Turkey Edition & CLUB ACTIVITIES

     'Tis the season of giving, so I'm giving you a blog post. A blog post dedicated to the locals that celebrates the holiday season by either giving to others just giving a little of their spice of what we call life.

    Students Presentation High School, a college preparatory school for women, acquired a mass amount of 613 turkeys for thanksgiving week and amassed a total of $52,000 in canned and dried edibles, baby formula and diapers for Sacred Heart Community Service. Seniors of Presentation High School on the 21st of November stood outside a cold Sunday, in front of a Safeway store on Hamilton Ave.; the students collected enough turkeys to fill four trunks. Great applause to the students of Presentation High School for their great effort and generosity.

Presentation High School in San Jose collects 613 frozen turkeys [San Jose Mercury News]

   San Jose City College will be hosting a ceramics sale on the 5th of December from 12-6pm, 6th of December from 10am-7pm. Ceramics made by professionals and student artists will  be selling their handcrafted goodness to support their arts program. A class on knife skills will also be open at Domus in Willow Glen on December 7, which will teach you the ancient ninja skills of cutting vegetable in elegant pieces, as well as how to care for that weapon of mass slicin 'n dicin. More info in the link below.

Willow Glen shorts: Ceramincs sale at San Jose City College shows pot skills [San Jose Mercury News]

     Whether it's Christmas or Hanukkah, there will always be the Nutcracker. The Century 25 Theater at Westgate Mall has been enlightened by the holidays into a performance art center. You can do stuff like watch the Jewish Nutcracker and a Motown Inspired Christmas Show. History of the savior of the Westgate Century 25 Theater, and other information found in the link below.

Retro Dome in San Jose stages a Jewish Nutcracker and Motown-inspired Christmas show [San Jose Mercury News]

Club Activities

     With some of that other news out of the way, lets get down to some Club Activities that will be going down, and that I have planned.
    Along with the W-A-R Marathon that will be taking place first week of Christmas Break [Dec. 18-25], there will also be a Canned Food Drive that I signed us up for. It is the Holiday Season, and I feel we should participate in giving to those in need. Donations of canned edibles will be much obliged, plus I will be going can collecting some time during Dead Week [Dec. 6-10], so if anyone wants to assist me in collecting canned foods, possibly by asking for donations at several Grocery Stores [Smart & Final, Safeway, etc...], and going door to door at some neighborhoods, that will be much obliged.

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

Winter Break is Write-A-Review Marathon Week

Made a banner, that means I'm serious!

   
     Okay, since there hasn't been much that has been going on at this page, maybe a few posts here or there, but still not really anything going on. Here's what I'll do, Winter Break is going to be marathon week, which means I'll be popping up the PS3 onto the table connecting it to the Laptop, and attempt to play most of the games that I have, from beginning to end. At the end of each game I will be writing a review for that game, and since it is going to be on the Laptop I can make screen shots, so there is going to be a full week with nothing but game review and more game reviews, and I promise you that to my fullest extent. You don't believe me? Got my capture card, and a ton of coffee, also a knack for staying up late and working on schoolwork. So stay tuned, Winter Break is Game Review Week, though not all are relatively new, WE NEED MORE BLOG POSTS, so that's what I'm willing to sacrifice.

On that account... Anyone want to spend the week of Winter Break here? It's cold but I might or might not need help.

Also here are some rules I set up for myself, you can add to it if you want to by editing this post, editors.
1. Play a game till I reach the given goal on either Easy or Normal, not HARD.
2. I will write a review, no matter how silly or stupid it sounds I WILL WRITE A REVIEW.
3. After finishing each Review, a 5 hour rest period is permitted, No more.
4. Not going to utilize the comfort of the couch, only using a desk chair, and a desk.
5. 5 - 7 hour limit depending on hour much interest I have at the game, if I'm not having fun, forget it no more than 5 hours, But I will be trying to speed run everything.
6. No internet assists, only local assists, so if anyone is willing to come over and help, thank you!
7. Playing with the PSN off, so no foreign intrusions (Demon's Souls).
8. If I finish before the week ends, on to the Wii Games.
9. NO SIDE QUESTS, ONLY MAIN QUESTS.
10. Also so I don't kill myself, every three goals achieved entitles me to an 8hr nap.

Here's a list of every game I will be doing. Including games off of PSN.

1. Initial D, Japanese import - Finish Campaign. (Never Finished)
2. 3D Dot Game Heroes - Beat 3 or more bosses
3. Metal Gear Solid 4 - Beat 3 or more bosses SKIPPING CUTSCENES
4. Borderlands - Beat 3 or more bosses
5. Demon's Souls - Beat 3 or more Bosses
6. Resident Evil 5 - Beat 2 or more Bosses (Haven't Played Before)
7. F.E.A.R. - Pass 3 or more levels
8. Fallout: New Vegas: Beat the story mode
9. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Beat the Campaign

 PSN Games
WipeOut HD - Finish 2 or more Campaign sections.
Everyday Shooter - Attempt to beat the entire play.
Critter Crunch - Finish all main puzzle 'till the end.
Gravity Crash - Finish Campaign
Braid - Finish Playthrough
Flower - Finish Campaign
Comet Crash - Try to beat it (Tower Defense is HARD)
The Last Guy - Try to finish all sequences
Bomberman ULTRA - Don't know, bought it but never played it.

Also will try to do all games at 24hr long intervals. So after 24hrs I will get a 5hr sleep, and so on.

New Season, so new Design

     Things have been pretty hectic for a while now, so I have not put much time into this "Project", so I decided to change the Site Design to celebrate the new season! Somethings are going to conflict with certain Pages, so I hope the rest of the team can help me with this.

     Also we need more blog POSTS, that's set on my agenda, how about yours?

Posting as There are No Posts of a Page Meant for Posting Posts

Wow, haven't made a post in a while, anyways I guess I'll make a post updating on what's happening with the club and all, right now the project that will be partaking in the coming weeks for the club is to try and set up groups, each going on with their own different topics and discussions. Though this may be challenging as I am not in any way familiar with people managing skills. I hope for the best of this project, but I am going to enunciate this, these groups are going to be their own podcast group, and will either release on the official Project Podcast iTunes page, or on their own podcast group if they wish. Here's how most of the main rules and guidelines for the topic discussions (think of them as challenges):

iEtherPad and Real-time Collaboration

I mentioned this service a while back on Facebook. iEtherPad is literally like a multiplayer Notepad. Users can edit a single document all in realtime. Changes made will be visible to the other editors in a somewhat live/realtime setting, so grammatical changes can be instantly be upheld without having to refresh the page.

Upcoming: Events for October

October Events and Such....well at least some of them.

So on Friday, we had our little interview podcast with ASB Vice President, Bryan Nguyen, in which coincidentally, I am also a Vice President and my name is also Bryan...with a Y. It's all a gimmick! No I'm just playing with you. So on to the more important breaking news of the month!

During Daniel's little 6 minute interview I, as the note taker wrote down the important key parts of it. Even if they pointed out the obvious stuff, it was hard to quickly interpret voice to paper since they were buzzing through all the topics. Then again...I can just listen to the podcast again HAHA! Along with the podcast notes. ASB President Lindsey Nguyen (who is Bryan's sister) setup the facebook page with more elaborate information (I suppose) about the upcoming homecoming.

Contact Information / Applications

If any of you reading this are members, then you've probably seen the About/Contact page in the navigation bar at the top of the page. Scroll the bottom and you'll see the list of current editors we have for the blog. What the concern really is that we need contact information for anybody that is an editor/writer for the blog or will be doing so in the near future. So if a reader spots a typo or error within a post, then they have the power to email directly to the poster or email any of us so it can be taken care of.

So if any of you be so kind to please send me your contact information @ school or via email.

My email is found in the contact page already so just forward the message to that address.

AND IF YOU READERS FROM ANDREW HILL WOULD LIKE A POSITION AS AN EDITOR FOR THIS BLOG THEN PLEASE EMAIL ME OR DANIEL WITH PROOF OF CONCEPT THAT YOU ARE AN ABLE WRITER, ESPECIALLY YOU JOURNALISM MEMBERS. Daniel and I will be personally judging your performance based on having no form of personal bias or slanderous comments as well as grammatical precision and accuracy. The members of PP7 will also be able to read (if they choose to) and determine whether or not you are 'worthy' of this enterprise that is called Project Podcast....nah, We'll probably take you anyway if your up to the task. PLUS you'll need to allocate some amount of time (probably 1~3 hours) for the blog. It's not something we demand in particular, but will give you enough time as a writer, to conjure up some thoughts that will satisfy the readers and leave them wanting more...I think ;)

Signup sheets for membership (not editor spots) will be available during Friday's [2010.10.01] club day. Exact table location is still unknown. Just look for the huge Project Podcast banner. It stands out pretty well

We require more Minera.... I mean Resources

For everybody (or anyone) who heard our second podcast me, Bryan, and Daniel have mentioned that some of our resources are scarce like mics, we got our home mics and the omnidirectional one for school use, if anyone would like to add to our list of equipment feel free to help out (money on the other hand is covered so dont worry you dont have to donate cash we're not greedy money grubbers)

Project Podcast:Status Report

Yo this is Victor Nguyen with my first post on the project podcast blog with a update on what's
going on so far and so far we are not looking so hot. So far we only got one podcast out and its
topic was solely based upon my favorite subject: games, and at the second recording in school it went very well as a practice run for how our podcast should sound like and it will be a subject our little group would talk about again if we don't have anything on the school to talk about (besides others like gagdets or gossip, etc.) but alas the recording was lost and Me, Bryan, and Daniel went and made another podcast at night on Skype with another one of our good friends Chris Vo, and of that, it was our first official Podcast done right, apparently we call it a "Skypecast" which Bryan records our conversation on Skype and turned it into a podcast when we are not at school. The first podcast is not out yet but we hope to get out on itunes soon while our pres. Daniel enjoys some well erned rest for busting his back for us and helping us on the club. We hope to get out more podcasts as soon as possible for our "listeners" as soon as we overcome some techincal problems involving cash and some faulty equipment on my side i also hope to fix this A.S.A.P.

Project Podcast: Status Quo

Even with Victor's previous note about updates and podcast quality, I noticed that there haven't been an update for a while, so I guess I should start updating (even as no one reads this). So there is a Club Day coming up on Friday and there WILL be a Podcast recorded live in the quad on that day. So without a further ado, the schedule for the next few weeks.

Here we will have our Podcast/Skype and club meeting schedule for the next week or so. The recordings generally last about an hour so they are relative. Plus they are the most optimum for anyone to record since it's not too late nor is it too early.

• Skypecast - Wednesday, September 29th [5PM-6PM] (Uploading as of 21:08)
• Skypecast - Thursday, September 30th [8PM-9PM]
• Podcast - Friday, October 1st [Live in the Quad during lunch, 11:25AM-11:54AM]
• Skypecast (Open Discussion) - Saturday, October 2nd [5PM~11:59PM]
  
• Meeting/Podcast - Friday, October 8th [Debriefing and Briefing || Recording 11:25AM-11:54AM]
• Skypecast (Open Discussion) - Saturday, October 9th [5PM~11:59PM]
• Skypecast - Tuesday, October 12th [5PM-6PM]
• Skypecast - Thursday, October 14th [5PM-6PM]
• Meeting/Podcast - Friday, October 15th [Debriefing and Briefing || Recording(?) 11:25AM-11:54AM]
• Skypecast (Open Discussion) - Saturday, October 10th [5PM~11:59PM

Regarding the groups, so far we only have 2 probable and most likely to work groups:

1. Daniel Wu, Bryan Nagar, Kip Mowder [School, General & Technology]
2. Victor Nguyen, Tony Tran, Christ Vo [Video Games]
3. Tiffany Truong, Vu Nguyen(?) [School Politics and Events]

When the club progresses, these groups will not stay finite, so that means they will be shifting across the entire userbase so that everyone will have a chance to talk about something, whether it be about the weather, movies, music, books they've read or something in particular that comes into their minds.

Hopefully as time goes by there will be more and more members conversing on similar topics. Once that time comes more and more individuals can form a group to tack on a discussion that will last from 30 minutes to roughly 1 hour solely based on their cloud of thoughts

As you might have noticed so far, there is more than one group, and you might be asking yourself, "How are they going to get that done at once in the same room in only 30 minutes?". Unfortunately....that is still being worked on.

So far that is ALL....for now. Stay tuned (I hope so) for more updates in the near near future

Dan Wu

projectpodcast7@gmail.com

Otakun

trickglichdude@gmail.com

Twitter: @Project_Podcast

Facebook: Project Podcast Group Private

Roundup: "Mini" Club Day

Even if this is a late post, I want to get this out of the way.

So this past Wednesday, there was an apparent "Mini" Club Day because the actual event that usually happens during lunch has been postponed for the upcoming Wednesday of the 22nd.

But as stated by us (well some of us), we covered which clubs took part for this small event and scrounged up some information on some of the clubs.

Below is the list of participating clubs. :note that these clubs are just for Thursday's event:

1. Filipino Student Union [FSU]
2. Glee Club
3. Club Interact
4. Gay-Straight Alliance [GSA]
5. Falcons 4 Christ [FFC]
6. Penpal Club
7. Club Azteca
8. Raza Unida
9. Para Para + Club
10. International Youth Foundation [IYF]
11. Latinos In Action [LIA]
12. Friday Night Live [FNL]
13. My Voice Club (AKA My Strength, Your Strength)
14. Freestyle Club
15. CGA (AKA Anime Club)

Those are only some of the clubs that exist at our school. Most likely that there all clubs will be attending next Wednesday's "Official" Club Day.

Now on to a brief summary for each club and what they're worth.

Filipino Student Union [FSU]

The Filipino Student Union, or FSU for short, is a congregation of all Filipino students at Andrew Hill. Their main focus is on Filipino Art and Culture, revolving mostly around music styles, languages, and food.

Glee Club

Glee Club is a club embodying the spirit of music and dance. Mostly deriving from famous Broadway musicals and some modern musicals such as Les Miserables, or The Phantom of The Opera; Glee Club uses music to choreograph dances that incorporate multiple people simultaneously (somewhat over 7).

Club Interact

Club Interact is a student organization focusing on helping the community. Every member is involved in community service like campus cleaning. Club Interact also hosts fundraisers to further benefit the surrounding community around Andrew Hill and other organizations in San Jose. Furthermore, Club Interact's members take the time to help each others families out.

[Incomplete/Run on]

Gay-Straight Alliance [GSA]

The Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA for short, is a club that promotes sexual equality. They are against the discrimination and segregation of homosexuals, both female and male. During their club activities, they get together and do discussions about why discrimination of homosexuals is negative.

Falcons 4 Christ [FFC]

Falcons 4 Christ is a Christian youth organizations that focues on the Scripture and Bible study. Students enlighten others on the word of God and promote Christianity throughout the school on how individuals can apply it to their everyday lives. Every monday @ 7AM they gather around the poles near the Cafetorium for a small prayer, dubbed "See You at the Poles".

PenPal Club

The Penpal Club is a small club that interacts with grade school kids, primarily 2nd graders. Students in this club do a one-to-one interaction with them to teach them leadership skill for application in the future. Along with interacting with them, they write letters to the grade schoolers as well as children from abroad promoting their cause.

I've only covered a small segment of the list of above clubs, but I want you to have that feeling of wanting more information since this was only a small event foreshadowing the much larger, more epic, catastrophic :sarcasm: event. The rest of the clubs will be having a thorough breakdown after the main event on Wednesday, September 24.

On a side note, if anyone can further improve the information that was probably loosely falsified in some way (though I really don't know since it's based off of another editors' notes), please feel free to comment below for any tips on improvement, revisions, corrections, or just your overall opinion and concern about the above post. This also applies to all our other posts and upcoming posts as well.

Source: Daniel Wu, Tony Tran, Bryan Nagar via: Project Podcast

And thanks to all the clubs who participated on Wednesday.

Club Day

Today's club day was a success, a lot of people were attracted to the food, and we managed to raise quite a bit of money, a good amount actually. What we need to do now is to get ready for the actual Club Day, and hopefully everything will run smoother that time as well. We managed to surpass my expectations, but we still haven't the money to officially start the club yet. The next Club Day we'll have a lower bar to meet, so it won't be as stressful. So this gives us more room for improvement, especially since I am a first timer when it comes to being a president, so I hope everything will run as smoothly with this club as it did today.

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

Stuff for Club Day

Guess what? Club Day is coming up in about two days, well actually tomorrow... So here's what is going to go down for Club Day, if everything works out fine;

we're going to be selling food, not for money, but for tickets which cost 50 cents each (going to talk about that on the podcast),

going booth to booth to gather information about each individual club (i.e what they do, whose the president, etc...),

trying to advertise out club (ordered business cards, hopefully they'll help),

and trying to gather information on what people want to hear about, what they want to know which means we'll be conducting surveys, if that doesn't seem too much to ask.

Hopefully the InterClub meeting won't turn out to be a disaster for this Club, so I've got my fingers crossed, did I mention we need to raise $100 in order to keep this open?

Got The Podcast Group Set Up

          So the podcast group is all set up now, which means, that all that's left to do now, is to record content and upload it onto a server, then paste the direct link here, which updates onto the feed, and in turn goes directly into the iTunes group (make sense?). What's next? Well we need content to discuss, and posts to write, hopefully after Club Day, we (the network) will be ready to gather content to discuss about. Contribute to the group by attending Club Day, and gather info about the other clubs, we'll then upload it onto a page here, and make it available to the wider public (hopefully).
Here's the link to the Podcast Page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/projectpodcast/id391273753

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

Editing Site Design, and Blah Blahs

          Otakun's editing the site design, what does that mean? Obviously making changes to the interface of the site, including the comment section, the tweaks won't be final until about this morning, or perhaps tomorrow. So stay tuned for any tweaks, and if any of you have any suggestions that will make this site more convenient to use, feel free to bring it up, via the Email, or comment below (I'll just highlight the text to view the comment).

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

Edit by Otakun: Blog is finalized and hopefully no further changes will be needed.

Need Writers for the Blog

          A new blog means that we need writers. Interested? If so the requirements are basically the ability to post and write about a focused topic for one entire post, which means that you can talk about one thing per blog post. Also one other thing is that you must update atleast once a week, if you can't, send me an email. I'll try to update daily on what is going on once the club is deemed official at AHHS, but if not, I'll still try to carry on.

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

Aims of ProjectPodcast :D

          The aims of this experiment is basically to try and create a network of people who can express their ideals, not just limited to High School information (we will be covering that, too), but also consumer products (electronics, video games, and software) and any forms of culture (music, art, and events) if you have any experience in any of those fields. Another thing that we will be experimenting with is what makes us different from the other AHHS clubs, basically the advantage of having news anywhere with access to iTunes, and/or an iPod. As we will also be doing Podcasts, which is the main aim of this group. If you don't know what a Podcast is, it is simply a radio-like interface that is accessible to any iTunes network, where you can download episodes periodically (and automatically with a free subscription!) onto your iPod device, and can be brought virtually anywhere with you without any added bulk. The network will be launching sometime after September 15, 2010, and the plan is to possibly talk about what is going on with the school.

          This is a user-base project so participation from you (the reader) is golden, so send in those questions at projectpodcast7@gmail.com and/or comment below and will try to get you(the readers) the best possible , or the most convenient answer (we will also be conducting interviews with the staff members of the school, if possible). I also want to add that this is a independent project, separate from the staff of the school. Also have to add that this is a nonprofit network, so any money that is donated or acquired (i.e. fundraisers) through ProjectPodcast will only be used to improve this group. I have high hopes for this project and hope that it can flourish into something more than just a club, possibly flourish into a network.

Dan (Project Podcast)
ProjectPodcast7@gmail.com

WELCOME to the AHHS Blog

Let me introduce myself. I am Dr. Mowder, the advisor for this Blog/Club at AHHS. Daniel Wu is President/CEO of this blog and will be responsible for decision making and blog topics/direction.

Welcome to the blog and let's submit some names for this blog.

All decisions are final and all topics will be colorful and tasteful or you will be expelled and referred to office administration connected with this blog.

Enjoy and discuss academically, succinctly, and wisely. Please do not waste time putting down others, boosting your ego, or shilling for an external purpose.

Thank you,

DM