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Friday, July 20, 2018

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

Mama said, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."

Guess who's coming to dinner https://t.co/il6KVDlYcQ

An early look at Friday's front... pic.twitter.com/vlSn8akTAN
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 20, 2018

The symbols of systemic racism — and how to take away their power | Paul...

What to Do in Picturesque Cambridge

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

What a conductor actually does on stage

Bike Made With 24-Karat Gold

Entering Austria’s Painted Crypt

Thursday, July 19, 2018

We tried out the world's fanciest McDonald's | CNBC Reports

What Airplane Toilets Do With Your Waste

How I Went from Drug Dealer to Gourmet Chef | Chef Jeff | Goalcast

How to NEVER be nervous again | Simon Sinek

How This Guy Folds and Flies World Record Paper Airplanes | WIRED

When We All Vote

Stories I Can't Tell

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

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

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

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

Trevor Celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 100th Birthday | The Daily Show

Road diets: designing a safer street

Trevor Responds to Criticism from the French Ambassador - Between The Sc...

From Football Safety to Neurosurgeon

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Meet the Culinary King of Queens

Meet Jade Colin, The Youngest Black Woman To Own A McDonald’s

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

When Native American Children Were Ripped From Their Parents' Arms - DAWNLAND trailer

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-legacy-stolen-children_us_5b4c6b47e4b0e7c958fcfff2

Blindspotting (2018 Movie) Official Trailer - Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal

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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

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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

G Funk - Official Trailer | Premieres July 11 2018

The Fluffiest Pancakes You'll Ever Eat

How Airports Make Money

Why These Vietnamese Boat Guides Row With Their Feet

Everyone in This Village Can Speak Sign Language

Ottolock - Kevlar Cinch Lock

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Can You Solve Amazon's Hanging Cable Interview Question?

How Do Casinos Make Money?

British Airways’ New Machine Reduces Plane Delays

Trump and Putin: A surreal moment in US politics

Liberal Redneck - Vlad n Donnie 2gether 4ever

Why We Moved to BANGKOK!

Needed: More Diverse Film Critics

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

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

An early look at Tuesday's front... pic.twitter.com/BXsoZsIT4B
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 16, 2018

'My Name Is Mirian': Celebs Read Letter From Detained Migrant Mom

What Is Code-Switching? | Between The Lines

The Galapagos Islands Are a Pristine Paradise | National Geographic

How To Run The Fastest Marathon Possible, According To Science

How to be the Smartest in the Room | Ibram Kendi | Goalcast

Helping the Homeless Through Farm-to-Table Training

Swimming From Alcatraz to San Francisco 48 Times

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

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Delicate Patterns Carefully Carved Into Fruits And Vegetables

How The Ancient Greeks Proved Earth Wasn't Flat 2,200 Years Ago

Top 9 Features Coming To iOS In The Fall

Headset Allows You To Control Lights With Your Brain

Seth G. & Daniel D. - SAD Tribute

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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

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

The Aboriginal players hooked on 'fast footy'

The diverse dolls that look like me

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

He Works 365 Days Every Year (Seychelles)

Friday, July 13, 2018

How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F de Freitas

How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever

How your split ends can help clean oil spills

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

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

Parenting Tweets

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/50-of-the-absolute-funniest-parenting-tweets-of-2018-so-far?utm_term=.uov6Kr7mdo#.dvLkZQVA9E

A Hidden Art Form You’ll Flip For

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Monster of the Vertical Jump | Daenan Gyimah (Kofi_kid)

The Origin of "Soccer"

NBA Ref Explains Why The James Harden Step Back Isn't Traveling

HOW TO FIND CHEAP FLIGHTS - My Best Tips After Booking 500+ Flights

This Actor’s Cartoon Game Is Strong

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

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

Anthony Bourdain - Telling Stories Through Food on “Parts Unknown” | The...

Teenage Boy Is A Colorful Cake Master

PETRA - A WORLD WONDER 4K!

This Woman Sails With a Global Crew

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

Tour Eiffel 3D Live Sketch.

A post shared by CityLiveSketch (@citylivesketch) on May 13, 2018 at 3:19am PDT

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

Althea Gibson walks through a cheering crowd while
preparing to play in the 1957 Championships at Wimbledon.
AFP/AFP/Getty Images

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/

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:

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=

THE KING - Official Trailer HD - Oscilloscope Laboratories

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


	“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