TAPA SINGING!

I hear TAPA singing many different varieties of carols;
Those in POH/OH, singing about the bunch of HW and projects in all of their classes;

Those SENIORS, singing about the college essays they have to write and preparing for college;
The Seniors, soon singing good bye to high school and hello to college;
The Juniors, singing about the SAT tests they soon have to take ;
Those in HSP1, singing about how difficult it is to learn English;
Those in chemistry, singing as they mix different chemicals together and hoping they won't damage anything ;
The Freshmans, who just entered high school, singing about how easy, life was in grade school last year;
Those in A.P. classes, singing about the hardships of taking college level classes in high school and the AP test at the end of the school year?!
The Sophomores, singing merrily as they don't have much to worry about;
The teachers, singing about the huge pile of things they have to grade before school ends;

Singing with their open mouths, their strong melodious songsTips:
1.HSP1 students can improve their English if they start talking more English and start reading more books in English.
2.Those in POH/OH, they can do their HW and projects in advance if they don't want to be stressed out at the end of the semester.

Innovation

Ben Franklin: He was a very creative person. He liked to invent different things to make people's lives easier. And he wouldn't stop trying to find a solution until he found a solution. He was determined to invent new things.  He tried to achieve perfection.

I found this article of something that happened on my birthday from WIRED.com.


Sept. 11, 1998: Starr Report Showcases Net’s Speed

By David Kravets September 11, 2009
12:00 am
Categories: 20th century, Communication, Computers and IT



1998: Sept. 11 is a black day in American history, on at least two counts … this is the other one. Exactly three years before the attacks in New York and Washington, Congress releases the contents of the infamous Starr report on the internet, which leads to the impeachment of a U.S. president.



It’s a significant event, not only in the life of Bill Clinton but also for the unprecedented blending of the media and internet in government transparency.



For the first time, if you didn’t have the net, you were missing history — in this case, the salacious details of the 42nd president’s sexual escapades with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. A lot people missed it. When Congress released the 445-page Starr report, the word blogosphere had yet to be coined and Twitter was still a sound made by birds.



Three months later, the scathing account of executive sexual prowess led to President Clinton’s impeachment. (Clinton was acquitted of all charges, perjury and obstruction of justice, in a Senate trial.)



Formally called the Referral From Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirement of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c), the report’s online debut provided the American public with its first unfiltered access to a current, yet historical, document. (Well, it was almost instant. Government servers kept crashing after the public was required to download the 445-page document in one file.) News outlets scrambled to publish it in pieces.



Equally, the report’s release underscored the power of the internet that was on its way to giving birth to a frenzy of venture funding that included millions invested, or wasted, on the absurd dream of bringing smell to what we once called the World Wide Web.



But as the internet bubble was gurgling, web traffic almost doubled from the previous day when the Starr report was released. According to J.D. Lasica, a social media critic, CNN.com was the first news outlet to post the report, only hours after its being hosted on government servers.



CNN was scoring an as-yet-unheard of 300,000 clicks a minute. MSNBC tallied nearly 2 million hits — a one-day record — and about 20 million people read the report within two days.



While presenting monster technical difficulties for government, web surfers and the media, the report’s online release shed light on what the mainstream media would never publish: the details of Clinton’s sexual escapades in the White House that led to the first perjury and obstruction charges against a sitting U.S. president since the 19th century.



Traditional media, meanwhile, danced around the lurid details. The Washington Post, for example, simply ran the transcript of Starr’s report without discussing any of the specifics. It did provide an editor’s note: “Some of the language in these documents is sexually explicit.” Countless other news outlets issued similar warnings.



Today, with the enormous influence of the internet, mainstream media might be more inclined to tell all. Yet, it’s doubtful that even now we would find the word “cigar” used in that context in a newspaper headline or a TV video stream.



Source: OIC



Top Photo: This Official White House photo taken Nov. 17, 1995, from page 3179 of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s report on President Clinton, showing President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky at the White House.

FRONTIERS

Summary: In this video, Pyle talks about coral reefs.  He wanted to discover a way to go between 200-500 ft in the water to discover different species living there, that are unknown to us. So he made a breathing device that works well between 200-500 ft under water. It was quieter, it lasted longer and it allowed them to go much deeper in the ocean. His frontier: parts of the coral reefs others have never explored. He found many different species of fishes and he named them.

I think it was interesting. I learned more about the coral reefs. There are many species of animals living deep down in the ocean that no one has discovered yet. As time passes by, I'm sure they will get discovered.

I would like to explore space, like different planets in space like Venus, Saturn etc. I would have to create something that would contain oxygen for a very long time and things like that. I would need to make a "shelter" or something like that, so I can stay there while I stay on the planets. The "shelter" would have to be portable so I can keep moving from planet to planet. I would explore then tell the people on earth what I discovered.

Survival skills project

Reason: The Europeans must have pickled their vegetable/Fruits so that they could use it during their long voyages. When you pickle your food, you're actually preserving it. After preserving foods you can use it for like 1 or 2 years.

Summary: So we demonstrated in the video how to pickle some vegetables like carrots successfully.

Steps:
First, you have to boil the vegetables till they are tender.
Second, sterilize the jars by boiling it in hot water for about 30-40 min.third, in a pan, combine vinegar, salt, sugar, water and mustard seeds and boil it. After you boil those things, add any vegetables to it and put it in the jar. Make sure the level of the liquid is above the vegetables. Then wait till it cools and then you have to seal it tightly. This pickle can be used for an year.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nGZQ_2VMfko


Partner: Eddie

Columbus Project

Group 1 Motives
political motives
It is easier for countries that had a coastline.The Europeans found Asia and they found it valuable things there like spices.
They liked spices a lot. They wanted to find a route to Asia to get these spices, then they could sell it for a High price. they also wanted to find gold and silver, these kinds of treasures..
Religion Motives
Crusades- in late 1400s
There was only one religion in Europe Christianity.
Knowledge motives
They had no idea how large the world is.
They thought the earth was flat.
Gain knowledge that there were other countries too.
Myths
Ponce de Leon found Florida but he was looking for the island of Bemini
He was looking for the fountain of youth
There were other myths like the 7 cities of gold
Rating: 9 out of 10

4th Group Navigation
Columbus wasn't the first person to discover America.

They had to use astrolobe, compass.
The sailors had to be well educated, smart.
They used sandglass, to record information about how long the trips took.
Pole stone: basically a compass it shows the way.
Compass rows: 32 points on a compass. When a young boy went to sea, they had to know how to use it, and the way to use it.
Celestial navigations
Observe the sun, moon, stars to measure the distance from one place to another.
Columbus used, quadrant , astrolobe, compass.
Astrolabe and quadrant only could measure vertical angles.
I think their way of presenting was fine, only I couldn't hear a few people.
Rating 8 out of 10

Navigation 2 group
Columbus discovered islands he thought were near Asia .
A pilot would stay in a specific area. They were only an expert in a specific area
Chart was called portolan.
Gave info where the ports were.
People believed there were mermaids in the sea that would distract the sailors.
The Europeans didn't have too much information about the oceans.These were some of their myths. They thought there was only one ocean. They didn't know much about Asia.
I think they did an ok job. They could have given a little more info.
Rating: 8 out of 10.

3 types of boats
Santa maria- 75 ft long, 25 feet wide, 400 tons
Nina
Pinta

Capabilities
Santa Maria- carry cargo, fat,heavy deep draft
Nina,Pinta- smaller,
These boats didn't have engines
They moved by the power of wind.
Bow- front part of the ship
Stern- back part of a ship
The sails were made out of cloth.

Town Myths of Taiwan

Once upon a time , there was a city by the name of Taichong. This city got it's name in a very unusual way by a very special person. There was once a boy by the name of Little Chong. He came from a very small family, only he and his mom. His father died unfortunately because of overwork. So Little Chong had to support his mom. He had to start working from a young to help earn money. Little Chong and his mom used to work in the fields the whole day, from early morning to late at night. Little Chong vowed to get revenge for his father. After a few years, now Little Chong has become an adult.
He decided to make a plan how to seek revenge for his father. He worked really hard on this. He got many people to join him to seek revenge. He got his friends and his mom all to support him. And then one night everyone got together and they went to their boss' house at night and they protested about overwork how they have to work from early morning to late at night. They protested about how that was not fair at all. There were so many people, and they boss was so frightened he had no choice but to surrender and give the people what they asked for. Little Chong was the leader since he arranged it.Everyone was so proud of Little Chong that they ultimately named the city after him. Tai- for Taiwan and Chong for Little Chong. So this is the story of how Taichong got it's name.

Myth skits

At first we saw a skit where there was a big bear and a person from a village. It was really funny. The way that the bear got killed was by an arrow. There was a fight scene between the bear and the villager too. The way that they presented the skit was very funny. And and the end the person who killed the bear became the chief of the village.
Then the second skit was our skit. It was really fun to present it. Everyone was laughing a lot. Angel and I played the role of the villagers who were planning to kill the bear and then eat it for a ceremony.Sian and Eddie played the role of hunters who killed the bear. And Anderson played the role of a girl bear. It was funny because some of us didn't completely remember the lines and we needed to use the iPad. Then one of the hunters killed the bear and the bear dies. Then the other hunter got married to the bear who got turned into a human. It was a very funny story.
Then the last story was about a bird who is the chosen one to defeat another bird or something like that. Then that bird is isolated and goes through a lot of training and finally defeats the bad bird. This story was ok but I didn't really like it that much. I liked the first and second story more than the third story.

Listening video

Today we watched a video about how people listen to each other nowadays. The truth is that people don't listen as much nowadays. People only listen to things that matter to them,like the person they are talking with, or they might listen to music on their headphones.People don't even have to talk as much because there are things like e-mail. If you think about it, it's actually not such a good thing. Because they are not interacting as much they are just using different types of technology to communicate with others.