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Lesson Plan: Sports Photography

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Lesson Plan: Sports Photography

Note: This is our last Lesson of the Day for the 2021-22 school year.

Featured Article: “Our Favorite Sports Photos of 2021” by The New York Times

At the end of last year, The New York Times asked photographers to choose their favorite sports images they made in 2021 and explain why they liked them. They selected photos taken at skate parks and swimming pools, high school football games and Olympic trials, crowded streets and empty stadiums.

In this lesson, you’ll look closely at these stunning images and learn what makes them important and meaningful to the people behind the lens. Then, we’ll invite you to take on the role of a photojournalist and document the sports stories in your community that you think are worth sharing.

What do you think makes a good sports photograph? Before you look at any pictures, make a list of the qualities you think are essential to sports photography.

Then, look at the slide show of photos below from The New York Times and The Associated Press, taken throughout history and in the present day, and consider these questions:

  • What are some qualities you notice in these sports photos that make them compelling? Add them to your list.

  • Do any of these images challenge your ideas of what makes a good sports photograph? If so, which ones, and why?

  • Which photos stand out to you most? What do you admire about them?

Read the article, then answer the following questions:

1. What did you learn from the article about being a sports photographer? Was there anything that surprised you?

2. Which photo from the article stands out the most to you, and why?

3. How was Chang W. Lee able to capture the dramatic bird’s-eye picture of Simone Biles on the vault? What does that tell you about being a skillful sports photographer?

4. “Compelling sports photography captures the spirit of competition, and some of the best moments are found on the periphery,” Todd Heisler wrote. Do you agree? What do you think he meant by “found on the periphery”? Which images best illustrate his statement?

5. Some of these photos don’t take place during athletic events. Why do you think the photographers chose them as their favorites of the year? What do they reveal about sports and the stories photographs can tell? How do these images expand your understanding of compelling sports photography?

6. Look back at your list of the qualities you think make a strong sports photograph. Would you change anything on your list now that you’ve read the article? What else might you add?

7. Did any of the stories remind you of a sports moment you have experienced in your own life?

Now, it’s your turn: Take what you’ve learned about sports photography and become a sports photojournalist for a day (or longer!).

What are the sports stories in your community that you think are worth telling? Here are some ideas:

To learn some additional photography skills, check out this video from Mr. Heisler on how to think like a photographer (also embedded above), or this lesson in which he and two high school photography teachers share advice on how to make interesting portraits.

After the assignment, pick your favorite photo and write a paragraph about why it stands out to you, using the featured article as an example.

Additional Teaching and Learning Opportunities

  • The work of a photographer: Learn more about the life and preparation of a New York Times sports photographer by reading about how Doug Mills photographed the Olympic trials or how Sara Krulwich became the first woman to shoot on the football field during games at the University of Michigan.

  • Creative writing: Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by one of the photos you viewed in this lesson, or tell us about a memory from your own life that the image makes you think of.

  • Favorite sports photos: Take a closer look at sports photography in The Times and elsewhere, and write about the photos you found most effective. You might check out Sports Illustrated’s “100 Greatest Sports Photos of All Time” from 2015, or ESPN’s compilation of “Iconic Sports Images” from the 2010s. In The New York Times, you can look through the Sports section and “Our Best Olympics Photos.” You can also search online for a memorable photo of one of your favorite athletes and write about what the athlete and photo mean to you.

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Get Inspired By These Apps Built By & For The LGBTQ+ Community

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Get Inspired By These Apps Built By & For The LGBTQ+ Community
Get Inspired By These Apps Built By & For The LGBTQ+ Community

Learning to code does more than just help you launch an exciting new career — it gives you the tools to positively impact entire communities. And there are many LGBTQ+ developers doing just that.

In honor of Pride Month, we’ve rounded up a few awesome applications created by LGBTQ+ devs that help queer people foster new connections, celebrate the community, and stay safe. Read on and maybe even get inspired to build your own app.

The Pride App

The Pride App

As an entrepreneur, Johnathon Pritchard was always on the road traveling, but he had trouble finding LGBTQ+-owned businesses to support. What little information he came across on the internet was often inaccurate or out of date, so he came up with a solution: The Pride App.

The Pride App was primarily designed with safety in mind, as Pritchard wanted to help people avoid places where they might face discrimination. “No one should ever have to be at the threshold of a business and wonder if they’ll be targeted and mistreated for going in,” he said in a press release. “I want people to shop, travel, and entertain with pride!”

Why we love it: Want to find and support LGBTQ+-owned businesses on your next trip? Just download the app, enter your zip code, and it’ll generate a list of restaurants, hotels, and other establishments. You can read through reviews to learn about other people’s experiences with a company, or even leave one yourself.

Download The Pride App on the App Store or Google Play.

Solace

Solace app

Robbi Katherine Anthony is the CEO and founder of Euphoria, a company that makes mobile applications for the transgender community. “It’s technology that helps our users be who they are even faster,” Anthony, who is a trans woman, wrote in ATX Woman.

Solace is one of the apps that’s designed to help guide users along the process of transitioning. The app keeps track of your goals and provides medical, legal, and lifestyle tips and information, covering everything from hormone treatment and therapy to updating legal documents and building a wardrobe.

Of course, an app can only do so much. These products are intended to supplement, not replace, the guidance and education that folks can get from the trans community, Anthony said in a Verge interview. “Our thrust and our charter every day is just to help people cross this chasm that is transition,” she told Built In.

Why we love it: Along with credible information and resources, Solace also offers affirmations to support and encourage people through their transition. It’ll also keep you up to date on the latest trans news and laws in your area, and it even offers a “Child Mode” for parents and guardians of transgender children.

Download Solace on the App Store or Google Play.

Revry

Revry app

If you’ve exhausted all the queer movies and TV shows on your go-to channels and mainstream on-demand services, you might want to check out Revry, a streaming platform dedicated to all LGBTQ+ content. Revry offers TV shows, movies, podcasts, music videos, and more.

Damian Pelliccione, a film producer, founded Revry to give queer stories their own spotlight in entertainment: “I believe in creating content that genuinely speaks to and depicts queer culture as it actually is,” Pelliccione said in an interview with Nasdaq. “Every day I get up, I know I’m helping to spread this message of diversity, acceptance, and belonging to a world that needs it.”

Why we love it: Not only does Revry showcase LGBTQ+ narratives that typically aren’t seen in the media, but it also provides a global platform for LGBTQ+ artists to have their creations seen by larger audiences.

Download Revry on the App Store or Google Play.

Rally

Rally app

Whether you’re looking for a LGBTQ-friendly gym in your area or need more players on your queer rugby league, you can use Rally, a social app for the LGBTQ+ sports and fitness community, to find like-minded athletes and active people.

“These are spaces where you can meet up regularly, make friends, hang out, build community – in short, just have the best time together,” founder Duncan Campbell told Sports Media LGBT+. “I want to make sure that everyone knows these teams exist, and that they have a family out there that’s just waiting for them, outside of the social nightlife scene.”

Why we love it: Rally lets you personalize your profile with your pronouns, LGBTQ+ flag, and your favorite sports. You can also plan events so other people can sign up.

Download Rally on the App Store.

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Cool Job: I’m A Software Engineer At The Trevor Project

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Cool Job: I’m A Software Engineer At The Trevor Project
Julien Whitney: Trevor Project Software Engineer

Julien Whitney admits it was a bold move to DM a C-suite exec on LinkedIn to see if they’d hire him — but that’s exactly how he got his job as a software engineer at The Trevor Project, a crisis network for LGBTQ+ youth. “I can’t believe it worked,” Julien says. “People really do use LinkedIn!”

In 2020, Julien was working at Reddit, and heard The Trevor Project’s CEO and executive director Amit Paley speak at a company Pride event. Julien, who is trans, was surprised and intrigued to hear that an organization like The Trevor Project employed software engineers.

The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization. In addition to providing 24/7 crisis intervention services via phone, text, and chat, the organization has a LGBTQ+-affirming social networking platform called TrevorSpace. Julien works on the digital platform that trained counselors use when they’re answering lifeline calls, web chat messages, or texts from youth who are going through a crisis.

Being able to contribute his coding skills to a product that helps LGBTQ+ youth in times of need is rewarding, Julien says. “My motivation to do my work is because I am helping people,” he says. “The harder I work, the better it is for us out there.”

Here’s how Julien landed his job as a software engineer at The Trevor Project, and his advice for LGBTQ+ people who are searching for jobs that provide meaning.

What got me interested in the job

“I did a combined electrical and computer major for a few years at Northeastern University in Boston, where they allow us to do 6-month internships. Technically, I took classes in college where we learned C++, but they were intro classes where you just, like, learn what for-loops are.

At one of my internships, my boss was like: ‘I really need help sorting through emails. I want you to research five different programming languages, figure out which one would be best for this use case, and then write this program to help me.’ I literally just used the next seven weeks to learn Python; and from then on, I was like, Python’s my language.

I got hired at Reddit before I even graduated. I loved my time there because it’s a fun tech company that has the benefit of being around for many years, but still has a startup culture. I was on a safety team that specifically was there to put in features to help our users. For example, I worked on a project where someone could report a post for mental health reasons.

When I was at Reddit, I was getting miserable — half of it was Covid isolation, and half of it was that the 2020 election was coming up. I was even thinking of switching careers because I didn’t think that I could be an engineer and do something positive for society. I thought maybe I’ll just go to grad school or get any sort of job at a nonprofit.

In 2020, Reddit’s CFO at the time had Amit Paley, [Trevor Project] CEO, come in and do a talk for Pride. He mentioned how Trevor has been working in tech and they have this whole partnership with Google, with all these software engineers. I was like, Interesting. I didn’t know that you could be an engineer at the Trevor Project.”

How I got in the door

“After the talk, I just kind of did a little LinkedIn DM slide. I messaged the CEO and was like, ‘Hey, thanks so much for speaking with us. I loved your talk. If you’re ever hiring software engineers, let me know.’ When I was sending that DM, I was like: What’s the worst-case scenario? He blocks me or he doesn’t read the message.

I got a message from a recruiter 10 minutes later. If they see your message and they’re hiring, then it’s beneficial for them too, because companies want to hire good people. The interview process did take a few months, but I left Reddit in September of 2020.”

What I actually do every day

“As an engineer, I don’t have many meetings except for the stand-up, which is where I share the tickets that I’m working on, what I did yesterday, and what I’m doing today.

With engineering products, you use ‘sprints’ or 2-week intervals to get tasks done. All my other meetings are sprint planning meetings, where we discuss what we’re going to work on for the next two weeks. And then a retrospective, where you go: What went wrong this week?

I usually have a task to work on, so then I’m coding, coding, coding.

If the other engineers and I are stuck on something, sometimes we meet and we call it ‘gaggling.’ It’s where two, three, or four of us hop in a meeting and we pair program. Those always end up so productive, because you’re not getting hung up on things, and you’re all there so you’re fully focused. Someone gives you a good idea, so then you’re extra motivated after you’re done gaggling. And it’s also nice because we’re all remote, so you’re spending time with people in that way.”

Here’s what you need to get started

For Julien, having a job that provides meaning in his life has made all the difference. “Although it’s tempting with all the recruiter emails to go work as a software engineer at FAANG or the big companies that pay a lot, the drive and passion you have for your work exists when you work for a company where you agree with their morals and their passions,” he says.

The reality is that nonprofits may not pay as well as for-profit companies do. “Some people can’t afford to take a pay cut,” Julien says. If you have extra time, consider volunteering your skills as a developer as a way to “do something that is fulfilling in the field that you want to be in,” he says. Perhaps there’s an organization you care about that needs help building a website, for example. You can also use volunteer projects in a professional portfolio that could help you get a job down the line.

If you’re interested in getting hired in a technical role at a nonprofit, it’s a good idea to keep tabs on the organization’s own job board or website for news about openings, Julien says. Job sites like LinkedIn or Indeed that cull listings from all over may not rank a nonprofit as high in your search results for software engineer positions as they would a mainstream tech company, he says.

Julien’s job-search advice for members of the LGBTQ+ community is to find a place that embraces your identity. “Just because you’re not facing homophobia at work doesn’t mean that you’re comfortable there,” he says. “People should strive to find a place where they’re not just comfortable, but love being themselves at work.”

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Student Contest Winner: Hidden Child, Hidden Identity

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Student Contest Winner: Hidden Child, Hidden Identity

What happened during the war?

The Germans gave us 24 hours to clear out of our home with what we could carry. We were taken in by the Tuma farmer family. Being considered Jewish, I wasn’t allowed to attend school. My mother worked in the fields. My great-grandfather fed the animals wearing his only clothing, a three-piece suit. Jews were required to wear the Star of David. I became best friends with my great-grandfather, but in April 1942 I found him standing with a suitcase. He said “I’m just going on a short vacation.” We took him to the train station and never saw him again. He was taken to Terezin and later murdered at Treblinka [both concentration camps]. I was hidden for the last year and a half of the war, after my mother was taken away to a slave labor camp. The Tumas, Ms. Tuma particularly, hid me when the Nazis came looking for me.

Please tell me about Ms. Tuma.

She was Catholic. She was my savior. I have a painting of her in a native dress. I look at it and thank her every day.

What happened after the war?

My mother returned to the farm, and two days later my father rode in on a motorcycle wearing his British Army uniform. It was the happiest day of my life. The saddest part is we were the only survivors. We lost 25 family members. We moved back to Prague, and in January 1948 the Communists took over and named my parents enemies of the state. In February 1948 my father paid people to smuggle us out. A farmer took us to the edge of a forest and said, “Start walking, and if they don’t shoot you first, you’ll be in the U.S. zone of Germany.” After 15 months in refugee camps, we got visas for the U.S.

What was life like in New Jersey?

I spoke two “words” of English — “sank you.” My father gave some edicts: “I want you to become completely Americanized; I want you to forget everything that happened on the other side of the Atlantic; within 12 months, I want you to speak English without an accent.” I fell in love with basketball, and got a scholarship to Oklahoma State.

How has being a childhood survivor shaped your adult life?

War shaped my life in lots of ways. I became more pessimistic. I worry. As much as I’ve lightened up, I always see the worst. I still don’t know a lot about the Jewish religion, but I probably admire Jews more than any other group for what they’ve done in science, humanities, all of these things. If I watch a ballgame on TV and see a Jewish name, I’m immediately rooting for that person. I feel like I have a Jewish soul. That’s probably the biggest thing that’s happened as a result of what I’ve experienced in life.

Student Contest Winner: Told He Had Six Months to Live, He Opened an Art Exhibit

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Student Contest Winner: Told He Had Six Months to Live, He Opened an Art Exhibit

This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Nathan Ko, the author, is 17 and goes to the The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn.

By Nathan Ko

In 2019, the South Korean photographer Kim Gyoo-sik was recognized as an artist of the year by the Korean company KT&G. He modestly describes his popularity prior to this recognition as a “small group of committed fans.”

During his rising fame, doctors diagnosed him with late-stage gastric cancer. After they told him he had six months to live, he claimed his life insurance policy and set out to live the rest of his life to the fullest. He opened his art exhibit in 2021 not only to explore abstract images through photography but also to find meaning during a time of hardship.

The following interview has been translated from Korean and edited for clarity.

Credit…Nathan Ko

Tell me about yourself.

I’m a photographer who uses gelatin silver print, basically black-and-white photography. Most contemporary artists no longer use this medium.

The complicated, slow and restricted process of black-and-white photography is inconvenient. I was curious about the contemporary changes occurring in the photo production process. Thus, in my latest series, I focused on each production stage, highlighting the role of black-and-white photography in contemporary art. My work is considered relatively unconventional, which has allowed me to receive positive attention.

At the highest point of your career, you were diagnosed with cancer. Your suffering worsened due to the pandemic. I can only imagine the range of emotions you felt.

When I was given six months to live, I was miserable. I’ve had many fevers during my battle with cancer. At the beginning of the pandemic, concerns about Covid-19 symptoms, such as fevers, meant that I missed out on chances for desperately needed treatment.

I initially thought that preparing for my solo exhibition would be more fruitful than continuing chemotherapy, as the treatment felt painful and insufficient. Then, a friend of mine who is a surgeon convinced me to undergo surgery that many hospitals didn’t endorse at that time. The operation was incredible, and at the end of the seven-hour procedure, all of the doctors in the room applauded. Thanks to the surgery, I’m still here.

Living in the face of death, what makes you keep going, and what does life mean to you?

People often say, “If I didn’t have much time left to live, what would I do?” Yet this was my reality. An artist never knows what a comfortable life means. I thought working through the last days of my life might not be a comfortable end to life, but it would have a happy, meaningful ending.

Ultimately, I thought that I had to finish the work I had originally planned to reach a state of fulfillment. After my solo exhibition, I essentially lived in my bed due to side effects from treatment. Yet at the same time, I’m thinking of ideas for my next project. Our desires are endless!

Additionally, life is too short to waste. I spend more time with my wife now, as what I can leave behind for my loved ones are memories.

What surprises you in your work?

That an object or a world in your head can become realized in a photo. That process of real and accurate representation always fascinates me and gives me a feeling of sheer excitement.

Any other lessons you can pass on?

During my battle with cancer, I had the realization that life is finite and that there are infinite ways we could die. The meaning of the words infinite and finite is hard to grasp in everyday life. It is important not to be influenced by what other people say. Choose your finite way to live a good life.

Student Contest Winner: Fighting Against the Wind

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Student Contest Winner: Fighting Against the Wind

This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Yueyang Ge, the author, is 16 and goes to UWC South East Asia, Dover Campus, in Singapore.

By Yueyang Ge

Ynnel Villarias left her hometown the day her youngest daughter turned 6.

“I had to explain to her, again and again, that this is for her future. Our future. Mama is leaving to earn money so we can pay for college and build our own little house,” she said. “In front of the house, we will plant so many orchids. As many as we like.”

Seven years later, Ms. Villarias would recall this dream, which she painted for her three daughters as much as for herself. She would remember the night she landed in Singapore and became a migrant domestic worker. Recollect squeezing out every last bit of toothpaste and scrimping for seven years. The remittances she sent. The pictures of her dream house materializing brick by brick.

Ms. Villarias recalled all of this when Typhoon Rai hit her hometown in the Philippines and swept everything away. This interview has been edited and condensed.

What was your initial reaction when you heard about the typhoon situation in your hometown?

Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 16, I got an SMS message from my eldest daughter: “Mama, the typhoon hit our town. We are leaving to take refuge in our uncle’s house.”

Immediately I was struck with flashbacks of the night I first experienced a Category 3 typhoon. My younger sister and I were walking to my aunt’s house for shelter when a tall mango tree crashed to the ground right behind us — less than five steps away. I felt the water splat on my back. We could have died.

I was only 13 back then. So is my youngest daughter. What if the same thing happens to her? To my other two daughters? Would they be quick enough to evade a falling tree, when electricity is out and their surroundings are pitch-dark?

But no one could tell me what happened. For the next 48 hours, signals were completely cut off.

What emotional challenges did you encounter when you lost contact with your family?

I never felt more anxious. At night I stayed awake and prayed, God, please protect us. Every time I turned on my phone, I said to myself, “Maybe this time.” Maybe, just for once, one of my daughters would be online. “Please, let me talk to them.” But no. Nothing for 48 hours.

How did you cope?

I knew I needed to keep working — to fight. While I remained stuck in Singapore due to Covid, it was the only thing I could do for my family. It’s difficult for me as a mother because when my children needed me the most, I was taking care of others’ children. I was preparing breakfast for my employer’s children, cleaning their bedrooms and sending them to school …

My friends (also migrant domestic workers in Singapore) helped me cope with my anxiety as well. Every now and then, they messaged me and asked, “Are you OK?” I always replied, “Yes, I’m OK. Still fighting.” One of my friends said to me, “You take it positive. You fight. I am here as your sister to help you.”

How has this typhoon affected your family and other people in your town?

When my eldest daughter woke up on Dec. 18, she saw that every house in our town had been flattened to the ground. Fishing boats were wrecked into pieces, and everywhere lay corpses of pigs and cows — the livelihood of my town got destroyed. Nothing was left of my house. My sister’s small shop was gone. But I really thank God that everyone in my family is safe. The house can be rebuilt, but if my loved ones were gone, they would never come back again. I felt lost because it was a lot of money I spent on building the house, but I can start again.

What’s next for you? Any lessons to pass on?

I will keep working in Singapore until all my daughters enter college and until our house is rebuilt. All trials in life are like a typhoon — a violent storm which uproots all that you have. But you never let the wind destroy you. You fight and fight against it until you become strong. I am still fighting.

Student Contest Winner: Street Market Sweets

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Student Contest Winner: Street Market Sweets

This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Gauri Gupta, the author, is 14 and goes to the The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India.

By Gauri Gupta

In March 2020, India experienced the first wave of Covid-19 and went into a complete national lockdown. This made the news worldwide, because of the particular challenges faced by poorer Indians, many of whom had to travel hundreds of miles back to their villages from the cities. It was a highly controversial policy, partly because it, in fact, facilitated the spread of the virus through rural India, and partly because it exposed the vulnerable employment and living conditions of a large swath of the Indian population. These images of chaos and human suffering were seen around the world. What was not reported was the suffering of those left behind in the cities.

Vasudev Govind sells imartis in Chandni Chowk, a busy street market in the Indian capital, New Delhi. An imarti is a Rajasthani dessert of Persian origin that is enjoyed as a popular and ubiquitous street food.

In March 2020, he saw his customers fall to zero. A street once known for its constant buzz and chaos was now silent and empty. Mr. Govind has a family of five children to support. For five months he had no income.

On a recent visit, I went to Chandni Chowk an unhealthy number of times with my camera in hand. With luck, I had the chance to speak to the maker of my favorite imartis. The following are excerpts from conversations with Mr. Govind, translated from Hindi and edited for clarity.

Your imartis are delicious. Have you always been an imarti maker? How did you learn?

Thank you. Well, as you know, most of the shops in Chandni Chowk are ancestral, meaning my great-grandfather used to be an imarti seller, my father and now me! We have been following the same recipe for hundreds of years. This is what makes it so special. So, we live right above the shop, and, every day since I was a kid, I would spend all my time at the shop. I would do my homework in the kitchen, between washing pans and feeding the fire in the stove. All of my childhood memories are in this imarti stall.

When did you first hear about Covid? How did you feel when the lockdown was announced?

Oh, God, I remember the exact moment! Here at Chandni Chowk, people used to mingle and talk to each other, but suddenly everything stopped. In one morning, most of my neighbors just disappeared. They didn’t even have time to say goodbye. It was like the feeling before a war.

Perplexed by the sudden change, I asked the chai wallah [tea seller] what was happening. He told me about a virus and, well, the rest is history, I guess. How did I feel? I felt scared, but not so much from the virus. I’m an old man, and I have faith in God. But I saw my business disappear. That was truly scary. I have children to support, and I don’t know how to do anything else except make imartis. Losing it all is scary because this is life (he spread his hands), and we do not know anything outside it.

What was it like in your household during lockdown?

The reality of lockdown was overwhelming at first, all of us being stuck together in one room. I have a family of seven (laughter). A week into lockdown, life as we knew it had stopped and we could not cope. Everyone was stressed. We all kept snapping at each other. We all had our own private worries. There were times when I had to open my shop up just so I could feed my family.

One good thing happened, though. Throughout history, only the men in my family have made imartis and run the shop. I had the idea to teach my daughters the family trade. They loved it, and it gave us all a feeling of purpose.

What are your hopes for the future?

Businesswise, things are slowly returning back to normal. It is funny because it took less than a day for everything to get destroyed, but it’s taking more than five or six months for everything to become even remotely normal. The buzz at Chandni Chowk is slowly returning, and it is nice to see that! Once tourists are back, it will be even better, I suppose!

Student Contest Winner: Halal Noodles in Shanghai

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Student Contest Winner: Halal Noodles in Shanghai

This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Stephanie Chen, the author, is 16 and goes to Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus, in Shanghai.

By Stephanie Chen

It’s lunchtime on Sunday. Sifang Beef Noodles, a little store tucked away in a gentrified corner of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, is full of hungry customers. Opened as a halal noodle store by an Indigenous Hui family, Sifang Beef Noodles has become a neighborhood staple.

Haronnae Wang, the owner, sits behind the counter, taking in the crowd. Now 40, he’s been running noodle stores in Shanghai for 19 years. His 6-year-old son plays video games next to him, and his wife and brothers work the kitchen in the back. They all migrated together, leaving the Hui Autonomous Region in Qinghai Province to earn money in the city. Whenever Mr. Wang sees a fellow Hui person walk into the store, his eyes light up with excitement. His Hui customers are happy to be there, too, saying, “It’s hard to find halal food in Shanghai, and this tastes like home.”

The following are excerpts from conversations with Mr. Wang, translated from Mandarin and edited for clarity.

Credit…Stephanie Chen

How did you end up opening a restaurant in Shanghai?

My community back in Qinghai was largely agrarian. Everyone I knew farmed for a living, and I thought I was going to be a farmer, too. But then, by the time I was 17, 18, people started moving away. Everyone wants a better life, and there are just no opportunities in Qinghai. I had a friend who was already in Shanghai at that time. He helped me and my family move.

I opened a noodle shop the first year I came, and I’ve switched locations a couple of times, but I’ve never changed my business. I think most of the Hui people who come here run some sort of small business.

Is there a reason running a small business is such a popular option for Hui migrants?

I wouldn’t really call it an option, actually, because we don’t have many other choices. Few of us have much formal education, so white-collar work is out of the picture. It’s also hard for us to compete with local people for factory jobs, since we don’t have a hukou [A hukou is a registration system in China identifying a person’s “permanent residence.” For migrants like Mr. Wang, applying for a Shanghai hukou is often an impossibly difficult process. He, like many other migrants, still holds the hukou from his childhood home.]

But I also like running a noodle shop. It’s manageable, and it’s easier for our entire family. We can bring the kids to work. Our profits took a hit with the pandemic, but we’re still able to send money home each year.

So Qinghai is still home to you?

Qinghai will always be home for me. My parents still live there, and when my son grows older we’ll send him back for school. Without a hukou, he can’t receive a public education here, we can’t buy a house here and we can’t retire here. Qinghai is still home, no matter what. We try to go back every year, too, for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

The vast majority of people living in Shanghai are atheist Han people. What is it like living as a Muslim here?

When I wear the taqiyah or my wife wears a hijab outside, we get stares sometimes. I don’t think it’s too noticeable, but it’s quite common. I would say people aren’t bigoted or judgmental as much as they are curious, however. Most Han people I’ve met know little about the Muslim religion or Hui culture. But no one has ever been directly malicious because of my religion.

I do think there’s a tight-knit Hui community in Shanghai, though. Even if I’ve never met them before, when a Hui person comes into my restaurant, they’ll use the Arabic greeting, “as-salaam-alaikum.” It means “peace be upon you.” When someone says that, I know that they are Hui as well, and I immediately feel like I’ve met a close friend. There’s a saying that goes “All Hui people under the sky are brothers.” We are an Indigenous minority group in a big country of over a billion people. Especially in a metropolis like Shanghai, every single Hui person is family.

Trending online courses in business, tech, and education

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With more world-class content launching every week, there are always new topics to explore, new skills to learn, and new ways to achieve your goals. These latest courses, Specializations, and Professional Certificate programs cover everything from strategic leadership to learning habits. What will you learn next?

Business

Graduate Certificate in Accounting Data Analytics by the University of Illinois

Develop the job-ready skills to solve accounting and business challenges under the leadership of the top accounting faculty in the United States*. This advanced certificate stacks directly into the full iMSA, iMBA, and iMSM from the University of Illinois.

*According to BYU Accounting Faculty Research Rankings. The accounting program at the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business is consistently ranked among the top two in the United States by US News & World Report. 

Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making Specialization by Dartmouth

Through four courses from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, you will learn the common mistakes that even smart executives make, the neuroscience behind effective decision making, methods of managing and supporting the people around you, and how to bring together all these lessons to be the best possible leader, and person, at work and at home.

Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership and Management by the University of Illinois

Build the skills to become an exceptional leader and manager in MBA-level courses taught by expert faculty—all from the top-ranked business school at the University of Illinois. This advanced certificate stacks directly into the full iMSA, iMBA, or iMSM, making it a building block for you to earn a degree and learn job-relevant skills.

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With DevOps professionals in high demand, you can grow your knowledge of key concepts and gain the technical skills needed for an entry-level role in software engineering. Learning from IBM experts in this program, you’ll come to understand DevOps philosophies and methodologies like Agile Development, Scrum Methodology, Cloud Native Architecture, Behavior and Test-Driven Development, and Zero Downtime Deployments. 

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Are you ready for an entry-level role in mainframe programming? Analyze the real-world mainframe environment, review mainframe assets and data, and create and present a software development plan in this Professional Certificate program from IBM. You’ll build the confidence and the portfolio to begin a career as a mainframe programmer. No programming experience or college education is required.

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Como gerente en el mundo de los negocios, usted tiene el potencial de ser blanco de ataques cibernéticos debido a su acceso a información confidencial, cuentas o transacciones financieras. Inscríbase en este curso para conocer los riesgos de la era digital y cómo las personas u organizaciones pueden evitar incidentes de seguridad (o minimizar sus consecuencias).

English translation: As a manager in the business world, you have the potential to be targeted by cyberattacks because of your access to confidential information, accounts, or financial transactions. Enroll In this course to learn about the risks of the digital age and how people or organizations can avoid security incidents and minimize their consequences.

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Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2, Building Community and Habits of Learning by Deep Teaching Solutions

By enrolling in this unique course for educators, you’ll discover how to get the best from all your students in today’s diverse teaching environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities. You’ll learn how to use rewards to motivate your students, how to avoid educational fads, and how neurodiversity has hidden strengths.

Whether you’re at the beginning of your career journey or looking to enhance your skillset to make a mid-career transition, you’ll find ample opportunities to gain new knowledge across these new offerings. Depending on your life and career goals, you can choose from a range of learning experiences to find the courses and programs that are right for you. 

Euler 250 years later

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Euler 250 years later

Science tries in-depth to explain the phenomena that occur on our planet. Many times, it takes years to master certain concepts, and this is the case in the study of the behavior of fluids.

 

If we talk about fluids, we can say that they have 8 specific properties:

 

– Fluid properties

– Density (ρ)

– Specific volume (Vs)

– Specific gravity (γ)

– Specific Gravity (d)

– Viscosity

– Compressibility

– Surface tension

 

But what happens when a singularity appears?

 

This same question has been unanswered for more than 250 years. And that is why science and technology work hard to answer this enigma.

 

For more than 250 years, the Euler equation has been one of the most popular for predicting the behavior of fluids. Still, it is no less true that the various singularities that can affect them make them unpredictable.

 

 

 

 

 Euler’s Equation of Motion | Fluid Mechanics

 

Mathematicians from all over the world are working on their theories to improve this equation in the presence of a singularity, without having positive results now. Currently, computers oversee this task, of course having great men of science behind them.

 

Two current trends

 

Currently, prominent mathematicians seek to prove their theories on this subject.

 

Hou and Luo

 

In 2013, a couple of mathematicians proposed that the dynamics of a full three-dimensional fluid flow can get incredibly complicated, Thomas Hou, a mathematician at the California Institute of Technology, and Guo Luo, now at Hang Seng University in Hong Kong, considered flows that obey a certain symmetry.

 

Hou and Luo’s approximate solution for a singularity has withstood all tests so far and has inspired a great deal of related work.

 

 

 

 

Now, another group has joined the investigation.

 

Buckmaster’s group.

 

 

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster arrives on the scene almost by accident, he was studying the dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet and trying to infer the viscosity of the ice and predict its future flow, he based his approach on neural network physics. Unlike traditional neural networks, which are trained on a large amount of data to make predictions, a “physics-informed neural network” or PINN must also satisfy underlying physical constraints. These can include laws of motion, conservation of energy, thermodynamics, and whatever scientists need to code for the problem they’re trying to solve.

 

 

NASA Earth Observatory

 

Both groups compete to seek to complete 250 years of research.

 

And who was Euler?

 

Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) made discoveries in various fields, including geometry, infinitesimal calculus, trigonometry, algebra, number theory, continuum physics, lunar theory, and graph theory, to name a few.

 

If you want to know more about the Euler model and the research that precedes it, we leave you with more information:

Thomas Hou

Guo Luo

Tristan Buckmaster

Theory Bites: Euler Equations (Fluid Mechanics)

Fluid Mechanics 9.2 – Euler’s Equation of Motion

Fluid Equations

Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

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