Michael Jordan - Remember The Name

A myriad of Jordan clips from his high school, college, and Bulls days to the song "Remember The Name" by Fort Minor.

How we live in the Dominican Republic

You were in The Dominican Republic when... you grew up afraid of something called "El CUCO" you point things out with your nose & mouth, you go outside in rolos & chancletas. You refer to everybody as primo. While in DR, you hear people on the block yelling "se fue la luz!" your house in DR has an oil lamp in every room, you grew up listening to Fernandito Villalona, Sergio Vargas, Anthony Santos, Los Hermanos Rosario. You grew up watching to El show del medio dia, el club de Isha, maria monito, los pitufos, mundo vision, Juan Lamur, Sabado de Corporan, Nuria Piera, el Show de Luisito y Anthony, and the unforgettable lucha libre, with the campeon mundial de la bolita del mundo Jack Veneno. Your dad/uncle claim to be dead-broke, yet rock a cell phone & is laced with mad gold around his neck and wrists. You drink Presidente, Brugal, or Mama Juana like WATER. You have at least 3 porcelain figures in your living room. Your sofas are covered in plastic. You eat Mangu on a daily basis you ate rice, beans and some type of meat for dinner yesterday, today and probably will tomorrow. You believe Vivaporu is the cure for everything. You use an old t-shirt, towel, or anything as a mop, and use your feet to mop. Your house on the island has broken pieces of glass on the walls and a cruz of sabila in the main door to keep away robbers. You refer to every cat as mishu and every dog as toby. Your childhood games were called: el escondido, pollito pleibi, apara y batea, el gallo, ambo-sado matarile, beyuga, la minga, yo-yo, fun-funor, la chichigua and the mom and dad game (my favorite). your local bodega does lay-a-away/credit plans (fiao) your parents gave you aceite de bacalao and Forti-Malt when you were sick.

After all guys, we are Dominicans and we should be proud of it, I’m very proud of come from that little island called Dominican Republic.

Take Care of your Childern

Hi folks... I was reading this article in the NY times and I found it very interesting, especially for those who have children around 5 and 6 years-old. The article reveals some of the causes that affect the good-sleeping on children. The lack of parental control has been the main reason of this problem.

Here is the complete article extracted from the NY times Learning Network you can always visit it at http://nytimes.com I hope you’ll found it interesting.

Also Check the original article for new vocabulary
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR. Five- and 6-year-old children who watch television, especially police dramas, news broadcasts and movies directed at adults, have a markedly increased risk for sleep problems, a new study suggests.

The families of 297 children completed questionnaires on sleep routines and TV viewing habits that included details about the time spent watching, the types of shows they saw and whether the parents and the children watched together. The researchers estimated the time spent in "passive viewing" — when the television was on, but the child was not actively paying attention — from the data they gathered.

The study, which appears in the June issue of The Journal of Sleep Research, was conducted in three university cities in Finland. On average, the television was on 2.8 hours a day during the children's waking hours, and they watched it actively for 1.4 hours.

The total amount of time the television was on, the amount of active TV watching and exposure to passive TV were all correlated with decreased sleep duration. The more those children watched programs intended for adults and the more passive TV exposure they had, the more severe their sleep problems. Watching TV at bedtime or watching alone was also significantly correlated with the severity of sleep disturbances.

Children who spent the most time in passive viewing had almost triple the risk of sleep difficulties of those who spent the least. Dr. Juulia Paavonen, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, said television watching should be limited to one or two hours a day. "Our results suggest," she said, "that parents should control the program contents that are actively watched by their children, and that children's exposure to background TV should be limited."

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Bye, Bye Semester....

Finally my first semester at the CLIP program is over. I have so many feelings inside of my head: happiness, sadness, loneliness and most important SATISFACTION for all that I have done in only five months. Now I’m one step closer to get into the college. I made friends that I’m going to keep the rest of my life, and I had a wonderful teacher that taught me (Besides all the English) the importance of being respectful when I’m are talking or writing.

I don’t know if you my readers know that I only have been living in this country for eight months and I attempted the CLIP and took the tests in January when I only had three months living in USA. My scores were low but not unsatisfactory. I had 44 in the Michigan test and 3+ in the CLIP essay. I began in the level tow low, but the teacher in this level had a sense of me and recommends that I should be in a higher level so I jumped two levels to the highest level two “Audrey’s class”.

At the end I finished with everything but disappointing scores on my tests. I jumped from a 44 to an 80 in the Michigan test and from a 3+ to a 6- in the CLIP essay. What do you think? It is not greatJ. I want to thanks everybody who made my way in the CLIP easy my friends and my teacher, and I hope to see you when I come back in the fall. This is all for know, Take care and be grateful my lovely Amigos.

PS. Despite the beautiful mistakes I made. I think you guys love me as much as I love you.

No Water Available for Students only for Staff

Hi Clip Program Authorities. Sorry if I’m badgering you. I know that the CLIP is a very poor program which sometimes doesn’t have money to supply all its necessities. However there are main necessities such as free water for everybody who work or spend time studying within the program. For the past two weeks, lack of water has been a non-desire problem and it is affecting every student in the CLIP program. I have to say this again: We all know the CLIP is a very poor program but, what I saw today as a student’s announcement “No water for students, only for staff. Students must bring their own water or buy it at the cafeteria” on Have Mayer Lab at Bronx Community College made me think about the way that an institution should make their announcements. Despite the seriousness of the issue I found it a little be funny because water should be free and accessible to everybody. At this point something should be done.

I hope not to see a situation like this the next semester. Also I’m sure the directive staff of the CLIP program won’t let this happen again. In order to this not to happen again I want to create awareness in the becoming students that it is our right as a human bans to have free water, that’s why I love the United States, there are rules such as free water dispensers at public places.

Peace.

PS: The water comes the 8 of June BUT, the semester ends the 7 of June

A mis Amigos...

Han pasado 4 meses desde que estoy en el CLIP Program. Han sido un tiempo de mucho aprendizaje, mucho cansancio, muchos viajes, etc. Pero sobre todo han sido meses donde he conocido las mejores personas del mundo, los mejores amigos que jamás he tenido, personas maravillosa que como yo han venido a este país a buscar un mejor futuro una vida mejor para nuestras familias en nuestros países de origen.

Por mas de 120 días he estados con ustedes (no tengo que decir nombres porque me refiero a todos) y quiero agradecerles el que me hayan brindado su amistad, su apoyo me hayan regalado sus sonrisas, a veces su enojo, porque a veces no es fácil soportarme, pero ustedes han tenido que lidiar con el lado bueno y malo de mi personalidad.

Sé que a veces me comporto estúpido, que digo cosas sin pensar, cosas que algunas veces hieren los sentimientos de las personas. Quiero por favor pedirles que me perdonen muchachos si alguna vez uno de ustedes se ha sentido ofendido por algo que dije o hice, les juro que no ha sido mi intención.

Se nos está acabando el tiempo juntos este semestre, quizás nos volvamos a ver, quizás no. Pero nunca los voy a olvidar y nunca dejaran de ser mis amigos aún no los vuelva a ver más. Gracias por todo de verdad, Muchas Gracias. LOS VOY A EXTRAÑAR MUCHO

Breaking The Habit...

Memories consume like opening the wound I'm picking me apart again. You all assume I'm safe here in my room unless I try to start again. I don't want to be the one the battles always choose because inside I realize that I'm the one confused.
I don't know what's worth fighting for or why I have to scream. I don't know why I instigate and say what I don't mean. I don't know how I got this way I know it's not alright, so I'm breaking the habit today.
Clutching my cure I tightly lock the door I try to catch my breath again. I hurt much more Than anytime before I had no options left again. I don’t want to be the one the battles always choose because inside I realize that I'm the one confused
I'll paint it on the walls because I'm the one at fault. I'll never fight again and this is how it ends.
I don't know what's worth fighting for or why I have to scream But now I have some clarity to show you what I mean I don't know how I got this way I'll never be alright so, I'm breaking the habit today.