I was basically this new teacher given the students that nobody else wanted.Ĭan you tell us a little bit about what inspired you to have students pick up journal writing and how you folded that into your teaching method? It happened to the kids I ended up teaching because I had all the kids who were busted, kids who had learning disabilities and kids had trouble with the law. What I found, because I was brand new and I didn't live in the city, was that there was a lot of intrinsic separation and masked racism. And so you see this blatant segregation and separation. School systems create programs within programs, schools within schools, bus routes within bus routes. So here's this diverse city, it's rich, it's poor, all these kids are coming together, and it's going to be kumbaya. I had just graduated from graduate school, and I chose Wilson High because on paper it was a beautiful microcosm of every race and every economic level - to me it was everyone you would want America to be. And I know that with great authority because I've traveled over the last 20 years to all 50 states with our book. Unfortunately, schools today are as segregated if not more so than they were back in the 1950s. It is one of the most important Supreme Court decisions and demonstrates how public education is a democratic issue. Gruwell: Brown versus Board of Education was a landmark decision declaring separate is not equal. Going back to 1994 when you first began teaching, what brought you to Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach, California? We are now doing seven different screenings across the six counties that PBS reaches, recreating the magic that Andy experienced that night. So Andy and his team, expressed that they really wanted to make a documentary with us. from undocumented kids and high school students to college students, business leaders and Holocaust survivors - a dramatically diverse group, where we cried, and got down and dirty with these very intense subject matters about racism and inequality. We packed this auditorium at UC Irvine with every cross-section of L.A. Gruwell is currently working with students to compile a whole new set of stories for a new generation of young writers.Įrin Gruwell: Andy Russell came to one of our local screenings and was so enamored with not only the film but the event that night. The documentary release coincides with the book’s 20th anniversary. Proceeds from sales of the book funded college scholarships for many of the original Freedom Writers. ![]() The book was a New York Times bestseller and has been published in over a dozen languages. The name paid homage to 1960s civil rights group, The Freedom Riders. The students' work was compiled in "The Freedom Writers Diary", first published in 1999. Where Gruwell first found intractable divisions between students from different backgrounds, she suddenly began to see a growing understanding and even friendship. Not only did they embrace their own work, taking pride in telling their own stories, they also began to engage with students different from them. The new syllabus transformed the students. Gruwell assigned readings from "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "Zlata’s Diary." She invited speakers to class, including Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis. She had her students keep journals, which allowed them to explore their own personal experiences while also becoming empathetic to the experiences of others. Her unconventional teaching style moved away from the standard curriculum found in most high school English classes – Shakespeare, the classics – and helped students to understand how narrative storytelling could be more personal. When only one of the students had heard of the Holocaust, Gruwell decided to shift the focus of the class entirely. When Gruwell discovered students passing around a racist caricature of one of their classmates, she explained how this kind of imagery was comparable to the propaganda spread by the Nazis. Board of Education declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional. The documentary explores Gruwell’s experience working in a school that remained markedly segregated even decades after the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. ![]() A recently completed documentary digs into her story, which was the basis for the 2007 film, “Freedom Writers” starring Hilary Swank as Gruwell. Over the next four years, she found she changed not only her own life but also those of the 150 students that passed through her classroom. Erin Gruwell took a job student teaching at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California in 1994.
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The app is easy to use, and it’s free to download. If you connect to your phone, you can use the phone to compose your image accurately as it will show you what the camera is seeing. You can switch off the camera in this way, you can also switch video stabilisation on (not available if you’re shooting in 4K), and you can access connection settings in order to connect the camera to your phone. There are other options that you can choose by moving through the main menu. If you select 4K, you will only have one frame rate to choose from, but lower resolutions give you more options. Shooting in video gives you a range of frame rates and resolutions. Again, it sounds more complicated than it actually is. If you want to go back to shooting video, press the menu button, then keep pressing until you get to “camera settings”, press the shutter button and again to select the camera icon, changing it from photo to video. Switching on night photo basically gives you a longer exposure time, making it ideal for shooting in low light conditions - however you will need to stabilise the camera somehow. You can also shoot in bursts of photos, or switch on “night photo”. When shooting Photos you can either shoot in Wide or Linear, the latter giving you a more “natural” feel and correcting for the distortion that would otherwise occur with the wide angle lens. It sounds quite complicated - and it is a little fiddly, but once you get used to how it works, it starts to become a little more second nature. After that you will be able to change various settings by again pressing the menu button, then the shutter button again. If you want to do that, press the shutter button at the top. This will change you from taking videos to taking still photos. The first thing you’ll come to is “Enter Photo Mode”. Press it again and you can scroll through the different menu options. If you want to change settings before you start recording, switch the camera on by holding down the second button which is on the back of the camera. There’s no main screen to display your image, so composition and so on is down to guesswork. Once you’re finished recording, you press the button again and it will stop recording and switch off the camera automatically - great for saving battery life.Īlso on the top of the GoPro HERO5 Session is a small screen which you can use to see the settings you are changing. If you do that, then the camera will start recording in the last setting you’d been using. The quickest and easiest way to use the camera is simply to press the shutter button. There’s the main shutter button on the top of the camera, and a smaller button on the back of the camera. Only two buttons can be found on the HERO5 Session. ![]() It’s extremely small - and while you could fit it in a pocket, it’s not flat so there would be a noticeable bulge. The GoPro HERO5 Session is a perfect cube shape. The GoPro HERO5 Session costs £249 / $299. ![]() It has inbuilt Wi-Fi and bluetooth for connecting to your phone, and accepts Micro SD cards. The Session can take 10 megapixel still photos, and videos up to a resolution of 4K. Waterproof to 10 metres (33ft) without a housing, the GoPro HERO5 Session has been designed with adventure type activities in mind. The GoPro HERO5 Session was announced at the same time as the HERO5 Black, and is intended as an entry-level action camera - or some people may want to consider it as a second camera for the more advanced HERO5 Black. ![]() If you’ve ever bought a Honda or Toyota in California, you know these cars are famous for their reliability and lifespan. 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It had an RB26DETT engine from a GT-R – Toyota’s 2JZ is great for low-end torque, but we needed high-end power and I could work on it easier – but the Supra’s bodywork and aero, which were great for top speed. “It was Max Power’s idea to go really fast, and the Supra could do it. “I flew a video crew from a Japanese magazine – Option – over too, otherwise I would get bored,” he says, lighting another cigarette and slotting his Zippo lighter into his top pocket. So when it offered to pay to send Smokey and his car over for the Max Power Live show, he agreed. Along with Gatso jousting, car park racing and asking what your favourite-coloured orifice was, it had real sway and embedded itself within the zeitgeist, selling nearly a quarter of a million copies a month. For younger audiences, Max Power was a modified car mag like no other. In the seat for the Aqua-Line run was none other than tuning bible, Max Power. This, as you’ll learn, won’t be Smokey’s only tussle with authority in his life. So when the teachers found out, I was expelled.” When we did, I started driving it to school. But I struggled to fix it, so a local boss at Toyota helped me get it running. I bought my first when I was 15 years old – a Mitsubishi Galant GTO. But my father loved driving fast, so I became obsessed with the sensation of speed and started tinkering with cars. ![]() “It’s Japan’s northernmost prefecture, so there’s not much going on. “I grew up on a farm in Hokkaido,” he says, dragging in a hefty toke from his cigarette. One that doesn’t stand for social suppression or authority, a trait only exercised in and around cars. But it’s unwise to judge him by his mannerisms. He’s softly spoken and anxiously fidgets in conversation, often cowering back into a shell of introversion that wraps around his stunted, slight frame. It was the ultimate ballsy PR tool for his company – Top Secret – proving that his cars were the real deal.Ĭonsidering his infamy as a 200mph maniac, Smokey doesn’t have the look of a menace to society. His escapades hit the headlines, and the grainy footage of him illegally squirrelling down the motorway from the cameras gaffer-taped to the car went VHS viral – instantly catapulting him to legendary status within the tuning community. It wasn’t long before the winter darkness filled with blue lights: the police made chase and arrested him, resulting in Smokey having a night at Her Majesty’s pleasure (a remarkably lenient sentence which wouldn't happen today) before fleeing back to Japan, worried his tuning company was going to go under. More than enough to unofficially claim the dubious, dangerous record of the fastest speed ever reached by a car on a UK public highway. Due to some complications (the engine running lean on one run, the car wanting to jettison its bonnet at 190-odd on another), he had a few attempts but ultimately fell short of the double ton, clocking 194mph. ![]() The Fuente Fuente Opus X is designed to brood silently in your humidor for years before it comes to fruition. Especially, since most reviewers jump on a new one with only a couple months humi time. I realize I’m being a prick reviewing a cigar you can’t buy but how can I not take advantage of reviewing a well-aged Opus X? It’s unheard of. The creaminess makes it taste like fine yogurt. The finish is chock full of flavors that cling to my palate like a kid’s first day in kindergarten. Right off the bat…big complex notes of chocolate, espresso, red pepper, cinnamon, malt, honey, citrus, dried fruit, vanilla ice cream, cedar, and little ditties that don’t want to be identified quite yet. The draw is a little tighter than I prefer but it is doing fine. I will try muscling my way through this and use the poker if needed as a last resort. But I’m hesitant due to the small ring gauge and the length of the cigar. The draw is darn good but it could use a bit of the PerfecDraw cigar poker and tool to really get it to the resistance level I like. The cold draw presents flavors of honey ice cream with chocolate sprinkles, caramel, malt, red pepper, cinnamon tooth picks, orange citrus, candy orange slices, cedar, and espresso. Oh my…the cigar is awash in aromas…caramel, coffee, milk chocolate, malt, cedar, orange citrus, honey, red pepper, cinnamon, vanilla bean, nuts, and dried fruit. A very nice oily finish adorns the whole thing. Notes of bronze, espresso, brown penny, caramel, and rust. This is a beautifully mottled cigar wrapper. If you have the patience to age these, they should prove even better in a few years.” The cigar is the pinnacle of full flavor, with complex tastes ranging from leather to creamy coffee and earth. Like all OpusX cigars, the 7 5/8 inch by 49 ring gauge cigar is impeccably crafted by a small roomful of workers who make only about 75 cigars a day. The double corona size is a masterpiece, a classic on our 100-point scale. And current releases of the brand suggest that its quality is at a level not seen since its debut. Perhaps overlooked in all the hype is the undeniable fact that the OpusX is a great cigar. It also spawned great controversy as the first cigar sold with a Cuban-seed wrapper grown under shade in the Dominican Republic-a feat that many said simply couldn’t be done. ![]() (In Las Vegas, it’s quite common for these cigars to retail for $60, $75 or even $100.) The brand has been the subject of more than one lawsuit and the target of counterfeiters. Some retailers limit purchases, others charge far more than the suggested retail price. Since its debut in 1995, the cigar has had a cult following that makes it a rare find in many smoke shops. “No cigar has had quite the impact on the premium cigar industry as the Fuente Fuente OpusX. Rated Cigar of the Year by Cigar Aficionado in 2005. Today we take a look at the Fuente Fuente OpusX 2005 Double Corona. Home › CIGAR REVIEWS › Fuente Fuente OpusX 2005 Double Corona | Cigar Reviews by the Katmanįuente Fuente OpusX 2005 Double Corona | Cigar Reviews by the Katman ![]() The Sonos Connect Amp uses electricity to amplify the sound signal, whether that signal is coming from the RCA inputs or your wireless SONOS network. What an amplifier does is take in a weak audio signal, then amplify that signal with more electrical power. If the speaker wire fits completely through the terminal hole, it does not matter whether you go through the top of the bottom of the post. Russound Icons Music, All-in-one solution with integrated Bluetooth, FM tuner and portable media support, and the ability to connect up to four external sources. A Sonos Connect Amp is an amplifier first and foremost. You will be fitting two wires into each of the speaker terminals in a four-speaker configuration.The stripped portion should be caught firmly in the connector post. Insert the stripped end of the speaker wire into the hole, and then release.Use your thumb or finger to firmly push the spring-loaded speaker connector post inward to reveal the connection hole.Right now, you can find discounted Connect:Amp models on eBay and B&H for roughly 370, although they are refurbished. When fitting two wires into each of the speaker terminals in a four-speaker configuration, if the speaker wire fits completely through the terminal hole, it does not matter whether you go through the top of the bottom of the post. Sonos still sells the Connect:Amp for 499, which is still the better option for anybody who doesn’t need to power really expensive speakers or hook up their speakers to their TV (the Amp essentially works as an AV receiver). ![]() Branchez votre appareil, raccordez le module Sonos vos haut-parleurs et le tour est jou Vous pourrez ainsi profiter de votre musique au maximum grce notamment sa puissance totale de 110. Use a DMM and start at the input and follow the tracks. Proposant une interface rseau complte (WiFi scuris et Ethernet), le Sonos Connect:Amp est configur pour s'installer en toute simplicit. Sonos doesn’t release the wiring diagrams so you will have to trace the power input circuit to find out where the problem is. Sonos has today announced that this coming May it will end ongoing support for a number of its older products. Plug the banana plug into the correct speaker terminal on the back of the Amp by ensuring that the colors of the circles match on the banana plug and Amp (red and white). 10 335 1.4k Posted: Options Hi edthomas25, Here’s the ifixit Sonos Connect Internal Power Supply Replacement guide that may help. All ZonePlayers and the original Play:5 among those affected.Insert the stripped end of the speaker wire into the hole, and then tighten the bottom of the banana plug so that it holds the speaker wire firmly.Using the provided banana plugs, unscrew the bottom of the banana plug until the speaker wire hole is exposed. ![]() Breakfasts generally cost around a buck less at IHOP. There, you can see that the price of omelets starts with $8.49 at Bob Evans, a slightly higher price than at IHOP. So, here we will see how well the IHOP menu prices are doing, in contrast to the Bob Evans menu prices. Nonetheless, it is worth to compare these IHOP prices to the prices at other popular casual restaurants, best known for their breakfasts. However, these IHOP menu prices are, indeed, noticeably higher than the prices at Starbucks. Juice (Grapefruit, Tomato, Apple or Orange) – CarafeĮven though IHOP is a chain of casual restaurants, you can actually expect the IHOP menu prices to be not that high. Juice (Grapefruit, Tomato, Apple or Orange) – Large Juice (Grapefruit, Tomato, Apple or Orange) – Regular Yes, You can comment on our webpage mymenuprice.Kids Drinks (Juice, Hot Chocolate, Chocolate Milk, Milk, Soft Drinks) Thanks for visiting my page and read this article So take the minutes and give us your Reviews after reading this article. So share your ideas or for the job purpose or any question raise in your mind just to visit the official site or to open up the below link I have given below. What is going through your mind we wanted to know about it. 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In KRZ we see how the crippling cost of healthcare can cost people their very souls and it is heartrending. The town centre has a prevalence of gambling, pound chicken shops and cheap, barely edible, vegetable and fruit bowl sellers.īut for all this woe here in the UK we are lucky as we have the NHS. A shadow of the promise it offers in its youth, even before e-commerce became a thing. The devastating economic and social impacts can still be felt in the area today with the shopping centre, Vicarage Fields -which opened with so much promise welcoming all to partake in its free peppermint lollies emblazoned with the logo, the cool bookshop on the top floor and the video game shop Whizz Kids selling the latest system and offering playable Atari Lynxes with Chips Challenge- an empty shell with cheap clothes stores and stalls selling phone accessories and plugs. Kentucky Route Zero resonated with me as it shows how once thriving towns can easily spiral downwards after a huge economic shock, in this case the massive downsizing of Ford Dagenham and the impact it had on the surrounding towns including my hometown. ![]() ![]() Playing the 5 episodes of the game over 15 or so hours had me reflecting as it rang true on so many levels about my hometown of Barking, Essex in east London: coming back to a place to see how much yet how little it has changed, how people you knew have moved on or not at all and how tough life has been for some people, who live within the shadow of one of the richest places on Earth, over a decade after the economic crises hit in 2008. The game is set in the oft-forgotten rust belt of America but the tale it tells is truly universal and could apply to any town which feels neglected or abandoned pretty much anywhere in the world. Kentucky Route Zero is a magic-realism point and click adventure game about an old delivery driver’s last job to deliver goods on the eponymous road. ![]() Ecto Cooler was a legitimately established Hi-C flavor, as ubiquitous as Cherry or Fruit Punch.Īs discussed in this older Dino Drac article, Ecto Cooler’s scope and tenure provided it with the chance to randomly turn up in a number of TV shows and movies. ![]() In effect, this was more than a simple “tie-in,” at least the by the definitions that we normally mean. There are people more than a decade younger than me who knew Ecto Cooler just as personally as I did! The drink’s extended production run also meant that multiple generations had a chance to grow obsessed with it. (Big can from Ecto Cooler’s later years!) That means that during the lull between The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters, when very little was being done with the Ghostbusters brand, Slimer was somehow STILL pleading his case from ten billion Hi-C labels. Conceived as the sort of promotional tie-in that generally has a short shelf life, the drink managed to stay in production until at least 1997! ![]() We gravitated towards it as if by supernatural forces.Įcto Cooler was an unusual success story. For people of certain ages and inclinations, Ecto Cooler was the tie that bound us all. The mix of orange and tangerine fruit juices was pleasant enough, but it was really the idea of this being edible ectoplasm that drove us wild. In fact, Ecto Cooler was merely a rebranding of their existing Citrus Cooler Drink, which looked and tasted exactly the same, and was even spotted in television commercials mere months before Ecto Cooler hit the shelves! Less known is that this actually wasn’t some wholly new flavor from Hi-C. (You’ll notice that Ecto Cooler was promoted more as “Slimer’s drink” than a “Ghostbusters drink.”) In any event, between the animated series and the live action sequel, Slimer’s popularity was booming. While most have attributed this to the success of The Real Ghostbusters, the drink’s arrival seems equally linked to the theatrical debut of Ghostbusters II. If it’s indeed on its way back, I thought now would be the perfect time to walk you through the (mostly) complete history of this magnificent, galvanizing beverage… This, of course, is the biggest motherfucking news in the history of everything.Īs many of you know, Ecto Cooler has been the “totem item” of everything I’ve done online for the past 15 years. I suspect that official word with trickle down soon enough, but given that the whole internet is presently ablaze with Ecto Cooler excitement, I don’t see how they couldn’t do it now. This trademark renewal does not in of itself guarantee Ecto Cooler’s return, but given the timing, it sure sounds that way! Besides, many of us already felt that this was a can’t-miss opportunity and a now-or-never situation: Ghostbusters is suddenly a very hot brand again, and interest in Ecto Cooler is at an all-time high. Midway through Thanksgiving, the news broke: Coca-Cola has renewed its trademark for Ecto Cooler, signaling mass speculation that the ghoulish green beverage just might be returning as part of the Ghostbusters reboot push. Some conspiracy theorists however, would not rest until the mystery was solved.The Mostly-Complete History of Ecto Cooler. The identical formula, in all its neon green glory, was about to be repackaged yet again as Shoutin’ Orange Tangergreen (though Hi-C would deny that it was the same beverage). Or, at least that’s what they wanted us to think. The problem was that this new generation of juice box drinkers would have no idea what a Ghostbuster was.įearing that Slimer had overstayed his welcome-and in another swift and lazy move-Hi-C did away with Ecto Cooler altogether. And because we are all suckers for packaging, the farce continued into the next decade. The pitch was simple: place Slimer, the cute green ghost from Ghostbusters, on the box change "Citrus" to "Ecto" conveniently forget that Citrus Cooler ever existed product tie-in achieved. Nonetheless, Citrus Cooler did exist-at least it did until some marketing dolts needed a quick and easy gimmick to sell their cartoon. Apologies for lack of photo evidence, but it appears to have been systematically destroyed to thwart the conspiracy theorists. If we look back a bit further, there was once a Hi-C product called Citrus Cooler. However, the original marketing strategy was rather sneaky, and mind-numbingly lazy. Although it was only supposed to last as long as the series, it endured for a decade after the show’s cancellation. Ecto Cooler was an immediate and smashing success. ![]() Lie on the floor, placing a hand under your lumbar spine.Follow these steps to find your neutral posture while lying down: It’s also important to know how to keep a neutral spine while lying down. Adding a lumbar pillow to fill this space can help you maintain a neutral spine. While in a seated neutral posture, you should notice a small gap between the back of the chair and your low back. Ensure feet remain flat on the floor or placed on a footrest.Hold wrists straight or flexed downward slightly.Bend elbows at a 90 to 100-degree angle.Maintain a straight back, and avoid hunching forward or leaning backward.Keep shoulders and upper arms relaxed and not lifted toward your ears.Center your head directly above your shoulders and hips with your neck and chin relaxed.While seated, you can achieve a neutral spine posture by following these tips: While standing, sitting or lying down, you can achieve a neutral posture by properly positioning your head, neck, shoulders, hips, legs and feet in a total system of alignment. What Is a Neutral Posture?Ī neutral posture is a posture that most adequately aligns your spine, relieving pressure on your musculoskeletal system, including your spinal discs. We also discuss the top health benefits of neutral posture and how to achieve better spinal alignment using zero-gravity chairs. It also helps prevent chronic pain and other spinal disorders.īut what makes posture good or bad? This guide to neutral posture provides tips on how to properly align your spine-no matter which position you’re in. Getting in the habit of sitting, standing or lying down with correct spinal alignment contributes to better balance, coordination and strength. The benefits of good posture impact both our physical and mental well-being. ![]() Williams tried to give advice to up-and-coming songwriters, warning them that the music industry was an often dangerous place. “If you build a really strong foundation, you won’t fall.” Songs, like life, are put together piece by piece,” he said. Questlove introduced Carey and regretted that all too often her songwriting chops were often overlooked. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, she is only behind the Beatles, and Questlove remined the crowd that she did it as a Black woman. “Success at this level, especially for Black artists, is a real obstacle course,” he said.Ĭarey said a dysfunctional background prompted a dark vision of the world as a 6-year-old, so music and melodies and lyrics were her escape. Non-performing solo nominees this year were William “Mickey” Stevenson, a producer during Motown’s golden era, who was serenaded by Robinson, calling Stevenson “my brother brother,” and Rick Nowels, who co-wrote over 60 Top 20 singles worldwide, including Belinda Carlisle’s global hit “Heaven is a Place on Earth.” She left the crowd revved up for a performance but other artists came onstage to sing a medley of her songs, including “Fantasy,” “Hero,” “Make It Happen” and “We Belong Together.” She said she always has to remind people she’s a songwriter first, but the diva label seems to stick more. Master songwriter Paul Williams received the Johnny Mercer Award, and Universal executive Jody Gerson received the Abe Olman Publisher Award.“It was our incredible honor to have the Urban Girl Magazine Black Business Crawl stop by The Sistah Shop. 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