easier. The Grocery Manufacturers Association along with the Food Marketing Institute recently announced a new initiative to provide nutrition information, education and easier label reading. The “Facts Up Front” nutrition icon and website are designed to communicate the facts of good nutrition and to highlight the nutritional information of each food product. The “Facts Up Front” program (I have been on the advisory panel helping to guide development of these tools) is based on the …

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Parenting Blog: Why "Old Mother Hubbard" is Still Important

So continue the tradition, dust off the nursery rhyme book and return to Humpty Dumpty, Little BoPeep, and Jack Be Nimble, says Patch blogger Deb Moberly.

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