Monday, January 9, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
A Sensitive Car
An excerpt from theWashingtonn Post -
Your car wants to say hello. And that’s only the start.
By Steven Overly
Toyota’s empathetic car of the future is there for you. You’ve had a frustrating day at work; it plays soft music and lowers the temperature. You’re lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood; it offers to take over the driving. You start to nod off at the wheel; it taps you on the shoulder and starts up a conversation.
This unconventional interplay between the driver and automobile is central to concept cars that Honda and Toyota unveiled at the annual CES technology conference in Las Vegas this week. In the not-so-distant future, vehicles will not only be safer or more efficient. They will be our companion, watching our every move.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/01/06/ces-2017-your-car-wants-to-say-hello-and-thats-only-the-start/?utm_term=.e0b0b60b3745&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Your car wants to say hello. And that’s only the start.
By Steven Overly
Toyota’s empathetic car of the future is there for you. You’ve had a frustrating day at work; it plays soft music and lowers the temperature. You’re lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood; it offers to take over the driving. You start to nod off at the wheel; it taps you on the shoulder and starts up a conversation.
This unconventional interplay between the driver and automobile is central to concept cars that Honda and Toyota unveiled at the annual CES technology conference in Las Vegas this week. In the not-so-distant future, vehicles will not only be safer or more efficient. They will be our companion, watching our every move.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/01/06/ces-2017-your-car-wants-to-say-hello-and-thats-only-the-start/?utm_term=.e0b0b60b3745&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
A Necessary Lesson
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Black parents take their kids to school on how to deal with police
By Janell Ross
It is a Saturday afternoon in early December, and Room 104 at Anne Arundel Community College is packed, all 150 seats taken. There are moms with oversized Louis Vuitton bags from which they produce items such as granola bars and string cheese. But there are more fathers than mothers and a few elementary-school-aged kids. Most of all, there are teens with Beats headphones draped around their necks like electronic jewelry.
Organized by the Arundel Bay Area Chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc., “Race & the Law” was one of more than 225 similar events held around the country last year and more than 50 such events scheduled across the nation in the first three months of 2017. They are places where anxious black parents bring their children in hopes of preparing them for potentially fateful encounters with the police. They are, in essence, mini boot camps for children about how to be black in 21st-century America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/black-parents-take-their-kids-to-school-on-how-to-deal-with-police/2017/01/03/86129c1c-c6be-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.edc2c4875961&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Black parents take their kids to school on how to deal with police
By Janell Ross
It is a Saturday afternoon in early December, and Room 104 at Anne Arundel Community College is packed, all 150 seats taken. There are moms with oversized Louis Vuitton bags from which they produce items such as granola bars and string cheese. But there are more fathers than mothers and a few elementary-school-aged kids. Most of all, there are teens with Beats headphones draped around their necks like electronic jewelry.
Organized by the Arundel Bay Area Chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc., “Race & the Law” was one of more than 225 similar events held around the country last year and more than 50 such events scheduled across the nation in the first three months of 2017. They are places where anxious black parents bring their children in hopes of preparing them for potentially fateful encounters with the police. They are, in essence, mini boot camps for children about how to be black in 21st-century America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/black-parents-take-their-kids-to-school-on-how-to-deal-with-police/2017/01/03/86129c1c-c6be-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.edc2c4875961&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Fascinating Story
An excerpt from Thrillist -
HOW I HIJACKED A PLANE & SPENT THE NEXT 44 YEARS LIVING IN CUBA
By ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
DURING THE 1960S AND EARLY ‘70S, dozens of American citizens hijacked commercial airliners and took them to Cuba. Most of them were young radicals of one stripe or another; many were black nationalists. Before Washington and Havana signed the Anti-Air Piracy Act of 1973 in a joint attempt to stop an almost comical flow of airplanes south, many of the "skyjackers," as they were called at the time, received asylum from Castro’s Cuba upon landing. One of these men was Charlie Hill, a 22-year-old revolutionary with a group called the Republic of New Afrika. Hill arrived in Havana by way of an unscheduled stop on a TWA plane in November 1971, punctuating an unlikely escape from a statewide manhunt in New Mexico. Then and still the subject of a warrant for the murder of a New Mexico police officer, Hill is among the last remaining refugees from last century’s high tide of skyjacking. He is now 67 years old and beginning to go frail. He receives a Cuban pension of 200 pesos ($10) a month, which isn’t enough to live on, and supplements it with occasional tour guide work.
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/how-i-hijacked-a-plane-and-spent-the-next-44-years-living-in-cuba?pinn_uid=28273781
HOW I HIJACKED A PLANE & SPENT THE NEXT 44 YEARS LIVING IN CUBA
By ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
DURING THE 1960S AND EARLY ‘70S, dozens of American citizens hijacked commercial airliners and took them to Cuba. Most of them were young radicals of one stripe or another; many were black nationalists. Before Washington and Havana signed the Anti-Air Piracy Act of 1973 in a joint attempt to stop an almost comical flow of airplanes south, many of the "skyjackers," as they were called at the time, received asylum from Castro’s Cuba upon landing. One of these men was Charlie Hill, a 22-year-old revolutionary with a group called the Republic of New Afrika. Hill arrived in Havana by way of an unscheduled stop on a TWA plane in November 1971, punctuating an unlikely escape from a statewide manhunt in New Mexico. Then and still the subject of a warrant for the murder of a New Mexico police officer, Hill is among the last remaining refugees from last century’s high tide of skyjacking. He is now 67 years old and beginning to go frail. He receives a Cuban pension of 200 pesos ($10) a month, which isn’t enough to live on, and supplements it with occasional tour guide work.
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/how-i-hijacked-a-plane-and-spent-the-next-44-years-living-in-cuba?pinn_uid=28273781
Saturday, January 7, 2017
A Smart Ass
Hope you can see this. If not, click on the link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clever-donkey-crosses-fence-italy-video_us_5870a027e4b099cdb0fd6279?r922lj4jz2vwe9udi
Should She Have Been Punished?
An excerpt from Narratively and Salon -
She killed her abuser before he could kill her: After 17 years locked up, she’s taking on justice system
After 17 years behind bars, one woman is lobbying for the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act
By NATALIE PATTILLO, NARRATIVELY
Dadou, now fifty, has been out of prison for seven years. She’s actively lobbying for a bill that could have potentially saved her from incarceration. The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DJSJA) — sponsored by New York State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry — has been inching its way into state law since 2011. “Sending survivors of domestic violence who act to protect themselves to prison for long sentences is incompatible with modern notions of fairness and humanity,” Hassell-Thompson wrote in a 2013 press release.
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/07/former-inmate-who-killed-her-abuser-takes-on-the-system_partner/
She killed her abuser before he could kill her: After 17 years locked up, she’s taking on justice system
After 17 years behind bars, one woman is lobbying for the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act
By NATALIE PATTILLO, NARRATIVELY
Dadou, now fifty, has been out of prison for seven years. She’s actively lobbying for a bill that could have potentially saved her from incarceration. The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DJSJA) — sponsored by New York State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson and Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry — has been inching its way into state law since 2011. “Sending survivors of domestic violence who act to protect themselves to prison for long sentences is incompatible with modern notions of fairness and humanity,” Hassell-Thompson wrote in a 2013 press release.
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/07/former-inmate-who-killed-her-abuser-takes-on-the-system_partner/
Starting Young
An excerpt from the LA Times -
To compete with Silicon Valley for engineers, aerospace firms start recruitment in pre-kindergarten
By Samantha Masunaga
They are starting to reach out earlier to potential employees — as early as elementary school or even pre-kindergarten — to get them interested in science and math. And they’re recognizing the challenge they have building awareness with a generation that never had a real space race, but grew up with Google, Snapchat and Apple as part of their daily lives.
“This is something that’s very critical to our member companies,” said Dan Stohr, spokesman for the Aerospace Industries Assn. trade group. “They’re putting serious money into this, to the tune of millions of dollars a year.”
Lockheed Martin Corp. has launched a program called Generation Beyond aimed at encouraging middle school students’ interest in deep space exploration. The initiative includes a class curriculum, a downloadable Mars weather app and a traveling school bus modified so that children riding it can see the Martian landscape through the windows.
“One of the things we’ve been seeing is that this generation of students doesn’t necessarily know or have grown up with Lockheed Martin, as their parents did,” said Steve Hatch, the company’s director for central talent acquisition, of current college students. “As we look at the competition, how do we go attract that talent sooner … but at the same time, get them interested in STEM.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-defense-recruiting-20161214-story.html
To compete with Silicon Valley for engineers, aerospace firms start recruitment in pre-kindergarten
By Samantha Masunaga
They are starting to reach out earlier to potential employees — as early as elementary school or even pre-kindergarten — to get them interested in science and math. And they’re recognizing the challenge they have building awareness with a generation that never had a real space race, but grew up with Google, Snapchat and Apple as part of their daily lives.
“This is something that’s very critical to our member companies,” said Dan Stohr, spokesman for the Aerospace Industries Assn. trade group. “They’re putting serious money into this, to the tune of millions of dollars a year.”
Lockheed Martin Corp. has launched a program called Generation Beyond aimed at encouraging middle school students’ interest in deep space exploration. The initiative includes a class curriculum, a downloadable Mars weather app and a traveling school bus modified so that children riding it can see the Martian landscape through the windows.
“One of the things we’ve been seeing is that this generation of students doesn’t necessarily know or have grown up with Lockheed Martin, as their parents did,” said Steve Hatch, the company’s director for central talent acquisition, of current college students. “As we look at the competition, how do we go attract that talent sooner … but at the same time, get them interested in STEM.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-defense-recruiting-20161214-story.html
Agree
An excerpt from Thrillist -
GUYS WHO GROW UP WITH SISTERS ARE BETTER BOYFRIENDS
By MEAGAN DRILLINGER
"Men with sisters tend to be better listeners," says Murray. "By and large, women use more words than men do. If you're around people who talk more, then you're exposed to a lot more words. But boys, as a consequence, may not express themselves so much through words, but through behavior and their physicality.
https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/sisters-teach-men-brothers-how-to-be-better-boyfriend?pinn_uid=28273781
GUYS WHO GROW UP WITH SISTERS ARE BETTER BOYFRIENDS
By MEAGAN DRILLINGER
"Men with sisters tend to be better listeners," says Murray. "By and large, women use more words than men do. If you're around people who talk more, then you're exposed to a lot more words. But boys, as a consequence, may not express themselves so much through words, but through behavior and their physicality.
https://www.thrillist.com/sex-dating/nation/sisters-teach-men-brothers-how-to-be-better-boyfriend?pinn_uid=28273781
Friday, January 6, 2017
Making History
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
First African-American Astronaut To Board The International Space Station
NASA’s Jeanette Epps just made history.
By Lilly Workneh
Astronaut Jeanette Epps made African-American history on Wednesday when NASA announced that she’ll be the first black American astronaut to board the International Space Station.
While NASA has sent 14 black astronauts into space over the decades, none have ever stayed aboard the ISS as a crew member. Epps will be the first African American and the 13th woman to call the ISS home since the space station was founded in 1998. Epps, who is from Syracuse, New York, will join astronaut Andrew Feustel as a flight engineer on Expedition 56 in May 2018, according to NASA. She will also stay on board for Expedition 57.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-international-space-station_us_586fd5b1e4b02b5f85889969?71i2vh9qflu6usor
First African-American Astronaut To Board The International Space Station
NASA’s Jeanette Epps just made history.
By Lilly Workneh
Astronaut Jeanette Epps made African-American history on Wednesday when NASA announced that she’ll be the first black American astronaut to board the International Space Station.
While NASA has sent 14 black astronauts into space over the decades, none have ever stayed aboard the ISS as a crew member. Epps will be the first African American and the 13th woman to call the ISS home since the space station was founded in 1998. Epps, who is from Syracuse, New York, will join astronaut Andrew Feustel as a flight engineer on Expedition 56 in May 2018, according to NASA. She will also stay on board for Expedition 57.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/first-african-american-astronaut-to-board-international-space-station_us_586fd5b1e4b02b5f85889969?71i2vh9qflu6usor
Cheesy Soup . . . Yum!
https://www.thrillist.com/recipe/nation/how-to-make-cheesy-tomato-soup-recipe?pinn_uid=28273781
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Official Video)
An excerpt from the New York Times: California Today By MIKE MCPHATE -
It was this weekend in 1968 that Mr. Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” was released.
In August 1967, the Georgia-born soul singer had come to San Francisco to do a series of gigs at Basin Street West, a storied club at the time.
According to Jonathan Gould, the author of a forthcoming biography of Mr. Redding, the rock promoter Bill Graham offered Mr. Redding the use of his houseboat up in Sausalito.
While relaxing there with his guitar, he is thought to have sketched the lines:
Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun
I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch ’em roll away again, yeah
Later, the guitarist Steve Cropper helped to fill out the rest of the song and it was recorded in November. But Mr. Redding never heard the single.
Just 18 days after the studio session, he died in a plane crash in Madison, Wis., on Dec. 10, 1967.
He was 26.
On Jan. 8, 1968, the “Dock of the Bay” album was released. The single rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s pop chart and stayed there for four weeks. It was the biggest hit of Mr. Redding’s career.
http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/01/06/california-today?nlid=38867499
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