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just trying something out I was wondering about...

New Favicon to the Website...

1. First log in to your blogger account
2. Click on your website name in the dashboard
3. Click on Layout
4. Head to the favicon gadget. If you don't have it already, click Add Gadget, next Favicon, or something like that.
5. Once favicon gadget is present, hit edit.
6. Click on Choose file. I chose a picture of a small stack of books. It will display the picture you chose.
7. Click on Save
8. View your blog to make sure and enjoy!!

Something New to Learn from...

En 1920 llega a Ciudad Valles la energía eléctrica los Ingenieros Tomas y Angel Oliva instalan una pequeña central eléctrica que apenas podía suministrar a pocos lugares de la ciudad produciendo alrededor de 8 kilos de potencia, posteriormente a esto formaron una sociedad con Romualdo del Campo y lograron hacer una instalación más fuerte que producía 50 kilos de fluido eléctrico, y varios años después el Ingeniero Mario Niño Salgado fundo la Central Hidroelectrica del Rio Micos S.A. llegando a cifras de 3000 kilos de potencia, convirtiéndose estos en los primeros distribuidores de energía eléctrica de Ciudad Valles.

The gist of the Wikipedia piece of text I chose basically shows how a hydroelectric dam was built near where my dad grew up. Now it is the city's major power supply, providing about 1000 watts of power, more or less.

Bundle, Bundle, and Save a Ton of Time!!!

Today and today only, you have the opportunity to look at these wonderful pieces of information for whatever project you are doing.
Solar Energy provided by Wikipedia

Renewable Energy in General, in Spanish

National Geographic Solar Power

First Airborne Wind Turbine

More to come on the way...

Beginnings 1 and 2

Today, May 7th, Eddie Martinez has murdered his girlfriend. It occured at about 8 o clock in the evening. He is in regional jail cell 0001, thinking about what he has done. The motive for throwing her over the pointy rocky cliff is still very vague. All that is known is that she suffered a penetration deep enough to take her life away. She also suffered some cuts, bruises, a concussion to the brain, and some severe skeletal damage to the spine and hips.

After being in jail for over 30 years for murder, Eddie Martinez is on trial again for possession of drugs on his property. Martinez had been adviced by the late deceased girlfriend to not sell drugs on the street with her. He didn't listen and after coming back from a run, Martinez had originally adviced her to keep quiet, she refused, and ended up throwing her off of Shell Beach Cliffs.
UPDATE: Martinez has just been proven guilty and will serve 50 years to life at a penitentiary

TODAY IS (NOT) A HOLIDAY

Today is the fifth of May, year 2014. Today marks an important historical battle that took place in the Mexican state of Puebla. Now, I have an issue and I found this issue when I read the journal topic today.
Background Info:
Apart from Wkipedia's Cinco de Mayo description, Mexico celebrates it as if it were a Veteran's Day in November. There is no drinking and it is very well respected throughout. Here in the United States however, it has stirred up some controversy because sometimes people can be racially active. I remember a few years ago, college students dressed up as pregnant Latina females and guys dressed up as blue collar workers to say the least. Even the beer companies have started to open its advertising doors toward this holiday so people can get drunk. 

On another note, I am happy that my country is looking toward other cultures, not just pushing them aside like a deck of cards. This country should be a melting pot alot more richer than when the colonists first arrived. Final words: respect the holiday as if it were you're very own historical event and don't abuse it please. I am being as most sincere and heart felt as I can be. Thank you. 

Continued Connections

Yesterday, before sleeping in for the night, I was wandering around the Web and I stumbled upon places that are sustainable and are found in urban areas. Follow this link to find out for yourself. Not only are there new designs being imagined yo reduce the carbon footprint, there are also food places being conscious about where the food ingredients come from, just like Chipotle. 

DESIGN TIME!!

So the last week before Spring Break, the architecture group and I went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. (See related post below). W e learned how an open space or a redesigned space can be hacked to achieve maximum potential for the students. So, in our English class, we have been rearranging our desks just like the students at the university, but our desks are made at different heights when placed next to each other. The functionality of having the desks like that is so we and the future generations can start looking at each other and start to collaborate with each other. then we were thinking on placing some desks on the perimeter of the room, or maybe that is just my picture of the room. We would get together at the center and discuss what has to be talked about and then we would go to the outer desks. 

RIP Latin American Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez

California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Field Trip Experience

My trip to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo wqs so much fun. I had a wonderful time with Mark Cabrinha amd his architecture students. They are so close knitted that it is almost different from the high school scene. The activities that we did were take a survey. Then we all reunited and started answering Mark's questions, such as what is your vision of the learning environment of the 21st century to be? (You may leave comments below to answer the question). Anyway, the five of us high school seniors split up into groups with the college kids. Philip and his partner had an interesting building design. This is how their assignment worked: you choose or were given a design from one of many groups from previous years. Then it is you're job to figure out what to do with the inside of the building, such as turning it in to a school or an open office space. I suggested to Phillip and his friend to elevate the structure and include a flex ground floor for a cafeteria or a lobby. Since they want to show the skeleton of the building it would look a bit more artistic to show the concrete beams and the metal that holds the design together. What I like about the studio is that at the center there is a conference type of table that has a melanine surface where you can write with a dry erase marker. The thing that I also noticed was the fact that they didn`t mind the mess on their desks. It was truly the studio of choice for these students because they overhauled the existing classroom and started from "a blank slate". All around I had a wonderful time.