The impact of Technology changed numerous industries, while they continued to flourish in North America including manufacturing, communication, and transprtation from 1750-2000 improving the way of life.
Idustry the manufacturing industry the pre civil war ocurred and the slaves that were living in North America was a cheap labor source. The cotton gin The end of slavery brought about the need for the cotton gin and other machinery, but you cant compete with free labor. The cotton gin developed in 1793 marked a major turning point in the economic history of the Southern United States. Prior to this time, the major commodities produced and exported by the South were tobacco and rice. Only with the ability to quickly separate short-staple cotton fiber from its seed was the future of the Southern economy, and its use of slave labor, tied to cotton production. It made the poulation grow. The poulation is still growing from todays society and our income and finance and cost of living has gone up
Road transport was not suitable for heavy, bulky or fragile goods. A horse and cart could only transport around 1tonne along most of the roads and the ride was sometimes very difficult. In contrast, a horse could move 40tonnes of goods on a barge and the weight didn't really matter because of buoyancy. Around 1750, most businesses such as mines and potteries were considering building canals to carry their goods as it would be cheaper, not having to pay turnpike tolls. It started though with horse and buggies but the the time and distance depended on how slow it was. The indusrial revelution and imperialism made transportation more efficient. Labor and wages decressed though.
Technology is constantly altering the way we live our lives. From how we eat to how we travel and work to how we entertain ourselves, technology has become an integral part of our day. However, the aspect of our lives that has been most impacted is likely the way we communicate with one another. These changes have been for both better and worse, but have unequivocally impacted the way we interact with the people in our lives.Technology has changed how when contact each other, when, and where. With cell phone service being much more consistent than it was in the 1990s, and a growing market of smartphones with mobile internet and email access, messages can literally be transmitted anywhere at any time. It started with the telegraph and had a growth on the nation. Then the expaned their knowledge and made the telephone. You can also communicate through internet or web cams.
The impact of Technology changed numerous industries, while they continued to flourish in North America including manufacturing, communication, and transprtation from 1750-2000 improving the way of life.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Intruder lives like a rap star in Diddy's mansion
4/14/2012
Quamine Taylor, 30, was arrested for trespassing at the home of Sean “Diddy” Combs, where the intruder lived it up like a rap star, eating fancy food, raiding the bar, and even wearing Diddy’s clothes.
According to police, Taylor found an unlocked basement door and made himself at home for almost 24 hours in the hip-hop magnate’s East Hampton home while he was away.
But, surprisingly enough, this is not the first time that Taylor has committed this crime. “I’ve actually been going to the house from time to time since 2001,” Taylor told The New York Post at the Suffolk County Jail. After his first break-in, he was discovered intoxicated by Combs’ pool.
For this recent “vacation”, Taylor smooth talked the alarm company into believing he was part of Diddy’s entourage, managing to evade detection when he triggered the alarm on his March 31st visit to the Bad Boy Entertainment CEO’s mansion.
Taylor enjoyed a restful stay until 4 p.m. April 1st when a caretaker discovered him and called the cops.
“I really didn’t go to Diddy’s house because I’m a big fan of his. I just wanted to get out of the city for a while,” Taylor explained.
But, just like Kenny Chesney’s deranged intruder who suffered from severe alcoholism, there is a sad side to this entertaining tale.
“He grew up listening to [Diddy’s] music,” said Taylor’s concerned mother. “He has a long history of mental illness, and he has been off his meds for a while. We have been trying to get him some help.”
According to police, Taylor found an unlocked basement door and made himself at home for almost 24 hours in the hip-hop magnate’s East Hampton home while he was away.
But, surprisingly enough, this is not the first time that Taylor has committed this crime. “I’ve actually been going to the house from time to time since 2001,” Taylor told The New York Post at the Suffolk County Jail. After his first break-in, he was discovered intoxicated by Combs’ pool.
For this recent “vacation”, Taylor smooth talked the alarm company into believing he was part of Diddy’s entourage, managing to evade detection when he triggered the alarm on his March 31st visit to the Bad Boy Entertainment CEO’s mansion.
Taylor enjoyed a restful stay until 4 p.m. April 1st when a caretaker discovered him and called the cops.
“I really didn’t go to Diddy’s house because I’m a big fan of his. I just wanted to get out of the city for a while,” Taylor explained.
But, just like Kenny Chesney’s deranged intruder who suffered from severe alcoholism, there is a sad side to this entertaining tale.
“He grew up listening to [Diddy’s] music,” said Taylor’s concerned mother. “He has a long history of mental illness, and he has been off his meds for a while. We have been trying to get him some help.”
In North Korea, third Kim's bloodline all that matters
SEOUL |
(Reuters) - Smarting from a failed rocket launch, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has little choice but to stick to his father's playbook of milking an impoverished country to develop weapons and blackmail the international community for aid and recognition.
Far from fearing a coup or instability after Friday's public fiasco, the third of his line to rule North Korea will lead celebrations on Sunday to mark the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, the founder of the world's only Stalinist monarchy, "Eternal President" Kim Il-sung.
The state that Kim inherited in December after the death of his father Kim Jong-il boasts a 1.2 million-strong military, wants to possess a nuclear weapon and to develop the ability to hit the United States with it - the aim, critics say, of the failed rocket launch.
Behind those ambitions are 23 million people, many malnourished, in an economy whose output is worth just $40 billion annually in purchasing power parity terms, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, compared with South Korea's $1.5 trillion economy.
The puny size of the economy means development is not the answer, tying Kim into the "military first" policies of his late father Kim Jong-il who oversaw the development of the state's nuclear and missile ambitions.
"For Kim Jong-un, opening North Korea means the end of a system that his grandfather and father fostered," said Virginie Grzelczyk, a North Korea expert at Nottingham Trent University in Britain.
"Kim Jong-un is unlikely to be losing power over the launch, as the elite and the military need his legitimizing and mythical presence in order to pacify the North Korean population."
The small scale of the economy is matched by North Korea's limited diplomatic clout. It has few friends other than China, whose strategic interest is in keeping a buffer between it and South Korea which has U.S. military bases.
Even China sounded increasingly exasperated in the run-up to Friday's rocket launch as Pyongyang ignored its pleas for restraint, despite aid pumped in by Beijing, and its diplomatic protection at bodies like the United Nations.
Without real weight in the international arena, Pyongyang is forced to rely on periodic rocket launches, nuclear tests and attacks on South Korea, such as the one in 2010 when it shelled an island, to remind the world of its existence, analysts say.
That is likely to mean sticking to the same script as in 2009, when North Korea followed a failed attempt to put a satellite into orbit with a nuclear test.
Intelligence satellite images showing a tunnel being dug at the site of two previous tests imply that it either wishes to remind the world of the possibility, so as to prompt a return to aid for disarmament talks, or is actually preparing for one.
"Internationally, now they have to do a nuclear test, preferably using uranium, just in order to show that they should be taken seriously," said Andre Lankov, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Kookmin University.
SOME LIES ARE TOO BIG EVEN FOR PYONGYANG
Pyongyang did depart from its previous practise when it publicly admitted on state television that the Unha-3 rocket had failed to deliver its weather satellite into orbit in time for Kim Il-sung's birthday.
A 2009 launch that the international community said had failed was hailed as a success by North Korea, where the only news available to its people is from the state.
But to read into the announcement signs of new openness is to overstate the issue, most commentators on North Korea say. The presence of so many foreign journalists and the spread of cellphones, of which there are now more than a million, made it too risky.
"For all its habitual lying, the propaganda apparatus shies away from lies it can too easily be caught out on," said Brian Myers, a North Korea expert at Dongseo University in South Korea.
In parallel with the short announcement on the rocket's failure, North Korea continued to churn out reams of propaganda aimed at bolstering the legitimacy of Kim Jong-un and his claim to power based on his bloodline.
"The idea and feats Kim Il-sung performed in the 20th century have been fully carried forward and his glorious history continues uninterruptedly along with prospering Songun (military-first) Korea," state news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
The anniversary of Kim Il-sung's birth was supposed to usher in a "strong and prosperous" nation.
North Korea claimed that industrial output grew 2 percent last year, but according to United Nations data its economy is in fact the same size as it was 20 years ago after being devastated by a famine in the 1990s.
It appears to fund itself through exports of its mineral wealth to China, sales of weapons technology to states such as Syria and Iran as well as a variety of criminal enterprises such as narcotics and faking $100 bills.
Last June it was caught smuggling weapons to Myanmar, an income stream that has been cut off with that country's opening.
Periodically, it confiscates the wealth of its own citizens as it did in a 2009 revaluation of its currency and a crackdown on hoarding of foreign currency, something it may need to do more of as financial sanctions bite and old allies, like Myanmar, halt their purchases.
A defector, surnamed Ryu, who entered South Korea in 2011 and is now living in Seoul, said there was simply no choice but to comply with the forced confiscation.
"There were so many who were beaten," said Ryu, aged in his mid-40s, who declined to give his full name for fear of reprisals.
"People were at each other's throats; there was no telling who would rat on you for having a secret stash of foreign cash."
Chon Hyun-joon, an expert on North Korea at the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification in South Korea, estimates that as much as $2 billion to $3 billion could have been raised, although other experts say the figure was lower.
Whatever the state of the economy, missile and nuclear weapons development will take priority for North Korea, experts say. Figures published in South Korean media suggest that $3 billion has been spent on the nuclear and missile programme over the years.
"Even Kim Jong-il admitted that the first rocket launch required millions of dollars," said Kim Yeon-su, a professor at the National Defense University in Seoul.
"He said at the time the cost would be paid even at the expense of the North Korean people."
(Additional reporting by Ju-min Park and Jeremy Laurence; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Daniel Magnowski)
San Antonio winning with offense
Spurs could struggle in playoffs without trademark stifling D
By Neil Paine | Basketball Reference
With the San Antonio Spurs vaulting up the Western Conference standings over the past few months, you might be tempted to take a stroll down memory lane, reminiscing about those great championship Spurs teams of old. You know, the ones featuring the likes of David Robinson, Bruce Bowen and Robert Horry, with a suffocating defense led by Tim Duncan, owner of the sixth-most defensive win shares in NBA history.
It's true, the Spurs' title years are only matched by the 1950s/60s Celtics in the pantheon of all-time great defensive dynasties. In fact, they're the only two teams in the history of the NBA to sustain a defensive efficiency five points better than the league average over a 14-season span. For this reason alone, Duncan deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Bill Russell when it comes to anchoring the greatest multi-year defenses ever built.
From 1998-2008, the Spurs never finished outside the league's top three in defensive efficiency. On offense, San Antonio was regularly above-average, and only finished worse than 12th in offensive efficiency once between 1999 and 2007. But just the same, they were never an elite offensive team; 2007 was the only season during San Antonio's dynasty years that they ranked among the league's top five teams in points per possession. It's hard to find fault with this game plan of serviceable offense and elite defense -- after all, it resulted in four titles over a nine-season span.
However, the red-hot Spurs of 2012 bear little resemblance to those dynasty-era San Antonio teams. As Duncan has gotten longer in the tooth and defense-first role players like Bowen and Horry have retired, the Spurs have gradually shifted their focus away from a dominating D. This season, San Antonio ranks just 13th in defensive efficiency, their worst showing since 1997 (the year before Duncan's rookie campaign).
Instead, these Spurs are winning with offense -- which could lead to postseason disappointment in San Antonio for the second season in a row.
By Neil Paine | Basketball Reference
With the San Antonio Spurs vaulting up the Western Conference standings over the past few months, you might be tempted to take a stroll down memory lane, reminiscing about those great championship Spurs teams of old. You know, the ones featuring the likes of David Robinson, Bruce Bowen and Robert Horry, with a suffocating defense led by Tim Duncan, owner of the sixth-most defensive win shares in NBA history.
It's true, the Spurs' title years are only matched by the 1950s/60s Celtics in the pantheon of all-time great defensive dynasties. In fact, they're the only two teams in the history of the NBA to sustain a defensive efficiency five points better than the league average over a 14-season span. For this reason alone, Duncan deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Bill Russell when it comes to anchoring the greatest multi-year defenses ever built.
From 1998-2008, the Spurs never finished outside the league's top three in defensive efficiency. On offense, San Antonio was regularly above-average, and only finished worse than 12th in offensive efficiency once between 1999 and 2007. But just the same, they were never an elite offensive team; 2007 was the only season during San Antonio's dynasty years that they ranked among the league's top five teams in points per possession. It's hard to find fault with this game plan of serviceable offense and elite defense -- after all, it resulted in four titles over a nine-season span.
However, the red-hot Spurs of 2012 bear little resemblance to those dynasty-era San Antonio teams. As Duncan has gotten longer in the tooth and defense-first role players like Bowen and Horry have retired, the Spurs have gradually shifted their focus away from a dominating D. This season, San Antonio ranks just 13th in defensive efficiency, their worst showing since 1997 (the year before Duncan's rookie campaign).
Instead, these Spurs are winning with offense -- which could lead to postseason disappointment in San Antonio for the second season in a row.
Prosecutor's quandary: Zimmerman may be indicted, then acquitted
April 10, 2012|By Alan M. Dershowitz , Special to CNN
On the basis of the evidence currently in the public record, one likely outcome of the case against George Zimmerman is a mixed one: There may be sufficient evidence for a reasonable prosecutor to indict him for manslaughter, but there may also be doubt sufficient for a reasonable jury to acquit him.
Any such predictions should be accepted with an abundance of caution, however, because the evidence known to the special prosecutor, but not to the public, may paint a different picture. It may be stronger or weaker
On the basis of the evidence currently in the public record, one likely outcome of the case against George Zimmerman is a mixed one: There may be sufficient evidence for a reasonable prosecutor to indict him for manslaughter, but there may also be doubt sufficient for a reasonable jury to acquit him.
family history
My sister Ashley graduated fro Lincoln High school in Dallas, Tx. She graduated at the top of her class and moved to Univerisity of Texas at Austin. My sister is a great writer. She has written in the Dallas Morning news sports section for DISD and traveled to Spain with one of her school clubs. My sister is a loving, caring role model for me, and is good at math, and she teaches me the right way to do things and not the wrong way. My mama is a big part of my life she attended a private school called saint phillips catholic school for five years, and also s.s corner elementary. Then she moved on to W.H Gaston Middle School and she moved to Skyline High school for 4 years. After she graduated from high school, and moved on to college at East Field college and Texas Southern University in Houston, tx. And now, she is pursuing a nursing degree at remington College, she is a medical assistant and tech.
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