COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL
JEREMY BEALE
Marines beautify Quantico during Earth Day events
Marine Corps Base Quantico joined more than 200 million people across 195 countries in protecting the environment by holding activities in observance of Earth Day, which is on April 22 each year. In honor of the 47th anniversary of Earth Day more than 100 Marine volunteers participated in shoreline clean up, trail beautification and an Earth Day education fair and barbecue April 19-21.
Marine Corps creates new division to head up fitness
After a shift in the dynamic of Marine Corps fitness in 2016, and a physical fitness system that has been spread throughout different commands, the Marine Corps has taken steps to strengthen the physical fitness program by putting all aspects of physical fitness under the newly created Force Fitness Division (FFD) that will operate under the Training and Education Command (TECOM), based out of Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Marine Corps creates new division to head up fitness
Ninety-seven year-old James “Horse” Smith, also known as “Horse Collar”, a member of the World War II, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, was welcomed to Marine Corps Base Quantico’s Raider Hall Martial Arts Center of Excellence March 6, to speak with Marine Corps Embassy Security Group Marines about his experience on Guadalcanal and to offer words of inspiration for Professional Military Education.
Quantico hosts Fifth Annual Special Olympics Fun Field Day Meet
Rain couldn’t stop more than 80 young athletes from a fun day out as Marine Corps Base Quantico’s Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) hosted their Fifth Annual Special Olympics Fun Field Day Meet April 22 in Barber Physical Activity Center.
The event was originally scheduled to take place in Butler Stadium, but was moved inside to the gym due to rain. The meet was a non-competitive athletic event for contestants ages three to adult diagnosed with intellectual or developmental disabilities and included athletes from EFMP and surrounding communities.
Quantico honored with first ever award for suicide prevention efforts
Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) received its first ever Outreach Recognition Award from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO) Feb. 22 for the Quantico Marine Corps Community Service (MCCS) Community Counseling Program’s campaign during September, which is observed as Suicide Prevention Month each year.
FBI reaches out to Prince William’s Muslim community
The FBI’s, Washington, D.C., Field Office agents reached out to members of the Muslim Association of Virginia to discuss civil rights and talk about how to defend against the threat of terrorist extremism during a gathering at the Dar Al-Noor Islamic Community Center, Sept. 18. This event was hosted one day after two separate explosives were detonated in New York and New Jersey—one explosive within the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan and the other at a Marine Corps charity run near Seaside Park.
Student Sues University After Accusation Of Harmful Speech
A University of South Carolina student filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the college Tuesday after being interrogated and threatened with expulsion.
This news comes after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education made public their intent to fund the lawsuit. More»
University of New Mexico Pro-Life Student Group Offers ‘Real Sex Week’ To Combat Misinformatio
The University of New Mexico Students for Life chapter will host a sex week of their own March 7, to combat the STD infested, assault stricken, abortion filled, polygamous relationships running rampant across their campus.
The chapter hopes to build awareness among a misinformed student body with “The Real Sex Week,” after two seemingly unsuccessful years. More»
Here’s Why Millennials Are Costing The Economy $376 Billion
Millennials are costing the U.S. economy more than $376 billion a year, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The poll found that between 2008 and 2015, the economy lost approximately $949 million per day and $346.4 billion a year due to the lack of millennials spending money. An additional $30.5 billion was lost to high turnover rates in millennial employment. More»
Speaker calls for global effort against radical Islam
A retired Marine Corps colonel told the Channel City Club on Wednesday that stopping ISIS and radical Islam should be a global effort involving the world's leading powers. "This should be a United Nations problem, in which the United States, Russia, Europe and China are involved," Col. Christopher Starling said during a luncheon at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort attended by about 130 people. "This inherent evil, this violent evil propagation of beheadings, mutilation, burnings and heinous acts of terrorism is a global problem in desperate need of a global solution." More»
New sick leave rules take effect in July
A law extending paid sick days to select California workers will go into effect July 1, causing some employers to re-evaluate how they manage their businesses. The Healthy Workforce Healthy Family Act of 2014 is aimed at assisting a workforce of approximately 6.5 million who go without paid sick days. Paid sick days will be permissible to employees in need of diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition and preventive care for themselves and their families, and to employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. More»
Speaker raises awareness of women's rights in Afghanistan
Charlie Ponticelli, program director of the American Committee of Foreign Relations, visited the Channel City Club Monday morning, bringing with her the voices of many striving Afghan women. Addressing a room of more than 130 club members, Ms. Ponticelli stressed the importance behind America's continued aid and support of women's rights within the Middle East. "I like to think as Americans we keep our promises and our promise is not a gift taken lightly by the people of Afghanistan," Ms. Ponticelli said. More»
WASHINGTON NATIONALS SET TO BEGIN MLB-MANDATED FAN SCREENING WITH METAL DETECTORS
Washington Nationals fans will have to take a few extra steps — literally — before they can head to the stands at Nationals Park to watch the team’s exhibition game April 4 against the New York Yankees, or their season opener two days later against the New York Mets.
The Nats are one of 29 teams adding freestanding, gate-shaped, walk-through metal detectors at select entrances around the ballpark, as mandated by Major League Baseball last year in consultation with theDepartment of Homeland Security [...]
MLB COMMISSIONER ROB MANFRED THINKS BOTH D.C. AND BALTIMORE CAN HOST ALL-STAR GAMES
With Rob Manfred, the newly appointed Major League Baseball commissioner, in town this week, the question everyone wanted answered was what the future holds for competing markets Washington and Baltimore to ever host an All-Star Game.
In his first official public appearance as commissioner during a Wednesday visit at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, the 10th MLB commissioner responded in a way that may make both markets happy: He would have no issue awarding both cities All-Star Games back to back [...]
‘CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA GETS $3M IN GRANTS FOR BUSINESS SCHOOL
The Catholic University of America got a new infusion of funds to promote further study of "principled entrepreneurship"
The Catholic University of America'sSchool of Business and Economics received a $3 million grant to advance the study and practice of principled entrepreneurship [...]
YOU WANT A FRANCHISE WITH THAT?
Heather Rosen, president, FranNet Virginia
Heather Rosen, a former lawyer, learned the art of argument even at age 6. However, a health crisis and impending family caused her to leave her law career and open a franchise consulting business — itself, by the way, a franchise. Now, realizing the opportunity she was granted, this Broadway aficionado strives to offer people in similar situations their own fresh starts in business.
HOW I... GOT A MACARTHUR GRANT
Michael Jenkins, founder, president and CEO, Forest Trends
Michael Jenkins, a former senior forestry adviser for the World Bank and agroforester in Haiti, started Forest Trends 15 years ago — after working in the 1990s in global security and sustainability for the esteemed MacArthur Foundation. This year, those worlds collided when MacArthur awarded Forest Trends one of its highly coveted MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, a $1 million prize.
AN ARCHITECTUAL ACE
Jeremy Burge, managing principal, D.C., Clark Nexsen
Jeremy Burge, named one of Building Design and Construction magazine's "40 under 40" leaders in architecture for beingClark Nexsen's youngest managing principal in 2013, sees the world in shapes, angles and symmetry. When he is not designing buildings — such as the National Naval Medical Center or Operation Smile headquarters — he's playing tennis or creatively flavoring booze. Just give him candy and some peppy tunes, and he's a happy man.
PHOTOGRAPHER GAINS INSPIRATION
In the field of photography, as a camera lens snaps shut, it is accompanied by the idea that a moment in time is frozen in an instant, forever capturing a memory.
Liberty University sophomore Rachael Graf relishes this unique idea in her photography. Two of her photographs, which were featured in Liberty’s Student Activities-hosted Art Expo Nov. 1, are examples of the stories told through art. [...]
‘RING BY SPRING’ IN A NEW LIGHT
Within the hands of a man on bended knee sparkles a luxurious clear-cut stone, entwined by a flawless metallic band, welded together to create the perfect symbol of love — the engagement ring.
As February is coming to a close and spring is quickly approaching, “The Ring by Spring” deadline is almost here.
Because the ring symbolizes the promises of marriage made between men and women looking to get engaged, the process of finding such a masterpiece has been described as one of the most difficult tasks in a man’s life. [...]
SAVE YOUR SNEAKERS
As another semester comes to a close, Liberty University’s School of Business club Enactus has partnered with the nonprofit organization Shoe Good to provide students with one last opportunity to impact the world this semester.
With summer break quickly approaching, Enactus is hoping that students will be willing to donate their old or unwanted shoes.
“Shoe Good is a nonprofit organization that distributes donated shoes to impoverished and often times disaster stricken communities around the world,” School of Business student Jessica Hippe said. [...]
SERVING THE CHILDREN
Nerves filled her heart moments before they officially met. All the background information she had been given about the little girl raced through her mind. Then the door opened, and they met. Her fears calmed as a new relationship was born.
One year ago, Courtney Bryant, a Lynchburg, Va., local and Liberty University junior, made the decision to join the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Virginia program and is still a volunteer today. [...]
KATE UPTON UPSET AND MISINFORMED, BUT THAT'S OKAY
It’s not often that supermodels get mixed up in the golf news cycle, but just six months after appearing on Golf Digest’s cover with Arnold Palmer, Kate Upton is back at it again.
Upton tweeted the following yesterday:
I just heard that Los Angeles Country Club doesn't allow women to golf until noon.That is the most insulting news I've heard! It's 2014
TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION APPOINTS NEW CEO
Tiger Woods continues to spare no time during his medical absence from the PGA Tour.
Woods, who has been constantly refining his business ventures over the past year, has named a new CEO, Rick Singer, the former vice president of IBM’s Client Executive Marketing, to the Tiger Woods Foundation (TWF).
According to the Tiger Woods Foundation’s media release on Tuesday, Singer will be taking over the position of CEO in June.
REED RECEIVES CONTROVERSIAL PENALTY
Reed often referred to as the Young Gun on tour is in the news again, but this time it is not as a result of his quick drawing game, but rather his easily tempered attitude.
Where Reed is seldom known for his popularity on tour, he has been known to push the limits of this humbled gentlemen's sport.
Nevertheless, call it wrong place, wrong time, or call it whatever you will, Reed's actions during the first round of the WGC-HSBC Championship at Sheshan International Golf Club were far from gentlemanly
WOODS RESPONDS TO MOCK INTERVIEW
The truth in the satire is always a hard pill to swallow, but was this the case for critically acclaimed Hall of Fame writer Dan Jenkins of Golf Digest?
According to Tiger Woods the mock interview article Jenkins posted was "Not funny, Not True" and below the belt.
Woods in an effort to defend his name responded on the website The Player's Tribune to his fans seeking support against the article.