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[Aleshia Ducharme]

Thefundamental unit of lithostratigraphy. A body of rock that is sufficiently distinctive and continuous that it can be mapped. In stratigraphy, a formation is a body of strata of predominantly one type or combination of types; multiple formations form groups, and subdivisions of formations are members.

A general term for the rock around the borehole. In the context of formation evaluation, the term refers to the volume of rock seen by a measurement made in the borehole, as in a log or a well test. These measurements indicate the physical properties of this volume. Extrapolation of the properties beyond the measurement volume requires a geological model.

Author Jesmyn Ward won a National Book Award for Salvage the Bones, her gritty and lyrical novel of Hurricane Katrina-era Mississippi. In this essay, as in all of her work, she doesn't mince words.

I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a "bama." One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me "country," too.

That's when I understood what "bama" meant, and I didn't bother denying it. I knew that as soon as I told my classmates I was from the South, they saw me as an under-educated, ignorant, foolish rube. Sometimes, in the rarefied environment of that elite college, I thought the same of myself.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations. A few of us left in the '60s for Chicago and Los Angeles and Texas, but whether for a visit or to retire, we always return. So when I saw Beyonc's "Formation" video, I understood. I knew who she was portraying in the video, and what she was trying to tell me and all the other bamas.

I been out in this world a while now, Beyonc's telling us, living other places, slaying and inaugurating and eviscerating audiences. Been setting the world on fire. But I ain't never left home. Y'all in my heart. I ain't never gone.

She sings to those of us who grew up black in the American South, who swam through Hurricane Katrina, who watched the world sink, who starved for two weeks after the eye passed, who left our dead floating in our houses. She sings to those of us who were displaced, to Las Vegas, to Los Angeles, to Hartford, who lived for months or years or still live in those other places, when the living heart of us is bound so tight with oak and pine we can barely breathe.

For those of us who buy Camellia red beans and creole seasoning and Louisiana hot sauce and White Lily flour when we visit home, and then are a little disappointed when it cooks differently in the high, thin air where we live.

For those of us who never left, who ride clean on old schools with pretty shoes, who drive spurs into their Adidas and ride horses down the middle of the street. For those of us who write our stories or sing our songs about the South, who are told over and over that there is no audience for our art. For those of us who know Death rides shotgun, that He flares his robes when the red and blue lights flash behind us.

If they want to call you bama, let 'em, Beyonc croons. Let them hate on all this life, this beauty. Let them know we bear the weight of the whole country's history, and we still love our Afros and Jackson 5 noses. That we still love our babies and our Negroes.

But this song and video are not solely for those who left and those who remained, for our babies, and for our men. This is for the black Southern woman, too. Beyonc calls the ancestors with the drums, embodies them in high-waisted, gorgeous dresses, fans our Creole foremothers to life with bunches of lace. She flashes forward to the future and invokes the daughters in the church, worshipping in their hats and starched dresses by reflecting their beauty right back to God. She invokes the daughters who usher the dead's souls while shimmying down the second line. Invokes the daughters who frame the gorgeous shock of their black faces with pastel mermaid weave and wigs.

Let 'em talk, she says. It don't matter. What matters is me singing, us dancing, us standing and rising and ascending through it all. They might not understand all this beauty now, but I'm going to make 'em see, baby.

These daughters who, at the Super Bowl, danced in formation, wearing Afros and Black Panther garb. And it was then that we all knew that Beyonc was not only glorifying her bama blackness, but, with that kind of fashion iconography, American blackness as a whole. In the video, we saw her stand tall on that antebellum house porch, imposing in her wide-brim black hat, her long black clothes, the jewelry at her neck and wrists that flashed like knives, and we knew she stood for us, all of us, flipping her twin middle fingers at the world.

The Department of Faith Formation oversees formation and ministry of all ages with a primary focus on youth (ages 13-18) and young adults (ages 18-30) and leaders. We incorporate the work of four different offices: Youth; Young Adult and Campus; Safe Church, Safe Communities; and Episcopal Service Corps. We also equip and support those working with children and adults through our ongoing ministry of Lesson Plans that Work, bible studies, and leadership development. We seek to train, teach, and mentor leaders by convening, coordinating, and facilitating gatherings of leaders for development, networking discernment, and mutual support. We build and sustain relationships within networks of leaders and possible partners. We strive to advocate and maintain the visibility and importance of children, youth, and young adults. We work with partners to curate and create resources that help form disciples of all ages.

Domestic Limited Liability Company Certificate of Formation and Foreign Limited Liability Company Application for Registration forms are available. To obtain either, see "File Download/Links" at the bottom of this page. Our Business Entities Downloads page provides various other forms for certificate requests and filing purposes.

Your entity name must contain the words Limited Liability Company or the abbreviation L.L.C. or LLC. You must obtain a Certificate of Name Reservation [10A-1-4.02(f)] prior to filing your formation documents.

(Name Reservation for Domestic Entities)

Your registered name must end with the words Limited Liability Company or an abbreviation of these words (L.L.C. or LLC). You must obtain a Certificate of Name Reservation [10A-1-5.11] prior to filing the Application for Registration.

File two original copies of the "Foreign Limited Liability Company Application for Registration" with the Business Entities Division of the Secretary of State.

(Name Reservation for Foreign Entities)

"Formation" is a song by American singer Beyonc. It was the lead single for her sixth studio album Lemonade (2016). It was written by Beyonc, Mike Will Made It, Swae Lee, and Pluss, and produced by the former two. It was surprise-released on February 6, 2016, through Parkwood Entertainment. "Formation" is an R&B song[1] with trap and bounce influences, in which Beyonc celebrates her culture, identity and success as a black woman from the Southern United States.

The song received widespread acclaim upon release, with particular praise for the lyrical references, as well as for the production and vocal performance. It was critics' top song of 2016, being named the best song of the year by publications including Rolling Stone, Time, NPR, and Complex. In 2019, it was named the best song of the decade (2010s) by publications including Essence and Parade. "Formation" was also Google's most searched song of 2016.[2] "Formation" won all six of its nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards, and was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Music Video, of which it won the latter award.

The song's music video premiered on the same day as the song itself as an unlisted video on Beyonc's official YouTube account. Directed by Melina Matsoukas, the New Orleans-set video portrays black pride and resilience through diverse depictions of black Southern culture. The video received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone naming it the greatest music video of all time in 2021. In order to promote the song, Beyonc performed it during her guest appearance at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show the day after its premiere.

Upon release, "Formation" ignited discussions on the topics of culture, racism and politics. The song, music video and Super Bowl performance also triggered controversy. Conservative commentators and politicians claimed that Beyonc was spreading anti-police and anti-American messages. Several law enforcement officers protested at one of her concerts.[3] The song became known as a protest song and was adopted as an anthem by the Black Lives Matter movement and the Women's March. The song has also been the subject of study at colleges and universities.

Co-producer Pluss formulated the original beat for "Formation" in Atlanta, Georgia, implementing a synthesizer effect found in the Virtual Studio Technology plug-in on FL Studio.[4][5] In April 2014, Mike WiLL Made-It and the members of Rae Sremmund were driving to Coachella and freestyling to beats in the car. For the beat that Pluss made, Swae Lee said: "Okay ladies, now let's get in formation". Will loved the concept and thought it would be suited to Beyonc, who had recently asked him to send new music ideas. Will believed it could be a huge female empowerment anthem in the same vein as "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", with the song being about women getting in line with the men they are in relationships with.[4][6] They recorded the line on a voice note and later played it back when in a recording studio in Los Angeles. Lee recorded a simple reference track, freestyling over the beat. Mike Will sent it to Beyonc, together with five or six other reference tracks.[4][7] A few months later, Mike Will was at a party after a basketball game. Beyonc appeared at the party and told him she really liked the "Formation" idea, and left it at that.[4]

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