Shooting Robots
Atlanta, GA — Shooting pictures of robots at the Georgia Dome.
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Opening Ceremony
Team Introduction
Team Introduction 2
The Drivers Jump
Game Action (rear-view)
Team 341 Miss Daisy Scores
Team 341 Miss Daisy Scores Bigger
View From the Press Box
Robots Zoom Around The Field
Hats Off To Ingenuity
Atlanta, GA — The FIRST Robotics championship is taking place at the Georgia Dome. Throughout the event, teams will be given the chance to win awards from a wide variety of categories. There are awards for enthusiasm and awards for ingenuity; however, perhaps… there should be a category that combines enthusiasm and ingenuity. [...]
Georgia On My (If I Only Had a) Mind
Atlanta, GA — What happens when you gather geeks from around the world? Students interested in math and science gathered at the Georgia Dome for the FIRST robotics world championships. From Saudi Arabia to Israel and from Canada to Brazil, the youth traveled to Atlanta. There were over 500 high school teams [...]
Miss Daisy Feels Peachy
Ambler, PA — Local robotics teams that made the achievement of qualifying for the world championships are in Atlanta, GA. The Wissahickon High School Team 341 “Miss Daisy” obtained many awards this season including first place at the Western Regionals in San Diego, CA.
Team 341 arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday. On Thursday [...]
16 Nations At War With Pirates
Anti-piracy Operations
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 14, 2009 – The U.S. military has initiated a review to look “broadly and widely and deeply” at the overall strategy on piracy off the coast of Somalia, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” [...]
Fire!
Oklahoma And Texas Fires
Western and central Oklahoma, as well as, Texas are experiencing severe wildfires. Paul Cunningham, the Sheriff of Montague County in North Texas said, “We’ve lost communities. Stoneburg is pretty much gone.”
Hundreds of homes and businesses have burned. Seventy mile-an-hour winds are fanning the fires. Just in Texas, more than [...]
Pirates Of Somali
Indian Ocean — It is like some kind-of retro Pirates of the Caribbean meets a futuristic War of the Worlds. Somali pirates have attacked ships from Norway, Germany, North Korea, France, the Philippines, Russia and the United States to name a few. They hold over 250 hostages. The most recent kidnapping is [...]
Notes from the Land War in Asia
These guys are pikers compared to Wall Street. Perhaps we ought to send the best and the brightest from Wall Street to the bazaars of Ghazni .
“…American and Afghan officers who cite some examples: police officials who steal truckloads of gasoline; judges and prosecutors who make decisions based on bribes; high-ranking government officials [...]
GM and Segway For Two Wheeled Car-scooter
Unique solution opens new horizons in personal mobility
NEW YORK – General Motors Corp. and Segway today demonstrated a new type of vehicle that could change the way we move around in cities.
GM and Segway Join Forces to Reinvent Urban Transportation
Dubbed Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), GM and Segway are developing an electrically powered, [...]
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Earthquake in L’Aquila
Italian Red Cross Responds to Earthquake in L’Aquila
Italy — At least 217 people died in an an earthquake centered around L’Aquila. Overnight, more than 100 people were rescued from under fallen buildings. It is estimated that thousands of people are without homes.
The Red Cross says:
The American Red Cross will continue to monitor the [...]