" Problems were not created to
outlive you. You were created to outlive problems. There's a shift coming your
way in no time. Just be strong because you will certainly go through
this." - Osemeke Smek Uwakina
Take home – Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a highly
regarded African-American educator and scholar. He directs of the W. E. B.
DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard. He
received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1981 to support his research for the
Black Periodical Literary Project. He entered the public eye in 2009 related to
a conflicting report of a break-in and racial prejudice. Educator, author, editor. Born
on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. Gates excelled as a student,
graduating from Yale University in 1973 with a degree in history. He continued
his education at Clare College, which is part of Cambridge University in
England. He finished his doctorate degree in 1979, making him the first
African-American to receive a Ph.D. from the university.
In the 1980s Gates became known as a
leading scholar of African-American literature, history, and culture. He built
his reputation in part on his talents as a researcher. At the start of the
decade, he began working on the Black Periodical Literature Project, which
uncovered lost literary works published in 1800s. Gates received a grant from
the prestigious MacArthur Foundation in 1981, which helped support his
scholarship in African-American literature. He had rediscovered what is
believed to be the first novel published by an African-American in the United
States. Gates republished the 1859 work by Harriet
E. Wilson entitled Our Nig in 1983.
Recently, Gates has been involved in
a number of interesting educational projects for television. He wrote and
produced several documentaries: Wonders of the African World (2000), America Beyond the Color Line (2004), and African American Lives (2006). Gates has plans for more
documentaries, including a documentary special on the heritage of talk show
host Oprah
Winfrey and a sequel to African American Lives. Gates has
also earned numerous honors. In addition to his MacArthur Fellowship, he was
chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to give the Jefferson
Lecture, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution in 2006, and
named as one ofTime magazine's
25 Most Influential Americans in 2007. He also has more than 50 honorary degrees.
Picture for the day- An interesting
scene from kerala, India. An elephant is being transported.
Wisdom Message
YEARN to fill your
heart with Him, not with you. Your yearning must be warm, so warm that it can
be called "Thapas" (Heat). Become hot (earnest). Now it is only a
lukewarm longing, a surface activity. Examine yourselves how far you have filled your heart within. Measure the heights you have
reached with the yardstick of virtue, serenity, fortitude and equanimity. You
now become easy victims of lust, anger, malice, envy and the rest of that evil
brood; the atmosphere of the heart is polluted by the ego-fumes. - Baba
Article for the day – How much data
we generate every minute
·
Email users send more than 204
million messages;
·
Mobile Web receives 217 new users;
·
Google receives over 2 million search
queries;
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YouTube users upload 48 hours of new
video;
·
Facebook users share 684,000 bits of
content;
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Twitter users send more than 100,000
tweets;
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Consumers spend $272,000 on Web
shopping;
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Apple receives around 47,000
application downloads;
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Brands receive more than 34,000
Facebook 'likes';
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Tumblr blog owners publish 27,000 new
posts;
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Instagram users share 3,600 new photos;
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Flickr users, on the other
hand, add 3,125 new photos;
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Foursquare users perform
2,000 check-ins;
·
WordPress users publish close to 350 new
blog posts.
