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Josh is the owner of Appalachian Legacy Funeral Services, LLC and a licensed funeral director and embalmer. Josh is a native of Ashe County. He graduated from Ashe County High School, attended Wilkes Community College and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. Working with the community is very important to Josh as he is involved with various local civic organizations: Past President of The Rotary Club of Ashe County, Ashe Masonic Lodge #594, Oasis Shriners, and the Ashe Shrine Club. Josh also serves on the Board of Directors for the Ashe County Chamber of Commerce, Ashe County Children's Trust Endowment, and as a member of the Board of Trustees for Wilkes Community College. Being active in the funeral profession, Josh has served as District 10 Director of the NC Funeral Director's Association. He is a member of Union Baptist Church in Lansing, NC. He is the son of Tim and Roxann Rhodes Roten of Lansing, grandson of Lena Sexton Rhodes, the late Gilbert Rhodes and Ilene Lewis Roten and the late J.B. "John" Roten. Josh is married to Holly M. Roten, a Literary Specialist at Mountain View Elementary School and they have a daughter, Lila Katherine and son, Lawson. Josh views his occupation as a calling and pledges to serve each family with the utmost care and compassion.
Allen is an Alleghany County native who joined the staff of Appalachian Legacy Funeral Services, LLC. in August 2017. He is a graduate of Alleghany High School of the class of 2006. Allen then attended Fayetteville Technical Community College where he earned his Associate's in Applied Science in Funeral Service Education in May of 2009. Allen is a licensed embalmer and funeral director in the state of North Carolina. Allen announced his calling to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in April of 2015. He was ordained to the title of Elder on November 14, 2015. He is a member and Associate Pastor of Whitehead Union Baptist Church in Sparta, North Carolina. Allen is also a member and Past Master of Sparta Masonic Lodge #423. He is also a member of Piney Creek Masonic Lodge # 432 and the North Wilkesboro York Rite Masonic Bodies.
Autumn is a native of Ashe County. She is a graduate of Ashe County High School. Autumn has attended, Wilkes Community College, as well as East Tennessee State University. She is currently studying Funeral Science at Fayetteville Technical Community College, and is currently serving her State Board traineeship for Funeral Directing & Embalming. She hopes to be licensed by January 2018. Autumn resides in Fleetwood with her husband Jonathan.
Renita Roten is a native of Ashe County. She is a graduate of Northwest Ashe High School. She has been employed with us since 2000 as an administrative assistant. She resides in West Jefferson with her husband, Danny. She has two children, Brian and Ashleigh. She attends Obids Baptist Church in West Jefferson.
Melissa has been employed with us since 2004 as an administrative assistant. She is a native of Ashe County and a graduate of Northwest Ashe High School. She resides in Lansing with her husband, Scott and son, Justin. She attends North Beaver Baptist Church in West Jefferson.
Jim has lived in Ashe County most of his life. He is a graduate of Northwest Ashe High School. Jim has been employed with us since 1993 as a funeral assistant. Jim has been a minister since 1977 and serves as pastor of Sugar Tree Baptist Church in Warrensville. Jim and his wife Judy reside in Warrensville.
Walter has been with us since July 2007 as part of our cemetery maintenance team. He and his wife, Bonnie reside in Warrensville and have two children and two grandchildren. He is a member of Pine Grove Baptist Church where he serves as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, and the church clerk.
Lloyd is a native of Ashe County. He is a graduate of Ashe Central High School. Lloyd has been employed with us since 2001 as a funeral assistant. Lloyd has been a minister since 1971 and serves as pastor of Sturgills Baptist Church in Lansing. Lloyd and his wife, Letha reside in West Jefferson.
Kermit is a native of Ashe County and has been with us since 2003 as a part-time funeral assistant. He is a member and Past Commander of American Legion Post #275 in Lansing. Kermit and his wife, Glena reside in Lansing and he is a member of Sturgills Baptist Church.
Junior has been with us since 2011 as a part-time funeral assistant. As a veteran of Vietnam, Junior is a member of American Legion Post #275, Disabled American Veterans Post #80, and Veterans of Foreign War Post #794. Before retirement, he was Sheriff of Radford City, Virginia. Junior and his wife, Joyce Cox Taylor and son, Jody reside in Jefferson and are members of Smethport United Methodist Church.
Jeff is a native of Ashe County and graduated from Northwest Ashe High School. He has worked in funeral service since 2004 and has been employed with us since 2013 as a funeral and cemetery assistant. Currently he serves as the assistant chief of the Lansing Volunteer Fire Department and is a member of the West Jefferson Church of Christ. His care and compassion make him a valuable addition to our staff. Jeff and his wife Becky reside in Lansing.
Gionia is a member of the Badger Family, and has been connected with funeral service all of her life. She currently is a part-time office associate and a member of Mount Jefferson Presbyterian Church.
Randy had been with us since 2015 as a part-time funeral assistant. As a veteran of Vietnam, retired from the U.S. Army in 2001. After retirement from the Army, Randy, in 2005 started work with the West Jefferson Police Department retiring there in July 2015. He was a member of American Legion Post #275, Association of Retired Government Employees, and Association of Law Enforcement. Randy was a devoted husband, father and friend.
On August 15, 2017, God's finger touched him, and he traveled to that undiscovered country from whose born, no traveler returns.


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Just a note in memory of Leslie Nielsen; not a classic actor by any means but one who will be warmly remembered.
Although gaining fame late in his career for comedies such as Airplane and the Naked Gun series, to me he will always be Commander J.J. Adams of interplanetary cruiser C-57D in 'Forbidden Planet', a ground-breaking movie that almost literally blew my mind when I saw it as an eight-year-old. (What's more, the lucky devil got to cuddle the delectable Anne Francis)
" . . and if you don't so something about it soon it'll be coming right through that door!"
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Maliliya: In a dusty camp here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve out an escape route for tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop.
While the US and Iraqi militaries struggle to aid the starving members of Iraq`s Yazidi minority with supply drops from the air, the Syrian Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them. The move underlined how they, like Iraqi Kurds, are using the region`s conflicts to establish their own rule.
For the past few days, fighters have been rescuing Yazidis from the mountain, transporting them into Syrian territory to give them first aid, food and water, and returning some to Iraq via a pontoon bridge.
The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority who follow an ancient Mesopotamian faith, started to flee to the Sinjar mountain chain on August 2, when militants from the extremist Islamic State group took over their nearby villages. The militants see them as heretics worthy of death.
"The (Kurdish fighters) opened a path for us. If they had not, we would still be stranded on the mountain," said Ismail Rashu, 22, in the Newroz camp in the Syrian Kurdish town of Malikiya some 30 kilometers from the Iraqi border. Families had filled the battered, dusty tents here and new arrivals sat in the shade of rocks, sleeping on blue plastic sheets. Camp officials estimated that at least 2,000 families sought shelter there on Sunday evening.
Nearby, an exhausted woman rocked a baby to sleep. Another sobbed that she abandoned her elderly uncle in their village of Zouraba; he was too weak to walk, too heavy to carry.
Many said they hadn`t eaten for days on the mountain; their lips were cracked from dehydration and heat, their feet swollen and blackened from walking. Some elderly, disabled and young children were left behind. Others were still walking to where Syrian Kurds were rescuing them, they said.
"We are thankful, from our heads to the sky, to the last day on earth," said Naji Hassan, a Yazidi at the Tigris river border crossing, where thousands of rescued Yazidis were heading back into Iraq on Sunday.
The UN estimated around 50,000 Yazidis fled to the mountain. But by Sunday, Kurdish officials said at least 45,000 had crossed through the safe passage, leaving thousands more behind and suggesting the number of stranded was higher.
Syrian Kurds have carved out effective self-rule in the northeastern corner of Syria where they make up the majority. But while members of the ethnic group in both Iraq and Syria pursue their destiny, the two communities are divided by political splits.
Iraq`s Kurds, who have managed a self-rule territory for over two decades, are dominated by factions that have built up strong ties with neighboring Turkey. Syria`s Kurds, however, are closer to longtime Turkish Kurdish rebels and until the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad were firmly under his control.


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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
It's probably one of the greatest quotes ever, but it wasn't penned for deer management. It should have been.
As my home state of Wisconsin puts the close to its annual 9-day firearms season, I'm both saddened and discouraged over our future. This was the first year in more than a half century that we didn't have mandatory harvest registration. Up until now, hunters were required to take their deer to check stations — typically gas stations, sport shops and taverns — to have them checked and registered. It was a tradition, a social event, and kind of a pain in the butt during warm-weather seasons. However, above all, it was one of the most valuable management tools ever developed.
Dumping in-person deer registration came about through the state's ill-fated recommendations by the Governor-appointed deer trustee a few years ago. Back then, Gov. Scott Walker paid James Kroll, a private-land deer consultant from South Texas, upwards of $125,000 to recommend changes to Wisconsin deer season structure. The result was a lot of pomp and circumstance and little substantive changes to actually improving deer populations in the Badger state.
I'll say it here and now: Dumping in-person check stations will go down as one of the worst deer management decisions ever made. Well, that and the dumping of deer management units. DMUs were specific topographical zones based on deer population distribution. The invaluable histories of DMUs allowed state wildlife biologists to make precise harvest recommendations for, again, more than a half century.
Here are three more reasons why dumping in-person registration was a bad idea:
1. In-person deer registration provided virtually incontrovertible proof of harvest with antlered bucks. This provided a very strong index to track herd trends. Even in the face of that fact, hunters still questioned harvest reports. How much more will they question the veracity of Telecheck numbers? Dead deer don't lie. Telecheck registrants do.
2. Random samples of deer ages will be difficult to obtain. Spot checks at butcher plants in 2014 were not encouraging. Age data tells us how fast deer are being added to the herd, how fast bucks are dying, and herd sex ratios. Precise sex-ratio data is the basis for reconstructing population estimates, and Wisconsin was #1 in this exercise (head and shoulders above any other state) for decades. No more.
3. Obtaining tissue samples for monitoring disease presence and prevalence will be confounded.
These reasons don't even include the economic impact that mandatory in-person registration has had on Wisconsin businesses.
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, businesses felt a huge pinch during the 9-day firearms season, as hunters stayed away from gas stations, restaurants, taverns and other traditional check-point locations. There's no telling how much revenue was lost, but let's do some simple math to get an idea.
According to Statisca, a national economics firm, the average expenditure on snacks alone at convenience stores is about $4 per person per visit. That's just snacks. Doesn't include anything else. At 116,000 registrations (we can safely assume hunters travel in groups), this would be nearly a loss of $500,000 in snack sales alone. I'd like to see a scientific study, but I'll bet you a bonus tag that the overall economic impact was well over $1 million.
I hate to come off as the pessimist, but there's really no going back on these damaging deer management decisions. The current Administration's gutting of the Department of Natural Resources is complete (500+ jobs eliminated from the Department, including nearly all wildlife research scientists). From here on out, my beloved state of Wisconsin's deer management program — once the epitome of sound, science-based decisions — will now be managed in much the same way other states have done it for years.
With a flip of the coin.
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Imagine that you're nearsighted. You get new glasses and look out your window and, all of a sudden, the backyard is vividly in bloom with crocuses, daffodils and marigolds you couldn't see the day before.
For astronomers who gaze deeply into the Milky Way, it's like that. For millennia, as far as we knew, ours was the only solar system, the Sun the only star, among billions visible, that had planets. Now suddenly, within the last eight years, our galaxy is blooming with planets.
Since 1995, astronomers have found more than 100 extrasolar planets, and almost certainly that's just the beginning. The new pair of glasses is Doppler spectroscopy, a method that infers the presence of planets, which only faintly reflect light, from the wobble their gravitational tug induces in their host star.
The method has been so successful, especially as employed by the California team of Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, that as Marcy said three years ago, "Planet hunting has morphed from the marvelous to the mundane." With a data sample that's suddenly 10 times larger, it's not surprising that accepted ideas about planets, including how they come into being, are suddenly opened up for rethinking.
Recently, a research team led by University of Washington astrophysicist Thomas Quinn revisited this old question. How do planets form? Using a powerful new tool — LeMieux, PSC's terascale system — and advanced software called GASOLINE, developed by Quinn's group, they simulated the process by which "gas giant" planets, like Jupiter and Saturn, coalesce into solid mass from the swirl of gas that surrounds a young star.
Because of LeMieux, they were able to include 10 times more gas particles in their simulation than previous similar work. Their results with this increased resolution — reported in SCIENCE (Nov. 29, 2002) — mount a convincing challenge to accepted thinking. "We used a new model of planet formation," said Quinn, "that couldn't adequately be tested without this kind of computing power, and we found that these giant planets can form in hundreds of years, rather than the millions that the standard model predicts."
Planet Formation Isn't Special
For at least 20 years, the textbook view has been that it takes a long time to cook a planet. Little by little — says the old recipe — clumps of solid mass form within the gas, dust and ice that whirl like pizza dough around a young star. Gravity gathers bits of dust, which merge into boulder-sized chunks, which in turn coalesce into bigger rocks.
In about a million years — according to this recipe — these rocks become planets, and over the next few million years, gas from the disk settles around some of these young planets to grow Jupiter-size gas giants, which have most of their mass in a gaseous envelope surrounding the solid core. According to this view, called the "core-accretion model," it would take as much as ten million years for a gas giant planet to form.
The core-accretion model first came up for rethinking, says Quinn, in the early 90s, when the Hubble Space Telescope was able to see these gaseous protoplanetary disks (or proplyds). Astronomers realized that these disks can't last for a long time, roughly a million years, because the gas is rapidly cooked away by radiation from nearby stars.
Still, core accretion held up as a theory, because — so the thinking went — massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn are relatively rare. But the Marcy and Butler team carefully surveyed about 1,000 stars and showed that roughly one out of 10 has a planet, probably more, with most of them gas giants, from roughly the size of Jupiter to ten times larger.
"Now," says Quinn, "we see that planet formation is not particularly special, and this doesn't jibe with the standard model. If a gas giant planet can't form quickly, it probably won't form at all."
Fast Cooking with Gravitational Instability
Another way for gas giants to form was proposed in 1997 by astrophysicist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution. Using computational simulations, Boss found that gravity could act suddenly to form planet-size clumps out of instabilities in the swirling gas disk, and that the clumps formed this way were massive enough to build up a gas envelope. This model, called gravitational-instability, in theory would form a gas giant in much less time.
Until the work by Quinn's team with LeMieux, however, no one had been able to do the simulations with enough precision and length of time to make the case effectively. "The main criticism people had," said Quinn, "is that this model wasn't ready. Nobody was making predictions with it. But that's because they didn't have enough computational horsepower."
The major obstacles in such a calculation have to do with two factors. One is the inherent non-linearity of gravity. "As mass starts to collect, gravity gets stronger and stronger. The other factor is dynamic range. "We have to go from gas densities in the disk of less than a microgram per cubic centimeter," says Quinn, "to planetary densities of a gram per cc, a million-fold increase in density."
Quinn's team had spent about a decade developing software, called GASOLINE, designed to simulate cosmology. Within the last four years, they added the ability to accurately capture the evolution and structure of galactic gas. Quinn has long been interested in planet formation and realized that the gas dynamics capability of GASOLINE would also work, with relatively minor modification, to simulate planet formation.
"Developing parallel software," notes Quinn, "is a non-trivial task." In this case, the software was ready at a time when the gravitational-instability model presented itself as a challenge, and the confluence of software and a powerful system, LeMieux, with a problem that needed to be effectively addressed was propitious.
Running on 32 LeMieux processors, over about 30,000 hours of computing, the simulations traced the gas dynamics using a million particles to represent the protoplanetary gas disk, about 10 times more resolution than had previously been attempted. The result was a distribution of masses and orbits comparable to observed extrasolar planets, formed in only hundreds of years, not millions.
Authors of the article in SCIENCE, along with Quinn, are Lucio Mayer, a post-doctoral researcher with Quinn who's now at the University of Zurich, Joachim Stadel, University of Zurich, and James Wadsley of McMaster University.
"This work shows," says Quinn, "that gravitational instability can actually form self-gravitating protoplanets and that long-lived systems with masses and orbits consistent with those of extrasolar planets arise." In future work, Quinn and colleagues plan to carry out more high-resolution simulations and to explore different conditions of the gaseous disks and also to add a more sophisticated approach to modeling the heating and cooling of the gas.
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I first contacted him about doing an interview back in July with the promise of it being written and quickly published. Then suddenly I found myself engulfed with real life, and I kind of put the project on hold. I stayed away from the blog for several weeks, and Greg's interview became a casualty of that... It was never my intention to take the hiatus, it is just the way it worked out. Sometimes the way things "work out" means that things don't work out at all... This was one of those times.
A couple of exchanges through email I promised Greg that I would get on it... Have the article written up, and get it published. For reasons only nature can explain, my creativity glands had turned themselves off, and through what could only be called a lack of fortitude, I never quite set the gears in motion to accomplish that.
Until now...
My last email was just a few days ago, and I simply told Greg that I had fallen into a funk and was hopefully pulling myself out of it... Once again I told him that I'd get this written up and that I was extremely sorry for stretching this out for so long... And as he has been throughout this entire process, he was extremely gracious, told me that he has suffered from creative drought himself, and that he understood. He put me under no pressure... In a nutshell he told me to get to it when I could.
Well here we are.
You might be asking yourself Who in the world is Greg Tenac Waldrop? I have found that question to be one that is somewhat hard to give a direct answer to... Basically he is just a normal guy who lives in the Des Moines area and has a very strong love for music. He has incorporated a business (for lack of better word) called Dangerous Music inc.which takes his passion for music to a higher level... And with his business partner Jeff Anderson, they have taken it upon themselves to promote the local music scene through photos, videos, and any other medium that they can use to keep their "hobby" going. If you are in a local band, then you might be familiar with Dangerous Music inc. Perhaps they have produced and posted videos of your band on youtube, or on other social networks... Or anywhere else that they could promote your band and the local live music scene.
You might remember me mentioning DMi back when I did the Five Questions with Jacob County segment. It was they who produced the video that went along with his interview, and it is just a sample of what they are capable of doing to support the live music scene in central Iowa... Here is another sample:
Perhaps the most wonderful thing about DMi, is that they are not limited in their capacity, and they will do anything that they can within their power to keep this hobby alive. For the amount of time that they put into it, and for what they get financially out of it (which is next to nothing), it is quite remarkable what they have accomplished. As far as I know, nobody else is doing what they are doing, especially in the central Iowa music market... Because it is so hard to accurately describe what it is that Greg and Jeff do, lets go directly to the source...
|Greg Tenac Waldrop
5 Questions with Greg Tenac Waldrop:
1. What is Dangerous Music inc., and how did it get started?
Well, Dangerous Music Inc. is........for lack of better words, hard to describe. We set out with the original intent of reviewing shows and concerts that people couldn't attend. This intention for DMi changed when we found ourselves frequenting more local shows than national ones. The local bands here in Des Moines let us take tons of photos and videos of their performances and we slowly started to post them on myspace and youtube. People then started to look to us for live videos of their favorite Des Moines bands. So I guess you could say that DMi is an extreme love and support system for local music. It got it's start by a couple of guys sitting around wondering how we could give back to music what it has given to us our entire lives.
2. Do you still do anything for national bands?
We still attend the shows that we can, but we don't really review them anymore. Sometimes we'll catch some video of "big names", but we have to be careful about what we post due to their road managers and record companies not getting paid for what we do. Sometimes the bands themselves will ask us not to post live footage because they feel the audio isn't very good quality.
We aren't really affiliated with anyone. We certainly try to get to all of the shows we can to check out every band possible, but unfortunately real life doesn't work that way, at least for now! Some bands have contacted us to come check them out at shows, and some we just end up seeing by pure coincidence. Others have somewhat of a legacy surrounding themselves and you plan on going to those shows with the intent of shooting a great live video. We haven't charged anyone for what we do so far. I guess for the simple fact that we haven't marketed ourselves that way. We just put a Calous video on youtube that we would like to have all our live videos look like, I think once we make this the standard for our live videos then bands would have no problem paying for quality videos and performances of themselves. We usually can't say no to a band simply because we love music. We have, however, missed shows that we wanted to attend due to previously planned activities. This isn't a full time job for us so we have a lot of freedom with what we do.
Man this is a shame... Only 5 questions. I feel like this could go on forever. Maybe you know the routine here... We ask 5 questions for the segment, and then throw in a bonus question that kind of comes out of left field. I think with this interview because of what you guys do and the way you do things, and because DMi is such an original and worthwhile venture, I'd like to keep it more on task.
(Bonus question): I have heard you refer to "we" several times during this interview. How many people are in DMi (not including the bands) and how and what can people do do help you out? Please feel free to include any other information that you would like us to know.
"We" refers to myself and the other half which is Jeff Anderson who takes care of most of the roaming camera work that you see in our videos. Our wives help out quite a bit with video and writing opinions when needed, and we have another video editor as well. I guess you could say there are five of us, but Jeff and I keep it going. I think bands and individuals do a great job helping us just by allowing us to shoot our cameras everywhere at shows. I think as long as people are receptive to what we do, it fuels the fire enough to keep us going. A free beer at a show never hurt anyone either! Ha-hah! All kidding aside, just keep watching and commenting on the videos.
|Jeff Anderson
I would like to add a little something; This started as a hobby and has turned in to more of a serious venture for Jeff and I. I think we have a good opportunity to not only showcase our talents as biographers of a culture, but also that of a very talented cast of musicians.
If you want to support these guys in any way, or if you are in a band and would like DMi to contact you, leave a message in the comments section. As I said, what these guys do is extremely rare, and given the fact that they do it for a hobby and for practically nothing says so much about their passion.
I think it is completely safe to say that Dangerous Music inc. is just as important as the music itself.
Thank you Greg and Jeff...


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Senior Matthew DeJohn shot a round three score of 74 to finish in a tie for 49th place overall as the Central Connecticut men's golf team posted an 11th place finish at the VCU Shootout on Tuesday. Central shot a day three score of 313 in the tournament.
The tournament was played at the Hermitage Country Club in Manakin-Sabot, VA. Virginia Tech won the tournament, followed by Iowa State, Radford, Richmond and Old Dominion.
DeJohn finished with a three round score of 227, in a tie for 49th place, after his 74 on Tuesday. Junior Monte Mullen shot an 80 in the final round and finished at 230, good for a tie for 55th place.
Freshman Matt Hills shot an 81 in the final round, giving him a total of 233, good for a tie for 59th place. Freshman Nick Direda posted a 78 and and finished tied for 65th (236) while sophomore Connor Murphy shot an 82 and tied for 76th place.
Playing as an individual, sophomore Jack Ayers shot a final day score of 81, finishing with a score of 237, in a tie for 67th place.
The Blue Devils will be back in action next weekend at the Yale Madonald Cup played at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, CT.
July 23, 2014 DeJohn Named All-America Scholar
June 19, 2014 Josephson Advances to CSGA Finals
June 18, 2014 Three Blue Devils Advance to CSGA Match Play
June 18, 2014 Pair of Blue Devils Advance to Final 8 of CSGA Amateur
May 23, 2014 Mullen Shines at CSGA's Palmer Cup
May 16, 2014 Mullen and DeJohn Named All-NEC on Friday
May 3, 2014 Men's Golf in Seventh After Round One of NECs
April 27, 2014 CCSU Tops Bryant in Sunday Shootout
April 22, 2014 Men's Golf Wins Peacock Invitational
April 19, 2014 Men's Golf Fifth at Yale on Saturday
April 14, 2014 DeJohn First, Men's Golf Third at FDU Knights Invitational
April 13, 2014 Men's Golf Fifth After Round One at FDU
April 7, 2014 Men's Golf Finishes Second at Lafayette Invitational
April 6, 2014 Blue Devils 4th of 16 After Round One at Lafayette
April 1, 2014 Men's Golf Finishes Seventh at Towson
March 31, 2014 Men's Golf Tied for Ninth at Towson After Day One
March 24, 2014 Men's Golf Tops NC Wesleyan in Dual Match
February 17, 2014 Men's Golf Tabbed Second in NEC Coaches Poll
November 14, 2013 Men's Golf Pair Named All-New England
October 30, 2013 Mullen Named NEC Golfer of the Month
October 28, 2013 Men's Golf Wins NEIGA Championship; Mullen Wins Individual Title
October 27, 2013 Men's Golf First After Day One at NEIGA; Mullen Leads
October 14, 2013 Men's Golf Climbs to Fifth in Connecticut Cup Final Results
October 6, 2013 Blue Devils Finish Tied for Eighth at Macdonald Cup
October 5, 2013 Men's Golf Completes Second Round at Yale
September 24, 2013 Men's Golf Finishes 11th at VCU Shootout
September 23, 2013 Men's Golf 10th at VCU Shootout After Two Rounds
September 9, 2013 Blue Devils Finish Third at Annual Fall Invite
September 8, 2013 CCSU 6th at CCSU Blue Devil Invitational on Sunday
September 2, 2013 Men's Golf Eighth at Tiger Turning Stone Intercollegiate
September 1, 2013 Men's Golf 3rd of 14 After Two Rounds at Turning Stone
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Takeover documents the first nationally synchronized homeless action: On May 1, 1989, the homeless population of twelve cities moved into vacant, federally owned HUD homes. The film covers this action in the eight cities of New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Tucson, Detroit, Oakland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and offers an insight into what may be an emerging movement.
Homeless activists have organized their constituents to go on the offensive fueled by their seething anger at the Housing and Urban Development's alleged squandering of dollars during the Reagan administration. Promises of a homeless program that would turn over a percentage of HUD homes for use by the homeless have gone unfulfilled. Takeover portrays these indi-viduals whose lives have been devastated and now are being renewed by the hope of a solution.
Filmed in the cinema vent& of photojournalism, Takeover has all the urgency of an on-the-spot account. It is as aggressive as its subjects, with its footage intelligently fashioned into a non-stop flurry of activism. It is a timely documentary that explores a growing problem, but also offers a solution. More importantly, Takeover displays the lack of a unified response and a growing frustration, not only on the part of the people living in the streets, but also by police and city officials who must grapple with the homeless problem daily. Whereas in most cities the activists were arrested for moving into HUD homes, in Philadelphia city officials have inaugurated a hands-off policy as a sign of protest at the government 's insensitivity. Takeover puts us in the middle of a current and crucial problem.
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Australian captain, Michael Clarke attempted to put a lid on the unsavory incident concerning him and umpire, Aleem Dar by explaining that he had only asked the Elite Panel umpire to not touch him. The incident happened towards the fag end of play on the final day of the fifth Ashes Test when an visibly agitated Clarke was seen remonstrating with the on field umpires over fading lights at the Kennington Oval.
England, who were set a target of 227 runs from 44 were superbly placed at 206/5 and needed a further 21 runs from the final 4 overs when the umpires deemed the light as bad and called the game off. England thus clinched the series by an impressive 3-0 margin to regain the 'urn' for the third consecutive time.
Dar was seen pushing Clarke away from himself and fellow umpire, Kumar Dharmasena as they checked with the readings of the light meter. The umpires then decided that the light was pretty bad and brought what was turning out to be an absorbing contest to a abrupt end. On an eventful final day of Ashes action, 447 runs were scored and 17 wickets fell as the pendulum swung from one extreme to another.
Explaining his action, Clarke later said that he only asked umpire Dar to not physically touch him. "I can't remember what I said. I remember Aleem touching me and I asked him politely to not touch me because if I touched him I'd be suspended for three matches," Clarke said. "That's all I can remember, coincidentally. From my point of view I have no issue. I just know a player is not allowed to touch an umpire but for me personally I have no issue with it at all."
Clarke was seen furiously gesticulating at what he perceived as different yardsticks being applied with regard to the fading light. He was batting on the fourth day of the Old Trafford Test and was seen dismayed when the umpire's stopped play citing bad light. The light meter showed a reading of 5.7 at the Oval while it was showing 8.1 at Old Trafford when play was stopped due to bad light - the lower the rating, the light is considered to be dwindling.
The umpires usually take the latest light meter readings as a point of reference and play had been stopped at 7:26 PM on the second day of the fifth Ashes Test at the Oval. They were left with no other option but to call off play today at 7:38 PM after the readings went lower to that of the standard set on the second day of the Test. "Once they took the reading, I knew it was going to be darker than what it was in Manchester," Clarke said. "No comparison. I'm not going to get into the numbers. I think I did up there (on the presentation stage). I will probably get in trouble for it so I won't go into the number. For us, we just have to go by the umpires' call. If they think it is safe to keep playing then we keep playing."
Clarke was seen voicing his frustration over the fading light for a long period of time before the eventual abandonment and his mood was not getting one better even as England sped towards the winning post. Speedster Peter Siddle, fielding in the deep was often seen complaining that he could not sight the ball clearly either.
"I just asked the question 'why we haven't got the meter out here' and it took a few overs to get it out," Clarke said. "When you can see your own shadows, just going on what's happened in the past throughout this series, you know it's getting to around that time when umpires have consistently taken us off the field."
Having successfully denied England a 4-0 Ashes triumph, Clarke was roundly booed by a packed Oval crowd during the presentation ceremony. "It doesn't surprise me." Look, that's the way I'd like to see cricket played and I'd certainly like to lead the Australian team playing in that type of manner. We had nothing to lose, obviously 3-0 down", he said.
On the other hand, Ashes winning England skipper, Alastair Cook emphasized with the crowd's behavior but had no complaints with respect to the umpire's decision to call off play. "Of course you understand the frustration, but you can also understand the other side," Cook said. "You understand the rules and regulations, unfortunately the officials sometimes have to take the emotion out of the game and do their job and be consistently fair to both sides."
"It's disappointing to be sitting here when we felt we could have taken those runs off the last four overs but I understand the umps' decision and why it happened. If it was the third day no one would be moaning about it. If the boot was on the other foot we'd probably be asking the same questions. It was a shame for the amazing crowd we've had here. But we weren't allowed to play to the finish. There are certain guidelines and that's the way cricket has gone," he said.
Clarke brought life back into the Test, long considered dead after yesterday's torrential downpour that abandoned the entire fourth day's play by making a sportive declaration that left England chasing a target of just a little over 5 RPO. Kevin Pietersen then proved as to why he is one of the sport's most dangerous batsmen as he rattled along to the fastest ever Ashes fifty before bad light brought the series to an anti-climatic end. "To me, even if you weren't 3-0 down you got to do everything you can to try and win the Test match. There's obviously the risk of losing and that was there today as well but I think it was what we had to try and do," Clarke said.
"The result is there, England have won 3-0. I think today we didn't have anything to lose so it was about trying to set a game. England certainly deserve credit for the way they came out in the second innings and tried to win the game," he added.
Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), while congratulating the hosts for their fine performance in retaining the Ashes has lashed out at the way the match ended terming it 'totally unsatisfactory.' Clarke said: "It's totally unsatisfactory the way the game ended - the rules are clearly unacceptable and I expect [ICC chief executive] David Richardson to change it at the next ICC chief executives' meeting.
"It's a great moment though, the country should appreciate these players. I'm so proud of our team and had the privilege of giving some of them Ashes medals for the second time."
England will now look to retain the Ashes as it moves down under for the next set of five games later this year. The first of those Ashes Tests will be played at the Gabba, Brisbane, starting on November 21st.
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Australian captain, Michael Clarke attempted to put a lid on the unsavory incident concerning him and umpire, Aleem Dar by explaining that he had only asked the Elite Panel umpire to not touch him. The incident happened towards the fag end of play on the final day of the fifth Ashes Test when an visibly agitated Clarke was seen remonstrating with the on field umpires over fading lights at the Kennington Oval.


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New! Continuum 11 Now Available for Adobe, Apple, Avid, and OFX hosts (including Resolve, Vegas, and Nuke)!
Continuum is the VFX toolset that helped Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America win the Academy Award. A plug-in collection for Adobe, Apple, Avid and OFX host applications, Continuum features range from Image Restoration, to Extruded Text, titling and 3D Objects, to Chromakey and Compositing, Particles, and Image Stabilization. Continuum serves NLE editors and Compositors alike with the newly integrated Masking and Planar Tracking Pixel Chooser powered by Academy Award-winning Mocha technology.
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The Academy Award-winning Mocha planar tracking and masking application is integrated inside almost every single filter in Continuum! This empowers editors to do more advanced finishing work right within the filter without having to leave editing project timelines.
Mocha can be used to generate user-defined closed spline shapes, which can be tracked individually or as a group using the Mocha planar tracker. These static or animated mask shapes can then be used to isolate the result of any filter to a specific region in the source shot (e.g., isolating a blur to someones face). The Mocha tracker can also be used to drive other filter parameters, such as screen / billboard replacement, face tracking, etc.
Fun Fact : Mask and tracking data from any Mocha session can be exported and used in any other Mocha session. This includes sharing tracking mask and tracking data from Mocha Pro and the integrated Mocha in Continuum, or even, Sapphire.
Find out why Continuum customers who get a taste of Mocha lite in Continuum often upgrade to the full version Mocha Pro.
Fix footage fast. Image Restoration is the powerful, must-have tool set that saves less-than-ideal footage. Be a problem-solving hero. Features include:
Fun fact: The Academy Award-winning doc O.J.: Made in America, which weaved together footage from tons of different sources, relied heavily on Continuum's Image Restoration tools to keep the audience focused on the captivating story.
Cut. Add a slick transition. Repeat. Set the pace and tone of your edit sequence without keyframes!
Transitions in Continuum are a major time-saver for anyone facing constant deadlines. Continuum 11 includes almost 40 drag & drop auto-animating transitions with over 500 professionally designed factory installed presets. Every transition filter in Continuum also includes sophisticated yet easy to use HUD style on-screen controls, which can be used to make quick adjustments to the timing of the animation and the look of the transition effect.
Popular transitions and dissolves include Swish Pan, Flutter Cut, Fast Film Glow, Light Leaks, Lens Blur and Damaged TV.
Why use Continuum to create broadcast-ready titles, lower thirds, and motion graphics? Because you can create them at any resolution and in any dimension with ease! 3D Objects features include:
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With the touch of a button, the FX Browser™ can be launched from within each individual Continuum filter providing instant access to that filters library of animated and static presets. All effect presets play back over the filtered source video in your timeline from within the FX Browser interface, which includes a handy trim feature enabling you to preview only a select portion of the filtered source clip.
Additionally, the FX Browser is available as a standalone filter. This makes it simple to browse the entire Continuum effects presets library over the filtered source - a great way for the novice user to quickly familiarize themselves with the huge array of looks and effects that can be achieved with Continuum filters.
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In 2011 the Program and the Standards for Physiotherapy Practices(8th Edition: 2011 Update) were jointly reviewed by the APA and QIP following industry feedback. The review streamlined the standards and simplified the accreditation process, reducing the time required for physiotherapy practices to self-assess against the standards.
The revised edition has five standards and takes into account external environment developments relating to accreditation, such as the release of the National Safety and Quality Health Service standards. The APA standards aim to help private sector physiotherapy practices to deliver safe, high-quality healthcare and embrace continuous quality improvement as good business practice.
View the APA Standards for Physiotherapy Practices.
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Halliburton Will Settle KBR Suit for $559 Million
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Halliburton, the huge oil services company in Houston, said yesterday that it has agreed to pay $559 million to settle corruption charges with the U.S. government linked to its former subsidiary KBR.
Halliburton said it will pay $382 million on behalf of KBR over the next two years to the Department of Justice and will pay another $177 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company said it has negotiated its deal with the Justice Department but is awaiting official approval from the government. Halliburton's payment to the SEC has been approved contingent on its settlement with the Justice Department.
In 2007, KBR received about $4.7 billion in government contracts, according to FedSpending.org, a group that tracks government spending. Much of that work related to contracts it got for helping to repair the oil fields and provide logistical support work to the military in Iraq.
Halliburton has since spun off KBR, which was one of the largest contractors doing business in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A Justice Department spokesman said he could not comment on Halliburton's charges.
The agency has prosecuted several individuals who worked for the company in Iraq and Afghanistan on charges of fraud, conspiracy and bribery as well as allegations that KBR overbilled the U.S. military on work it did in Iraq.
KBR has also come under scrutiny by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
For the fourth quarter, Halliburton said its net income fell 32 percent to $468 million, or 53 cents per share. That compared with $690 million (75 cents) during the same time period a year ago. Revenue was up nearly 18 percent to $4.9 billion from $4.1 billion in 2007.
Halliburton's net income for the year was $1.5 billion on sales of $18.3 billion. That compared with net income of $3.5 billion on sales of $15.3 billion in 2007.
The company's shares yesterday closed up 62 cents, or 3.4 percent, to $18.87.


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Shortly after the Smithsonian Castle was completed in 1855, thousands of specimens–mostly from government expeditions–crowded the building. The Smithsonian's second building–now known as the Arts and Industries Building–opened in 1881. Officials quickly determined that the rapidly growing collections, now nearing a million specimens, needed even more space.
Two decades later, President Theodore Roosevelt authorized the construction of a third Smithsonian building. Opening to the public on March 17, 1910, the new U.S. National Museum, which later became the National Museum of Natural History, contained exhibitions on art, culture, history, and the natural world–as well as space for collections research and storage.


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Guest Post
By Ryan
Painting a room can be a fun and effective way to breathe new life into your home. This year, bright colors contrasted with softer, muted tones are very chic. In addition to being a great way to add some flair to the room, painting can be a great way to expand the size of a room. If you're dealing with cramped quarters, you might be asking yourself if there is any way to possibly deal with the small space other than taking out a wall. Here are a few tips for using paint to expand your room.
The Two-Inch Rule
If you're dealing with a low-slung ceiling, you know the frustration of cramped space. It can feel suffocating and claustrophobic in a cramped room. Fortunately, there is something called the Two-Inch Rule. Before you start painting, go around and put painter's tape two inches above where the wall meets the ceiling. Paint the walls of your room a color that is bright and will make things pop. When you're painting the upper part of the walls, go an extra two inches up so that you're painting for the first two inches of the ceiling. This creates the illusion of more space and is a pretty nifty trick when dealing with a low-slung ceiling.
Cold Colors
Here's a good rule to remember: the colder the color, the bigger it will make your room look. Pick an icy blue or a mint green and, because these colors seem so distant, they will instantly add extra square footage to your room. Using a texturizing technique like sponging can also help give the eye something else to look at. Just remember: cold=big.
Another good painting technique for opening up a room in your house is to stripe. Always make the stripes vertical, as this will give the eye a distinct line to follow. Painting horizontal stripes will have the opposite effect of closing a room in. You can compliment your vertical stripes with furniture that has strong vertical angles. Bookshelves that are tall and thin can go a long way toward making your room seem much, much larger.
These are just a few tips to help you expand your room without calling a contractor. If paint isn't your thing, try the vertical furniture idea. The key is to draw the eye upward and try to minimize lateral movement of the eye.
Ryan is a guest blogger who writes about interior design, Austin real estate and Costa Bella homes for sale.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Painting Your House: More Daunting Than it Needs to Be
Guest Post By: Zeke Nicholson
There are a number of reasons why you might want to paint your house. Maybe you are no longer satisfied with how the house looks, or maybe you're thinking about selling your home and want to make it more attractive to potential buyers. Whatever the reason may be, tons of homeowners are hesitant to begin the project, given the sizeable nature of the undertaking. Whether you're doing the labor yourself or hiring someone to do the work, time is money. The longer it takes to complete the project, the more cash comes out of your pocket, so it's best to have a solid plan to tackle the paint job effectively and efficiently.
Doing the manual labor yourself is definitely the most cost-effective practice, so if you can afford the time, it's probably the way to go. Once you've done the initial steps required for an exterior paint job—scraping, sanding, etc.—it's on to prepping for the actual painting. This means buying paint trays, brushes, rollers, and drop cloths, and strapping in for hours upon hours of painting. Here we are again: the prospect of actually completing this job is so overwhelming that it makes you wonder if it's even worth it. Why not try a different approach? More and more homeowners are discovering that a quick and easy way to go about painting your home is to use a paint sprayer machine.
Paint sprayers have the major advantage of doing away with the messy drips and runs typically caused by rollers and brushes, and they can complete the same job in a fraction of the time. Let' consider the Paint Zoom paint sprayer, for example. Paint Zoom has an industrial strength 650-watt motor and three distinct spray options (horizontal, vertical, and pin point) so you can get a great coat on any surface with no mess and no hassle. You can also finely and precisely attack the areas that would otherwise be hard to reach or evenly paint. It's also lightweight and specifically formulated to utilize just the right amount of paint, so you aren't overspending on paint.
Painting your house doesn't have to be the impossible task it's widely thought to be. With a paint sprayer, you can complete areas that would take hours with a roller/brush in a matter of minutes. It's cost effective and easy to use, and at the end of the day you'll be standing in front of a house that you are proud to claim as your own.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
How To Repair A Hole In The Wall
This article will show you just how to repair a hole in the wall in just three easy steps. Fixing a hole in the wall is a very easy repair to make that anyone can do. Once repaired there should be no evidence of damage to the wall. This article shall be split into 2 parts with the first part dealing with smaller holes and the second part dealing with larger holes. Each will have two different approaches in the way the repair needs to be made. Let's begin with smaller type holes.
Part 1 Smaller Holes
These holes will vary in size from a quarter size hole to 3 inches in height and width. Metal patches will be used to fix these holes.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 1 Clean Edges
This step is very simple for all that is needed is to make sure that all loose drywall is removed and pull back any loose paper and tape. The reason for this is to make sure there are no air pockets that may cause problems down the road.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 2 Apply Patch
Hereis where the size of the hole must be taken into account since there are various sized patches. The type of patch that should be used is a metal patch for stability. Usually they can be purchased with three different sizes in one package. If a particular size needs to be purchased separately then knowing the exact size of the hole is necessary. The patch should be slightly larger than the hole. To apply the patch over the hole place some spackle around the hole. Just a very thin smooth layer is needed and it should reach beyond what the entire patch size is, Once the thin layer is on the wall just peel the paper off of the back of the patch and place it over the hole. With a spackle knife press down and move across the patch for a nice smooth tight fit against the wall. Then just spread a thin smooth layer of spackle over the patch.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 3 Finishing Coat
For a final finish just spread some spackle over top of the patch once everything has dried and hardened over night from step 2. This coat should be a thin coat making sure to cover over any part of the patch from showing. If done right just a light sanding with some fine sand paper is needed once it has dried. Then of course it will need to be painted. Painting may require that the entire wall be painted to make sure the paint matches up well.
Part 2 Larger Holes
These holes will vary in size from a 4 inches to any size. Rather than a patch drywall ( sheetrock ) will be used to fix these holes.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 1 Cut Hole
In the case of larger holes the hole will need to be cut larger so that a piece of drywall can be installed. The reason for this is the drywall needs to be nailed or screwed into the studs. For that reason when cutting the hole larger a straight edge and exact measurements will be needed. Using a key hole saw or razor cut across from the hole to the nearby studs on both sides. Then using a straight edge draw a line down the middle of the studs on both sides to size you need that is lager than the hole. Once you have drawn straight level edges and are in the middle of the studs on both sides then cut the hole with a keyhole saw and a razor for slicing down the middle of the studs.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 2 Install Drywall
Now that you have a nice square or rectangular hole, in which the studs are available to screw or nail a piece of drywall into, the hole must be measured. With that measurement cut a piece of drywall that is the same thickness as the drywall on the wall. Place the drywall into the hole and nail or screw it to the studs on each side.
Repair A Hole In The Wall - Step 3 Tape and Spackle
Now all that is needed is some tape and spackle to seal the joints for a smooth look. Place a thin layer of spackle over all of the joints making sure it is smooth and thin with no air pockets or drywall showing. The spackle also needs to go beyond all the edges of the paper tape that need to go over top. Deal with one joint at a time. Once the tape has been placed on use the spackle knife real tight to the wall and scrape up all spackle for a smooth tight finish. Once all the joints have been completed place a thin layer of spackle over top of the tape. Very thin but smooth layer so there will be minimal sanding. Once this has dried over night a final skim coat over top will fill in the edges and any air pockets, or tape that may be showing. If done right very little sanding will be needed. Using a very fine grit sand paper make sure everything is smooth as can be. Once done and everything has dried painting can now take place.
This is how to repair all holes in walls so that any damage that once was is no more. Good luck!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Guest Post House Painting
Hello all my painting friends. What I am looking for are some great articles on your painting expertise.Exposure will be on the homepage. There was a Page Rank of 2 but I believe the home page is now a PR1 as well as some inside pages.
Whatever your stories are it must pertain to any type of painting project, interior or exterior. The article must be 400 to 700 words in length and must be proof read.
Compensation will be considered once a guest writer has had 3 posts published. of course all posts that are published can have three links within the body of the post, These links must be relative and not just promotional links for your website. Promotional links will be reserved to the Author signature box which can be written at the end of the article as a last Paragraph. Should you get 3 posts published you will then get 20 dollars. Payment will be sent via paypal.
Email all guest posts to email@example.com All posts will be considered. If your post is chosen you will receive an email conformation stating that your post has been chosen and when the publish date will be. Once published you will recieve any payment due within 7 days. Thank you.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Paint Cost Calculator
Painting Cost CalculatorThis calculator can help in figuring out the cost for painting the interior of you home or the exterior of your home. This is a simplified calculator and only to get an estimated cost based on square footage. Material costs are not included within the total cost. You must get the square footage and then figure how many gallons and the brand of paint you want to use to get a material cost which then you can add to the labor cost that this paint calculator gives.
If there are areas of the house that have corners that step in or step out just add the total length and total width then input those numbers.
The number used for the square footage cost are listed below.
Interior Painting Calculator: Square Footage Price Input - .85 to $2.00
( .85 would be on the low end and $2.00 would be on the high end - There are many factors that are considered when figuring out what the actual square footage price will be such as location,amount of prep work and amount of fine detail. You should use both numbers to get an range of what the labor cost will be, the labor cost should fall somewhere in between.)
Exterior Painting Calculator: Square Footage Price Input - $1.25 - $2.50
( $1.25 would be on the low end and $2.50 would be on the high end - Again there are many factors that There are many factors that are considered when figuring out what the actual square footage price will be such as location and amount of prep work and amount of fine detail. You should use both numbers to get an range of what the labor cost will be, the labor cost should fall somewhere in between.)
once you hit the calculation button a small alert window shall appear which will give you your total square footage and painting labor cost. Just remember that the cost of material is not included nor will things such as removing wall paper or any power washing that is usually preformed before painting the exterior of homes. I hope painting calculator helps out!


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There is a quiet, yet powerful revolution happening right now in the small business world. Right before your eyes, black women are making more strides and gains than ever before.
According to a recent survey, minority women-owned businesses compose one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy. In 1996, 13% of the nearly 8 million women-owned businesses in the nation were owned by minority women (Asian, black, Hispanic, Native American/Alaska Native). The number of firms increased 153% between 1987 and 1996, twice the rate of all women-owned firms and three times faster than all U.S. companies. They employed nearly 1.7 million people and generated some $184.2 billion in sales annually.
In the survey, Women Business Owners of Color: Challenges and Accomplishments, conducted by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO) in Silver Spring, Maryland, a total of 679 women business owners were interviewed, 111 of them African American. The minority women gave many reasons for starting their own businesses. The need to be their own boss was the main one, with 59% of the black women citing the need for more flexibility in their lives. Not surprisingly, 53% of black and 36% of white women also said the "glass ceiling" prevented them from advancing in their careers, hence, their decision to move into entrepreneurial ventures.
One startling finding was that black women-owned firms lagged in employment and sales growth behind businesses owned by Hispanic and Asian women. "A significant reason for this may be because black women business owners are far more likely to have started their businesses on a part-time basis while holding down another job, and far more likely to have started their business alone rather than with others," says NFWBO Chair Lois E. Haber.
Studies have long shown that black women have the least access to mentors. Yet, a highlight of this survey is that 52% of black women had mentors when starting their firm. They were also more likely than any other group to have sought out training and advice. The study also noted that their support networks were made up of a variety of business advisors and associations, including churches or other religious organizations.
Problems that cut across all color lines included the long hours associated with business ownership, the responsibility and total commitment, financial burdens, keeping up with technology, access to capital and problems with employees. Yet, despite these difficulties, 90% of black, white and Native American/Alaska Native women said they would choose business ownership if they had the chance to do it over again.
The stories of the following three entrepreneurs exemplify the growth and success of businesses owned by women of color. The fortitude, foresight and fervor of these women have helped them make a mark for themselves while paving the way to new and evolving business frontiers.
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To many new or about-to-be brides, Vera Wang is the standard-bearer in simple and elegant wedding dresses. But before there was Wang, there was Amsale.
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80s Picturehouse Episode 74: The Flame Still Burns.
Apologies for any sound issues, first time using new mic [Dave]
Thom does another musical intro!
Hear all about Dave's trip to London to see Sly
Thom can't believe what happens in the news quiz.
Thief (1981) is the movie pick...and we talk sensibly about it!
Cheap Trick: Next Position Please is the album pick.
We read out another spam email...and go a bit further this time.


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Aside from the cat videos, the Internet has become a haven for information sharing and interactive connectedness amongst humans. Many people use the internet every single day, a common habit shared by those who have internet access. Whether the use of the internet is for business or pleasure, it has become an extension of human life that will not soon suppress.
Compared to the many 1st world internet users, over 5 billion people do not have access to the internet. Whether this be due to lack of electricity, lack of money, or a restricting government, the number of non internet users greatly out weighs those connected. Seeing as how the Web is still fairly young, questions on the legality of internet access are very important to it's development and sharing. Some believe that the internet is so important to the growth of humanity that it should be viewed as a Human Right. A human right is defined as a moral principle that is upheld through human behavior. It is shaped over time by cultures and eventually becomes part of typical human behavior. Today the government protects these norms legally through the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If the internet was to classified in this category, it would mean that any person, protected by law, will be inherently entitled to use the it simply because he or she is a living human being.
The Internet provides a whole new landscape for expression. Ideas, pictures, news, and basically anything can be shared instantly at the same time. With this being said, we must look at what services the internet provides. Many of the services coincide with Human Rights that already exist, meaning if the internet is restricted, many human rights also restricted. The internet itself is merely a new platform for communication. The right to education is a very important right that can be upheld through the internet. Information on virtually anything can be found after a few minutes of web browsing. It also serves as a platform for expression. To limit the use of social media would be to limit ones Freedom of Speech. Lastly, if the internet were made a human right and made accessible to everyone, we could finally reach the goal of connecting every living person. This trait could prove to be very beneficial to the development of our Earth.
In Plato's The Republic, he touches upon the argument that at times, sharing ideas can be very dangerous to the human mind. He says that we should only share an idea if it is morally correct and wholly true. This idea suggests one of the disadvantages to the Internet as a Human Right trial. The internet is used as in any way the user wishes to use it. Much like a virtual body, internet access lets human become a presences. It is here that people decide to use the technology for either good or evil. Many cases of cyber bullying, anonymous threats, and other harmful acts are prime examples of internet access abuse. Here, we can see many people being stripped of their human right because of the lawlessness provided in different parts of the internet. The three rights I feel are under the most attack are that of equality, discrimination, and inhumane treatment. Often a username is used to protect the identity of a person using the internet, however this has been seen to have very negative effects on the use of racial slurs and verbal abuse.
In my opinion, the right to knowledge is the most important human right. With out it, humans could be corrupted into a narrow-minded way of thinking that is very dangerous to humanity. The ability to learn about any topic of interest is the sole reason for almost all innovations to this day. I believe that due to the vast amount of miscellaneous information available on the World Wide Web, it should be seen as a right to the world. The ability to instantly inform oneself about any aspect of life is one of the greatest opportunities known to man. To strip a person of education is to strip a person of thoughts, which could be catastrophic to human development.


text: Nowadays a round spot in a painting can be more significant than a human figure. A vertical line combined with a horizontal produce a sound that is almost dramatic. The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo. And if fingers are not just anatomical or physiological but something more, so also a triangle or a circle is something more than geometry.


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Many people are hailing the recent report from a group of scientists at the University of Washington. They discovered a way to accurately determine the genome of an unborn baby without any invasive testing.
When a woman is pregnant, 10% of her blood contains the DNA of the baby. Knowing this, the scientists took blood samples from pregnant moms around eighteen weeks into the pregnancy and ran a complete genome test on it. They also took saliva samples from the father and ran a genome test on him. Combining the two tests, they mapped out the genome of the unborn baby.
To test the accuracy of their results, they obtained cord blood from the birth and ran a genome test on it. They claimed that their tests showed a relatively high degree of accuracy in using this test to identify the genome of the unborn baby without harming it in any way.
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According to the researchers, the tests could accurately identify more than 3,000 genetic disorders.
On the positive side there are some of these genetic disorders that could actually be treated before the baby is born and others that could start the treatment immediately after birth. By knowing about the disorder before the birth, it would also help prepare the parents for what to expect once the baby is born.
However, there is a very negative side to the test and that is it will lead some parents to abort their baby based upon the information gathered from the genetic test. This adds a moral dilemma to the tests that could in fact lead to the deaths of thousands of unborn children.
To add to this moral dilemma is the fact that the researchers used their test to look for rare genetic disorders such as Turner's and Down's syndromes. Their test identified 39 of 44 de novo mutations, however, they also identified several million others that did not actually exist. This huge error factor could lead some parents to abort healthy babies based on flawed information.
It's bad enough to murder unborn children, but to do so based on wrong information just compounds the moral dilemma. I would highly advise anyone considering have any type of genetic tests run on their unborn children to ask themselves why they are doing it and if they are willing to live with the consequences of their decisions. I also want to remind them of what David wrote in Psalm 139:14:
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.


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But Stefanie Zweig, the author of the best-selling autobiographical novel on which it was based, says the film should not be taken as a true representation of her life.
But while Zweig's story is told through the loving eyes of the little girl Regina, the movie focuses more on her parents and the problems in their marriage.
Zweig, who has also been a film critic for much of her adult life, fully recognises that film adaptations are often very different from the original text.
And film-goers should know that life for her family in 1938 Kenya was not quite the one portrayed on screen, she adds.
"The couple in the film talk so very much about their marriage, whether they are going to stay together, what Kenya is like for them, and that was not real," says the 71-year-old author.
"When you have just escaped Nazi Germany in fear of your life, you did not come to another country and talk about your marriage, you tried to go on.
"I wanted to talk about the Holocaust and my parents and how when Hitler came, my father lost his profession, his language and his homeland."
Glamorised version
In the film, Regina's mother Jettel is portrayed as a cold, vain woman who refuses to accept that she cannot return to her luxurious life.
Her torment and the harshness of the rural African farm life begins to pulls her marriage to Regina's father apart.
Zweig says she was always aware that her parents were unhappy but that her mother would never have dared to act like Jettel.
"My mother was a very spoilt woman but she was also very charming and warm-hearted. The actress does not convey that.
"She is a rather cold and tough woman and, at the time, you did not know what tough women were.
"My father would have murdered her on the spot if she had been like that."
Equally, the author did not recognise the well-dressed actress playing herself as a small child. "We were very poor," says Zweig.
However, the older actress with her "sad look", playing Regina aged about 12, did remind her of herself.
Parental respect
If Zweig was melancholic in Kenya, it was because she was touched by her parents' loneliness and fears for the family they had left behind.
Zweig on the other hand "thrived" in Africa, loving everything about it.
"I was so little I didn't really know what [the move] meant. From the moment we got on the ship, I forgot everything about my old life, which is rather curious as I never forgot anything."
Out of respect for her parents, Zweig wrote Nowhere in Africa and its sequel Somewhere in Germany, many years after their deaths.
She had already written a successful children's book called a Mouthful of Earth, in which she tells much about her life in Kenya.
It was nominated for prizes in the UK and Germany and won the National Geographic Society's best juvenile book title in The Netherlands.
It was while collecting the Dutch prize that Zweig decided to write the grown-up version of her story.
"I thought to myself, 'You really are a fool to waste all your life in a children's book, why don't you tell the true story?'," Zweig says.
The continued influence of her father also played a big part.
"I wrote the book in respect for my father, who told me very early in life not to hate, he taught me tolerance and not to give way to sentiments. I loved him very much and I wanted it to be his book," she adds.
Lasting love
The film of her story is visually sumptuous. For Zweig, who holds vivid images of Kenya in her mind, this was one of the movie's best qualities.
Many other parts of the film also moved her, most notably the actor playing Ouwor, the devoted "houseboy" who took Zweig under his wing.
Zweig has returned to Kenya twice since leaving in 1947. She found the farm had been destroyed.
However, she has no idea what happened to Ouwor, who could neither read nor write to keep in touch.
And in this respect, the movie has been invaluable, the author concludes.
"Ouwor meant everything to me. He was my fatherly friend and it was love at first sight for me when I saw the actor doing his part.
"We spoke Swahili and it was exactly as if I had seen Ouwor again."


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Vatican City
Pope John Paul II goes to West Germany Saturday on perhaps the most delicate pilgrimage of his two-year pontificate.Already his visit to the country of Martin Luther's Reformation has rekindled some of the disputes that led to the great schism in the Roman Catholic Church 450 years ago. But Pope John Paul indicates he is prepared to make concessions in the interest of ecumenism. He not only intends to make a strong plea for Christian unity but is also expected to admit that the Catholic Church must bear part of the blame for the split, Vatican sources said.


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Carter, Elizabeth
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717–1806, English poet and translator. Under the pen name Eliza she contributed for years to the Gentleman's Magazine. One of the group of 18th-century women known as the bluestockings, she was a friend of Johnson, Burke, Reynolds, and Horace Walpole. Collections of her poems appeared in 1738 and 1762. Her translations of Epictetus were published in 1758.
See her memoirs (1807) study by A. C. C. Gaussen (1906) Bluestocking Letters (ed. by R. B. Johnson, 1926).
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