WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT & ELECTIVE
I did read on everyone’s blog and post a few links on a couple blogs however I want to post a couple more that I find interesting. One, I read Democracy now, when I have a spare moment and really enjoy the banter, and the reports that are posted on all international news reports, they have very good writers in stow.
Another is a post about some of the best new apps for smart phones, iphones and Ipads that I love! because the app store is sometimes a confusing jungle of application nightmares.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2013/mar/22/best-iphone-ipad-apps-petting-zoo-yogify
Thirdly, I know sushi places are now implementing brown rice as a healthy option, but I love this place on granville called Red Tuna (Korean owned) who make the best sushi by a non authentic place. They use black rice, and I got to say I am hooked. I love it! and it tastes really good. Here is an article claiming that black rice is the new super food. Oh and if you havent tried it, it looks more purple than black.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7964146/The-new-superfood-forbidden-black-rice.html
Elective:
My fiancee freaked me out today by showing me a picture of a massive crab- which was the bi-product of carbon pollution. Apparently, they get huge.”Crabs are bulking up on carbon pollution that pours out of power plants, factories and vehicles and settles in the oceans, turning the tough crustaceans into even more fearsome predators.” Higher levels of carbon in the ocean are causing oysters to grow slower, and their predators — such as blue crabs — to grow faster. In the next “100 years, ocean acidification could supersize blue crabs, which may then eat more oysters and other organisms and possibly throw the food chain of the nation’s largest estuary out of whack.” Should we be worried about our next dominant ocean predator…crabs?
http://mcalesternews.com/offbeatnews/x2055661479/Crabs-supersized-by-carbon-pollution
WEEK 2 ELECTIVE
Elective: I never thought I”d see the day, when the Lakers reign, and the allusize “balloon” lakers fans have rallied in, has now been popped due to kobe’s injury. “But, finally, in the last lap of his most difficult season, bearing the burden of a franchise in chaos, Kobe Bryant has finally crumbled.” Its really quite sad that the Lakers season is essentially over. The problem is that Kobe is out and the lakers have relied on him to carry the franchise and carry the season, and now that he has crumbled the lakers need to do everything they can to keep Howard and to do their best in their training camp. “Another person who won’t be leaving now is Dwight Howard, as the Lakers must do everything to re-sign him, and probably will. There is no way Howard leaves town and nearly $30 million on the table, especially since he will now be the team leader.” Honestly, the hardest thing though that will be difficult to cope with the the bruised ego of the Lakers fans- and rightly so, with a franchise so flawless, with a leader so strong- losing Kobe will be the most difficult thing to digest for L.A.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/12/sports/la-sp-plaschke-lakers-20130413
WEEK 4 READING
Reading “Measurement and Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research by Robert Adcock, and David Collier, for a second time, at the end of the semester allowed me to see the importance of making sound definitions of democracy, in order to follow suit with measurable components of democracy. The research has been relatively new for many developing democracies just recently implemented data recording centers of the nations data. Adcock and Collier spend the majority of their study discusses how as scholars, many invalid data, and research occurs because the data either doesn’t have a valid or reliable source- or the fundamentals in the background research didn’t account for things that would make the validity of the relationships in the measurements vary. As such, they stress the importance of defining definitions of concepts, qualitatively and quantitatively throughout the measure. As such, they progressively discuss the many problems scholars have made in carrying out their research questioning whether scholar accurately define their observations and operationalize it in a way that can be measured. Can scholars in studies accurately connect their broad theories and observations into reliable data? These scholars state that if we institute a methodological standard for the research it would be more valid from varying studies and scholars can use past methods that are reliable to further understandings of any given topic in political research.