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Ventures Update January 2018
695 Riverview Drive
Click here for the building website.
Real Estate Agent
This is the slow season, but I am getting going in 2018!
Park City Holdings and Kineomen
Kineomen has several projects in the works, one of which is my Park City Holdings.
Meet Cbus TV
I am working on my camera presence and editing, but I and Matt DeNoble are ready to go.
Nate TV
How much does it cost to make videos that are available around the world? I now know.
- $3250 for the equipment including quality sound, tripods, computer, screen, everything.
- $120 per month for editing software, internet, hosting, everything. That is less than most people pay for cable TV. What a deal. I can’t pass it up!
- Late 1800s: motion pictures developed.
- Early 1900s: motion pictures long enough to tell a story.
- 1920s: music added to motion pictures.
- 1920s: sound synchronized to make talkies.
- By 1930: silent films almost extinct.
- 1950s: televisions at home become commonplace.
- 1950s: color becomes the norm.
- Feb 2005: YouTube created, which was purchased by Google in Nov 2006. Users begin creating the content.
- Currently: commonplace for users to create the content. Finally, we aren’t just being talked at and shown. We can respond.Don’t just watch, catch the wave, join the movement.
Simple Kneads Gluten-Free Bread
Simple Kneads is available in several Whole Foods stores in the North Carolina area and growing fast.
Vino de Coco
I still plan to visit the Philippines. Still.
Other
What to Watch 3: 60 Hours of 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack
60 Hours of 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack, Fareed Zakaria (from 2008)
Interrogation and cell phone conversations:
- First 3:50 is interrogation.
- 5:00 – 5:20
- 10:10 – 10:20
- 11:20 – 11:50
- 21:50 – 22:40
- 22:50 – 23:30
- 29:30 – 30:00
- 31:10 – 31:30
- 33:30 – 34:00
- 34:30 – 34:50
- 35:30 – 35:50
- 37:10 – 37:50
- 41:30 – 43:30
- 44:10 – 48:00 terrorists’ final minutes.
- 49:30 – End is more interrogation.
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What to Watch 2: Drones and Guitars, 23 Minutes
Drones TED Talk, The Astounding Athletic Power of Quadcopters, Raffaello D’Andrea
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Tamacun, Awesome
Rodrigo y Gabriela on TED
Check out more TED Talks at TED.com.
English Lesson 11: Body Parts
What to Watch 1: Martin Luther King Day 2018, 33 Minutes
John F. Kennedy Presidential Inauguration Speech, 20 January 1961
“Ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.” (at time 14:00)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 28 August 1963
“I Have a Dream”
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Beethoven – Für Elise, Main Part
Recorded with Zoom H4n.
ü = Alt + 0252
English Lesson 10: YouTube Subtitles
Hello and welcome to English Lesson 10. I’m going to start by answering some questions from last week. I’m wearing a zipper-up hoodie. It has a zipper. The zipper can go up down up. So zipper-up, and it has a hood. So zipper-up hoodie.
Second question, how to use a shovel. This is a snow shovel. I can clear snow with a sh- snow shovel. I can clean snow with a snow shovel, and I can shovel snow with a snow shovel, and it all means the same thing. It all means to remove snow with a snow shovel.
I ran out of time this week. So I’m gonna recommend another video. It’s called Papa English and it’s 8 Spoken Contractions. The link to the video is below. And, I know everybody likes the subtitles and it might look like he does not have subtitles, but I’m going to show you a YouTube trick. Go to the bottom right corner of the video, click on CC and select subtitles, and you’ll get the subtitles on a lot of videos they’re available there, down there at the bottom.
Papa English: 8 Spoken Contractions
- Cuz
- Hafta
- Dunno
- Kinda
- Wanna
- Lemme
- Gimme
- Gotta = hafta
- Outta
Sir Lucas Freitas, Página de Fã
Sir Lucas Freitas on the Web
18-Year-Old Pianist from Rio de Janeiro Plays with Tomás Improta
Lucas plays with Rafa Pinta, Signo de Terra, September 2020
Lucas plays with Brenda Luce and João Perrusi, 12 August 2020
See Lucas (and another self-taught pianist from Rio, also named Lucas) featured on Brazil’s news, “Globo,” 12 April 2018
Lucas plays with singer Jade Baraldo – A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes on Spotify, released April 2018
See Rio 2017, Made by Hand on this site.
English Lesson 9: Winter Vocabulary
- New Year’s Eve
- Cold weather
- Winter season
- I can see my breath.
- Clothes
- Relfection
- Snow
- Sunglasses
- “Layer-up”
- “Zipper-up hoodie”
- Warm
- Jacket
- Coat
- Gloves
- “Practically frozen”
- Winter hat
- Shovel snow
- Frozen pond
- Snow angel
- Snowball fight