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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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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| Nanotech Web |
Hello,
Our Fantasy and Sci-Fi/speculative fiction presenters need help on their genres. If you know of movies, books, conferences... you can point me to, please send the information on and I'll forward it on.
I you hope you can join us in this event. We are trying to raise awareness in the group genres. The more people who participate, the more we can all learn from each other.
THANKS.
Dee deatrikingbey@yahoo.com
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| Science Blogs |
This was the second hearing that has been held this year on the nation’s supply of helium, driven by the very real concern that a legislative mandate will worsen already significant supply and price fluctuations. In May, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on S. 2374, the Helium Stewardship Act of 2012. This 15-page bill, introduced by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) would require changes in the management of the nation’s federal helium reserve in Texas. Indicative of the interest there is in this problem are the nineteen Democratic and Republican senators, with a wide range of political philosophies, who have cosponsored this bill.
The July 20 House hearing demonstrated similar bipartisan concern. In his opening comments, Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) spoke of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) helium reserve and its impending closure, calling helium “vital to national security,” and warning of the “significant economic disruption” there will be to American manufacturers. Of note, he spoke of a global shortage of Helium-3. “The impending shortage of helium and H-3 could have disastrous consequences for U.S. industries that are dependent on helium to innovate, manufacture, and provide jobs for Americans,” Lamborn said. “Having identified these issues, the question is what is the solution? Clearly, Congress cannot simply allow this huge economic dislocation and national security threat, when action can be taken on alternatives. However, neither can Congress simply continue along in the process that has resulted in this critical juncture.”
American Institute of Physics: FYI: House Hearing on Helium Supply
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| Climate Lab |
Georgia Tech Research News: Reducing CO2
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| Physics World - MottFET |
Scientists have suggested that it might be possible to improve this ratio by exploiting Mott insulators in transistors. Mott insulators are materials that should behave as metals according to conventional band theories but that act as insulators under certain conditions owing to quantum-mechanical correlations between neighbouring electrons. For reasons that are complex and not entirely understood, however, sudden phase transitions can be induced between the insulating state and the metallic state. Among other things, this metal–insulator transition can be induced by an electric field. While the gate voltage in an ordinary transistor simply modulates the resistance of a semiconductor, the gate voltage in a Mott transistor could turn an insulator into a metal.
Physics World: Prototype 'Mott Transistor' developed
Physics arXiv: A heterojunction modulation-doped Mott transistor
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| NASA Mars Science Laboratory |
For more on the countdown:
NASA - Mars Science Laboratory
http://imaginossite.blogspot.com/2012/07/spotlight-alpha-omega-animation-design.html
Title from the article. Sometimes these things write themselves. 
Wired: Jellyfish Made From Rat Cells Swims Like the Real Thing
I'm a brother on some quiet Batman Sh@t!
Bat Wing character courtesy of DC Comics
I will call 911 on you on the low to preserve discreet information gathering or directly act if the situation is too hot to wait for police to arrive.
This is the new Black male citizenship paradigm I ( and others ) practice and promote. It's the antidote to thug addiction intravenously pumped into brothers minds by adults and (un) popular culture. I know jails are overcrowded but so are morgues with chocolate klansmen's only gift tot he community!
My contribution to our embattled community is a brother they can trust to advise them on safety and the long hard grind called seeking success without being a criminal.
When it comes to glacial police/community relations here in New Orleans and nationally the logical question is, " can brothers who are against crime help NOPD? "
Hmmm?
" Yes " in theory.
" Maybe " in application.
Black men commit most of our street crime. Reasonable observers would gather that uniting police and Black men opposing street crime is a no-brainer.
Not quite.
I have relationships with officers as do other anti crime brothers. Such scattered informal associations aside there is no formal coalition specifically uniting Black men with the police ( my Brothers & Badges Together model comes to mind, hint hint lol ). http://moveonup.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brothers-badges-together
Again, most New Orleans street crime is a majority Black male affair. Getting Black men and cops on the same team isn't a " racist " response- it's realist.
Either we as a society see Black men as more than suspects ( unless employed by law enforcement agencies, etc ) or we don't.
Keeping anti crime brothers at arms length makes them wonder if liberal accusations about police being eternally biased are true?
I'd like to see Black male/police relations evolve to resemble a real world version of what Adam West's Batman enjoyed on his famed TV show.
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| Physics Central |
The study of quantum dots began in the 1980s. Quantum dots are very small amounts of semiconductor material (nanoparticles) whose size affects the allowed energy levels of the material. The electrons of the material usually reside in the lowest band of energy levels called the valence band. When the electron absorbs energy it is excited to a higher band of energy levels, levels called the conduction band, leaving behind an empty spot known as a hole. When the electron returns to the lower valence energy level it emits energy. How far apart the valence band and conduction band are depends on the size of the particle. The size of the particle controls what is known as the confinement energy, Figure 1. This means that the size of the particle can be used to control the different types of light the particles absorb and emit. Quantum dots have been created that absorb ultraviolet light and emit all of the colors of the rainbow depending on their size, rather than just what it is made of.
Quantum Dots and Cells
How does the quantum dot make a neuron fire? When a quantum dot is excited by light shining on it, it becomes polarized so that one part of the material is more positive and the other is more negative. This in turn sets up an electric field, which can interact with a neuron or other cell of interest. How strong that interaction is depends on how close the polarized quantum dot is to the cell. The closer it is, the stronger the interaction. The strength of the interaction also depends on the type of ion channel on the cell membrane. If the field set up by the quantum dot is strong enough, it can cause the ion channels to open and a transfer of ions out of and into the cell. For a neuron, this is "firing" the neuron or switching it on.
Physics Central: Quantum Dots and Cells
I'm trying to get away from vendor lock-ins, which includes the kindle. I want to be able to have access to my e-books locally not just in the cloud. I want to be able to use any variation of software or device to read my favorite sci-fi and fantasy books. The Ideal file format would be .epub. I have begun my search for a viable replacement for Amazon's kindle book store. The problem is that none of my favorite titles from the folks here are on these new sites? What's going on people? What gives? How many of you make your books available to more than just people with a Amazon or Barnes & Noble account? I really would love to continue reading great stories from you all, but I won't continue to buy my books from Amazon. Here are some sites I'm going to; kobobooks.com ,ebooks.com , and epubbooks.com. I hope to see your publishings there.
Wikipedia: Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. →
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I have struggled my whole life to get a livable wage, secure the american dream and a decent retirement. Things have "went south" as they say. Was thinking of my dependency on all the systems and materials promoted my whole life long to make retirement as comfortable as when I had a good job. Then I started talking to ones a tad bit ahead of me and ones retired for a while, I am no longer optimistic about retirement. I am actually thinking about home scale garden plots, solar energy, wind energy, greenhouses, micro-farming, urban villages, all the ways to use technology to sustain life without sharecropping on the "grid". Supermarkets sell engineered and prepared foods to our bad health so that the healthcare industry is booming. The media is so mind-bending and mind-blending today, an indigenous culture is become an odd throwback. Jobs today require so much education only the poor can afford to ignore it. Don't worry, in the future we will have figured it all out so that every person can push the button. Er, ah, what's does this button do?
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| A snapshot of a helical stack of macryocycles generated in the computer simulation: anl.gov |
Nanopores and their rolled up version, nanotubes, consist of atoms bonded to each other in a hexagonal pattern to create an array of nanometer-scale openings or channels. This structure creates a filter that can be sized to select which molecules and ions pass into drinking water or into a cell. The same filter technique can limit the release of chemical by-products from industrial processes.
Argonne National Laboratory:
Synthetic nanotubes lay foundation for new technology
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| Henry David Thoreau |
Graduate students are intellectually curious; not omniscient. They are human, and many quite young.
It is a skill we could all spare to learn.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." Confucius
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| "Nanozyme": IEEE Spectrum |
IEEE Spectrum: Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus
