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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8. 2005—THE CAROLtNA TiMES-7 CLASSIFIED BIDS/PROPOSALS Solicitation for DBE/MBEAVBE Quotations Sanford Contractors, Inc. is seeking certified DBE/MBEAVBE quotations on the following projects for the January 18, 2005 NC DOT Highway Lettings; . County Johnston Wake Project #: C201232 C200960 Interested parties can contact Sanford Contractors at (919) 775-7882 for further specifications can be reviewed at a Carolinas AGC office. For Classified Information Please Call 682-2913 ■f RE-ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The City of Durham will open sealed bids at 3;00 pm on Tuesday, January 18. 2005 at the General Services Department, 2011 Fay Street, Dur ham, NC, 27704, 919-560-4197 for the renovation of the City Hall Council Committee Room. As of December 3rd, Plans and Specifications for this project may be reviewed or obtained, through the office of Roughton Nickelson DeLuca Architects, PA, 3608 University Drive, DURHAM, N.C. 27707, 919-490- 1266, weekdays, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Contract Documents may be ob tained for a $20.00 dollar refundable deposit from the Architect or they may be purchased directly from the printer. Bidders are strongly advised to view the areas of bie proposed construc tion. All bids must include a signed non-collusion affidavit. All bidders must show evidence of being licensed under Chapter 87 of the N.C. General Statutes. Tbie City of Durham reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals. REAL ESTATE OURHAM, 910 Scout Drive. 2 bedrooms, one bath, owner finance Needs Work; Call 803-407-3333. BUILDING l\AAlEaiALS STEEL BUILDINGS Prepare for Almanac's Harsh Winter Forecast! Garages and Equipment Storage 20x30, 20x26, and 30-52. Quick Assembly! CALL for Details 1 -800-405-7501 employment opportunities Excellent Inocme National Ca^rt^ttFunijing Group now hiring courthouse researchers will train to w0r]f:.tfom home on your computer^:'.:;. .. no experience necessary oaill'800-440-7234 ARTIST-ILLUSTRATpR II (Designer) — UNC-TV, RTP, NC, seeks :ustomer-oriented print, broadcast and web designer (graphics) for marketing NC’s statewide public television network. Will use Macintosh orap^cs software (QuarkXPress. Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator. reeHand), basic illustration and photography to conceptualize and pro duce promotional and identity materials. Requires four years design expe-* 'lence or equivalent combination of related education/experience. Prefer ’eiftedjdegree and one-year graphic design experience. Portfolio will be ;eauired during interview process to confirm technical and creative skills, ^ala^ Range: $24,819 - $39,039. Completed State of North Carolina Ap- 3licatton for Employment (PD 107) must be received In the UNC Center or Public Television Human Resources Office no later than 5:00 pm, Jan uary 21, 2005. UNC-TV. HR Office. PO Box 14900. RTP, NC 2770'9- 4900. Application form may be downloaded from www.unctv.org. Federal law requires that upon being hired an applicant must present, upon re- qi^st, satisfactory evidence to verify employability and identification EQUAL OPPORTUNITY / AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. WOMEN AND MINORITIES ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Durham County Tax Office to accept electronic check payments Durham County’s Tax Administration Office can now accept electronic :heck payments, or "E-checks". The service is being offered through To- kl Billies, Inc in Fayetteville, a long time service provider to the Tax Jffice. 1116 E-check payment service began Dec. 22. The process allows taxpayers to pay taxes remotely from home on their lersonal computers by converting checks into an electronic draft. To use he service taxpayers will need to register, their banking information on heiDurham County Tax Administration website. The secured site will al ow viewers to see actual copies of their bills on-line and pay them elec- ronically from their checking account. Currently the Tax Office is only accepting E-check payments for real istale tax bills, and bills that have a last day to pay of 1-5-05. The ability 0 pay motor vehicle bills on-line is forthcoming. You can access the E-check registration website by visiting the Durham "ounty Tax Administration website at www.co.dui1iam.nc.us/txadm and bllow the On-line Tax Payments link. For more information contact Durham County Tax Administration at 160-0300. The mind ie eveiythiac. What yon think you I DO YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT FAMOUS AMOS COOKIES? LONG BEACH, Calif. - Most people know that Famous Amos Cookies was founded by African-American entrepreneur Wally Amos in 1975. However, most people don’t know that he lost that company in 1989. In fact, according to a recent article on BlackNews.com, Amos has nothing to do with the company that he once reaped millions of dollars from - ab solutely nothing. One might ask - ‘Did the company go bankrupt?’ Not exactly - Famous Amos Cookies are still sold in stores today. Then, one might ask - ‘Did he sell the company?’ Negative again. According to his personal account in the book Chicken Soup For The African-American Soul, Wally Amos los^ Famous Amos Cookies to his investors. Through a series of business mistakes on his behalf and the lack of a management team, he was pretty much forced out of the compa ny with no stake. Fortunately though, he did have an employment agree- ment that paid him an annual salary - but not for long. Eventually, the company that he founded decided that paying their founder a salary wasn’t necessary anymore. And so, Amos was terminated completely from Famous Amos Cookies. That’s the simple version of the complicated story, but it doesn’t end there. Being the entrepreneur that he was, he humbly accepted the situation and in 1991 started another company called Wally Amos Presents Chip and Cookie. He had learned from his mistakes, and this time he would re launch his cookie empire. Of course - things didn’t exactly work out that way. His former company, Famous Amos Cookies, took him to the U.S. District Court and tried to prevent him from using his own name and likeness in any business. Believe it or not, they won. They robbed Wally Amos of his very own name, and he was forced to shut down his newly- rounded cookie company. ^ With all this being told, should African-Americans boycott Famous Amos Cookies? Why would a company want to outcast and disrespect the very person who’s responsible for their existence? Would Wal-mart ever do such a thing to Sam Walton (if he were still alive)? Would Mi crosoft ever do such a thing to Bill Gates? True, business is business, and Amos was lega ly forced out of his company - but why not at least sup port the man, the Black man, who founded the company that supports your payroll? r ^ Well, here’s the good news. Amos never looked back, and responded to the situation with a positive attitude. He concluded that "mistakes are the process through which we in turn create success," and founded yet anoth er cookie company called Aunt Della’s Cookies named after his aunt, fte new company has been quite successful, and is being sold at hundreds of Wal-mart supercenter locations across the country. They even offer cookies sales by mail-order and online through the company web site at www.auntdellascookies.com So the next time you think cookies - think about the Wally Amos story and buy Aunt Della s. NASA Finds Polluted Clouds Hold Less Moisture, Cool Earth Less GOV. EASLEY APPOINTS EIGHT MEMBERS TO MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES ADVISORY COMMISSION RALEIGH - Gqy. Mike Easley has appointed Mary Bennett of Dur ham, David Carr of Carrboro, James J. Gibson of Wake Forrest, Dr Robert K. McMahan Jr. of Chapel Hill, Judith Rizzo of Chapel Hill, Dr. William Scheslinger of Durham, Andrew Shepard of Wilmington and Joan Weld of Currie to the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences Advisory Commission. Bennett is senior vice president for operations and communications at Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Durham. She received her bachelor’s de gree in behavioral science from National Louis University and her master’s degree in business administration from Duke University. Carr is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. He received his bachelor’s degree in English literature from Drew University, his master’s degree In psychology and education from Columbia University, and a master’s degree of library science and doctorate degree in library and information studies from Rutgers State University of New Jersey. Gibson is senior vice president and chief financial officer at the Re search Triangle Institute. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the State College of New Jersey, master’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California and law degree from Duquesne School of Law. McMahan is a research professor in the department of physics and astronomy at UNC-Chapel Hill and a senior advisor to the governor for science and technology. He is executive director of the N.C. Board for Science and Technology and a member of the Energy Policy Council, American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. McMahan received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Duke University and his doctorate of physics from Dartmouth. Rizzo is the executive director of the James B, Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Uadership and Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a gradu ate of Emmanuel College in Boston and received her master’s degree from Middlebury College. Scheslinger is the James B, Hunt professor and dean of the Nicholas School of the: Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, He is president of the Ecological Society of America and served on the National Academy-bf Sciences.Committee to review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan. Scheslinger received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his doctorate degree from Cornell University in New York. Shepard is the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad ministration (NOAA) Undersea Research Center at UNC-Wilmington. He is a member of the NOAA Autonomous Undersea Vehicles Advisory Board and chair of the council of NOOA’s Undersea Research Program Center Directors. Shepard received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Bates College and his master’s degree in marine science from the Uni versity of Massachusetts. Weld is a former assistant secretary for the N.C. Department of En vironment and Natural Resources and chief of staff for Governor Jim Hunt. She is a member of the Nature Conservancy Board of Trustees and the Coastal Resources Commission and chair of the UNC Coastal Studies Institute and Duke Endowment’s Rural Pender Economic Development Alliance. Weld received her bachelor’s degree in science from Ohio State University. Commission duties are' to formulate policies for the advancement of the museum and to assist in prorrtoting and developing a wider and more ef fective use of the Museum of Natural Sciences as an educational, scientific and historical exhibit. The commission has 39 members, each serving a two-year term. 'The governor appoints 32 members. A NASA study found some clouds that form on tiny haze parti cles are not cooling the Earth as much as previously thought. These findings have implications for the ability to predict changes in climate. Andrew Ackerman, a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and his col leagues found, when the air over clouds is dry, polluted clouds hold less water and reflect less solar en ergy. Ackerman is the study’s prin cipal author. Contrary to expectations, scientists observed polluted, low- lying clouds do not generally hold more water than cleaner clouds. Low clouds cool the planet by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth’s surface, and more water makes a cloud more reflective. Previously, scientific consensus was, since polluted clouds precipitate less, .they should contain more water and. reflect more sun light back into space. Most predic tions of global climate change as sume less precipitation will result in clouds holding more water, reflecting more sunlight and counteracting greenhouse wanning. "The natural laboratory we used to look at thff contrasts between clean and polluted clouds is a phenomenon called ship tracks, which are long lines of clouds with smaller cloud droplets that form on the exhaust particles from ships," Ackennan said. "The results of this work should provide for more realistic treatment of polluted clouds in climate models, improving predictions of future climate," Ackerman said. "In the meantime, it’s critical that we thoroughly test these new theoreti cal results. NASA’s latest genera tion of Earth-observing satellites provides a powerful tool for doing just that, by observing how ship tracks are affected by the humidity of the air above them," he said. Ship track measurements were taken off the west coast of the United States from polar-orbiting satellites and aircraft flying through the clouds. The Moderate Resolu tion Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Airborne Simulator in strument (comparable to the MODIS instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites), aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft flying above the clouds, was also used to gather data. The measurements show cloud water decreases more often than it increases in polluted clouds. To understand how cloud water changes in polluted clouds, the team of scientists created a 3-D computer model to simulate atmo spheric motions and the formation of precipitation by clouds. DURHAM I.' Boards, Committees And Commissions Openings 1 869 cavof Mnoc The City of Durham is seeking interested citizens to serve on various boards, committees and commissions. Candidates are appointed by the Durh^ City Council. They must live in the City limits anrcity and orapplicatLn^^ delinquency at the time of submission »^*c.lving auction. 1. 4.30 p.m. on the aOKBlM AREA TRANSIT AOTHORlry odrhan opin sfacb a trails COMMISSIOK. HDMAN RRLATKMS COMMISSION-™. LION PARK JIDVnSORY BOARD HDIAI-JDRISDICTIONAL JkDVISORY BOARD ..I BODBL BUSINBSS OPPORTOMITY PROGRAM advisory COMNITTEB— ..JANOARY 11, ...iJAMDIARy 14, —dAMDARY 14, -•OANDARY 14, ■JANOARY 14, DDBKAN planning COMMISSION- addit sbrvicbs ovbrsigbt committbb. BNVIROIWBNTAL AFFJkIRS BOARD • JANUARY 25, .tBBKDAXY 4, -nBROARY 8, •nBROARY S, 2005 2005 2005 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 Applications may be obtained from the City Clerk's i,s ^ ..i, second floor of city Hall, from 8:00 a.m) to 4-30 ^ Friday or visit the City's web site at www durha::^; ' through Departments (City Clerk) www.durhamnc.qov. click on City
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