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| Source: Molecular Machines Gallery |
Scientists using a novel printing method have managed to make a color image whose resolution approaches the maximum theoretical limit. The Singapore team published their work in Nature Nanotechnology earlier this week.
Wired breaks down the science pretty well: the team created pixels using “nanoscale posts, with silver and gold nanodiscs on top.” How far apart these posts are, as well as their diameter, determines what color light they reflect. The pillars are all of a nanometer tall. The image’s resolution, in the end, is 100,000 DPI (dots per inch).
The last curious element of this story is the image the scientists chose to reproduce: an image of Lena Soderberg, a Swedish model who posed in 1972 for Playboy. This image (from the neck up, mind you) is actually canonical in computer imaging circles. It all started in 1973, when an imaging scientist at USC was looking for good image to scan for a conference paper. Reported Jamie Hutchinson in 2001: “They had tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.”
From that point on, use of the Lena picture in imaging circles grew, until it simply became standard.
[Charitable] Public Service Announcement
Please date nerds: for the ones that are single, they obviously don't get out of the lab much!
You have until Friday to find/rescue one...
Technology Review: A Playboy Model and Nanoscale Printing
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| Robot ready: Robots made by Kiva Systems move product shelves on a warehouse floor. Amazon bought the company earlier this year in a step toward automating its distribution system and reducing labor costs. |
Technology Review: In Automate This, a book due out next month, author and entrepreneur Christopher Steiner tells the story of stockbroker Thomas Peterffy, the creator of the first automated Wall Street trading system. Using a computer to execute trades, without humans entering them manually on a keyboard, was controversial in 1987—so controversial that Nasdaq pressured him to unplug from its network. Then, with a wink, Peterffy built an automated machine that could tap out the trades on a traditional keyboard—technically obeying Nasdaq rules. Peterffy made $25 million in 1987 and is now a billionaire.
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Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of the Union
In the last twenty years an industrial revolution has been taking place in the United States at a pace faster than that of any country in the world, transforming social layers of this country on a scale never before dreamed of. So fast has this industrial revolution been developing that 60 percent of the jobs held by the working population today did not even exist during the First World War, while 70 percent of the jobs that existed in this country in 1900 don't exist today. Not only have work classifications been fundamentally altered, but the work force has multiplied from 20 million in 1900 to 40 million in 1944 to 68 million today. The change is not only in numbers. Over 20 million of those working today are women, and by 1970 it is expected that women workers will have increased to 30,000,000—a work force of women which will be one-and-a-half times the entire work force of 1900.
The United States has transformed itself so rapidly from an agricultural country to an industrial country, and as an industrial country has undergone such rapid industrial revolutions that the question of who is in what class becomes an ever-wider and more complicated question. Today's member of the middle class is the son or daughter of yesterday's worker.
History is a Weapon:
The American Revolution - Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook
Technology Review: Automate or Perish
#P4TC: Rosie Took Your Job
Why did I vote for President Barack Hussein Obama II? It wasn’t because he knew how to read well and sounded eloquent on the stage, though this was a very proud change from the last eight years. It wasn’t because he had written two books, though this too was something to be proud of, his words in Audacity of Hope truly resonated with me. I didn’t vote for him because of his ethnicity, or how he was perceived by the Pop-Life crowd. I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because I read his platform, and found it to be in common with his book, and his words, which were … well, truly very eloquent.
However, as an aspiring critical thinker I follow no party or ideology without reservation. My vote must be earned, again, and again, and again. For every vote I consider the past actions of the candidate and what the candidate intends for myself, my family, my community, my state, my nation, and yes the world.
Over the course of Barack Obama’s Presidency I have been truly astounded by what he has been able to achieve, despite the abject obstruction of today’s GOP, which actively wages a social war on America, shameless and arrogant in their position and perspective. I am proud of this President and his record. This book is at times raw and unvarnished, a personal perspective and journey. It is also a legacy for my family, a commemoration of my trip to President Obama’s Inauguration.
However, it also serves as a clear and concise explanation of why I, an everyday common American who aspires daily to be better than he was before, voted for this President, and why now, at this moment in 2012, President Barack Hussein Obama II continues to earn my vote without equivocation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
President John F. Kennedy
I was a year and almost a month old when these words were spoken. They stir emotion, excitement and vision; hope and direction. As I read them for this post, I wept quietly.
"...not because they are easy, but because they are hard..."
It was not advanced robotics and transistorized super computers that allowed Mercury, Gemini and Apollo: it was grit, sweat, and knowledge of how to compute with a slide rule. It was during a time of social upheaval, physical and brutal de facto segregation and the struggle for Civil Rights. It was during an era a short-lived cancelled show - Star Trek - which later became a cult phenomenon in that we might actually survive the dark corollary of the Drake Equation. It was before our politicians became more concerned with job security than problem-solving; speaking-to-the-base in soundbite talking points versus reaching consensus. It was before a cottage industry of standardized testing gave us fifty inane yardsticks without a national standard but a nebulous goal birthed of sloganeering: No Child Left Behind (or, No Child's Behind Left).
It was before our answers had "Google" in the lexicon; post "Sputnik moment" of fear turned inspiration, when we plunged head long with only one driving directive:
"First star on the right, and straight on until morning!" Peter Pan
Site: Mars-One.com
NASA: JFK Rice Moon Speech
Guardian: America Remembers the Moon Landing
I guess one can only draw from what one has seen to project into the future. With me it was art history. They tried to teach that the Greeks were the main thrust of civilization. Then a remedial English class, the subject, "the utopian novel." These were the two threads, a material culture exemplified by architecture, then how a society was meshed with it. We are conned to think these strains are evolving. Society has improved, fell back, improved, sided off, come back, not changed. Architecture has changed with the glaciers, very slow. Then, we all are stuck with structures (the ones we live in) till we die. Corporate buildings may look like spaceships but the humble home looks like Paul Revere lives here. We are lost in home recycling, flipping, rehab, remodel, retro and don't let me go off on building codes. Incremental advancement by adding on to lingering presidents. Architecture to glorify what has become of the Greek strain. Not me? Huh! What kind of columns hold up your porch? Probably the same as the ones holding up the courthouse, hmmmmmmm!
Reality smacks hard, how many Black Architects can you think of? What of the buildings they built? Do they show off the ingenuity of a Black civilization or are they an add on to the Greek matrix? Paul Williams was the Hollywood man in the 30's - 50's, he was very, very advanced. I myself met the Madison brothers, Julian and Robert, in the Ohio area. They are heroes to me.
Back to the future, the humble implements of a material culture for us is summed up in the stuff we own as we move from place to place. I have moved many times. Even when I bought a home the thought was this is temporary, not really mine. I did not design this or build this. You see I lived also in the home my grandparents built. They had this way of ignoring the shortcomings of what they had done. They knew all the corners and the squeaks and quirks. It suited them. My life there was fix and repair and finally the bulldozer. The developers fixed up the old hood. It looks like any suburb in Ohio......same old.
If a fancy custom home is built it is an anomaly, but what if that were the standard and the whole neighbourhood was that way. Who would be bold enough, (probably wealthy enough), to forsake the past to embrace the future in reality, a material culture. First one on your block to buy a greenish car, good luck! You oddball whacko bag recycling ingredient reader. Hey fool compost this!! This is changing.
As I said before, towers of glass and steel pale to the potential of the steel shanty towns. Because it is a peoples architecture on a human scale, it's honest. Add to this the quonset barns and cargo containers. Who doesn't want to turn a rustic barn into a home or is not awed by the space within an aircraft hanger. Our first words are usually is it safe in a storm, does the wind seep through? We see the container's insides and go hummm, I wonder.
So in the spirit of the utopian novel, what if we give up the gabled roof, wood constructs and reminders of a romantic past for adventure of a new material culture? Not so much mix of old and new? What kind of people will we become if we embrace the future?
I see the picture of a modular home factory (lots of wood working tools), building a standard wood house. Flip to the modern car factory with robot welders, imagine them building modular home units instead of cars. What an industry and the variety of options available all ready to be welded onto the frame in factory or on site. Deco skins, thermo skins, solar skins, stiff and flexible, neutral and colored and panels able to take a bullet or a sonic blast. Strong as steel yet supple as tissue. What about decor, folks still need rest, whither sleep or stasis, standing or planking. You turn on your GPS to set your destination and your neural-net displacement generator (the geeko zombi unit, $19.95) puts your mind to rest, yet your feet walks or jogs till you get there. Talk about sleep walking! No need to ask how I got here, also great for sleep learning.....! Protection, the matrix app will have you master martial arts while in the zombi state. The jump suit has detachable sleeves, trouser leggings and hoodie, has full kevlar micro-mesh and sonics to keep away predators. If the zombi state persists beyond the units up time, you are having a near death experience, see your doctor immediately.
The future, you write but also it is foretelling of a possible material culture. This is the stuff of sci-fi. Madame Walker invented the straightener and then the wave maker, that's a metaphor...makes your hair stand on end, lol.......
MAS Media Studios is an independent publisher established back in 2007 by three guys who wanted to bring something to the comic book world that was more than just super heroes in tights. A few years back we were able to print a small run of a graphic novel entitled Street Journal. The book sold well so we decided to reprint the novel with a larger print run and a new dynamic cover. To do so, however, we need your help.
What We Need & What You Gethttp://masmediastudios.com/
We are looking to put together $1000 and we are almost at our mark! This will cover printing costs, paying an artist for a shnazzy cover and a promotional budget to be able to raise awareness of the project.
As a contributor, you will receive great perks that include original artwork, unique laminated prints, sketch cards, and if that's not enough, we are also throwing in the limited edition first prints of the graphic novel signed by the crew!
The Impact
Street Journal is unlike any other comic book in that it gives a real portrayal of one young man's push to build a new life for his two year old daughter. Each person has an obstacle to over come, Tyreke Miles becomes that literal living testament and for many, we believe a symbol of hope. Through your contributions, our goal is to print and release this book so that young indivuduals can be inspired to find their own purpose inspite of their environment and push on. Plus, it's a fun read.
Other Ways You Can Help
Now, we do undesrtand that some people may not be able to contribute at this point in time, but that doesn't mean that you can't help.
Help us spread the word by either word of mouth or directing people to this link. You can also follow us on twitter @MASMediaStudios and @tyreke_miles and friend us @ our website-http://masmediastudios.com/ or on facebook @https://www.facebook.com/masmediastudios
Thank you for your support and contributions! Read MAS! |
| Boeing |
We now have a much clearer idea of how American astronauts will get into orbit in the coming years.
Nasa has selected three companies to help develop launch systems that can take people to the space station.
They include the SpaceX firm, which recently sent an unmanned cargo capsule to the 400km-high outpost.
But agreements have also been signed with aerospace giant Boeing and the Sierra Nevada Corporation. The latter has a design for a mini-shuttle.
BBC News: NASA announces space shuttle replacement shortlist
Hello everyone,
I pray all is well. After three long years, many late nights, and many hours of hard work, it is a blessing to announce that my first comic, Lightweightz: The Anthology Part One is now available for purchase! It's a 35-page pdf, and it's only $2! You can learn more about the comic and purchase it by checking out the links below. Soon I will be sending a follow-up e-mail with a trailer for the comic as well as a press-release in case you want to post it on your blogs/websites, and know of any individuals and websites to send it to.
Purchase from my website: http://www.rsquaredcomicz.com/store/
Purchase from Drive Thru Comics: http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product/104129/Lightweightz%3A-The-Anthology-Part-One
What people are saying so far...
Want to know what people who have purchased the comic are saying about it? Then check out the link below:
What I'm aiming for...
Initially my primary goal was to just see the project through to completion, and I didn't care too much about how many copies I sold. I figured that since there are many comics out there for people to choose from, and given that this is my first release, it's best to keep my expectations very modest. While I'm not in this to make money, I've recently had a change of heart. It is only through the God's grace that this comic came to be, so there's nothing wrong with trusting in that same grace for the comic to do well. So I'm looking to sell anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 copies at the minimum. If I only sold one copy I would be good (although thank God for me already surpassing that goal, lol!), but why not step out on faith?
Where you come in...
There are many ways you can help support me in this goal, and support what I'm doing in general. If you did one of these I would extremely grateful. If you did more than one, then I would be even more grateful than that, lol:
(1) Pray for me/keep me in your thoughts.
(2) Purchase the comic.
(3) Let others know about the comic and what I'm doing through sharing links to my website (www.rsquaredcomicz.com) and Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/RSquaredComicz) within your networks.
If you want to know more about the idea behind R-Squared Comicz and Lightweightz...
Here are a few resources to learn more, including two interviews I was fortunate enough to be asked to do:
About me: http://www.rsquaredcomicz.com/about-2/about-me/ (and before you say something I know, I need a new picture, lol)
Interview #1: http://www.examiner.com/article/r-squared-comicz-justin-martin-creates-spiritually-themed-comics-with-soul
...and that brings me to the end...
That's all I have for now, and thanks for taking the time to read through this e-mail. Until the next update, take care, and have a blessed one!
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
Sci-Fi is Dead...
Simply put, if there is an absence of Afro-Futuristic thought in Sci-Fi, then Sci-Fi cannot reproduce life...only duplicates. In fact, although Sci-Fi is alive itself, it cannot produce anything that is a duplicate of a structure/construct already created by nature. Without a basis for creation to stand on, then of course, what can be created. That basis is Afro-Futurism.
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
Sci-Fi is Dead...
Simply put, if there is an absence of Afro-Futuristic thought in Sci-Fi, then Sci-Fi cannot reproduce life...only duplicates. In fact, although Sci-Fi is alive itself, it cannot produce anything that is a duplicate of a structure/construct already created by nature. Without a basis for creation to stand on, then of course, what can be created. That basis is Afro-Futurism.
What is Afro-Futurism?
One that is very apparent, is the fact that people of 'Afrikan Ascent' are not represented well within the Science Fiction Genre. With good reason...Currently Science Fiction does not possess the terms to adequately describe our expression in the art-form.
Through my writings, I work to take my readers out from the metal and experimental banks of Sci-Fi into the forest of organic awareness of Afro-Futurism...an exodus.
Our perception will be changing very rapidly...
Renpet - An inexperienced inter-dimensional being is thrust into the chaotic lives of a group of reckless young adults who survived the globally cataclysmic changes of The Great Year. With barely enough skill to keep herself from being swept by their psychologically and spiritually crippled minds...Can she keep them together long enough to realize the true cause of the dramatic transformation of the world's population into one heavily pigmented race?
N Eternity Reclaimed - A cosmic being, Neith, uncovers forgotten secrets on a hostile planet of giants. Neith finds herself forced to deal with decisions she made during the eons she spent as a warrior...the death of her son, the transformation of her husband into a malevolent beast... and the attacks by a planet that wants to kill her... Can she mend the wounds of her traumatic past before she's forced into bloodshed once more ORDER, SUPPORT, RISE
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
One that is very apparent, is the fact that people of 'Afrikan Ascent' are not represented well within the Science Fiction Genre. With good reason...Currently Science Fiction does not possess the terms to adequately describe our expression in the art-form.
Through my writings, I work to take my readers out from the metal and experimental banks of Sci-Fi into the forest of organic awareness of Afro-Futurism...an exodus.
Our perception will be changing very rapidly...
Renpet - An inexperienced inter-dimensional being is thrust into the chaotic lives of a group of reckless young adults who survived the globally cataclysmic changes of The Great Year. With barely enough skill to keep herself from being swept by their psychologically and spiritually crippled minds...Can she keep them together long enough to realize the true cause of the dramatic transformation of the world's population into one heavily pigmented race?
N Eternity Reclaimed - A cosmic being, Neith, uncovers forgotten secrets on a hostile planet of giants. Neith finds herself forced to deal with decisions she made during the eons she spent as a warrior...the death of her son, the transformation of her husband into a malevolent beast... and the attacks by a planet that wants to kill her... Can she mend the wounds of her traumatic past before she's forced into bloodshed once more ORDER, SUPPORT, RISE
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
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Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
sex as a means to actually reproduce life, intentionally, and as a means of healing...only in Afro-Futurism...only at:
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
sex as a means to actually reproduce life, intentionally, and as a means of healing...only in Afro-Futurism...only at:
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!
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| Discover Magazine |
While most of us take gravity for granted, physicists have a big problem with it. Their beef: As forces go, gravity is implausibly feeble. (Try asking a physicist why a kitchen magnet can pick up a paper clip even though the gravitational force of the entire Earth is pulling the clip down.) In 1999 University of Washington physicist Eric Adelberger heard a lecturer offer an intriguing explanation: Perhaps gravity only appears weak, because it operates in additional spatial dimensions beyond length, width, and height. These extra dimensions would be imperceptible in our macro world but might have a detectable influence on gravity at scales of less than the width of a hair.
Discover Magazine:
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| Dr. Mark J. T. Smith |
...in quotes because I did not come up with the title/clever double entendre.
Elizabeth Pain, July 27, 2012: With the 2012 Olympic Games set to kick off in London, Science Careers decided to have a chat with electrical and computer engineering researcher and former fencing athlete Mark J. T. Smith about what it's like to combine science and serious sport. Smith served as head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, in Indiana, for 6 years and is now dean of the university’s graduate school. Smith was the national fencing champion of the United States in 1981 and 1983 and a member of the U.S. Olympic fencing team in 1980 and 1984. He carried the Olympic torch toward the opening ceremonies in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, one of the last torch-carriers. The following highlights from the interview were edited for brevity and clarity.
What attracted me was not only the diversity, but that fencing is similar to my martial arts activities (30+ years and counting). My father started me in western boxing, then I gravitated to Kung Fu, Japanese/Korean Karate, Silat and Jeet Kune Do. I'm currently studying [a type of fencing in] Filipino Kali. As I recall, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson used to wrestle, among other social activities. If you know a 'nerd,' they're not usually one-dimensional, tied to their video game console, nor inept at social skills.
Besides, for the less evolved of the species, it's good to have some mastery of defensive skills.
More of the interview, and the relation science has to fencing:
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| Credit: TheRoot |
Well done, Gabby! 
LONDON (AP) — Make it a pair of Olympic gymnastics gold medals for Gabby Douglas, who added the all-around title Thursday to the one she won with the U.S. team two nights ago at the London Games.
Douglas became the third straight American to win gymnastics’ biggest prize, taking the lead on the first event Thursday and never really letting anyone else get close. She finished with a score of 62.232, less than three-tenths ahead of Viktoria Komova of Russia. Aliya Mustafina won the bronze.
“I wanted to seize the moment,” Douglas said. “It hasn’t sunk in yet. Team finals hasn’t sunk in yet. But it will.”
Douglas brought the house down with her energetic floor routine, and U.S. teammates Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross jumped to their feet and cheered when she finished. Douglas flashed a smile and coach Liang Chow lifted her off the podium.
TheGrio: Gabby Douglas' Gold Medal Winning Performance
TheRoot: 16 Black First at the Olympic Games
Remember when they were hinting about having one. Then you saw the movie and the hot animation and was like, hell yeah...make that animated series. I waited patiently for this to come about. Then you saw it was coming up on adult swim and was like oh man...can't wait....
And then you saw it....and then you saw it....ahhh yeahhh....
What can I say...What can you say....I was really disappointed...I'll tell ya why...Hold on..Don't rush me...
It didn't have the same feel as the movie...Black Dynamite was too damn serious, no change in the expression that you loved in the movie....Shoot...I thought it was just me but no one is talking about it...............................................................
With all the things I thought could be done with the story line...
What's your take? Do You have one? Do ya even care.
That's what I got...Signing off...And not matter what I love ya and there's nothin you can do about it...
What it do BSFS?! Been a long time since I logged in. Coming back to see a whole lot of beautiful visuals and a growing community is cool! This is a series of characters I've been doodling for fun since 2009, check em out. Full post here. Love and light
-Robert Trujillo/Tres
Bay Area, Califaztlan
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) are part of the broader, media-labeled real life superhero ( RLSH ) movement while also being apart from it in some instances.
Civil rights activists who faced down state-sponsored terror from the first captive African who rebeled on these shores to epic change agents in the mid-10th Century are all BLSH.
Unlike our great peers who commute into our unsafe, need overrun inner city, Black life superheroes either come from these desperate places or have family still imprisoned within them.
BLSH isn't about separatism- it's about defending your community alone and alongside any good person who comes to help!
If urban crime could create the great fictional Batman the real life inner city should be over run with caped crusaders???!!!
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) are the community caped/cape-less crusaders Black America has been waiting for to save the inner city from within!
We have no other choice.
Famous BLSH of our era include Martin Luther King; Malcolm X; Rosa Parks; Nelson Mandela; Clarence Thomas, etc.
Notable BLSH you may not readily know include:
James Farmer, whose 1966 March Against Fear
is something every creative activist should
know.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, whose Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party pushed voting
rights under threat of death.
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June 12th, 1963 to silence him- which didn't work!
Herman Wrice, " the John Wayne of Philadelphia " whose white hard hat and bull horn closed many crack houses across America.
Joe Clark, the no-nonsense high school principal immortalized
by icon Morgan Freeman in the 1989 hit movie, " Lean On Me "
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) started out fighting external enemies. Now the enemy is alot closer to home!
Cap Black Anti Crime Activist
NADRA ENZI AKA CAP BLACK promotes creative crime prevention. (504) 214-3082.
nadracaptblack@gmail is where Pay Pal donations can be sent to assist my citizen patrol efforts which support civic duty and due process.
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Don't want to start no mess, but then again.......but I will say don't shoot the messenger. You know how selective we can be in searching the Internet. We steer around the knuckleheads, dingbats and the weirdos as fast as a mouse click. And then I came across a researcher named Joseph Atwill who has shocked the bejibers out of me. Said the New Testament and other biblical books were entirely or partly written by Josephus Flavius and/or his family. Well, in any case all you folks who claim Hebrew origins plus that the bible is your book, you need to weigh in. But the real sticking point is what happened to all the various parties involved between 60 AD and 325 AD. The Roman government, the Hebrews, the so-called Christians, and the Jews (distinct from the Hebrews). To think a family of Jewish/Roman aristocrats who were also wordsmiths, concocted a tale that has deluded the whole world for 2000 years. The idea was to make a passive Jewish hero to stem the tide of a militaristic Hebrew culture that would not bow to Caesar (the god). The end result was a compromising Israel, Hebrews killed and scattered and the birth of Christianity (the Roman religion).
This would be simple if Rome didn't have a habit of looting and burning libraries across Europe and North Africa. All non-Rome supportive literature had to go. So there is a huge vacuum of recorded histories for that time period. But it just so happens that the Flaviuses one of whom is Josephus, just happens to be the Roman govs chief historian. What?, he wrote the battle plan into the text of the NT (as an autobiography and prophecy), then recorded the play by play (the wars of the jews)!! And some aftermath stuff to boot.
The power of the story upon the unassuming masses? OK check out Joseph Atwill's 'Caesar's Messiah and the True Authorship of the New Testament. Both downloadable as PDF files. One thing is a story as a tool of control even to the empire level. The other thing is the truth hidden and misaligned. You are suppose to have blind accepting faith, unquestioning, unwavering, the Caesar said so, he after all is God in the newer part of the book. But the Jews who left Jerusalem and fled into Africa and only have the Torah even after all these years, are they.........? who said a pen is mightier than a sword? or was that the s-word?
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| Climate Lab |
With a series of papers published in chemistry and chemical engineering journals, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have advanced the case for extracting carbon dioxide directly from the air using newly-developed adsorbent materials.
The technique might initially be used to supply carbon dioxide for such industrial applications as fuel production from algae or enhanced oil recovery. But the method could later be used to supplement the capture of CO2 from power plant flue gases as part of efforts to reduce concentrations of the atmospheric warming chemical.
In a detailed economic feasibility study, the researchers projected that a CO2 removal unit the size of an ocean shipping container could extract approximately a thousand tons of the gas per year with operating costs of approximately $100 per ton. The researchers also reported on advances in adsorbent materials for selectively capturing carbon dioxide.
As much as I want to "stand up and cheer": technology has never been the issue. Do we have the political will to carry out - in this climate (pun intended) - such an audacious enterprise? Capturing CO2 from the air could mean things like: jobs for those suitably prepared. But, for those invested heavily in the science or the lobby pro/con climate change, it announces [to me] an inevitable fight, that in our effort to score "sound bite points," that by the time any compromise is reached, we all in the end may lose.
Georgia Tech Research News: Reducing CO2
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| NASA Mars Science Laboratory |
Today (25 July 2012), the Mars Science Laboratory's terminal descent sensor is being checked out in preparation for Curiosity’s entry, descent and landing. The sensor is a radar system that is mounted on MSL's descent stage. Following separation of MSL's heat shield at an altitude of approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) and a velocity of approximately 280 mph (125 meters per second), the sensor begins collecting data on the spacecraft's velocity and altitude in preparation for landing.
Sometimes, I think we forget we're still exploring deep space, with the eventual goal of manned missions to at least Mars for starters.
Some proposed ideas I've heard in the past: terraforming the Martian atmosphere with - smog, of all things - to warm it up a bit for human habitation, an ironic positive effect of warming a planet, i.e. if we can control it.
For more on the countdown:
NASA - Mars Science Laboratory
