When I was a child my father was pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and my mother was director of the youth and senior choirs, church organist, founder and head of the Mothers’ Club, and fundraiser-in-chief. We watched Daddy and Mama staying up to date by subscribing to theological and church music publications and buying the latest books by leading theologians and thinkers, and they did not confine their self-improvement to reading. They went to Union Theological Seminary, to a Black Mountain, North Carolina, conference center, and to Oberlin College for summer courses and other enrichment, and they went away every year for a week to the Minister’s Institute at Hampton Institute in Virginia, sometimes taking me along. I would wander along… Source link

Campaign volunteers hand out flyers to drivers while they’re sitting in their cars. There’s a new advocacy group promoting the need for a citywide residential parking permit system. The campaign, NYC Resident Parking, is being led by retired Upper West Side attorney Renee Baruch. The goal is to have parking permits allocated to local residents by district, while also allowing street parking for retail and commercial business owners and their employees, according to a press release provided to ILTUWS. “Virtually every city in the world has some form of a residential parking permit system,” said Baruch in the press release. “On the Upper West Side, we are now seeing an increasing number of cars with out-of-state license plates, largely for people with second homes claimed as… Source link

When I was a child my father was pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and my mother was director of the youth and senior choirs, church organist, founder and head of the Mothers’ Club, and fundraiser-in-chief. We watched Daddy and Mama staying up to date by subscribing to theological and church music publications and buying the latest books by leading theologians and thinkers, and they did not confine their self-improvement to reading. They went to Union Theological Seminary, to a Black Mountain, North Carolina, conference center, and to Oberlin College for summer courses and other enrichment, and they went away every year for… Source link

Water situation is serious “Colorado’s water plan updated”: This is a great article by Marianne Goodland and Mary Shinn. If you are unaware of the serious water shortage in Colorado, as well as the other 6 States included in the 7 state Colorado River Compact of 1922, please read their article. Water is not a replaceable commodity. When it is gone, it is gone for good. The Colorado River provides water, not only for Coloradans, but for California, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. Colorado Springs gets “70% of its community water from the Colorado River basin”, the western slope. Colorado and Wyoming have had to release 100s of thousands of acre feet… Source link

BATON ROUGE—Coming under fire for the exclusion of critical, diverse narratives that shaped the U.S., Louisiana’s racially biased education system was criticized Friday for omitting any information about the historic moon colony created by African Americans. “It’s a testament to how much Black history is completely glossed over in schools for the curriculum to make no mention of the iconic, well-documented lunar settlement founded by freed slaves in 1847,” said African American studies PhD Melanie Washington, noting that the U.S. school system’s hegemonic Eurocentrist bias is why most Americans haven’t even heard that Harriet Tubman helped escaped slaves board makeshift rockets on a launchpad just north of the Mason-Dixon line and blast off to form the futuristic colony… Source link

WHAT’S GOING ON? Here is a small sample of area happenings you may want to check out in the coming days. Blues guitarist TInsley Ellis is scheduled to perform a free concert Friday, July 15, at Levitt Pavilion Steelstacks in Bethlehem.levittsteelstacks.org Art/Museums ONGOING BETHLEHEM “A Glimpse Through Glass,” exhibit exploring the forms, functions and social history of different types of glass, through Aug. 28. Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, 427 N. New St. historicbethlehem.org, 800-360-8687. “The Works of a Mechanical Genius: The Legacy of John Fritz,” through Oct. 17. National Museum of Industrial History, 602 E. Second St. nmih.org, 610-694-6644. COOPERSBURG “Opportunities That Built A Community,” Coopersburg Historical Society exhibit, through Dec. 31. Coopersburg… Source link

Blocker Outdoors and Mossy Oak have partnered to feature multiple garments in the Mossy Oak Terra Outland pattern. Whether early-season deer hunting, hunting pronghorn out west, or bull elk in the Rocky Mountains, Blocker Outdoors vows to have the hunter covered with multiple garments that work in any season or any hunt. “Blocker Outdoors makes versatile, hardworking hunting apparel for any pursuit,” says Nexus Outdoors executive vice president of product, Dale Douglas. “So it’s critical that we offer our Blocker Outdoors customers a variety of camo choices that support concealment in the varied environments in which they hunt. But beyond effective concealment, camo selection is also a highly personal choice; it’s an identifier and a differentiator…. Source link

Despite being perceived as a late 20th century invention, electric vehicles actually predate the moving picture by four years. Thomas Parker invented the first commercially practical electric car in 1884 in Wolverhampton while Louis Le Prince showed Roundhay Garden, the first motion picture, to a Leeds audience in 1888. The British quickly shovelled both successes out of the country so that Americans could become wealthy, of course, but curiously the two inventions took a while to meet. Indeed, the first big mainstream flicks to convince us that we might one day give up our addiction to burning the fossilised remains of ancient plants were released by the likes of Steve Spielberg, Ridley Scott and James Cameron in the later 1900s. But how realistic was their portrayal of… Source link

The Doctor has always been a mysterious figure, traveling through time and space, with their companions. These companions are not just friends but chosen family, being there for The Doctor during their darkest days. But what of The Doctor’s real family? Doctor Who lore has always been tricky to track, thus making it hard to determine who The Doctor’s real family are. The First Doctor (William Hartnell) traveled with his granddaughter Susan (Carol Ann Ford), and since then there have been references to their family in the show (mostly in reference to them being dead due to The Time War). The majority of what we do know is from numerous expanded universe materials such as comic books and novels. By looking at these, it is therefore possible to piece together a loose history of The… Source link

FAIRFAX, Va., June 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tellenger Inc., a subsidiary of WaveDancer, Inc., ( WAVD) announced today that, in collaboration with their teaming partners, they have successfully completed a major release related to their U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) Loan Program and Secondary Market project. Tellenger, a long-standing subcontractor of the SBA, was tasked with modernizing parts of the SBA loan program system to allow for easier maintenance and greater reliability. The newly modernized system will allow the program to better perform loan servicing, technology modernization, and financial services for SBA’s loan programs, which have grown to over 7,500 lenders and nearly one trillion in assets. The multi-year award aims to bring significant… Source link