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Who doesn�t like a great deal from a thrift store? A vintage t-shirt for $6 or a set of dishes for a dorm room for only 15 bucks � or maybe you�ve been eyeing that red couch in the corner for a while?
Who doesn�t like a great deal from a thrift store? A vintage t-shirt for $6 or a set of dishes for a dorm room for only 15 bucks � or maybe you�ve been eyeing that red couch in the corner for a while?
While there are several establishments in the area with great deals, a handful of those are good for the wallet � and for the soul.
These thrift shops make it their mission to give back to the community every time you buy or donate something.
Finders Keepers 910-346-1611
1209-A Hargett St., Jacksonville
Hours: Monday � Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Finders Keepers is owned by the Onslow Women�s Center, a shelter to help victims of violence and domestic abuse. The store provides clothes and items free of charge to the residents of the center in order to help them with a fresh start, said store Manager Dawn Stevens.
When residents leave the center, they also get to shop in the store for household items to help them get back on their feet. The store is 100 percent non-profit, with all of its proceeds benefiting the shelter. It has four paid employees, the rest volunteer or work for community service hours.
Finders Keepers accepts donations from the community from Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the loading dock in the back of the store, and donors can get tax receipts.
Stevens said the store accepts gently used items, except car seats, mattresses and recalled items. For people who want to donate furniture, the store can arrange furniture pickup.
She said they sell clothing the most. For those who want to check out the full list of the items the store accepts, visit onslowwc.org and click on the thrift store tab
Salvation Army
local thrift store locations:
204 Wilmington Hwy., Jacksonville; Hours: 10 a.m. � 7 p.m. Mon. - Sat.
403 Center St., Jacksonville, Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 910-577-5060
Sea Oates Plaza; N.C. 172 and 210 in Sneads Ferry, Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 4:30, 910-327-2043
510 Main St., Maysville, Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 910-743-0126
200 Mallard Ct., Emerald Isle, Mon. � Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 252-354-6354
1700 Arendell St., Morehead City, Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 252-726-7147
Not only do Salvation Army Thrift Stores offer affordable prices on household items and clothes for the person on a budget, they also help locals who need financial assistance and groceries.
�When people come in and they give donations, they give based on the reputation of the Salvation Army,� said Scott Bartnett, the Family Stores Operations Director for the Jacksonville Core of the Salvation Army.
All the proceeds from the store help people in the community who need assistance paying bills, such as electric and water and proceeds also benefit food banks on Bell Fork Road and in Jones County.
The Salvation Army gives out vouchers to people in need who can then use those vouchers to shop in the store for clothes and various other items, Bartnett said.
Last year, Bartnett said the Salvation Army in Jones and Onslow counties provided around $300,000 worth of help in food, clothing and financial aid.
The people who man the store include a mixture of paid and volunteer workers and some community service workers. Bartnett said those who work in the store are required to help with disaster relief in the event of a catastrophe.
�It�s great to know what we�re doing in our stores is benefiting the community,� he said.
Donations can be brought through the front door or to the loading dock in the back for bigger donations. They also offer a pickup service for furniture.
They do not accept baby cribs, car seats, older TVs and furniture with major stains.
Hem of His Garment Thrift Store 910-326-1811
724 W. Corbett Ave., Swansboro
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
The Hem of His Garment is the main ministry of the White Oak Ecumenical Outreach Ministries.
WOEOM is comprised of 14 churches in the area, and provides several outreach programs to help struggling community members.
Jeffrey Wilson, Hem of His Garment director, said the store runs, in majority, on donations from the community that his team of volunteers then clean up and sell.
�People donate all the time, everything from clothing all the way to campers,� he said.
All the proceeds from the store go directly to the treasury, and then the funds help local families in need, among other things.
In a ministry called Family Assistance, struggling individuals and families interview to show their financial need to pay various bills - anything from electric to doctor bills to mortgages.
The Family Assistance program aids people in the area with financial assistance ranging in $30 � to $40,000 a month.
And they do this all with volunteers, except for a paid bookkeeper and janitorial crew.
The store generates almost $900,000 a year, Wilson said, and helps support other programs with WOEOM, including a food pantry, a meals on wheels program, an angel tree program, a dental bus, and a school grants ministry which helps kids pay for the supplies needed to participate in extracurricular activities in school.
For those who wish to donate to Hem of His Garment, the store has a donation receiving area that is open 24 hours a day. In order to pick up a tax receipt, givers should drop off donations from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The store can also arrange pickup and delivery for large items.
�We do this out of love for the community and for God, and it�s important that people understand that,� Wilson said.
Harbor Thrift Store 910-328-7467
14254 NC 50, Surf City
Hours: Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Harbor Thrift Store operates under the auspice of the Faith Harbor United Methodist Church. The store opened in Sept. 2010 and it specializes in children�s clothing, said Jean Hawley, the business manager.
Store proceeds go to the church which distributes it to several different ministries aimed at helping community members, Hawley said.
�Emergency disaster relief is primarily what it is,� she said.
The store also opens up its doors to families in the area who have been displaced or who have been referred to shop for clothes or furniture or other household items. She said they also have medical equipment, such as walkers and wheelchairs, to give to referrals.
�We open up the racks and let them have what they need free,� she said of referrals. The store contributes to the church and the church allocates to the Mercy Abound Program, a financial assistance program which gives emergency one-time help with unusual expenses.
The store accepts donations at the church located at 14201 NC 50 in Surf City, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hawley said items can be scheduled to be picked up by appointment.
Infant of Prague Catholic Thrift Shop 910-937-1543
933 Lejeune Blvd., Jacksonville
Hours: Monday � Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Infant of Prague Catholic Thrift Shop offers affordable prices on a daily basis along with sales intermittently throughout the year.
�We price the items so people can afford it,� said John Marks, the business manager for the Infant of Prague parish.
Marks said one thing the shop does several times a year is throw a bag sale in which shoppers can stuff as much merchandise as they can get into a bag for $6.
In addition to affordable prices, the shop takes referrals from different agencies in the community � citizens who have been lost their home due to a fire or who come from a bad domestic situation � and they help them start over at no charge.
The proceeds from the shop go toward a financial assistance program.
He said they often help people with utility bills and medicines. Everyone who goes through the financial assistance program must go through an interview process, as well.
�We just don�t help with deposits or rent,� Marks said.
The parish also operates a food pantry run solely by volunteers.
The store operates with the help of two paid employees and a team of volunteers.
Anyone who wants to donate can take items directly to the shop; food donations can be taken to the parish office at 205 Chaney Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Arrangements can be made to pick up large items.
Richlands United Methodist Church 910-324-3736
102 E. Franck St., Richlands
Hours: Tuesday � Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The Richlands United Methodist Thrift Shop is owned by the Richlands United Methodist Church and has been operating for 27 years with the help of a large team of volunteers.
Proceeds from the thrift shop are used in outreach through the church, to help things such as the Methodist home for children, and the senior center which was built and is owned by the church.
Myrlyn Humphrey, a member of the thrift shop committee, said the store also donates clothes to children in need.
If schools call and ask the store to help clothe a child, they will give them some outfits and shoes. They also provide coats for children in winter, and donate book bags and school supplies to the local schools Humphrey said.
The store also helps out with nursing homes in the area � not only to provide evening wear for proms, but to donate everyday clothing, snacks and bingo prizes on a normal occasion.
The store also gives donated shampoo and body wash from hotels to battered women's shelters. It runs on the power of one paid employee and a crew of 30 volunteers, Humphrey said.
In addition to generous donations, the store hosts a generous monthly bag sale in which shoppers can fill a bag with as much merchandise as they can for $7.
If anyone wants to donate to the shop, a bin in the shape of a house sits on the side of the building 24 hours a day. Otherwise, donations are accepted at the back door during business hours.
Humphrey said that they do not accept large items such as big pieces of furniture because of the small size of the store. They specialize mainly in clothing and housewares.
Richlands Community Outreach Thrift Store 910-324-6586
8701 Richlands Highway, Richlands
Hours: Monday � Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Wednesday
The Richlands Community Outreach Thrift Store focuses primarily on families in crisis, according to Jim Jarman, the chairman of Richlands Community Outreach Ministries.
The store's entire inventory consists of donated items, and it runs on the power of approximately 50 volunteers who help sometime during the month, Jarman said.
�All the items we sell through the thrift store and all the money we get we use a number of ways,� Jarman said.
But the main focus of the thrift store's proceeds go toward financial assistance.
Richlands Community Outreach helps families in crisis with short-term needs, whether it be paying medical needs, rent or other temporary expenses they cannot afford.
Those who receive help must apply and go through and interview process. Jarman said the ministry coordinates often with social services.
The thrift shop is just one ministry of many in Richlands Community Outreach; another includes a food pantry.
Those who want to donate to the store can bring items to the warehouse in the back during operating hours, or underneath the porch when the store is closed. A tax receipt can be procured upon request.
Pickups can be arranged by calling the shop.
Habitat for Humanity ReStore 910-347-9400
1200 Gum Branch Rd., Jacksonville
Hours: Monday � Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
5989 U.S. 70, Newport 252-223-4493
Hours: Monday � Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Jacksonville specializes in collecting donations of furniture, building supplies, home d�cor, and appliances.
When the store sells these items, the proceeds are then used to buy building supplies to build low-income houses in our local communities, said Samantha Sumpter, the Jacksonville ReStore manager.
In addition, the store's income also benefits other Habitat for Humanity programs, including a home ownership program, and exterior home repair programs for veterans and other applicants.
Habitat for Humanity is currently working on a home now in Hubert, which is being sponsored by Onslow County Rotaries and 70 West Builders out of Jacksonville. They have constructed four homes in Onslow in already.
Those wanting to donate to the store can bring items to the shop any time while they are open. Sumpter suggested people make appointments for large items to be picked up.
There are several thrift stores in the area which contribute to the community. Here are a few of those in Carteret County:
Second Blessings Community Outreach Thrift Store
Phone: 252-726-7921
Address: 5178 U.S.70, MoreheadCity
Hours: Monday � Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Thrift Shop
Phone: 252-726-4747
Address: 1107 Arendell St.Morehead City
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
St. Francis Thrift Store
Phone: 252-333-4533
Address: 5089 U.S.70, MoreheadCity
Hours: Monday � Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
St. James United MethodistChurchThrift Shop
Phone: 252-223-3186
Address: 1007 Orange St., Newport
Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
PAWS Thrift Store
Phone: 252-247-3341
Address: 3010 Arendell St., MoreheadCity
Hours: Monday � Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This store's proceeds benefit the Pet Adoption & Welfare Society of Carteret's daily operations, pet rescue and rehabilitation.


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GENEVA (Reuters) - International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi and envoys from Russia and the United States - backers of opposing sides in Syria's civil war - failed to make a breakthrough in talks on Friday seeking a political solution to the conflict.
"We stressed again that in our view there was no military solution to this conflict," Brahimi said in a joint statement read out after his closed-door talks with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
They agreed on the need to reach a political solution based on an agreement reached by foreign powers in Geneva last June, which called for a transitional period in Syria. That left open the question of what role, if any, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have.
That appeared to be sticking on point at Friday's meeting.
"The devil is in the details," Brahimi told reporters.
"We said that this transitional government that will be in charge during the transitional period only, it is not a government that will stay for a long time, it will direct the transitional period that will end with the holding of the elections that will be agreed upon," he said in Arabic, adding that it would have "all powers of the state".
But asked by a reporter if there are had been any concrete progress, he said: "If you are asking whether there is a solution around the corner, I'm not sure that is the case."
The United States, European powers and Gulf-led Arab states insist Assad must step down to end a war that has killed 60,000 people in nearly two years. Russia says this must not be a precondition to a settlement.
Syria denounced Brahimi as "flagrantly biased" on Thursday, casting doubt on how long the U.N.-Arab League mediator can pursue his peace mission.
Brahimi, speaking to Reuters in Cairo a day earlier, said Assad could have no place in a transitional government to end the civil war, the closest he has come to calling directly for the embattled president to quit.
Asked on Friday whether the Russians shared his views, he replied: "I am absolutely certain that the Russians are as preoccupied as I am, as preoccupied as the Americans are, by the bad situation that exists in Syria and its continuing deterioration.
"I am absolutely certain they would like to contribute to its solution," he added.
But pressed on whether Bogdanov had come with new proposals to pave the way for a political transition, he said: "We discussed a lot of things. They had ideas, others also had ideas."
Earlier, a U.S. official said the talks would focus on creating the conditions for a political solution, specifically the transitional body agreed on in June.
"The U.S. position is clear: Assad has lost all legitimacy and must step aside to enable a political solution and a democratic transition that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people," the U.S. official said, asking not to be named.
Before the meeting, Bogdanov gave no indication Russia would abandon its insistence that Assad must not be forced out by external powers.
Russia is "eagerly awaiting bringing the agreements reached in Geneva to life without damaging the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and without violating the right of the Syrian people to choose their own leaders," Bogdanov was quoted as telling Russia Today television.
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DARTMOUTH — In the wake of the recent tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, school officials and local police departments have undertaken a review of school safety procedures to make sure they are effective and up to date.
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Since many local police officers are parents of school-age children, they have tended to be "more visible" around the schools in the past week, Dr. Colley said, which has been reassuring to other parents and staffers.
Westport Elementary School Principal Thomas Gastall assured parents that safety procedures are in place at all other district schools on the school web site, and detailed some of the existing protocols for lockdown procedures, medical and weather emergencies, and emergency evacuations.
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The principal's message included a link to the district website (www.westportschools.org) where online information on talking to children about violence has been posted. It also identified the school counselor and staff psychologist available to address student reactions to the Connecticut tragedy.
Westport Middle School Principal Alec Cimenello's message to parents was meant "to ease your worries regarding your children's safety as well as the safety of the entire Westport Middle School family. We have several procedures in place to make our school a safe and secure environment for your children to learn and grow."
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The school regularly conducts fire drills and lockdown drills to prepare for emergencies, and maintains "a strong working relationship with both the police and fire departments in town," Principal Ciminello's message noted.
Macomber School Principal Julianna Pasetto noted that the district's emergency code system is also routinely practiced with students at that building.
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Good Old War, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, have been turning heads recently with their eponymous release. Rising from the ashes of rock band Days Away, this folk-influenced indie outfit created one of the summer's most upbeat records, and have since been cultivating a reputation that's beginning to stretch between the coasts and no doubt across the waters.
Good Old War's interesting name is a combination of parts from all three band members' last names. Keith Goodwin, Tim Arnold, and Daniel Schwartz got together during a 'hiatus' of Days Away, and slowly began to build a fan base. Their dedicated practice, including their daily vocal harmonizing, led to some deft arrangements, which they placed on their debut album.
On their most recent album, Good Old War continues its trademark harmonies, uptempo instrumentation, and honest, youthful lyricism. Good Old War has the ability to bring the listener into a fun, breezy world, filled with warm guitar tones and catchy choruses. As the trio alternately brings to mind images of 1960s doo-wop, whimsical folk music, and indie rock aesthetics, Good Old War deserves credit for making smart, simplistic, and clean music full of great hooks. In an age of studio quirks and digital gimmicks, Good Old War isn't afraid to write happy, catchy songs that aim to please.
This week's Free at Noon features this up-and-coming local trio, playing from their latest. There aren't many other ways to start off the weekend this well.
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Release Date: June 1, 2010
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Her 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to acclaim: by the turn of the twenty-first century, it had been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Her career began after a series of tapes she made as The Girly Sound came to the attention of Matador Records in 1992. Exile in Guyville followed in 1993 to rave reviews. Consequently the release of Whip-Smart (1994) was much anticipated and promoted. It debuted at No.27 but though it achieved gold classification it did not sell as well as had been expected.
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Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave., 2nd floor, 212-677-8621, email@example.com: THE CRYING SKY, View smaller landscape oil paintings by Eric Holzman. Continues thru Sept. 24.
Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St. at 11th Ave., 212-255-0719, www.chelseaartmuseum.org, Tues. - Sat., noon - 6pm; Thurs. , noon - 8pm: ITS NOT A PHOTO, An group exhibition of abstract photography and electronic media. Continues thru Aug. 26.
Franklin 54 Gallery, 181 Christopher St., bet Washington & West Side Highway, 212-627-8690, www.artnet.com/franklin54.html: BRUCE IACONO, View unique oil paintings by Bruce Iacono. The artist depicts landscapes, city streets and sports scenes that stir up memories of times past and present that have been a part of all of our lives. Sept. 1-30. Opening reception is Sat., Sept. 9 from 6-8pm.
Invisible NYC, 148 Orchard St. bet Stanton & Rivington, 212-228-1358, www.troydenningtattoo.com: MIRROR, A solo-exhibit by emerging New York City photographer, Manuela Paz. Photos feature female subjects gesturing within the frame of a mirrors reflection. Continues thru Sept. 2, Tues. - Sat. from noon - 8pm.
ISE Cultural Foundation, 555 Broadway, bet Prince & Spring Sts., 212-925-1649, www.isefoundation.org: LOOKING AT THE OTHER, View works by artists Yin Xiuzhen, Liang Yue and Zhang O. Sept. 1 - Oct. 28. Opening reception and Curator/Artists Talk on Fri., Sept. 8 from 6-8pm.
Michael Ingbar Gallery, 568 Broadway in the basement, 212-334-1100: IT'S ABOUT REAL ESTATE, A group exhibition with works by 90 artists showing New York City, past and present. Continues thru Sept. 30.
The Painting Center, 52 Greene St., 212-343-1060, www.thepaintingcenter.com: THROUGH OUR EYES: BELFAST, A 2 part exhibition taking place in NYC and Belfast. From Sept. 5-30, 13 artists from Belfast will show their works in NYC and in October, 14 NYC artists will show works in Belfast. The artists survey the world from their respective cities offering multiple perspectives to look at world issues. Opening reception is Sat., Sept. 9 from 6-8pm.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 W. 14th St.: DEPTH OF FIELD, A juried photography exhibition featuring a wide variety of work from 16 Pratt alumni who received a BFA in Media Arts at Pratt between 1995 and 2005. Continues thru Sept. 12.
Robin Rice Gallery, 325 W. 11th St., 212-366-6660, www.robinricegallery.com, Wed. - Sun. from 12-7pm: SUMMERTIME, View fine photography by various artists featuring images of summer. Thru Sept. 10.
Staley Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway in Soho, 212-966-6223, www.staleywise.com: MARILYN MONROE, A selection of black & white and color photographs of Marilyn Monroe presented in conjunction with the PBS American Masters documentary on Marilyn Monroe. Thru Sept. 1.
The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. 6th St., bet 2nd & 3rd Aves. 212-228-0110: JACQUES HNIZDOVSKY (1915-1985): In Color and In Black & White, view a showcase of work by the critically acclaimed painter and printmaker spanning a nearly 50-year career that started in Ukraine and ended in the U.S. Thru Aug. 27. THE TREE OF LIFE, THE SUN, THE GODDESS: SYMBOLIC MOTIFS IN UKRAINIAN FOLK ART, View embroidery, textiles, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs) & ritual breads. Thru mid-Oct. $8; $6 student/seniors; children under 12 and members.
Village Restaurant, 62 W. 9th St., near 6th Ave., 212-505-3355: ONSTAGE OUTLAWS, View rare archival images of Mae West and Texas Guinan taken during a lawless decade, the roaring 20s. Thru Aug. 31 during restaurant hours.
Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune St., 212-989-4650: WESTBETH ARTISTS AND FRIENDS, Continues thru Aug. 27. 5 YEARS - 9/11 MEMORIAL, View Aftermath: 9/11 and NY Artists, a video by Ernest Mortuzans & J. Taylor Basker. Also view photos and artwork by Basker. Sun., Sept. 10 from 7-9pm. Free.
Wilmer Jennings Gallery, 219 E. 2nd St. at Ave. B, 212-674-3939: HOWARD T. CASH - SAVING GRACE, View a selection of more that 70 images by photographer Howard T. Cash focusing on families rebuilding their lives after Hurricane Katrina. A Video documentary entitled, Hurricane Katrina: Life After the Storm, by journalist Marcia Fingal, will also be shown. Opening reception is Sun., Aug. 27. Gallery is open Wed. - Sun. from 11am - 6pm. Gallery talk on Sat., Sept. 16 at 3pm.
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I stumbled into an interesting conversation yesterday with some other university public television managers and found myself using the $1.8B public television economy as a yardstick for the investments we do or should make. It's an important measure because of the pushback we stations give annually for covering increased costs of our small (relative to that $1.8B) collective investment on the legacy side and because we have, I believe, an urgent need to make individual and collective investments in "being digital," to resurrect Nicholas Negroponte's great 1995 contribution.
It got me thinking afterward that it's a misleading yardstick if what one is trying to measure is what it takes to run our broadcast schedules. Unlike public radio -- which is much more a "pure play" economy -- public television is much more diversified. Just guessing, but instead of being more than double the size of public radio, apples-to-apples, public television may be only a quarter to a third larger.
From the earliest pre-PBS days, stations contracted with school districts and state departments of education for carriage of instructional programming during the school year. I've been in management since 1972 and a GM since 1978 and remember that diversification was urged on us for years -- education services, contract services, national program production, cable services. And we listened and did that.
My operation diversified in the direction of higher education services. What was a "pure play" broadcasting operation for both radio and television in 1978 has changed dramatically. Looking at cash revenues on an apples-to-apples basis, public radio here is 46% larger than public television. But looking at it the way our auditors do, it flips -- television is 61% larger than radio. It's the auditors, of course, that determine the $1.8B total. Perhaps we're an extreme example, but I'd bet that non-broadcast diversification has changed the financial picture of many other public broadcasting licensees as well.
This diversification makes for healthier organizations, so that's good (well, not always; as some stations have gone through hard times as the result of taking national production risks on our behalf), but nearly all the funding that supports this diversity of mission is restricted funding -- tagged by the source in such a way that it can't be spent on PBS dues or program fees or other broadcast spending. This restricted revenue generally counts the same as membership and other unrestricted revenue when it comes to establishing what incentive funding we get annually from the Corp. for Public Broadcasting (about 15% of the public broadcasting economy if any non-public broadcasters have read this far), but the unrestricted money that generates is double-taxed in the current PBS formula, so the net is small (and, in a few cases, non-existent).
I say all that not to complain about the formula but to simply remind us of why the discretionary part of public television's budget is very likely much smaller than the $1.8B the auditors say we have would suggest. If we're going to make progress on either sustaining our legacy operations or making the necessary and urgent investments in "being digital," someone ought to figure out just what is available. --Dennis


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- Body of man, 39, found in Glasgow street
- British 'pharmacist who joined IS' is detained in Syria
- Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James marries partner Bella Mackie
- Contaminated blood scandal inquiry is 'too little, too late'
- The woman reclaiming nude for women of colour
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Third baseman Manny Machado made a throwing error in the 10th inning and the Oakland Athletics completed their comeback, beating the Baltimore Orioles 9-8 Sunday.
Down 5-0 in the sixth, the A's tied it at 8 on Yoenis Cespedes' two-run homer with one out in the ninth. He was activated from the disabled list before the game.
The Athletics ended a four-game losing streak and prevented Baltimore from a four-game sweep.
Eric Sogard hit a leadoff single in the 10th and moved to second when reliever Pedro Strop (0-1) made a wide throw to second on Adam Rosales' bunt. Coco Crisp followed with a sacrifice bunt and Machado threw wildly past to shortstop J.J. Hardy covering third, allowing Sogard to score.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge has ruled that a 13-year-old girl is competent to stand trial on allegations she deliberately started a wildfire that destroyed three dozen homes north of San Diego in May.
U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/1q1AsiM ) reports that the judge made the ruling in a brief hearing in juvenile court Wednesday.
Superior Court Judge Aaron Katz had ordered last month that the girl from San Marcos be psychologically evaluated to determine if she is fit to stand trial.
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Applicants for gun licenses must fill out form, await background checkBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
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January 19. 2013 11:31PM
New Hampshire doesn't tally how many people have pistol/revolver licenses to conceal firearms and leaves it up to communities to decide who is deemed under the law "a suitable person" to be granted a license.
Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney said police typically issue the pistol licenses, but some towns designate others to issue them.
"Each town keeps their own records, and neither the Department of Safety or any other state agency as far as I know has any idea who does or does not have a license or how many are issued in a particular town or city or statewide," Sweeney said in an email.
The names of people issued licenses are exempt from the state's right-to-know law "because the Legislature has decided that it is not good public policy for the criminal element to possibly know who might own a gun," Sweeney said.
In New Hampshire, people are not required to have a license to carry a concealed pistol or revolver in their home or place of business, "so one is not necessary if you simply want to protect yourself against a potential home invasion," Sweeney said.
A license also isn't required to carry a concealed but unloaded firearm in public or in a vehicle, or to carry a loaded pistol or revolver on the street or in a public building if the weapon is visible and is not covered by an outer garment, except in a courthouse or on the property of a school, or in any private business that has banned firearms on their property.
The state law governing the licenses states the applicant must be "a suitable person," which Sweeney said means "a lot is left to the discretion of the local official as when a person would not be a 'suitable person' and there is no specific test written into the law to help them determine this."
He said convicted felons aren't allowed to possess deadly weapons, so they can't receive a license.
"Other typical reasons for denial would be that the applicant has a criminal record of convictions for violent offenses, has been involuntarily committed to a mental institution for treatment of a diagnosable mental illness that involved dangerousness, is under indictment and awaiting trial for a felony, is known to be mentally ill or incompetent, has made statements threatening people in the community, is under a domestic violence protective order or a bail order from a judge not to possess firearms, or has carelessly and inappropriately brandished or mishandled a firearm in a way that would demonstrate that they would pose a danger to themselves or others," Sweeney said in an email.
"None of these reasons are specifically mentioned in the law, but they are typical of instances where police chiefs have concluded that someone was not a 'suitable person.' The police in a specific city or town should not issue a license to someone who is not a resident of their community," Sweeney said.
Manchester police conduct a criminal background check and a local history check on each applicant, placing that information in a packet for a detective to review. An applicant, for instance, can be disqualified for such things as a person's mental health history, police Capt. Nick Willard said.
Applicants fill out a questionnaire and pay a $10 fee. The licensing authority has 14 days to grant the license or state in writing why the application was rejected.
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Actor and Grammy-winning rapper Common stars as Vincent in the Baltimore-set drama, LUV. He's also one of the independent's film's producers.
Common, following roles in TV's Hell On Wheels and films such as The Odd Life of Timothy Green, New Year's Eve, American Gangster and Smokin' Aces, is LUV's leading man. His character, a former convict who's free following eight years of prison, has big dreams.
"Some people will see Vincent as a criminal," Common said. "But other people will say, 'Oh, man. This guy is trying to straighten his life out. He's going through some of the same things that I've been through, or things that my family members have been through.' "
Chicago native Common knew people whose experiences were similar to Vincent's.
"Being from the South Side of Chicago, you just relate to that," he said. "And I used what I have experienced to let Vincent come to life."
Common co-stars in LUV with 11-year-old actor Michael Rainey Jr. (playing Vincent's nephew, Woody), as well as screen veterans Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lonette McKee (Sparkle, The Cotton Club) and Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire).
The actor-rapper prepared for his LUVrole by spending time in Baltimore prior to the film's production. That research allowed him to get a feel for the city and its people.
"That was part of the journey for me," he said. "It's a great city and it has some similarities to Chicago. The people are true-to-the-core, blue-collar people. They're people with heart and soul. I really respect that city."
Common, having appeared in several major-studio movies, found he likes the creative freedom that comes with making an independent project.
"You can try different things in that world," he explained. "LUVis my first experience with that. And, for me, Vincent is a role with depth. He's a human being I can show many sides of."
With a new album set for release this year, Common continues to work at music, but he's just as serious about acting.
"It's a great part of my life," he said. "I love putting my energy and spirit into the work that I do as an actor. And I want to build and grow, become a leading man in Hollywood."
Common's movie goals have been furthered by his acting studies and advice he's gotten from award-winning co-stars such as Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.
"They definitely give inspiration, advice, insight," he said. "I was very appreciative of that. Just the fact that these people reached out like that, that's an act of love right there. I felt blessed to be in their presence, to learn from the masters."


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Why Do Olympic Ski Jumpers Fly in a "V" Shape?
This post originally appeared in Business Insider.
In ski jumping, it's all about how far you fly. Skiers initially hold their bodies in a position that reduces air drag in order to gain as much speed as possible coming down the take-off ramp, or in-run. But once in the air, athletes change their posture and the position of their skis to maximize air lift, which increases the length of their jump.
Ski jumpers used to hold their skis parallel to each other, but learned that they could catch more of the air pushing up underneath them if they separated their skis, with the tails pointing toward each other. This V shape has been the standard style since the 1990s.
"Skiers are trying to play glider," Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told Inside Science back in 2010. "You push the air down, the air pushes back, pushes you upward."
Ski jumping techniques have changed dramatically over the last 200 years, but all Olympic medalists use the V Style today.
A Brief History
Tullins uses the Kongsberger technique at the 1924 Winter Olympic Games.
In the beginning, skiers used an "upright style." Skiers stood straight up during the jump and "would sail down the hill upright," Wayne Johnson writes in his book "White Heat: The Extreme Skiing Life." In 1860, Norwegian Sondre Norheim, widely-known as the father of ski jumping, set the world distance record at 99 feet using this method.
The Kongsberger technique, developed by Norwegians Jacob Thulin Thams and Sigmund Ruud, replaced the upright style after World War I. The skier's upper body is bent at the hips with an extreme forward lean, the arms are extended in front (as if the athlete is diving over his or her skis), and the skis are parallel to each other. The technique improved the jumping distance from around 150 feet to more than 300 feet.
The next big improvement came in the mid-1950s from Andreas Daescher of Switzerland. In the Daescher style the arms were placed backward next to the body. The skis were still parallel. This held on as the standard in ski jumping for at least three decades.
Changing the Game
The turning point came in 1985 when Swedish jumper Jan Bokloev introduced the "V Style." The skis are placed in a "V" shape, rather than parallel, and the head is placed down between the skis. The modification led to greater jumping distances. It also enabled the skier to land at a safer speed, reducing the chances of injury.
There are two phases during flight in ski jumping. In Phase I, the jumper quickly takes on a body position. In phase II, the jumper completes their final form, such as a V style:
According to Johnson, wind tunnel tests showed that the V Style improved air lift by 28 percent, meaning the jumper can remain in the air for a longer period of time. "Now skiers were routinely jumping well over distances of five hundred feet on 'ski-flying' hills such as Suicide in Michigan," he wrote.
Computer simulations by Japanese researchers show that during early flight phase, the lift is much higher when the skis are splayed in a V than when the skis are parallel (called classic style in the chart).
The lift area values for V style are higher than those for classic style:
However, during the later phase of flight, the V produces a larger drag, helping the athlete to slow down on the landing.
The V Style was not immediately embraced. It resulted in longer jumps, but fewer style points since it broke the standard of parallel skis. (Polish jumper Miroslaw Graf was first to experiment with the V Style in 1969, but it went unrecognized since it wandered from what was considered the ideal style of the time.)
According to the official Olympic website: "Initially ridiculed, this technique proved so successful that by 1992 all Olympic medalists were using this style."


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Metallica's Kirk Hammett: 'I Think That 'Lulu' is Some of the Best Stuff We've Done'
Metallica and Lou Reed's infamous 'Lulu' album will likely go down as one of the most universally panned releases ever. However, the rabid vitriol aimed at Metallica and Lou Reed in response to the album hasn't stopped Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett from being proud of the disc. In fact, Hammett calls 'Lulu' "some of the best stuff we've ever done" in a new interview.
Before you flip your lids, check out what Kirk Hammett had to say about 'Lulu' during a recent conversation with the Verge. After being asked if fan reaction plays a significant part in Metallica's creative direction, Hammett affirmed that it did not. "No, because we're doing it for ourselves, man. 'Lulu' is a really good example. I think that 'Lulu' is some of the best stuff we've done," says Hammett. "I mean, the song 'Junior Dad' moves me to tears, and working with Lou Reed was such a cool, unique, and special thing for us. Maybe it's not for everyone. Maybe it's a challenge for our fans, but for us — Lars [Ulrich, drums], James [Hetfield, guitar / vocals], Rob [Trujillo, bass], and myself — we loved doing it and it was such a great experience. We look back at it very positively."
Lars Ulrich spoke with USA Today in 2011, where he compared fan reaction to 'Lulu' to metalhead reactions to the Metallica classic 'Fade to Black.' "In 1984, when hard-core Metallica fans heard acoustic guitars on 'Fade to Black,' there was a nuclear meltdown in the heavy-metal community," Ulrich says. "There have been many more since then. This is something they've never heard. Nobody hears rhythms or delivers poetry the way Lou does. It's not for everyone, but I think it's a fantastic record."
The band's latest venture is the 'Metallica Through the Never' film, which is currently playing in IMAX theaters and will debut in standard 3D theaters on Oct. 4.


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Celebrity Planned Parenthood Boosters Ignore Reality
There's good news for the pro-life movement: more Americans than ever see abortion as morally wrong. But, highlighting their cultural disconnect from their audiences, celebrities are rallying around Planned Parenthood and the culture of abortion.
When, in a recent New York Times interview, Comedian Chelsea Handler expressed disgust with the MTV show "16 and Pregnant," pro-lifers (and fans of traditional morality) might have had reason to hope. "Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager?" she fumed, "Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody."
Unfortunately, that somebody is a fetus. She went on to speak proudly of her own experience. "I had an abortion when I was 16," she stated. "Because that's what I should have done. Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those are things that people shouldn't be dishonest about it."
This should come as no surprise to defenders of life, since for years now the media and those in the spotlight of American fame have contributed to the continued undermining of a culture of life, and have downplayed or simply ignored unpleasant stories that undermine the pro-abortion position.
In February, the pro-life group Live Action released a hidden-camera video of a New Jersey Planned Parenthood employee giving advice to a man posing as a pimp about obtaining abortions and birth control for the underage foreign prostitutes he traffics. The networks ignored the story for a week. During the subsequent House of Representatives effort to defund the organization, only ABC mentioned the Live Action video as a cause. In fact, the networks during that month preferred to cover the Charlie Sheen's meltdown 20 times more than the Planned Parenthood scandal, the Culture and Media Institute found.
While the news media prefer to ignore the debate over Planned Parenthood's federal funding, many celebrities haven't.
Actress Scarlett Johansson came out swinging in support of Planned Parenthood, taking time out of her acting career to put on a show for Planned Parenthood's supporters, and filming an ad that urged the public to contact Congress and tell them not to cut funding. In her ad she desperately pleaded, "Every year, Planned Parenthood provides essential care to millions of women, men, and teens. For many people - especially those with low incomes - Planned Parenthood is their only source of health care. Let your Members of Congress know where you stand. Go to IStandWithPlannedParenthood.org. Sign the petition."
Johansson ignored the 8,000 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's) that offer many of the same health services as Planned Parenthood, including others Planned Parenthood does not, at little or no cost. Johansson also mourned the lack of money for things like breast exams if funding was to be cut, but failed to mention that mammograms are not actually offered by Planned Parenthood.
Singer Katy Perry, in a recent article in Vanity Fair, talked about her strict religious upbringing and how it supposedly tainted her view of Planned Parenthood: "Growing up, seeing Planned Parenthood, it was considered like the abortion clinic … I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there ... I didn't know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn't have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control."
Perry claims her upbringing misled her about Planned Parenthood, but Planned Parenthood is doing some misleading of its own. According to its 2011 fact sheet, with figures from 2009, abortion only makes up three percent of its services. However, the same fact sheet noted that Planned Parenthood served three million people and performed 332,278 abortions. This means 11 percent of its patients received an abortion, not three percent.
Johansson and Perry are not the only stars rushing to Planned Parenthood's side. During the budget cutting debate, many others spoke out. Lisa Edelstein of "House M.D." cut an ad for the left-wing group MoveOn.org that featured lies and scare tactics to oppose Planned Parenthood's defunding. Singer Hayley Williams, Oscar-winner Gweneth Paltrow and actress Julianne Moore did their part parroting the group's talking points.
Still, there are some celebrities coming out on the side of life. Supermodel Kathy Ireland recently told FOX411's Pop Tarts, "I think Planned Parenthood needs to reassess and look at what their values are, what their mission is, what their goals are, and do they deserve government funding?"
But the most surprising recent exception to the pro-abortion celebrity echo chamber came from rock n' roll. Rock star and Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler revealed in Aerosmith's autobiography Walk This Way, just how gut-wrenching his own personal experience with abortion was.
In the mid-70s, Tyler had become the legal guardian of his teenaged girlfriend and eventually conceived a child with her. Friends persuaded Tyler abortiona was necessary and he persuaded his reluctant girlfriend to have an abortion in the fifth month of pregnancy, a decision that would come to haunt them both. He reflected in Walk This Way: "It was a big crisis. It's a major thing when you're growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives … You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I'm going, Jesus, what have I done?"
The abortion of his first child affected Tyler in ways noticeable even to others; his friend Ray Tabano remembers "it really messed Steven up because it was a boy. He was there, he saw the whole thing and it [messed] him up big time." Tyler faced guilt and trauma that he tried to escape through his use of drugs. Like so many men and women who have faced the reality of an abortion, the guilt followed him: "It affected me later when I tried to get my real wife pregnant. I was afraid. I thought we'd give birth to a six-headed cow because of what I'd done with other women. The real-life guilt was very traumatic for me. Still hurts."
Obviously Tyler was not the only one affected by this abortion. Julia Holcomb, the teenager who carried Tyler's first child for five months and then was persuaded to abort, has also recently come out to speak about the event. Though she and Tyler seem to disagree about some of the specifics of the events surrounding their relationship, the share a deep regret for the abortion. She wrote: "It was a horrible nightmare I will never forget. I was traumatized by the experience. My baby had one defender in life; me, and I caved in to pressure because of fear of rejection and the unknown future. I wish I could go back and be given that chance again, to say no to the abortion one last time. I wish with all my heart I could have watched that baby live his life and grow to be a man."
The story of Tyler and Holcomb demonstrates the reality of abortion, the pain, the guilt, the trauma, and the killing which accompanies the procedure which so many celebrities laud as necessary and freeing.


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(Reuters) - Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, opened a new front on Thursday in a long and stuttering campaign to get its processors into mobile phones, although it appears to still have a long way to go.
It joined PC maker Acer Inc in Bangkok to unveil the Liquid C1 smartphone, a $330 device running Google Inc's Android operating system, which will be launched first in Thailand and then rolled out across Southeast Asia, one of the fastest-growing markets for mobile phones.
"We've made a conscious effort to go after these fast-growing markets as our first foray into the business," Mike Bell, who heads Intel's mobile division said in a telephone interview.
The company's ninth such device in nine months, the Liquid C1 represents how far Intel has come in convincing bigger name manufacturers to take a chance with its mobile chips as the sales of personal computers and laptops plunge.
But analysts say it also shows how far it still has to go to get a foothold in a market dominated by the likes of Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia Corp.
"First and foremost they have to prove they can play in this space at all," said Scott Bicheno, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics. "There's no obvious technical fault with Intel's chips. It's just that the incumbents are very well established."
Intel has little choice but to get into mobile. It saw revenue fall 3 percent in the last quarter on weak sales of PCs, part of a steady decline in revenue growth since 2009.
It has also watched as devices like Apple Inc's iPad cannibalize sales of PCs.
So, in the past year, the company has launched phones with Intel chips in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Russia, India and China.
Some were effectively designed and built by Intel as what it calls "calling cards", convincing carriers like Orange to brand and offer the phones on their own networks in France and the United Kingdom. Last year, it persuaded Chinese hardware manufacturers like ZTE Corp and Lenovo Group Ltd to build their own phones with Intel chips.
Sales have not been stellar.
Intel declined to share data, as did ZTE and Lenovo. But Melissa Chau, senior research manager at technology research group IDC, said while Lenovo shipped more than 1 million units of its best-selling phone in China in the third quarter of last year, it shipped only about 20,000 of its first Intel phone, the K800.
"That's the scale we're talking here," she said.
The problem for Intel is a historical one. By its own admission it has been slow to move in a fast-changing landscape where even a decade ago it was clear that desktop PCs and even laptops were giving way to smaller, lighter, connected devices for which lower power consumption was at least as important as processor power.
In the past year or so, however, Intel seems to have shifted focus to mobile applications. It acquired Infineon Technologies' wireless chip business in 2011 and hired and promoted phone experts like Bell.
"These guys are phone specialists and they've really turned us around in terms of the way we approach the market, the way we approach design," said Uday Marty, managing director for Intel in Southeast Asia.
It seems to be working, at least in terms of quality. UK-based Bicheno says the Motorola RAZR iphone that he has been using, which has an Intel chip, performs as well as any other Android phone.
"They've learned a huge amount about the mobile world and how different it is, through their years of failures," said Caroline Gabriel, head of research at consultancy Rethink Wireless. "Intel did not understand the process of getting devices onto carrier networks in the past, but it does now."
Intel has several aces up its sleeve. For one thing, it has longstanding relationships with the likes of Acer, Lenovo and Asustek Computer Inc, all of whom are in a similar predicament: as PC makers, they all need to grow their mobile business.
But even then, they have been slow jumping aboard. Industry sources in Taiwan said that Intel had offered extensive lures to try its mobile chips. Intel executives acknowledged they had shouldered some costs but said it did not extend as far as buying a production line of the PC makers.
Intel, too, has used its experience in optimizing its computers chips for Microsoft Windows software to work closely with Google on making Android run well on its devices.
"We are not just investing in chips, we're investing heavily in the software to run around them," said Bell.
But questions remain. First, some analysts point to Intel's somewhat low-key entrance into the mobile sector, threatening to typecast the company as a low-end phone chip maker.
This would doom it to playing a high-volume, low-margin game against low-cost chip makers in Taiwan like Mediatek.
Intel counters that it is targeting the $200-$500 segment because that's where a lot of the growth is, and that it intends to eventually offer chips that, like its PC chips, range across all price points.
Intel executives also say they Will be offering a chip either later this year or early in 2014 that works on the 4G LTE networks already deployed in the United States and currently being rolled out in Europe.
The problem there, says Gabriel of Rethink Wireless, is that it will then be lagging the likes of Qualcomm and STElectronics.
Another concern is whether Intel can move beyond its usual partners. Persuading the likes of Acer and Lenovo to push out a smartphone is one thing, analysts say, but what about established phone makers like HTC Corp, let alone dominant players Samsung and Apple? Only then would Intel be able to get the volumes necessary for decent margins.
In the long run, analysts said, a company with the resources of Intel had a reasonable chance of building at least some business in mobile.
"Given Intel's vast resources, I am not one to easily discount their ability to get into any market that they target," said Francis Sideco, senior principal analyst at the IHS research firm.
And as Intel's Bell points out, the rapid fall of players like BlackBerry and Nokia, and the equally rapid rise of Samsung and Apple, suggest that just because Intel is a bit player now, it may not always be.
"I was at a different firm building phones a couple of years ago and the company that was going to dominate Earth was RIM," said Bell, who has worked at both Palm and Apple. He was referring to the Blackberry maker that has seen market share slip heavily in the past few years.
"We'll see two years from now who's the market leader."
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Sadly, The Death of Marriage.
December 11, 2012 by Staff
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(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently pulled out of a relationship panel discussion in which I was supposed to be the moderator.
I watched it morph from a panel of Black men speaking into something else when two women were added as co-moderators.
Some people believe that whenever men have something to say, it must be balanced out with a woman's perspective. Yet there are plenty of male bashing sessions in public and online where any man's perspective is sharply rejected.
Such communication failures are just one of the reasons why men and women have difficulty maintaining relationships.
Frankly, some women just aren't interested in anything men say. In fact, they aren't interested in any perspective that contradicts what they believe, which is that everything wrong with love is the man's fault.
This faulty thinking omits the hard and ugly fact that women changed over the last 40 years, not men. And the ways in which women changed have just not benefited them—or anyone else—when it comes to love.
For example, one of the things feminism gave us is the battle cry of the independent woman: "I don't need a man!" That battle cry is typically accompanied by whining about not being able to find a man.
Men have been under assault. In child support cases, men get taken to the mat to pay for a child that they may not have wanted and may not have actually fathered. But how many of us even know one woman who has been jailed for not paying child support? And how many women even want to hear men complain about paying child support, while the system allows many women to keep the child away from the father?
When the marriage ends, who gets taxed for spousal support? Even in cases involving women of means, men are still supposed to "man up," (whatever that means) and walk away with nothing. Take a good look at Eric Benet and Halle Berry.
Even with major wins for "Girl Power," many of today's women are angry. They bitch and moan about having to do it all themselves (whether it is true or not), and they bitch and moan about not being able to find a good man "on their level," who is willing to marry them.
But here's a dirty little secret: many men are just unwilling to roll the dice when it comes to marriage because of the potential fallout that could leave them financially raped and beaten and emotionally scarred.
And, at some point, women, especially Black women, have to stop passing around unfounded lies about Black men being in jail, down low, undereducated and/or in hot pursuit of white women and fried chicken.
Many men and women fail to get to the altar because women who feel put upon are extremely vocal about their displeasure with men.
In short, no one wants to hear it or live with it.
So, until Black women stop telling the media and the world that Black men are no good and the reason for all of their unhappiness, more Black men will choose the single life that they can control over a life tied to someone who speaks of disliking them, while demanding happiness from them.
If you are not that woman, you have a great chance. Men are looking for you.
If you are that woman, many men and women are waiting for you to grow old and die off like the dinosaurs.
Because you have caused the death of marriage.
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