How ironic, I was just reading On Dialogue and I didn’t notice that I was just about to talk, or apparently I just talked… WAAAAAAAAA. Noting this irony, I’ll try to observe my thinking process. A mini conversation between Pablito, Javier t and Bert. I didn’t understand, and I assume that the rest of the circle didn’t understand that either. I really like that a lot of people have asked for clarification: 5times. I can notice that people read, it is a nice feeling. Not many interruptions or people talking at the same time. Somebody asked the page number, I said 90: Those little impulses that get out of my mind without I really noticing until they are out.

Drama was very cool, we were supposed to act context-less scenes. I said suppose because since I couldn’t speak, Kata and I just mimicked what we were supposed to say, everyone laughed. Every MPCer had a great time during drama, as always, it was fun and relaxing. Laughter is good for your health.

Apparently I talk in big chunks, and when I want to “help” someone. I took a power nap during my individual working time, and when I woke up Chacho was asking to Kata till what page should we read Mechanics for Heinze’s class. I was very excited because I read the chapter yesterday and I really learned so much, and since again: I had just woke up… I said a big chunk of words which I don’t really remember at the moment. Apparently my impulsivity comes in big chunk, I don’t even notice it until I am in the middle of my 4^th word, or so. It has been a very nice day, Heinz is coming in a while and we are working on our human pendulum. 3:55 brb.

The human pendulum was awesome! Everyone in my group (me, included) had a great time. I wanted to cry for a while, because I had the chronometer and we were measuring the time that took Marce, Kata and Javier T to oscillate five times in the pendulum. The time was exactly the same! After reading about Galileo in Mechanics and Copernican Revolution, this was very special to me, because I knew that it took centuries for someone to say that if you throw two objects of the same volume and different mass “from the Tower of Pisa” or from somewhere else, the heavier and the light object shall fall at the same time. With the pendulum you can really prove that the weight of something is not the reason why some objects fall faster than others… I am in awe at the inventiveness and brains of Galileo and I was imagining what he probably felt when he made this discovery (even if according to Kuhn he never experimented at the tower of Pisa, but derived his calculations from logical arguments instead).

At the beginning of Debrief I was feeling sad because everyone was just giving “negative feedback”. I, on the contrary, had more good things to say than bad ones. No good things were acknowledged and I think it is of high importance that we celebrate what is right with the world in order to have energies to fix what’s wrong. Today the vibe that I felt in the environment was of happiness, joy, love of learning, inquiry and many other things. The one that I felt the most today was the power of happiness. I wanted to cry for about 5 times during the day, all of them for happiness reasons. We had the visit from Giancarlo for a very small period of time, but I almost cried while I was thinking about him and how amazing he really is. Other things that really impacted me were our minitrip to the wropes to experiment with “Human pendulum”. The experience was amazing and beautiful; discovery and learning are both awesome things. A Beautiful, beautiful experience.

After debrief I went for about 15 min to the presentation of the last of Carlos Sabino books. Amable Sanchez was talking and Giancarlo was there, I also wanted to cry of happiness. It is simply amazing to get to know all this wonderful people, and having them under the same roof, all at once.

Rational numbers are any number that you can turn into a fraction. Easy enough. I get this part it looks and sounds easy.

Rational functions is a function with 2 function in a fraction. Ex: f(x) (p(x))/(g(x)). This seems a bit difficult to me. I probably got it at first but forgot it a few hours later.

Well, there is a way that you don’t have to use a keyboard and still take notes.  There is an app for iPad called “Note Taker HD” that allows you to do just that.  It’s only $4.99 on the iTunes app store and it’s really good at what it does.  It allows you to start with a blank page or you can work on imported PDF files and annotate them.

This does allow you to save paper and acts like a real notepad.  The interface may be a little busy at first, but after using it a bit you will settle right in.

Buy it directly here at the iTunes App Store.

“Making your digital life simple and wire free.”

Yakima Canutt was the real deal. Here was a world champion rodeo rider and bulldogger, a cowboy prodigy who broke a wild bronco at age 11. A guy educated on horse back, his fame and clout eventually let him rub shoulders with the likes of Tom Mix and Douglas Fairbanks and to appear in nearly 50 silent films before the advent of talkies. It was then that Yak pioneered the stuntman game. As far as I know there aren’t men like Yak anymore. There are stuntmen and women, of course, but insurance rates and CGI have minimized their presence and diluted the thrill and spectacle of real falling bodies. There must still be a strong cowboy culture on the prairies of America today, but the only rodeo rider I’ve ever met is now a grad student studying creative writing. Like I said, Yak was the real deal. In point of fact, John Wayne modeled much of his persona and mannerisms on him. But the Duke was never as fearless as Yak. Watch Stagecoach and there he is, the cowboy from Colfax actually jumping from coach to horse and from horse to horse. It’s amazing. Not just the stunts, but the fact that here before our eyes is a moment in the life of a man. History’s intractable and chaotic shaping of the man made these feats the crux of his existence and the hundreds of films in which he performed relics of Yak’s essence.

What a thing movies are, the height of artifice, totally fraudulent, and yet also crisp shards of time and truth. Seigfried Kracauer was on to something when in the nascent days of film theory, when thinkers dwelled on the origins of film language, he wrote about the two strands of cinema, those of Méliès and Lumière. Take on the one hand the Eisensteinian approach employed by Sam Raimi in Darkman to create the maniacal Tex Avery-esque sequence in which the hero is tethered to a helicopter and on the other the Bazinian look at the real Jackie Chan actually swinging on a rope ladder from a helicopter over Hong Kong in Police Story 3: Supercop. Raimi’s is a loopy fever dream of invention, while in Supercop the camera bears witness to Jackie’s feats. Jackie, like Yak, made defiance of death his bread and butter, but unlike Yak, his personality is the real centerpiece of his films and wholly integrated with the stunt elements. Raimi’s films incorporate the actual physicality of performance (most notably the slapstick of Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead Trilogy), but are undeniably the product of wild cinematic contrivance that reaches beatific heights of zaniness. The two strands are not often in such stark a contrast, but rather commingle secretly throughout every film. The tension and fusion of the two is often what makes a movie great and is what makes every movie a miracle.

Attached are revision notes and key events of each chapter for Animal Farm. I hope these are useful for anyone sitting exams this June. Click the links below to download.

Animal Farm Revision Notes

Animal Farm Key Events

Revision notes for To Kill A Mockingbird can be found in the link below. These should help you for your English Literature exam. Its best to learn English Literature of by heart so its basically just recall in an exam essay.

To Kill A Mockingbird Revision Notes

Oodle loves a good read, as much as the next feathered-friend.

He likes nothing more than to curl up on a branch with a good book and a cup of his finest tea.

Here are his top 12 reads:

The Three Musketeas

The tea-drinking sword-wielding soldiers defend the French throne against the villainous Cardinal Richelieu.

Treetop Island

Long John Sliver the Slug searches for the mystical island above the trees and the treasure that lies within.

Alice’s Adventures in Woodland

Alice follows the White Rabbit down his burrow and stumbles into the wonderful world of Woodland.

The Adventures of Crumbs the Crimefighter

Baker Street’s lessor-known super-sleuth. Who is this man they call Holmes?

A Tale of Twoo Cities

Lawyer Beaky Carton must save the husband of the owl he loves during the French Revolution.

The Call of the Wild

Buck the Beagle must adapt to his new surroundings after he is abducted from his home in California and sold as a sled dog.

The Scarlet Leaf

A leaf is persecuted for refusing to stay attached to just one tree.

Crumblet

The Prince of Denmark returns home to find his biscuits eaten and his tea stolen by his dastardly uncle.

Mansfield Peck

Fanny Peck goes to live with her distant family in Mansfield and proves to be a strong-willed Chick when it comes to finding a suitor.

Crumbford

The Voles of Crumbford love nothing more a good gossip and biscuit-nibbling but the industrious badgers are coming.

Beak House

A tale about 19th century legal eagles.

Oliver Tweet

Orphan Oliver Tweet’s life changes forever when he meets bread-thief, the Artful Duckster.

EARLY THANK-YOU NOTES

Messages of fortune and goodwill on slips of papyrus were the first known greetings exchanged in Chinese and Egyptian culture.  In the 1400′s Europeans practiced exchanging notes as a new way of social expression writing on paper and hand delivering greeting cards locally.  In 1856, ‘Pouis Prang’, a German immigrant brought greeting cards and notes to America.

POSTAGE STAMPS

Postage stamps invented in 1840, launched the idea of sending notes and cards into the mainstream.  It became common to purchase printed notes and cards with art-work created by artists.  Etiquette books began recommending appropriate practices for writing and sending thank-you notes.

ELECTRONIC CARDS

Technology has taken a primary role in sending and receiving thank-you notes, invitations and general greetings.  Electronic cards (e-cards) are created on a computer and sent digitally.  Even an e-card thank-you note should be sent with a personal message of heartfelt thanks.

I would like to see the ACC Tourney moved to Barclays.

• Rumors are swirling that the ACC may be looking to move their conference tourney to the best basketball city in the world in the near future. The move would either put the tournament at Madison Square Garden or Barclays Center. As an ACC fan, the speculation regarding the move thrills me. But, I do think that the Big East Tournament should continue to be played at MSG both for tradition’s sake and because I sincerely expect the Big East to continue to be an elite college basketball conference. A Big East Tournament at any other location would be, in my not so humble opinion, a travesty of titanic proportions. If the ACC Tourney was played at MSG at a different time than the Big East’s, that would be fine by me, but I really think the ACC should have its eyes set on the Barclays Center. I am by no means a huge fan of Barclays, but the arena’s location is perfect and I think its aggressively grandiose exterior and interior and its theater style ambiance might fit nicely with what will likely be a yearly epic of a conference tournament.
• On the subject of the Barclays Center, I am quite excited about next season’s Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival. On December 28th, St. John’s will play Columbia, BC will play VCU, and Kansas State will play Tulane. As a BC fan, I am thrilled that Eagles will be taking on an elite caliber team like VCU in the non-conference. The St. John’s-Columbia game will also be delightful. The Red Storm seem poised to have a break out season and Columbia will have a chance to give what should be an excellent Ivy League a big win (I’ll get to the Ivy in a sec). Plus, its an intra-city rivalry and those are always fun. The Tulane-K-State matchup will likely be quite one-sided however, as Tulane’s two best players from last season, Josh Davis and Ricky Tarrant are transferring. Still, I now know where I want to spend my Christmas!
  

  Expect big things from Ivy League basketball next season.

• Our dear friends at Harvard will enter next season as a fringe top 25 team. Harvardfan94 is enjoying this immensely. But the entire Ivy League should also be really strong. I’m talking all-time strong. In 2011-12, the Ivy League probably had its best season ever as Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale all had terrific seasons. The league as a whole took a step back last season, although it was still better than you might expect. Harvard had another dream type season which included their first ever NCAA Tourney win. Princeton also rolled to another solid season, led by star Ian Hummer. Yale meanwhile managed to be competitive despite the loss of dynamite big man Greg Mangano to graduation. Their performance reaffirmed my view that Yale coach James Jones is one of the best and most underrated in all of college hoops. But that was last season, and now the Ivy League is gearing up for what likely will be the best year for the conference ever. Harvard will of course lead the charge for the league. With highly touted big Zena Edosomwan coming in to provide help in the paint, experienced and talented vets Brandyn Curry and Kyle Casey returning to the team, (they missed last season after being implicated in Harvard’s controversial academic cheating scandal) and young stars such as Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers returning, it is easy to see why expectations are high for the Crimson next year. The whole league should also be good from top to bottom. Yale should be really solid and could pose a serious threat to Harvard. They made visible improvement throughout last season which culminated with a nice three game winning streak. The Bulldogs will miss sniping 2 guard Austin Morgan, but all-around stud Javier Duren appears poised for a breakout junior season and fellow junior Armani Cotton, who has NBA size, should also be excellent. Probably the most important Yalie next season will be Justin Sears who was tremendous as a freshmen last season. He could emerge as an Ivy POY candidate. Cornell should also be successful. The Big Red added some serious size in David Onuorah and Tim Higgins. With multi-dimensional forward Shonn Miller and the strokity Nolan Cressler returning, Cornell should have their best season since the Steve Donahue days. Brown also should be strong, despite the graduation of guard Matt Sullivan. With guard Sean McGonagill at the helm, the Bears, who won four of their final five games this past season, will at least be competitive. Princeton meanwhile loses Hummer, but they always seem to manage to find a way to win games. Somehow I doubt they will be an easy out for anybody this season. Penn will also be better. Dartmouth, ehhhh… not so much.
  

  The signing of Wiggins represents a recruiting coup for KU.

• One of the biggest stories in the college hoops world the past few weeks has been the one surrounding Andrew Wiggins’ choice of school to attend. Wiggins, who has been getting Lebron James comps for a while now, decided to bring his NBA ready game to Kansas, where Jayhawks fans can finally stop mourning the losses of Ben McLemore and Jeff Withey and start looking forward to the Wiggins era  season. The phenom from Canada is considered by most to be the best player in a class that includes Jabari Parker, Julius Randle, and Andrew Harrison. KU also landed Wayne Seldon earlier in the recruiting season, so they have to feel good about where they stand. Bill Self’s staff at Kansas may not have landed the same number of 5* guys as John Calipari at Kentucky–who might just have put together the best recruiting class ever–but they did land the biggest recruit of them all, and that should put KU inside of or near the top five entering next season. If Wiggins is half as good as people expect, the Jayhawks might end next season playing on Monday night.
• Another story that has been catching my eye every time I hit up espn.com is the one about DePaul’s new arena. I think it is very cool that the Blue Demons are moving their venue into the city, but they can’t possibly think the move will  boost their fledgling basketball program by itself. Now, if Oliver Purnell could put together a half decent recruiting class, that would help a whole lot more. I recognize that the idea is that the new facility will attract recruits, but I’m not sure how many kids are going to be enticed to join one of the worst big-time college basketball programs simply because they built a  new arena. I guess when you’re a team like DePaul, you do anything you can to get the attention of recruits.

Look for more college basketball off-season notes and thoughts as we slowly creep towards next season!

Since we’re not all the same, there are certain people who’d any day take a short-cut to avoid such problems. Whether that short-cut comes at a cost or not, it doesn’t matter to them. So long as the problem rushes past without touching them. They are the people who get pushed around by such trivial matters. They risk everything in order to save themselves. Ideally they wouldn’t qualify for my “favourite people on earth” list. But recently I saw/heard  something that completely changed my thinking. It may not apply to every case but it certainly does to some. There’s always a reason behind everything. Sometimes these people may have bigger issues to deal with, than we can begin to think of. Sometimes they are driven to extreme ends not because of their “bad/evil nature” but because circumstances force them to choose some insane options. Its true that life always gives us options, but not necessarily either one is feasible. Not everybody has a black heart. Some just need a loving hug or a friendly (forgiving) pat from time to time, to help them take the correct decisions. Insecurity often plays a major role in their lives. So showing faith and encouragement helps a lot. It makes them feel wanted, feel loved. They begin to realize that there is someone looking out for them. With that kind of outlook, it becomes easier to face problems head-on regardless of how tough it may seem at first. Soon the short-cuts all dissipate. And you’ve thus helped build someone’s esteem and confidence. Forgive and forget. Its okay to let them know, this is not the end of the world. And that you’re there for them, unconditionally. Often, a few considerate words are all it takes to wash away the enormity of one’s mistake.

So let’s hold hands, and fight this together!

Mia

We worked on going through the Power Point slides to see how the order would help us see the paper organization, as well as talking about content on slides and finding a balance between images and text.

Here are the video links for chapter 22 lesson 2. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6Hm1QoDYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B69RHqAfj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvzXqasziUE

Good luck during the upcoming exams. Study hard! (,”)

I am constantly surrounded by inspiration and support, and for that I have gratitude coming out my ears.  Do you ever feel like you just know you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing?  Well, I’ve been in more situations than I can count where I’ve questioned myself, wondering is this really what I should be doing?  Being professionally uncertain for so long, I have to say it’s a damn good feeling to know that I have finally reached contentment.  It only took me 4, 326 wrong turns to get here!  But I’m on my way to where I want to be now and the journey just keeps getting better.  That’s all that matters. . . Following your heart, doing what you love, and giving to others around you!

This past year, starting with the birth of GTH, has been so exciting and such a journey for me!  First starting my blog, then getting people to read my blog, then getting feedback and thanks from others, then overcoming my fear of public speaking and teaching my first juicing class, then enrolling in Nutrition School, then launching my own business, and all of it being shared with all of my readers: all of which are equally nerve-wrecking and beyond exciting at the same time.  Not to mention, all that I’ve grown through personally: breaking bad habits, overcoming fears, accepting myself and others, learning to love myself, putting myself out there without fear of judgement, facing all the skeletons in the closet, and dealing with them, letting go of people and things that no longer served me, and constantly choosing to live my truths–my authentic life.  Mentally, Healthily, and Spiritually, I have grown so much and I’m very happy to be able to share my story because I was not always this way, for a very long time. (See my story, here.)

Looking forward to another amazing year and all it has to bring, and sharing it with all of you!

xx

Chapter 17 Lesson 2
Capacitance
Chapter 17 Lesson 3
Electric Power
Chapter 17 Lesson 4
Current and Resistance
]]> http://theendofthedays.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/179/ Fri, 17 May 2013 15:27:34 +0000 wirelessanonymous http://theendofthedays.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/179/ Friday is here. Captain is up. He is eating. He is wondering. He does not see many visitors to his flickr account. That upsets the Captain. Penalties to follow. This is not how it is done. Captain says and gets done or need a good whipping. That is how it goes with dumb people and apparently we are. Oh well, you will get it. That is no problem.

Friday is here and so is the Super Bomb episode two. I wonder how many episodes before all of you go to hell. Intellectual activity continues. You it that and now get it wholesale package. Captain said nasty shit about a lot of people and if there was not enough contributors the State Dept insists on helping. The problem with these people is they can do this stuff and later deny having said or that they ever were around. Some at least. That may be true but not when involving Captain. Here you talk and you answer later too. Our NSA buddies are doing worse daily. As TV has nothing to say obviously NSA is systematically changing. Some casualties here and there. NSA internal courts have tried more than a few. Interesting enough, a few always get caught and get it overseas but since big changes later to be called NSA reform are underway, the word is more than a few NSA officials are wanted criminals for doing their jobs as American government officials and will be subjects of outside trial and executions or life prison. And yes we know about US power, the Constitution, and all the rest. That is TV world of yours. This is real world and these are advanced countries. A nice trivia for you. Before Obama went to Israel since his troubles here were so at large, one of the interesting events was word came from Libya big money was available to turn Barack Obama over to be tried for his crimes. I even have a better one that sounds mad if TV is all you know. Osama is still on asylum as retirement but is allowed to send messages and he is up to his old schemes which is funny. Now he officially does not exist to benefit the regime here. That was mad stuff that you know is not true because you watch television. NSA reform? Arent they perfect? Dept of State says nobody cares what happens to NSA because NSA is no government agency… A group of international specialists who do what they want. I thought they protect the country! That is what TV says. We have a few discrepensices between reality and what we are told by TV and scariest thing possible is when Captain Awesome is the only one filling that information gap. He is an asshole like you would not believe. You never forget that one. So my flicker account has not had many visitors! I remember that. I remember it well. A week of tweeting from Guru’s twitter and Guru got customers which is good but Captain got ziltch. Celebrities don’t get treated this way. As my art advisor said fortunately I have good stories to tell with the photos because most people cannot figure what are these pictures? As he says it I took a picture of the street and claim something is in there very high on art scale and nobody can see. It is just the fucking street he says but my story is good. Everyone then says oh yeah, yeah. We see it. Art. Yes, we do. I expect all of you do that or help me God, I will upset all world leaders from here and on and your TV world will turn gloomy. I am low on threats. For a long time, we just said you are dead and everyone moved. Since Revolutionary threats have been in we changed to you and your family are dead like these guy talk. That stopped working. I added pets too and little change. Finally the standing one is you are dead and your family and your pets and your neighbors. This one works for now. People stop to think shit what does that mean? What neighbor? How affects us? This is trouble with government. Subjects are like cockroaches or bacteria. They evolve and need new chemicals to control them. Dept of State is ahead of all of us. Forget narcotics. They are going for the good stuff for entire population. Americans are that out of control. I blame it on schools and TV. Others say they always been so. Time to shower. 17 May 2013

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