well, i've done 5 out of my 7-hour driving lessons, 2 hours of which is a 'matic car. the farthest i've been to is green meadows (from our house). o diba.
i've done parallel parking, maneuver, U turn, left and right turns. shifted gear up to the 4th. car died on me atleat 5 times. hahaha. so far, so good.
i'd like to do the 'hanging'. and practice more on handling the steering wheel. i am having a hard time on that. i suspect, maybe, just maybe, because i am accustomed on viewing the road from inside a vanette. i am driving now a vios. e diba me nguso yun? valid ba?
some comments from my instructors:
teacher: gigil na gigil ka sa manibela.
teacher: para ka namang nagkakambyo ng truck kung mahila mo yang kambyo.
teacher: pag di pa rin bumabagal ang sasakyan kahit inapakan mo na ang brake, ibig sabihin kulang ang apak mo, apakan mo pa.
teacher: magmenor ka naman pag me humps.
teacher: tandaan mo ang clutch.
teacher: wag mong pasingitin yan.
moi: okay, di ko yan papasingitin (sabay sumingit na nga yun isang car)
teacher: akala ko di mo papasingitin.
moi: hehe sumingit pa rin eh.
while trying to change lane
teacher: tignan mo ang side mirror mo kung sasakyan diyan sa kaliwa. meron ba?
moi: wala. and then turned the steering wheel to the left.
teacher: (sabay kabig pakanan) muntik mo ng mabangga yung motor.
moi: wala siya kanina dun eh.
everytime there's some driver/car messing my road:
moi: kuyaaaaaa
teacher: imbes na makuya ka diyan, apakan mo ang break, or mag menor ka or dumiskarte ka. chaka mas matanda ka pa sa akin, kuya ka ng kuya diyan.
moi: what i mean is, kuya ka pagdating sa experience sa pagdadrive.
don't get me wrong, those two instructors i got are all good and courteous. those statements were delivered in a nice manner, sometimes with 'madam' or 'ma'am'.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
how hot?
okay, just to emphasize and to have a point of comparison (though i know we can not really fully comprehend how hot the sun is, i sometimes wish i am superman so that i can see the sun closely and feel its heat without really killing me, but rather, nourish me wholly, just like superman nga.. er.. where was i?) -- how hot 50,000 degrees celsius is -- just an emission from the sun.
Typical temperatures of fires and flames
oxyhydrogen flame: 2000 °C or above (3645 °F)
bunsen burner flame: 1,300 to 1,600 °C (2,372 to 2,912 °F) (flame from the burner being used during our lab class?)
blowtorch flame: 1,300 °C (2,370 °F)
candle flame: 1,000 °C (1,830 °F)
smoldering cigarette:
Temperature without drawing: side of the lit portion; 400 °C (752 °F); middle of the lit portion: 585 °C (1,085 °F)
Temperature during drawing: middle of the lit portion: 700 °C (1,292 °F)
Always hotter in the middle.
The temperature of flames with carbon particles emitting light can be assessed by their color:
Red
Just visible: 525 °C (977 °F)
Dull: 700 °C (1,292 °F)
Cherry, dull: 800 °C (1,470 °F)
Cherry, full: 900 °C (1,650 °F)
Cherry, clear: 1,000 °C (1,830 °F)
Orange
Deep: 1,100 °C (2,010 °F)
Clear: 1,200 °C (2,190 °F)
White
Whitish: 1,300 °C (2,370 °F)
Bright: 1,400 °C (2,550 °F)
Dazzling: 1,500 °C (2,730 °F)
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
so damn hot!
All from http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
SDO - Solar Dynamics Observator
Mission: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
Science: SDO will study how solar activity is created and how Space Weather comes from that activity. Measurements of the interior of the Sun, the Sun's magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the irradiance that creates the ionospheres of the planets are our primary data products.
The picutures below are AIA data from March 30, 2010, showing a wavelength band that is centered around 304 Å. This extreme ultraviolet emission line is from singly ionized Helium, or He II, and corresponds to a temperature of approx. 50,000 degrees Celsius.
Friday, April 23, 2010
pink shirt day
this may be a little bit late, nonetheless, i'd still like to post this.
Pink Shirt Day started in a Nova Scotia high school, where a 9th grade boy was being bullied over wearing a pink polo shirt to school. A couple of grade 12 boys decided to take a stand against the bullying and wear pink in sympathy for the boy who had been so mercilessly prodded at. They went to a local discount store and bought 50 pink shirts, and distributed them amongst the other boys in their high school. They stood up for their fellow classmate and against the bullies, and made a real difference in someone's life. ~~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nimil/4516218810/
David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied…[They] took a stand against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9 student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school. ~~ http://www.pinkshirtday.ca/
bullying: in cyberworld
Cyber-bullying
Cyber-bullying is the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others; that is when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.
Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, but it may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech), ganging up on victims by making them the subject of ridicule in forums, and posting false statements as fact aimed at humiliation.
Unlike physical bullying, electronic bullies can remain virtually anonymous using temporary email accounts, pseudonyms in chat rooms, instant messaging programs, cell-phone text messaging, and other Internet venues to mask their identity; this perhaps frees them from normative and social constraints on their behavior.
Furthermore, cyber-bullies might be emboldened when using electronic means to carry out their antagonistic agenda because it takes less energy and courage to express hurtful comments using a keypad or a keyboard than with one’s voice.
Cyberstalkers use posts, forums, journals and other online means to present a victim in a false and unflattering light. The question of liability for harassment and character assassination is particularly salient to legislative protection since the original authors of the offending material are, more often than not, not only anonymous, but untraceable.
useful link: http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/
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bullying: at workplace
76645306/Workplace bullying
It is the tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or unreasonable behaviour against a co-worker or subordinate.
Workplace bullying can include such tactics as verbal, nonverbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliation.
Workplace bullies often operate within the established rules and policies of their organization and their society.
Forms of Workplace Bullying
1. Serial bullying — the source of all dysfunction can be traced to one individual, who picks on one employee after another and destroys them, then moves on. Probably the most common type of bullying.
2. Secondary bullying — the pressure of having to deal with a serial bully causes the general behaviour to decline and sink to the lowest level.
3. Pair bullying — this takes place with two people, one active and verbal, the other often watching and listening.
4. Gang bullying or group bullying — is a serial bully with colleagues. Gangs can occur anywhere, but flourish in corporate bullying climates. It is often called mobbing and usually involves scapegoating and victimisation.
5. Vicarious bullying — two parties are encouraged to fight. This is the typical "Triangulation" where the aggression gets passed around.
6. Regulation bullying — where a serial bully forces their target to comply with rules, regulations, procedures or laws regardless of their appropriateness, applicability or necessity.
7. Residual bullying — after the serial bully has left or been fired, the behavior continues. It can go on for years.
8. Legal bullying — the bringing of a vexatious legal action to control and punish a person. It is one of the nastiest forms of bullying.
9. Pressure bullying or unwitting bullying — having to work to unrealistic time scales and/or inadequate resources.
10. Corporate bullying — where an employer abuses an employee with impunity, knowing the law is weak and the job market is soft.
11. Organizational bullying — a combination of pressure bullying and corporate bullying. Occurs when an organization struggles to adapt to changing markets, reduced income, cuts in budgets, imposed expectations and other extreme pressures.
12. Institutional bullying — entrenched and is accepted as part of the culture.
13. Client bullying — an employee is bullied by those they serve, for instance subway attendants or public servants.
Examples of workplace bullying tactics
1. Making someone and/or other people feel unwelcome and not letting them join in e.g. being in a clique and cliquey behaviors and being snobby and/or elitist. Another hurtful form of unwelcomeness is vilification.
2. Unkind remarks about someone's family, lifestyle, body, appearance, shape, weight, clothes and their personal life.
3. Invasion of privacy e.g. tampering with someone's personal effects, asking someone intrusive personal questions, e.g. about their love-life.
4. Being refused annual leave, sick leave and especially compassionate/bereavement leave without a genuine and a fair reason why.
5. Being subjected and called to disciplinary hearings/meetings without absolute proof and when they are suddenly out of the blue and especially WITHOUT moral support e.g. a Union rep/parent/friend/trusted colleague/other trusted person with you.
6. Discrimination and/or unfair treatment to someone because of disability/medical condition/age/race/ethnicity/how they live and sensitive issues about someone e.g. HIV positive and sexual orientation e.g. gay/lesbian etc.
7. Spreading stories and/or lies about someone and/or his/her friends/family.
8. Deliberately withholding/giving out false information to make a competent worker look unprofessional and in order to make him/her fail.
9. Playing practical jokes on someone/telling jokes to someone which they do not like and if it makes them uncomfortable and when they and others are NOT laughing and they DO NOT find it funny (especially those based on sex, body and race).
10. Sexual harassment of any kind e.g. persistently asking out for dates/romances, touching/staring at someone's body, forcing/coercing to have sex,(especially private areas), displaying explicit/pornographic pictures, cartoons, DVDs, videos, saying sexual comments and any unwanted touches (that the person isn't comfortable with) e.g. brushing against, hugging, kissing, patting, catcalls, wolf-whistling etc.
11. Beware of terms of endearment as not everyone likes them e.g. even terms like Dear, sweetheart, chick, babe, honey, hun, baby, babycakes, lovey, etc. CAN be offensive/uncomfortable to some people.
12. Harassment/stalking e.g. following the person around, always hanging around outside his/her home and/or workplace, favourite haunts like their local pub, shops etc.
13. Persistently emailing, phoning up, text messaging, writing typed/handwritten letters, Instant messaging, Facebooking, and looking at someone's personal and confidential information/giving out personal and confidential information without consent.
useful link: http://www.workplacebullying.org/
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bullying: in school
School bullying
Bullying in school sometimes consists of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next victim.
These bullies taunt and tease their target before physically bullying the target. Targets of bullying in school are often pupils who are considered strange or different by their peers to begin with, making the situation harder for them to deal with.
Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.It is even a common push factor in migration.
useful links:
http://www.projectrockit.com.au/
http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/
http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/index.html
http://www.theritejourney.com.au/
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