Group Project: Individual pt. 2

I didn't get as much done early as i wanted because i became ill thursday night and caused me to be 'out of action' for the better part of the weekend. But previously in the week (I forgot to state this in my last Group Project Meeting post) we had divided the project with me being the lead guy who is going to start off our presentation giving a intoduction to the class and our 'pitch' for our cause. Joe was over the Jeopardy game. Cory and Brian are to find their own roles in the conclussion of our project after the game. By Sunday night i was feeling well enough to work on a small slide of photos that i wanted to be playing while Cory, Brian, and I were speaking. I helped Joe when he needed it. I had given our group a kind of 'gameplan' of how we were going to present our topic. Monday night I checked to make sure people were ready to go. I've also settled that our project is not to sell a game, but rather we are giving a presentation to raise awareness of Today's Treats that involve Nuclear weapons. hope all goes well

Group Project Meeting: Final Meetings

This is a small overview of our group progress heading into our presentation: this weekend our group talked about what we'd do with the jeopardy game since we were still having trouble fnding out how we wanted to do it and do it about. Saturday and Sunday we worked completing the game. Monday we spent our time wrapping up our preparations for Tuesday's presentation. Things seemed to have come together nicely and hopefully it works well tomorrow.

Terrorist Trial

I'm dumbfounded by the decision that President Obama made to put the terrorist responsible in the September 11 attacks in Civil Court. How can you give these people rights? These people are prisoners of war who carried out an act of war and were caught in enemy lands. How can you possibly give them rights?! Even after the fact one of them admits to everything and the others of their participation and only wants to be killed to go meet his 72 virgins..... If you put these people in Military Court, all the evidence can be used to incriminate these people. Evidence about facts and details that you can't use in Civil Court because that's a threat to National Security. Better yet, if you hold this case in Military Court rather than Civil, it won't cost the people some $50,000,000 (expected). That's my thoughts on the short.

Monument Circle, lighting of the tree

I went down to see the Cirle of Lights and the Tree being lit. It was so cold lastnight. I'm glad i went though because going in I thought it might be kind of lame. But there were some decent performaces on stage. After the lighting, the friends i was with and i went into Circle Centre Mall. I was just glad to be inside cause i was so cold. But it was just nice to be down there with some friends that i haven't seen in a long time.

Anderson, Indiana

When i go home, I have to drive through Anderson. Anderson has suffered majorly from GM's departure and futher this economic downturn. Going back, Anderson used to be a very prominant city in the area. It was active, had a lot to offer in jobs and recreation, and had money. Since the two GM plants have closed down, as well as some other small industies, Anderson has taken a major hit. Anderson today, is falling apart. Infrastructure is starting to be run-down, once nice kept up neighborhoods are starting to be unkept and turned over to those with poor incomes. With jobs leaving town and no real source of a rebound there (even though Nestles has a plant now operational there) much of the wealthy have left town as well as a large part of the ciy's stable tax base. Schools have closed and consolidated, athletic standards are on the decline, and the state of those schools are delcining as well in quality. Anderson's struggles have brought down the county around it. (Madison Co., which i live in) At the beginning of the 1990's, Madison was ranked as third wealthiest in means of income, jobs, etc.. now it is near last. I'm writing this cause it's just something i think about when I'm driving home. I see it, and it's sad that this place that once was such a high quality kind of place to live has crashed and is struggling as a whole to make ends meet.

Wind Mills

For Thanksgiving, my family and I are spending the day in Chicago with family. As we were driving up I-65, between snoozing, I saw an area filled with huge wind mill generators. I've seen these before but only three or four plaved in random areas. This was so different, because there were windmills everywhere. The interesting thing about this, was that these wind mills were generating electricity for New Jearsey. I think two things are kinda interesting coming from this. One, are power generating windmills going to be something that are more of the norm to see as your driving down the highway? Two, are the state going to lease lands or partake in practices such as this to raise revenues for their home state?

Group Project: Individual Thanksgiving Week

Before I left for school for break, i was able to catch another show on the History Channel. In that it was talking about the Cold War and the Nulear threat. This show didn't go into exstensive detail but it did a good job going in a kind of timeline order of events regarding the nuclear standoff. I'll be keeping an eye out for anyother shows if I stumble across them.