SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) After 14 years in the position, South Carolina's Spartanburg County Elections Director Henry Laye said it is time for new leadership. Laye recently announced he was leaving, saying his retirement plans include refining his golf game as well as doing some painting and traveling with family. “I plan to learn to sleep past 5:30 a.m.,” Laye added. Laye, who succeeded former director Barbara Blanchard in 2007, notes that he's.
Blast-off for the ISS, women fear the return of the Taliban & the real-life Men in Black 10 min Astronaut Thomas Pesquet was enthusiastic before blasting off for the International Space Station on Friday, telling FRANCE 24: I’m not going to lie – it’s such a joy to be out there in space. A deputy planetary protection officer at NASA talked about guarding against potentially harmful biological material from space missions. And back on Earth, we met Afghan women who fear a return of the Taliban and looked into the ageing crisis in French farming, with 15 percent of agricultural workers set to retire in the next five years.
Barbara Blanchard is a business owner on a mission. Her belief in the importance not only of diversity but also inclusion infuses everything she does. In the 1990s she helped put on a groundbreaking…