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
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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
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