Sunday, March 19, 2017
Yes We Can!
From the Root -
Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
By Angela Helm
Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree.
They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9-and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis.
“Go back to Mexico!” two or three kids and their parents screamed at the proud team parents, according to some who were there, proving that black/brown excellence just makes some white folks downright nasty.
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“For the most part, the robotics world is kind of a white world,” said Lisa Hopper, the team’s coach and a Pleasant Run second-grade teacher. “They’re just not used to seeing a team like our kids.
“And they see us and they think we’re not going to be competition. Then we’re in first place the whole day, and they can’t take it,” she said.
http://www.theroot.com/black-and-brown-elementary-school-winners-of-indianapol-1793403809
Black and Brown Elementary School Winners of Indianapolis Robotics Championship Told to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
By Angela Helm
Some bigoted parents in Indiana prove that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree.
They tried to ruin what should have been a very special moment for five black and Latinx 9-and 10-year-olds after they won a citywide robotics championship in Indianapolis.
“Go back to Mexico!” two or three kids and their parents screamed at the proud team parents, according to some who were there, proving that black/brown excellence just makes some white folks downright nasty.
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“For the most part, the robotics world is kind of a white world,” said Lisa Hopper, the team’s coach and a Pleasant Run second-grade teacher. “They’re just not used to seeing a team like our kids.
“And they see us and they think we’re not going to be competition. Then we’re in first place the whole day, and they can’t take it,” she said.
http://www.theroot.com/black-and-brown-elementary-school-winners-of-indianapol-1793403809
Math Resources
From Education Technology -
20 Excellent YouTube Channels for Math Teachers
http://selectedreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20-excellent-yo_39_46315730dd3209c9030ab7366082aca8184fdb19.pdf
20 Excellent YouTube Channels for Math Teachers
http://selectedreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20-excellent-yo_39_46315730dd3209c9030ab7366082aca8184fdb19.pdf
Stupid is as Stupid Does
From the Washington Post -
So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent
By Dana Milbank
This tragicomedy adds irony when you consider that the main character is the same one who campaigned by saying “they laugh at our stupidity” and “we are led by very, very stupid people” and “I have the best words, but there’s no better word than ‘stupid.’ ”
Now the world has reason to laugh at us — because we’re with stupid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-once-said-we-were-led-by-very-very-stupid-people-hes-finally-right/2017/03/17/1c6f915a-0b3a-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.6ee75b5984ce&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent
By Dana Milbank
This tragicomedy adds irony when you consider that the main character is the same one who campaigned by saying “they laugh at our stupidity” and “we are led by very, very stupid people” and “I have the best words, but there’s no better word than ‘stupid.’ ”
Now the world has reason to laugh at us — because we’re with stupid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-once-said-we-were-led-by-very-very-stupid-people-hes-finally-right/2017/03/17/1c6f915a-0b3a-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.6ee75b5984ce&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Saturday, March 18, 2017
FAMU Has a National Champion!
Go Rattlers!
From the Tallahassee Democrat - H/T Forrest
Florida A&M’s Carter completes wrestling journey as national champion
Rattlers’ heavyweight Rickey Carter won an NCWA heavyweight crown last weekend in Dallas
By Brian Miller
Carter captured a National Collegiate Wrestling Association national championship last weekend in Allen, Texas, winning his 285-pound weight class with a 2-1 overtime decision over Central Florida’s Jesse Gaudin in Saturday’s finals match.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/2017/03/17/florida-ams-carter-completes-wrestling-journey-national-champion/99328724/
From the Tallahassee Democrat - H/T Forrest
Florida A&M’s Carter completes wrestling journey as national champion
Rattlers’ heavyweight Rickey Carter won an NCWA heavyweight crown last weekend in Dallas
By Brian Miller
Carter captured a National Collegiate Wrestling Association national championship last weekend in Allen, Texas, winning his 285-pound weight class with a 2-1 overtime decision over Central Florida’s Jesse Gaudin in Saturday’s finals match.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/2017/03/17/florida-ams-carter-completes-wrestling-journey-national-champion/99328724/
Friday, March 17, 2017
Budget Woes
From the Washington Post - (Bold is mine)
Trump budgets for a dumber, dirtier America
By Eugene Robinson
President Trump’s first budget is an attempt to reshape the federal government in his own image — crass, bellicose, shortsighted, unserious and ultimately hollow.
Unsurprisingly, Trump titled it “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again.” The reality is that if Congress were to accept these numbers — which it can’t possibly do — America would be made dumber, dirtier, hungrier and sicker. That may be Trump’s idea of greatness, but it’s certainly not mine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-budgets-for-a-dumber-dirtier-america/2017/03/16/3373adc2-0a82-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.b5413d9b577d
Trump budgets for a dumber, dirtier America
By Eugene Robinson
President Trump’s first budget is an attempt to reshape the federal government in his own image — crass, bellicose, shortsighted, unserious and ultimately hollow.
Unsurprisingly, Trump titled it “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again.” The reality is that if Congress were to accept these numbers — which it can’t possibly do — America would be made dumber, dirtier, hungrier and sicker. That may be Trump’s idea of greatness, but it’s certainly not mine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-budgets-for-a-dumber-dirtier-america/2017/03/16/3373adc2-0a82-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?utm_term=.b5413d9b577d
He's Helping to Put UC Davis on the Map
From CNN -
NCAA tournament: UC Davis' Chima Moneke spans the globe
By Jill Martin
(CNN)It's been a long journey for Chima Moneke, and it's not over yet.
The son of Nigerian diplomats has lived on five different continents. He hasn't seen his parents since 2009, when he moved back to Australia. He considers Canberra his home town.
Now in North America, Moneke is a junior forward at the University of California Davis. For the first time in program history, the Aggies are in the NCAA tournament, the premier college basketball postseason bonanza that can turn obscure student athletes into pro prospects overnight.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/sport/ncaa-tournament-uc-davis-chima-moneke/index.html
NCAA tournament: UC Davis' Chima Moneke spans the globe
By Jill Martin
(CNN)It's been a long journey for Chima Moneke, and it's not over yet.
The son of Nigerian diplomats has lived on five different continents. He hasn't seen his parents since 2009, when he moved back to Australia. He considers Canberra his home town.
Now in North America, Moneke is a junior forward at the University of California Davis. For the first time in program history, the Aggies are in the NCAA tournament, the premier college basketball postseason bonanza that can turn obscure student athletes into pro prospects overnight.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/sport/ncaa-tournament-uc-davis-chima-moneke/index.html
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Yea or Nay for Y'all
Getting in touch with my Southern roots.
From the Atlantic -
America Needs ‘Y’all’
English has no standard second-person plural word, and it’s time for that to change.
By VANN R. NEWKIRK II
How y’all doing?
A greeting as Southern as a bowl of grits, it rolls off the tongue in a single open-mouth utterance. Sweeter than honey and often saturated with hidden meaning, it can open up a dialogue with a roomful of strangers with ease.
Part of that ease hinges on the incredible versatility of the phrase’s most important word. “Y’all,” that strange regional and ethnic conjunction, offers a simplicity to speech that can’t be found elsewhere. It is a magnificently elegant linguistic creation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/the-case-for-yall/473277/
From the Atlantic -
America Needs ‘Y’all’
English has no standard second-person plural word, and it’s time for that to change.
By VANN R. NEWKIRK II
How y’all doing?
A greeting as Southern as a bowl of grits, it rolls off the tongue in a single open-mouth utterance. Sweeter than honey and often saturated with hidden meaning, it can open up a dialogue with a roomful of strangers with ease.
Part of that ease hinges on the incredible versatility of the phrase’s most important word. “Y’all,” that strange regional and ethnic conjunction, offers a simplicity to speech that can’t be found elsewhere. It is a magnificently elegant linguistic creation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/the-case-for-yall/473277/
If You Live in the South and Fashion is Your Thing . . .
Check this out.
From the New York Times -
Is This Store the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion?
By STEVEN KURUTZ
NASHVILLE — The novelist Ann Patchett, who lives in this city, has said that she brings out-of-town visitors to two places: the Parthenon, the replica of the ancient Greek structure in Centennial Park, and United Apparel Liquidators, or U.A.L. as devotees know it. Both are temples of a sort.
The small clothing chain has three stores in the Nashville area. The flagship is also in the city, in a strip mall of no distinction, half-hidden between a nail salon and a Chinese takeout place. Ms. Patchett took the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert, shopping there one day last year, and during a literary talk that night, they dished about the Christian Dior flats that Ms. Gilbert purchased.
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And yet, many fashion insiders have never heard of the place. Its founders, Bill and Melody Cohen, who run the business with their former daughter-in-law, Stephanie Cohen, are savvy if eccentric businesspeople, who for 37 years have operated what the shopping website Racked called the “best-kept secret” in fashion. They locate their stores in secondary markets in the South, in small cities like Hattiesburg, Miss., and Slidell, La., where one doesn’t expect to find, say, a $10,000 crystal-embroidered Dolce & Gabbana bustier dress for sale next to a pool hall with $2 bottles of Michelob Ultra.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/fashion/best-kept-secret-in-fashion-shopping-nashville-ual.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffashion&action=click&contentCollection=fashion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront
From the New York Times -
Is This Store the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion?
By STEVEN KURUTZ
NASHVILLE — The novelist Ann Patchett, who lives in this city, has said that she brings out-of-town visitors to two places: the Parthenon, the replica of the ancient Greek structure in Centennial Park, and United Apparel Liquidators, or U.A.L. as devotees know it. Both are temples of a sort.
The small clothing chain has three stores in the Nashville area. The flagship is also in the city, in a strip mall of no distinction, half-hidden between a nail salon and a Chinese takeout place. Ms. Patchett took the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert, shopping there one day last year, and during a literary talk that night, they dished about the Christian Dior flats that Ms. Gilbert purchased.
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And yet, many fashion insiders have never heard of the place. Its founders, Bill and Melody Cohen, who run the business with their former daughter-in-law, Stephanie Cohen, are savvy if eccentric businesspeople, who for 37 years have operated what the shopping website Racked called the “best-kept secret” in fashion. They locate their stores in secondary markets in the South, in small cities like Hattiesburg, Miss., and Slidell, La., where one doesn’t expect to find, say, a $10,000 crystal-embroidered Dolce & Gabbana bustier dress for sale next to a pool hall with $2 bottles of Michelob Ultra.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/fashion/best-kept-secret-in-fashion-shopping-nashville-ual.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffashion&action=click&contentCollection=fashion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront
Get This People!
Use technology to beat Trump at his own game. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
From the Daily Good -
This New Anti-Trump Tech Is The Most Genius Thing Of 2017
by Kate Ryan
Nearly two months into Trump’s presidency, we’ve seen all the stories imploring us to write, call, and fax our senators about the issues that matter most to us. We’ve done our best to digest and implement most of them. Of course, GOOD is certainly guilty of adding to the mounting pile of well-intentioned suggestions, mostly because we can’t imagine not. But we really mean it this time when we say there’s a tech tool that will take the headache out of reaching out to your congresspeople. It’s called “Resistbot,” and it’s by far the easiest way to gradually chip away at Trump’s spirit.
Here’s how it works:
Text “resist” to 50409.
You’ll be prompted to provide your name, zip code, and a message you’d like to send to your senators.
https://www.good.is/articles/anti-trump-tech?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood
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This works!
I just did it.
I wrote a quick sentence about fighting the drastic budget cuts and that info was formatted into letters to my two senators. Once I ok'd them, they were faxed to them in Washington, DC.
Quick and easy.
RESIST!!!
From the Daily Good -
This New Anti-Trump Tech Is The Most Genius Thing Of 2017
by Kate Ryan
Nearly two months into Trump’s presidency, we’ve seen all the stories imploring us to write, call, and fax our senators about the issues that matter most to us. We’ve done our best to digest and implement most of them. Of course, GOOD is certainly guilty of adding to the mounting pile of well-intentioned suggestions, mostly because we can’t imagine not. But we really mean it this time when we say there’s a tech tool that will take the headache out of reaching out to your congresspeople. It’s called “Resistbot,” and it’s by far the easiest way to gradually chip away at Trump’s spirit.
Here’s how it works:
Text “resist” to 50409.
You’ll be prompted to provide your name, zip code, and a message you’d like to send to your senators.
https://www.good.is/articles/anti-trump-tech?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood
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This works!
I just did it.
I wrote a quick sentence about fighting the drastic budget cuts and that info was formatted into letters to my two senators. Once I ok'd them, they were faxed to them in Washington, DC.
Quick and easy.
RESIST!!!
Chores by Age
As seen on Pinterest.
From the blog Sunshine & Hurricanes -
The Importance of Chores for Children (Printable Chore Chart)
By KIRA LEWIS
http://www.sunshineandhurricanes.com/the-importance-of-chores-for-children-printable-chore-chart-included/
http://www.sunshineandhurricanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ChoreAgeChart-2.pdf
From the blog Sunshine & Hurricanes -
The Importance of Chores for Children (Printable Chore Chart)
By KIRA LEWIS
http://www.sunshineandhurricanes.com/the-importance-of-chores-for-children-printable-chore-chart-included/
http://www.sunshineandhurricanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ChoreAgeChart-2.pdf
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