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i. | VASTI RACHELLE37 MOORE154, b. April 04, 1979, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California154. |
ii. | JACOSTA37 SILVERS154, b. August 04, 1985, Portsmouth, Virginia154. | ||
iii. | EUGENESILVERS, SR.154, b. May 27, 1986, Portsmouth, Virginia154. |
248. | i. | PHETRA RENADA37 JONES, b. December 28, 1979, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. |
249. | ii. | GEORGE THOMAS37 ELEY III, b. March 12, 1957, Maryview Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia. | |
250. | iii. | CALVIN LLEWELLYN ELEY, b. August 22, 1958, Portsmouth General Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia.. | |
251. | iv. | JACKIE KARL ELEY, b. February 27, 1960, Quantico Army Hospital, Quantico, Virginia. | |
252. | v. | MICHAEL KIETH ELEY, b. June 17, 1961, Quantico Army Hospital, Quantico, Virginia. | |
vi. | ANTONIO DARCEL ELEY162, b. March 17, 1963, Tripler Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii162; m. DOREEN THERESA WILLIAMS162, February 17, 1989, New York City, New York162; b. December 15, 1959, Brooklyn, New York162. |
Notes for ANTONIO DARCEL ELEY: [Bracey.paf] He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the youngest child of George and Betty Eley. He grew up in Suffolk, Virginia from 1972-1979. He returned to Portsmouth, Virginia where he lived with his father. He graduated from Manor High School in August 1981. He attended St. John's University from 1981-1985. He graduated from the university with a degree in Accounting. He married Dorine Williams on February 9, 1990 in New York City. He worked at Ranzoni Foods in Queens, New York when Hershey Foods acquired the company. He worked for Hershey Foods living in places such as New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He currently works for New World Pasta. He lives in Fresno, California. They have no children. |
More About ANTONIO DARCEL ELEY: Graduation: August 05, 1981, Manor High School |
vii. | AFRICAN AMERICAN GRIOT DARRYL37 ELEY162,163,164, b. May 15, 1965, Portsmouth, Virginia165; m. ESTHER L. TAYLOR, February 27, 1996, Portsmouth, Virginia; b. December 15, 1962, Portsmouth, Virginia. |
Notes for AFRICAN AMERICAN GRIOT DARRYL ELEY: [Bracey.paf] I was born on May 15, 1965 at 6:42 P.M. at the United States Regional Medical Center, located on the shore of the Elizabeth River near Norfolk, Virginia, in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Betty Mae Bynum-Faison Eley. I was light-skinned, with high-cheek bones, black hair, and brown eyes. He weighed seven lbs, one oz. and stood twenty inches tall. I was delivered by Dr. F. N. Boensch, M.D. I was the sixth child of seven. At the time of my birth, all his grandparents were living. My father, Roger Gary lived in Boston, Massachusetts. My grandmother, J. Vera Bynum Faison was living in Portsmouth, Virginia with her husband, Joseph Wilson Faison, Sr. My father's parents, Gonzalo and Gladys Mungo McDow were living in Brooklyn, New York. Only two of my great grandparents were still living, Dorphus and Emma Elizabeth Parker Gary lived in Seaboard, North Carolina. The President of the U.S. was Lyndon Baines Johnson. There was no such thing as a Superbowl, the Boston Celtics won the N.B.A. Finals, and the Minnesota Twins won the World Series. One of the favorite songs of the day was "Shotgun" by Jimmy Walker and the All-Stars. I was the youngest grandchild that my grandparents had at the time. At the time of my birth, my mother and five brother lived at 1820 Laurel Avenue in the City of Portsmouth. My brothers are George, Calvin, Jackie, Micheal, and Tony. We were a military family until the family returned to Portsmouth before l was born. My mother had six sisters and two brothers while Richard had three sisters and two brothers who were all alive when Darryl was born. When I was a month old, his father was drafted into the Vietnam War which lasted for two tours of duty. He was a native of Brooklyn, New York until his parents sent him to Lancaster, South Carolina. He was a singer who performed at amateur night at the Apollo in the late 1950's, which he won three nights in a row with his sister Nettie. He was raised by his paternal aunt Ruby Sowell. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was only 17 years old on June 25, 1962. He met my mother, Betty, in Honolulu, Hawaii in the summer of 1964. My mother was a recently divorced, single mom with six sons at the time. I was the youngest. She was born in Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina, near Roanoke Rapids. She and her mother moved to Portsmouth, when she was between one and two years old. She lived in Portsmouth most of her life. She met and married George Thomas Eley which they had five wonder young boys. They were married until 1964. She is a mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt, neice, and friend to many people of Portsmouth, Virginia. In June 1966, I lived in Brooklyn, New York with his godparents, Rev. Kenneth Walker and his wife, Neta. I lived in New York City until he was three years old. While in New York, I began to get a good grasp of his memory by remembering events such as trips and major events. I remember the day, Martin Luther King was killed by the bitter emotions, during the time that the event unfolded, in 1968. I remember Astro Park, Sly and the Family Stone, subway rides, and lots of laughs. I remember my godparents' daughter, Joni and her boyfriend, Sonny. I remember finding about my mother and even tried to runaway from the house only to get stopped in my tracks. At this time, my great grandfather, Dorphus Gary, died on September 16, 1967, died in Seaboard, North Carolina and his grandfather, Roger died in Boston, Massachusetts, a year earlier. My great grandmother, Emma Elizabeth Parker Gary was living in Seaboard where she was well respected by the people around her. I found out that I was going home to my mother on May 15, 1968. I was happy to see the lady that I can really called the name that she deserve to possess. In September 1968, I returned to his mother in Portsmouth, Virginia with all memories of his mother lost, but after an emotional reunion, I returned home to the welcome arms of a loving mother and family. My memory began to get stronger and stronger as the days went by watching television and reading such as the comics and observing his mother and brothers. I stated when he was three "I not gonna forget anyone and anything again". From 1968-1970, I began to learn alot about my family and the people I would be around at this juncture of my life. I was the baby and I was well protected by my family. My oldest brother was the person that I looked up to because my father was still and Vietnam and when he returned he didn't want me to see the condition he was left in. I got in alot of trouble because the type of life I lived in New York never left my spirit. In the summer of 1970, I began to have an interested in performing. I performed at picnics and family gatherings for his family. We sold icebergs and candy as the family had a small business in the neighborhood. The year would end with his entrance into Kindergarten at Truxtun Secondary School in Portsmouth on September 8, 1970. My teacher's name was Mrs. Jackie West. I learned to write my name on the first day of school. We took three consecutive trips on each Monday after school began that year. On September 14, 1970, we travel to a farm, the first time I ever was on a farm. On September 21, 1970, we visited the Norfolk City Zoo, the first time I ever went to a zoo. On September 28, we visited the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, the first time I ever went to the oceanfront. My favorite songs were "ABC" by the Jackson Five and "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers. Everything that I learned, began in Kindergarten. On September 7, 1971, I began first grade at Douglass Park Elementary after the desegregation of schools reached the classrooms of Portsmouth. My teacher's name was Mrs. Shirley Culpepper. I attended the school for the first month of my first grade year when my mother announced that we were leaving Lincoln Park for good. My mother friend, Tommie Harris was the best adult friend, I had. I loved him like he was my father and I will never forget him. We moved from a place called Lincoln Park to a new home in Mount Hermon in Portsmouth. The address was 726 Confederate Avenue, a beautiful three and 1/2bedroom house with a living, dining room, kitchen, pantry, and garage. During this time his two favorite shows were "The Jimmie and Tammy Show" and "Batman". In December 1971, Tommy Harris died of leukemia which hurt me dearly. The Christmas of 1971 was filled with sorrow and reflections. I began attending Shea Terrace Elementary School. My teacher was Mrs. Shirley Gregory. I was located in a mobile in the back of the school. The year was filled with tension because of the desegregation of school because this school was once an all-white school. We had to learn how to deal with children who were not for the same background as we had. I asked my mother about why people treat other people wrong. She told me to never treat a person wrongly because of the things that they do and the things that make us different. I attended this school until June 1972. In 1972, after living in Portsmouth for four years, my family and I moved to the country and lived in a place called Chuckatuck, which was eleven miles away from Portsmouth. We visited Chuckatuck for the first time on June 3, 1972. It was a beautiful small white house with three bedrooms, bath, kitchen, and living room. The backyard was so large, we could put alot of things out there. Finally on June 17, 1972, we moved from Portsmouth, Virginia to this small town. I had went from Portsmouth to New York to Portsmouth to Chuckatuck. I was now a part of the country experience. I began attending Oakland Primary School on August 28, 1972. My mother took my brother and I to be enrolled in school. My teacher's name was Mrs. Francis Willie. My other teachers were Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Scott, and Mrs. Kramer. I remained at Oakland Primary School for two years. My interest in writing and music began to come together. I had interest also in pop-art and paper designs. During these two years, I gained the friendship of three young boys, Darrell Godwin, Gregory Walker, and Amadeus Pittman, who always have been in my thoughts since that time. On August 29, 1973, I began the third grade at the same school. My teacher was Marie Tutt. I had other teacher such as Mrs. Kramer, Mrs. Tucker, and Mrs. Scott. I began to get more and more interest in performing and writing. I was interest in remembering all these event for the future. I was the only child in the school because my brother attended the school, I would attend the next year, Chuckatuck Middle School. On August 28, 1974, I began attending Chuckatuck Middle School where I remained for four years. Many things happened while I was there but some of the most important events at the time was my interest in poetry began to surface. My teacher, Mrs. Johnson gave them an assignment to write a poem so I decided to continue to write poetry. In his fifth grade year, I was an assistant to the principal and the teacher, Mrs. Princess Sparrow. I would stay after school to help my teacher so that I could gain a knowledge of what make teaching work. I loved my school and was even called the "teacher's pet". I wasn't the most popular kid on the block but was respected for my work in the classroom. I always participated in classroom discussions, workshops, and performers on stage. I began to get interested in performing all the time. I would always visit the 7th grade teacher to tell him what I wanted to be When I grew Up. His conversations helped me out alot. His name was Mr. Marcum, the husband of my third grade spelling and language teacher. I began to the sixth grade, I gained a wealth of knowledge about history and the world. My teacher's name was Mr. John Addison, a native of Greece. He taught some of the important events of Greek and Roman History that he said would help us in high school. At the beginning of 1977, Mr. Addison was called home to Greece and we had a new teacher, a stern lady by the name of Mrs. Barbara Artis. She complete the work on a performance that I got a main part of a play called "King Winter" which I played the Third Child. In the seventh grade, I was given an assignment that would lead to a bigger project two years later. The assignment was to write about his family. My teacher's name was Mrs. Sarah Bennett and at the beginning of the school year, she gave the students an assignment to write about your life and our family. l didn't know much about his family so he did the best that he could do with the assignment. Upset about the not-so-great grade I received on the assignment, I vowed to make up for it later in life. A class trip was taken to Washington, D.C. on March 23, 1978, which allow me to see the federal government in action. For the first time, I had seen the National Archives and Records Administration. I graduated from this school on June 7, 1978. He left the school forever on June 8, 1978. After four years of fun and learning, it was time for high school. I began high school on August 29, 1978 at John Yeates High School in Drivers, Virginia. I had a hard time adjusting to eight grade and many health problems. I passed the eight grade only to find out that my years in Suffolk would come to an end at the end of the 1978-79 school year, June 6, 1979. My mother decided to returned to their hometown of Portsmouth. I said all his good byes to my classmates. The Summer of 1979 would be the most important summer of my life because this would be the year, I began his family history. On June 1979, my family and I returned to Portsmouth, Virginia where we lived at our grandmother Vera's house, who moved during that time to another house. During that time, I found the journal in his aunt's room that would lead me to go to the Portsmouth Public Library, where I began to write the story about my family history. On, August 15,1979, I began a quest that would last for almost 23 years, the research of my family history. On September 6, 1979, I began attending Cradock High School in Portsmouth. I was a very shy, yet assertive child who paid attention to my studies. I joined the Thespian Society, which allowed me to begin performing on stage. In September 1980, I joined the Cradock Players, which was an elite group of actors in the school. In June 1981, I was elected the Vice-President of the (Thespian Society) Drama Club. My ninth grade year ended on June 12, 1980. On June 26, 1980, I began working at the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority in the Landscape Division under Mr. Ralph Johnson. At the time, we had a counselor who made sure that we had a voice while we were working. Her name was Mrs. Maryland Goodman, a representative of the Stop Organization. Later, I would find out that she is my cousin on my grandmother's side of the family. This job was my first summer job. In September 1980, I began his tenth grade year, despite the fact that I was transferred to Wilson High School. The first day of school, I was returned to Cradock High School, where I remained until graduation. My homeroom teacher's name was Mrs. Marie Callo. His classes were Spanish 1, General Math, English 10, Driver Education, Physical Education and Health, World History, and Study. I was a member of the Future Teacher of America and Thespian Society. I became a member of the "Cradock Players", a performing group created by Mrs. Joyce S. Wiggins, my English teacher. Even though I was Vice-President, I represented the Drama Club by performing in most of the stage and singing performances. I was also a member of the Mixed Chorus directed by Cynthia Carson. I was a member of a City-wide group of performers in program called the Portsmouth Able and Ambitious Program, which performed a musical, which was recognized as "the first show that was performed for television by a school system in the country" which was directed by Bill Griggs, a Portsmouth native. I was voted "Most Talented Senior-Male" in my Senior year at Cradock High School and was also Co-Editor of the High School Newspaper called the "Shipmate". I received an award for "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" that year. I graduated in June 1983 top-half of his class, after four years at Cradock High School. The school closed down in June 1992. The entire school had a reunion for all the classes that attended Cradock in 1992. On October 17, 1983, I joined the U.S. Army, but because of medical reasons and the inability to adjust to military life. I returned home feeling that he had failed his family and most of all myself. This was the turning point in his life. l began to become reckless because of his failure in the military. Alcohol and drugs began to control my life. At the age of 19 years old, I began to use alcohol heavy. The dreams of my childhood seems as if they were going up in smoke. But something happened that would put my life back into prospective. His name was Richard Lee McDow. After many years of trying to find each other, l found my father whom, I hadn't seen in over eleven years. My father's sister, Nettie , who was not familiar with Portsmouth lived in Suffolk but didn't know where to find me so luckily, I found his father. I reunited with my father on February 14, 1985 in the Bronx, New York, which we stayed together for a week gathering information about my father's family and some of the things that I really didn't know about myself. On May 31, 1986, we moved to the Prentis Park section of Portsmouth where the circle of destruction continued with the alcohol and drugs. I began working at Norfolk Recycling and Auto Parts where he was an Inventory Control Manager. He continued on this job for over a year and a half before he decided to moved to New York City. On November 20, 1987, I moved to New York City, where my father lived in the Bronx. Hiding my addiction from my father was a hard task. I worked at New York Hospital as Mail Processing Clerk, which lasted until I began having problems with his father's family. I returned to Portsmouth on January 13, 1988, my mother's 50th birthday. I returned to Portsmouth to continue to be a good law-abiding citizen. Even though, the alcohol and drugs continued to haunt me. I fought the battle with alcohol as the drugs began to take over my life. I began working for the Portsmouth City Park. To make sure that he wouldn't lose out on his future, I began attending CareerCom School of Business where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Certification In General Business and Management. In May 1989, at the age of 24, l began working of the Portsmouth Redevelopment of Housing Authority. I began moving around alot and could not stay in one location for a long time because of my addiction. I continued to pursue my family research diligently. On March 28, 1992, l was sent to jail for unmalicious wounding and put on probation for three years. The battle with alcohol and drugs came to an end when my probation officer, Vernon Williams gave me a second chance and I was put on outpatient therapy. The recovery was a success. In 1993, I began my new life without alcohol and drugs.. began working for Portsmouth Parks and Recreation once again. This time in the Recreation Department. He worked in the Pre-teen Recreation Enrichment Program or P.R.E.P. One day, a child came to him and told him that he smell alcohol and he decided to stop. It did not lasted. The true fight to rid myself of alcohol came in the form of a young man. My best friend, Jermaine Deans, when he was 13 years old told me that he was afraid that l was going to die so l finally let go all of it on June 25, 1993. I continued to trace my family history with diligence and consistency. To help rid himself of the problem of alcohol and drugs, l began working harder on his job and creating a group called "H.I.G.H. I.M.P.A.C.T." The group stayed together for almost two years. They performed all over Portsmouth and the surrounding area, until the group walked away from Darryl, except for my best friend, Jermaine. The date was March 28, 1995. On August 10. 1995, I was released from Probation and was cleared of all charges of the incidents in 1992. The next six years would change the face of his genealogical search forever. In February 1996, l met a lady by the name of Esther L. Jenkins, a lady who lived in the Churchland section of Portsmouth, which was in the suburbs. We fell in love and she supported me to the utmost. While my family didn't believe that I would ever finish the family history project, she did. l had alot of doubt about the support that my family had for the project but she told me not to worry about what people felt but to finish the project but don't rush or mistakes would be made in the research. She allowed me to do the project at her home where there would be peace and quiet. I constantly went to the library to gather information about members of my family. I frequented the Portsmouth Public Library and the Sargeant Memorial Room in the Norfolk Public Library. There was a program called the Personal Ancestral File 2.31 on the computer at the library but I didn't know much about computers. I found all the information I could on the Social Security Index on November 26, 1997. In 1998, I had over 500 names of family members that he knew. The truth was that they were all in my head. I could remember their birth, marriages, and death but they weren't written down. During a reunion, my cousin, Melva James told him that he had to get the name out of his head and on paper. So I started on a quest to get them out of his head. As the memories of alcohol and drugs continued to haunt me, I still worked on getting all the information out my head. The pressure of Virginia was getting to me when a spirit told me to go to New York City. "In July 1998, I decided to go to New York City. I went to the New York Library in the Bronx, where my oldest brother, George lived, which was in Riverdale, when I found a number to A Family History Library in Midtown Manhattan near ABC-TV. I caught the subway train to the Library before it close. The mission of a life-time was unfolding. At the entrance to the library was a man by the man of Elder Ellis Hancey, a Mormon Church, for Provo, Utah. He was an older man in his late 60's. He greeted me with utmost kindness. He help me get comfortable in the Library. He told me that they had some computer in a back room that had the same program, I was using in Portsmouth. I told him that I didn't know much about computer but I am a fast learner. He also told me about the program called the Personal Ancestral File 3.0. He said that I could put the names of all my family on one disk and submit it to the main library for the their church in Utah, which could help other families who may be tracing the same lines. I asked for his help. He sat me down and began helping me learn how to run the program so that I could put all the names in that one program. After about five minutes of tutoring, I took the program over from there. I began with my name, my parents, my grandparents, and great grandparents. I put all the information, I could remember about them. I typed in all the names, I could remember. When he got back, I had typed over 100 names in the program. I began telling him that I had all the names in my head. He was amazed at how I never picked up a piece of paper. After an hour on the computer, I had about 500 names in the program. He sat down again and said "You don't know what you have, do you". I said. "No". He said, "You have the largest family collection for black families, I have ever seen, you could help alot of people." He said that God sent me on a mission to come to New York City for a reason and maybe coming to New York may have been what it needed to do. I left New York a day before my nineteenth anniversary having over 1000 names. From July 8-August 14, 1998, I entered the information about all the members of the families that I knew up-to-date. I returned to Virginia to get the rest of my family names. My girlfriend allowed me to keep my computer at her house which I rented to finish the project. I vowed that I would never leave Virginia again unless she goes with me. I was typing hard to finish the book and the research at the same time. I thought I had everything okay until one day, her nephew, who was a baby, picked them up off the dresser and pulled the metal tabs off all the main disk, including the program disk. I called Mr. Hancey who sent me another disk to finished the job. By September 1999, I had 1100 names. I rented a computer to input the data for the entire family. I called all the families that were involved in this family. By February 2000, I had 1300 names. I decided to called around to see if someone would put me in the newspaper and noone would do the story so, I almost gave up until Rick Holmes. On June 12, 2001, I was a poll worker for the Democratic Primary at Parkview Elementary School in Portsmouth, Virginia for the N.A.A.C.P. On June 12, 2001, I was the Precinct Coordinator for the Parkview area of Portsmouth, Virginia. I called "WTKR News Channel-3" I asked them to consider doing a newscast about what I did and sure enough they did it. I was on television as a feature story on 5:30 newscast. They ran the newscast for four days. In December 2001, WTKR-News Channel-3, did a follow-up story about my progress. By that time, I had over 1900 names. On October 9, 2001, I uploaded a Gedcom file of 1725 names on to an Family internet site called "MyFamily.com. I updated the file on November 10, 2001 to include over 1800 names. I kept the site locked until I finished my book. On November 26, 2001, I began working for Tidewater Auto Auction in Chesapeake, Virginia as a lot attendant/assistant lane leader. The organization is a wholesale/retail dealer's auction located on South Military Highway. I worked there today. My supervisor's name is Malone Pace-Outside Operations Supervisor. My co-workers are Deon Morris, Tauris T. (Chicken) Fredrick, Jason Hall, Bob Burke, Milton Whann, Carl Van Vuren, Leon Porter, III, and Elliott Kendrick. We are in charge of preparing the auction lot for a dealer-to-dealer auction held on each Wednesday. I am assistant lane leader in charge of making sure that the cars in the B-Lane (cars 1995 and older) are driver to the auction block to be viewed by the dealer. All other days, I am part of a wonderful crew of fun and friendly people. I hope that they will always be blessed in all that they do. Since then I moved up to over 2300 names. When my great neice, Azaria was born, I decided to close all entries to the The name of "griot", which was a name given to an African family historian for each tribe, was given to me by a man by the name of Robert Revell, a good friend of mine. Like Malcolm X and many other people before me, I had a tough time in my life. But Pastor Courtney MacBath, a pastor in Norfolk, preached a sermon about God changing people. He said "the reason why God leave some people on earth is so He can show the world, he can change anybody". From a humble beginning to losing and finding my mother, to learn about myself, and the fight with drugs, God gave me another chance. I decided to prove to people that I can changed just like every other person. My life has become strong, confident, loving, and stable. Ten years ago, I would have never thought that I would come to this point in my life. God is real and Jesus is alive. This is my personal testimony that I can boast or brag but live my life better than I could ever live it. This is my life and it is own and operated by God. Thank You God for another chance. |
More About AFRICAN AMERICAN GRIOT DARRYL ELEY: Baptism: March 03, 1985, Good News Baptist Church, Chesapeake, Virginia Census: June 1970, Portsmouth, Virginia Education: May 25, 1989, Certification in Business Management Graduation: June 10, 1983, Cradock High School Namesake: Darryl Arrington Occupation: September 09, 1999, African American Griot |
Notes for ESTHER L. TAYLOR: She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia to James David Taylor and Jessie Naomi Miller on December 15, 1962. She was a very shy young girl. She married Rory Jenkins on March 26, 1981. They had a son, Roderick Jenkins, on February 3, 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She met ____(classified)_____________________. They had three children: Terry (1987), Shawn (1989), and Kimberly (1990). |
More About ESTHER L. TAYLOR: Education: John Yeates High School |


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Nanophase Technologies Announces Year End 2010 Financial Conference Call
ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Feb. 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nanophase Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:NANX), a technology leader in nanomaterials and advanced nanoengineered products, today announced the Company will disseminate a financial news release for calendar 2010 on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. CST, 4:00 p.m. EST. The news release will be followed by the year end financial conference call on Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. EST.
The Nanophase conference call, to be hosted by Jess Jankowski, the Company's President & CEO, is scheduled for March 10, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. CST, 11:00 a.m. EST. The conference call dial-in number for U.S. callers is 877-312-8776 and for international callers is 408-774-4007. The conference ID is 46855921. Please dial in to the conference at least five minutes before the call is scheduled to begin.
The call may also be accessed through the company's website, at www.nanophase.com , by clicking on the link under News Center and Calendar of Events to listen to a webcast of the event.
Date: March 10, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM CT Listen via Internet: Schedule this webcast into MS-Outlook calendar (click open when prompted): http://apps.shareholder.com/PNWOutlook/t.aspx?m=46586&k=6AAB22B0 Toll-free: 877-312-8776 International: 408-774-4007 Nanophase Technologies Corporation (NANX), www.nanophase.com , is a leader in nanomaterials technologies and provides nanoengineered solutions for multiple industrial product applications. Using a platform of patented and proprietary integrated nanomaterial technologies, the Company creates products with unique performance attributes from two ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 facilities. Nanophase delivers commercial quantity and quality nanoparticles, coated nanoparticles, and nanoparticle dispersions in a variety of media. This press release contains words such as "expects," "shall," "will," "believes," and similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements in this announcement are made based on the Company's current beliefs, known events and circumstances at the time of publication, and as such, are subject in the future to unforeseen risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's results of operations, performance and achievements to differ materially from current expectations expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the following: a decision by a customer to cancel a purchase order or supply agreement in light of the Company's dependence on a limited number of key customers; uncertain demand for, and acceptance of, the Company's nanocrystalline materials; the Company's manufacturing capacity and product mix flexibility in light of customer demand; the Company's limited marketing experience; changes in development and distribution relationships; the impact of competitive products and technologies; the Company's dependence on patents and protection of proprietary information; the resolution of litigation in which the Company may become involved; and other factors described in the Company's Form 10-K filed March 30, 2010. In addition, the Company's forward-looking statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates. Except as required by federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events, uncertainties or other contingencies.CONTACT: Nanophase Technologies Corporation Nancy Baldwin (Investor Relations) 630-771-6708
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Going through a divorce is always difficult, especially in front of the public eye. But as they say in Hollywood: the show must go on -- and that's exactly what Jennie Garth plans on doing. A week after announcing plans to divorce her husband of more than 10 years, Twilight star Peter Facinelli, 38, the actress stepped out in Beverly Hills without her wedding ring on March 19.
Of course, this is an inevitable part of the separation process, but for her part, Garth seems to be coping pretty well. In fact, the 39-year-old star even addressed the whole ordeal during an interview with Access Hollywood, admitting that while it's definitely hard, she and her daughters Luca, 14, Lola, 9, and Fiona, 5, are doing just fine. "My life is a little hectic right now and my personal life is kind of crazy," Garth said. "We're doing great."
And she's certainly managing to keep herself busy. The Beverly Hills 90210 star is currently promoting her CMT reality series, Jennie Garth: A Little Bit of Country (set to premiere April 20), which documents her move with her daughters from L.A. to Santa Ynez Valley, Calif.
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What Difference Does an Inerrant Bible Make?
from R.C. Sproul Mar 04, 2015 Category: Articles
Does it matter whether the Bible is errant or inerrant, fallible or infallible, inspired or uninspired? What's all the fuss about the doctrine of inerrancy? Why do Christians debate this issue? What difference does an inerrant Bible make? Before answering that question, we should consider in what way inerrancy ... Keep Reading
Top 5 Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles
from Keith Mathison Mar 28, 2009 Category: Articles
The three letters commonly referred to as the "pastoral epistles" (1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus) are labeled as such because they are the only letters Paul addressed to fellow workers with pastoral responsibilities. There are a number of helpful commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles, and the following are five of the best. Keep Reading -
Who Says?
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Mar 27, 2009 Category: Articles
It is a rather tedious and tiresome thing to pull the legs out from under our national confession. Our creed is not just internally inconsistent, it is not just incomprehensible, it is both these things rather quickly. That is, you do not start out with the fundamental premise, build a string of thirty or so syllogisms and come to a conclusion that contradicts the premise. You start with A, blink, and non-A is staring you right in the face. Our national creed is this- There is no such thing as true and false. The refutation is this- is it true or false that there's no such thing as true or false? It's over already. As I already noted, this devastating critique is by this point both tedious and tiresome. Potent and compelling, yes, but still boring as soggy graham crackers. Keep Reading -
From Age to Age: The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology
from Keith Mathison Mar 26, 2009 Category: Ligonier Resources
Books on eschatology often focus solely on topics such as the Second Coming of Christ and the millennium. However, because the first advent of Christ inaugurated the last days, a complete study of biblical eschatology must include a study of Christ's first advent as well as his second. It must also include a study of God's preparations in redemptive history for the eschatological first advent of Christ. Keep Reading -
Authority in Vocation
from Gene Edward Veith Mar 25, 2009 Category: Articles
Do you want to know how Christians can influence the culture? How to have a strong family? Do you want to know the meaning of your life? Do you want to know how authority works? Then attend to the Reformation doctrine of vocation. This strangely neglected doctrine has to do with how God providentially governs the world of human beings. It also constitutes the theology of the Christian life. Keep Reading -
The Final Word
from Keith Mathison Mar 24, 2009 Category: Articles
In the early part of the twentieth century, one would have been hard pressed to find a greater theological mind than that of Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921). Sadly, both he and his work are virtually unknown today outside of certain circles in the Reformed churches. During his lifetime, however, his scholarship was world-renowned. Although a great theologian, Warfield never wrote a complete systematic theology text. He did, however, write extensively on a wide range of topics, at both the popular and academic levels. His collected works fill ten volumes, and his breadth and depth of knowledge remain something to behold. One subject to which Warfield made a lasting contribution is the doctrine of Scripture. The various essays on this doctrine found in The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible (P&R Publishing, 1948) are of such quality that they have made this volume a modern-day classic. Keep Reading -
Watch the Introduction to Handout Apologetics, Now Available on DVD
from David Theriault Mar 23, 2009 Category: Articles
I'd like to begin this with a preface, which really amounts to a disclaimer. I came to Ligonier over two years ago from Los Angeles to be their 'video guy.' I have no formal theological training, but have been a believer for over twenty years. I knew that working here would have its perks, whether it was the weekly devotional for employees led by Rev. Burk Parsons, the kindred nature of working with like minded colleagues, or the recognition that my family was rightly prioritized over career ambitions, and more. What I hadn't given too much thought to was that I would be exposed to such tremendous theological instruction and wisdom on a daily basis, just by doing my job as the 'video guy.' Keep Reading -
Standards of Accountability
from Tim Challies Mar 22, 2009 Category: Articles
When the minister of the gospel faces the Lord God as judge, there will be many questions addressed to him. There will be many standards of accountability. There will be many criteria of judgment. But in the end, the most essential criterion of judgment for the minister of God is, "Did you preach the Word? Did you fully carry out the ministry of the Word? In season and out of season, was the priority of your ministry the preaching of the Word?" Keep Reading -
Ligonier National Conference - Q&A Session III
from Various Mar 21, 2009 Category: Events
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Ligonier National Conference - Derek Thomas
from Alex Chediak Mar 21, 2009 Category: Articles
Derek W.H. Thomas is the John Richards Professor of Practical and Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss. He is also the minister of teaching at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson and editorial director for The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Among Dr. Thomas' many books are God Strengthens: Ezekiel Properly Explained, Mining for Wisdom, and Calvin's Teaching on Job. Keep Reading -
Ligonier National Conference - Robert Godfrey
from Tim Challies Mar 21, 2009 Category: Articles
The Ligonier Ministries National Conference is drawing to a close. We have come to the final day and began with a message from Dr. Robert Godfrey who preached on "The Holiness of God and the Cross." He began by saying that even as Christians we tend to have a trivial view of sin which turns sinners into naughty kids and God into an indulging grandfather. We like to sin, God likes to forgive, so what's the problem? Keep Reading


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I am new to SUP 2.0. I have to develop a application for Android.In this application first i have to create mainimenu page in that i have to display image icons, if i click on perticular icon it should navigate to perticular screen .Please help me how to customise custom.js(Explain with some sample code) . If possible plese give me some sample app.
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Norwich publican Tiny Little flying the flag for Norfolk outside the Alexandra Tavern on Stafford Street. Photo : SteveAdams
Stephen Pullinger
Monday, November 14, 2011
It was an idea that came to pub landlord Tiny Little during a trip to Falmouth when he noticed the St Piran flag of Cornwall being flown everywhere.
"I wondered if there was a Norfolk flag and when I came home I looked it up on Google – and to my amazement I found one," he said.
Tiny, 55, who has run the Alexandra Tavern, in Stafford Street, Norwich, since leaving the Royal Navy 25 years ago, confessed that although he was born and bred in the Lake District, he had developed a strong allegiance to Norfolk since settling here.
Immediately resolving to have the red, yellow, blue and white flag fluttering from the wall of his pub, he found a flag maker in Lawson Road to stitch one.
He said: "It is derived from the Norfolk County Council crest, but in the two months I have been flying it most of my customers have said, 'what is it? I did not know we had a Norfolk flag'."
Tiny, who stole the limelight in 2005 when he rowed across the Atlantic to raise money for the Davenport Trust, a local charity raising awareness of depression in young people, said the Alexandra Tavern's sister pub, the Coach and Horses, in Thorpe Road, was also flying the flag.
He said: "A radio phone-in last week established that there are two or three private houses also flying it.
"But it would be great to see a lot more people take up the idea and hoist Norfolk's very own flag.
"Companies and places with Norfolk in the name ought to consider it."
Tiny said although it was expensive to have a flag hand-sewn, it was relatively cheap to have one printed.
Do you have any bright suggestions where the Norfolk flag could be flown? Call Evening News reporter Stephen Pullinger on 01603 772446 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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They fly it at County Hall, if they can do it , we should be able to as well.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
This is an excellent initiative. The Norfolk county standard was flown outside the headquarters of the Dept for Communities and Local Government in Victoria St, London throughout the week commencing 21 February 2011. Perhaps we should designate Trafalgar Day [21 October] as Norfolk Day and fly the flag throughout the county on all landmark buildings and encourage others to do so as well. Horatio Nelson was indisputably Norfolk's most illustrious son and our nation's pre-eminent miltary hero. He gave one arm, one eye, and ultimately his life in the battle of Trafalgar and is the inspiration for us all. He also stands permanently on high above central Londonand we should fly our flag proudly to honour our county and this great man. He is quoted as saying "I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so". Not perhaps his most famous line but worthy of our tribute nonetheless.
Monday, November 14, 2011
That is not a Norfolk flag as Norfolk doesn't have a flag, it's a layout of the Norfolk coat of arms which Norfolk County Council use and who would want to advertise them ?
Monday, November 14, 2011
What makes me think that the council thugs will be round to demand removal of the flag as they would "deem" it to be advertising ?
Monday, November 14, 2011
Tiny Little has,nt been in Norwich long enough to fly a local flag ! why he has,nt even got a passport yet !....lol
Monday, November 14, 2011
Does he have planning permission to fly it? Is it an advert advertising Norfolk?
Monday, November 14, 2011
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�Cold Front� desperately tries to win with the X-Files formula of crisscrossed conspiracies and ambiguous endings. While doing this well, it's unable to spin its web in a suspenseful, dramatic, hour of television.
Nothing is more telling than that the entire episode takes place against the backdrop of a serine quasi-religious ceremony. After 15 minutes of wondering when it's going to pick up, we�re expected to get excited when a seeming-accident puts the ship in jeopardy but Silik mysteriously prevents disaster. Shouldn't Trip have shouted "I have to disconnect the anti-matter flow or we're gonna go up in smoke!" and then run to the conduit, have it blow up in front of him, and when the smoke clears see that it's already been severed? Another opportunity to demonstrate Trip's competence as an engineer is wasted at the precise point when some excitement is needed to pick up the pace.
Almost as suddenly, this horribly-cast Daniels guy appears and starts blabbering about the future. At first you�re thinking, even in the 29th century there are laws against telling people in the past about the future, so why would this guy just come ask Archer for his help and tell him all about it? Obviously that criticism doesn't hold water because Daniels turns out to not be who he said he was so of course he was telling Archer all of this for his own purposes.
There's nothing wrong with the show�s ultimate premise, in fact it's great and perfectly in the X-Files tradition. Who do you trust? Which faction is good? Even Silik doesn't know who he's fighting for or what his purpose is. This week he's sent to stop Daniels from, ostensibly, destroying THE Enterprise and his next mission may put him at odds with Archer yet again. But there�s little thoughtful exploration of this complexity aside from an on-the-nose turbolift discussion between T�Pol and Tucker. The flaw of the episode is that there�s little or no jeopardy involved.
�Cold Front� reduces all of its most interesting aspects�discussion of the temporal cold war�to two major talking-heads scenes between Archer and Daniels and later Archer and Silik. The first avoids seeming action-less because we're apparently immersed in this holographic/astrometric-like time map, which while certainly one of the most impressive visuals ENT has offered in its first half season even if I think they could've slipped a mini-shot of the Enterprise-E or a Borg cube in one of those passing "time spheres" we witnessed (but then again, since Daniels may have been deceiving Archer, a supposition seemingly confirmed by his less than human-like disintegration at the hand of Silik's weapon, they may not have wanted to lend credence to Daniels's claims of time travel), the time-globe does little more than provide a hefty �gee-whiz� factor while the characters blather away. The conspiracy is whittled down to the conspirator revealing a bunch of stuff to Archer/Mulder. The same thing happens later with Silik pleading his case and finally knocking Archer out in his quarters.
Where is the suspense of a classic X-Files episode? Where is the chase? Where is the investigation that turns up mysterious clues and bits of information? Where is the �T�Pol! Archer! No! [cue explosion]�? Kidding aside, �Cold Front� simply throws a lot of temporal cold war jargon at the Enterprise crew and the audience, expecting the �coolness� factor to sit in for a lack of any major plot action. The conclusion attempts to set up a chase, giving Archer dubious futuristic technology to combat Silik; but there isn�t much chasing and there isn�t much fighting. When they finally get to the shuttle bay, you have to ask yourself why Archer doesn�t just stun Silik so he can be interrogated later; after all, he had no such qualms about doing the same to Archer earlier. Instead we have a surprisingly anticlimactic denouement with our captain hanging from the shuttle bay door into open space and only having a couple blood vessels on his forehead pop rather than what seemingly would be a lot more if that room were depressurized like it was (but I�m no scientist). Silik�s escape is believable because his genetic enhancements must immunize him from the effects of a vacuum�I guess.
We appreciate the dilemma: who is telling the truth, how much of what Daniels said is true, why trust Silik? But the jeopardy has already passed. Whether or not Archer decides to trust Silik or Daniels is ultimately immaterial to the outcome of the episode. Rather than utilize this situation and make Archer choose in a critical moment, when THE Enterprise is in peril, who to trust and who to put his faith in�just as the visiting aliens put their faith in the great plume��Cold Front� was over for the regulars as soon as the anti-matter cascade was avoided. All that remained was for the conspirators to deal with each other and sufficiently misdirect Archer in doing so. In the end, Archer�s pursuit of Silik is pointless because catching him isn�t necessary; the notion that he must prevent Silik from escaping with Daniels� device is weak at best because if we�ve learned anything, it�s that Silik could be just as �good� as Daniels and trying to choose sides in this whole affair is futile right now.
After intimation by reviewers that the episode ended in a tantalizing visual, it�s somewhat of a letdown to see only a close-up Daniels�s door, especially when Archer was just in there a few minutes earlier and the room didn�t seem as spooky as the final shot tries to suggest. I was expecting some impressive FX shot of a resurrected Daniels reporting to his higher-ups in a distant future or of somebody perhaps arriving inside the room via time travel unbeknownst to the crew. The shot as is doesn�t quite have the effect of, say, the alien-in-a-jar being placed on a shelf in an endless warehouse, but it is easily argued that this was the more subtle and correct choice, especially so early in the mythology plotline; my disappointment may have been the result of artificial expectations due to aggrandized episode previews/reviews.
This show really highlights time travel and in its pseudo-action/adventure format, �Cold Front� seems to have introduced plenty of things that on the surface seem to confirm that ENT may be dealing the concept of time travel its ultimate death. The hand-held phase discriminator (my �Time�s Arrow� vocabulary serving me well) that allows Archer to pursue Silik through the ship instantly comes to mind: Archer puts his hand through the bulkhead and then firmly grips the phase pistol Reed sticks in his hand; and I wonder why, if he�s phased slightly away from the Enterprise�s time, we can see him at all and (as usual) he doesn�t fall through the floor? This isn�t a truly fair criticism because the workings of this device were not explained so it may be some other technology about which there are no pre-established �rules� that the writers are obliged to follow. The prospect of Archer reporting all this to Starfleet is precarious, suggesting that the Starfleet in all the previous series had records of these events; obviously not, so we�re left to wonder how these events are erased from �known� TREK history (perhaps Section 31 is an outgrowth of the individuals who know about these events?). These examples point out the fact that since they�ve decided to make time travel their bed, sleeping in it is going to become prickly without some innovative ideas to make it all �work� beyond the shallow eye-candy phase.
In the end, �Cold Front� proves more interesting than its recent peers because it at least deals with something substantive, sets up enormously for the future, and clearly establishes that this Enterprise will be a somewhat serialized show from the beginning�so far the only clear difference from previous TREK series. The possibilities of the temporal cold war are fascinating and it goes without saying that the type of ambiguity introduced here is exactly what made X-Files so popular and it may work for ENT if they can find a more suspenseful and innovative way to work it into 42 minutes of television.
�Cold Front� also bookends this series� first half-season (even if we�re not quite at the half-way point) along with the premiere �Broken Bow,� and reveals that ENT is certainly at its best when dealing with those aspects unique to it and not churning out rehashed shows-in-a-bottle. Much like X-Files, fans will clamor to find out when the next mythology episode will be and it is likely to dominate the Sweeps months, premieres, and finales. Grade: C+
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What is EWIS? EWIS stands for Electrical Wiring Interconnection System which can be defined as at set of electrical connections and signals between devices and modules and all of their associated termination parts which are necessary for their installation. In other words, this defines the set of electrical diagrams and cable harnesses that are installed in an airplane or a helicopter that make all of the electrical connections.
More and more I hear from my customers that they are being required document robust processes to control issues of say signal separation in the case of electrical interference or power source isolation. I have been told that currently this can be a tedious process to validate each circuit and its routing path as installed.
Capital Harness Systems has a product called Capital Topology that provides a method for capturing the routing path of all of the cable harnesses in an installation and all of the interconnections between said harnesses. This can be married with the point to point wiring diagrams and via rules and constraints one can very quickly an easily determine and document if all of your signal separation constraints have been met. The cable harness paths for an aircraft can be modeled as shown in the simplistic example below:
From here we can synchronize this view with our wiring diagrams:
Capital Topology provides sophisticated rules and constraints to help an organization meet their EWIS requirements. Some of the features of Capital Topology are:
- Provides an integrated harness-level platform view of the vehicle wiring implementation
- Enables EWIS trade-offs
- Allows validation of wiring data in the context of harness topology
- Direct navigation between wiring and topology views including effectivity perspective
- Determine bundle diameters very early in the design process
- Bridge with 3D at any point in the design cycle
Capital Topology is an excellent tool that will save you time and costs in early design validation and will help you provide documentation to substantiate your EWIS compliance.


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LL, have you thought about window coverings yet?
Or have you done research on what looks good with the French Country? I've been looking through magazines and most of what I see is too, I dunno, modern? trendy? for the look I want. What I really, really like are gathered curtains over lace sheers. But dh wants to be able to look out the window without going over to it. So I'm stumped.
Marti- What we have right now, in our main windows, are floor to ceiling 'quick sew' drapes...basically hemmed on top and on a pressure rod. They are bump out bay windows, so each side has 4-30" windows. While these curtains are not exactly elegant, they do keep the heat in and are very easy to clean and remove, if we want to look out the whole window, in the summer.
For the farmhouse, I'd like to get wrought iron rods, that go above the window, and use a little nicer, floor to ceiling drapes. I was thinking about something like this, for the living room.
In the kitchen/dining room, probably a valance over the kitchen sink (maybe with a blind) and valances above the french doors. It would be nice to get some color and pattern on that wall...and with the door opening into the sunroom, the fabric wouldn't be in the way of the door opening. I need to get my blue in there, somewhere! :)
In the sunroom, probably some kind of blinds...something that open very easily and lets in all the view! I know I've shown this picture before, but i really like the way the light shines in and there's nothing blocking the plants from the windows. Very bright and airy.
In the bedroom, I would like this type of window seat, but with clear, not leaded glass, windows. Probably valances at the top, maybe with a drape on the outside, that closes off the entire window seat...the kitties would love that!
In our two bedrooms, I have floor to ceiling big grommet drapes, very simple. They are the bigger rod that runs just short of 12 feet wide, wall to wall in other words. The second rod behind it is a smaller diameter, and those are sheer curtains threaded on their rod pockets next to the window.
Our walls are cement plaster, extremely hard. So what we did was install 6 inch wide crown molding (so far just these two rooms, but we plan to do most of the others too). DH made it from scratch, and it gives us a very good foundation for mounting the curtain rods up high.
The front bedroom rods came from Pottery Barn, and were expensive because they were so wide. But the back bedroom (our master suite) has the same brackets, but I bought copper tubing in two diameters, it came in 10 foot lengths I think. So I cut off two feet of the tubing and plan to use it for a wind chime. Copper tubing is not cheap, but it costs less than the rods did from PB! I'm happy with the color, and if it ages to verdigris, who cares. I could spray it with a clear coat of acrylic I suppose, but am curious.
I like the floor to ceiling look too. It draws the eye up, and makes the room appear somewhat more spacious. And I love the inspiration pic of the window seat/banquette. I saw the layout on your latest house plan, LL, and it will fit your dream house quite nicely
I just love your inspiration photos, LL. In my dream house, I would have so many of these kinds of ideas woven throughout.
Thanks for the *sighs*. :^)
Shelayne- It's still my dream house, too...but thanks for the compliment :)
ML- I love that window seat, with the built in shelves. It's so cozy, yet bright and cheerful, at the same time!


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Accelerated Teacher Certification Program (ATCP)
The Accelerated Teacher Certification Program (ATCP) at Houston Community College is a state-approved comprehensive educator preparation program that trains individuals for Texas standard certification in elementary and secondary education.
Certification is achieved through successful completion of training, state exams and teaching internships. The program is approximately 18-24 months to complete.
Training will reflect the state teacher proficiencies and TExES competencies. HCC's ATCP has created an individualized program to meet the needs of each content or certificate area.
About the Accelerated Teacher Certification Program
Program Description:
- 319 clock hours of coursework and/or training
- 30 clock hours of field-based experience
- 6-12 clock hours of test preparation
- TExES exams
- Internship for one academic year
During the second phase of the program, teachers will be employed full-time and supported by continuing professional development education. A mentoring program based on the TxBESS standards will also be provided throughout the school year.
The HCC Accelerated Teacher Certification Program is dedicated to:
- Preparing individuals for Texas standard certification
- Engaging all students in an understanding of teaching and its role in education
- Offering high quality instruction, training and mentorship to ACP students
- Serving the education community as a resource and initiative for collaboration between the ACP, students, Region IV area schools including independent school districts, charter, private and parochial
- Introducing the community to the Accelerated Teacher Certification Program at Houston Community College
Certificate areas that are offered:
- Bilingual Education Supplemental-Spanish (Grades NA: Not a standalone certificate)
- Bilingual Generalist-Spanish (Grades EC-6)
- English as a Second Language/Generalist (Grades EC-6)
- English as a Second Language Supplemental (Grades NA: Not a standalone certificate)
- English Language Arts and Reading/Social Studies (Grades 4-8)
- Generalist (Grades EC-6)
- Generalist (Grades 4-8)
- Life Science (Grades 7-12)
- Mathematics (Grades 4-8)
- Mathematics (Grades 7-12)
- Physical Science (Grades 6-12)
- Science (Grades 4-8)
- Science (Grades 7-12)
- Social Studies (Grades 4-8)
- Special Education (Grades EC-12)
Program Admissions
Financial Assistance:
Please see the Continuing Education Financial Aid Website for any available scholarships or grants approved for the Accelerated Teacher Certification Program.
Individuals may qualify for the following:
- HCC Foundation Workforce Scholarship
- Applicants must have a 2.5 GPA.
- Must complete the scholarship application online at https://www.hccsfoundation.org/workforceschlp
- An essay is required
- Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at fafsa.ed.gov
- Click here for flyer.
- Workforce Solutions Scholarship
- Applicants must be seeking Mathematics, Science, Special Education, or Bilingual Generalist teacher certification.
- To request an Individual Referral/Cost Obligation Form email Yessenia Cruz at firstname.lastname@example.com with your name, number, HCC ID or Date of Birth with last 4-digits of Social Security No., the area of certification seeking, and the term applying for.
- To apply visit the Workforce Solutions Website for more information.
- Troops to Teachers
- A federally funded program designed to assist retiring and separating military veterans to become teachers.
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A general physical examination and blood tests are also conducted. An examination of cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord can reveal abnormal antibodies associated with neuropathy. More specialized tests may reveal other blood or cardiovascular diseases, connective tissue disorders or malignancies. Tests of muscle strength, as well as evidence of cramps or fasciculations, indicate motor fiber involvement. Evaluation of a patient's ability to register vibration, light touch, body position, temperature, and pain reveals sensory nerve damage and may indicate whether small or large sensory nerve fibers are affected.
Based on the results of the neurological exam, physical exam, patient history, and any previous screening or testing, additional testing may be ordered to help determine the nature and extent of the neuropathy. Those tests could include CT scans, MRIs and electromyography (EMG). Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) tests can precisely measure the degree of damage in larger nerve fibers. Other tests include a nerve biopsy and skin biopsy .Is there any treatment? No medical treatments exist that can cure inherited peripheral neuropathy. However, there are therapies for many other forms. In general, adopting healthy habits -- such as maintaining optimal weight, avoiding exposure to toxins, following a physician-supervised exercise program, eating a balanced diet, correcting vitamin deficiencies, and limiting or avoiding alcohol consumption -- can reduce the physical and emotional effects of peripheral neuropathy. Systemic diseases frequently require more complex treatments. What research is being done? The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and other institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conduct research related to peripheral neuropathies in laboratories at the NIH and also support additional research through grants to major medical institutions across the country. Current research projects funded by the NINDS involve investigations of genetic factors associated with hereditary neuropathies, studies of biological mechanisms involved in diabetes-associated neuropathies, and investigations exploring how the immune system contributes to peripheral nerve damage. Neuropathic pain is a primary target of NINDS-sponsored studies aimed at developing more effective therapies for symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Some scientists hope to identify substances that will block the brain chemicals that generate pain signals, while others are investigating the pathways by which pain signals reach the brain. For more research information on peripheral neuropathy, see the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Web site. Sources: -- MedlinePlus-- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke


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I wonder if Obama is collecting all the terrorists he's killing in a giant pile he'll show off at ground zero right before the election?
Good for Chris Christie. It's been a while since we've had a President get stuck in a bathtub.
The frothy mix of lube & fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex announces defamation of character lawsuit vs. Rick Santorum


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Linton-HMB takes part in Sakakawea Classic Meet
The Linton-HMB Boys and Girls Track teams saws their first action of the season in the Sakakawea Country Classic Meet in Hazen on April 27.
Linton-HMB scored 34 points to place 9th in the Boys Division. The Lions captured one title, taking the 3,200-meter relay in a time of 9:05.86. Members of the relay team were James Vetter, James Schmaltz, Ryan Schneider and Brock Nagel. The same four runners made up the Lion 1,600-meter relay team, which placed 4th with a time of 3:52.12.
Linton-HMB also placed 5th in the 400-meter relay (Chase Schiele, Rylan Jacob, Austin Bernhardt and Tayler Wetzsteon), and 6th in the 800-meter relay (John Glatt, Jacob, Bernhardt and Wetzsteon).
Individual place winners for Linton-HMB were Ryan Schneider, James Schmaltz, Jon Purintun and Austin Schell. Schneider placed 4th in the 1,600-meter run (5:04.43), Schmaltz placed 5th in the 800-meter run (2:16.46), Purintun placed 7th in the high jump (5' 6"), and Schell placed 8th in the 110-meter hurdles (:19.05).
Hazen captured the team title in the Boys Division with 91 points, followed by Stanley-Powers Lake (68.5), Rugby (59), Carrington (52.5) and New Town (48).
Linton-HMB placed in four events in the Girls Division and finished with 8 points. The Lady Lions (Tiffaney Gerving, Rachal Umber, Amber Umber and Brittni Brandner) placed 6th in the 3,200-meter relay (11:22.32), and 8th in both the 400-meter (AlLee Vetter, Morgan Holzer, Jadyn Gefroh and Megan Martell) and 1,600-meter (Cassie Gefroh, Tiarra Bosch, Taylor Aberle and R. Umber) relays.
Paulina Haak was the lone individual place winner for the Lady Lions, as she came away with 6th place in the discus with a toss of 100 feet, 4 inches.
Carrington captured the Girls Division team crown with 118 points, followed by Hazen (97.5), Rugby (78), Southern McLean (45.5) and Shiloh Christian (41).
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After breaking into the music scene through a boy band, Robbie Williams did not waste time in packaging himself as one of the UK's most popular home-grown solo pop artists. His talent in singing and in expressing himself and his music in other artistic ways has been described to be very unique. Despite his distinctive touch, however, Williams continues to score hits. This has made the music industry's observers amazed. Apparently, pop music is well accepted by the listeners because of their themes and musical forms applied. However, Williams continued to introduce changes that somehow improved the quality of music without deviating from his pop roots.
On the other hand, Robbie Williams did not only gain fame because of his talents. His attitude towards his success and even to the demands of the music industry has also resulted in infamy. Immediately after he went solo, he had always borne the tag of being the bad boy of UK's music industry. Such label however stuck even when it comes to the whole of Europe. Interestingly, this is not a bad thing. People simply love Robbie for his art and talents. His attitude has never been a major issue or concern, which is why he continues to enjoy success.
Recently, however, Williams has been trying to get rid of the bad boy label. This move is so much welcomed by the UK. It is clear that Williams would have been much more popular among the younger ages if he had been able to get rid of the bad boy tag so much earlier. Nevertheless and despite the fact that the negative label has stuck, Williams continues to enjoy immense success, which is clearly a sign that everything is doing well in his career. The new image that he is projecting has immediately gathered praise from the other sectors of his target listeners. Now, even the much younger kids have become fans of the star. Parents do not have to worry though because Williams himself has succeeded in making himself a little more wholesome.
Despite his colorful personality though what people would never fail to appreciate is his talent in making music. Robbie Williams does not just sing but he also makes his own music. It is quite clear that the inspiration that he has could only come from the fact that the words that he sings come from the heart. Because of this, it is right to say that he does not just sing but he actually expresses himself so honestly through his music. This is a trait that only a few people could find in themselves. Williams, however, has done so almost effortlessly.
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Because his style continues to improve, there is very little doubt that he would lose his popularity too soon. With songs that cut across generations, Williams could connect with individuals with various age levels. There is no doubt that Williams is bound to enjoy success after a much longer time. This is because not just of his popularity but also because he is doing his music best.


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Apocalypse Then: Volcanic eruptions wiped out half of life on Earth 200 million years ago
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
March 22nd, 2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) It was Apocalypse - then. Scientists say that a series of massive volcanic eruptions wiped out half of life on Earth 200 million years ago. Researchers have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of the world's species to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions. More ominously, the eruptions may have caused climate changes so sudden that many creatures were unable to adapt . possibly on a pace similar to that of human-influenced climate warming today. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic online) - It was all part of the cycle of life: Scientists say that the extinction opened the way for dinosaurs to evolve and dominate the planet for the next 135 million years. They ruled the world until they too, were wiped out in a later planetary cataclysm.Many scientists have suggested that the so-called End-Triassic Extinction and at least four other known past die-offs were caused at least in part by mega-volcanism and resulting climate change. They were still unable to tie deposits left by eruptions to biological crashes closely in time. The new study provides the most cogent link yet, with a newly precise date of 201,564,000 years ago, exactly the same time as a massive outpouring of lava. "This may not quench all the questions about the exact mechanism of the extinction itself," Co-author Paul Olsen, a geologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory said. "However, the coincidence in time with the volcanism is pretty much ironclad," Olsen adds. Lead author Terrence Blackburn used the decay of uranium isotopes to pull exact dates from basalt, a rock left by eruptions. Previous studies suggested a link between the eruptions and the extinction, but other researchers' dating of the basalts had a margin of error of one to three million years. A massive basalt flow In Clifton, New Jersey from the time of the End Triassic is exposed in a former quarry, now located behind a retirement home. Reddish sedimentary rocks signaling the extinction itself lie to the far right. The new margin of error is only a few thousand years, which is a mere blink of the eye, in geological terms. Blackburn and his colleagues showed that the eruption in Morocco was the earliest, with ones in Nova Scotia and New Jersey coming about 3,000 and 13,000 years later, respectively. Fossils now show that heat-sensitive plants especially suffered. There is also evidence that the increased CO2 caused chemical reactions that made the oceans more acidic, causing populations of shell-building creatures to collapse. There is also some evidence that a large meteorite hit the earth at the time of the extinction, but that factor seems far less certain. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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By: jaspergirl on April 14, 2010 - 1:37pm - Add new comment
Hey all hockey fans. Thought I'd start a new thread for the Second Season otherwise known as the Stanley Cup Playoffs. We all know who my fave is but who's yours and who do you think will be in the finals? Let's keep this thread going through to the end.
My prediction - a three-peat of the Pens and Wings. Team I hope goes out first - the Caps, of course, but I think it will be Montreal in the East and Phoenix in the West.
By: jaspergirl on April 21, 2010 - 3:26pm - Add new comment
A six game suspension is what has been handed down to Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlesberger which may be reduced down to four games for behavior in violation of the NFL player code of conduct. Can't say I've been a fan of Ben's behavior off the field and sometimes even on the field with a diva-esque attitude but the team sure will miss him out there. Some rumor mills have him traded while the organization is denying at this point. It may be a tough year trading away Santonio Holmes and losing Big Ben (both with conduct issues, btw) for six games.
By: jaspergirl on April 25, 2010 - 9:43am - Add new comment
Pittburgh Penguins will advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs along with the Philadelphia Flyers. Two nail biter games back to back. I needs to get me some mittens!!!!!
By: jaspergirl on May 31, 2010 - 9:03am - Add new comment
Memorial Day is a time to remember those who served and fell in combat and a time to thank them and preserve their memory and sacrifice from deep within our hearts. Thank you and we honor you.
By: jaspergirl on June 12, 2010 - 6:40am - Add new comment
But will anyone out there be watching the World Cup? U.S. is on today at 2:30 on ABC when they take on England. Best team assembled in the 4 cups I have watched. However, I can do without the horns that sound like an incessant swarm of bees.
By: jaspergirl on June 23, 2010 - 11:20am - Add new comment
Huge moment for Landon Donovan. In the 91st minute, USA scores a goal to advance to the next round of the World Cup. Argueably one of the best US teams ever fielded along with one of the best players for the U.S. Now it's either Serbia, Ghana or Germany in the next round. Bigger moment - if the US advances again, it won't ruin wedding plans for my son as the US would play on 4th of July rather than 3rd. Whew!
By: jaspergirl on July 8, 2010 - 8:25am - Add new comment
Does anyone else find the name of this new special program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" a little unsettling? Couldn't they have come up with something a little less heebie jeebie?
By: jaspergirl on August 15, 2010 - 6:23pm - Add new comment
So we finally finished up my youngest son's wedding extravaganza that began July 2nd and ended up this weekend in Delaware at a party for friends and relatives to celebrate their marriage. I have to say that the new Mrs.
By: jaspergirl on August 30, 2010 - 9:24am - Add new comment
In case you missed it, one of the best opening numbers for Emmy's
By: jaspergirl on October 3, 2010 - 3:23pm - Add new comment
Well, a bad decision to go for a blitz on the last play of the game allowed for poor pass coverage and a TD by Baltimore to win with seconds left. Lets hope the Pens do better in the last pre-season game tonight vs.


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Do not undertake the program unless the goal is manifestly important and its achievement nearly impossible.
Man is programmed to find the programmer.
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of programming themselves contingently on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their pre-programming.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Scientists alone can establish the objectives of their research, but society, in extending support to science, must take account of its own needs. As a layman, I can suggest only with diffidence what some of the major tasks might be on your scientific agenda, but ... First, I would suggest the question of the conservation and development of our natural resources. In a recent speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, I proposed a world-wide program to protect land and water, forests and wildlife, to combat exhaustion and erosion, to stop the contamination of water and air by industrial as well as nuclear pollution, and to provide for the steady renewal and expansion of the natural bases of life.
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.


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Saturday, 23 March:
Day Nine - Breaking camp...
A cool and very foggy morning when I stick my head out of the tent 0700 (which is about when the sun finally starts to warm the tent). Smoke from the fire already burning mixes with the fog to hang thick and low over the palmetto and oak scrub around our camp. Heard cardinals and a white-eyed vireo singing from the earliest light. I also heard students trying to move quietly around the site; unusual so early, and a bit confusing, until I saw the decorations on the tent (see yesterday's account). So they get their joke and pictures, and then we get on with the morning.
The sun has quickly dispersed the fog, which drained away almost as quickly as water when the plug is pulled. I drove several of the crew to the showers, a bit over a mile away. Even this early, the showers were crowded and it took a while for everyone to consider themselves 'ready.' I busied myself with my journal, and did spy a Swainson's thrush near the bathhouse.
Breakfast and packing a bit delayed, and a final potty stop being judged prudent (if not necessary), we were on the road by 0945. Then, of course, fuel, junk food and fruit stand/souvenir stops added to the delay. Do we really want to get back to wintry Ohio or not?
We follow US 27 north up the sand-ridge spine of Florida. Once this was solid orange country, now we see abandoned and heavily frost-damaged groves, some grown up to thickets or replaced by pine plantations. By the time we pass through Clermont, home of the 'Orange Tower,' orange trees are scarce. Bad winters and changing economies have taken their toll. At Wildwood, we climb reluctantly onto I-75 again and point ourselves northward. Lunch is delayed until we find a nice place to eat.
1400 to 1545 we make a brief excursion to Payne's Prairie State Preserve. Too hungry to move very far from the bus, we stagger into the parking lot and, sitting on the ground in the shade, attack lunch like a hyena clan (well, maybe not as noisily, anyway). A short walk through the oak woodland along
the south edge of the prairie
momentarily takes our minds off of where we're headed. The prairie is a seasonal wetland but quite different from the Everglades. Here, water flows in but not through the system, which is much smaller. It can be very productive, however, once possessing a huge population of water snakes; sandhill cranes are often seen around here, though we are not so lucky. We did find a solitary wasp nest and a squirrel treefrog hiding in the shelter of a curved palmetto frond. A pretty orange trumpet vine and a species of greenbrier climbed into trees in several places. And, in spite of visiting here numerous times before, I discover to my amazement that the understory in the live oak forest we are walking through is primarily sweet gum. I don't usually think of sweet gum being that abundant in any one place, let alone the dominant understory tree!
Alas, we must move on, must be home tomorrow night or miss school on Monday. We drive back to I-75 through historic Micanopy; each return to the interstate bring at least one voice, often a chorus, crying "Shouldn't we be going south?" By the time we reach the Georgia line, it is still spring-like in the warm late afternoon sun. Virtually any deciduous tree has at least progressed to the point where its buds were swelling. Fields are brown, but the roadsides are turning green. Fields are being burned in places around here, and the air is a bit hazy; the occasional column of smoke can be seen toward the horizon.
Another Shoney's for dinner. In Tifton, where we also fuel up. A long drive through the Georgia night commences. A brief rest stop on the north side of Atlanta, and then on to Cartersville, where we 'camp' at a Ho-Jo's motel. It is already the wee hours of tomorrow. There will be no more gators this trip, and we will be weeks away from leaves on the trees in one short day.
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Homemade Food Kitchen
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Report: Spurs could target Garnett this summer
JUN 11, 2012 12:39a ET
According to a report in the San Antonio Express-News, they just might.
The paper, citing a source in the Spurs organization, reported that the team will look at all options this summer, including unrestricted free agent Kevin Garnett.
While it's a long shot to happen ( Tim Duncan, himself, is an unrestricted free agent and must be re-signed by San Antonio), it would make for a very interesting pairing on the court.
Garnett and Duncan are similar in size and age, not to mention they play the same position. But personality-wise, the two couldn't be bigger polar opposites.
As Harvey puts it, people in San Antonio refer to Garnett as "Duncan's evil twin."
But adding a player of championship caliber such as Garnett to the Spurs roster would do one thing for sure: Help them remain contenders in the Western Conference.


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Fletcher Jenkins
Position: DE-NT
Height: 6-2 Weight: 258 lbs.
Born: November 4, 1959 in Tacoma, WA
High School: Lakes
College: Washington (school history)
Drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the 7th round (169th overall) of the 1982 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 5 (9169th overall since 1950)
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We're happy that Demi was able to cut loose for the evening!
Demi Lovato has seemed a bit stressed recently, between her hectic work schedule and intense Twitter messages. But it seems like she had a great night out with her friends recently, and she totally deserves the break!
Demi, 19, took to Twitter on Jan. 8 to post a picture of her crew out for a night on the town — and Demi looks so great! We love how normal she is.
Would YOU love to hang out and party with Demi, HollywoodLifers?
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APInterview: Wis. Gov Says Mining Bill Will Pass
MADISON, Wis. (AP) â¿¿ Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he is confident the Republican-controlled Legislature will pass a mining bill next year, but he won't sign anything he believes will hurt the environment.
Walker told The Associated Press in a Monday interview that he believes the June recall election against him made it more difficult for the mining bill to pass this year.
Lawmakers could not reach a compromise on the bill despite pressure from a company looking to open a new iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior.
Walker says he would look at a bill that would do away with the state's 15-year-old "moratorium" on mines that produce polluting acids, but he doesn't want anything that would jeopardize the state's tourism and agriculture industries.
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The spectacular Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre (pronounced in-ka-meep) is the Okanagan's newest family tourism destination.
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