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Volume 1, Issue 8, December 13, 2015

In this issue...

Public Service Announcements

Quote Of The Week: 

Book Of The Month: “Power Shift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century” By Alvin Toffler

IT’S YOUR Health: Physical Fitness

Historical Fact Of The Week: African Americans: Part VIII

Editorial Commentary: Coming soon!

 

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• The rechartering for The Head Cornerstone Corporation in the State Of Delaware as well as all updated business licenses and associated issues are forth coming pending litigation. Thank you.
• Visit WWW.Ready.gov at your earliest convenience so that you may be informed of basic protective measures before, during, and after disasters/emergencies, learn disaster prepared activities, training, plans, and what shelters are in or near your community, develop an emergency plan for yourself and your family in the event of an actual disaster/emergency, build an disaster/emergency supply kit including a basic emergency medical/trauma bag in case of an event, and GET INVOLVED!
• Get your CPR (Cardio-Pulomonary Resuscitation) and Basic First Aid/First Responder/Basic Life Support including child birth and Emergency Pediatric Care training today. Check with the American Heart Association at WWW.Heart.org for locations. It may just save a life.
•  It’s a lot of fun and excitement, it’s healthy, it’s a great family activity, and it’s very practical. Find a course in self defense for you and your loved ones and learn to protect yourselves. You just never know.
•  We have the constitutional right to BEAR ARMS and many states have the CCW (Conceal Carry Weapon) License for when you and your loved ones are outside of your home environment. Search the web for free information concerning the Conceal Carry Laws as well as other valuable information. Get the CCW License today (where applicable) for you and your family members of age and LEARN HOW TO SHOOT. You’ll feel better that you did.
•  WATER; it’s very essential for normal body functions and not only carries nutrients to your cells, but flushes out the toxins in are bodies that lead to diseases such as cancers, diabetes, and heart diseases. According to the Mayo Clinic and the Institute of Health, water consumption varies for each person depending on many factors associated with life styles, such as current health, activities, and where you live. Be informed about what your daily intake should be and “drink up”. It will make YOUR world a better place.

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“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”

 Booker Taliaferro Washington

April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915

An African American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was one of the dominant leaders in the African American communities. Washington was from the last generation of African American leaders born into slavery to become a leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. Heled the growth of Tuskegee Institute, a historically African American college in Alabama and forerunner of Tuskeegee University. As lynchings in the South reached a peak in 1895, Washington gave a speech, known as the "Atlanta compromise," which brought him national fame. He called for African American progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of African American voters in the South. Washington mobilized a nationwide coalition of middle-class African American, church leaders, and Caucasian American philanthropists and politicians, with a long-term goal of building the community's economic strength and pride by a focus on self-help and schooling. But, secretly, he also supported court challenges to segregation and passed on funds raised for this purpose. Booker T. Washington mastered the nuances of the political arena in the late 19th century, which enabled him to manipulate the media, raise money, strategize, network, pressure, reward friends and distribute funds while punishing those who opposed his plans for uplifting African Americans. His long-term goal was to end the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of African Americans, who still lived in the South. Washington's work on education problems helped him enlist both the moral and substantial financial support of many major Caucasian American philanthropists. He became a friend of such self-made men as Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers; Sears, Roebuck and Company President Julius Rosenwald; and George Eastman, inventor of roll film and founder of Kodak, and developer of a major part of the photography industry. These individuals and many other wealthy men and women funded his causes, including Hampton and Tuskegee institutes. The schools which Washington supported were founded primarily to produce teachers, a key need for the race in the 19th century. Freedmen strongly supported literacy and education as the keys to their future. Graduates had often returned to their largely impoverished rural southern communities to find few schools and educational resources, as the Caucasian American-dominated state legislatures consistently underfunded African American schools in their segregated system. To address those needs, in the 20th century Washington enlisted his philanthropic network to create matching funds programs to stimulate construction of numerous rural public schools for African American children in the South. Working especially with Julius Rosenwald from Chicago, Washington had Tuskegee architects develop model school designs. The Rosenwald Fund helped support the construction and operation of more than 5,000 schools and supporting resources for the betterment of African Americans throughout the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The local schools were a source of communal pride and were priceless to African American families when poverty and segregation severely limited the life chances of the pupils. A major part of Washington's legacy, the model rural schools continued to be constructed into the 1930s, with matching funds from the Rosenwald Fund. Washington also helped with the Progressive Era by forming the National Negro Business League. His autobiography, Up From Slavery, first published in 1901, is still widely read in the early 21st century.

 

 

BOOK Of THE MONTH

“Power Shift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century”

By Alvin Toffler

ISBN-10: 055318086X

ISBN-13: 978-0553292152

   

IT’S YOUR HEALTH

Physical fitness

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Physical fitness is a general state of health and well-being or specifically the ability to perform aspects of sports or occupations. Physical fitness is generally achieved through correct nutrition, exercise, hygiene and rest. It is a set of attributes or characteristics that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity.

Before the industrial revolution, fitness was the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However with automation and changes in lifestyles physical fitness is now considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.

Contents

1 Fitness

2 Training

3 Menopause and Physical Fitness

4 See also

 

Fitness

The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports — a study group sponsored by the government of the United States—declines to offer a simple definition of physical fitness. Instead, it developed the following chart:

Physiological

• Metabolism
• Morphological
• Bone integrity
• Other

Health related

• Body composition
• Cardiovascular fitness
• Flexibility
• Muscular endurance
• Muscle strength

Skill related

• Agility
• Balance
• Coordination
• Power
• Speed
• Reaction time
• Other

Sports

• Team sport
• Individual sport
• Lifetime
• Other

 

A comprehensive fitness program tailored to an individual typically focuses on one or more specific skills, and on age- or health-related needs such as bone health. Many sources also cite mental, social and emotional health as an important part of overall fitness. This is often presented in textbooks as a triangle made up of three points, which represent physical, emotional, and mental fitness. Physical fitness can also prevent or treat many chronic health conditions brought on by unhealthy lifestyle or aging. Working out can also help people sleep better. To stay healthy it is important to engage in physical activity.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages the adult public, ages 18 to 64, to engage each week in at least one and a quarter hours of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity or two and a half hours of moderate-intensity aerobic activity; that time can be met in any increments.

Diet is an important component to overall health that works best in combination with exercise. A balanced diet and exercising regularly are important for maintaining good health. Obesity is defined as body mass index, a measure of weight in relationship to height (Blair, 1993). With obesity on the rise, the U.S. has implemented more exercise and diet plans. There are millions of programs, websites, television shows, magazines, and movies regarding health and fitness. Recently, the trends of diets and lifestyle habits have become more and more encouraged. Understanding the importance of the health benefits resulted from diet and exercise will help decrease the amount of obesity in this country. Physical activity and exercise is defined in terms of type, intensity, duration and frequency (Blair, 1993).

Developing research has demonstrated that many of the benefits of exercise are mediated through the role of skeletal muscle as an endocrine organ. That is, contracting muscles release multiple substances known as myokines which promote the growth of new tissue, tissue repair, and various anti-inflammatory functions, which in turn reduce the risk of developing various inflammatory diseases.

 (Continued)

 

HISTORICAL FACT OF THE WEEK

 AFRICAN AMERICANS

"A People Of The Many Descendants Of Afrika”

Part VIII

Civil Rights

African American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.

The American Civil Rights movement has been made up of many movements. The term usually refers to the political struggles and reform movements between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African Americans and other disadvantaged groups and to end legal racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South.

This article focuses on an earlier phase of the struggle. Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy — serve as milestones. This was an era of stops and starts, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy due to U.S. government infiltration and sabotage, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

After the Civil War, the U. S. expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment only outlawed slavery; it provided neither citizenship nor equal rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. All persons born in the U. S. were extended equal protection under the laws of the Constitution. The 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote. During Reconstruction (1865–1877), Northern troops occupied the South. Together with the Freedmen's Bureau, they tried to administer and enforce the new constitutional amendments. Many African American leaders were elected to local and state offices, and many others organized community groups, especially to support education.

Reconstruction ended following the Compromise of 1877 between Northern and Southern Caucasian American elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. This followed terrorism, horrific violence, as well as State and local government sponsored fraud and political disenfranchisement in southern elections from 1868–1876, which had reduced African American voter turnout and enabled Southern Caucasian American Democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the South. The compromise and withdrawal of Federal troops meant that Caucasian American Democrats had more freedom to impose and enforce discriminatory practices. Many African Americans responded to the withdrawal of federal troops by leaving the South in what is known as the Kansas Exodus of 1879.

Exodusters

Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of African Americans following the Civil War.

To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League and the Jim Crow laws which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. In the 1880s, African Americans bought more than 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements made during this time (e.g. Nicodemus, Kansas, which was founded in 1877) still exist today.

This sudden wave of migration, for some strange reason, came as a great surprise to many Caucasian Americans. Many African Americans left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas, only to be stranded in St. Louis, Missouri. African American churches in St. Louis, together with Eastern philanthropists, formed the Colored Relief Board and the Kansas Freedmen's Aid Society to help those stranded in St. Louis to reach Kansas.

At the time of the Exodus to Kansas, yellow fever ravaged many river towns along the way (in Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana for example). Because many of the African American migrants who stopped over in these towns—coming by steamboat, train, or horseback—were poverty-stricken, it was assumed by those town and city officials that the Exodusters were a cause. This caused great alarm in such cities as St. Louis, which imposed unnecessary quarantine measures to discourage future migrants.

The Exodus was not universally praised by African Americans; indeed, Frederick Douglass was a critic of the movement. It was not that Douglass disagreed with the Exodusters in principle, but he felt that the movement was ill-timed and poorly organized.

Of note, however, western migration of African Americans was not limted to the Exoduster period, and places like Quindaro, Kansas thrived for some period before, during, and after the Exoduster movement. Similarly, in following years (although not part of the original Exoduster movement of the 19th century) in the early 20th century African American migrations to the American West and Southwest—generally known as the Old West—would continue, and several additional all-African American towns would be established, especially in Indian Territory, which was to become the current state of Oklahoma.

Exodusters In Fiction

Gabriel's Story, by David Anthony Durham.

Paradise, by Toni Morrison.

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, by Mildred Pitts Walker.

Why the Dark Man Cries, by Connie Fredricks

The Radical Republicans, who spearheaded Reconstruction, had attempted to eliminate both governmental and private discrimination by legislation. That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give Congress power to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals or businesses.

The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld state-mandated discrimination in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. As Justice Harlan, the only member of the Court to dissent from the decision, predicted:

 “If a state can prescribe, as a rule of civil conduct, that whites and blacks shall not travel as passengers in the same railroad coach, why may it not so regulate the use of the streets of its cities and towns as to compel white citizens to keep on one side of a street, and black citizens to keep on the other? Why may it not, upon like grounds, punish whites and blacks who ride together in street cars or in open vehicles on a public road or street?”

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 THE HEAD CORNERSTONE CORP.

(A Delaware Corporation) 

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT WANTED

 Duties will include, but, not be limited to;

Assist Executive with daily duties to enhance overall effectiveness, performs all office  administrative activities, prepares presentations and reports, disseminates information, schedules/maintains appointments, maintains file system, project manager, coordinates all travel arrangements, liaison for company employees/clients, liaison for Board of Directors, arranges conference/tele-conference calls, researches, collects, and analyzes information, maintains daily reports, personal errands, and must  be available to travel extensively.

 Must have;

A BA or some college in administrative or business management preferred. Working as an assistant or in an administrative related field will be helpful. Career oriented, thorough knowledge of computers, office equipment, and various office and business management software applications including executive schedule management, excellent interpersonal communications skills (to include conflict management/resolution, interviewing, negotiating, networking, problem solving, teamwork, etc.), knowledge of public relations helpful, knowledge of security helpful, highly proficient at (typing, spelling, punctuation, grammar) written and oral communication, good short hand skills, knowledge of graphics and production, very tactful, knowledgeable of corporate operations is helpful, management skills, congenial, excellent discretion and judgment, highly organized, very detail oriented, very good initiative, work very well under pressure, adaptable, very versatile, multitasking, some bookkeeping required, very good time management skills, assertive, highly self-motivated, very energetic, proficient speaking, reading, and writing of a second language required, but will allow if currently studying (French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Arabic, Mandarin, etc.). Able to participate in physical training on a regular basis (fitness and self-defense courses).

 All interested persons, please, forward cover letters and resumes, to include

salary requirements and 8 x 10 photo (waist up) to HCCorp@Outlook.com.

  

HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONALS WANTED

 Duties will include, but, not be limited to;

Develops and coordinates personnel programs and policies, oversees all departments for which organization is responsible, develops and oversees company training programs, devise policies for fair and equitable pay rates, ensure that firm’s scale complies with changing laws and regulations, oversees performance evaluation program, oversees company reward systems, manages all of company’s employees’ benefits programs,

stays abreast of all federal and state legislation that may affect employee benefits, identify and assess training needs of company, develop, plan, and direct all company employee training programs, conduct orientation and on-the-job training for new employees, forms labor policy, oversees labor relations, negotiates collective bargaining agreements, coordinates grievance procedures to handle complaints resulting from disputes with unionized employees, oversees all client/employee match up and placements, screen, interview, and some cases, test applicants, investigate and resolve issues and grievances, examine corporate practices for possible violations, compile and submit EEO statistical reports, develop and maintain working relationship with local public employment programs and services, collect and examine detailed information about job duties to prepare job descriptions, study the effects of industry and occupational trends upon worker relationships, responsible for a wide array of programs covering occupational safety, health standards, and practices, maintains company’s employee mental and physical health and fitness programs as well as recreational activities, over sees medical examinations, maintains company’s carpooling and transportation programs,

maintains employee suggestion program, maintains company employees’ childcare/elderly care programs, maintains company employees’ counseling services, manages human resources issues related to a company’s foreign operations.

 Must have;

At least a BA, but Masters and above is preferred in administrative or business management or related. Knowledgeable of personnel programs, policy management, employment, compensation, benefits, training and development, employee relations, and continual educational programs. Enthusiastic, aptitude for business, knowledge of computers and various software applications, excellent interpersonal communications skills (to include conflict management), highly proficient at (typing, spelling, punctuation, grammar) written and oral communication, very tactful, knowledgeable of employment agency industry, management skills, congenial, excellent discretion and judgment, very good organizational skills, very good initiative, adaptable, very versatile, very good time management skills, assertive, highly self-motivated, analytical, detail oriented, decisive, multitasking, career oriented, knowledge of public relations helpful, knowledge of security helpful, knowledge of graphics and production, very tactful, knowledgeable of corporate operations is helpful, excellent management skills, work very well under pressure, some bookkeeping required, very good time management skills, assertive, highly self-motivated, very energetic, proficient speaking, reading, and writing of a second language required, but will allow if currently studying (French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Arabic, Mandarin, etc.). Able to participate in physical training on a regular basis (fitness and self-defense courses).

 All interested persons, please, forward cover letters and resumes, to include career objectives and salary requirements and 8 x 10 photo (waist up) to [email protected].

 

 Now recruiting for ALL POSITIONS.

We are looking for;

 Very talented

Very serious

Career oriented

Self-motivated

Self-assured

Professional

College graduates and/or currently active students

Progressive minded

And Personable People

 Whom;

Are enthusiastic

Enjoy challenges

Possess an aptitude for business

Work best under pressure

Can travel extensively (required for some positions)

Are very organized and detail oriented

And have excellent communication skills (oral and literal)

For a very fast paced,

very mature,

and very exciting environment and a very rewarding experience.

Compensation will include;

Industry competitive salaries

Four (4) weeks paid vacation

Health (medical, dental, and vision), life, disability Insurance

Aggressive training programs

401 K participation

Progressive Retirement Plans

Quota based profit sharing

Tuition reimbursement

Childcare/Elderly Care assistance

As well as many others

All interested persons, please, forward cover letters and resumes, to include salary requirements and 8 x 10 glossy, to [email protected]. 

Thank you.

Akil A. Bomani

President, CEO

The Head Cornerstone Corp.

(A Delaware Corporation)

  

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