<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34921101772051302</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:51:14.587-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today's Woman of Liberia</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;...........HOSTS...........&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>&lt;b&gt;TWO-L&lt;/b&gt;</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12568679446812247027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34921101772051302.post-8280699448008997431</id><published>2007-08-02T09:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T09:47:07.795-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CONGRATS to Miss NC for sweeping 3 of 5 Awards</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RrIJbH9SGqI/AAAAAAAAACU/JnLx2PgHoSk/s1600-h/National+african.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RrIJbH9SGqI/AAAAAAAAACU/JnLx2PgHoSk/s320/National+african.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094144490106657442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RrIICn9SGpI/AAAAAAAAACM/kvd_5rm3MWY/s1600-h/National+gwen.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RrIICn9SGpI/AAAAAAAAACM/kvd_5rm3MWY/s320/National+gwen.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094142969688234642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special Awards were given to the contestants in 5 categories. Miss North Carolina swept the Miss Photogenic, Class and Style as well as the 2007 LUWIP Edith Bargor Award, while Miss Pennsylania received the Miss Congentiality award.&lt;br /&gt;Miss Mamawa L. Fofana of Baltimore, Maryland Captured the Miss Liberia in the US Title on Friday,July 27 2007 Thirteen young Liberian women from all across the US graced the stage of the Philadelphia Convention center to compete the coveted Miss Liberia in the US Crown!!!&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina is proud of Miss Gwendolyn Mensah and want to CONGRATULATE her on her drive and grace. She is an excellent young lady and will start working on her platform of "Empowering and Enhancing the growth of the Disabled "&lt;br /&gt;For more info. on the National pageant visit http://www.liberianpageants.blogspot.com/ OR http://www.missliberia.org/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34921101772051302-8280699448008997431?l=missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/feeds/8280699448008997431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34921101772051302&amp;postID=8280699448008997431' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/8280699448008997431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/8280699448008997431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/2007/08/congrats-to-miss-nc-for-sweering-3-of-5.html' title='CONGRATS to Miss NC for sweeping 3 of 5 Awards'/><author><name>&lt;b&gt;TWO-L&lt;/b&gt;</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12568679446812247027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RrIJbH9SGqI/AAAAAAAAACU/JnLx2PgHoSk/s72-c/National+african.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34921101772051302.post-4428821111333515487</id><published>2007-07-23T11:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T11:50:38.918-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Miss Liberia NC 2007 Pageant</title><content type='html'>Please refer to this link for more pictures &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face=verdana size=5 color="red"&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.kodakgallery.com/SlideshowEnd.jsp?&amp;collid_list=43239304109.153483508109.1185213424667:&amp;amp;img_size=5&amp;trans_delay=3000&amp;amp;trans_enabled=true&amp;conn_speed=1&amp;amp;mode=fromshare&amp;collid=43239304109.153483508109.1185213424667&amp;amp;Upost_signin_override_collid=43239304109.153483508109&amp;amp;Upost_signin_override_collid=43239304109.153483508109&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blink&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click to View More Pictures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blink&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RqTz8X9SGnI/AAAAAAAAAB8/shi-hxqwIAM/s1600-h/6-29+gwen+closeup.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RqT2gX9SGoI/AAAAAAAAACE/aifNqul3n2o/s320/6-29+gwen+evening.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090464514882804354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The night was beautiful as the contestants inspired the audience with their talents and mesmerized with their beauty. It was a tough competition as Miss Mardea Harmon did a skit about Liberia - a new beginning, Miss Ayele Gbeyon recited 'Phenomenom Woman' and Gwendolyn Mensah recited a poem she composed 'Behind the Eyes of a Woman'.&lt;br /&gt;In the end, Miss Gwendolyn took the title as Miss Liberia NC 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Gwendolyn Mensah will be representing NC at the National pageant in Philadelphia on Friday, July 27. Today's Woman of Liberia would like to thank all our sponsors and parents of our contestants for their support.We also want to extend a heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to all our contestants, we are happy you participated and hope you continue to work with the organization. &lt;br /&gt;We wish Gwendolyn GOODLUCK at nationals!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34921101772051302-427811254278415777?l=missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/feeds/427811254278415777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34921101772051302&amp;postID=427811254278415777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/427811254278415777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/427811254278415777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/2007/07/congrats-to-gwendolyn-mensah-miss.html' title='Congrats to Gwendolyn Mensah - Miss Liberia NC 2007'/><author><name>&lt;b&gt;TWO-L&lt;/b&gt;</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12568679446812247027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RqT2gX9SGoI/AAAAAAAAACE/aifNqul3n2o/s72-c/6-29+gwen+evening.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34921101772051302.post-6638869829329339698</id><published>2007-06-09T11:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:10:52.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pageant, Friday June 29th!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/Rmr5cOwK9KI/AAAAAAAAABM/odV40Nq78mI/s1600-h/Miss+Liberia+NC+07-+June29th.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/Rmr5cOwK9KI/AAAAAAAAABM/odV40Nq78mI/s320/Miss+Liberia+NC+07-+June29th.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074142193578079394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;color:white;" &gt;&lt;center&gt;The Miss Liberia NC 2007 Pageant is this &lt;p&gt;&lt;blink&gt;Friday, June 29th at the Afro-American Cultural Center in CHARLOTTE NC!!&lt;/blink&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there as Black Diamond thrills the crowd and our queens exhibit the 'True Liberian Beauty'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RoFwHuwK9LI/AAAAAAAAABU/XgfDPdsvr-Q/s1600-h/emmerson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RoFwHuwK9LI/AAAAAAAAABU/XgfDPdsvr-Q/s320/emmerson.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080465132762100914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHARLOTTE IS ON FIRE THIS WEEKEND!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;color&gt;GUEST APPEARANCE BY EMMERSON 'TUTU PARTY' !!&lt;/color&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                              WILL HE CROWN the QUEEN, COME SEE!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEE YOU THERE!!&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34921101772051302-6638869829329339698?l=missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/feeds/6638869829329339698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34921101772051302&amp;postID=6638869829329339698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/6638869829329339698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/6638869829329339698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/2007/06/pageant-postponed-w-new-location.html' title='Pageant, Friday June 29th!!'/><author><name>&lt;b&gt;TWO-L&lt;/b&gt;</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12568679446812247027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/Rmr5cOwK9KI/AAAAAAAAABM/odV40Nq78mI/s72-c/Miss+Liberia+NC+07-+June29th.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34921101772051302.post-2801620340406134172</id><published>2007-04-02T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:11:12.112-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today’s Woman of Liberia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RhFg4WhFQlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/MseNeXNzdB4/s1600-h/logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RhFg4WhFQlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/MseNeXNzdB4/s200/logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048923178492314194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Today’s Woman of Liberia’s mission is to encourage and empower young ladies of Liberian decent to pursue higher education thereby serving as role models for other young women as well as join the ranks of other successful women before them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;We also encourage these young women to be active participants in their communities by volunteering their services to other local organizations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The role of the Liberian woman has changed tremendously over the years, despite the war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Today, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;Liberia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt; can boast of being f irst in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;Africa&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; to have a female president!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;"   &gt;We aim to highlight the varied accomplishments of women of Liberian decent: Community Leaders, Politicians, Scholars, Mothers, Educators, Healers, Professionals, Athletes, Artists, etc.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Today’s Woman Of Liberia also aim to serve as mentors as well as assist in locating scholarships for the ladies in the pageant.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34921101772051302-2801620340406134172?l=missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/feeds/2801620340406134172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34921101772051302&amp;postID=2801620340406134172' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/2801620340406134172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34921101772051302/posts/default/2801620340406134172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://missliberiacarolina.blogspot.com/2007/04/miss-liberia-nc.html' title='Today’s Woman of Liberia'/><author><name>&lt;b&gt;TWO-L&lt;/b&gt;</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12568679446812247027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_b2z8zcro1_M/RhFg4WhFQlI/AAAAAAAAAAU/MseNeXNzdB4/s72-c/logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
