Do Now 11/30

        Im thankful for my mom and my dad for raising me right. They always look out for me and they also always want the best of me. They are very supportive and they both love me a lot. I am extremely thankful for parents like them. My mom and dad will always be there for me in any time of need.
        Last Thanksgiving I flew to California and stayed in Lancaster which is in Antelope Valley for about a day. The next day which was Thanksgiving Day, I drove all the way back to Los Angeles to my grandparents house. I didn't eat too much as I am not always that big on food when it comes to Thanksgiving. I got to see a lot of my family members who I don't get to see too often because they live in California and that's pretty far.
        My family's Thanksgiving tradition is we all get together at my grandparents house in California for Thanksgiving. We have been doing this for about 4 years and the tradition still carries on.

Tech Article 12/4

Many job opportunities for pigeons have been very few and also far between since the electronic communication made their skills as many messengers obsolete. Although now it seems they could be put to work analyzing medical images. So says the team who trained pigeons to distinguish between healthy and cancerous breast tissue. Richard Levenson, from the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues showed pigeons microscope images of breast tissue. Then they rewarded them when they correctly pecked a colored button that corresponded to either cancerous or healthy tissue. After 15 daily sessions, each lasting an hour, the pigeons got the right answer 85% of the time. While doctors won’t be turning to pigeons for a cancer diagnosis any time soon, the birds could play a useful role in the development of image analysis technology. Researchers develop software that manipulates medical images so doctors can interpret them more easily, but it takes several hours to work out if the software helps or hinders a diagnosis.

Do Now 11/9

I did a lot over the break this past week. Since my ankle is still healing, I was not able o do too much this break. Basically, my weekend consisted  of resting and icing my ankle. I only was able to hangout with my friends one day and that was on Saturday. It was really fun while it lasted. The whole time I home, I mostly played video games on my X-Box One. Another thing that I did was that I went to the Wood-Ridge High School. I was really supposed to go because I am on the team for freshman and JV. 

The Wood-Ridge team although lost but it was a really good game. Only as we did lose by 1 point by a game winning field goal by Harrison. We lost 17-16 as that was the final score of the game. It was the last home game for the seniors as this game is called the senior game. This game is for honoring the seniors on the team who did their best for their 4 years on the football team. A lot of people went to this game as it was a very special game to go to. 

Tech Article 11/4

With the new policy change, announced to many employees on Monday, Amazon joined a slew of companies in technology and several other industries that have just recently expanded their family-leave policies in an effort to attract and retain other employees. Under this new policy, many birth mothers have now been entitled to a total of 20 weeks of paid maternity leave, this including four weeks of paid leave before the baby's actual arrival. The company also said that the benefits apply to all full-time hourly and salaried employees, this including more than 100,00 customer service and fulfillment center workers. Amazon also said employees' restricted stock will continue to vest more during the time off. Also they will allow primary caregivers to ease back into work by working part time for up to eight weeks after returning to the job. 

Educational Technology and Copyright Law

I have overall learned that it is okay for you to use someones picture as for teaching for it is not copyright. Say if you use someones picture to help with teaching a class like an example, it is allowed for you to use. Also in classroom projects, it is okay to search images on the internet.