Worlds Largest Illegal Gun Market...

This is a great video that shows the reality of what is going on in Pakistan. The Afghan and U.S. government have tried to weaken the Taliban for the past few years; and yet based on what we have seen so far the Taliban have managed to rearm / regroup thanks to the support of many powerful Pakistani lords that use their dominance of the worlds largest gun market to support the Taliban’s who are their number one customers.

I am not even going to title this...

Chess...

Today I had my first final of the semester in Chess… that’s right chess. As part of our final we had to play against our instructor Jack Peters who is an international master in chess; that means he is only one win away from being an international Grandmaster (the best in the world). As part of the setup we all position our chessboards around the room forming a circle and he would play all of us at once. I am talking about over 40 different games that he had to play at once one move at a time; and not surprisingly he ended up beating all 40 of us!!! I had fortunate enough to out last most of my classmates before loosing to him. Here is the recoding I have from the game: (looks like alien language)

1. e4 d5 2. Nf3 dxe4 3. Nh4 e5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 Bxh4 6. gxh4 Qxh4 7. O-O Nf6 8.
d3 Bf5 9. Qe1 O-O 10. Nc3 exd3 11. Qxe5 Bh3 12. Qg3 Qxg3 13. fxg3 Bxg2 14. Kxg2 dxc2 15. Rf2 Nc6 16. Bf4 Nd4 17. a3 c5 18. Bd6 Rfc8 19. Ne2 Nb3 20. Re1 Ne4 21. Rf3 c1=Q 22. Nxc1 Nxc1 23. Rxc1 Nxd6 24. Re1 Re8 25. Ref1 Re2+ 26. R1f2 Rae8 27. Kf1 Rxf2+ 28. Rxf2 f5 29. b3 Re3 30. Rb2 b5 31. a4 bxa4 32. bxa4 c4 33. Kf2 Rb3 34. Ra2 c3 35. Ke1 Rb1+ 36. Ke2 Rb2+ 37. Kd3 Rxa2 38. Kxc3 Rxh2 39. Kd4 Kf7 40. Kc5 Ne4+ 41. Kb5 Nxg3 42. Ka6 f4 43. a5 f3 44. Kxa7 f2 45. a6 f1=Q 46. Kb7 Rc2 47. a7 Qb5+ 48. Ka8 Rc8# 0-1

I lost in 96 moves

Educational Reform from A-to-Z

This was my slogan when running for office this past fall. Today I ran into the professor that came up with the slogan and as a result I decided to revisit my old website. I was amazed to see the number of visitors I have had over the past few months even thou the election is long over. The funny thing about it is that the visitors are all leaving comments about how great the website looks and only if they knew I have no idea how to maintain or create a website. The guy on the right hand corner of the bottom picture is really responsible for my website!!!

QVC Shopping...

Ever since I found about the “wine making” video, I have been going around showing it to everybody that I know. Today one of my friends from China told me about another video which is also really funny. It amazes me how she knew about the wine making video and in fact had seen it over a year ago.

Grey's Anatomy...

Tonight I decided to watch some T.V. (other than the news) for the first time in weeks. As I was surfing through the channels I realized that I indeed failed to watch a single episode of Grey’s Anatomy this season; it was then that I remembered one of the discussions we had in our classroom regarding ABC putting all of the episodes online for FREE. Three hours later and I am now good to go; the one amazing thing about the episodes being online is the lack of too many commercials. One can watch an episode with only three 30 second advertisements in the middle. For the first time in my life I have not been bothered by the advertisements during a show. Its Great!!!

Thank You...

Thank you so much for a great semester Marissa; this was one of the best classes I have taken at Annenberg. This class is VERY practical because we all get a chance to see professionals from the field come in to our classroom and share their experiences with us. Believe it or not, I am going to miss our class and I can now say that I have a greater appreciation for blogs and bloggers. Thanks for not making this class boring!!!