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Our 2018 property listings offer a large selection of 743 vacation rentals near Foolow. From 433 Bungalows to 433 Cabins, find a unique house rental for you to enjoy a memorable stay with your family and friends. The best places to stay near Foolow for a holiday or a weekend are on VRBO.

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    Enjoy the culture and other features of Foolow. This city is welcoming and walkable, recognized for its bars, restaurants and mountain views. Beauchief Abbey and Arts Tower are just a couple of the must-sees in the area. With a vacation rental, you get a home away from home—many rentals offer full kitchens and outdoor grills for some home cooking.

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    • Magna Science Adventure Centre (16.2 mi / 26.1 km)
    • Peak District National Park Authority (4.9 mi / 7.9 km)
    • Dore and Totley Golf Club (9 mi / 14.6 km)
    • Beauchief Golf Course (9.1 mi / 14.6 km)
    • Moor View Golf Centre (9.1 mi / 14.7 km)
    • King Edward's Swimming Pool (11 mi / 17.6 km)

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    First time in Foolow and looking for things to do? Some of the area's family-friendly draws for travelers include Magna Science Adventure Centre, Peak District National Park Authority and Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Visitors searching for nearby cultural experiences can take a trip to Beauchief Abbey and Arts Tower or spend an enlightening afternoon at Peace Gardens or Millennium Gallery. To appreciate the outdoor scene, make time for green spaces such as Peak Cavern, Speedwell Cavern and Forge Dam. Want to take in a game or event? Get tickets for Ponds Forge International Sports Centre. Activities around the area include Dore and Totley Golf Club, Beauchief Golf Course and Moor View Golf Centre. Also a trip to Sheffield Town Hall, Eyam Hall or Peveril Castle might be a nice excursion.

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    • Peace Gardens (11.9 mi / 19.2 km)
    • Peak Cavern (4.5 mi / 7.3 km)
    • Speedwell Cavern (5.3 mi / 8.5 km)
    • Forge Dam (8.6 mi / 13.8 km)
    • Pavilion Gardens (8.7 mi / 13.9 km)
    • Ecclesall Woods (8.9 mi / 14.3 km)


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           In February, 1983, I bought about 4 acres of land in Bizani village, with the aim of building this museum. I was 60 years old at the time. I put my endurance and tolerance to the test.
           What I found was rocks, rough ground in great slant (there was no flat surface whatsoever), a few holly oaks here and there and a couple of wild pear trees. There was no road or path anywhere.
           The first thing I did was to trace new roads. I determined with caution where the buildings would be. As we walk up the hill, the ascent was cut out on the right and the descent on the left. I wanted a traffic island to be created whose asymmetric winding shape would add variety to the area of the entrance and exit. I used the debris I dug out in the width of the road and for the squares (like the one you see first) I planted a plane-tree at the joint of the ascent and descent. It is cool under its shade. On the right, I had pathways to the mountain traced for the pedestrians, so that they can enjoy nature while taking a shortcut to the museum. I had trees, flowers and bushes planted but I left some spots of the rough ground here and there.
           On the right hand side of the square, I support the steep slope with big stones I encountered there.  40 meters on the left, I had a retaining wall built with big rocks and debris with the aim of extending the first square. In this way, I form a number of levels which I have used to create beautiful sites with trees, flowers and low vegetation. Moving on, as we go up by car or on foot, just before we turn up right, we come across the second square.

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The 9 Saddest Eddie Van Halen Stories From Sammy Hagar’s Rolling Stone Article

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This month, Rolling Stone excerpts Sammy Hagar’s upcoming memoir, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, focusing on his tumultuous relationship with Eddie Van Halen. It’s really depressing! Shifting from the mid-eighties Van Halen days to the 2004 reunion, Hagar has nothing but horrible, horrible things to say, mostly about how much of an awful drunk Eddie is. Here are the nine worst parts. By the way, if anyone out there has any mean stories about Sammy Hagar, now would be the time

• “Eddie and Al[ex Van Halen] were tight as nails. They never walked into the room with just their own beer. They always had a beer in their pocket for the other guy. It was beautiful unless they’d started fighting, then it was terrible. When they were both drinking, they’d fight at least once a week. I mean, go at it. Fistfights.”

• “Eddie drank all day too. They both [Eddie and Alex] woke up, grabbed a beer, lit a cigarette, and that was the way they started their day.”

• “He was wearing a pair of wrinkled pants … he and Valerie [Bertinelli] were living out of suitcases. They had been off the road for a few months, but they didn’t have their stuff hanging in their closest. There were piles of stuff everywhere.”

• “He walked around all day drinking cheap shiraz straight out the bottle. That’s why his teeth were all black. ‘Ed, why don’t you get a glass for that?’ I said. He held up the bottle. ‘It’s in a glass,’ he said.”

• “He may have lost a chunk of his tongue to cancer, but he was still smoking cigarettes. He claimed the cancer came from putting the guitar pick in his mouth while he used his fingers to play.”

• “He finally invited me over to this giant, extravagant house that he and Valerie had built before she split. It looked like vampires lived there. There were bottles and cans all over the floor … there were spider webs everywhere. He had big blankets thrown over the windows. The mattresses were stripped off the beds and leaned against the wall for soundproofing.”

• “He smashed the bottle. ‘Fuck you,’ he said. ‘I will kill the first motherfucker that tries to take this bottle away from me. I left my family for this shit. You think I’m going to fucking do this for you guys?’”

• “’Fuck you,’ he said, and started bashing his bottle on the plane window. One of the security guys tried to calm him down, but he kept yelling and pounding the bottle … The stewardess and the pilot started freaking out. They were reluctant to take off with this madman on the plane.”

• “One time, we got on a plane after a show and he spent practically the whole flight in the bathroom. When he finally came out, he had this hairbrush … twisted up in his hair … He was soaking wet … like he tried to take a bath in the airplane sink. He flopped down on the floor, fussing with the brush caught in his hair, and never went back to his seat, landed that way.”

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The 13 Most Ignorant Quotes From That Awful Deadline Article

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Last night, Deadline’s TV editor Nellie Andreeva trolled hard with an article questioning whether or not diversity on TV has gone too far. Unsurprisingly, her controversial arguments — backed repeatedly by the problematic phrase “ethnic casting” — drew an almost immediate backlash on Twitter from writers, viewers, industry-watchers, and even showrunners like Shonda Rhimes. Given some of its head-scratching, tone-deaf, and indefensibly racist undertones, “Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings – About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?” warrants an in-depth look into what, exactly, makes her words so troublesome.

1. “Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings – About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?”
Let’s start with the headline. Just when Shonda Rhimes thought it couldn’t get any worse than the word diversity, Andreeva takes us back to the 19th century, when racists still referred to nonwhites as “ethnics” — and got away with it. FYI, for those unfamiliar with the term’s etymology, we are all “ethnic.” The very word, by Merriam-Webster’s definition, means “of or relating to races or large groups of people who have the same customs, religion, origin, etc.” That’s right! White people are “ethnic,” too. And using the term to suggest anything otherwise — in this case, that it denotes only people of color — is a dangerous, slippery slope. Also, “casting term” — as she defends her use of the word in the article’s first sentence — or not, it’s irresponsible to repeat it.

2. “But, as is the case with any sea change, the pendulum might have swung a bit too far in the opposite direction. Instead of opening the field for actors of any race to compete for any role in a color-blind manner, there has been a significant number of parts designated as ethnic this year, making them off-limits for Caucasian actors, some agents signal.”
But whatever will white actors do with all the “ethnic” actors stealing their parts on TV? Oh, that’s right, still enjoy the other 70 to 80 percent of network-TV parts. But someone, please, check on all the white actors and make sure they’re okay!

3. “However, because of a mandate from the studio and network, one of the roles had to diverse [sic], so the pilot could only cast one of the top choices and pass on the other to fulfill the ethnic quota.”
If you are truly of the mind that Hollywood now has some sort of “ethnic quota” to fill, given minorities still only make up about 5 percent of lead roles on TV shows, then I have a magic carpet ride to sell you.

4. “Because of the sudden flood of roles for ethnic actors after years of suppressed opportunities for them, the talent pool of experienced minority performers — especially in the younger range — is pretty limited.”
This is a thinly veiled way of saying that nonwhite Hollywood isn’t as talented as white Hollywood by comparison. And no one, especially actors like Keke Palmer, Hudson Yang, and Rico Rodriguez (i.e., members of the “younger range” of “experienced minority performers” that sentence seems to slight the most), should have to stand for such an absurd and racist assumption.

5. “Star names were in demand as usual, as were hot young guys and girls and occasional foreigners with that ‘sparkle.’”
Remember that slippery slope to a racial slur I mentioned earlier? “Occasional foreigners with that ‘sparkle’” officially slides all the way off. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of offensive language.

6. “Some of it has been organic. Last year, the leads in Extant and How To Get Away With Murder, originally not written as black, became ethnic once stars of the caliber of Halle Berry and Viola Davis became interested.”
There are many factually questionable assertions in this piece, but this is one I can confirm by my own original reporting as untrue. The implication here is that Viola Davis’s character, Annalise Keating, was originally written as white and then, by kismet, cast as black. But when I spoke to Channing Dungey, an executive vice-president at ABC, earlier this year for a story on the Empire effect that appeared on Slate, she told me that HTGAWM’s creator, Peter Nowalk, “did not at all specify [Annalise’s] ethnicity” when he pitched the show.

7. “ABC and 20th TV cast Patten, who is black, knowing already that the male lead had been conceived as Hispanic.”
Well, if we’re going to go around ID’ing people’s races for the hell of it, let’s at least get it right. Patton — not Patten — is biracial. (As is the previously mentioned as “black” Halle Berry.)

8. “There also have been a number of drama co-leads on which the networks chose to go ethnic this year.”
I’m willing to guess Andreeva would never write the phrase “on which the networks chose to go white this year” — a choice Hollywood does, in fact, regularly and very intentionally make — so there’s no sense in pretending like it’s the other way around. It is not a choice to cast nonwhite actors in lead roles; it is a mathematical demand for accurate representation of an increasingly nonwhite American society in the entertainment we consume. Treat it as such.

9. “Uncle Buck and Love Is A Four Letter Word are among several projects where the original white protagonists have been changed to black this season.”
But let’s not harp on the hundreds (probably closer to thousands) of times Hollywood has taken roles based on nonwhite real-life people — not just fictional characters — and whitewashed their entire stories down to the actors who play them, right? (Or even worse, misrepresented someone’s race entirely by casting, for example, an Indian actor in a Pakistani role, or a Puerto Rican actress in a Mexican-American role.)

10. “The TV and film superhero ranks have been overly white for too long, workplace shows should be diverse to reflect workplace in real America, and ethnic actors should get a chance to play more than the proverbial best friend or boss.”
I was with this sentence until it got to the “best friend or boss” bit. How about we have more nonwhite actors in positions of power on television? Didn’t realize that that, of all things, was a stereotype Hollywood should be avoiding when writing nonwhite roles.

11. “But replacing one set of rigid rules with another by imposing a quota of ethnic talent on each show might not be the answer.”
Again, we have this fantasy “ethnic quota.” Don’t worry, Hollywood is not about to see some overhaul by affirmative action anytime soon.

12. “While they are among the most voracious and loyal TV viewers, African-Americans still represent only 13% of the U.S. population. They were grossly underserved, but now, with shows as Empire, Black-ish, Scandal and HTGAWM on broadcast, Tyler Perry’s fare on OWN and Mara Brock Akil’s series on BET, they have scripted choices, so the growth in that fraction of the TV audience might have reached its peak.”
Oh, well, thanks for the bone. Now that blacks have, like, six shows with a cast who looks like them, no need to worry about overrepresenting us, I guess.

13. “Since broadcast TV is a historically reactive business, that will determine whether the trend of ethnic casting will come back with a vengeance next season.”
Kim Kardashian’s platinum-blonde hair is trendy. “Rich-girl” hair is trendy. Kylie Jenner’s lip liner is trendy. Race is not trendy. Let me repeat: Race is not trendy. Positing color-blind casting or the uptick in nonwhite roles on TV as a “trend”only further insults one’s racial identity as a disposable part of who they are. Many, as Flavorwire’s Pilot Viruet did this month, have pointed out and explored the cyclical nature of TV’s relationship with nonwhite programming. It comes as fast as it goes, but that in no way indicates a trend. Black, Latino, Asian, Indian, Native American, etc. skin will never go out of style, and it’s certainly not something to ooh and aah at when every once in a blue moon a hit show with a mostly black cast like Empire comes along. I don’t doubt that Nellie Andreeva was simply trying to gauge the industry’s tepid attitude toward this supposed new wave of multicultural TV. But her reporting (and side commentary) reads as little more than toned-down propaganda from rich white male network executives scared of adding a little too much color to their prime-time blocks.

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12 x 10 $1175 95 lbs $985 $1175 65 lbs $985
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  • Montana Canvas wedge tents have a 10 oz canvas with a special heavy paraffin water, mildew, fire finished treatment that should make the wedge tent very water, mildew and fire resistant.
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The New York State Education Department is accepting applications for the 2017 New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA).

High school students are encouraged to apply for summer sessions including ballet, choral, dance, media arts, orchestra, theatre and visual arts.

Auditions begin in early January and will be held across the state. A schedule of audition sites and application materials are available on the program website:

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1810 15th St NW #SOUTH Washington, DC 20009

2,200 Sq.Ft. On Site: 31 Days
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Masterfully developed by Berkeley DC, The Sloane is an exquisite display of craftsmanship with a nod to the storied facade's first 100 years. At the crossroads of modern elegance and ultimate convenience, the Romanesque Revival sits right in the heart of Logan Circle. The South Residence boasts 2,200 square feet, a private elevator serving all four floors and warm Bevolo gas lanterns that welcome you home. Four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms are complimented by Waterworks fixtures, Italian marble, oak flooring, European designer kitchens, and manicured outdoor living spaces.
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Year Built:2018
Sq. Feet:2200
On Site:31 Days
Lot Size:0.04 Acres

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Address:1810 15th St NW #SOUTH Washington, DC 20009
Subdivision:Washington Dc
Zip Code:20009

Unit Number:#SOUTH
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 4 Full / 1 Half
Year Built:2018
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Basement Type: Fully Finished, Heated, Daylight, Full

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Total Sq. Ft.:2200
Interior Features: Breakfast Area, Built-Ins, Elevator, Floor Plan - Open, Kitchen - Eat-In, Kitchen - Island, Master Bath(s), Walk-in Closet(s), Wood Floors
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Flooring: Hardwood
Exterior Features: Exterior Lighting, Extensive Hardscape
Sub Structure Types: Above Grade, Below Grade
Cooling: Central A/C
Cooling Fuel: Electric
Heating: Central
Heating Fuel: Natural Gas

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Lot Size: 0.04 Acres
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Tax Year: 2017
Ownership Type: Condominium
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We are so proud of all the Washington FFA member participants and look forward to a strong year of skill development and learning during the 2017-2018 membership year!

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The Rev. Billy Graham preaches in Washington in 1970. (Charles Del Vecchio/The Washington Post)
Kevin M. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. His most recent book was "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America."

It’s rare to find consensus in the American media, but the passing of Billy Graham has provided one such moment.

In outlets ranging from established newspapers such as USA Today to next-generation outlets such as BuzzFeed and Vox, from the high-culture perch of NPR to the pop-culture world of E! Online, from conservative Fox News to liberal HuffPost, one common concept ran throughout their headlines: Graham had been “America’s pastor.”

Graham worked hard to earn that title. He served, to varying degrees, as counselor and confidant for every president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. In times of crisis, such as the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11, the nation’s leaders called upon Graham to give solace to a grieving nation.

Beyond those moments, he spent much of his career crossing lines that had long divided Americans. Though he was ordained as a Southern Baptist, Graham’s public ministry was broadly ecumenical. Though he grew up in the Jim Crow South, he made early and earnest efforts to break down the barriers of racial segregation, first in his own religious rallies and then in society at large.

To be sure, Graham was, as he would admit, not without sin or shortcomings. Privately, he made anti-Semitic comments that suggested insincerity in his religious outreach; publicly, he resisted full equality for gays and lesbians, showing limits in his understanding of civil rights.

Oddly, Graham’s political power as “America’s pastor” stemmed from the fact that he seemed, to most Americans, inherently apolitical. He served Republican and Democratic presidents alike and worked to reach out to Americans from across the racial, religious and political spectrum.

But that image was one largely cultivated later in his life. Early in his career, Graham made his name as an outspoken conservative — a chapter largely forgotten in most remembrances but crucial to understanding his legacy.

At the 1949 revival that launched his career, Billy Graham staked out an identity as an ardent Cold Warrior. “Communism,” he thundered from a Los Angeles stage, “has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. Communism is not only an economic interpretation of life — communism is a religion that is inspired, directed, and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.”

In keeping with the tenets of postwar conservatism, Graham paired his assault on communism with a defense of capitalism. “When Graham speaks of ‘the American way of life,’ ” an early biographer noted, “he has in mind the same combination of economic and political freedom that the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the Wall Street Journal do when they use the phrase.” Indeed, Graham had a close working relationship with the nation’s rich and powerful, which landed him favorable press from conservative media giants such as Henry Luce and William Randolph Hearst.

With their backing, Graham devoted himself in his early years to spreading the gospel of free enterprise. Capitalism and Christianity, as Graham understood them, went hand in hand.

This warm embrace of business contrasted with the cold shoulder Graham gave organized labor.  The Garden of Eden, he told a rally in 1952, had been a paradise with “no union dues, no labor leaders, no snakes, no disease.” A Christian worker “would not stoop to take unfair advantage” of his employer by joining a union.

Likewise, Graham denounced government involvement in the economy, which he invariably condemned as “socialism.” “Government restrictions” on free enterprise, he warned, would lead to the loss of “freedom of opportunity” in America. He called on conservatives to revolt against the New Deal.

Concerned about the threat of socialism at home, Graham made his presence felt in D.C. He led a congressional prayer service in April 1950 and used his contacts in the Capitol to secure a visit to the White House that June.

To Graham’s lasting embarrassment, his meeting with Truman was disastrous. Most egregiously, Graham and his associates divulged details to the media and posed for photographs on the White House lawn. A furious Truman dismissed Graham as a counterfeit interested only in “getting his name in the paper.”

The coldness from Truman only made it easier for Graham to express his opposition to the Democratic administration from the pulpit. In January 1951, he warned that “the vultures are now encircling our debt-ridden inflationary economy with its 15-year record of deficit finance and its staggering national debt, to close in for the kill.” He chided Democrats for wasting money on welfare at home and the Marshall Plan abroad.

As an alternative, Graham championed Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom he personally recruited to run. Publicly, the preacher claimed not to take sides in the 1952 presidential race, but behind the scenes, he offered spiritual advice at Eisenhower’s campaign headquarters and suggested scripture for his stump speeches.

In his own appearances that year, Graham embraced Republican slogans as his own and all but endorsed Eisenhower. “The Korean War is being fought,” he told a Houston congregation, “because the nation’s leaders blundered on foreign policy in the Far East.” He called Truman “cowardly” for not following the advice of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and pursuing “this half-hearted war” rather than unleashing the full might of the military.

On domestic issues, meanwhile, Graham warned that “communists and left-wingers” posed a danger to the nation and suggested that there might be “a fifth column in our midst.”

With Graham at his side, Eisenhower won in a landslide.

Graham and Eisenhower worked together over the next eight years, blending piety and patriotism in remarkable new ways. The preacher served as a constant source of support for the president, offering prayers at Eisenhower’s inauguration and at other events, such as the national prayer breakfasts they initiated in 1953.

In these years, Graham became closely associated with the Republican administration, especially Vice President Richard Nixon. Graham supported Nixon in his 1960 campaign against the Catholic John F. Kennedy, who Graham believed would be beholden to the pope. Nixon narrowly lost that time, but Graham redoubled his efforts when his friend ran again in 1968 and helped carry him to victory.

With Nixon in power, Graham stepped up his involvement again. A constant presence and trusted adviser, the minister became, in the words of biographer Marshall Frady, “something like an extra officer of Nixon’s Cabinet, the administration’s own Pastor-without-Portfolio.” Others were more critical of Graham’s willingness to mingle politics and religion. The Rev. Will Campbell denounced Graham as “a false court prophet who tells Nixon and the Pentagon what they want to hear,” while journalist I.F. Stone dismissed him as a “smoother Rasputin.”

In the end, Graham would regret his close association with Nixon. When the president fell from grace, he took some of Graham’s public prestige with him. The same Oval Office recordings that revealed the crimes of Watergate also exposed anti-Semitic remarks from Graham. Seeking to recover his standing, the preacher swore off political intrigue and finally removed himself from the inner circles of power.

In remembering Graham, we must reckon with both halves of his career — the quarter-century he spent working as a shrewd political insider, and the slightly longer span he spent atoning for it.

While Graham did much to enshrine the politics of religious nationalism that came to define the modern era, he also came to regret it.

Famously, in 1979, he refused to join the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority. “Evangelists cannot be closely identified with any particular party or person,” he noted then. “We have to stand in the middle in order to preach to all people, right and left. I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will be in the future.”

More than just rejecting partisanship, Graham also distanced himself from the larger politics of piety and patriotism. “I came close to identifying the American way of life with the kingdom of God,” he noted in a 1980 interview. “Then I realized that God had called me to a higher kingdom than America.”

As Graham started this second act of his public life — less involved in partisan politics, less concerned with the nation’s leaders and more focused on its citizens — he secured his place as “America’s pastor.” And now that his place in our political life lies vacant, those who would seek to fill his considerable void would be wise to remember the lessons he learned along the way.


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A proud parent from Winston-Salem, N.C., tells this story about his son.

The 22-year-old college graduate was offered a civilian job at the Defense Department “and couldn’t be more excited. Parents were more excited than he was — job, paycheck, things that you hope they’re going to find.”

But then the son encountered the prolonged ordeal known as the government’s security clearance process. The involved, lengthy procedure, with 710,000 cases in the backlog, leaves talented, well-qualified people thinking that Uncle Sam isn’t worth the wait.

That hurts the agencies and companies that rely on cleared workers to do the nation’s most sensitive work.

“Here’s a kid that is incredibly excited to work for government …” the father, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), said at a Senate hearing earlier this month, “and after 11 months, you know, he wonders whether he made the right decisions.”

Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Mark R. Warner (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the panel, are trying to determine why Uncle Sam has such trouble getting the system right.

One Washington-area applicant for an intelligence-community job who refused to be identified said he first applied six years ago but was not hired. That’s disappointing enough, but after the “ordeal” of the application, the denial and the appeals process, his “painful” rejection was not final until last year.

“If the goal is to get the best people,” he said in an interview, “and you’re taking that long, the result is … people are going to go somewhere else.”

Chris Graham, the applicant’s attorney and a lawyer with the Federal Practice Group, said he favors time limitations on the processing of security clearance adjudications. “I think that would be the biggest help to people,” Graham said.

To streamline the process, the Obama administration launched the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) in 2016. It started in a hole and is still there.

“When I first joined this organization, 17 months ago, the capacity to conduct the work that we were required to do was insufficient to conduct that work, period,” Charles S. Phalen Jr., NBIB’s director, told the committee. He predicted a 15 to 20 percent reduction in the backlog by the end of this year.

Cutting the time it takes to complete investigations and appeals is key. Despite expectations that the NBIB would make things better, both Warner and Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats have declared the security clearance system “broken.”

Senate Intelligence Committee ranking Democrat Mark R. Warner (Va.), left, and Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) talk during a meeting in February. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

“The process takes too long, costs too much and is too complicated,” Warner told the Federal Insider. The process “really hasn’t changed very much” since it began in 1947, he said at the hearing, when classified cables relied on typewriters and telex machines.

Many cleared personnel work for government contractors, including Raytheon, a large technology firm. Jane Chappell, Raytheon’s vice president of global intelligence solutions in the area of intelligence, information and services, complained that “delays in the initiation, investigation, and adjudication process for both secret and top-secret clearances were two to three times longer” in September than congressional guidelines set in 2004.

Other gloomy metrics: The percentage of agencies not meeting timeliness objectives for initial secret and top-secret clearances rose from 73 to 98 from fiscal 2012 to 2016, according to Brenda S. Farrell of the Government Accountability Office. “Since 2014, the time it takes to obtain a clearance has more than doubled,” added Kevin M. Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech International, a cybersecurity firm.

Chappell said the numbers fail to capture “the real-world impacts of the backlog. New careers are put on hold, top talent is lost to nondefense industries, and programs that will provide critical warfighter capabilities are delayed. And these impacts come with a real-world price tag, resulting in otherwise unnecessary increases in program costs and inefficient use of taxpayer dollars.”

She recounted “a disappointing story” from another Raytheon vice president. “While he was pumping gas, he started a conversation with the gas station clerk, who turned out to be a recent college graduate who had accepted an offer to join Raytheon pending the outcome of his clearance. The candidate moved across the country to Tucson for his new job, but as his start date at Raytheon was delayed by the clearance process, he was forced to work at the gas station to make ends meet.”

During a phone interview, Chappell mentioned a Raytheon employee who waited 19 months to be cleared and told her about “several other colleagues who are top-notch engineers that left the company because it took so long for them to get their clearance.”

Among the list of problems beleaguering the security clearance process, reciprocity, among and even within agencies, should be easy to fix. Federal employees and contractors can be cleared to work in one office, but if they move to another, they often must be cleared again. That adds to the backlog.

“How can it be that you’re cleared and acceptable for one part of the government at a certain level, and you’re not cleared and acceptable at another part?” asked David J. Berteau, president of the Professional Services Council, which represents government-contracting companies.

The Department of Homeland Security “alone has a more than a dozen separate individual reciprocity determiners who can say, ‘You may be good enough for those guys, but you’re not good enough for me,’ ” added Berteau, a former assistant defense secretary. “And they don’t even have to tell us why, which makes it very hard for us to figure out how to get out of that.”

No one tried to justify a backlog that is greater than the District’s population.

“It’s just not acceptable,” Warner said.

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Jurgen Klinsmann and the U.S. squad will begin the final round of 2018 World Cup qualifying with matches against Mexico and Costa Rica. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

***With the Dos a Cero showdown in Columbus 10 days away, U.S. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s squad will begin to gather in central Ohio this weekend. The identity of the players will probably go public Sunday, but Monday is also possible.

Because the U.S. squad is playing two World Cup qualifiers — Mexico on Nov. 11 at Mapfre Stadium and Costa Rica on Nov. 15 in San Jose, C.R. — Klinsmann is expected to invite more than the standard 23 players. Although the list is probably set, he’ll continue monitoring players for injury setbacks with their clubs before the FIFA break. Last-minute internal changes are not uncommon.

While a full slate of European and Mexican league matches involving U.S. players lie ahead this weekend, MLS candidates from active playoff teams — such as Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and Sacha Kljestan — are in action Sunday.

Geoff Cameron, slated to partner with John Brooks in the heart of the U.S. backline, missed Stoke City’s Premier League match against Swansea City on Monday with a hyper-extended knee. The club hopes to have him back Saturday at West Ham. Cameron has helped fuel Stoke’s turnaround — 3-0-2 after four consecutive league defeats — in a defensive midfield role.

***Stoke’s victory came at Bob Bradley’s expense as the American manager fell to two defeats and one draw at the Swansea City helm. The Swans are in an 0-7-2 dive across all competitions and sit next to last with five points heading into Sunday’s home date with Manchester United.

“When a team has gone through a bad stretch, there’s no magic way of getting some confidence back,” Bradley said. “It’s a test of everybody’s character and determination every single day. Let’s face it: That’s where we are. We know that. It’s a huge job we have. I knew that from the start.”

***Americans in UEFA Champions League:

Fabian Johnson and Moenchengladbach vs. Celtic, 3:45 p.m. ET (ESPN3.com, WatchESPN)

Julian Green and Bayern Munich at PSV Eindhoven, 3:45 (Fox Sports Net regional outlets, ESPN3.com, WatchESPN)

Christian Pulisic and Borussia Dortmund vs. Sporting Lisbon, 3:45 (FS2, Fox Sports Go, foxsoccer2go.com)

***Former Seattle Sounders star Obafemi Martins has agreed to a one-year contract extension with Shanghai Shenhua that will net him around $9 million. In his first season in the Chinese Super League, the 32-year-old Nigerian forward posted nine goals in 26 matches (13 starts). His last MLS contract, in 2015, paid him $3 million.

***MLS announced that six players have graduated from the Generation Adidas program, meaning they are no longer exempt from the salary cap and expansion draft. (Their club would have to protect them in order to avoid possibly losing them to Atlanta or Minnesota on Dec. 13.) They are Seattle’s Cristian Roldan and Damion Lowe, Philadelphia’s Andre Blake, Colorado’s Marlon Hairston, Vancouver’s Christian Dean and Montreal’s Romario Williams.

Those retaining GA status are D.C. United’s Julian Buescher, Philadelphia’s Josh Yaro and Fabian Herbers, New York City’s Jack Harrison, Real Salt Lake’s Omar Holness, San Jose’s Andrew Tarbell, Toronto’s Alex Bono, and Orlando’s Conor Donovan and Richie Laryea.

***The third-seeded Georgetown University women’s team (14-2-2) will open the Big East tournament Tuesday with a quarterfinal against sixth-seeded Butler (11-6-2) at Shaw Field. Kickoff is at 2 p.m.

***The Virginia men’s team, which finished the regular season on a nine-game unbeaten streak, is the No. 6 seed in the ACC tournament, which will begin Wednesday. The Cavaliers (9-2-5) will host 11th-seeded North Carolina State at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville. The winner will visit third-seeded Louisville in Sunday’s quarterfinals.

Guatemalan midfielder Pablo Aguilar capped Virginia’s regular season last Friday with an 87th-minute golazo against Duke for a 1-0 victory. The goal comes at the 1:45 mark of the following video:


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- The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Quite frankly the behavior of some women has gotten out of hand, and it's because we men have become cowards and wimps. The more men take of double-standards, ridiculous demands and just plain nonsense, the more these women are going to give.

You say, “What do you have against the fairer sex, Williams?” I say nothing. While some of my best friends are women, I'm getting tired of all the sex-based nonsense. Let's look at it.

On “Today” show last November, Katie Couric suddenly deviated from her perkiness and asked a jilted bride, in reference to the groom who jilted her, “Have you considered castration as an option?” There was no storm of protest, and perky Katie remains on NBC's payroll. Fred Hayward, a men's rights organizer, told U.S. News & World Report writer, John Leo, “Imagine the reaction if Matt Lauer had asked a jilted groom, 'Wouldn't you just like to rip her uterus out?'” Matt Lauer would have been handed his walking papers.

Leo reports that up until recently the 3M company put out post-it notes with the printed message: “Men have only two faults: everything they say and everything they do.” Hallmark went further with a greeting card that said, “Men are scum … Excuse me. For a second there I was feeling generous.” Then there was the American Greeting Cards ad that says on the front: “Men are always whining about how we are suffocating them,” with the inside punch line, “Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow.” What do you think would happen if a company had an ad that joked about killing women?

Young boys aren't spared from the feminist attack. At a Boston area elementary school, nobody objected when girls wore shirts emblazoned with “Girls Rule” or when they taunted boys with a chant that goes, “Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge.” But when boys donned shirts emblazoned with “Boys Are Good,” there was protest. One of the teachers protesting sported a button saying, “So many men, so little intelligence.”

Women can get away with saying just about anything demeaning, evil and harassing to men, while men get into trouble for making the most innocent compliment. That happened to Seth Shaw, a counselor at an elementary school in Fort Worth, Texas. He said, “Hello, good-looking,” to a new female employee, was charged with sexual harassment and wound up suffering a 20-day suspension without pay.

Leo's Aug. 21 U.S. News & World Report article suggests that all of this can get worse if foreign feminist demands reach our shores. Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have launched a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. Part of their demand is related to the “splash factor,” but more crucially, men standing up to urinate is deemed by these women as triumphing in their masculinity, “a nasty macho gesture” and by extension degrading to women. Feminists at Stockholm University are campaigning to ban campus urinals and one Swedish elementary school has already removed urinals. I don't know about you, but if I don't tell women to stand up to urinate, they're not going to tell me to sit down to urinate.

The bottom line is that we men had better stand up to these feminist wackos before our last resort will be well-deserved spankings.

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- The Washington Times - Monday, September 4, 2000

LONDON A large part of the international aid effort in the immediate aftermath of a major disaster is staffed by "crisis junkies" and does more harm than good, according to a World Health Organization expert.
Smaller aid agencies parachute into disaster zones with an inflated opinion of their own usefulness and little idea of how to help, said Claude de Ville de Goyet, director of the WHO's emergency preparedness and disaster relief coordination program in the Americas.
Instead of supporting local emergency and medical services, they inundate them with "unrequested, inappropriate and burdensome" donations of clothes, medical equipment and packaged food, he said.
Many "misguided individuals" seemed motivated as much by the chance to raise their own profiles at home as by a genuine opportunity to do some good, Mr. de Ville de Goyet said.
"You see hundreds of small agencies turning up at the scenes of disasters. Some of them pop up because there is money or because there is media coverage, which is emotionally appealing.
"I visited the Balkans during the Kosovo crisis, and frankly I was astonished to see youngsters doing de-mining, medical care and mental-health assistance. I wondered what kind of previous experience they had.
"Some of them did contribute very much. But people tend to consider that, just because it is a European or an American from a developed country, they can do better than a national would do in a disaster, and I'm sorry, but that is wrong."
Mr. de Ville de Goyet paid tribute to the long-term work performed by some of the major aid agencies, but said they had done too little to discourage the "disaster myths" that local populations were helpless without Western aid.
This attitude exists even in countries like Turkey and India, which have excellent health care and local infrastructure, he said.
He criticized agencies that promote the assumption that dead bodies must be unceremoniously disposed of in order to prevent disease.
Even governments sometimes appear to succumb to the pressure to create good headlines with grand, expensive gestures that do little long-term good, Mr. de Ville de Goyet said.
He said the cost of sending helicopters to Mozambique in March too late to rescue the majority of the victims of massive flooding could have been better paid for thousands of villagers to rebuild their shattered lives.
Dispatching Western medical teams was worse than useless, as they absorbed large chunks of the aid budget but arrived long after the critical first 24 hours when acute medical care was needed. They then departed too quickly to help local doctors deal with the long-term consequences of the disaster, he said.
Several major aid agencies defended their records against Mr. de Ville de Goyet's complaints.
Eileen Maybin, a spokeswoman for Christian Aid, said the 14 largest aid agencies had become more efficient by working closely together through the Disasters Emergency Committee.
"This closer cooperation has been developing in the last four years, and it is an excellent thing," said Mrs. Maybin.

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- The Washington Times - Thursday, April 5, 2001

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Mike Bickle is a man with an idea whose time may have finally come.

In 1999, he left his job as senior pastor of a 3,000-member church in Grandview, Mo., to set up an "International House of Prayer" where 12 teams of people pray around the clock for the world.

He's since attracted 150 people to relocate there to work on subsistence salaries. Dozens more are lining up to come, and 5,000 to 10,000 visitors are pouring in from around the world each year.

"The Lord has told us thousands are coming," he says. "But we don't want them to stay here. We want to train them and send them out."

He's thinking big 100,000 IHOP "missionaries" tied to 100 prayer centers around the world. There are already start-ups in Dallas; San Diego; Colorado Springs; Chicago; and Vancouver, British Columbia.

When the ministry planned a recent conference in downtown Kansas City for 1,500, more than 3,000 people registered, forcing organizers to relocate the venue to the much larger Bartle Hall. Many of the participants were young, single people looking for a more challenging Christianity. IHOP's Web site (www.ihopkc.com) offers 10-month internships to equip Gen Xers with "extravagant devotion to Jesus."

Some of them had already moved to Kansas City to join Mr. Bickle's experiment. Formerly a missionary in Poona, India, Leasa Young, 33, was captivated by the idea of praying for more than 4 billion of the world's non-Christians in a setting that emphasized massive doses of worship music and prayer.

Her supporters were not as amused. When she switched to IHOP, she lost all except $50 of their monthly donations.

"I really believe this is what [God] called me to for this season of my life," she says. "It's an adventure as to where the money will come from."

After paying all her bills in February, she had $3.43 left.

Ned Keitt, 27, of Fairfax, Va., says he only has 20 percent of the money he needs each month. He stays with a family to make ends meet.

Mr. Bickle, 45, founded the International House of Prayer on May 7, 1999, on a start-it-and-they-will-come model. During the previous 17 years, he had pastored Metro Christian Fellowship in Grandview, 20 miles south of Kansas City. But IHOP (which has no relation to the famous pancake restaurant chain with the same acronym) had been on his mind for nearly 20 years.

Drawing from the Old Testament model of a 24-hour-a-day temple set aside for the worship of God, Mr. Bickle tried to recreate a 21st-century version where there would be continuous prayer.

The actual site is an unimposing one-story building. The main prayer room is covered with green carpet and ringed with international flags. Three rows of desks ring the perimeter, allowing people to simply observe or take notes. Boxes of tissues are scattered about, as are several pillows on the floor.

Books lie on the desks, listing various nations and ways to pray for future Christian evangelistic efforts. One corner of the room is filled with children's drawings and a desk with art supplies for anyone so inspired to draw right then and there. A banner at the front of the room proclaims a verse from Leviticus 6:12: "The fire on the altar shall never go out."

A white board to one side lists prayer requests from around the world, ranging from persecution of Sudanese Christians to an Argentinian pastor whose 9-year-old son has drowned.

A large map is on another wall. On yet another is a painting of an agonized Jesus, underneath which is an altar with electric candles and a do-it-yourself Communion set. Pieces of bread and grape juice sit at the ready.

Of the 150 people on staff at IHOP, all raise financial support from friends and home churches so they can serve on one of the 12 prayer teams. The roughest shift, they report, is from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.

They also help out with administrative tasks and spend at least 12 hours a week in some kind of ministry to the poor.

The secret of IHOP, Mr. Bickle says, is fascination with the "beauty" of God. He has numerous teachings on the topic and writes a magazine column on ways to enjoy the Almighty. His latest book, "The Pleasures of Loving God," exhorts the believer to actually see God as delighting in the personality and quirks of each individual.

Worship and prayer at IHOP is based on this concept. Pre-assigned verses from the biblical books of Revelation or the Song of Songs, which emphasizes God's love for the individual, are placed about the room.

The worship leaders usually a multipiece band including a guitarist, pianist and drummer, along with some vocalists, sit on a dais backed by gold, green and red draperies.

Facing them are congregants around the room who are sitting, standing, kneeling or prostrate, apparently lost in worship. Like a jazz composition, the singers seem to make up their own tunes or sing whatever prayers or Scriptures have come to mind.

In one session, "May this be the day, this be the hour Kansas City is changed by You," the drummer sings.

Then the group switches to a chant from one of the psalms. The sessions have a timeless quality to them.

Occasionally, Mr. Bickle leads the worship, especially during Saturday night "bridegroom prayer watch" sessions geared toward anticipating the Second Coming. Central to his ministry is what he terms a "simple lifestyle" that includes frequent days of fasting.

"I have lived in simplicity all my adult life and love it," he says, adding he gives away hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual income from his books and tapes. He and his wife live in a nearby duplex and he raises about $35,000 as an annual salary from friends and supporters. Those earnings, he says, are supplemented by his wife's earnings as a real estate agent.

"I want to live as minimally as possible," he says, "to give more away."

Unlike most of his fellow nondenominational charismatic pastors, Mr. Bickle has dipped into Catholic spirituality to fill his well. IHOP conference book tables include tomes on the mystics and the Song of Solomon published by Tan Books, a conservative Catholic publisher out of Rockford, Ill.; Teresa of Avila's "Way of Perfection," books by Jesuit priest Thomas Green on spiritual direction and works by Trappist priest Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen on desert spirituality and contemplative prayer.

"A lot of us Protestants are unaware of the deeper life writers in the Catholic Church," Mr. Bickle says. "We don't have fiery spirits. There's dogma in the Catholic Church I don't receive. But there are fiery spirits there I do receive."

One of his favorite authors is the Rev. Thomas Dubay, a Catholic priest who writes on prayer.

"I admire many people, but few inspire me," he said. "But I'm deeply inspired by his writings."

Not every visitor agrees or even likes his house of prayer concept, he says, but unusual, even radical means are needed to change the spiritual landscape of the planet.

"I am creating the paradigm, not the application," he says. "There are people who want to see someone raising the flag."

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- The Washington Times - Thursday, July 6, 2006

CROWN POINT, La. — It first appears as a rock with eyes sticking out of the dark water. The rock is now moving, floating. It becomes bigger and takes shape.

Through the swamp and green-velvet carpet of plant life, under the shade of the hanging Spanish moss, you realize, as you enjoy your plate of Shrimp Diane and bread pudding, that there is an alligator — a real, live alligator — in the water outside the Restaurant Des Families.

The sleek prehistoric reptile creates a wake as it moves through the water, stopping to lift a front leg over an obstacle before continuing through the thick, moist, 90-degree heat of the swamp.

Now, I’m a city boy, so when I saw the rock with teeth, I jumped up from my seat and pointed — earning more than a few chuckles from the natives.

People come here for the food and the atmosphere — including the alligators. But the locals, they see these things all the time. I can’t imagine what was going on in their minds, seeing a stranger getting excited about a gator. This would be like you or I in the District getting excited about spotting a pigeon.

Watching an alligator cruise by while diners like me enjoy authentic Cajun cuisine — it’s just part of the local color at Restaurant Des Families, perched on a swamp, a real swamp, down New Orleans way.

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ok so this is my first story i am going to write about. i had it in a dream and thought it would be a really kool story so i hope everyone likes it :) vote and comment plz!!!!

i woke up again, sweating i had that stupid dream again . i wonder why i keep having that same dream over and over again its been happening since i was 14 years old. im 17 years old now and i havent had a good nights sleep since who knows when. i got up from my bed and went into the kitchen on my tip toes trying not to wake up my family.i have two younger annoying siblings,a father who works all day long and a over protective mother. i went in the refridgerator and got a glass of water trying to calm myself down.

i was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees and darkness.i was running, but i dont know from where or who.i stopped on the edge of a cliff and looked down. i am really afraid of heights and deep waters but to my lucky self thats what i saw ,a great plunge into deep water.i got dizzy just looking at it.i heard twiggs brake and leafs ruffle under foot steps that are coming closer and closer.i started panicking i had 2 choses i could jump off the cliff and probably drown since i cant swim or i can stay here and await another cruel death. i looked at the trees again when i saw a pair of red eyes looking at me i felt a horrible chill down my back and i froze it was coming closer i knew what i had to do. i jumped of the cliff head first and saw the water coming closer to me i knew it was goin to be cold and deep i closed my eyes and waited for me to go in the water.

Then thats when i awake my dream all scared, tired ,and sweaty. i know i have to get my self all calmed before i go back to sleep because if i dont ill have the same dream over again.i went to the closet and took out my long black coat because i only had my sleeping shorts and tank top on.i opened the door really quietly and slipped my keys in my pocket.i went up stairs to my apartment roof and found a nice place to sit i looked up at the night sky trying to locate some stars since it was really hard to because i live in new york and with all the lights u can barely see any stars at night.i breathed in and out slowly just relaxing.i closed my eyes sometimes i feel like i was born in the wrong century because i absolutatly loved the midevil times of princes and princesses at balls and there beautiful breath taking castles. i opened my eyes i think its time for me to go back.i sighed.i got up and looked at this one star it was really bright and beautiful.

The star seemed to be getting bigger and bigger umm i think i really getting too tired. Right when i was going to take one more step a blue light came down from the star i was in utter shock .The light was glittery and was mesmerizing I had no control over my body i just walked towards it i wanted to touch it, very dumb i know but i couldnt help it.i raised my hand towars the light to touch it but i stopped i was going to pull away when a hand came out and pulled me in.i screamed out of shock and tried pulling away but the mysterious hand pulled me in the light all the way in. When it did i closed my eyes and blacked out.

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November Message from the President: Giving Thanks

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Dear WBENC Network,

On this Thanksgiving eve, when I know many of you are busy finishing up your last to-dos before the holiday, I would like to take a short moment to extend my gratitude to you – the incredible WBENC network.

This network of strong women business leaders and dedicated champions of diversity and inclusion is quite literally a force to be reckoned with. Together, we continue to break down barriers, create opportunities and connections, address challenges with innovation, and build and grow businesses that truly fuel the economy. For that, I say – thank you!

This fall, we have really witnessed this network in action – from innovative problem solving at the Capital One CATAPULT program to forging growth in an underrepresented industry at the WBENC Energy Executive Program. At WBENC, we are laser focused on providing best-in-class business and professional development for WBEs, and rest assured, we have even more amazing things in store for you in 2019.

Speaking of 2019, two important things to keep on your radar – 1. Registration for the 2019 Summit & Salute in Houston, Texas is now open! Learn more about the event here and make sure you register early. 2. Sponsorships for the 2019 events are selling fast! Check out our 2019 Sponsorship Opportunities Brochure for a comprehensive look at opportunities and packages.

Again, thank you for your continued support and dedication to the success of women-owned businesses and to the strength of our network. I wish everyone a safe, healthy and happy Thanksgiving full of good food and gratitude.

Pamela Prince-Eason
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Zoho Email For Domains Setup

Zoho EmailIn this post, I discuss how to setup your own domain with Zoho Mail, a hosted email solution from Zoho. Similar to Google Apps, Zoho provides a set of online business tools including office apps, project management, and contact management. At the time of this post the hosted email package has a free option as well as higher tiers for users who need more options. The biggest selling point for Zoho is that none of their apps have advertisements, and so if you are bothered by other webmail solutions that feature ads, Zoho seems to be a good alternative solution. Other than webmail access, the other reasons to use Zoho is that it works with desktop email clients, smartphones, and tablets.

My Requirements For An Email Solution

In order of importance, here is what I was looking for in an email solution.

Integrates with your Domain name

  • I wanted an email solution that would work with my current personal domain that my family uses.

iPhone and iPad Support

  • Everyone in the family has an iPhone, iPod, or iPad that they can use for email.

Apple Mail Support

  • Oh, we do use our Mac computers every now and then, so we need desktop mail.

  • I want to keep email on the server, and not worry about losing it. I can also manage my email from my smartphone when I have time. This is really convenient.

  • Free if possible, but am willing to pay for a good solution on a yearly basis.

  • Not having my kids bombarded with advertisements is a good thing.

Zoho’s Instructions

Step 1: Verify domain ownership
Please verify your domain ownership. This is required to prevent imposters from using domains to send malicious messages. You can follow either the CNAME method or HTML method for verification.

Step 2: Add / import users to your organization
As the administrator of your organization, you have a Control Panel link in your user interface. In the Control panel, click User Details on the left list of options and click Add User option on the top. You can also import a list of users by selecting the Import User option.

Step 3: Migrating data to Zoho Mail
We recommend you to test migration for 2 users before pointing MX records.

Step 4: Point MX records to Zoho
Point the Mail Exchanger (MX) records to Zoho to start receiving mails to your inbox.

Changing My eMail

Steps 1 and 2 were pretty easy. Since I only have 4 users accounts, it took a few minutes to setup my four users in the Control panel. I skipped Step 3, I don’t really keep a lot of personal email. My current email was stored in Apple Mail and I was fine leaving it there. The interesting step is number 4. The Internet works via DNS. The domain naming system allows everyone and everything to find each other on the network. This is accomplished by DNS having different types of records to point requests to the right place. In the case of most personal domains, you have two different parties involved. The first is a domain registrar who takes care of your domain registration. The second is your hosting provider, usually for shared hosting this is a cPanel type hosting provider. When someone tries to email you at, a lookup is made to the root DNS authority for the .net domains, your registrar is what adds your domain to the DNS authority servers. The root server then sends you to your nameservers specified. Your nameservers are at your cPanel hosting provider. The final step in the lookup is to see what your cPanel nameserver has for what is called the MX records. The MX records have the server that processes your email and ideally where the email is going to go.

Zoho Email For Domains

Your current hosting provider has MX records for its own email processing. What needs to be done, is to remove the current MX records and replace them with MX records that point to Zoho’s servers. This way only your email, emails sent to, will route to Zoho, but everything else will still be at your current hosting provider. To do this most cPanel hosts make it easy to do this now. Log into your cPanel control panel and scroll down to the Email section. You want to click open the MX Entry icon.

cPanel Email MX Entry

You will first choose your domain name that you want to change the MX records for. This is your main domain. First add the MX entries as Zoho instructs, then remove your current record for your host. When the changes are complete, it should look similar to this:

Zoho MX Records

The DNS changes take a matter of minutes to a couple of hours to propagate to the rest of the internet.

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CPanel Password Directories

Wordpress IconThis week I wanted to setup a protected directory on one of my personal sites. CPanel has a built-in feature for setting up password protected subdirectories via the .htaccess file, so I figured I would just use this feature to setup my protected directory. Of course, nothing ever works when you want it to and I soon found out that WordPress was preventing this from working correctly. Every time I tried to access my subdirectory I received a 404 error page from WordPress. After a couple of days of messing with the root .htaccess file, I found a solution.

Edit Root .htaccess

Edit the root .htaccess file and look for the WordPress code which is how Permalinks are created. It will look similar to this.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

You will need to add a new section above your WordPress code similar to this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirectory/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [L]

Substitute the directory you want to password protect for “subdirectory”, and then see if you are now able to get your CPanel password protected directory to work.

Still Not Working!

If it still does not work, then you have another .htaccess file that has the same WordPress code. For my domain, I install the WordPress files in a subdirectory named “main”, and when I inspected the root .htaccess file and the .htaccess file under main, I found the same code. The solution is to remove the WordPress code from the subdirectory in which you have the WordPress files. It should now work.

For further information on WordPress Permalinks conflicting with CPanel password protected directories see:

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WebMail URL Redirect

One of the perks of having your own domain name is that you can setup your own email addresses for your domain. While cPanel makes it easy to manage email accounts and have access to webmail applications like Horde, it does not automatically give you a nice simple url for accessing your preferred webmail application. However, with a few extra steps you can fix this.

Step 1: Your WebMail URL

First find out what the login url is to your preferred webmail application. cPanel’s default mail path is Your web host probably provided you with the default mail url. Once you login, cPanel gives you a variety of options, usually Horde is one of your webmail options. For example the direct url for Horde is usually something like:

Once you determined the webmail url you need to login into cPanel and setup a subdomain.

Step 2: Add The Subdomain

In cPanel find the Subdomains icon and select it. If you do not see a Subdomains option, then your web host does not offer this feature for your account. You may need to have the web host complete this procedure for you or upgrade your account.

In Subdomains, you will want to Add, a webmail subdomain, so that your subdomain will be Do not add the subdomain as mail as this is most likely already being used by your web host for other reasons.

Step 3: Setup Redirection

The last step is to choose Setup Redirection for the subdomain you just added. You want to redirect the subdomain you just added to the direct url for your webmail. For example: should redirect to

Note that it is best to take advantage of SSL and redirect to the https url instead of the regular http url. This provides an encrypted connection. Although most browsers will display a security warning stating that the SSL certificate does not match the domain name, the connection is still encrypted and therefore secure.

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The four Empires have stayed unchanged for centuries, vampires having the upper hand and being the master puppeteer of all. But conflicts have begun to rise-an internal war between the two empires, Bonelake and Woville.

Heidi was an adopted child, where one of the Duke had been generous enough to take her in. A girl, who when grew up had no idea that she would be the political bridge between the two empires. A marriage with the East Lord's relative.

Lord Nicholas with his gentle appearance and behaviour made him the White King of the Empire. A man who was the kindest to the souls around him, with only a few who knew what laid beneath that beautiful mask. What happens when a girl is responsible for bringing out the worst and the best out of him? Especially when it's his cousin's fiancee.

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It rocked the global economy and threatened to destroy the financial systems that we rely on. Ten years on, some countries are still picking up the pieces.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2018 says that, in our increasingly complex and interconnected world, this type of shock may become more likely.

Future shocks

The report explores 10 potential future shocks, including food scarcity, the extinction of fish, technological breakdowns and another financial crisis.

1. Not enough food to go around

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Extreme weather events are becoming an all-too-familiar sight. Drought, hurricanes and floods have a major impact on the global food supply chain. Lower yields in crops lead to rising food prices, hitting those already struggling to feed themselves.

The report argues that, if an extreme weather event were to coincide with existing political instability or crop disease, we could see a major food crisis happen overnight.

This is a scenario exacerbated by the inherent “choke points” within the global supply chain. These are the sections within the chain where a large volume of trade passes through. Disruption to any one of these could cause immediate global shortages and price hikes, in turn causing political and economic crises, and ultimately, conflict.

Among the courses of action that could help are increasing crop diversity and stress testing the choke points along with other vulnerabilities.

2. Algorithms shut down the internet

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Most fears about artificial intelligence (AI) tend to focus on killer robots or the automation of the workforce.

But this report suggests a different scenario: low-level algorithms – or what the authors call “AI weeds” – that slowly choke off the internet.

As we become more reliant on codes that can write their own code (the crux of AI), we’ll lose the ability to track and control it. The world relies heavily on the internet; the disruption will be massive, says the report.

Among its proposed solutions is the development of norms, regulations and governance structures for AI: “without a robust and enforceable regulatory framework, there is a risk that humans will in effect be crowded out from the internet by the proliferation of AI,” says the report.

3. The end of trade as we know it

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Brexit, Trump, protectionist policies, these are all undermining globalization as we know it. Institutions designed to resolve trade disputes have become weaker as a result.

The report argues that the continued march against globalization could lead to multilateral rules being openly breached.

Those further along the value chain could then retaliate, and before we know it the world will be grappling with rapidly spreading trade disputes.

Economic activity, output and employment could all be adversely affected. But these effects will have a far greater impact on some people, fuelling further discontent.

“Whatever the settled position on global trade is to be,” argues the report, “more deliberation and consensus-building would bolster its legitimacy.”

4. Democracy buckles

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Democracy is under great pressure. The polarization of politics could worsen, leaving people even further apart ideologically and with less room for compromise. In the worst case scenario, political debate could be replaced by the use of force. Those in opposition could then take up arms, a situation particularly worrisome in areas with ready access to weapons or a history of political violence.

The more that can be done to boost the resilience and responsiveness of democratic institutions, the less likely they will be to buckle under pressure. “We also need to better understand the democratic fissures currently being caused by the economy, by social media and by changing patterns of national identity,” says the report.

5. The extinction of fish

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Another big threat posed by AI is the increase in illegal fishing through the use of unmanned ships.

Drone ships could not only deplete fish stocks, irrevocably harming the communities that rely on them, but could cause political instability by veering into national waters. Retaliatory measures by nations might lead to diplomatic or military tensions.

By way of solution, the report identifies targeted schemes such as genetic markers to track fish throughout the supply chain and better vessel observation, as well as new global governance norms and institutions, particularly those with a focus on these emerging technologies.

6. Another global financial crisis

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The report outlines concerns that another financial crisis will be more than we can cope with. Whilst systemic collapse was averted in the last financial crisis, if it happens again we may not be so lucky. A similar shock could push countries, regions or even the whole world over the edge and into a period of chaos.

“If financial systems go down, contemporary economies and societies cannot function. Money would stop circulating. Wages would not be paid. Supply chains would break down. Scarcity would begin to become pervasive, and this would threaten to upend the political and social order,” warns the report.

More can be done to enhance the resilience of the financial system, and we need to think about radically changing the way the banking system works. But societies might also want to prepare more actively for worst-case scenarios.

7. The rise and rise of inequality

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Scientific research into bioengineering and cognition-enhancing drugs is in its infancy, though not for long. This avenue of experimentation might bring us many benefits, but it could hurt us, too.

For instance, technological or drug-based enhancements are expensive, and will only benefit the rich.

Different countries might approach their uses completely differently, leading to the advent of “enhancement tourism”.

They also have the potential to widen the already-entrenched inequality in our world. This could trigger social instability and conflict between the haves and have-nots.

Controlling who can take enhancement drugs would be impossible, and there may be unforeseen side-effects, triggering a massive public health crisis.

Early and appropriate regulation of enhancement technologies may be more successful than an outright ban. And if they’re proven to be beneficial, there would be a case for universal access, much like vaccinations in today’s world, says the report.

8. War without rules

21st century warfare will not involve guns or bombs, but rather cyberattacks on a massive scale, posits the report.

If a country’s critical infrastructure systems are compromised by a cyberattack, leading to disruption of essential services and loss of life, there would be massive pressure for a government to retaliate. What if they target the wrong culprit? There is no telling where this retaliation might lead.

Governments need to establish agreed norms and protocols for cyberwarfare, much like those that exist for conventional warfare today. This would help to prevent conflict erupting by mistake.

9. Who are we?

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The report argues that our need for national identity and self-determination is already leading to violence and constitutional instability. Sometimes foreign powers can weigh in, exacerbating the issue.

States expelling ethnic or religious minorities, national minorities attempting to secure independence, and nation-states extricating themselves from international constraints on their sovereignty are all examples of this.

A stronger promotion and protection of equal cultural and political rights within states would help defuse tensions about national identity. So would the fostering of stronger economic and other links between states sharing contested borders, suggests the report.

10. The break-up of the internet

If cyber attacks become more likely they could end up breaking the internet.

Nations might build digital walls as they seek to protect themselves. But this might not be the only reason. Governments might also choose to do this on the basis of economic protectionism, regulatory divergence, or censorship and repression. If governments felt they were losing power relative to global online companies they might also seek to control the internet.

There would be a barrier to the flow of content and transactions. Technological advancements would slow. While some might welcome this, others would not. It’s likely that there would be plenty of illegal workarounds.

Perhaps most worryingly, human rights abuses would likely increase as advances in international monitoring are rolled back.

Ongoing dialogue between governments and technology companies would help to ensure that internet-based technologies develop in a politically sustainable context of shared values and agreed responsibilities, suggests the report.

The report presents 10 such potential breakdowns not as predictions, but as food for thought and asks the question: What are the shocks that could fundamentally upend your world?

To have your say on this topic, submit a question to be answered at Davos by a global leader.


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Custom Logo Design

Your logo or brand is the face of the company. It becomes the first thing that clients or consumers see to relate your name to a product or service. If your logo is difficult to read or understand, you may be at risk of losing a sale. In today’s market with the competition, you need to make sure you stand out of the crowd and can become memorable.

Through our custom logo design services here at Weicks Media has a design staff with over 20 years of experience in the outdoor industry. Combine this experience with the knowledge of the industry we are able to deliver a high-quality logo design at a reasonable rate to our clients.

Why choose Weicks Media for your

Custom Logo Design

As stated above competition is fierce in today’s market. So is the custom logo design industry. There are plenty of options for clients to choose from, some have the experience and knowledge of the outdoor industry but some are behind. At Weicks Media we believe in three principles for turning out a high quality custom logo design for our clients.

  • Communication
  • Precision
  • Versatility

The process of logo design starts with a conversation with you the client. Either by phone or email, we take time to LISTEN to what you have to say about your product or service. We want to learn all about who you are and where you want to go. From this conversation, we learn key factors that very well can be incorporated into the design. We also have an opportunity to talk about our experiences and guide you in the direction that we logo design professionals best see fit.

Precision is implemented in two ways at Weicks Media. The first aspect is showing you concepts and ideas in a timely manner. Have you ever been excited about a project or product only to lose interest due to slow turn around times? We strive on the fact that our designers are very thorough and quick at responding to clients changes.  Most logo designs are completed from start to finish within 10-14 business days. This can be dependent upon our clients and their response time to our questions/revisions, but we have even had logos turned around in mere days.

Another aspect of precision that makes Weicks Media the best in the outdoor custom logo design space is our eye for detail. We have been doing this for more than two decades and with that type of experience, we have seen a lot of logos that work and have seen what does not meet the standards. Our design staff is highly skilled at providing clients with amazing logos/brands that our clients proudly stand behind.

Our custom logo designs are versatile. Meaning that a logo that is designed by Weicks Media is thoughtfully designed for our clients to use on a wide range of products or media. We will guide you through the best logo design solution, knowing you will likely use this logo in many different applications. From a standard 1 color logo design that happens to be used on print media or decals. To make sure that when you go to embroider a $16 hat that it does not cost you $18 to embroider or screen print.

While details are great for helping your logo/brand to stand out, there is a precise balance of detail to the simplicity that our design staff follows to ensure you are moving in the right direction. At the end of the day, we want you to show off your logo to everyone. By doing so you are helping to strengthen your brand but you’re also showcasing your pride in your company.

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Rates for Custom Logo Design

Pricing can vary for custom logo design and it is hard to pinpoint your exact cost for a custom logo design. While our pricing may not be the lowest in the industry, we are positioned in the middle for affordability and cost.

We have always said clients get what they pay for. Other companies may be designing for less but they are looking for mass quantities of work and honestly do not spend meaningful design time in creating a logo for you. Their goal is to get you in and out as fast as they can. So you can be 1 of a 1000 logos being worked on with the other companies.

With our staff spending quality design time, communicating with you on progress of the design and finalization of the logo, on average you will see it takes on average 8-10 hours to complete a logo.  Some maybe designed in a shorter period of time, but some can take longer due to complexity.

The result, making sure our clients are excited and proud of their new custom logo design. If you are looking to have a custom logo design created by Weicks Media. Feel free to contact us for more information and a logo design form to get started.

    Weicks Media is the nations leading marketing agency for the outdoors. From hunting products and services to digital solutions for outfitters and guides.

    For your FREE CONSULTATION please contact us using the information below. WE are EXCITED to help revive your brand!

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    Cedar Falls, IA 50613