Monday, January 20, 2020
Remembering Stuart Scott
An excerpt from the Ringer -
Cooler on the Other Side: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Stuart Scott
Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon. Boo-yah!
By Bryan Curtis
Smith: African Americans throughout the history of this country have been told that we needed to conform, to assimilate. That we needed to be less street, be less hip-hop, be less hood. Just be less. We had to be less of ourselves in order to make the majority feel comfortable. For Stuart to come along and be every bit as good and professional, as sharp, as polished as any broadcaster doing it, but yet still be able to be as authentic and connected and representative of the culture as he was—it was just incredible.
https://www.theringer.com/2020/1/15/21066392/stuart-scott-espn-sportscenter-career-death-broadcaster
Cooler on the Other Side: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Stuart Scott
Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon. Boo-yah!
By Bryan Curtis
Smith: African Americans throughout the history of this country have been told that we needed to conform, to assimilate. That we needed to be less street, be less hip-hop, be less hood. Just be less. We had to be less of ourselves in order to make the majority feel comfortable. For Stuart to come along and be every bit as good and professional, as sharp, as polished as any broadcaster doing it, but yet still be able to be as authentic and connected and representative of the culture as he was—it was just incredible.
https://www.theringer.com/2020/1/15/21066392/stuart-scott-espn-sportscenter-career-death-broadcaster
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020
Quote
"When I feed people, they call me a saint; when I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist." - Helder Camara
Darling!
From USA Today -
Mom dresses up baby as influential women in history
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/allthemoms/2019/03/27/mom-dresses-up-baby-influential-women-history/3285893002/
Mom dresses up baby as influential women in history
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/allthemoms/2019/03/27/mom-dresses-up-baby-influential-women-history/3285893002/
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Win-Win
An excerpt from Upworthy -
Every year on Christmas Day this pizzeria gives all of their sales to the employees
Tod Perry
Rockstar Pizza in Brownsburg, Indiana has a beautiful holiday tradition. For the past five years, on Christmas Day, its owners, Colby and Ron Mathews give all the day's profits to its staff.
This year, the seven employees who volunteered to work on Christmas all received over $700 for working a short shift. But during that time they worked really, really hard.
The staff had planned on working the dinner shift from 4 pm to 9 pm, but the phone started blowing up early.
https://www.upworthy.com/every-year-on-christmas-day-this-pizzeria-gives-all-its-profits-to-its-employees?utm_source=The+Upworthiest&utm_campaign=c35efc42b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_22_07_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_78f827fba6-c35efc42b0-237765841
Every year on Christmas Day this pizzeria gives all of their sales to the employees
Tod Perry
Rockstar Pizza in Brownsburg, Indiana has a beautiful holiday tradition. For the past five years, on Christmas Day, its owners, Colby and Ron Mathews give all the day's profits to its staff.
This year, the seven employees who volunteered to work on Christmas all received over $700 for working a short shift. But during that time they worked really, really hard.
The staff had planned on working the dinner shift from 4 pm to 9 pm, but the phone started blowing up early.
https://www.upworthy.com/every-year-on-christmas-day-this-pizzeria-gives-all-its-profits-to-its-employees?utm_source=The+Upworthiest&utm_campaign=c35efc42b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_22_07_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_78f827fba6-c35efc42b0-237765841
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
For Whites Only?
An excerpt from the NYTimes -
In a Homecoming Video Meant to Unite Campus, Almost Everyone Was White
The video was created to show off the University of Wisconsin. Instead, it set off a furor, and a reckoning over what it means to be a black student on campus.
By Julie Bosman, Emily Shetler and Natalie Yahr
MADISON, Wis. — The video was just two minutes long: a sunny montage of life at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Here were hundreds of young men and women cheering at a football game, dancing in unison, riding bicycles in a sleek line, “throwing the W” for the camera, singing a cappella, leaping into a lake.
“Home is where we grow together,” a voice-over said. “It’s where the hills are. It’s eating our favorite foods. It’s where we can all harmonize as one. Home is Wisconsin cheese curds. It’s welcoming everyone into our home.”
This is the story of a video that galvanized and divided a university plagued by a history of racist incidents, as told by the people who saw it happen. Black students in particular say the homecoming video crystallized a daily fact of life: They feel they are not wanted at the University of Wisconsin, where there are significantly fewer African-Americans per capita than in the state, which is mostly white. This fall, more than 30,000 undergraduates began the school year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fewer than 1,000 of them are African-American.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/university-of-wisconsin-race-video.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
In a Homecoming Video Meant to Unite Campus, Almost Everyone Was White
The video was created to show off the University of Wisconsin. Instead, it set off a furor, and a reckoning over what it means to be a black student on campus.
By Julie Bosman, Emily Shetler and Natalie Yahr
MADISON, Wis. — The video was just two minutes long: a sunny montage of life at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Here were hundreds of young men and women cheering at a football game, dancing in unison, riding bicycles in a sleek line, “throwing the W” for the camera, singing a cappella, leaping into a lake.
“Home is where we grow together,” a voice-over said. “It’s where the hills are. It’s eating our favorite foods. It’s where we can all harmonize as one. Home is Wisconsin cheese curds. It’s welcoming everyone into our home.”
This is the story of a video that galvanized and divided a university plagued by a history of racist incidents, as told by the people who saw it happen. Black students in particular say the homecoming video crystallized a daily fact of life: They feel they are not wanted at the University of Wisconsin, where there are significantly fewer African-Americans per capita than in the state, which is mostly white. This fall, more than 30,000 undergraduates began the school year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fewer than 1,000 of them are African-American.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/university-of-wisconsin-race-video.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Largest 3-D Building
From Business Insider -
This building in Dubai is the largest 3D-printed structure in the world — and it took just 3 workers and a printer to build it
By Mary Meisenzahl
https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-largest-3d-printed-building-apis-cor-photos-2019-12
This building in Dubai is the largest 3D-printed structure in the world — and it took just 3 workers and a printer to build it
By Mary Meisenzahl
https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-largest-3d-printed-building-apis-cor-photos-2019-12
Monday, December 30, 2019
Jewish Thinking
An excerpt from the New York Times -
The Secrets of Jewish Genius
It’s about thinking different.
By Bret Stephens
An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah. The students, intent on convincing their rav of the game’s beauty, invite him to watch a professional match. At halftime, they ask what he thinks.
“I have solved your problem,” the rabbi says.
“How?”
“Give one ball to each side, and they will have nothing to fight over.”
I have this (apocryphal) anecdote from Norman Lebrecht’s new book, “Genius & Anxiety,” an erudite and delightful study of the intellectual achievements and nerve-wracked lives of Jewish thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs between 1847 and 1947. Sarah Bernhardt and Franz Kafka; Albert Einstein and Rosalind Franklin; Benjamin Disraeli and (sigh) Karl Marx — how is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/jewish-culture-genius-iq.html
The Secrets of Jewish Genius
It’s about thinking different.
By Bret Stephens
An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah. The students, intent on convincing their rav of the game’s beauty, invite him to watch a professional match. At halftime, they ask what he thinks.
“I have solved your problem,” the rabbi says.
“How?”
“Give one ball to each side, and they will have nothing to fight over.”
I have this (apocryphal) anecdote from Norman Lebrecht’s new book, “Genius & Anxiety,” an erudite and delightful study of the intellectual achievements and nerve-wracked lives of Jewish thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs between 1847 and 1947. Sarah Bernhardt and Franz Kafka; Albert Einstein and Rosalind Franklin; Benjamin Disraeli and (sigh) Karl Marx — how is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/jewish-culture-genius-iq.html
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
2019 Sunset
From the New York Times -
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/23/magazine/luke-perry-90210.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/23/magazine/luke-perry-90210.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
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