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Asking Aaron Clarey: Has America seen its best days? by Joseph Cotto
Posted on August 23, 2013 by Facebook Apostles
Asking Aaron Clarey: Has America seen its best days?
OCALA, Fla., August 22, 2013 — The boy throws a baseball to his father, and Dad catches it in the palm of his gloved hand.
"Nice toss, son!" He says with an encouraging smile.
Afterward, his daughter shouts "Here it comes, Dad!" and tosses the baseball. Like before, Dad reaches for the ball and catches it in midair.
"Great toss, sweetheart," he states.
Later, a different boy warns "Get ready, Dad!" and sends the baseball off. Unlike before, Dad is not the typical suburban-looking thirtysomething, but a life-sized check from the federal government. The ball hits the check and bounces off of it, falling to the ground shortly before Uncle Sam's subsidy does.
As the check struggles on the grass, a narrator offers some insightful words: "Government checks; they can replace fathers, but not very well."
The scene then cuts to an advertisement for economist Aaron Clarey's ebooks. One of these, released earlier this year, is entitled "Enjoy the Decline". It draws the conclusion that America is so far gone socioeconomically that all concerned citizens can do is sit back and relax as the country deteriorates.
Yesterday, Clarey spoke about how and why he determined that our country is falling down. Today, he shares more of his views on the subject.
For instance, why has he encouraged people to enjoy the United States's decline?
"What else are they supposed to do?" He asks. "If they try to stop it, they'll waste their lives on a problem that cannot be fixed. Instead I'm much more practical. I recommend people take inventory of their lives and find out how to benefit the most from it, regardless of what's happening in the public sector."
Beyond economics, Clarey claims that "Kim Kardashian and the fact rap is more popular than jazz" lead him to believe American social values are crumbling
He elaborates on what he thinks caused these values to deteriorate: "The Baby Boomer Generation. Without a doubt. When you go from Frank Sinatra to Jim Morrison in 8 years, that's not a slow transition from musical tastes of society, that is an immediate change purposely forced by a generation determined to ignore wisdom, taste, culture and value just for the sake of doing so.
"But music is only one aspect. Fashion turned hideous, divorce became an Olympic event, the idea of outsourcing your children to daycare became standard, nearly every aspect of work, effort, and ethic was thrown out the door and every non-economic aspect of society shows it."
All of this might bring one to the conclusion that America has seen its best days. Does Clarey hold this view?
"Absolutely," he remarks. "It was the 1940's-1950's and we will never see that again. The reason why is because not only are all the new Americans (immigrants) against adopting and pursuing traditional American values (excellence, individualism, capitalism, freedom, etc.), but the native Americans (not Indians, but non-immigrant Americans) are also becoming more and more against traditional American values.
"We mock classical American culture, we ridicule 'hard work,' we villainize success, we reward inferior performance and mediocrity, and we spend more time finding ways to feel sorry for ourselves and be 'victims' than we do finding ways to produce and succeed. Again, it won't be until this unsustainable system collapses will 'America,' if it's even around, will see a resurgence."
It is easy to dismiss Clarey as a pessimist or grouchy capitalist who harbors irrational fears about the present and future. It is indeed easy — a bit too easy. There lies the problem.
While emotion would surely lead us to bury our heads in the sand and convince ourselves that things will be better tomorrow, do we have any honest reason to do such a thing? Will the skies brighten simply because we want them to? Have humans acquired some new metaphysical powers not known to scientists around the world?
Sad as it is to say, the future offers not a sunrise, but a sunset. The American Way has been lost amid too many crises to count — from mortgages that allow people to buy homes they cannot afford to free trade agreements to destructive tax loopholes to a culture which emphasizes style over substance to political extremism and much too much more.
The American Dream must persist for the sake of civilized society. The question is if most people have even a fleeting concept of what this dream means.
A tough question with a deducible answer that is almost definitely not what the masses want to hear.
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Some Abortions Paused Under States' Coronavirus Measures
At least 20 states have ordered health care providers to delay "elective" procedures, sparking a debate over whether abortions are included.
Zach Cusson
Article by Angela M. Hill and Karen Rodriguez
States are ordering health care providers to postpone "nonessential" and "elective" procedures, but there is some confusion about whether the orders apply to abortion.
"It is without question that the lone clinic in Jackson does in fact operate doing procedures that are elective and not required, and therefore they should be following the guidelines as offered by the Sstate Department of Health," Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a press conference.
Reeves said he would take action against his state's sole remaining abortion clinic if it provides abortions during the coronavirus outbreak.
Officials say the guidelines are intended to preserve the use of personal protection equipment and hospital beds to fight the coronavirus.
At least 21 states have also restricted nonessential medical procedures, but with different degrees of vagueness and details around what exactly is considered essential.
Take Alabama as an example: Their public health order simply states, "All elective dental and medical procedures shall be delayed, effective immediately."
And in Louisiana's order, it's unclear if abortion providers are allowed to give mandated abortion counseling using telehealth services rather than in person.
Health department officials in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana would not answer Newsy's questions about if or how the orders apply to abortion care.
New Jersey is the only state that has explicitly exempted pregnancy termination in its executive order. Newsy has also confirmed Oregon, Colorado and Michigan's orders do not apply to abortions.
Providers say abortions are essential because the longer the procedures are delayed, the greater the risk of complications and of not being able to have them.
"It's been chaos. We've had health centers flooded with calls from patients who are worried about their ability to get the care that they need," said Erica Sackin, director of communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Abortion is a central health care and time sensitive health care that people often can't go without."
In the U.S., abortions can only be performed up to viability of the fetus. That's usually between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. But many states have added their own time restrictions.
And now the coronavirus pandemic has given states the power to further delay — and in some cases deny — abortion services.
Texas recently made headlines after the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, said the governor's executive order to stop elective surgeries would apply to "any type of abortion" and that violators "will be met with the full force of the law."
In response, Planned Parenthood is suing Texas, saying the order may last months and they have already been forced to turn away patients.
The attorney general's press release also raised the question if medication abortions — a method used to terminate a pregnancy using pills — are also prohibited.
Newsy reached out to the Texas governor's office and the attorney general's office for clarification. They did not respond.
Like Texas, Newsy has confirmed Ohio and Tennessee orders do apply to abortions. Officials from the health departments in Arizona, Utah and Vermont told Newsy they are letting providers decide if abortions are elective, and California suggested we direct our questions to providers. Officials in Illinois did not clarify if they consider abortions to be elective.
Newsy also reached out to South Dakota, Washington, Florida, Alaska, and Kentucky, but those states have yet to respond. Planned Parenthood is also suing the states of Ohio and Iowa over their orders.
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Bonchamp-lès-Laval és un municipi francès situat al departament de Mayenne i a la regió de . L'any 2007 tenia 5.553 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Bonchamp-lès-Laval era de 5.553 persones. Hi havia 1.996 famílies de les quals 274 eren unipersonals (102 homes vivint sols i 172 dones vivint soles), 737 parelles sense fills, 916 parelles amb fills i 69 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 2.079 habitatges, 2.016 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 13 eren segones residències i 50 estaven desocupats. 2.006 eren cases i 35 eren apartaments. Dels 2.016 habitatges principals, 1.612 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 396 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 8 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 14 tenien una cambra, 50 en tenien dues, 168 en tenien tres, 483 en tenien quatre i 1.303 en tenien cinc o més. 1.541 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 694 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 1.235 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 3.743 persones, 2.812 eren actives i 931 eren inactives. De les 2.812 persones actives 2.678 estaven ocupades (1.423 homes i 1.255 dones) i 134 estaven aturades (63 homes i 71 dones). De les 931 persones inactives 371 estaven jubilades, 374 estaven estudiant i 186 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Bonchamp-lès-Laval hi havia 2.123 unitats fiscals que integraven 5.947 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 20.791 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 258 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 4 eren d'empreses extractives, 3 d'empreses alimentàries, 1 d'una empresa de fabricació de material elèctric, 3 d'empreses de fabricació d'elements pel transport, 23 d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 30 d'empreses de construcció, 51 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 25 d'empreses de transport, 9 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 5 d'empreses d'informació i comunicació, 20 d'empreses financeres, 13 d'empreses immobiliàries, 28 d'empreses de serveis, 24 d'entitats de l'administració pública i 19 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 65 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una oficina de correu, 2 oficines bancàries, 13 tallers de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola, 3 autoescoles, 3 paletes, 6 guixaires pintors, 3 fusteries, 6 lampisteries, 3 electricistes, 4 empreses de construcció, 6 perruqueries, 1 veterinari, 6 restaurants, 4 agències immobiliàries, 1 tintoreria i 3 salons de bellesa.

Dels 11 establiments comercials que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un supermercat, 1 una gran superfície de material de bricolatge, 2 fleques, 1 una carnisseria, 1 una llibreria, 1 una botiga de roba, 1 una botiga de material esportiu, 1 una perfumeria i 2 floristeries.

L'any 2000 a Bonchamp-lès-Laval hi havia 74 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 2.244 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia 2 farmàcies i 1 ambulància.

El 2009 hi havia 1 escola maternal i 2 escoles elementals.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Bonchamp-lès-Laval a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Bonchamp-lès-Laval a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de Mayenne

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Q: UITableViewCell - different behaviour depending on touch duration? I'm trying to animate an image in a UITableViewCell subclass. It works when the tap on the cell is about 1/2 second or more in duration. For shorter taps, the cell gets selected, but my animation doesn't run.
In my view controller, I have:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    ImageCell *cell = (ImageCell*)[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.imageFlashDuration = 5.0;
    cell.imageFlashNumberOfFrames = 25;
    NSLog(@"Flash image...");
    [cell flashImage];
    [self performSelector:@selector(doSomething:) withObject:video afterDelay:5.0];
}

In my ImageCell:
-(void)flashImage {

    UIImage *image = imageView.image;
    if(imageView.isAnimating) {
        NSLog(@"Stop animating");
        [imageView stopAnimating];
    }
    NSMutableArray *animationArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:imageFlashNumberOfFrames];
    for(int i=0; i<imageFlashNumberOfFrames; i++) {
        [animationArray addObject:(i % 2 == 0? black60x60Image : image)];
    }
    imageView.animationImages = animationArray;
    imageView.animationDuration = imageFlashDuration;

    NSLog(@"> Start animating");
    [imageView startAnimating];
}

In my log, I see

2009-07-02 22:02:55.907 MyProg[1797:20b] Flash image...
2009-07-02 22:02:55.912 MyProg[1797:20b] > Start animating
2009-07-02 22:02:59.455 MyProg[1797:20b] Flash image...
2009-07-02 22:02:59.460 MyProg[1797:20b] > Start animating
2009-07-02 22:03:02.463 MyProg[1797:20b] Flash image...
2009-07-02 22:03:02.468 MyProg[1797:20b] > Start animating
2009-07-02 22:03:05.009 MyProg[1797:20b] Flash image...
2009-07-02 22:03:05.014 MyProg[1797:20b] > Start animating

The above was from a mixture of 'short' and 'long' touches. The long touches resulted in cell selection and image animation and the short ones resulted in cell selection without animation.
Additionally, if a short tap is followed by another short tap on the cell, the animation begins.

A: I think the problem lies in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method. There you call the cellForRowAtIndexPath method, which will probably NOT give back the same cell that was clicked! The cell returned probably is a new cell, not visible on screen, with an animating image-thing on it. But... It's not visible.
I assume you handle the longer clicks in a different method (not didSelectRowAtIndexPath)?
You should probably keep a reference to the cell at the point the cell gets requested by the tableview itself (or assign a tag to it or something) in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method. Then when the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method, look up that specific instance of the cell (by the reference, or by the tag, ..)
Hope this helps :) Cheers

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Hi! 44 yo M with AIDS (had a CD4 nadir of 40 in 5/09 along with PCP and MAC) started HAART and last CD4=400. Anyway, have profound fatigue where I will sleep 10 hours at night, wake up feeling ok, and then need to take a 4 hour nap after being up only four hours. Not depressed or anemic; testosterone and TSH within normal limits; ealthy diet (5 servings of fruits and vegetables, lean meats, etc); exercise one hour/day 6x/wk (combination weigths and cardio). Unilkely adrenal insufficency as Na and K WNL and not hypotensive. Have not had a sleep study but dont have usual body habitus (am 5'10" and 155#). What would be your next step in w/u or would you proceed directly to treatment? My doctor wants me to start methylphenidate, but I would rather go with provigil. I am on truvada one pill/day, norvir 100mg/d and reyataz 300mg/d, so if I end up going with provigil, how would the dosing need to be adjusted? Thanks in advance.
If you and your HIV specialist have indeed evaluated all potential underlying causes of your fatigue and are left with HIV mystery fatigue as your only potential culprit, a stimulant may be your next step.
Provigil may be the better drug; however, it also has significant drug interactions with protease inhibitors. You are taking both Norvir (boost) and Reyataz, which are in the protease inhibitor (PI) family. Co-administration of Provigil with PIs may result in increased plasma concentration of Provigil and, even more worrisome, decreased plasma concentration of PIs. The clinical significance of the potential drug-drug interaction is difficult to determine. Therapeutic drug levels may need to be monitored. There are no drug-drug interactions with Truvada and Provigil.
Your doctor may have suggested methylphenidate (Ritalin), because there are no drug-drug interactions between Ritalin and Truvada, Norvir or Reyataz.
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Q: React - proptypes validation - return Error doesnt work but throw does So, Im looking at the react proptypes options, and I want to check if the children is a specific type, its really simple, and as mentioned here : https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/reusable-components.html#prop-validation I should return an Error object and not throw.
But when I return an Error object it doesn't print to the console, but if I throw an Error object everything works fine.
propTypes object:
const propTypes = {
        children: function(props, propName) {
            const children = props[propName];
            React.Children.forEach(children, (child) => {
                if (child.type !== Field) {
                    // doesnt work
                    return new Error('Error');
                }
                return;
            });
        }
    };

const propTypes = {
        children: function(props, propName) {
            const children = props[propName];
            React.Children.forEach(children, (child) => {
                if (child.type !== Field) {
                    // does work
                    throw new Error('Error');
                }
                return;
            });
        }
    };

What should I do?

A: Returning from forEach loop doesn't make enclosing function return. What you should better do is either use simple for loop or Array.prototype.some
const propTypes = {
  children: function(props, propName) {
    const children = props[propName];
    const invalid = React.Children.some(children, child => child.type !== Field);
    if (invalid) {
      return new Error('Error');
    }
  }
};


Disney's happy June 15-17 weekend helps remove sting of Solo: A Star Wars Story box office failure.
Pixar's long-awaited follow-up to superhero hit The Incredibles has posted the largest opening ever for an animated movie. Read on for details on the smash sequel, along with new and notable movies at the box office.
Best Animation Opening Weekend Ever? Parr For the Course.
Pixar's Incredibles 2 generated a record-shattering $180 million opening from 4,410 locations over the weekend, as the animated mom and pop superheroes Bob and Ellen Paar – that's Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl – showed off box office chops that'd make any of Marvel's spandex-clad heroes proud.
Incredibles 2 blew away the standard for the best opening by an animated film set by another Pixar sequel, Finding Dory, in 2016 with $135 million and further cemented the reality that superheroes will rule the 2018 summer box office. Two of the year's top three movies domestically so far – Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War – are superhero movies from Marvel Studios, like Pixar a unit of Disney, and Incredibles 2 now appears poised to join that fast crowd. It was also the best opening ever by a PG-rated film, ahead of the $174.6 million debut of Beauty and the Beast in 2017.
Incredibles 2, written and directed by Brad Bird, packed Pixar's usual multi-generational and crowd-pleasing punch and benefitted from being the first animated wide release since Sherlock Gnomes in March. It returned the original film's voice cast –topped by Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, and Samuel L. Jackson – and came in with a glossy 94% on the Tomatometer. Opening weekend crowds – 51% female and 40% between the ages of 18 and 24 – and gave it an 89% Audience Score and an A+ CinemaScore.
Incredibles 2 added another $51.5 million overseas, giving it a global total of $231.5 million for the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
Ocean's 8, last weekend's top film, held a respectable 53% of its audience from its opening but was barely within shouting distance with $19.5 million. The almost Fresh 56% Tomatometer rating for Tag, the Ed Helms-Jeremy Renner comedy from Warner Bros., translated to $14.6 million and a third-place debut. Its Audience Score was 74% and CinemaScore was B+. Superfly, a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation hit starring Curtis Mayfield, was similarly soft on the Tomatometer (54%), and finished seventh for the weekend with $6.3 million and has an $8.4 million total after rolling out Wednesday for Sony. That was behind holdovers Solo: A Star Wars Story ($9 million), Deadpool 2 ($8.8 million), and Hereditary ($7 million), which fell off just 48% in its second week, commendable for a horror movie.
The record-shattering debut by Incredibles 2, the 20th film released by Pixar since Toy Story in 1995, is the studio's 18th to debut at No. 1. The Good Dinosaur was runner-up to the second week of the Hunger Games franchise finale Mockingjay – Part II with $39.2 million on Thanksgiving weekend in 2015. But the first Pixar release that failed to nab the top spot was the studio's Inside Out. That Pete Doctor-directed tale exceeded expectations with a dynamic $90 million debut that topped the 2002 opening of The Incredibles to become the biggest ever for Pixar on this weekend in 2015. But even that wasn't enough to overcome Jurassic World, which stomped to $106 million in its second weekend. This time around Disney and Pixar wisely rolled out before the reptiles went on a box office rampage.
One of the several ways that Steven Spielberg's 1993 original Jurassic Park changed the game for Hollywood was that it was a true global blockbuster, the first major release to make more abroad than in the U.S. and Canada, which is the norm for big-budget "tentpole" movies today. The Universal Pictures International distribution team, under president Duncan Clark, clearly studied its history, and the proof is in this weekend's foreign box office pudding. Fallen Kingdom brought in $173.6 million in its second weekend abroad and has now chomped a massive $370 million from overseas ahead of its North American debut on Friday. The global total for the five Jurassic films breezed past $4 billion on Sunday.
The 1993 original took in a record $627 million from abroad and more than a $1 billion worldwide. Twenty years later, Jurassic World decimated those numbers with $1.1 billion from overseas alone, and $1.67 billion globally. Matching that would be no small feat for Fallen Kingdom, particularly since its rollout has required some careful scheduling around the World Cup soccer tournament,which began Saturday and dominates the pop culture landscape in many nations.
Universal's global marketing campaign, with a price tag at a reported $185 million, is among the largest the studio has mounted. It featured T-Rex and Raptor stunts in major cities on several continents as well as a barnstorm of the film's staggered rollout territories that took stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and director J.A. Bayona to Madrid, London, and Shanghai for premieres. Jurassic Park topped the $1 billion mark at the global box office thanks in part to a 2013 3D re-release that took in $32 million in China. That experience, which introduced the franchise to Chinese audiences, set the stage for the $229 million haul that made the Middle Kingdom the top foreign territory for Jurassic World, as well as the $111.9 million opening bounty scored by Fallen Kingdom in its debut in China this weekend.
Two limited releases with very low Tomatometer ratings landed just outside the top ten. Gotti, the long-gestating mob saga starring John Travolta with a Tomatometer score of 0%, brought in $1.67 million, while Yash Raj's Race 3 (13%) was at $1.63 million. Vertical had Gotti in 503 theaters, 188 more than Race was running in.
Focus plans to expand Morgan Neville's documentary on Fred Rodgers, Won't You By My Neighbor, to more than 300 theaters next weekend after successfully widening it by 67 theaters this weekend. The film about the TV kids host, which has a Tomatometer rating of 99%, brought in $985,000 from 96 locations for a strong $10,253 per-screen average and now has a $1.69 million domestic total after two weeks.
RBG, the documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, crossed the $10 million mark for Magnolia Pictures in its seventh week of release.
Disney pushed A Wrinkle In Time, which opened in March, over the $100 million mark domestically with a special run in 245 theaters that brought in $1.7 million.
How High Will Jurassic Leap in North America?
Fallen Kingdom is tracking for a domestic debut in the $145 million range, but its show of might abroad could build momentum for next weekend's rollout. There's only one comparable film by which to gauge the prospects for Fallen Kingdom, and that's Jurassic World, which opened with $208 million and eventually rung up $1.2 billion worldwide. But that one came out 20 years after the debut of Spielberg's original, and commanded the pop zeitgeist, so even those comparisons are somewhat skewed.
The raptors haven't wowed reviewers so far (61% on the Tomatometer), and neither have the weekend's other wide openers. Damsel, the Western comedy starring Robert Pattison and Mia Wasikowska from David and Nathan Zellner has the best number (80%), ahead of Boundaries, the Christopher Plummer-Vera Farmiga father-daughter road trip comedy (60%), and the Pascal Laugier horror film, Incident in a Ghostland, starring Crystal Reed, Taylor Hickson and Anastasia Phillips.
Also debuting this week are two well-regarded documentaries, The King (formerly The Promised Land), Jim Jarecki's look at America through the prism of a road trip in Elvis Presley's Rolls Royce (92% on the Tomatometer), and the as-yet unrated Spiral, Laura Fairrie's look at anti-Semitism in France.


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COMMUNITY // Advocacy
JOY MATTHEWS - CEO & HBCU Advocate
by Dianna Donahue - Apr.01.2021
Multiple 2020 occurrences caused a spike in racial conscientiousness across the world that made many re-evaluate themselves and what they support. Inclusive of this was evaluating post-secondary educational institutions. As tensions and awareness increased in America, so did interest in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and subsequent enrollments. Forbes.com attributes this upswing to the presidential election, the racial justice movement, record-breaking donations given to many HBCUs, and historic firsts of noteworthy HBCU alums. Joy Matthews, a proud HBCU alum and advocate, is positioned to continue this momentum here in Arkansas.
BIRTH OF A CEO
This Pine Bluff native is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and a member of the illustrious Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She always wanted to be a CEO of a company but had never specified which type. In 2015, components of potential ideas would cross Joy's mind, but the ones that stuck were always centered around children and HBCUs. The next step was figuring out how to create a company that would let her cater to both. With this target in mind, she began by building a business foundation based around her experience as an unprepared high school senior, thinking of pursing a college degree.
"As much as I grew to love UAPB, I never got a chance to experience the culture until I was a college student. Most people assume that if you live in a city where a college is that you grew up with full knowledge of it. Wrong! I just knew it was a college. I remember the day I found out what U-A-P-B stood for. I was in the 6th grade at Coleman Elementary and I saw it on a teacher's shirt. It said, 'University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff' and I was like 'Oh my gosh – that's what that means!?' And that was it. Knowing what an HBCU was, or that Pine Bluff had one, came much later!"
As the first person in her household to attend college, Joy was unaware of pre-entry preferences and requirements needed to enroll, such as applying for scholarships, taking the ACT exam, and choosing a field of study. Unfortunately, her high school resources did not give her much aid in this process as she only saw her counselor for class scheduling. As a result of these circumstances, Joy enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) blindly discovering how to navigate college. Today, she highly regards UAPB because they accepted her and offered everything that she needed to change her ill-prepared circumstances to further her education, as HBCUs are known to do.
A MOTHER PAVING THE WAY
During her senior year at UAPB, she gave birth to her son, Bryson M. Hardin, who became a UAPB baby. He participated in many of UAPB's activities allotted for children, attended most games and campus events, and was exposed to the college and HBCU culture from birth. As Joy reflected on this, she realized that Bryson had acquired more exposure to college during his early phase of adolescence than she ever had. She wanted to provide similar exposure to other children to help to avoid her high school experiences. It was from these two contrasting perspectives, that The HBCU Kid™ company was created.
Joy's company serves to promote Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country and educate adolescents, prospective and current students, alumni, and families of their existence. This includes educating them on the challenges, opportunities, and achievements surrounding them; the historic elements that their culture is based upon, the preservation of traditions, their importance to Black educational advancement, and its 180+ year lineage.
This effort started with the creation of The HBCU Kid™ apparel aimed to visually saturate areas with the term "HBCU", similar to how black sitcoms like "A Different World" did through their HBCU brand recognition through their apparel. Joy added the second component of her brand, HBCU College Tours, used to connect visual HBCU identity with HBCU experience. These tours provide prospective students and their families an opportunity to visit an HBCU campus to learn about its facilities, student life, the culture of the campus, academic opportunities, and the programs offered. This component received tremendous interest and support from across the country. Her 2019 tour consisted of 50 students – 20 from California, 4 from Connecticut, and a few from Chicago and Texas, and they all flew to Arkansas to be a part of this experience.
"A lot of parents can't take off work…or they can't afford to take their child on a tour – especially out of state. Some don't know what to do to even start the process, but they still want their child to have that experience. If I can take that stress off of them and stand in their place, I'm willing to do that. That's community and how We support each other. That's what it's about."
Although COVID-19 derailed her brand's normal interaction and operations, Joy continues to provide information on The HBCU Kid's social media platforms, including scholarship information and a virtual college tour in partnership with HBCU Chicago Alliance. She is preparing to relaunch her brand's college tours with fewer students and extensive safety precautions in summer 2021.
In the meantime, Joy is currently promoting The HBCU Kid™ $500 Book Scholarship – the latest component to the brand's umbrella. This scholarship will be awarded to two graduating seniors with active, consistent community service history intending to enroll in an HBCU. Applicants must:
be a graduating senior
maintain a 2.3 GPA
provide a sealed copy of their latest transcript
have counselor recommendation form completed to verify overall GPA
Additionally, the applicant's applications must be completed in full and all statements and essays must be typed.
The deadline to apply is May 1st, 2021. Complete applications must be mailed to:
The HBCU Kid
Aside from the book scholarship, The HBCU Kid™ resources are available for all rising 5th-grade to senior high school students to participate. For more information, go to www.TheHBCUKid.com or follow on all social media platforms at @TheHBCUKid. You can also request that this information be shared with your child's school counselor by emailing thehbcukid@gmail.com.
Unless otherwise stated, photos are shot by Dianna Donahue
source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/01/02/four-reasons-why-2020-was-the-year-of-the-hbcu/?sh=5bd4a11314f5


The second film in this post-apocalyptic marathon brings a world-weary Denzel Washington into a near-future Earth that's almost completely decimated. He plays Eli, a loner that walks slowly through a hostile world of marauders, rapists, and other denizens. Fighting off these goons with his trusty sword, he travels with a mysterious book of power. Arriving in a small town, Eli meets the vicious town leader Carnegie (Gary Oldman), who seeks this book. The young Solara (Mila Kunis) joins Eli as they're pursued by Carnegie and his band of heavies. The chances for survival seem pretty slim in this uncaring world.
The Hughes brothers (From Hell) take a more stylized approach to present the sparse landscape. There are some gorgeous shots of the wasteland, but they do look too much like CGI and take us out of the movie. I expect this approach was intentional and designed to enhance the dire nature of this environment. Also, the extremely bright daytime shots of the post-nuclear atmosphere make this world seem less realistic, even if the excessive light is scientifically accurate.
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Calling Eli's quest compelling might be a stretch. Washington does his best to make his slow trek across the country interesting, but there's only so much he can do with limited material. He imbues Eli with a genuine humanity that's missing from nearly everyone else in the world. It's possible that most of the other positive figures are dead. If it wasn't for his excellent swordplay and archery skills, Eli would never have survived this long. Solara also helps with achieving this quest, even if their initial conflicts seem too conventional. Kunis gives a decent performance, but her role could have been fleshed out better to make her a true partner.
Despite its post-apocalyptic setting, The Book of Eli is a pretty dull movie. Watching the hero dispatch large groups of bad guys in ultra-violent fashion can only be interesting for so long. There is one action scene that goes so over the top that it becomes comically ridiculous. While holed up in the house with the cannibals, Eli and Solara face a siege from Carnegie's goons. After failing with the standard guns, they pull out a giant rocket launcher to end the showdown. Amazingly, that's not enough either, so they locate a giant Gatling gun to finish the job. If that didn't work, I guess it would have taken the world's largest cannon to settle the stalemate.
With a few exceptions, the message isn't presented in an obvious fashion. Eli does give one painful speech about the old-world people (that's us!) not realizing how much we had. These comments do generally seem fitting since Solara never lived in that setting. The most divisive part of The Book of Eli is definitely the ending, which pulls the rug out from under us about Eli. Sadly, I didn't completely understand the big twist until a few days later. I guess this is why filmmakers hit us over the head. Without revealing spoilers, the finale has Eli and Solara arriving in a building that is drastically different from the rest of the world. The end is strangely hopeful, but also really preachy about what's needed for a successful society.
The Book of Eli was a decent movie but you are right in saying that it is kind of boring at times. I feel the final revelation at the end isn't earned at all, how does he manage to dispatch all of these people and walk across the country with his... disability.
Castor, you're definitely right about the final revelation. I tried not to give too much away in my review since it's a recent film, but the idea that he could be such an amazing fighter just using his heightened other abilities feels like a big stretch.


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