Channel 9 features 'Everyday Heroes'
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER | JKIESEWETTER@ENQUIRER.COM
Heroes come in all types, big and small.
That’s the message of “Pepsi Everyday Freedom Heroes,” a local TV special (9 p.m. Friday, Channel 9) profiling the “Everyday Freedom Heroes” honored in November by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The six range from a Canadian boy campaigning to end child labor and a Rochester nun helping feed the poor to Arnice Smith, a College Hill children’s librarian who holds after-school study sessions for at-risk students.
“I don’t think of myself as a hero,” says Smith, a Cincinnati native and Cheviot mother of two. “Because for me, this is what I’m supposed to be doing. This is why I am here.”
Smith started shelving books in 1982 as a part-time job at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. She has been a College Hill branch librarian since 2001.
Two years ago, she was one of 27 U.S. public librarians to receive The New York Times’ Librarian Award for outstanding community service.
The one-hour special, by local producers Jim Friedman and Addie Rosenthal, shows Smith providing dictionaries, calculators, paper and other supplies for her after-school study skills sessions.
Also profiled are Craig Kielburger, who as a 12-year-old in Toronto started “Free the Children” to stop child labor; Sister Beth LeValley, who works with Rochester poor; Azim Khamisa, a San Diego man promoting peace and forgiveness after a gang member murdered his son; Karin Rivas, from the Clearwater-based Florida Center for Survivors of Torture; and Daniel Beaty of Dayton, who performs a one-man off-Broadway show about race relations.
They were selected by the Freedom Center and Friedman’s company, which created the TV program two years ago. This year’s recipients were a departure from last year, when most of the honorees had an international impact.
“Last year we were looking at the absolute best, those who had done the incredible. This year we were looking for a balance, so people could see themselves,” he says.
All of the show’s music was composed by Cincinnatians Wes Boatman and Tom Steele. Most of the dozen people making “soap box” comments about freedom in the show are from Cincinnati.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Shakuntala Devi--Another Human Calculator
Shakuntala Devi
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Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a circus as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand. By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same.
Unlike many other calculating prodigies, for example Truman Henry Safford, her abilities did not wane in adulthood. In 1977 she extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds. Her correct answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730. This event is mentioned on page 26 of the 1995 Guinness Book of Records ISBN 0-553-56942-2.
Shakuntala Devi has written a number of books, many of them dealing with popular mathematics. She has also written a cookbook for men. She is a devout Hindu who feels a strong connection to Ganesha, whom she connects to her gifts. She is also interested in astrology and in recent years she has offered personal astrology consultations in India and the United States.
In 2006 she has released a new book called In the Wonderland of Numbers with Orient Paperbacks which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. The book is in the form of story and will excite the readers about numbers and number theory.
[edit] Some of her books
Puzzles to Puzzle You
More Puzzles to Puzzle You
Fun with Numbers
[edit] External links
Hinduism today, 1988
Hinduism today, 2000
Sunday Times (South Africa), 2002
Times of India
A book by her
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi"
Categories: 1939 births | Calculating prodigies | Indian astrologers | Astrologers | Hindu mathematicians | Living people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. Her father worked in a circus as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a human cannonball. Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three. They report she "beat" them by memorization of cards rather than by sleight of hand. By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore. At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same.
Unlike many other calculating prodigies, for example Truman Henry Safford, her abilities did not wane in adulthood. In 1977 she extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds. Her correct answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730. This event is mentioned on page 26 of the 1995 Guinness Book of Records ISBN 0-553-56942-2.
Shakuntala Devi has written a number of books, many of them dealing with popular mathematics. She has also written a cookbook for men. She is a devout Hindu who feels a strong connection to Ganesha, whom she connects to her gifts. She is also interested in astrology and in recent years she has offered personal astrology consultations in India and the United States.
In 2006 she has released a new book called In the Wonderland of Numbers with Orient Paperbacks which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. The book is in the form of story and will excite the readers about numbers and number theory.
[edit] Some of her books
Puzzles to Puzzle You
More Puzzles to Puzzle You
Fun with Numbers
[edit] External links
Hinduism today, 1988
Hinduism today, 2000
Sunday Times (South Africa), 2002
Times of India
A book by her
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi"
Categories: 1939 births | Calculating prodigies | Indian astrologers | Astrologers | Hindu mathematicians | Living people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Good Looks Vital for Good Job?
Most Taiwanese Think Good Looks Is Vital For Getting A Good Job
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07:12 AM, February 23rd 2007
by Editorial Staff
Ninety-six per cent of Taiwanese think good looks are vital for getting and holding a good job, and 35 per cent would be willing to undergo plastic surgery to improve their looks, a survey showed Friday.
According to the survey of 1,802 career people conducted by the 1111 Job Bank, 96 per cent believed that good looks could help them get a good job, hold a good job, impress clients, attract the attention of bosses and get along well with colleagues, the Apple Daily said.
Thirty-five per cent said that they were willing to undergo plastic surgery to become better looking, the paper said.
Most of the men interviewed said they wanted to look like Japanese-Taiwanese film star Takeshi Kenashiro. Most of the women interviewed hoped to look like Taiwan's top model Lin Chih-ling.
When asked what kind of plastic surgery they wanted to have, respondents mentioned removing wrinkles, liposuction, orthodontic work to align teeth, eyelid surgery to make the eyes look larger, and height enhancement.
When asked how much they were willing to spend on plastic surgery, respondents said they were willing to spend an average of 89,000 Taiwan dollars (2,700 US dollars), the survey showed.
© 2007 DPA
http://www.playfuls.com/news_09_3654-Most-Taiwanese-Think-Good-Looks-Is-Vital-For-Getting-A-Good-Job.html
Business
Previous news :: Next news
07:12 AM, February 23rd 2007
by Editorial Staff
Ninety-six per cent of Taiwanese think good looks are vital for getting and holding a good job, and 35 per cent would be willing to undergo plastic surgery to improve their looks, a survey showed Friday.
According to the survey of 1,802 career people conducted by the 1111 Job Bank, 96 per cent believed that good looks could help them get a good job, hold a good job, impress clients, attract the attention of bosses and get along well with colleagues, the Apple Daily said.
Thirty-five per cent said that they were willing to undergo plastic surgery to become better looking, the paper said.
Most of the men interviewed said they wanted to look like Japanese-Taiwanese film star Takeshi Kenashiro. Most of the women interviewed hoped to look like Taiwan's top model Lin Chih-ling.
When asked what kind of plastic surgery they wanted to have, respondents mentioned removing wrinkles, liposuction, orthodontic work to align teeth, eyelid surgery to make the eyes look larger, and height enhancement.
When asked how much they were willing to spend on plastic surgery, respondents said they were willing to spend an average of 89,000 Taiwan dollars (2,700 US dollars), the survey showed.
© 2007 DPA
http://www.playfuls.com/news_09_3654-Most-Taiwanese-Think-Good-Looks-Is-Vital-For-Getting-A-Good-Job.html
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