He Was Sold by the Jesuits to Save Georgetown

From the New York Times RACE / RELATED -

A photograph of Frank Campbell was found in a scrapbook at Nicholls State University in Louisiana.
The children with Mr. Campbell are unidentified.

He was an enslaved teenager on a Jesuit plantation in Maryland on the night that the stars fell. It was November of 1833, and meteor showers set the sky ablaze.

His name was Frank Campbell. He would hold tight to that memory for decades, even when he was an old man, living hundreds of miles away from his birthplace. In 1838, he was shipped to a sugar plantation in Louisiana along with dozens of other slaves from Maryland. They were sold by the nation’s most prominent Jesuit priests to raise money to help save the Jesuit college now known as Georgetown University.

Mr. Campbell would survive slavery and the Civil War. He would live to see freedom and the dawning of the 20th century. Like many of his contemporaries from Maryland, he would marry and have children and grandchildren. But in one respect, he was singular: His image has survived, offering us the first look at one of the 272 slaves sold to help keep Georgetown afloat.

http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/03/12/race-related?nlid=38867499

Hiring the Right Person

From the New York Times -

How to Hire the Right Person
By Adam Bryant

Over the course of speaking with almost 500 leaders for my weekly “Corner Office” series, I’ve asked every one of them, “How do you hire?” Their answers are always insightful because after years of interviewing countless job candidates, they’ve learned the best approaches to help them get right to the core of who a candidate is and how he or she will work with a team. Learn the strategies these chief executives have developed through trial and error to help you go beyond the polished résumés, pre-screened references and scripted answers, to hire more creative and effective members for your team. And if you’re on the other side of the job hunt, you can gain insight on what your interviewer is really looking for in a candidate.

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/how-to-hire-the-right-person

Hot Pockets History

From Saveur -

THE FORGOTTEN IMMIGRANT ORIGINS OF AMERICA’S MOST ICONIC MICROWAVABLE SNACK
How two Iranian brothers invented the beloved Hot Pocket
BY MATTHEW SEDACCA

The short version of the story goes like this: In the late ‘60s, the Merages were attending universities in California. After earning an MBA in business, Paul Merage worked entry-level marketing positions at Maxwell House coffee. But both wanted to start their own company, a dream ingrained by their father, and according to a 2015 profile in Family Business, David believed success would happen in California. (The Merage family did not respond to requests for an interview.)

After a business trip to Europe in the mid-70s, the brothers saw potential demand in the American market for frozen Belgian waffles, according to a 2016 Tedium article, working for months to perfect a reipce. For months, the two worked on a recipe for easy-to-prepare Belgian waffles. In 1977, despite minimal experience in the industry, they founded the food manufacturing company Chef America Inc. in Chatsworth, California. Then, after earning millions marketing their waffles to restaurants and coffee shops, the brothers decided to compete with lunch and dinner-time offerings. The Hot Pocket came soon after.

http://www.saveur.com/hot-pockets-merage-brothers-history#page-2

Sister Sledge - We Are Family

From CNN -

Joni Sledge of vocal group Sister Sledge dies at 60
By Ralph Ellis and Tony Marco, CNN





http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/us/joni-sledge-of-sister-sledge-dies/index.html

Should You Hover Or Cover The Toilet Seat?

Paper Towel vs Hand Dryers

You Should Get A Second Cat

Bruno Mars - Count on me [Official Video]

You've Got a Friend In Me - LIVE Performance by 4-year-old Claire Ryann ...

[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Imagine - Pentatonix

A student's 'Adidas' commercial is everything advertising should be.

General Jeff

From OZY -

THE 'MAYOR' OF SKID ROW WANTS TO BRING DOWN THE WHOLE SYSTEM
By Jemayel Khawaja

General Jeff, legally known as Jeff Page, was a three-sport athlete at Compton High School and a pioneering contributor to the West Coast hip-hop scene in the early 1990s, performing as a DJ and in pop-and-lock dance troupes, and mingling with the likes of Snoop Dogg and DJ Quik. After trying and failing to mediate peace between the Crips and Bloods in his hometown of South LA, Page fell upon hard times in 2006. “I was homeless in South Central Los Angeles, sleeping in abandoned houses, warehouses, outdoors,” he tells me. “Burnt out, down and out, I showed up on Skid Row rolling a suitcase with some clothes, an Akai drum machine and a thousand dollars in my sock.” He felt like Skid Row could use his help. “I know it was an extreme thing to do,” he says. “I have no idea where the impetus came from.”

Page moved to a single room occupancy building on Skid Row within months. In the meantime, he familiarized himself with “the lingo, the movements, the thought process” of his new neighbors, looking for a way to improve the lives of the people around him. He noticed streetlights were broken, which created a dark and dangerous atmosphere at night and paved the way for unsavory activities. After manually gathering data on the lights, Page ambushed the head of the Bureau of Street Lighting with his findings. Two days later, government trucks rolled up to repair the broken lights. “I felt really good that day,” Page recollects. “That night — lights! We could see! The drug dealers were pissed!”

http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-mayor-of-skid-row-wants-to-bring-down-the-whole-system/70838

Biracial Twins

From the Daily Kos -

Biracial twins are the universe's beautiful answer to white supremacists
By Walter Einenkel

Lucy and Maria Aylmer are twins, born at the same time from the same parents

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/10/1642217/-Biracial-twins-are-the-universe-s-beautiful-answer-to-white-supremacists?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=8bda5eb174a253edad76f618fda958b7&source=email-biracial-twins-are-the-universes-beautiful-answer-to-white-supremacists-2&email_referrer=biracial-twins-are-the-universes-beautiful-answer-to-white-supremacists-2&email_subject=biracial-twins-are-the-universes-beautiful-answer-to-white-supremacists

HBCU Rugby Team

Frankie, this one's for you.

From the Odyssey -

At Morehouse College
The Black Sabers: The First All-Male HBCU Rugby Team

The Black Sabers have become the first all-male HBCU rugby team. Beyond breaking barriers as an HBCU rugby team, the Black Sabers have established themselves as a serious threat on the field. Just within the past season the team has defeated Georgia Tech and Emory University. With these victories the team has laid claim as rugby’s “best in Atlanta”. The Black Sabers went on to finish 5-2 in division play. The team placed second in their division after only their second year in the National Small College Rugby Organization (NSCRO).

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-black-sabers-the-first-all-male-hbcu-rugby-team

Small Stars

From the Daily Mail -

The long and short of our biggest stars: Which British actors are big on talent but small of stature? 
By Richard Price

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4302736/Which-actors-big-talent-small-stature.html#ixzz4b24o0E9e

Spring Forward

From Vox -

Daylight saving time begins Sunday: 6 things to know about “springing forward”
Why do we need to “save” daylight hours during the summer? — and 5 other burning questions about DST, answered.
By Brian Resnick

At 2 am on Sunday, March 12, we will push our clocks forward one hour to mark the start of daylight saving time. The change will push sunsets later into the evening hours, at the cost of temporarily disrupting the sleep of millions of Americans.

There’s a lot of confusion about daylight saving time.

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/10/14883576/daylight-saving-time-2017-start-spring-forward

The O'Jays - I Love Music (1975)

Anita Baker - "Giving You The Best That I Got" (Official Music Video)

Two Bands Rolling

Prized Degree

From the Guardian -

PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain
Oxford University graduates in philosophy, politics, and economics make up an astonishing proportion of Britain’s elite. But has it produced an out-of-touch ruling class?
by Andy Beckett

Monday, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE), Ed Miliband, launched the Labour party’s general election manifesto. It was examined by the BBC’s political editor, Oxford PPE graduate Nick Robinson, by the BBC’s economics editor, Oxford PPE graduate Robert Peston, and by the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Oxford PPE graduate Paul Johnson. It was criticized by the prime minister, Oxford PPE graduate David Cameron. It was defended by the Labour shadow chancellor, Oxford PPE graduate Ed Balls.

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More than any other course at any other university, more than any revered or resented private school, and in a manner probably unmatched in any other democracy, Oxford PPE pervades British political life. From the right to the left, from the centre ground to the fringes, from analysts to protagonists, consensus-seekers to revolutionary activists, environmentalists to ultra-capitalists, statists to libertarians, elitists to populists, bureaucrats to spin doctors, bullies to charmers, successive networks of PPEists have been at work at all levels of British politics – sometimes prominently, sometimes more quietly – since the degree was established 97 years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford-university-degree-that-rules-britain