Davon Goodwin tended his first grapevines in 2013 three years after he was injured by a bomb in Afghanistan during an Army mission. A first-generation Black farmer, Goodwin sees farming as a way to serve his community. But since he started farming, racial inequality in agriculture has put him back on the front lines, this time battling against climate change.
“It’s been hell,” says Goodwin, who has experienced many major hurricanes in the last six years. Still, he has persevered. After first managing someone else’s crops, Goodwin bought his own 42-acre farm in 2018 with his wife, Kenya Fuller, in Laurinburg, North Carolina where they now grow grapes, blackberries and mixed vegetables.
Emotional dependency on smoking-vaping combo differs from just smoking
Emotional triggers for people who smoke may be different from those who both smoke and vape. The findings may help health professionals better shape cessation programs for those who smoke and those who smoke and vape.
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Emotional dependency on smoking-vaping combo differs from just smoking
Matt Swayne
January 05, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Researchers have known that emotions play a critical, but complex role in shaping dependency on smoking and vaping. Now, a team of researchers report that emotions that trigger dependency for people who both smoke and vape may be different from people who just smoke, a finding that may one day help scientists create more personalized programs to help people quit tobacco smoking and vaping.
From the Ground Up
More than four decades ago, Baylor became one of the nation’s first universities to establish an entrepreneurship center. It quickly became the focal point for entrepreneurial development at Baylor, building new curriculum, conducting research and acquiring additional resources.
Today, the Baylor Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation within the Hankamer School of Business is dedicated to the study, teaching and practice of new venture creation and growth.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Baylor’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program as the nation’s eighth-best last fall, ahead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Southern California.
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The University of Virginia has announced the appointment of Emily Springston as associate vice president, Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights.
Springston has served as Indiana University’s director of institutional equity and Title IX since 2018, and as the university Title IX coordinator since 2014. She will assume her position at UVA March 1.
UVA’s Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights works to ensure equal opportunity and to protect the civil rights of University community members through proactive outreach, education, effective response, and resolution under UVA’s policies on Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence, Preventing and Addressing Discrimination and Harassment, and Preventing and Addressing Retaliation.
A single radio producer has listed the secret signals women send when they are flirting with a man they are interested in.
Jana Hocking, from Sydney, said there are obvious hints to look out for to tell whether a woman finds the person attractive.
The 36-year-old explained that women have a habit of fixing their hair or doing a hair flick as soon as they see someone they like walk into a room.
Single radio producer Jana Hocking (pictured), from Sydney, has listed the secret signals women send when they are flirting with a man they are interested in So should you walk in on us unexpected, for some reason we go straight to the hair, she told news.com.au.