How can we truly celebrate independence on a day that intentionally robbed our ancestors of theirs? To find my independence I went home. pic.twitter.com/hniYGJeLxG— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2017
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Searching for the Truth
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Do They Know This?
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
Locker Room Talk: First day of NBA free agency should be called Big O Day
Oscar Robertson is the reason today’s players can choose where to play and make megamillions
BY WILLIAM C. RHODEN
Henceforth and forever, the NBA should designate July 1 as Big O Day, in honor of Oscar Robertson, namesake of the rule that put NBA players on the road to free agency.
That road has been paved with gold ever since.
Robertson, 78, said he is open to the idea. “I like it,” he told me last week. “I don’t think a lot of players know anything about the Oscar Robertson Rule and what it really means.”
The rule has a number of ins and out, but what the players need to grasp is simple. “They should understand why they are making 15 and 20 million dollars a year playing basketball,” Robertson said.
Robertson v. National Basketball Association was a class-action lawsuit filed in 1970. Robertson at the time was president of the National Basketball Players Association. The NBA was represented by the firm Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, whose lead attorney was future NBA commissioner David Stern.
https://theundefeated.com/features/locker-room-talk-first-day-of-nba-free-agency-should-be-called-big-o-day/
Locker Room Talk: First day of NBA free agency should be called Big O Day
Oscar Robertson is the reason today’s players can choose where to play and make megamillions
BY WILLIAM C. RHODEN
Henceforth and forever, the NBA should designate July 1 as Big O Day, in honor of Oscar Robertson, namesake of the rule that put NBA players on the road to free agency.
That road has been paved with gold ever since.
Robertson, 78, said he is open to the idea. “I like it,” he told me last week. “I don’t think a lot of players know anything about the Oscar Robertson Rule and what it really means.”
The rule has a number of ins and out, but what the players need to grasp is simple. “They should understand why they are making 15 and 20 million dollars a year playing basketball,” Robertson said.
Robertson v. National Basketball Association was a class-action lawsuit filed in 1970. Robertson at the time was president of the National Basketball Players Association. The NBA was represented by the firm Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, whose lead attorney was future NBA commissioner David Stern.
https://theundefeated.com/features/locker-room-talk-first-day-of-nba-free-agency-should-be-called-big-o-day/
The Fourth of July
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
By Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
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Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
By Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
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Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
Not a Fan, But . . .
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. delivered the ninth-grade commencement address a Cardigan Mountain School, a boarding school for boys in New Hampshire. (Cardigan Mountain School)
A Hometown Hero
An excerpt from the LA Times -
Hiroshi Miyamura and his hometown had a lot in common. They believed in America.
By JOE MOZINGO
Two American soldiers trudged across the war-torn Korean peninsula as winter bore down.
To keep their minds off the cold and hunger, Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura told his new friend, an Italian kid from Boston, about his hometown of Gallup, N.M.
Joe Annello pictured the kind of strange buttes and red-rock desert he had seen in John Wayne movies. But Miyamura told him a different story, about how Gallup had risen to defend the American ideal when so many others stood by.
Sixty-seven years later, their enduring friendship is a testament to how a small town grappled with issues the nation is again debating today — where people of certain ethnic or religious backgrounds fit into its changing identity. It is the story of how a small act of courage helped turn an "enemy alien" into an American hero.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-japanese-american-hero-hiroshi-20170703-htmlstory.html
Hiroshi Miyamura and his hometown had a lot in common. They believed in America.
By JOE MOZINGO
Two American soldiers trudged across the war-torn Korean peninsula as winter bore down.
To keep their minds off the cold and hunger, Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura told his new friend, an Italian kid from Boston, about his hometown of Gallup, N.M.
Joe Annello pictured the kind of strange buttes and red-rock desert he had seen in John Wayne movies. But Miyamura told him a different story, about how Gallup had risen to defend the American ideal when so many others stood by.
Sixty-seven years later, their enduring friendship is a testament to how a small town grappled with issues the nation is again debating today — where people of certain ethnic or religious backgrounds fit into its changing identity. It is the story of how a small act of courage helped turn an "enemy alien" into an American hero.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-japanese-american-hero-hiroshi-20170703-htmlstory.html
Monday, July 3, 2017
Pushing STEM Careers
From the Undefeated -
Isiah Warner’s inspirational teaching at LSU never stops pushing STEM careers
The 2016 SEC Professor of the Year holds the highest professorial rank in the LSU system
BY MAYA A. JONES
Louisiana State University (LSU) professor Isiah Warner laughed as he recounted the many hats he’s worn throughout his 25 years at the school. Warner serves as vice president for strategic initiatives, Boyd Professor (the highest professorial rank in the LSU system) and Philip W. West Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor who works to develop, apply and solve fundamental problems through research.
https://theundefeated.com/features/isiah-warner-lsu-stem-careers/
Isiah Warner’s inspirational teaching at LSU never stops pushing STEM careers
The 2016 SEC Professor of the Year holds the highest professorial rank in the LSU system
BY MAYA A. JONES
Louisiana State University (LSU) professor Isiah Warner laughed as he recounted the many hats he’s worn throughout his 25 years at the school. Warner serves as vice president for strategic initiatives, Boyd Professor (the highest professorial rank in the LSU system) and Philip W. West Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor who works to develop, apply and solve fundamental problems through research.
https://theundefeated.com/features/isiah-warner-lsu-stem-careers/
Quote
From the Huffington Post -
Justice Official Quits Over White House Conduct ‘I Would Not Tolerate Seeing In A Company’
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome.”
By Mary Papenfuss
“Even as I engaged in... questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts,” she wrote. “Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those [conducts]. I wanted no more part in it.” - Hui Chen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hui-chen-quits-justice_us_5959be5ce4b0da2c732455c9?77p&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Justice Official Quits Over White House Conduct ‘I Would Not Tolerate Seeing In A Company’
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome.”
By Mary Papenfuss
“Even as I engaged in... questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts,” she wrote. “Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those [conducts]. I wanted no more part in it.” - Hui Chen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hui-chen-quits-justice_us_5959be5ce4b0da2c732455c9?77p&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
App Improves Memory
An excerpt from the Independent -
New brain training app improves memories of people with early-stage Dementia
'We hope to extend these findings in future studies of healthy ageing and mild Alzheimer's disease,' said George Savulich, who led the study at Cambridge University
By KATE KELLAND
A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.
Researchers who developed the “game show”-like app and tested its effects on cognition and motivation in a small trial found that patients who played the game over a period of a month had around a 40 per cent improvement in their memory scores.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brain-training-app-dementia-early-stage-patients-people-help-memories-improve-games-show-cambridge-a7820301.html
New brain training app improves memories of people with early-stage Dementia
'We hope to extend these findings in future studies of healthy ageing and mild Alzheimer's disease,' said George Savulich, who led the study at Cambridge University
By KATE KELLAND
A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.
Researchers who developed the “game show”-like app and tested its effects on cognition and motivation in a small trial found that patients who played the game over a period of a month had around a 40 per cent improvement in their memory scores.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brain-training-app-dementia-early-stage-patients-people-help-memories-improve-games-show-cambridge-a7820301.html
The World is Watching
From Axios AM Newsletter -
How they see us ... The wrestling tweet was at the top of the front pages of the Financial Times and The Times of London (which said that in the video, Trump "attacked a person with a superimposed CNN logo on their head"). The BBC's Katty Kay said on "Morning Joe' that it '"looks like America has gone off the reservation."
https://www.axios.com/axios-am/
How they see us ... The wrestling tweet was at the top of the front pages of the Financial Times and The Times of London (which said that in the video, Trump "attacked a person with a superimposed CNN logo on their head"). The BBC's Katty Kay said on "Morning Joe' that it '"looks like America has gone off the reservation."
https://www.axios.com/axios-am/
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