Nothing beats spending Christmas at the house that you grew up in. I've arrived in Cebu a few days before Christmas. I have to say my mom outdid herself this year.
Wealthy Florentine banker Cosimo de' Medici's search of Europe for relics of antiquity sparks classical learning and inventive thinking.
2. The Magnificent Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici becomes a driving force of the Renaissance; monk Savonarola promotes fundamentalist purification of Florence after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.
3. The Medici Pope
Giovanni de' Medici becomes Pope Leo X in 1513 and begins to sell indulgences to restore papal funds; Martin Luther protests the selling of indulgences.
4. Power vs. Truth
Giorgio Vasari writes a book to define the Renaissance; Galileo pursues his scientific studies with the support of the Medici family.
1. Immersion
2. How do you learn language? You didn't learn it by just learning principles. You got in it, and do it so often that it became real.
3. Why you do what you do? What is your motive for action.
4. The invisible force of internal drive activated is the most important thing in the world
5. You don't work for your self interest all the time
6. When emotions comes into it the wiring changes the way it functions.
7. Explore where you are today: 1) so you can contribute more and 2) stop the challenges that we face by understanding and appreciating people more
8. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because the understand the "invisible forces" that shape us.
9. What makes the difference in the quality of people's lives?
10. The science of achievement
11. The art of fulfillment
12. Appreciation and contribution
13. Decision is the ultimate power
14. The defining factor is not the resources its resourcefulness
15. 3 decisions of destiny, what am I going to focus on?, what does it mean?, what are you going to do?
16. In the moment: State
17. Long term: Your model of the world
18. 6 needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection and love, grow, and contribute
19. Human beings get excited to contribute once they experience it and not talk about it.
20. The map
21. Emotions
22. We have 6,000 words in the English language that describes emotion
23. People start to live when they face death
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaics convert light into electric current using the photoelectric effect.
In this YouTube Video the speaker suggests of a south orientation of solar panels when installing it in the Philippines, in which, the Sun moves from East to West in the southern side. The degree of inclination of the panels should be 15 degrees plus our latitude location from the equator.
Davao is 7 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees = 22 degrees
Cebu is 10 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 25 degrees
Manila is 14 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 29 degrees
Pagudpud is 18 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 33 degrees
Last June 2011 episode of ANC Headstart: Making the Philippines a Solar Energy Hub.
