Ted Talk

One of the things i remember about it is how she got into her music, she seemed much more animated when she was playing her music and she would move around and float up and down. i really thought that she was one of the best musicians i had ever listened to just because she really got into the moments. moving up and down and moving her head with the beat. i really like it because it seemed like she liked the music more and that made me like it more. Everything changed what we heard, where she hit it, how she hit it, and how hard she hit it. i think it is because everyone does things differently so no one does things exactly the same. so people might want to hear it differently so they don't like it or like it ect.

Sustainability visit

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Q-What is your name and role here at the farmers market?

A-My name is Leo Troast and I shop here at the farmers market, not this one but the one in OB.

Q-Why do you choose to shop here?

A-I love tastes of the food and the bigger variety of foods that I get to eat fresh.

Q-When did you first start coming here?

A-I first started going to my farmers market when i was about 10.

Q-Do you garden at home? Why or why not?

A-No I do not garden at home but I would love, the reason for that is that my front and back yard are covered by a deck.

Q-What would be your advice to get other to do what you do?

A-Well i think we just need to raise awareness about the farmers markets because most people don’t even know where their local farmers market is.

Q-Does anyone else in your family go to a farmers market?

A-Occasionally if they are in the area of one, they will go to it but not regularly.

Q-What is your stance on the sustainability topic?

A-I think that it is a good thing that we have groups of people like people that go to farmers markets that are helping the environment but I think that we just have to do what we can and if we can’t live sustainability then its no problem.

Q-How often do you visit farmers markets?

A-Well i try to go every Wednesday but sometimes i have to skip a week for unforeseen circumstances.

The farmers market was basically what i expected except it was a bit smaller then i expected. Basically everything expect for the fresh fruit was more expensive. everything else was just a little more expensive then what you can get at the supermarket. No i don't think i will go to a farmers market more i think that i will just keeping going hen i go and not change a thing. these locations fit because they are showing people how to live more sustainable and help their environment.

senior graden

Q-What is your role here

A-I fill in for people that are missing that day

Q-What happens to the garden over the summer.

A-John is going to take care of it

Q-Why did you start this garden

A-John made the garden to teach about sustainability

Q-Who started the garden

A-John

Does it inspire me? No it doesn't inspire me more then i am already, i have wanted to make a garden for a long time so this didn't really inspire me.

What kind of plants were there? There were all kinds of plant ranging from herbs to fruits to vegetables. I remember strawberries, eggplant, lavender, and lettuce.

What did you like most? I liked the fact that they were doing it the most i think that it is awesome that a teacher started the garden and all of the seniors are helping out.

Do you think the flowers that they were growing should stay. i think that aesthetics are a very important part of a garden it makes the garden look better and it makes you feel better around the garden.

family talk

Well I think the thing that struck me most is the fact that Monsanto holds the patent of life basically. I think that it is crazy that people can patent foods. It’s horrible that Monsanto can shut down the food system if they wanted to. Because of this I completely agree with eating healthy and local, it is better to fight Monsanto then let it keep its grip over America. I think that eating local is better for you and better for America because the sooner we break the grip of Monsanto the better. I believe eating local can help break the grip because most local farmers don’t use GMOs they use natural seeds that Monsanto can’t patent. My dad thought the exact same thing as me; he thought that people only live with companies like Monsanto because they don’t want to accept that the world has come to this. My dad thought the same thing about Monsanto about how it was horrible that they can patent the things we need.

School Daze DJ

Quote- "That's right, I do. Since they don't have any survival value, they're forced to enter the Taker economy. Even if they'd rather opt out of that economy, they can't."

Response- I think this is completely true because if we taught people how to survive on thier own our system would collapse. it would be completely demolished because we need people working fo us right out of school, and the best way to do that is force them to. if we didn't force them to our whole way of life would change we would turn into leavers instead of takers.

In the Woods

Leo Troast

In the Woods 1/18/2010

"If a man does his best, what else is there?" My dad always used to tell me that when I was little. I didn't make much of it then, that was until he died about ten years ago. From then on it shaped my life, I wouldn't be the man I was now without my dad. He influenced me more than anyone else, even though I only got to see him on the weekends. I followed right in his path not straying a step. I don't know why I do what I do, I guess it’s to serve the people or something. Being a cop isn't exactly the best job out there, little pay and a death rate above the roof. I like it, gives me a sense of protection. You can't live without something to cling on to, that little feeling is holding be back from the sheer drop to deep depression.

This warm sensation covered my face as I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was my best friend licking away at my face. Struggling to get him to stop I'm finally forced to get up. I sit on the side of my bed flopping his ears around as he smiled. Finally, more awake I get up and wobble to the kitchen. Shuffling through the cabinet stacked high with cereal, I blindly grab the Fruit Loops. The milk quickly follows. I go to the couch and start munching on it thinking about the day to come. Woody comes up to me and lets out a long whine.

“What, what do you want?” I asked.

“Come on, I can't know what you want unless you tell me.”

Woody goes into my bedroom and comes out with his food bowl and then I remember I didn't feed him. I get up and grab the food. I drop it in his dish and he happily chows down.

“There, you happy now?” I joked “You've lived here long enough shouldn't you know where the food is?”

I go back to my Fruit Loops and finish them about the same time as woody finished his. I go into the bathroom and get ready for the day ahead of me. Once I finished my morning rituals I whistled to woody and we got in the car. I drove over to my sister's house. I knock on the door and my sister answered the door and instantly hugged me.

“Hiya,” I said surprised

“I missed you!” she exclaimed

“I was only gone for two weeks.”

“Ya but I hate it when you go on those undercover cops or whatever they are.”

“Someone has to do it why not me.”

“Because if you're gone then I don't know what I would do.”

“WOODY!” the blur that was flying past me screamed I instantly knew it was my niece Emma. I could tell by the pure girth of hair blowing behind her

She dashed to the car door and ripped it open, Woody jumped on her and immediately started to lick her face. Woody loved Emma they were best friends, we were all really close to each other. I whistled to Woody to come in the house and Emma followed. We all sat down in the living room and Natalie went to get us some drinks. She came back with an apple juice and a beer.

“So Emma how’s kinder-garden going?” I tried to make conversation

“Its super fun I love my teacher, she is amazing,” she answered ecstatically

“So, Blake what did you have to do in your quote, assignment,” Natalie questioned

“You know I can't tell you that,” I responded

“I hate your job you know that right,”

“Yep, that doesn't mean I ca......” I was interrupted by the sound of a car screeching around the corner down the street. I get up and walk to the window trying to see what’s going on. Everyone else followed me to the window just in time to see a car speed by with automatic guns pointed out the window.

“Get down!” I screamed

Everyone got down on the ground and behind something, we instantly heard the sound of gunfire and shattering windows. Almost instinctively I pulled out my gun and ran out the door. I ran after the car hoping for something to happen to them. I couldn't keep up with them though. After I lost them I went back to Natalie's house. I walked in the house to a screaming niece and a bleeding out sister. I sprinted to the phone and called the paramedics. I ran to Emma and picked her up to try to quiet her down.

“It's gonna be okay honey,” I caressed

She started calming down so I put her in the living room with sponge bob on. I rushed to Natalie and started looking at her wound. I rounded the corner of the hallway still pumped full of adrenaline. I hear sirens in the distance. I finally get a look at her and I lose all of the breath in my body. She was as white as a ghost, just laying there in a torpor head cocked back and mouth gaping open. I felt like I was alone in the world at that moment like everything was gone, but then I heard a breath of air and I jumped back into my skin and ran over to her. She was alright, she just lost a lot of blood.

We were waiting in the hospital and we weren't hearing anything from the doctors.

“Is mommy going to be alright,” Emma asked with sad eyes

“Yes she is gonna be fine honey,”

“How do you know?”

“Because mommy is strong and she won't let this hurt her.”

“Why did those people hurt mommy?'

“Well, those people they were bad people that don't like your mommy.”

“But why would anyone not like mommy?”

“Listen honey there are bad people in this world and no one knows why they don't like you mommy they just do.”

The doctor came out and started to tell us that she was going to be fine and we should just go home. I thought that it was a good idea and drove back to her house. I put Emma to bed and I started to try to salvage the house. I worked myself to the bone and then went to sleep.

I woke up to the sound of sirens blaring in front of Natalie's house. I got up and walked to the front door. I was instantly greeted by my partner Rick.

“Have you heard?” rick asked

“About what?”

“Your sister she's in intensive care.”

“What!”

“Ya last night the same people that shot up your house came by the hospital and put one in her stomach.”

“How did no one tell me?”

“Nobody could find you we didn't think you were going to be here.”

“Shit!”

I got in the car and rushed over to the hospital speeding and rushing through all the red lights. When I got there I went into the operating room and say her lying there like a vegetable with all those machines attached to her. I knew I couldn't let this go so I drove over to the police station and started yelling at the chief.

“Why in the hell haven't we made a move?” I yelled pounding on his desk

“Because we can't, there is no evidence we can't get court order.” he replied

“Who else would it be god damn it?”

“No matter how obvious it is we can't go after them if we have nothing on them.”

“Fuck this!” I stormed out of the room back to Natalie's house. I went to look into Emma’s room and she was still asleep. I walked over to woody and sat down next to him and he flopped his ears from side to side I chuckled at him. Woody and I sat next to each other for a long while and I thought about what I was going to do. I knew what I had to do but it was scaring me. One man taking down a whole gang it was unheard of. I couldn't wait for my sister to just die and I wasn't waiting for the gang to come back and kill her. I grabbed my pistol and got in the car and drove to the gang's known area. I saw the faces of the people that attacked my family so that's who I was trying to kill.

I got there around two in the afternoon and I started to drive around the area. I quickly saw the gunners that shot my sister and I started to drive closer to them and I rolled down my window a bit. When I got in firing range of them I rolled down the window all the way and without thinking I quickly fired two shots and hit both of the people. I speed away hoping that no one would see me. I got away clean and I went back to the house. I saw Emma awake and playing with Woody she had cheered up so I was happy about that. I was exhausted so I went back to sleep.

Yet again I woke up to sirens but this time they were in the distance and they were a fire truck's siren. I got up and went to go find out what all the commotion was about. I drove to the sirens only to find my house engulfed in flames. I got out of my car in shock hoping that I was just dreaming but I had a deep down feeling that this was all too real. Why did I have to go and shoot those two people why in the hell didn't I think about what was going to happen. When I went and fucked up like that.

I sat in front of the charred remains of my house still in shock of what had happened thinking about what had gone so wrong that my like got fucked up this bad. As I sat I saw my partner pull up in his car.

“I got great news man,” he yelled

“About what?" I asked

“Your sister she’s going to be all right.”

“Thank god.”

“Ya they saved her in surgery, she’s going to be messed up for a while but she will live.”

“Take me over there.” I demanded

We took the patrol car over to the hospital and went to see my sister, when we got to her room there was a doctor outside and he said that it would be better if no one went in right now. So we just went over to the station. The chief had more good news for me, they found prints on a gun that was used to shoot up Natalie's house in a dumpster 2 blocks away. We had a warrant to go down and arrest everyone that could have had a connection to the shooting.

We all suited up and rode up to the neighborhood of the suspected gang members. We swiftly went through and arrested everyone we had a warrant on. It was easy to take them all down they came without resistance, yes lots of kicking and screaming but no real resistance. We had taken down key elements of a gang that almost ruled these streets I think that I had done the best that I could. I was proud of myself and I think that my dad would have been proud of me too. Things were shaping up and it looked like it was going to be a good future. I went home and saw that Natalie was there talking to Emma about her experience in the hospital. I sat down next to them and started to talk to Natalie.

“So you doing okay,” I asked

“I'll live,” she responded

“I knew you could do it”

I sat down next to woody and started to pat him gently when I heard the door get kicked down and lots of yelling. I pulled my gun out and took cover behind the couch. When they came through the hallway I started shooting I got two bullets in one of them but the other sprayed around the whole room and I say Emma get nicked in the neck and Natalie get shot in the head. I got up and ran next to them praying that they were okay I checked to see if they were alive and both of them were dead in my hands.

I had forgotten about the shooter I didn't hit and he came up behind me and unloaded into my chest. That was my last moment of life was holding my lifeless sister and niece in my hands.

http://students.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~lrey/Leo-Luna-Mitch-Travis.pdf

New tv discoveries

So what this article is talking about is a mobile tv that you can go anywhere and get regular channels. this is really big because all you used to be able to get is really unreliable video and not the normal broadcast channel only videos. its also cool because you can have it on phones, net books, laptops, and any other wireless device with the special add-on. well they are going to start sales this year so next year they should have found all th bugs and people should be able to get tv on any wireless things. I couldn't find any setbacks.