Exclusive: Guardian gains access to unnamed British
Columbia site where tech giant’s roboticists and engineers, stymied by
American regulation, are now developing their unmanned domestic delivery
service - link
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Greater Rochester Robotics
Greater Rochester Robotics
Operating out of Churchville-Chili Senior High
School, we are a collection of students from Rochester (NY) Area school
districts. Although our team works 52 weeks a year on many different
projects, each January through April we take part in the FIRST® Robotics
Competition (FRC®).
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
New Jim Crow (Informed Consent)
...In many states parolees and ex-felons cannot vote.
KQED notes, some 6 million ex-felons are disenfranchised in the US.
Since African-Americans are sentenced at startlingly higher rates than
European-Americans, the burden of loss of voting rights falls especially
heavily on them.
link
“Disenfranchisement laws disproportionately affect African Americans: in 2010, 1 of every 13 African Americans of voting age — about 7.7 percent nationally — was disenfranchised, a rate more than four times greater than with non-African Americans. In some of the strictest states — including Florida, Kentucky and Virginia — more than 20 percent of the African American population was disenfranchised, the report found.
link
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Interstellar Space
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| J.C. Cuillandre, CFHT/Giovanni Anselmi, Coelum Astronomia The Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, about 1,500 light years from the earth, as seen from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii; from Michael Benson’s book Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle (2009) |
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
For the Love of Skin, and Within
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967),[1] was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Supreme Court's unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional, reversing Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U.S., and is remembered annually on Loving Day, June 12. It has been the subject of two movies as well as songs. Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional...wiki
The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". The Supreme Court's unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional, reversing Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.
The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U.S., and is remembered annually on Loving Day, June 12. It has been the subject of two movies as well as songs. Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional...wiki
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Space Rally - Rochester - June 2015
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Image right: Huge crowds flocked to a
public viewing site in 1981on the east shore of Rogers Dry Lake to watch the
first space shuttle landing. (Credit: Edwards AFB History Office |
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Amazon tests delivery drones at secret Canada site after US frustration |
Friday, February 13, 2015
FEBRUARY THE MYSTERY MONTH - VALENTINE'S DAY (PEACE)
WE ARE ALL FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN
WE CAN'T CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER!
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Happy Holidays to Rasta Ranch Vineyards
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone at Rasta Ranch!
Make sure you buy your holiday wine and supplies at Rasta Ranch
and support a great local company!
Friday, December 5, 2014
Ghetto Could be 'Wild West'
Barkley: Ghetto Would Be Like ‘Wild, Wild West’ if it Wasn’t for Police
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS St. Louis)
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is defending police officers, calling it “ridiculous” that people claim white cops are just out there killing black people.
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Barkley stated that if it wasn’t for police, the ghetto would be like the “wild, wild west.”
“The notion that white cops are out there just killing black people – that’s ridiculous. That’s just flat-out ridiculous,” the TNT basketball analyst told CNN. “I challenge any black person to try to make that point. Cops are actually awesome. They are the only thing in the ghetto between this place being the wild, wild west. So this notion that cops are out there just killing black men is ridiculous and I hate that narrative coming out of this entire situation.”...link
On to Mars!
NASA launches Orion Test Flight!
from The Atlantic
...
...Success! With a dawn launch, NASA has ushered in a new age for final
frontier explorations. At 7:05 a.m EST Friday, NASA launched its Orion
spacecraft, a potential precursor to manned Mars, moon, or asteroid
missions."The star of the day is Orion," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., according to the AP. He called the success "Day One of the Mars era."
The spacecraft is now zooming past at 15,000 miles per hour as it prepares to begin its first orbit around Earth. It is "performing perfectly," according to NASA...link
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Encourage your Kids to Become Cops
When you sit around the dinner table this Thanksgiving as an African American family encourage your children to serve the public as police officers.
Violent protests are not going to do anything to change the culture. Do you want to solve the problem? Then have your family become part of the solution.
Encourage boys and girls to seriously think about joining the force after college. Encourage them to become patrol officers and detectives.
The more black officers and minority officers on the streets, the more interaction between white and minority officers, the better outcome for any city.
Encourage your kids to seriously think about improving this country through service.
The future of our country demands it!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Violent protests are not going to do anything to change the culture. Do you want to solve the problem? Then have your family become part of the solution.
Encourage boys and girls to seriously think about joining the force after college. Encourage them to become patrol officers and detectives.
The more black officers and minority officers on the streets, the more interaction between white and minority officers, the better outcome for any city.
Encourage your kids to seriously think about improving this country through service.
The future of our country demands it!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
2015 Reggae Festival in Seattle, Washington
Looking for Investors/Sponsors/Vendors/Volunteers and Bands!
Contact us at: pantherandhippie@yahoo.com
subject line: Seattle 2015
We have also opened the bidding for Chief Promoter/Rights to the Festival
This Festival Promotes Space Exploration and Future Space Jobs for our Youths
America's Future is in Space!
Music and Science Education!
Fusing Reggae and The Stars!
This Festival Promotes Space Exploration and Future Space Jobs for our Youths
America's Future is in Space!
Music and Science Education!
Fusing Reggae and The Stars!
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