Saturday, June 24, 2017

Day 47: 2017 Summer List

Amazon

*Secret Love (Korean)
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Love-English-Subtitled-Ji-tae/dp/B00ADIPF5O/ref=sr_1_5?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1498149181&sr=1-5&keywords=lust+caution

Enthralled (Cantonese)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00UT0D55S/ref=pd_cbs_318_1/134-1169331-8282865

Addicted (Korean)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00ZX5UI9K/ref=pd_cbs_318_2

*The Story of Ong-Nye
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B019YNNFBY/ref=pd_cbs_318_5

*The Black Hand
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01AJUXIXG/ref=pd_cbs_318_6

Running on Empty
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00725EN68/ref=pd_cbs_318_15

This one looks funny:   Incedent Family
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RJUXK4C/ref=wtls_list_ovl_mor?fullSynopsis=1

*American Pie, Korean Style....I want to watch
A Tale of Legendary Libido
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00725EYBW/ref=pd_cbs_318_5

Virgin Theory
https://www.amazon.com/Virgin-Theory-English-Subtitled-Hwang/dp/B01AJT68GG/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1498150377&sr=1-1&keywords=virgin+theory

*Uranya
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01GRI37XU/ref=pd_cbs_318_5

*Extase
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00RG72OYU/ref=pd_cbs_318_4

*Dangerous Affairs
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00XM1WLT2/ref=pd_cbs_318_7

Clement
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00RKFXVUY/ref=pd_cbs_318_19

*7 Ans
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00ON1UH2I/ref=pd_cbs_318_2

**Lust, Caution (I really want to see this one)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011MO35E?ref=sr_1_1_acs_kn_imdb_pa_dp&qid=1498152092&sr=1-1-acs&autoplay=0

*The Japanese Wife Next Door (This sounds crazy and interesting to see)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWNOQ2O/ref=wtls_list_ovl_mor?fullSynopsis=1

*All Things Fair
https://www.amazon.com/All-Things-Fair-Johan-Widerberg/dp/B0001GH5S8/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1498152388&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=All+Things+Fair

I still can't find "A Taxing Women" is a Japanese film I saw a long time ago.  "Tampopo" came up while researching this film.

This came up while researching "Wild Orchid" on Amazon.  This sounds.. good....
Come Undone
https://www.amazon.com/Undone-English-Subtitled-Pierfrancesco-Favino/dp/B00WL6OO6W/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1498152670&sr=1-1&keywords=Wild+Orchid

****This has to go on top of her list.  It came up researching Wild Orchid
Intimacy
https://www.amazon.com/Intimacy-English-Subtitled-Unavailable/dp/B01AJKINWC/ref=sr_1_14?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1498152670&sr=1-14&keywords=Wild+Orchid

NetFlix

Three (This looks pretty cool)
The Memory of Water (It seems like it will make you cry)
In The Grayscale
Razia Sultan (old style series about early India)
Kama Sutra
Strictly Sexual (I would like to watch this with her)
B.A. Pass (looks interesting, Indian movie)
Amorous
Immortal Tales
Eun Gyo
*Leap Year (sounds like crazy movie like My Brother's Wife, Spanish, Mexican movie, intense movie in a bad way)
She's Lost Control

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Day 46: April 2017 Notes

Places to visit:


  • The Spice Way Store, 12238 B Ventura Blvd, Studio City, CA 91604
    • www.thespiceway.com/la
  • Baron Hats
    • baronhats.com
  • Rich Freshman
    • West Hollywood Tailor and clothier
    • http://www.syobyalp.com/
    • https://getbevel.com/bevelcode/tag/rich-freshman/
  • The Cocktail Lab
    • https://cocktail-lab.myshopify.com/pages/about-us
  • http://threeclubs.com/
  • https://www.thenormandieclub.com/
  • http://www.therogerroom.com/
  • http://www.thedimela.com/pages/index.html
  • https://hammerandnailsgrooming.com/


Adult Books


  • Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari


Scholastic Books/Children's Books to Read


  • Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin, #445, $10
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • Blackout by Robison Wells, #946, $6
  • Braced by Alyson Gerber, #8Y6, $5
  • Bubble World by Carol Snow, #1445, $5
  • The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes, #2046, $6
  • Exo by Fonda Lee, #2645, $5
  • Fallout by Todd Strasser, #2746, $5
  • Forget Me by K.A. Harrington, #3346, $6
  • The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron, #19T6, $6
  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, #35Y5, $5
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, #29W6, $6
  • In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis
  • Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart #4545, $16
  • Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk, #45T6, $4
  • March Book Three by John Lewis
  • Outcasts United by Warren St. John, #5545, $5
  • Overturned by Lamar Giles
  • Samurai Rising by Pamela S. Turner, #66T6, $5
  • The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall, #57W5, $5
  • The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner, #69Y5, $4
  • Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu, #69T5, $6
  • Stay Where You Are & Then Leave by John Boyne, #6545, $6
  • The Transatlantic Conspiracy by G.D. Falksen, #7145, $6
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, #75T6, $8
  • The Tyrant's Daughter by J.c. Carleson, #7446, $5
  • We Should hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist, #7646, $6
  • Willful Machines by Tim Floreen, #76T6, $5
  • Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk, #78W6, $16

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Day 45 March 2017



Book Currently Reading and finish by June 2017
  • Booker T. Washington, Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow by Raymond W. Smock
    • ISBN: 978-1-56663-725-1
  • The First Rasta, Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism by Helene Lee
    • ISBN: 1-55652-466-8
  • American Founding Son, John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment by Gerard N. Magliocca
    • ISBN: 978-0-8147-6145-8
  • Who Belongs in America, Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration by by Vanessa B. Beasley
    • ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-505-9
  • The Indomitable George Washington Fields, From Slave to Attorney by Kevin M. Clermont
    • ISBN-13: 978-1490335629
  • Uplift Cinema, The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity by Allyson Nadia Field
    • ISBN: 978-0-8223-5907-4


Things to Research
  • James Henry Report
  • Cyber Psychology
  • drivingforskillsforlife.com
  • Inside National Health Reform by John McDonough
  • Juan Sebastian Marroquin, son of Pablo Escobar, wrote a book
  • Wickersham Report
  • Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
  • Federalist Society
  • How to be an investigative journalist
  • Book: The Message to t he Blackman
  • History of the church of the nation of Islam
  • research books by Rabbi David Wolpe
  • research Muhommad Ali
  • research Edith Vanderbilt
  • What is Politico?
  • cta.tech
  • book: cylute myth
  • Prager Notes
    • happiness is a moral virtue, it is not an emotional state
    • it doesn't matter how you feel but how you act
    • happiness is a decision
    • 90% of marriages has moody and nonmoody
    • moody doesn't marry moody
    • act happy
    • feelings don't lead to behavior, behavior leads to feelings

Books to Read
  • Engineering Victory by Thomas Army
  • The Making of Donald Trump by Cay Johnson
  • Building the New American Economy by Jeffrey Sachs
  • Decade of Betrayal by Francisco Balderrama
  • The Cyber Effect by Mary Aiken
  • Migra! by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
  • One Long Night by Andrea Pitzer
  • Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
  • The New Brooklyn by Kay Hymowitz
  • Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi
  • Injustices by Ian Millhiser
  • Speaking American by Josh Katz
  • The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
  • The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
  • The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyber Psychologist Explains how human behavior changes online by Mary Aiken
  • 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain by Gary small
  • Rigged by Dean Baker
  • The True Flag by Stephen Kinzer
  • Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World by Benjamin Reiss
  • The Court and The World by Stephen Breyer
  • Black man in a White Coat by Dr. Damon Tweedy
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life by Nato Thompson

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Day 44 February 2017

Notes for February 2017


Books that are must reads in March

  • When China Rules The World by Martin Jacques 
    • ISBN 978-1-59420-185-1
  • The Challenge of Things by A.C. Grayling  
    • ISBN 978-1-63286-246-4
  • Paying The Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab
    • ISBN 978-0-226-40434-9
  • Will College Pay Off? by Peter Cappelli
    • ISBN 978-1-61039-526-7
  • The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
    • ISBN 978-0-307-40776-4
  • The Constitution Today by Akhil Reed Amar
  • Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
  • Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The Wisdom of Frugality by Emrys Westacott

Look into these books

  • Game of Loans by Beth Akers
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • Scientific Management Movement by Frederick Winslow Taylor
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  • Twilight Warriors by James Kitfield
  • Thundersticks by David Silverman
  • Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman
  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  • If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal by Jeremy Duda
  • They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
  • Ray & Joan by Lisa Napoli
  • The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
  • Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
  • The Framers' Coup by Michael Klarman (Get this one with "The Constitution Today" by Akhil Reed Amar)
  • Do More, Spend Less by Brad Wilson
  • The Whole 30 by Melissa Hartwig
  • The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer
  • The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer
  • Data Journalism Handbook
    • becomingadatascientist.com
    • datajournalismhandbook.org
  • The Data Journalism Handbook by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers
  • Doing Data Science by Cathy O'Neil
  • Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell
  • Bayesian Data Analysis by Andrew Gelman
  • Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
  • Think Bayes by Allen Downey
  • Data Science for Business by Foster Provost
  • Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
  • What is Data Science? by Mike Loukides
  • A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon rogers
  • Machine Learning by Peter Flach
  • Innumeracy by John Allen Paulo
  • A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
  • How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
  • Data Smart by John Foreman
  • Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
  • North Valley Library
    • The Beer Bible by Jeff Alworth ISBN 978-0-7611-8498-0 (663.4)
    • Salt, A World History by Mark Kurlansky ISBN 0-8027-1373-4 (553.63)
    • The Pencil by Henry Petroski, ISBN 0-679-73415-5 (674.88)
    • The Black West by William Loren Katz, ISBN 0-940880-18-0 (978)
  • The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
  • The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
  • The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty
  • The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
  • Invisible Man by Mychal Denzel Smith
  • Crisis of Character by Gary Byrne
  • Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
  • The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen
  • Engineering Victory by Thomas Army
  • Islamic Exceptionalism by Shahid Hamid
  • Ordinarily Well by Peter Kramer
  • Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca
  • Black Square by Sophie Pinkham
  • Enhanced Interrogation by James Mitchell

Kid Books to Research


  • Dexter The Touch by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Golem, Story and Pictures by David Wisniewski
    • ISBN-13: 978-0-395-72618-1
  • Solomon and the Ant, And other Jewish Folktales by Sheldon Oberman
  • Not One Damsel in Distress, World Folktales for Strong Girls by Jane Yolen
    • ISBN 0-15-202047-0
  • Mightier Than the Sword, World Folktales for Strong Boys by Jane Yolen
    • ISBN 978-0-15-216391-4
  • Nursery Tales Around the World by Judy Sierra
    • ISBN 0-395-67894-3
  • Trick of the Tale by John & Caitlin Matthews
    • ISBN 978-0-7636-3646-3


Research This Information

  • West Coaster Magazine
  • Beer
    • Estrella Jalisco beer created by Grupo Modelo S.A.B. de C.V.
    • He'Brew Messiah, Nut Brown Ale created by Shmaltzbrewing.com
    • Hard Root Beer, MissionBrewery.com
    • Oatmeal Stout, merchantduvin.com, Samual Smith Old Brewery Tadgaster, Yorkshire, England
    • Orange Wheat, Hangar 24 Craft Brewery LLC, Redlands, CA
    • Raspberry Brown, Lost Coast Brewery, 617 4th Street, Eureka, CA 
    • Devotion Ale, The Lost Abbey, San Marcos, CA lostabbey.com
    • Lost and Found Ale
    • Stiegl Radler, Louis Glunz Beer, Inc., Lincolnwood, Illinois 60712, bottled by Stieglbrewery, Austria
    • Hoegaarden Wit-Blanche, InBev Belgium NV/SA, Stoopkensstraat 46, B-3320 Hoegaarden, Belgium, imported by Brands Alliance, St. Louis, MO
    • Abbey Ale St. Bernardus Abt 12, Br. St. Bernard, Belgium, Trappistenweg 23, Watou, Belgium, Imported by D&V International, Inc., Jupiter, Florida 33458
    • Stellaartois.com, Cidre, Stella Artois Cidre Premium Cider
    • Chimay Peres Trappistes Grande Reserve, Brewed at Scourmont Abbey, Bottled by Bieres de Chimay, NV, 6464 Baileux, Belgium, Imported by Manneken-Brussel Imports, Inc, chimay.com-espacechimay.com
    • Very Bad Elf, Ridgeway Brewing, Oxfordshire RG80JW, Imported by Sheltonbrothers.com
    • Anchor Brewing, San Franscisco, anchorbrewing.com
  • Ideology
  • Start This Program in June
    • https://www.datacamp.com/courses
  • College Fairs
    • https://www.nacacfairs.org/?_ga=1.82593366.1140935914.1486329464
  • Stem College & Career Fairs
    • https://www.nacacfairs.org/attend/stem-college-and-career-fairs/
  • Elizabeth Nunez, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Trellis Method for Coffee
  • History of the Espresso Machine
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
  • American Enterprise Institute
  • Absent, Social Influence, Anchoring Effect
  • Abstinence Violation Effect


Sunday, January 8, 2017

Day 43 2017 Scholastic Books Wish List

Books to Purchase

Item#  Book Name   Author

2E2- After Ever After $5
22Y3 An Elephant in the Garden $4
#2Y4 As Brave As You $7
5T3 Ashes $16
78W7- A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic $5
5T2- The Awakening of Sunshine Girl $6
363699 The Bad Guys $6
8E4 Bad News for Outlaws $5
943 Beastkeeper $5
6W2- The Black Lotus: Shadow of the Ninja $4
11I2-Breakaway: Beyond the Goal, Only $3
10T3 Camp Midnight $10
7W2- Catch You Later, Traitor $5
14E2- Chu Ju's House $4
19E4 Climbing the Stairs $5
9W2- Connect the Stars $5
23E2- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie $5
24T3 Everland $5
24W2- Extraordinary $4
25T2- The Fever Code $18
27E4 Gertie's Leap to Greatness $16
10043 The Girl from Everywhere $17
32T2- The Girl I Used to Be $16
069801-4 Graphic Novels for $22
32Y2- Harry Porter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowlings  $27
35T2- The Haunting of Sunshine Girl $6
34E2- The Hero Two Doors Down $5
36E2- How I Became a Ghost $5
36T3 Icebreaker $6
45W7- In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse $7
40E2- Irena's Children $17
41E2- The Jumbies $5
41Y2- Kid Owner by Tim Green $5
37W2- The Land of Forgotten Girls $5
43E2- The Last Cherry Blossom $5
38W3 Last in a Long Line of Rebels $5
4243 Like No Other $6
39E4 Lily and Dunkin $16
40E4 Listen, Slowly $5
49T2- Lost in the Sun $5
44T2- Lauren DeStefano Pack $9
*44E2- The Lightning Queen $5
44Y3- Making Friends with Billy Wong $4
45T3 Mayday $5
48E4 My Basmati Bat Mitzvah $5
47T3 My Life with the Liars $5
50T3 Nightfall $6
53W2- Old Yeller $1
69T2- Projekt 1065 $10
57T3 Ruby on the Outside $4
66T4 Samurai Rising $5
60Y4 The Seventh Most Important Thing $5
63E4 The Seventh Wish $4
70Y2- Shadow House the Gathering $10
82T2- Soldier Sister, Fly Home $4
67E2- Somewhere Among $5
65W2- Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave $5
71E2- Tortilla Sun $5
80I2-Totally Funny Stories Pakc, 5 Books Only $6
69W2- Towers Falling $12
78T4 The Toymaker's Apprentice $5
74T3 The Transatlantic Conspiracy $6
73E2- The Truth About Twinkie Pie $6
82Y2- Unbound by Ann E. Burg $10
7443 Under a Painted Sky $6
72A2-Unicorn on a Roll by Dana Simpson $7 GN
75E2- When the Sea Turned to Silver $18
7843 A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale

Scholastic Books Purchased on September 2016

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielson
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Autumn's Kiss by Bella Thorne
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Dino Safari by Lego
Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess by Meg Cabot
Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen RIvers (2)
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
Happy Pig Day by Mo Willems
Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
It's Not Me, It's you by Stephanie Kate Strohm
I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka
Last Descendants by Matthew Kirby
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña
Lola Levine by Monica Brown
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Middle School by James Patterson (2)
The Mortigan's Curse by Dianne Salerni
Once Upon a Cruise by Anna Staniszewski
Once Upon a Zombie by Billy Phillips
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo (2)
Save Me a Seat by Gita Varadarajan
Secrets of Selkie Bay by Shelley Moore Thomas
Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton
This Is the Story of You by Beth Kephart
The Truth Game by Anna Staniszewski
Unidentified Suburban Object by Mike Jung
Young Survivors of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson