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start holding off Brendan Gaughan and Jeb Burton to collect Toyota’s 11th NCWTS win of the season.


While the Kyle Busch


Motorsports driver was celebrating his triumph, tempers were flaring in the garage following a late-race tangle between Ty Dillon and Kevin Harvick. A bump from Dillon sent Harvick around and subsequently collected series points leader Matt Crafton. Harvick and Dillon hit each other's trucks while driving to pit road under caution. Once they entered pit road, Harvick stopped in Dillon’s pit stall to voice his displeasure.


From there, chaos ensued as crew


members for the Richard Childress Racing stables fired back with words of frustration, and also a sledge hammer directed at the No. 14 Anderson's Maple Syrup Chevrolet Silverado.


Volume 8 Number 3 Harvick would pull his machine


behind the wall and be done for the day, while Dillon continued on to finish 22nd.


Ben Kennedy, in just his fourth


NCWTS race for Turner Scott Motorsports, finished fourth with Ryan Blaney recovering from an early spin to finish fifth.


Denny Hamlin, the Keystone


Light Pole sitter, recovered from a spin to bounce back to sixth, German Quiroga Jr. was seventh, Johnny Sauter eighth, Scott Riggs ninth and James Buescher comprised the remainder of the top 10.


Crafton holds a 51-point lead


on James Buescher entering the final stretch. Dillon is third (-61), Burton fourth (-68) and Sauter in fifth (-82).


Just three races remain on the


2013 Truck Series calendar. Next up is a return trip to the Lone Star State for some Friday night racing at Texas Motor Speedway.


Church Directory


Below is a list of churches that have provided support for the Hampton Roads Messenger's mission over the past seven years. If your church is interested in supporting our mission to economically empower our com- munity call 757.575.1863.


Norfolk First Baptist Church,


Logan Park 7493 Diven Street Norfolk, Virginia 23505 www.fbcloganpark.com 757-423-0407


Mount Gilead Missionary


Baptist Church 1057 Kennedy St. Norfolk, VA 23513 (757) 853-3721


Second Calvary Baptist


Church 2940 Corprew Avenue Norfolk, Virginia 23504 www.secondcalvary.org 757.627.SCBC (7222)


Queen Street Baptist


Church Glenn E. Porter, Sr., Pastor 413 E Brambleton Ave Norfolk, VA 23510 (757) 622-4458


Faith Christian Center Church


1066 Norview Ave, Norfolk, VA 23513 www.fccnorfolk.com


(757) 857-1336


Portsmouth Grove Church 5910 W. Norfolk Rd. Portsmouth, VA 23703 757-484-4149 www.grovechurchva.com


Hampton


Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Temple 3100 Butternut Dr, Hampton, VA 23666 (757) 896-6050


Newport News


Ivy Baptist Church 50 Maple Ave Newport News, VA 23607 www.ivybaptistchurch.org (757) 245-1781


Virginia Beach


New Light Full Gospel Baptist Church 5549 Indian River Road Virginia Beach, VA 23464 757.420.2397


Pleasant Grove Baptist


Church 2153 Kempsville Rd Virginia Beach, VA 23464 (757) 479-1239


Chesapeake


Bethany Baptist Church 2587 Campostella Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23324 (757) 543-5887


Suffolk


Oak Grove Baptist Church 2635 E Washington St Suffolk, VA 23434 www.oakgrovebaptist.net (757) 539-8012


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November 2013


Twitter CEO Feuds with Wadhwa about Lack of Women Executives


Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, shown attending TechCruch Disrupt in San Francisco Sept. 9, called researcher and BusinessWeek columnist Vivek Wadhwa the “Carrot Top of academic sources,” after Wadhwa questioned the lack of women in leadership posts at Twitter. (Photo by Getty Images for TechCrunch)


BY RICHARD SPRINGER Twitter chief executive officer


Dick Costolo and Indian American researcher and BusinessWeek columnist Vivek Wadhwa recently exchanged in a testy back-and-forth debate, on Twitter of course, about the lack of women executives in leadership roles at the company.


The contretemps led to a flurry of


articles and commentary in India and the U.S.


It was the perfect storm for Twitter,


as the company’s recent announcement that it would file to go public meant that reporters were on the lookout for any angle involving Twitter ahead of its IPO.


Wadhwa was quoted in one such


article in the New York Times criticizing Twitter for having an all-male board, an almost-all-male management team and all-male investor group.


Costolo in response Oct. 5


tweeted that Wadhwa was the “Carrot Top of academic sources,” referring to a red-haired comic who uses props and slapstick in his routines.


“The whole thing has to be about


more than checking a box & saying ‘we did it!’” added Costolo, who according


to media comments is know for his outspokenness. “You give people an easy out by just checking a box. The issues are much bigger than checking any 1 box.”


Needless to say, his tweet


backfired, as the media pounced on the comments as example of a failure to recruit women in leadership posts at Twitter.


“I thought this was outrageous


given that more women use social media than men; that African-Amer- icans are one of Twitter’s fastest- growing demographic groups; and that the company is asking the public to invest a billion dollars in it — and make Twitter executives and investors worth billions,” Wadhwa wrote on a VentureBeat column Oct. 10.


Wadhwa also told India-West last


week that Costolo “could have diffused the whole thing by acknowledging that (the lack of women in management roles) is an issue. Zero is a pretty bad number.”


Twitter has reportedly been


looking for women candidates for its board for more than a year. AllThings- Digital reported in November 2012 that a “number of female candidates have already been interviewed, but none have been selected.”


Our Faith


By Rev. Dr. Gregory Headen What a time we


had last Sunday with the African Children’s Choir as our special guest. Rev. Chap- man and his outreach team are to be highly commended for their efforts in leading the congregation to ex-


perience this. I want to thank the other circle leaders (Reverends Carver, Foster, and Hinton) for their cooperation with Rev. and Mrs. Chapman. Without host families, decorators, kitchen ministry, trustees, deacons, deacon helpers, ushers, choir members, musician, and the pres- ences of so many members and visitors, we could not have had that experience. Thank you for a good offering for the children of some $2,500 which I consid- er an eternal investment. We may never completely know its value. Usually when we have special offerings, we see our General offering diminish some, and last Sunday was no different. Yet the val- ue of what we experienced and the good publicity we received because of it will mean so much more than we can imag- ine. A congregation like a person needs to experience something new in order to broaden imagination and vision. When those children sung “Amazing Grace”, I thought I would have to leave the build-


ing. It moved me so. I encourage all of us to keep these children in our prayers and those that guide and care for them. Pray for their families in Africa. Can you imagine children this age being away from family for 16 months on tour? The stories from the host families concerning the respectfulness and discipline of the children have been amazing. They prefer reading to watching TV. They go to bed at 8:00 pm and go to sleep. They get up the next morning and dress themselves without making a lot of noise. They ad- dress adults with respect, and they sing and dance with all their strength. They are 7-10 years of age. There are pro- found lessons here for us if we will heed them. We were a blessing to the children, but the children were certainly a blessing to us, an incalculable blessing. When we invest in the children, we are build- ing a strong family, church, community, and society. Since Sunday, I have been thanking God for allowing me to be pres- ent and witness what I witnessed. Words are not in me to fully express the impact it had on me. Our trustee chair, vice- chair, and other key financial officers have worked hard this week to close on the house behind the church, and they got it done. We need to appreciate them and continue to pray for God’s direction for the use of the house. We will dedicate it soon.


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