Immersion!!!

I am most excited that I get to work on robots! I am finishing up the Google Sketch-up designs. I am going to try to finish up the Google Sketch-up so I can get to coding, what I think is the Lego robot, which I have done before, but its always fun to do.
I am also going to help tear apart one of the old robots wiring!

I do not have that much stress about immersion, because I have already done most of this stuff before.

So psyched though for internship, I think it will be amazing!

Outstanding blogs

Looking through various peoples blogs I have seen some pretty cool blogs. We have some pretty well done blogs that deserve to be pointed out.

Diana Barlow has caught my eye when she wrote her six paragraph paper for her economic advice for Obama. She makes the point very clear with both her writing and a nice video at the bottom as a side piece of evidence she found. Her paper started out very simply of what her main objective was, as well as using a quote at the same time. "'Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages'..." using evidence if not once, twice in every paragraph.

Chandler's "Two Cents" for his honors blog was also fascinating as he established his points with page numbers as references to the book as well as quoting it from the book itself. "...he discovers that Daisy has married Tom Buchanan. 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'(Page 116)".

As well as Paul's blog on "things to do on interviews"... he laid out his points in much of an orderly fashion rater than paragraph form. This form of writing is simplistic yes, but is used wisely, it can prove to be sweet and to the point, rather that to read 50 blogs that have block text.
"Generalized Questions or Prompts
Simple open-ended questions will often yield complex, unique and interesting responses. These type of questions or prompts require the individual being interviewed to lead the content of the discussion in the direction of their choosing."
Which he also bolded the topic sentence before he laid down his points

How progressive was the progressive era?

It was not too progressive for the upper class, but it actually benefited the middle class. Which is pretty good due to the gilded age that occurred not to long ago. This era occurred from the massive industrialization period that they were facing, thus demanding reform for social, political, and economic standards. California, Oregon and Wisconsin were notably taking the lead in enforcing these changes at the time.

One big reform was the development of the sixteenth amendment. The sixteenth amendment restricted congress from abusing income tax. Income tax was then changed by requiring an appointment among the states basing it on census results. As for the creation of the seventeenth amendment superseding articles 1 & 3 by forcing either a normal election or special election of the event of one of the two senator seats. This will allow the seat to be open when a leave of absence is in effect with one or more senators. And as well as the nineteenth amendment granting women their rights to vote regardless of their gender. I shouldn't really need to point out what is important about that.

Science + Humanities? Nahh....

It may seem like these Science and Humanities cannot meet, but they are actually very crucial for them to link together. If you take the subject matter in extremes, science would not be able to write down their data if humanities was not involved! But in the more reasonable aspect, we need humanities to get across to people about the discovery or evidence. Science can only go so far before it is just plain useless if it cannot get into the public. With humanities, the subject matter is introduced into the public for viewers to be aware of their findings. But not only that, but humanities also makes the subject more "Human"-istic, whereas the intense scientific words are droned out with more simpler words (or is at least tempted to). It looks like humanities is dragging the load along pretty well huh?

So if we put this in an analogy; We have our materials full of scientific information that is waiting to be shipped to its customers. But before it can be shipped, the materials have to be tested before shipped (this is editing from humanities). Then we have to make sure the product will look applicable to the customers (what audience this article is trying out for, changing the wording to make it simple for children, or complex for college level reading). Eventually Public Relations takes over right about here and actually does the shipping, but I guess you get the point. Without this process, we might be giving information to customers that they do not understand, or is not how they expected it to be.

Oblogma 2

Throughout the history of the united states, we have had many major events; both good and bad, such as silicon valley and the many wars that took place. Right now we are at the beginning of a major crisis, in which we are currently undergoing a financial recession, which might even become a depression if worse comes to worse. Even though we have our dark hours, we have people that have put aside their glory to fix this problem head on that try their hardest to make it light again. In this case Obama is a major influence to our society, persuading America to join him for his struggle to improve America from the mistakes made by the previous commander in chief. Although I am not even near a professional, if I was appointed into the position to brief president Obama, I would lay down my following key points to what I think would help this economy out of this problem if a bailout is indeed the action that will be taken (which so far it has been). These key points are to keep the money in the right place, jobs have a steady rate, and to ensure a recovery.

All of these steps are equally important and must be treated equally with care, misuse of these will hinder the overall goal of the outcome. So with that note, the first rule I would lay down is a way to track the way that they spend out our money. Even though there is a major risk involved “Congress has failed to put strings on these loans to ensure that banks do not pay extravagant executive bonuses or take expensive retreats.”[1] This unattached sting has been a major problem as the companies that we lend to have no guidelines to be withheld in. So for this problem I suggest an offer to place a government official in their company to manage the money trafficking throughout the company. With this major role shared with the government, there might be some companies skeptical of the government getting this involved with this position of the company. For this problem that will soon to be faced, I believe that the interest in America will greatly appreciate the insurance that we use with companies, no against them, to ensure that they truly are going what they were intending to do with our taxpayers money.

As or the role of keeping companies alive, it is more important that the jobs are sustained with that company. The overall goal is not to save the company from bankruptcy, but overall to freeze layoffs to the slowest possible, and hopefully re-hiring people. “It’s estimated that 11.6 million Americans are currently collecting unemployment, bringing the national unemployment rate to its highest level since 1993.” And this is probably not at its lowest yet. With the strategy that we are not aiming to quickly develop the company into a top hit again, but merely put it back on track to it will be able to sustain and create jobs. With the unemployment rate jumping out windows, it is slowly approaching to be the next depression, although it will not be as catastrophic as the great depression, it will yield parts of America unable to sustain their income to afford the necessities to live in a standard living condition.

As well as getting the jump start to America, It is also important that we also get our funds recovered so we will not be in even bigger massive piles of debt. Even though we can print massive sums of money, it is the value hidden within the currency that makes money septate from everything else in the world. So all these loans brought out from other countries will be expected in around ten years from now. Ten years from now is a significant amount of time, in which we will be out of the ressecion, but the rate of which the companies made after its recovery is still an issue. Our debts are not just forgiving, they are expected back, and in full, one loan or another, the countries will ask for their money back.

1. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hRdNEUn0EJdRzHIWuwdox6VWT7JAD96A1FE80

2. http://www.suntelegraph.com/articles/2009/02/12/news/local_news/news01.txt

Snow in Rancho Bernardo?

It was actually really hard hail, but it looks like snow. It build up on the ground while were in a restaurant. The little snow pellets were floating together and made snowish feel on the ground.
It was pretty cool to see except it was very slippery to get back to the car. Which was pretty bad since we had a grandma with us. I kinda liked the slipping around (mostly because I don't have this every day nor every year). Its a real fluke that we got to witness the snow over here, because we almost went to another place to eat.
On the ground is a pretty large puddle that went in the restaurant a little bit. I guess that the irrigation was stuck with all the snow it had to power down. The "snow" that you see in the picture was about 20 of hail. About 20 minutes later we went to get our car in the hail, which was quite cumbersome since we had to walk up steps covered with ice. The cars we passed by were covered in ice on some part of it... It was pretty awesome!

What would happen if I talked to Obama about Economic Matters?

Well, I would highly doubt that I would ever get that position at this rate, but if I did, I would mention these topics.

* ensure that the money will be put into the right areas of the company
* ensure that jobs have a good chance of slowing their layoff rates because of it.
* ensure that the money has a majority of recovery.

---first---
first off, place a government overseer in jobs that have more of a problem
These government officials will oversee the companies goals and management issues.
There officials will be our insurance to make sure that nothing too extreme will happen.
how much money each company will get is based on the placed government advisor's advice

---second---
the whole goal is to save jobs, not necessarily the company... It is true that the companies are important to keep alive for jobs; but it cannot hinder the goal of originally keeping jobs.

---third---
now for the final part of this effort to also enforcing the path of the economy will steadily increase from its current sick state.

with these basic principles, I believe that the government can if not cure it, make it better than its current status...


For my interview with my mentor, I will be using my computer with one of my microphones. I will get another one, just in case the strength is not too good.