DC Cherry Blossom Festival 2010

“Stories Matter.  Many Stories Matter” - Chimamanda Adichie, Nigerian best selling author.
“Y’all know how we do it!!  Wrap your arms around yourself and squeeeeeeeeeeeze real tight - We’ve all, just been hugged and we love you for free sugars” - Mo’nique (Weeknights on BET)
WASHINGTON DC APRIL 2010: The 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival® will [...]

Blizzard Pummels DC Metro

“There is time for everything”
WASHINGTON DC - It has been snowing continuously in the DC Metro area over the last 10 days.  BH’s photojournalist TFLASH took some pictures during the blizzard for your viewing and enjoyment.
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Martin Luther King Day 2010

WASHINGTON DC - January 18, 2010 - Today  is Martin Luther King Day and we are proud to bring you the text of the speech he made to a civil rights rally on the National Mall in Washington in 1963.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as [...]

Happy New Year!!!

Dear friends, it is a new day and it is a new year.    It is the beginning of a new dawn and in 2010 Black Herald wishes you all the best that the new year can bring..more joy, more happiness, more money, good health etc.  2009 was a good year but 2010 is even going [...]

Tupac’s Song “Changes” Selected for Vatican Playlist.

“Instead of war on poverty, they gat war on drugz so that the police can bother me” - Tupac Amaru Shakur in one of his songs - Changes.
WASHINGTON DC - One of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s songs was selected by the Vatican for its playlist on Myspace.   It is actually a welcome development because I have [...]


Using R to Test for Hedge Effectiveness (Regression Analysis Method) - Part 2

NB: This example demonstrates how we can use R to test for hedge effectiveness using the regression analysis method. I have decided to use R because it is free (open source) and available to anybody who is interested in using it - you can use R for all sort of analysis including valuation and risk [...]

FAS 133 For Dummies - Hedge Effectiveness Testing (Regression Analysis Method) - Part 1

WASHINGTON, DC - July 21, 2011: The example below illustrates how to test for hedge effectiveness using the regression analysis method.  For prospective testing, the critical terms method is preferred but if it is not usable under a particular hedging arrangement, the next preferred method is the regression analysis method.  The regression analysis method, simply [...]

Business Intelligence for Accountants - Combining Tables & Creating Key Performance Indicators Dashboard

“Happy Independence Day”
WASHINGTON DC - July 4th 2011: Apparels Inc is a distributor of clothing all over the world.  Apparels receives yearly sales data from stores across the globe in the format shown below:

Apparels has decided to automate the process of combining sales report from different countries in the South American region by using SAS.  [...]

Business Intelligence for Accountants - A SAS/SQL Primer (Part 2)

WASHINGTON DC - June 18, 2011 :  She By Sheree llc is a fashion outlet based in Atlanta GA.   As part of the month-end close process, She By Sheree normally  reconciles data from the inventory system to data from the main accounting system; these two systems are expected to [...]

Five Deadly Leadership Power Drains.

” Even the best leaders can lose their voltage. Here’s how not to do it”
By Terry R. Bacon
For the past 20 years I have been studying power and influence among leaders globally. What makes some more powerful than others? How do leaders derive their power? And how, on the other hand, do [...]


Five Deadly Leadership Power Drains.

” Even the best leaders can lose their voltage. Here’s how not to do it”
By Terry R. Bacon
For the past 20 years I have been studying power and influence among leaders globally. What makes some more powerful than others? How do leaders derive their power? And how, on the other hand, do [...]

John Dabiri - 2010 MacArthur Fellow

John Dabiri is a biophysicist whose work draws on a wide range of fields—including theoretical fluid dynamics, evolutionary biology, and biomechanics—to unravel the secrets of one of the earliest means of animal locomotion. He studies some of the simplest multicellular organisms, jellyfish (medusae), which propel themselves by contracting cells in [...]

Nigerian Pharmacists in the US Fill a Need - Wall Street Journal

“Stories Matter.  Many Stories Matter” - Chimamanda Adichie, Nigerian best selling author.
DALLAS—Adaeze Moghalu’s pharmacy here is a fortress, where prescriptions and cash are exchanged through a tiny slot in a Plexiglas shield. She beefed up security after a doctor was killed in a robbery nearby and her store was invaded by addicts [...]

List of Richest Black Men in the World 2010

“To everything there is only a season” - King Solomon.
WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 2010 -  Mohammed Al Amoudi (Ethiopian & Saudi Arabian) -  is the richest black man in the world with a networth of $10B - though sometimes considered an Arab, as far as race is concerned, he is a black man (Yemeni father and [...]

Chris Abani Muses on Humanity

“The only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me” - Ubuntu.
” Did you know that before the genocide in Rwanda, the word for rape and the word for marriage was the same ?” - Chris Abani.

WASHINGTON DC - Chris Abani tells stories of people: People [...]