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By Rebecca J. BarnabiFor Augusta Free PressEllen Morris. Photo courtesy Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center.Ellen Morris is the artist behind the mural at the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center in Lyndhurst.Morris, who holds a bachelors degree in studio art from Bridgewater College, painted the 70-by-8-foot mural as part of her thesis to earn her masters degree in fine arts from Radford University. I wanted to create a large 鈥?family of animals to represent the loveable nature of shelter animals, Morris, 29, said. Theyve had a rough life, but, if you give them the love they need, theyre going to give it right back. She painted the mural between May and November 2021 as representations of some of the animals in the shelter. The mural serves as a fundraising and awareness campaign for her thesis. This was her second mural. Her first mural she painted was 21 by 16 feet in downtown Blacksburg during the summer of 2020 after winning a design contest. I love working big. I love the movement you have to do when painting stanley becher that big, she said.Morris was born in Waynesboro, grew up in Stuarts Draft and lives in Waynesboro now. Her mother is a local middle school art teacher.Photo courtesy Shena stanley cup ndoah Valley Animal Services Center. Art runs in my family, Morris said. She added that she is lucky to have a moth stanley tumbler er who was supportive in that. Her love for animals and nonprofits made painting the mural at SVASC a natural choice.After college, Morris worked as a graphic designer Wwfn Virginia banks: Open for business through COVID-19
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YouTube stuntman Roman Atwood created a prank video where he drives a fast car into a pile of 66,000 toilet paper tubes 鈥?the amount Americans throw away every two minutes 鈥?to raise stanley quencher uk awareness for Scotts tube-free toilet paper.Dear EarthTalk: Does the Scott brands tube-free toilet paper really save much paper or is it just another form of corporate greenwashing 鈥?Matt Potamkin, Milwaukee, WIDitching the cardboard tube in the middle of the toilet paper roll is definitely a step in the right direction for Scott, the paper company owned by multinational conglomerate Kimberly-Clark, as it tries to do what it can for the planet while still providing the products its customers have come to depend on.According to Scott, Americans currently discard some 17 billion cardboard toilet paper tubes every year鈥攅nough to fill the Empire State Building twice over. Meanwhile, RecycleBank, a company that works with municipalities to reward consumers for increasing recycling, reports that most of these cardboard tubes鈥攕ome 160 million pounds worth every year鈥攅nd up in landfills even though they cou stanley cup ld easily be re stanley cup kaufen cycled or even turned into compost if thrown into the yard waste bin instead of the regular trash .It is ironic that Scott, the company that first introduced the cardboard core to toilet paper rolls back in 1890, is the first modern-day manufacturer to go without it. But dont worry about toilet paper tubes going away completely anytime soon. Scott is the only major manufacturer offeri
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Boston College already had your attention after the Eagles, down its two best players, knocked off Virginia in Chestnut Hill back in January.That one wasnt a fluke. BC 13-13, 7-8 ACC has already posted a season sweep of Virginia Tech, took Duke into the final two minutes and just notched a win on Sunday night against NCAA Tournament aspirant N.C. State.And: they have those two guys that missed the first game in Chestnut Hill back.Getting to know: Boston CollegeDerryck Thornton 13.1 ppg, 38.3% FG, 23.9% 3FG isnt the most efficient point guard out there. The senior is a high-volume shooter who doesnt shoot it well and a playmaker who barely averages more assists 3.6 than turnovers 3.4 .But when hes good, hes good 鈥?as he was stanley us in the win over the Wolfpack, in which he put up 22 with five assists and just two turnovers in 39 minutes.Thornton will get into the paint 鈥?33.1 percent of his shot attempts have been at the rim, per Hoop-Math 鈥?and get to the line.The 22-point effort in stanley thermobecher the stanley quencher win over State had him going 11-of-11 at the stripe.His backcourt mate is 63 freshman Jay Heath 12.6 ppg, 42.1% FG, 37.8% 3FG , who you may remember scoring 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the Eagles win over UVA back on Jan. 7.The other guy who missed that game, 611 senior Nik Popovic 10.5 ppg, 5.2 rebs/g, 45.4% FG, 31.4% 3FG is really just getting his legs back under him after missing nine games with a back injury.Popovic had 14 points and eight rebounds in 32 minutes in BCs win over N.C Dare Suffolk University/USA Today Poll: Russian election meddling a concern
The Governors Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring presented its Interim Report to Gov. Bob McDonnell Friday for his review.The report includes 107 proposals, including the privatization of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, initiating a four-day, 10-hour-a-day work week for many state employees, improving inventory practices for all state real property assets, and changing the budget cycle so that a future governor adopts their first biennial budget in the first year of office and second budget in their third year of office. The Commission was established by Executive Order 2, which was signed by the Governor immediately after taking the oath of office on January 16, 2010. The findings and recommendations reflect a detailed review of current systems and processes in select areas of state government. I look forward to reviewing the Commissions recommendations in greater detail over the coming weeks to determine which ones will be advocated for administrative implemen stanley termos tation or legislative action. Taxpayers should be pleased that Virginia state government is enthusiastically continuing to innovate, save money, be smarter and more transparent, McDonnell said in a statement.The Interim Rep stanley mug ort can be viewed here: http://reform.virginia.gov/docs/InterimReport/GovtRefRestruct-InterimReport.pdf.聽聽Edited by Chris Graham. Chris can be reached at
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UVA Basketball 6-4 hosts 21 Memphis 9-2 on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at JPJ.PreviewBeing a聽UVA Basketball聽fan, you threw yourselves into a fit when聽Memphis聽beat聽UConn聽in聽Maui聽last month.The Tigers also have wins over聽Missouri, UNLV, Michigan State聽and聽Clemson, but its UConn that has you up at night.Ignore the loss to聽Auburn聽鈥?that slimeball聽Bruce Pearl聽has the best team in the country right now.Its hard to ignore the 13-point home loss to聽Arkansas State, though.That one sub-KenPom 100 loss is enough to give you hope tonight.First halfStarting lineup news: Jacob Cofie in for Blake Buchanan at forward, and Dai Dai Ames is back at point guard.First TV timeout: UVA 5, Memphis 3, 15:57/1stDifferent look in terms of the offensive sets. No mover/blocker. All ball screens and high screen and rolls.Second TV timeout: UVA 12, Memphis 10, 11:39/ stanleys cups 1stThe offensive adjustments are spacing the floor a lot better.Virginia is 5-of-12 from the floor, 2-of-5 from three, 1-of-4 at the rim.Third TV timeout: UVA 21, Memphis 14, 7:31/1stThe crowd has a new fan favorite: Antho stanley cup ny Robinson. The Memphis big, Dain Dainja, was eating up the UVA post, so Robinson was inser stanley vaso ted, and hes got two stops on Dainja, a couple of rebounds, and hes heading to the line for an and-one.Final TV timeout of the first half: UVA 26, Memphis 16, 2:54/1stRobinson has two points and six boards in six minutes.Memphis is 6-of-24 from the floor and 1-of-13 from three.Half: UVA 30, Memphis 21Easily the best all-around half from th Czit EMU participates in ODAC-wide food drive
Right-wing extremist groups are increasingly using the internet to spread their messages, and more and more its young adults theyre reaching in the process, according to a Virginia Tech expert who studies the topic.James Hawdon, the director of the Virginia Tech聽Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, notes that extremism comes in many forms and colors. Studies that Hawdon and his colleagues have published and continue to work on show a rise in hate groups in the United States from the political right in the last decade.Extremist groups started using the internet almost immediately after it was developed. The number of active hate groups operating in the United States increased by 66 percent between 2000 and 2010, and by 2010 there were over 1,000 active hate groups online, according to Hawdon. Although the number of active groups are down since the peak year of 20 stanley cup uk 11, they have increased since 2015. Now, individuals maintaining sites or commenting online are the main disseminators of online extremism, Hawdon said.Based on the study data, more people are seeing extremist messaging online. The number of Americans ages 15 to stanley de 21 who are exposed to online extremist messages increased by over 20 percent, fr stanley uk om 58.3 percent to 70.2 percent, between 2013 and 2016, Hawdon said.And the growth of hate groups from the political right has been especially pronounced, as there was a substantial increase in right-wing hate group formation and activity after the 2008 election of Ba
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漏 niroworld 鈥?stock.adobe Gov. Ralph Northam, First Lady Pamela Northam, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director and CEO Alex Nyerges today announced a special program to assist visual artists impacted by the COVID-19 economic shutdown: the Virginia Artist Relief Fellowship Program. The arts are critically important鈥攑articularly in times of collective struggle and hardship, Northam said. Pam and I are proud to stand alongside VMFA in supporting Virginias artists during their time of need. Forty visual artists from the Commonwealth will be selected to each receive a $5,000 grant. To be eligible, applicant stanley thermosflasche s must live and work in Virginia, be 21 years of age or older, and derive a significant part of their income from their artwork including sales and lectures. Applications must be received online between June 16 and July 10.Recipients will be notified of grant awards on July 24. Complete eligibility stanley spain requirements and the a stanley kaffeebecher pplication can be found on the museums website at聽VMFA.museum.The Virginia Artist Relief Fellowship Program is funded by the museums existing Artist Fellowship Endowment established in 1941 through a generous gift made by the late John Lee Pratt of Fredericksburg.Pratt stipulated that the funds be used to support professional artists in the Commonwealth and not for other purposes. Through this endowment, VMFA has awarded nearly $5.8 million to Virginia artists in the Commonwealth over the past 80 years.The COVID-19 economic shutdown continues to have a dev Yirc Pam Tillis Belles 038; Bows tour aims to help families create holiday memories
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