The Language of Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nSAwgCoy2s

I have the joy of seeing you everyday. That face, that hair, those eyes. For weeks, months even, I stayed quiet. Away from your glance, embarrassed that you would not like what you would see. Embarrassed that I may crack under the pressure and my nerves, and my first impression would end up being my last. "Hi" you'd say. Shocked and confused, I froze. My body numb and my brain not functioning at all. No words and no graceful moments ran through me. The pressure and nerves got to me, but eventually I was able to push the word, H-Hello, out of my nervously sewn shut lips. His smile shook every single dynamic bone in my body, and my heart raced at a thousand beats per minute. If I could get my neck to even move the slightest to look down at my chest, I could swear I would be able to see the outline of the excited heart that normally beats calmly in my chest cavity. 

"We should hang out? Ya know together, see a movie or something." No way. He asked me...to...no way. Now I had lost it, every single blood vessel incased under my fair skin rushed, giving me the warmest and rosiest cheeks I had ever felt. Those words that had left his mouth were sweeter then any ripe melon I could have ever tasted. His words were not at all fake like those rocks hanging off a woman's neck, but rather real and sincere. I felt his love coursing through his veins, out through his speech, and right into my ready -but shaking with nerves- ears. He was real, the feeling was real, and this moment was real. 

"Y-Yes!" I said excitedly, "Of coarse." 

Irish Blog

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090316-st-patricks-day-facts.html

TU Tuesday - CRIME

http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Developments-in-British-phone-hacking-scandal-3402642.php

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ccmanual/ccmanual.pdf

                                                                                                                                                          

http://computing-tips.net/How_to_Prevent_Phone_Hacking/

Are there laws against hacking? If so how can hacking be prevented?

In the times union article, "[Clive] Goodman arrested along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for suspected hacking into voicemails of royal officials.” Their punishments were said to be; “Goodman jailed for four months; Mulcaire given six-month sentence.” Laws have been made, “In the early 1980s law enforcement agencies faced the dawn of the computer

age with growing concern about the lack of criminal laws available to fight

emerging computer crimes.” As well as “Congress included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act

of 1984 provisions to address the unauthorized access and use of computers and

computer networks.”

The penalties for computer crimes are as follows:

Table 1. Summary of CFAA Penalties

Offense Section Sentence*

Obtaining National Security Information                                                                                (a)(1) 10 (20) years

Accessing a Computer and Obtaining Information                                                             (a)(2) 1 or 5 (10)

Trespassing in a Government Computer                                                                               (a)(3) 1 (10)

Accessing a Computer to Defraud & Obtain Value                                                             (a)(4) 5 (10)

Intentionally Damaging by Knowing Transmission                                                             (a)(5)(A) 1 or 10 (20)

Recklessly Damaging by Intentional Access                                                                          (a)(5)(B) 1 or 5 (20)

Negligently Causing Damage & Loss by Intentional Access                                           (a)(5)(C) 1 (10)

Trafficking in Passwords                                                                                                                (a)(6) 1 (10)

Extortion Involving Computers                                                                                  (a)(7) 5 (10)

* The maximum prison sentences for second convictions are noted in parentheses.

The prevention of phone hacking is not attainable but there are ways of reducing your chancing of being hacked,  “Eliminating phone hacking is impossible, but you can reduce chances of ever being phone hacked by observice a few rules:

1. Prevent phone hacking through Passwords

Here are some password tips to reduce chances of being phone hacked:

1. Turn on password protection for your voice mail.
2. Never use the same password for more than one account.
3. Change your phone's default passwords.
4. Avoid passwords that are easy to guess e.g: your birth year (Can easily be found on your Facebook page).
5. Change your system passwords on a regular basis.

2. Switch off your phone

This is not the most popular option, but if you don't need to be reachable at all the times, consider this option.

3. Keep your phone updated

New phone hack prevention mechanism are released now and then as phone companies try to keep up with phone hack prevention. Its a good idea to keep your phone updated.

4. Phone security

Safeguard the physical location of your phone and related computer equipment. Consider anti-theft software like this one http://www.pctipstricks.net/hacking/free-download-anti-theft-software-mobile-phones/. With this software you can do the following:

1.Remotely lock your phone by sending sms

2.Remotely format/wipe your phone by sending sms

3.You will get the location and information of the new sim inserted in the phone.
So it can help you recover your mobile phone which has been stolen or lost accidently.

5. Turn off Bluetooth

Most phone hacking is done via bluetooth .Turn off bluetooth service when not using it.

6. Turn off voice mail service running on your provider

Some providers allow access to your voice mail without requiring a password provided that the calling number (Caller ID) is actually yours. This is usually to make their service easier to use for the intended persons. A hacker can spoof your number and call the voice mail number on your provider and operate your voice mail as though it was his own without the need to even know your password! Call your provider and either ask them to require authentication regardless of the caller ID.

Spoofing your number is easy. There are a dozen websites that offer the service at a small fee.”

Creative Contest II Blog

Once upon a time there lived a boy named George Smith. He was always treated poorly by the other children in his school, they called him called Box Boy. Not much was out of the ordinary for George except the whole square-shaped-head-while-everyone-else-has-a-circular-head thing. George didn't do much either, except he knew he was slighty different from the others. And the other kids yelling "Hey Box Boy!" wasn't helping the poor boys case either. Every day life to him became less and less exciting, less and less worth waiting for, and less and less worth living for. His personality gradually changed to someone that he didn't like, someone more quiet, more reserved, and more different. He began to hate what he had become. So he worked hard to get back the old George. It took a bit, but eventually he was back; happier and more proud of himself and his differences than ever. He strutted every day to that school, and down the streets, with pride radiating from his square head. "Im square and Im proud, Im square and Im proud", and eventually everyone else caught onto George's pride and uniqueness as well and stopped calling him Box Boy but rather they started embracing him  as George Smith.  

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!!

Scruples

A neighbor’s six year old child finds $30 on your driveway and gives it to you. No one claims it. Do you give the money to the child?


No I would not give the child the money because:
(I do not want to sound selfish but...)


1) The money was found in MY DRIVEWAY and no one claimed
2) The boy gave the found money TO ME 
3) What can a six year old boy do with $30 anyway?
4) I feel like in this scenario I play an adult role- I would have better uses for the $30
5) I do not feel the child would care if he was given the money or not


But then I feel bad :( So I feel I would give a portion to the boy ( I do not know if that is against the rules but I am not breaking rules -just bending)

My Blog Idea

If you were granted three wishes. Only three, and no more. Who would grant these wishes for you? Where and when would these wishes be granted? Would you take the three wishes seriously? Or blow the off as if like is already so perfect now? So the choice is yours. What would you wish for? (And Why?)

1) A perfect family: A family full of opportunities, love, hope, and intellect. I want a family full of supporters  rather than downers. Rich rather than poor. Intelligent rather dumb. Selfless rather than selfish. I want a family that cares, and is there for me and the greater good of the family. 

2) Talent: I wish I could be just a bit more talented. Above average. I want to be the best of the best at something and not average. I want talent; great, unique, world-class talent.

3) Guaranteed Peace: I am tired of holocausts, genocide, racial acts of hatred, movements, totalitarian regimes. I am tired of having to worry about where my country stands on an international standpoint. I want to know that generations following my own will be safe from terror. 

Revisions

Original Poems:

"Bounce"

"Bounce!"

I say. Into the air, 10 feet high

Swift, strong arms thrust the rubber ball

To the ground, and the ball just does as it was told

The ball always does and always will do what it is told

The schedule never fluctuates; it is unyielding, even obdurate

There is not a thing the ball can change about the day or itself

You bounce I say, and all the rubber knows how to do is blindly

Respond with how high? To the sky to the moon, I will go the

 Distance for you, I am yours for I have been taught to do not

 A thing but bounce endlessly till you grow terribly tired of

Me and my outside grows worn, I am yours with no choice

Or say so I might as well be happy to be somebodies,

To feel warmth in ones’ hand you say bounce

 And as planned I happily say

How High?

"The Unseen"

An object shared

between you and I

him and her

all of us, everyone

smaller than

the eye can see

and handed down

through family history

slightly different for everyone

by just one percent

they make me, Me 

and you, YOU

control our appearance

personality and behavior

they are the masterminds behind 

what we have learned to call ourselves

Mimi Moriarty's Feedback:

Alaynah - I think you were the only one who attempted a concrete poem.  Good effort at creating a picture with your poem!  And there's an interesting message in the poem, as well, about obedience and dependence.  You have a nice flair for the dramatic.

In "The Unseen" - check the second line for a grammatical error "between you and me" not "between you and I" - otherwise, nicely done.  I especially like the second stanza - nice rhythm and rhyme.  The rest of the poem breaks the rhythm and rhyme, so I think you have to decide if you will use it throughout, or not at all.  This is something I struggle with all of the time.  You just have to choose.

Mimi Moriarty

My Revisions:

"The Unseen"

objects shared

between you, me, mother, son

its been declared
they are within everyone

smaller than

the eye can see

and handed down

through family history

make me unique
slightly different
being bold is what we seek

through just one percent

deciding our appearance

personality and behavior
masterminds in a sense

individualities savior

My Response:

For "Bounce" I love the original, as did Moriarty, she didn't suggest that I change anything. Which I was really happy with, it felt nice having my poem complimented. 
And For "The Unseen" I prefer the revised, and I am so glad that she gave me advise to change the poem because it just made the poem so much stronger. And it was true what she said I did need to choose between using rhythm and rhyme or nothing at all.