Tuesday, July 31, 2018
If He Only Had a Brain
Sorry, family farmers. You picked the wrong guy to protect you. https://t.co/NrLGWEFBsI pic.twitter.com/gBqU8MIuf7— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) July 30, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Stop Disability Fraud
Four on the Floor! @Publix new service animal policy. #stopdisabilityfraud #serviceanimals #servicedogs #enddisabilitydiscriminationhttps://t.co/Fjnmye5A5g pic.twitter.com/rSQbmiZ2jM— American Disability Rights, Inc. (@AmDisRights) July 27, 2018
Dental Chairs That Can Tell If You're Stressed
An excerpt from Popular Mechanics -
New Dental Tech Can Tell When You're Scared
Chairs at a high-tech dental center will record patient stress levels and attempt to standardize dentistry.
By Laura Yan
What if your chair at the dentist could tell the practitioner when you’re stressed? According to The Outline, dentists at Columbia University’s Center for Precision Dental Medicine wants to remake the often dreaded dentist visit into something more comfortable.
Visitors to the high-tech dental center gets assigned an RFID-enabled wristband that identifies them throughout the visit. RFID tags track practitioners and dental equipment, too, measuring when, where and how long instruments are used, as well patient whereabouts. In the next six months, the center will add a new feature to track patient stress: chairs will start measuring patients’ pulse and oxygenation levels.
Instead of waving down a dentist while you suffer in pain, data will be able to alert the practitioner right away. Cameras installed in the chair will record procedures for analysis, and could be someday equipped with facial recognition software to better detect stress or pain levels. Logging patient heart rates over time can give practitioners a sense of a patient’s overall health, too. “The biology of a person is actually best understood under stress,” Christian Stohler, Dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia, told The Outline. “If someone is more vulnerable to stressful situations, they might be subject to a host of diseases aggravated by stress. If you understand a person’s resilience to stress, you may be able to understand what it means for the progression of disease.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22580688/new-dental-tech-can-tell-when-youre-scared/
New Dental Tech Can Tell When You're Scared
Chairs at a high-tech dental center will record patient stress levels and attempt to standardize dentistry.
By Laura Yan
What if your chair at the dentist could tell the practitioner when you’re stressed? According to The Outline, dentists at Columbia University’s Center for Precision Dental Medicine wants to remake the often dreaded dentist visit into something more comfortable.
Visitors to the high-tech dental center gets assigned an RFID-enabled wristband that identifies them throughout the visit. RFID tags track practitioners and dental equipment, too, measuring when, where and how long instruments are used, as well patient whereabouts. In the next six months, the center will add a new feature to track patient stress: chairs will start measuring patients’ pulse and oxygenation levels.
Instead of waving down a dentist while you suffer in pain, data will be able to alert the practitioner right away. Cameras installed in the chair will record procedures for analysis, and could be someday equipped with facial recognition software to better detect stress or pain levels. Logging patient heart rates over time can give practitioners a sense of a patient’s overall health, too. “The biology of a person is actually best understood under stress,” Christian Stohler, Dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia, told The Outline. “If someone is more vulnerable to stressful situations, they might be subject to a host of diseases aggravated by stress. If you understand a person’s resilience to stress, you may be able to understand what it means for the progression of disease.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22580688/new-dental-tech-can-tell-when-youre-scared/
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Want to Rent a Tiny House?
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/destinations/10greatplaces/2018/07/26/great-places-to-rent-a-tiny-house/37131701/
Black Man Pro Fishing at the Highest Level
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
Ish Monroe has found his perch in the heavily white world of bass fishing
‘Fish don’t see race,’ says Monroe, one of only two black men competing at the sport’s top level
BY PAUL WACHTER
“Fish don’t see race,” Ishama Monroe said on a recent morning as he flicked his rod from the front of the bass boat. Monroe, who is 44 and goes by “Ish,” had launched at dawn from the ramps on the outskirts of Orange, Texas, for the last of three practice days ahead of the 2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River Presented by Econo Lodge. It’s a mouthful of a name for a sporting event, but sponsorships are the bread and butter of the world’s most prestigious fishing tour. Monroe was one of two African-Americans in the 108-person field, and he’s the only black man who’s been a fixture at the top echelon of the sport for more than a decade. But he doesn’t make a big deal about the sport’s demographics.
https://theundefeated.com/features/ish-monroe-has-found-his-perch-in-the-heavily-white-world-of-bass-fishing/
Ish Monroe has found his perch in the heavily white world of bass fishing
‘Fish don’t see race,’ says Monroe, one of only two black men competing at the sport’s top level
BY PAUL WACHTER
“Fish don’t see race,” Ishama Monroe said on a recent morning as he flicked his rod from the front of the bass boat. Monroe, who is 44 and goes by “Ish,” had launched at dawn from the ramps on the outskirts of Orange, Texas, for the last of three practice days ahead of the 2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River Presented by Econo Lodge. It’s a mouthful of a name for a sporting event, but sponsorships are the bread and butter of the world’s most prestigious fishing tour. Monroe was one of two African-Americans in the 108-person field, and he’s the only black man who’s been a fixture at the top echelon of the sport for more than a decade. But he doesn’t make a big deal about the sport’s demographics.
https://theundefeated.com/features/ish-monroe-has-found-his-perch-in-the-heavily-white-world-of-bass-fishing/
Friday, July 27, 2018
Southern Movers & Shakers
From Time -
Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South
http://time.com/5349036/people-changing-the-south/
Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South
http://time.com/5349036/people-changing-the-south/
Any-Fruit Cobbler
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/07/25/this-cozy-cobbler-can-be-made-to-suit-almost-any-fruit-or-mood/?utm_term=.645693a55ae5
World Traveler
From the Huffington Post -
The Journey To Being The First Black Woman To Visit Every Country
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling-theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling_us_5b58a284e4b0cf38668fba9e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
The Journey To Being The First Black Woman To Visit Every Country
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling-theres-always-extra-scrutiny-for-me-when-im-traveling_us_5b58a284e4b0cf38668fba9e?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
WOW! Black Girl Magic!
An excerpt from BlackAmericaWeb -
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
Meet The First Black Woman To Earn A PhD In Nuclear Engineering From MIT
By Jamai Harris
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30-year-old Mareena Robinson Snowden walked across the commencement stage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 8 and became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the university.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07/24/meet-the-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd-in-nuclear-engineering-from-mit/
Quote
“I’m a German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,” wrote Mr. Ozil, who was born in Germany to parents who had immigrated from Turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/world/europe/mesut-ozil-germany-soccer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Monday, July 23, 2018
We Should All Know Her
An excerpt from Wired -
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
MEET THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED PARTICLE PHYSICS—THREE TIMES
By JOSHUA ROEBKE
IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Wu’s name appears on more than 1,000 papers in high-energy physics, and she has contributed to a half-dozen of the most important experiments in her field over the past 50 years. She has even realized the improbable goal she set for herself as a young researcher: to make at least three major discoveries.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-woman-who-rocked-particle-physicsthree-times/?mbid=nl_072318_daily_list_p
Say What?
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google Home
By Drew Harwell
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are spearheading a voice-activated revolution, rapidly changing the way millions of people around the world learn new things and plan their lives.
But for people with accents — even the regional lilts, dialects and drawls native to various parts of the United States — the artificially intelligent speakers can seem very different: inattentive, unresponsive, even isolating. For many across the country, the wave of the future has a bias problem, and it’s leaving them behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/why-some-accents-dont-work-on-alexa-or-google-home/2018/07/19/80e33222-855f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d89f2840cf04
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Again and Again and Again
This is what it's like for a black business owner in a gentrifying SF neighborhood: Racist graffiti and calls to the police for unlocking your own store. pic.twitter.com/F9lVsIaKM7— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 20, 2018
When Great Performances Hurt HBCUs
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
When Morgan State beat Grambling at Yankee Stadium, more than the score was at stake
That 1968 day changed the game for HBCU football
BY LONNAE O'NEAL
Five months after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a football game between two historically black colleges opened another field of play in the civil rights movement.
The Sept. 28 battle between what were then Louisiana’s Grambling College Tigers and Baltimore’s undefeated Morgan State Bears at Yankee Stadium marked the first time two historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs) had played in New York City.
The game was a cultural high-water mark and a commercial success, and it brought dozens of players to the attention of an NFL that had only recently merged with the upstart AFL and was thirsty for black talent. But it also set loose a cascade of events that grievously hurt the caliber of football at historically black schools.
https://theundefeated.com/features/when-morgan-state-beat-grambling-at-yankee-stadium-more-than-the-score-was-at-stake/
Saturday, July 21, 2018
The Great Debaters 2018
From the Huffington Post -
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Atlanta Students Dominate Harvard Debate Competition
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blackexcellence-dominates-harvard-debate-competition_us_5b51039ce4b0cf38668f75f3
Powerful Indeed
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a drafter of the Refugee Act of 1980, resigns from the Homeland Security Advisory Committee. This is a powerful read: pic.twitter.com/PrUBHrXDYo— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) July 19, 2018
Missing Mr. O
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
By Max Boot
How I miss Barack Obama.
And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality.
Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.11f0bc86c02d
11 Year Old Turned Pain Into Profit
An excerpt from CNN -
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
This 11 year old was bullied for her skin color. Now, she owns a successful clothing line
By Elizabeth Elkin and Ben Burnstein
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| Kheris Rogers started a clothing line with her sister after she was bullied for the color of her skin |
Kheris Rogers can't forget the grade school humiliation. During an assignment where the students had to draw themselves, the teacher handed the shy dark-skinned girl a black crayon instead of a brown one.
"I was the darkest of all of them," the stunning 11 year old recalls of her classmates. "But they were all African-American."
Rogers had earlier transferred from another school to escape the incessant bullying. It didn't work. Her complexion set her apart, a label she couldn't shed.
But now Rogers owns her label, literally. Her clothing line is called "Flexin' In My Complexion." The brand has caught fire among some big celebrities.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/sisters-anti-bullying-clothing-line-trnd/index.html
Lessons From Delivering Pizza
An excerpt from Thrillist -
HOW I LEARNED MORE DELIVERING PIZZA THAN I DID IN COLLEGE
By WIL FULTON
You may think being a delivery boy consists of nothing more than getting stoned and driving around (which I mean, yes it does), but the skill, effort, and knowledge required to deliver any food -- especially pizza -- is vastly underrated by society as a whole. It's an education unto itself. And an experience stuffed with more life lessons than you'd probably find on your average campus.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/is-college-worth-it-pizza-delivery-job
HOW I LEARNED MORE DELIVERING PIZZA THAN I DID IN COLLEGE
By WIL FULTON
You may think being a delivery boy consists of nothing more than getting stoned and driving around (which I mean, yes it does), but the skill, effort, and knowledge required to deliver any food -- especially pizza -- is vastly underrated by society as a whole. It's an education unto itself. And an experience stuffed with more life lessons than you'd probably find on your average campus.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/is-college-worth-it-pizza-delivery-job
Immigration Stats
From Axios -
https://www.axios.com/how-immigration-could-save-the-post-industrial-world-8592c074-57c5-4cec-8728-68654ea0dfec.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
https://www.axios.com/how-immigration-could-save-the-post-industrial-world-8592c074-57c5-4cec-8728-68654ea0dfec.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
Friday, July 20, 2018
Agree?
From Vulture -
Every Denzel Washington Movie, Ranked
By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/denzel-washington-movies-streaming-ranked.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vulture%20-%20July%2020%2C%202018%20-%20Test&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Vulture%20%281%20Year%29
Every Denzel Washington Movie, Ranked
By Will Leitch and Tim Grierson
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/denzel-washington-movies-streaming-ranked.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vulture%20-%20July%2020%2C%202018%20-%20Test&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Vulture%20%281%20Year%29
Who Are They?
From the New Yorker -
The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met
By Doreen St. Félix
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-eerie-anonymity-of-a-show-of-african-american-portraiture-at-the-met?mbid=nl_Daily%20072018&CNDID=27124505&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20072018&utm_content=&spMailingID=13911638&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODE2ODQxS0&spJobID=1441734394&spReportId=MTQ0MTczNDM5NAS2
The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met
By Doreen St. Félix
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-eerie-anonymity-of-a-show-of-african-american-portraiture-at-the-met?mbid=nl_Daily%20072018&CNDID=27124505&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20072018&utm_content=&spMailingID=13911638&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODE2ODQxS0&spJobID=1441734394&spReportId=MTQ0MTczNDM5NAS2
Signing @ Starbucks
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Starbucks To Open Deaf-Friendly Store Where All Baristas Know American Sign Language
The coffee giant is aiming to hire deaf and hard-of-hearing people to work at the new location.
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By Elyse Wanshel
Starbucks is taking a venti-sized step toward inclusiveness.
The coffee giant announced Thursday that it will open its first U.S. “signing store” to serve the deaf community in Washington, D.C., in October. (There is already a signing Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
The coffee shop will be located at 6th and H streets NE near Gallaudet University, an educational institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The company will hire 20 to 25 deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals to staff the store. All will have to be proficient in American Sign Language.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-deaf-friendly-store-american-sign-language_us_5b50eef2e4b0fd5c73c379ca
Starbucks To Open Deaf-Friendly Store Where All Baristas Know American Sign Language
The coffee giant is aiming to hire deaf and hard-of-hearing people to work at the new location.
headshot
By Elyse Wanshel
Starbucks is taking a venti-sized step toward inclusiveness.
The coffee giant announced Thursday that it will open its first U.S. “signing store” to serve the deaf community in Washington, D.C., in October. (There is already a signing Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
The coffee shop will be located at 6th and H streets NE near Gallaudet University, an educational institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The company will hire 20 to 25 deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals to staff the store. All will have to be proficient in American Sign Language.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-deaf-friendly-store-american-sign-language_us_5b50eef2e4b0fd5c73c379ca
Mama said, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."
Guess who's coming to dinner https://t.co/il6KVDlYcQ— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 20, 2018
An early look at Friday's front... pic.twitter.com/vlSn8akTAN
Worth $1B
In 2016, Pat McGrath created her makeup line Pat McGrath Labs. Now it's worth $1 billion. It has surpassed Kylie Cosmetics. pic.twitter.com/KSgg17alKN— Affinity Magazine (@TheAffinityMag) July 18, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
He Grabbed Her A**, She Knocked Him Down!
From the Daily Mail -
Just desserts: Waitress turns tables on customer who grabbed her backside when she tackles him, throws him to the ground and gives him a piece of her mind (before police arrest him)
By ALEX GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
A young waitress got her own back on a man who grabbed her backside - by throwing him to the floor and giving him a very public shaming.
Emelia Holden, 21, was taking orders at Vinnie Van Go-Go's in Savannah, Georgia, when the man walked past and touched her bottom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5970019/Customer-grabs-waitresss-backside-tackles-throws-ground.html#v-5997726030057851911
Just desserts: Waitress turns tables on customer who grabbed her backside when she tackles him, throws him to the ground and gives him a piece of her mind (before police arrest him)
By ALEX GREEN FOR MAILONLINE
A young waitress got her own back on a man who grabbed her backside - by throwing him to the floor and giving him a very public shaming.
Emelia Holden, 21, was taking orders at Vinnie Van Go-Go's in Savannah, Georgia, when the man walked past and touched her bottom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5970019/Customer-grabs-waitresss-backside-tackles-throws-ground.html#v-5997726030057851911
This is How They Do It
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Vienna’s Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria’s capital city.
By Adam Forrest On Assignment For HuffPost
Uwe Mauch has called Vienna “home” for more than 30 years. The 52-year-old Austrian journalist and writer lives in a subsidized apartment in the north of the European city, in one of the many low-cost housing complexes built around leafy courtyards by the municipal government.
Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.
“It’s great ― I’m really happy living here,” he says. “I like all the green space right outside my window. When people from other countries visit, they can’t believe it’s so nice and also so cheap.”
With its affordable and attractive places to live, the Austrian capital is fast becoming the international gold standard when it comes to public housing, or what Europeans call “social housing” ― in Vienna’s case, government-subsidized housing rented out by the municipality or nonprofit housing associations. Unlike America’s public housing projects, which remain unloved and underfunded, the city’s schemes are generally held to be at the forefront not only of progressive planning policy but also of sustainable design.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
Vienna’s Affordable Housing Paradise
Public housing is the accommodation of last resort in the U.S. Not so in Austria’s capital city.
By Adam Forrest On Assignment For HuffPost
Uwe Mauch has called Vienna “home” for more than 30 years. The 52-year-old Austrian journalist and writer lives in a subsidized apartment in the north of the European city, in one of the many low-cost housing complexes built around leafy courtyards by the municipal government.
Mauch pays 300 euros, or the equivalent of $350, a month in rent for his one-bedroom apartment ― only 10 percent of his income.
“It’s great ― I’m really happy living here,” he says. “I like all the green space right outside my window. When people from other countries visit, they can’t believe it’s so nice and also so cheap.”
With its affordable and attractive places to live, the Austrian capital is fast becoming the international gold standard when it comes to public housing, or what Europeans call “social housing” ― in Vienna’s case, government-subsidized housing rented out by the municipality or nonprofit housing associations. Unlike America’s public housing projects, which remain unloved and underfunded, the city’s schemes are generally held to be at the forefront not only of progressive planning policy but also of sustainable design.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-paradise_us_5b4e0b12e4b0b15aba88c7b0
The Buffoon Falls on His Face
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-07-30?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
Unintended Consequences of Going Green
An excerpt from the Boston Globe -
Going green is cutting into hotel housekeepers’ livelihoods
By Katie Johnston
For hotel guests who care more about saving water and electricity than they do about clean towels and a freshly scrubbed tub, opting out of housekeeping seems like the right thing to do. The incentives offered to some of those who decline cleaning services — rewards points, restaurant discounts, even having a tree planted — make it even more enticing.
But the housekeepers who would otherwise be cleaning these rooms, many of them immigrants, say the increasingly popular programs are cutting into their livelihoods by reducing their hours, making their schedules more erratic, and — ironically — making their jobs harder. That’s because rooms that go without housekeeping for several days are often a wreck — trash piled up, shower doors coated in gunk, crumbs in the carpet, and hair everywhere.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/18/going-green-cutting-into-hotel-housekeepers-livelihoods/U21UsC2gJWDHPGsGWYfzAI/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
Going green is cutting into hotel housekeepers’ livelihoods
By Katie Johnston
For hotel guests who care more about saving water and electricity than they do about clean towels and a freshly scrubbed tub, opting out of housekeeping seems like the right thing to do. The incentives offered to some of those who decline cleaning services — rewards points, restaurant discounts, even having a tree planted — make it even more enticing.
But the housekeepers who would otherwise be cleaning these rooms, many of them immigrants, say the increasingly popular programs are cutting into their livelihoods by reducing their hours, making their schedules more erratic, and — ironically — making their jobs harder. That’s because rooms that go without housekeeping for several days are often a wreck — trash piled up, shower doors coated in gunk, crumbs in the carpet, and hair everywhere.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/07/18/going-green-cutting-into-hotel-housekeepers-livelihoods/U21UsC2gJWDHPGsGWYfzAI/story.html?et_rid=606374700&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
If These Graves Could Talk
An excerpt from CNN -
Nearly 100 bodies found at a Texas construction site were probably black people forced into labor -- after slavery ended
By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs
Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.
The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were -- freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.
For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that's largely forgotten in history -- a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html
Nearly 100 bodies found at a Texas construction site were probably black people forced into labor -- after slavery ended
By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs
Months after a Texas school district broke ground on a new technical center, archaeologists there made a surprising discovery: the long-buried remains of 95 people.
The first remains were discovered in February in Sugar Land, a suburb southwest of Houston. And now officials have learned who these people probably were -- freed black people forced to work in convict labor camps.
For over a century, these graves were underground and untouched. But the finding that they likely held the remains of slaves, which researchers announced Monday, highlights an era that's largely forgotten in history -- a time when slavery was illegal, but many blacks were essentially still enslaved.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/bodies-found-construction-site-slavery-trnd/index.html
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The Word of a White Woman
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed
By Jessie Daniels
“In my opinion, the guilt begins with Mrs. Bryant.” With those words Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley lay the blame for her 14-year-old son’s lynching in Mississippi on Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who testified in 1955 that Emmett Till made an advance on her.
Till’s lynching was a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement. And until recently, historians widely agreed on this point: Emmett Till did what Bryant accused him of and, in doing so, violated a social more of the Jim Crow South, unjust as those mores were and appalling as his punishment remains. In other words, they believed Bryant. As historian John David Smith told PBS in 2003, “Till crossed the line of white propriety; he committed what whites considered a betrayal of racial lines. Till insulted Bryant’s wife and insulted the very bases of white racial control and hegemony.” Or so Carolyn Bryant claimed.
Now in her 80s, Bryant has changed the story she told under oath. In 1955, she said Till whistled at her, grabbed her by the waist and “verbally threatened her.” But last year, she told Duke University Timothy Tyson “that part’s not true.” In Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmett Till, Bryant is quoted as saying that “nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
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Bryant is the foremother of contemporary white women who call the police on black people sitting in a Starbucks, barbecuing in a park or napping in a dorm. These white women know their accusations have power, are readily believed and face few consequences for words that can and do end lives.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-daniels-emmett-till-case_us_5b4e4aace4b0b15aba8972d4
When Native American Children Were Ripped From Their Parents' Arms - DAWNLAND trailer
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-legacy-stolen-children_us_5b4c6b47e4b0e7c958fcfff2
Quote
When a president with no shame is backed by a party with no spine and a network with no integrity, you have two big problems. - Thomas L. Freidman
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/opinion/trump-putin-republicans.html
His Determination Was Rewarded
An excerpt from CNN -
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
He walked all night to be on time for his first day of work. His boss was so impressed he gave him a car
By Elizabeth Elkin and Brandon Griggs, CNN
When an Alabama college student's car broke down the night before his first day at a new job, there was one thing he knew he wouldn't do: Not show up.
So he walked to work. For 20 miles.
After he asked someone for a ride and it fell through, Walter Carr walked all night from Homewood, Alabama, south to Pelham. He needed the job at Bellhops moving company, even though his phone told him it would take him seven hours on foot.
"I've never been that person that gives up," said Carr, 20. "I've just never seen myself doing that. I can only be defeated if I allow myself to be defeated."
And what began as a man determined to get to work on time became so much more -- a community coming together to change a life.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/us/alabama-student-walks-20-miles-gets-car-trnd/index.html
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
Siblings
From the Huffington Post -
24 Hilarious Comics About Sibling Relationships
Here’s to all the bickering, bonding and hijinks.
By Caroline Bologna
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/24-hilarious-comics-national-siblings-day_us_5ac687bce4b0337ad1e5f9df
24 Hilarious Comics About Sibling Relationships
Here’s to all the bickering, bonding and hijinks.
By Caroline Bologna
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/24-hilarious-comics-national-siblings-day_us_5ac687bce4b0337ad1e5f9df
Unbelievable!
.@realdonaldtrump derides reports with which he disagrees as “fake news,” then buys the Russian narrative hook, line, sinker, pole and boat. https://t.co/TGHurpVDKy— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 16, 2018
An early look at Tuesday's front... pic.twitter.com/BXsoZsIT4B
Interview Tips
From NewsRepublic -
10 words you should never use to describe yourself in an interview
http://va.newsrepublic.net/a/6575406518621962758?c=sys&user_id=6558967632577069065&language=en
10 words you should never use to describe yourself in an interview
http://va.newsrepublic.net/a/6575406518621962758?c=sys&user_id=6558967632577069065&language=en
Sunday, July 15, 2018
This California Plate Helps to Fund the Arts
An excerpt from LAist -
This Iconic California License Plate Has A Very Creative History
BY CARLA JAVIER
You know the license plate: palm trees and a giant sun lingering over a bright blue ocean. The image, officially titled "Coastline," was created by iconic California painter Wayne Thiebaud.
What you might not know: the plate actually helps fund arts around the state — $35 of each new plate, and $40 of each renewal, go to the California Arts Council.
According to the council's director of public affairs Caitlin Fitzwater, most of that money goes to fund arts education programs.
http://www.laist.com/2018/07/10/this_iconic_california_license_plate_has_a_very_creative_history.php
This Iconic California License Plate Has A Very Creative History
BY CARLA JAVIER
You know the license plate: palm trees and a giant sun lingering over a bright blue ocean. The image, officially titled "Coastline," was created by iconic California painter Wayne Thiebaud.
What you might not know: the plate actually helps fund arts around the state — $35 of each new plate, and $40 of each renewal, go to the California Arts Council.
According to the council's director of public affairs Caitlin Fitzwater, most of that money goes to fund arts education programs.
http://www.laist.com/2018/07/10/this_iconic_california_license_plate_has_a_very_creative_history.php
Massive Iceberg
Crazy massive iceberg on drift leaving behind a tsunami in harbor #Innaarsuit more here! https://t.co/8yj0oSch9P pic.twitter.com/TXsY3E6nob— Sven Groeneveld (@sventennis) July 13, 2018
Granny Cooking Tips
From Buzzfeed -
21 Genius Grandparents' Cooking Tips You Need To Try ASAP
Sometimes you need to listen to those with a lifetime of experience.
By Marie Telling
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/grandparents-cooking-tips?utm_term=.mopJ6QVXO#.ad2o6VGmP
21 Genius Grandparents' Cooking Tips You Need To Try ASAP
Sometimes you need to listen to those with a lifetime of experience.
By Marie Telling
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/grandparents-cooking-tips?utm_term=.mopJ6QVXO#.ad2o6VGmP
Cooking Up Hope
From the Huffington Post -
This Culinary Nonprofit Is Cooking Up Hope In This Brooklyn Food Desert
The Brownsville Community Culinary Center helps locals become chefs, while providing Brownsville, NY with its first sit-down restaurant in decades.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/after-50-years-brownsville-finally-gets-a-sit-down-restaurant_us_5b355465e4b0adce9c678260
This Culinary Nonprofit Is Cooking Up Hope In This Brooklyn Food Desert
The Brownsville Community Culinary Center helps locals become chefs, while providing Brownsville, NY with its first sit-down restaurant in decades.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/after-50-years-brownsville-finally-gets-a-sit-down-restaurant_us_5b355465e4b0adce9c678260
Friday, July 13, 2018
The Wheel Deal
An excerpt from OZY -
DISABILITY CHIC: THESE IRISH SISTERS ARE THE WHEEL DEAL
BY FIONA ZUBLIN
When Ailbhe Keane was young, her little sister’s wheelchair was her art project. Isabel, paralyzed from the waist down by spina bifida, would at times have a chair decorated in bright colors. “It attracted a lot of attention,” says Ailbhe, “but it was just temporary stuff.”
Not so temporary anymore. The two sisters are founders of the Dublin-based Izzy Wheels, which sells colorful removable wheel covers for wheelchairs like Isabel’s. Isabel herself may be their best advertisement, zipping through their Instagram videos in her brightly colored duds and wheel covers, a huge grin on her face.
Izzy Wheels was born in 2016 from a final-year project Ailbhe completed for her visual communications degree at the National College of Art and Design. Inspired by her childhood hobby of decorating Isabel’s chair, she “spent a whole year experimenting with ways of improving the chair. And the wheels were just this big blank canvas screaming for something to make it look better.”
Two years later, Ailbhe, 25, and Isabel, 21, are full-blown entrepreneurs, with customers in 35 countries (though most sales are to the U.S.) and 40 designer collaborations under their belts.
https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/87908?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=07132018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
DISABILITY CHIC: THESE IRISH SISTERS ARE THE WHEEL DEAL
BY FIONA ZUBLIN
When Ailbhe Keane was young, her little sister’s wheelchair was her art project. Isabel, paralyzed from the waist down by spina bifida, would at times have a chair decorated in bright colors. “It attracted a lot of attention,” says Ailbhe, “but it was just temporary stuff.”
Not so temporary anymore. The two sisters are founders of the Dublin-based Izzy Wheels, which sells colorful removable wheel covers for wheelchairs like Isabel’s. Isabel herself may be their best advertisement, zipping through their Instagram videos in her brightly colored duds and wheel covers, a huge grin on her face.
Izzy Wheels was born in 2016 from a final-year project Ailbhe completed for her visual communications degree at the National College of Art and Design. Inspired by her childhood hobby of decorating Isabel’s chair, she “spent a whole year experimenting with ways of improving the chair. And the wheels were just this big blank canvas screaming for something to make it look better.”
Two years later, Ailbhe, 25, and Isabel, 21, are full-blown entrepreneurs, with customers in 35 countries (though most sales are to the U.S.) and 40 designer collaborations under their belts.
https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/disability-chic-these-irish-sisters-are-the-wheel-deal/87908?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=07132018&variable=e3bf1057d4e3c0988a79ae4bce515610
Did You Know?
An excerpt from the NY Times -
The Difference Between Perfume, Cologne and Other Fragrances
You’ll see all sorts of names in the fragrance section: perfume, eau de toilette, parfum, eau de cologne. What makes them different — and in many cases, more expensive?
By Tynan Sinks
When buying a fragrance, there can be a lot to decipher — brand, price, type — and you’re given few clues as to what the bottle actually holds. You will probably recognize categories of fragrances, but you may not know what those terms mean.
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First you have to understand how these fragrances are made. Manufacturers blend the natural and synthetic oils that give fragrances their scent with a carrier like alcohol. This stabilizes the scent and dilutes the oils to create what you smell on your skin. The alcohol is just as important as the oils because it controls the concentration of the scent and how long it lasts. The common categories below tell you how concentrated the oils are, allowing you to know how light or heavy the scent will be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/smarter-living/differences-perfume-cologne-fragrance.html
The Difference Between Perfume, Cologne and Other Fragrances
You’ll see all sorts of names in the fragrance section: perfume, eau de toilette, parfum, eau de cologne. What makes them different — and in many cases, more expensive?
By Tynan Sinks
When buying a fragrance, there can be a lot to decipher — brand, price, type — and you’re given few clues as to what the bottle actually holds. You will probably recognize categories of fragrances, but you may not know what those terms mean.
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First you have to understand how these fragrances are made. Manufacturers blend the natural and synthetic oils that give fragrances their scent with a carrier like alcohol. This stabilizes the scent and dilutes the oils to create what you smell on your skin. The alcohol is just as important as the oils because it controls the concentration of the scent and how long it lasts. The common categories below tell you how concentrated the oils are, allowing you to know how light or heavy the scent will be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/smarter-living/differences-perfume-cologne-fragrance.html
Parenting Tweets
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/50-of-the-absolute-funniest-parenting-tweets-of-2018-so-far?utm_term=.uov6Kr7mdo#.dvLkZQVA9E
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Monday, July 9, 2018
Grandkids For Hire
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
These college students moonlight as ‘grandkids’ for hire. Seniors love it.
By Tara Bahrampour
When Andrew Parker’s grandfather began suffering from dementia three years ago, his grandmother had to start taking care of the house and caring for him. It was hard work, and one day, Parker got the idea to hire a college student to help out. “I said, ‘Hey, can you go hang out with my grandfather and make him a sandwich or something? I’ll pay you, lets see how it goes.”
His grandfather loved it. And more importantly, so did his grandmother. For a few hours, he said, “She got to go do her own thing.”
It got Parker thinking. “There’s so many seniors and so many college students out there.” So in January, the 30-year-old Miami, FL resident launched a business called Papa, after his name for his grandfather. It connects students with seniors for light housekeeping or driving chores, but the company’s real goal is in its slogan: “Grandkids on-Demand.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/06/20/these-college-students-moonlight-as-grandkids-for-hire-seniors-love-it/?utm_term=.f77df1f4d183&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
These college students moonlight as ‘grandkids’ for hire. Seniors love it.
By Tara Bahrampour
When Andrew Parker’s grandfather began suffering from dementia three years ago, his grandmother had to start taking care of the house and caring for him. It was hard work, and one day, Parker got the idea to hire a college student to help out. “I said, ‘Hey, can you go hang out with my grandfather and make him a sandwich or something? I’ll pay you, lets see how it goes.”
His grandfather loved it. And more importantly, so did his grandmother. For a few hours, he said, “She got to go do her own thing.”
It got Parker thinking. “There’s so many seniors and so many college students out there.” So in January, the 30-year-old Miami, FL resident launched a business called Papa, after his name for his grandfather. It connects students with seniors for light housekeeping or driving chores, but the company’s real goal is in its slogan: “Grandkids on-Demand.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/06/20/these-college-students-moonlight-as-grandkids-for-hire-seniors-love-it/?utm_term=.f77df1f4d183&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
A Warning
Just a warning to my British friends: An American dipshit is coming to visit you. Please remember most of us didn't vote for him; he lost by 3 million votes. His presidency is a statistical anomaly.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 8, 2018
Creative 3-D Art
From Travel + Leisure -
This Artist Creates Remarkable 3-D Sketches of the World's Most Beautiful Landmarks
Even seasoned travelers haven’t seen famous landmarks like this before.
By ANDREA ROMANO
https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/visual-arts/famous-landmark-sketches-citylivesketch
This Artist Creates Remarkable 3-D Sketches of the World's Most Beautiful Landmarks
Even seasoned travelers haven’t seen famous landmarks like this before.
By ANDREA ROMANO
https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/visual-arts/famous-landmark-sketches-citylivesketch
Sunday, July 8, 2018
History Lesson
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
The day Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon
Gibson took the women’s singles and doubles crowns in 1957
BY RHIANNON WALKER
One of 17,000 people in attendance was Queen Elizabeth II. Traditionally a fan of horse racing, Queen Elizabeth had graced Wimbledon for the first time. So of all the things Gibson had done on this day, playing in sweltering heat and shattering the 80-year color barrier at Wimbledon, remembering when she was supposed to curtsy for the queen was the most trying thing she had to do on July 6, 1957, she joked to reporters.
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-day-althea-gibson-became-the-first-black-tennis-player-to-win-wimbledon/
The day Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon
Gibson took the women’s singles and doubles crowns in 1957
BY RHIANNON WALKER
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| Althea Gibson walks through a cheering crowd while preparing to play in the 1957 Championships at Wimbledon. AFP/AFP/Getty Images |
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-day-althea-gibson-became-the-first-black-tennis-player-to-win-wimbledon/
AirPods May Help With Hearing
An excerpt from Quartz -
AirPods could revolutionize what it means to be hard of hearing
BY Lauren Alix Brown
Last month, it was reported that Apple would add Live Listen, a feature that allows people to hear conversations in noisy settings, to AirPods later this year. The feature has been around since 2014. It uses the iPhone as a mic and connects to Apple-certified hearing aids to amplify hearing. When the next version of Apple’s key mobile software, iOS 12, is released, AirPod users will have access to the feature, though it’s recommended that those who require hearing aids still use them and not simply rely on AirPods for clarity and amplification.
Nick Dawson—the founder of the Sibley Innovation Hub at Johns Hopkins university, so no stranger to patient-driven care—is documenting experiments with his mother, who is using the beta version of LiveListen with her AirPods, on Twitter:
https://qz.com/1323215/apples-airpods-and-live-listen-are-a-revolution-for-the-hearing-impaired/?utm_source=
AirPods could revolutionize what it means to be hard of hearing
BY Lauren Alix Brown
Last month, it was reported that Apple would add Live Listen, a feature that allows people to hear conversations in noisy settings, to AirPods later this year. The feature has been around since 2014. It uses the iPhone as a mic and connects to Apple-certified hearing aids to amplify hearing. When the next version of Apple’s key mobile software, iOS 12, is released, AirPod users will have access to the feature, though it’s recommended that those who require hearing aids still use them and not simply rely on AirPods for clarity and amplification.
Nick Dawson—the founder of the Sibley Innovation Hub at Johns Hopkins university, so no stranger to patient-driven care—is documenting experiments with his mother, who is using the beta version of LiveListen with her AirPods, on Twitter:
I haven’t heard her laugh out loud at a movie in ages. We’re watching The American President. She’s actually ahead of us on picking up the dialogue. #iOS12 #livelisten https://t.co/mOYJQhcQMZ— Nick Dawson (@nickdawson) June 19, 2018
https://qz.com/1323215/apples-airpods-and-live-listen-are-a-revolution-for-the-hearing-impaired/?utm_source=
What Would We Have Done?
An excerpt from the Sacramento Bee -
A Sacramento church asks: Would we have caged the migrant family of Jesus Christ?
BY GINGER RUTLAND
When responding to those who criticized his actions during the civil rights struggle, the Rev. Martin Luther King said, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
We who call ourselves Christians must not remain silent in the face of the inhuman policies of a tyrannical president. We must oppose them in any non-violent way we can. Nowhere have I seen opposition to evil more powerfully, peacefully and eloquently demonstrated than by that nativity scene at Parkside Community Church.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article214451779.html#storylink=cpy
A Sacramento church asks: Would we have caged the migrant family of Jesus Christ?
BY GINGER RUTLAND
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| “Seeking Asylum in America Today,” a Nativity scene erected by the Parkside Community Church in Sacramento, invites comparisons between the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant families and the treatment of Jesus Christ. - Ginger Rutland |
When responding to those who criticized his actions during the civil rights struggle, the Rev. Martin Luther King said, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
We who call ourselves Christians must not remain silent in the face of the inhuman policies of a tyrannical president. We must oppose them in any non-violent way we can. Nowhere have I seen opposition to evil more powerfully, peacefully and eloquently demonstrated than by that nativity scene at Parkside Community Church.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article214451779.html#storylink=cpy
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Friday, July 6, 2018
Saving Us From Ourselves
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction — with an app
By William Wan
To understand why it’s so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner’s pigeons.
In the 1950s, Skinner began putting the birds in a box and training them to peck on a piece of plastic whenever they wanted food. Then the Harvard psychology researcher rigged the system so that not every peck would yield a tasty treat. It became random — a reward every three pecks, then five pecks, then two pecks.
The pigeons went crazy and began pecking compulsively for hours on end.
Fast forward six decades. We have become the pigeons pecking at our iPhones, scrolling through news feeds, swiping left/right on Tinder for hours, the uncertainty of what we might find keeping us obsessed by design.
In the modern economy of tablets and apps, our attention has become the most valuable commodity. Tech companies have armies of behavioral researchers whose sole job is to apply principles like Skinner’s variable rewards to grab and hold our focus as often and long as possible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/rebel-developers-are-trying-to-cure-our-smartphone-addiction--with-an-app/2018/06/17/153e2282-6a81-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8fe002b2ec79
Rebel developers are trying to cure our smartphone addiction — with an app
By William Wan
To understand why it’s so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner’s pigeons.
In the 1950s, Skinner began putting the birds in a box and training them to peck on a piece of plastic whenever they wanted food. Then the Harvard psychology researcher rigged the system so that not every peck would yield a tasty treat. It became random — a reward every three pecks, then five pecks, then two pecks.
The pigeons went crazy and began pecking compulsively for hours on end.
Fast forward six decades. We have become the pigeons pecking at our iPhones, scrolling through news feeds, swiping left/right on Tinder for hours, the uncertainty of what we might find keeping us obsessed by design.
In the modern economy of tablets and apps, our attention has become the most valuable commodity. Tech companies have armies of behavioral researchers whose sole job is to apply principles like Skinner’s variable rewards to grab and hold our focus as often and long as possible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/rebel-developers-are-trying-to-cure-our-smartphone-addiction--with-an-app/2018/06/17/153e2282-6a81-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8fe002b2ec79
Thursday, July 5, 2018
A Revised Pledge
I pledge allegiance to the PEOPLE of the United States of America, and to the democracy for which we demand, one diverse nation, part of one incredible world, with liberty and justice for all!— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) July 5, 2018
Goodnight, America. A happier birthday next year! https://t.co/OYnakPU5rw
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Again and Again and Again
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Black State Rep. Says Someone Called Cops On Her While Canvassing
The constituent alerted police as Rep. Janelle Bynum was knocking on doors and spending lots of time on her phone.
By Willa Frej
An Oregon state representative called on her community to be better to one another after a constituent mistook her behavior as suspicious and called the police while she was canvassing.
“Big shout out to Officer Campbell who responded professionally to someone who said that I was going door to door and spending a lot of time typing on my cell phone after each house—- aka canvassing and keeping account of what my community cares about!” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D) wrote Tuesday on Facebook.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-state-rep-cops-canvassing_us_5b3cadb1e4b09e4a8b28faaf
Black State Rep. Says Someone Called Cops On Her While Canvassing
The constituent alerted police as Rep. Janelle Bynum was knocking on doors and spending lots of time on her phone.
By Willa Frej
An Oregon state representative called on her community to be better to one another after a constituent mistook her behavior as suspicious and called the police while she was canvassing.
“Big shout out to Officer Campbell who responded professionally to someone who said that I was going door to door and spending a lot of time typing on my cell phone after each house—- aka canvassing and keeping account of what my community cares about!” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D) wrote Tuesday on Facebook.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-state-rep-cops-canvassing_us_5b3cadb1e4b09e4a8b28faaf
History Repeating Itself
I was reminded of an incident involving my oldest son, that happened twenty-three years ago.
Sometimes progress is hard to measure.
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First the current article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rochester-school-wont-allow-its-first-black-valedictorian-to-speak-so-mayor-does_us_5b3d2326e4b05127cceebf06
Now the article from 1995:
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/opinion/in-america-the-valedictorian-s-un-graduation.html
Sometimes progress is hard to measure.
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First the current article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rochester-school-wont-allow-its-first-black-valedictorian-to-speak-so-mayor-does_us_5b3d2326e4b05127cceebf06
Now the article from 1995:
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/opinion/in-america-the-valedictorian-s-un-graduation.html
That's Hot!
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week
By Jason Samenow
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures.
No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming. But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see increase in a warming world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?utm_term=.47a9e0763dde&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week
By Jason Samenow
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures.
No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming. But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see increase in a warming world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?utm_term=.47a9e0763dde&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Quote
An excerpt from Salon -
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July
The former slave imagined a better America than this. Too many white people want to go backward: But there’s hope
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/04/frederick-douglass-and-donald-trump-faint-hope-endures-this-fourth-of-july/
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July
The former slave imagined a better America than this. Too many white people want to go backward: But there’s hope
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/04/frederick-douglass-and-donald-trump-faint-hope-endures-this-fourth-of-july/
Sound Advice
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Barack Obama Said This Is How You Know You’ve Found ‘The One’
He has some great experience from his relationship with Michelle Obama to pull from.
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By Brittany Wong
“Is she someone you find interesting?” Obama said, according to Pfeiffer. “You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things.”
Questions one and two were just as weighty, though they required less explanation.
“Does she make you laugh?” Obama reportedly asked Pfeiffer.
Then, the conversation turned to kids.
“I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom?” Pfeiffer recalled the president asking. “Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-found-the-one_us_5b3bb3aae4b05127cced0eb0
Barack Obama Said This Is How You Know You’ve Found ‘The One’
He has some great experience from his relationship with Michelle Obama to pull from.
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By Brittany Wong
“Is she someone you find interesting?” Obama said, according to Pfeiffer. “You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things.”
Questions one and two were just as weighty, though they required less explanation.
“Does she make you laugh?” Obama reportedly asked Pfeiffer.
Then, the conversation turned to kids.
“I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom?” Pfeiffer recalled the president asking. “Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-found-the-one_us_5b3bb3aae4b05127cced0eb0
Big Goals. Big Beliefs.
It has been a while since I've posted something personal. I spend most of my time here gathering and sharing things I think are interesting.
Today is different.
As principal of Martin Luther King K-8 School in Sacramento, California, I'm fortunate to be leading the charge in educating hundreds of students. I am proud to say that my kids are some of the brightest, talented, and most engaged students I've had the pleasure of knowing.
They bring an energy and excitement that is contagious.
Are the naughty? Yes, sometimes. Do they have to be redirected? Yes, often. But I wouldn't change a single one as each one brings something special to the table.
I've been the principal since November 2017, so just over seven months, and in that time we've made great strides in being the best that we can be.
One of my jobs is managing our resources, human and otherwise. To that end, we took a serious look at the tools at our disposal to prepare our students for the global challenges they will face when they leave us.
The area that we are most lacking is in our computer supply. We currently have 120 for 450 students. We are masters of scheduling the computer carts assignment so that each class has them for a limited time.
This works, but it is not the best.
Our goal is to have a dedicated computer for each student; a cart in each class with a set of computers that the class has access to every day, all day.
We can do this with your help.
Our goal is a big one, but our belief is even bigger that we can achieve this.
Please consider contributing to the success of our students, knowing that you are investing in our future. You're a few clicks a way from making a positive impact. Here's the link: https://www.gofundme.com/mlk-k8-pta-school-computer-drive. It is also on the top right side of the blog.
We can't all do everything, but each of us can do something.
A million thanks!
Faye
Today is different.
As principal of Martin Luther King K-8 School in Sacramento, California, I'm fortunate to be leading the charge in educating hundreds of students. I am proud to say that my kids are some of the brightest, talented, and most engaged students I've had the pleasure of knowing.
They bring an energy and excitement that is contagious.
Are the naughty? Yes, sometimes. Do they have to be redirected? Yes, often. But I wouldn't change a single one as each one brings something special to the table.
I've been the principal since November 2017, so just over seven months, and in that time we've made great strides in being the best that we can be.
One of my jobs is managing our resources, human and otherwise. To that end, we took a serious look at the tools at our disposal to prepare our students for the global challenges they will face when they leave us.
The area that we are most lacking is in our computer supply. We currently have 120 for 450 students. We are masters of scheduling the computer carts assignment so that each class has them for a limited time.
This works, but it is not the best.
Our goal is to have a dedicated computer for each student; a cart in each class with a set of computers that the class has access to every day, all day.
We can do this with your help.
Our goal is a big one, but our belief is even bigger that we can achieve this.
Please consider contributing to the success of our students, knowing that you are investing in our future. You're a few clicks a way from making a positive impact. Here's the link: https://www.gofundme.com/mlk-k8-pta-school-computer-drive. It is also on the top right side of the blog.
We can't all do everything, but each of us can do something.
A million thanks!
Faye
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Quote
From Axios -
"People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently,” she asserts. “I see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness."
— Oprah on Vogue UK on #MeToo
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-3cb3ee4e-9374-47d0-bdad-f45789738a8b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
"People talk about 'these are such dark times', but what if we shift the paradigm? Because I see it differently,” she asserts. “I see, 'Isn't this remarkable that we're waking up?' For years, women have endured craziness. This is what's happening to people. They're allowing themselves to not just become corroded, but to become hysterical. You've got to lean to the happiness."
— Oprah on Vogue UK on #MeToo
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-3cb3ee4e-9374-47d0-bdad-f45789738a8b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
Standing Her Ground
From the Huffington Post -
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Conservative TV Host Who Questioned Her Bronx Upbringing
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oscasio-cortez-owns-conservative-critics_us_5b3a5f05e4b0e0e7bc427392?8p
Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Conservative TV Host Who Questioned Her Bronx Upbringing
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oscasio-cortez-owns-conservative-critics_us_5b3a5f05e4b0e0e7bc427392?8p
Rock N Roll N Racism
An excerpt from Vice -
The Grim Story of Hells Angels Killing a Black Teen at a Rolling Stones Concert
The unhinged free show put a lid on the freewheeling 60s, but the racial dimension to the bloodshed is inescapable.
By Seth Ferranti
On December 6, 1969, Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African American man, was stabbed to death at what was billed as "Woodstock West," a free Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. Ever since, Altamont has served as the symbolic end of the freewheeling 60s—a wake-up call that optimism and idealism weren't going to be enough. That being young, passionate, and idealistic could only take you so far. That young people ready to take over could not somehow wipe out the story of race in America.
For those who felt the counterculture was a revolution in the making, Altamont was a reminder of the racial injustice and turbulence that still plague our nation today.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj39dm/the-grim-story-of-hells-angels-killing-a-black-teen-at-a-rolling-stones-concert
The Grim Story of Hells Angels Killing a Black Teen at a Rolling Stones Concert
The unhinged free show put a lid on the freewheeling 60s, but the racial dimension to the bloodshed is inescapable.
By Seth Ferranti
On December 6, 1969, Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African American man, was stabbed to death at what was billed as "Woodstock West," a free Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. Ever since, Altamont has served as the symbolic end of the freewheeling 60s—a wake-up call that optimism and idealism weren't going to be enough. That being young, passionate, and idealistic could only take you so far. That young people ready to take over could not somehow wipe out the story of race in America.
For those who felt the counterculture was a revolution in the making, Altamont was a reminder of the racial injustice and turbulence that still plague our nation today.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj39dm/the-grim-story-of-hells-angels-killing-a-black-teen-at-a-rolling-stones-concert
Monday, July 2, 2018
This Time It Happened in Church
An excerpt from the Root -
#MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church
By Michael Harriot
“There will be no funeral, no repast, everyone get the hell out of my church,” Briese reportedly told the family. According to Fox 5, Briese then kicked the family out of the place of worship, telling them to remove the body of the woman who wished to be laid to rest in the church where she was baptized.
https://www.theroot.com/mourningwhileblack-priest-calls-cops-on-black-funeral-1827284231?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-07-02
#MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church
By Michael Harriot
“There will be no funeral, no repast, everyone get the hell out of my church,” Briese reportedly told the family. According to Fox 5, Briese then kicked the family out of the place of worship, telling them to remove the body of the woman who wished to be laid to rest in the church where she was baptized.
https://www.theroot.com/mourningwhileblack-priest-calls-cops-on-black-funeral-1827284231?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018-07-02
Go Pam! Go FAMU!
From the Tallahassee Democrat -
FAMU's Pam Oliver wins Gracie Award for Best On-Air Talent
Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/29/famus-pam-oliver-wins-gracie-award/726254002/
FAMU's Pam Oliver wins Gracie Award for Best On-Air Talent
Rory Sharrock
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/famu/2018/06/29/famus-pam-oliver-wins-gracie-award/726254002/
We're Doing a Lot of That Lately
From the Huffington Post -
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
‘We’ll Fix This’: Some Americans Celebrated Canada Day By Apologizing For Trump
“If you build a polite privacy hedge along the border, we’ll totally understand.”
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By Ed Mazza
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/canada-day-apology_us_5b39d603e4b0f3c221a23150
Parents Who Had Kids Over 35 Can Relate
From Buzzfeed -
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
27 Jokes That Are Too Real For Anyone Who Had Kids After 35
"My 9-year-old described Celine Dion as 'old pretty.' Celine is a year younger than me."
By Ali Velez
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/tweets-jokes-older-parents?utm_term=.xnMw8bEY9#.fv0AJYmRE
His Plan To Fix the Internet
An excerpt from Vanity Fair -
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
BY KATRINA BROOKE
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought. His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy. Nearly three decades earlier, Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. On this morning, he had come to Washington as part of his mission to save it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets
We Will Not Forget
An excerpt from the Capital Gazette Editorial -
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you.
Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
We will never forget Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara or Rebecca Smith, our five co-workers who were gunned down in a senseless attack.
~~~~~~~~~~
Here’s what else we won’t forget: Death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss, or the people who called for one of our reporters to get fired because she got angry and cursed on national television after witnessing her friends getting shot.
Victims of Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis
We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people.
No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/opinion/our_say/ac-ce-our-say-20180630-story.html
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