The distinguished African-American gentleman featured in these two promos below is a friend and former colleague. He is, hands down, one of the classiest people I've had the pleasure of knowing.
May I introduce to some and reacquaint to others, Mr. Louis Morton.
Long Island High School Student Sweeps All Eight Ivies
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants.
As a Long Island high school student checked her phone for the results of her college admissions applications, she was overcome by disbelief.
One by one, each relayed the same news: Harvard. Yes. Dartmouth. Yes. Princeton. Yes. The University of Pennsylvania. Yes. Cornell, Yale, Columbia, Brown: yes, yes, yes, yes.
Although I don't necessarily agree that the Chris Darden character was the highlight of this series, it was nonetheless one of the best shows I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it. I know. I know. You're thinking, you watched it live while it was happening twenty plus years ago. I was too, but what the writers have done is take you behind the scene to see all of the planning and strategizing that went into every decision, and how those decisions played out on live TV on a national stage. It is a riveting drama. ~~~~~~~~~~ An excerpt from Slate -
What Made The People v. O.J.Simpson Trailblazing? Sterling K. Brown’s Chris Darden.
And yet now that the final episode of the Ryan Murphy–helmed saga has aired, The People v. O.J. stands to become one of the most fascinating, powerful, and illuminating depictions of the black American experience TV has ever seen. The series re-examines and dramatizes the now-legendary divide between blacks and whites on the subject of O.J.’s innocence, as well as Johnnie Cochran's indictment of the Los Angeles Police Department as a cabal of racists. But more specifically and most importantly, the show serves as a smart, hard-hitting deconstruction of what it’s like to be “the only one,” the sole person of color in a room of mostly privileged white people and under the most extreme of circumstances. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/04/06/sterling_k_brown_as_chris_darden_is_the_best_part_of_the_people_v_o_j_video.html?sid=554654ea10defb39638b510d&wpsrc=newsletter_tis
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze is brilliant, political, and human
The new Black Panther comic book series, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze, is the most anticipated comic debut of the past decade. And let's get one thing squared away up front: It's excellent.
Coates and Stelfreeze have created a pocket in the ever-expanding Marvel comic universe that's daring and wondrous, but also organic and natural — a place and a comic that feels crucial and important to the company's legacy.
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Ultimately, Stelfreeze and Coates have woven a story that Black Panther deserves, and one that pushes his and Wakanda's preestablished narrative into brave new territory. This is a story about a man of his people, and unlike many Black Panther stories of the past, it does justice to and makes us care about those he's pledged to serve and protect. It's a brilliant start to one of Marvel's most promising new series, and like the hero whose story it tells, it's poised to defy its already grand expectations.
The star and creator of the musical “Hamilton” says “Things Fall Apart” was his favorite book to teach at Hunter College High School: “The kids walk out of the classroom as different people.”
What books are currently on your nightstand?
“The Wayfinders,” by Wade Davis; “Between Riverside and Crazy,” by Stephen Adly Guirgis; and “Unabrow,” by Una LaMarche.
LOOKING OUT FROM Mokattam Mountain towards the Cairo, Egypt neighborhood of Manshiyat Naser, you’ll notice something beautiful. There, in the center of the neighborhood often referred to as Garbage City (named so for its trash-lined streets) is a painted mural that spans more than 50 buildings. From any other perspective, the swirl of orange, blue and white is beautiful but illegible. But from this mountainside, a quote from a 3rd century Coptic Bishop clearly reads in arabic calligraphy: “Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first.” ~~~~~~~~~~ To see how this mural came to be, check out the other photos in the slideshow at the link below.
Emma moved from the Philippines to new york to make a living as a nanny for other people's children - and hasn't seen her own in sixteen years.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/the-sacrifices-of-an-immigrant-caregiver?mbid=nl_160404_Daily&CNDID=27124505&spMailingID=8745510&spUserID=MTE0MzE0NDEyNDUyS0&spJobID=900396394&spReportId=OTAwMzk2Mzk0S0
Rain in the UAE takes on an almost mystical status. It is seen as a gift from God.
As I've mentioned before, the typical annual rainfall is four days. To combat this lack of rain, cloud seeding has become popular and is used often to generate rain systems.
This video is long at 30 minutes, but it reveals some interesting information about the landscape and the cloud seeding phenomenon.
The UAE is one of the first countries of the Arabian Gulf region that have use the cloud seeding technology, which adopted the latest technologies available on a global level, using sophisticated weather radar, to monitor the atmosphere of the country around the clock, In addition to the use of a private airplane supplied by special salt flares, has been manufactured to fit with the nature of the physical and chemical properties of the clouds that form in the UAE, these clouds have been studied previously in the past years before starting to carry out cloud seeding in the country and have classified these clouds and identify the appropriate, this study found that the best seeding for clouds form in the summer over the eastern and southwestern regions.
Cloud Seeding Applications section is specialized in the following:
Planning cloud seeding operations and set its time schedule in accordance to weather and climate studies of different regions in the country in different seasons.
Take the necessary measures to carry out cloud seeding operations such as the preparation of airplanes with its necessary flares in addition to obtaining clearance for airplanes operations mission.
Study the outputs of cloud seeding operations and in view of that prepare the necessary reports.
Follow-up results of cloud seeding projects in other countries through climate change to benefit in enhancing the efficiency of cloud seeding operations in the country.
Offer meteorological services.
Secure aeronautical and maritime navigation.
Study environmental pollution.
Participate in the field of agriculture.
Projects planning for urban and city.
Play a major role in warning of anticipated natural disasters.
I'll bet Ben & Frankie never consider this. ~~~~~~~~~~ From GQ - This Is What Happened When My Mom Ran My Tinder for a Month CLAY SKIPPER I’m 26, single, and four years removed from anything resembling a serious relationship. So I did what any solo twenty-something guy would do: I installed Tinder on my mom’s phone and asked her to find me a date. As me.
https://www.gq.com/story/my-mom-ran-my-tinder?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vox%20Sentences%204/1/16&utm_term=Vox%20Newsletter%20All
