Roland B. Scott-Main force behind the sickle Cell ANemia COntrol Act of 1971

What is SIckle Cell Anemia? Why does it occur? Well Dr. Roland B. Scott

can answer your questions on this issue. He is a pediatrician and allergy expert

that gained fame of his authority on sickle cell disease. Dr. Scott was the main

force behind the SIckle Cell Anemia COntrol Act of 1971.It founded comprehensive

research and treatment centers around the country for the disease. He was trained

first as an allergist but switched his attention to sickle cell anemia after he observed

a high number of African American children showing up in the HOward Hospital

emergency room with problems from this disease..Dr. Scott became a great

authority on the heriditary. In 1972, he used a grant from the National Institutes

of Health to establish the Howard University Center for sickle cell disease. He

was the direct of the center until 1990, when he retired.

This man zooms into action. Isn’t this man amazing? He

contributed to the people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/14/us/roland-b-scott-93-pediatrician-and-expert-on-sickle-cell-disease.html

Black men have the most prostate cancer!

African American men are more prone to getting prostate cancer and

dying from it.

 

 

http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/prostate_health/prostate_cancer/prostate_cancer_african_americans/Pages/index.aspx

Who is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation? A black woman named Ursula Burns!

Well all know how important it is to zerox. I wouldn’t
want to type 4 pages 50 times so it’s great to be
able to xerox. Since were on the topic of Xerox,
I should tell you that Ursula MR. Burns is
chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox
Corporation. Ursula Burns is a BLACK
woman too. The company she heads has
Sales that are about $23 billion. This is
the world’s leading Enterprise for business process
and document management.
She joined in 1980 as a mechanical engineering
summer intern. (See where interning can get you.)
You make one step and sometimes it can lead
to a whole lot of steps and moves. It’s like
chess.
The company, she controls, takes the title of leader
in the global photocopying market.She took on both
roles as product development and planning and her business
soared up there with its leadership position in digital
document technologies.
Burns led several business teams like
the company’s color business and Office network
printing business. In 2000, Burns received the
title senior Vice president. She restructured Xerox
through its turnaround to bloom as a leader in
color technology and document services. The company’s
main reason to turnaround was its research and
development of new products and technologies.
Burns was captain of Xerox’s global
research,product development, marketing, and delivery.
She was also nominated as a member of Board
Of Directors. She was chief executive officer in
July 2009. This woman made the largest acquisitions
in Xerox history. This includes a $6.4 billion
purchase Of Affiliated Computer Services, which
catapulted the company’s presence in the $500
billion business services market and extending
the company’s reach into multiple areas of
business process and IT outsourcing.
Burns was the chairman of the
company, leading the 140,000 Of Xerox who assist
clients in over 160 countries. She even provides
leadership counsel to community, educational, and
non profit organizations including First, aka For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,
National Academy Foundation, for MIT, and the US Olympic
committee, and much more. She is the founding
director of Change the Equation, whose target
is to Improve the U.S. education system in science,
technology, engineering, and math STEM. By March
2010, President Barack Obama appointed Burns
vice chair of the Presiden’t Export Council.

Have you heard of her? If not, you may want to
research more into this lady. From what I found
so far, I’ve got a chunk of information on her
background. Knowing what she does, how does
xeroxing fit into your everyday life? For
all of those saying you wish you could do what
she did, YOU can! And remember, it all started
as an intern! Now intern and network are the
two words that will get you through your career.
Thanks for your time!

http://news.xerox.com/pr/xerox/ursula-m-burns.aspx

Marjorie Joyner, a black woman invented a machine that gave curls that last for days!

Infatuated with those curls? Obssessed with curls? Looking at the lady in the
magazine wondering how can I get those curls? Ask a beautician and then you
tell me. I want to know, too! I’m not a hairstylist. I’ve done women’s hair before
but my work is so basic. I know I can’t work with hard to style hair. I wish I could. I wonder
if I should become a beautician. That will take away a lot of my hair problems.
I would just be chilling, relaxing all care free. But I myself would make sure my
hair is done. Anyways, I want to give tribute to a black woman who changed
the hair game for the better. Her name is Marjorie Joyner.
She was introduced to Madame C J Walker, a black hair care products
entrepreneur. Walker owned about 200 hair salons. She died in 1919 and
Marjorie headed the Madam CJ. Walker Beauty Colleges. In the 1920s, black
women had serious issues with their hair. If they wanted to straighten
their tightly curled hair, they would have to use a stove heated
curling iron. Then, Marjorie comes along and speeds up the process
and also makes it easier as well as more efficient.
Her vision was of serveral curling irons above a woman’s head
that would work in unison to straighten her hair all at once. Joyer abruptly
had this idea In her head. Joyner said “It all came to me in the kitchen
when I was making a pot roast one day, looking at these long thing rods that
hld the pot roast together and heated from the inside. I figured you could
use them like hair rollers, then heat them up to cook a permanent
curl into the hair.”
Therefore, she straightened and curled in a very easy manner.
She approached this solution by putting 16 rods adjacent to each other.
They were connected to the electric cord inside of a drying hood. A customer
would wear the hood for a certain amount of time. Thus, the hair was either
straightened or curled. She started working on her invention in
1926 and after two years of trial and error, it was all finished. In
1928, she got a patent for her device named the Permanent
Waving Machine. This device was bestselling and auspicious (successful).
The curl stayed in the hair for days. On the other hand, a curl from as
single iron would last only a day.

THerefore, she was a success just like her inventions. We all want
that hairstyle that’s on point to match our nice outfit. We never
want to walk around with half the look. Even on a casual day,
when we wear our hair nice, we look nice! Hair is the first thing
we see!

http://www.greatfemaleinventors.com/pages/marjoriejoyner.html

Some tips for blow drying the hair

“You need a great hairstyle for that great outfit. THus, you’ll get that balance.”

There is the right way to do something and the wrong way to do something.

When it comes to our hair and other things, we should do it the right way

right away. Hair tends to need special treatment. We can’t just ignore it.

We need to take care of it just like we take care of other things.

We can’t always just fly through the hair styling process. We

must take care of the hair we have to maintain it or increase it.

• When you go to a hair salon, take a lesson with an expert. 
• Learn what it is this person is doing to get the same look you want when blow dried.
• If you let your hair air dry before you use a blow dryer, this can minimize hair 

damage.

• Blow dry down your hair shaft and this will give you smoother locks.
• Keep the blow dryer about 10 inches away from your hair when you want to remove moisture.
• keep the blow dryer 6 inches away when styling to cut down on heat damage.
• Don’t focus on one section of hair for too long.
• Keep the blow dryer moving.

• Don’t blow dry your hair upside down.

Once you understand how to avoid breakage, then you can avoid the headache of hair loss.

Also, you can unwind and sit back and relax instead.

 

well, now that you know the ways to blow dry your hair you can practice them. Make it a

habit. You always have something to remember. I wish I would have known these tips

a long time ago. The important thing now though, is that I know. I see areas where

I can improve in my hair such as the growth. It’s thick, but it can be thicker. Also,

I’d like to give my hair some shape. Are ya’ll satisfied with your hair or do you

feel that you need improvement? Let me know. Thanks for reading!

 

http://www.thehairstyler.com

David Fisher, a black inventor who invented a device to hold furniture together

A variety of chairs and desks

Imagine a house with no furniture!It’s kinda half empty.
We need it to be comfortable at all times. Sometimes ,I myself,
have slept on the floor and it was more comfortable than
a bed. It wasn’t hard wooden floor and it had carpet.
But when you want to drift off in your living room, the most
ideal piece of furniture to sleep on is a couch right? Home should be
a place of rest and tranquility (peace). So what kinda
furniture do you want? Lazyboy? Couch? Whatever it is, get
it and make your house a part of your personality. Since,
we’re on the topic of furniture, I had to point out a
remarkable person whose invention deals with furniture.

Vanity set

David Fisher, a black inventor,created
a device that holds furniture parts together. His device
came in handy because originally, a worker had to work in slow steps,
pausing at different times to combine pieces of wood together
so one could bind them. Fisher fixed the delay in the process
by coming up with the joiner’s clamp, which he patented
on April 20, 1875.

Kitchen Furniture

The joiner’s clamp involved two pieces of wood attached
by two screws. When they were tightened, the screws pushed
the pieces of wood together. He used this device to hold
furniture parts in place as they were glued. Therefore, the
worker didn’t have to continue assembling them. By using
applied, balance pressure, the joiner’s clamp caused
the wood to come together at a faster pace and stronger than
usual.

White and red furniture

Another struggle in the furniture business was workers
in the furniture industry having to move heavy pieces of
furniture. Also, they had to be safe in the process.
They worried about dropping furniture and destroying other
items in the room by bumping into them. So, on March 14,
1876, Fisher patented the furniture caster. This complex
device was a free turning wheel that allows heavy items
to move around a room on rollers, safely and efficiently
as well. This allowed one person to move large pieces of
furniture, which let other workers be able to take care of other
items. This device is found throughout every industry as
well as homes all around.

Glass Table and chairs

Now, thanks to David Fisher, you can lay peacefully
and rested. You can have exotic colors, light colors,
or blend dark and light colors. Some people have to have
furniture in order to be comfortable or they’ll feel a sense of
unrest. The goal, though, is to get you rested. I think
of it like this “A restless mind or body can slow down
the day”. I’m also looking for convenience in things
because life doesn’t have to be so difficult. There
are times where we can curtail things or speed it up
and make it more effective. Let’s be inventive and
stay inventive. Fisher is a true asset to the furniture
industry,especially home owners and those who rent their
homes.

I will leave you all with this “A great invention
is like a great meal, digest it and put it to
great use”.

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/david-fisher.html

Emmit McHenry founded NetCom Solutions International, an internet domain service provider!

Emmit McHenry

Without the internet, we would be set ages behind. It has
helped us to stay ahead news-wise and weather-wise. I just cannot get enough internet. I thank God for the internet
and the person who created it. I have found people through
the internet and talked to businessmen and women through
the internet about their product and services that I
advertise on my blog. The internet is a convenient networking experience, not a substitute for networking in person, but it’s great to network online.

While we are on the topic on internet, I might as well introduce you to an internet specialist.

Emmit J. MCHenry is titled, the founder, chairman
and CEO of NetCom Solutions International Inc. His company
is Enterprise Magazine’s 10th ranked African American owned
business.

He attended Stewart Elementary School and Booker T. Washington
High School. Just an observation, but the man is very acute. He
has worked in management positions with IBM, Connecticut General, Union Mutal, and AllState Insurance Company.

He served on numerous insurance industry committees and was
founding member of the American Productivty Management
Association. Then was it, that he founded Network Solutions
Inc, which is the internet domain services provider.

In 1995, he founded NetCom Solutions International, a quadruple company with telecommunications, engineering,consulting, and technical services.The company has been honored with awards for excellent service from IBM, Nasa and Lucent Technologies with revenues of $260 million and exceeding 200 employees in Virginia and Oklahoma City.

He goes even further.MCHenry is also the chairman of Visutel,
a broadband telecommunications company. MCHenry is also on the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, the
board of directors for NetCom Solutions International, LTD
and chairs the governance committee for the Phelps Stokes
Fund.

And it continues even further. Emmit McHenry is on the advisory board of DECIS Technology and is the former chairman of the board of LearnCity Inc. MCHenry also served on the Fairfax County Economic Development AUthority, the State of Virginia Economic Development Authority and the board of directors for James Martin Government Intelligence. In addition, he chaired the board of directors of NEtCom Solutions South Africa.

So I definitely am grateful for people like him. I would love
to meet this man. I appreciate his versatility and just had to let the light shine on him. A man like that is worth displaying
and I just had to discuss him. We all know that in order to
succeed like this man, we have to be faithful and committed
to hardwork and success. I’m in awe of such innovativeness.

http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=659&category=businessmakers