Technology

Jul 14 2011

Middle school students welcome

The Watts Learning Center Charter Middle School is holding summer session for students in grades six to eight through Aug. 12, and the focus is on science, technology, engineering and math.

The free educational program, operating from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Monday-Friday, will particularly focus on teaching science and will give the youngsters a head start on what they will learn next school year.

Sign-ups are still being accepted, and parents are being urged to go to the school, 1265 E. 112th St., Los Angeles, and enroll their child.

David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jul 7 2011

Practical Politics

Imagine a well-dressed African American man and woman driving through Death Valley on the way to Vegas to party with some of their disposable income. They are chatty, enjoying each other’s company, and hurrying to get through the Mars-like landscape of the California desert. Abruptly, there is an awful moan from under the hood of their automobile, and the engine of their expensive foreign car simply quits, the car rolling to a stop on the side of the road.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jul 7 2011

Workshops will discuss how to ride the waves

No one needs to tell any entrepreneur in California that the business climate in the state is constantly wavering. But a report by the California State Assembly has confirmed it. 

California is experiencing drastically higher costs of doing business compared with the rest of the nation.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Nov 18 2010

The need for STEM education

Iridescent is a science-education nonprofit that helps engineers, scientists, and technology professionals bring innovative science, technology and engineering to high school girls, and underprivileged minority children and their families.

Oct 20 2010

Street view system

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A Pasadena company has sued Google, alleging the Internet tech giant's Street View system violates its patent.

Vederi, LLC filed the patent infringement complaint against Google in Los Angeles federal court.

According to the lawsuit, Vederi co-founders Enrico Di Bernardo and Luis Goncalves own the patent to technology used on Google Street View that allows users to visually navigate streets within a geographic area.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.