JRE Clips
Published on Jun 19, 2018
Joe Rogan and Firas Zahabi have a discussion about scientific truth and philosophy.

“Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.”

Atanas Atanasov
Published on Oct 1, 2011

Go to the mountain if you must
Go to the burning bush
Happy would ease your troubled mind
How do the fade just stay behind?

I know you better than you think I do
Don’t worry babe.. this is why i fell in love with you
The man in the looking glass
Is looking back at you at last

You can’t hide from the truth
Because the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth
Because the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth
Because the truth is all there is
You can’t hide

If happy times are too few and far between
It’s a pity dear, we can’t erase the things we’ve seen
So disappear, vanish if you wish
Just go before you’re swallowed up by bitterness

And the truth is you can’t hide from the truth
And the truth hurts because the truth is all there is
I realized some time ago that I would have to let you go

May not be true to see that you would return one day
But in your present state you may as well not be here at all
You wear a thin disguise, it’s from yourself you hide
Just take a look at us, we are heading for a fall

Now presiding in this court of hip-hop
Justice, my rap forte
Judge, jury, bailing for prosecuting D.A.
Etceteras, paraphrase
My modus operandi
Is carpe diem whether de facto or de jure
Comprende?
The people versus, you and your Sensei
Teaching that style of word-play
Weaker than words they
Regardless of what your friends say
They’re all dissable
Stricken from the record and deemed inadmissable
And this long arm of the law grabs a mic to
Shoot dope lines first and ask questions later
The death sentences of this live litigator
Close the case tighter than the jaws of a ‘gator
Stenographers are steady loggin the jargon
That your counselors ‘a barking, in hopes of a plea bargain
But when you read back verbatim
What they’re saying to pursuade them
They realize exactly how i’ve played them
I come with the truth, whole truth and nothing but
‘Cause the truth hurts just as much as fuckin’ wit lies will
I brew skill with free fills from now untill
Plagiarizing MC’s get their flows distilled

Baby I don’t die without you by my side
As long as you return into these arms that burn
Baby I won’t die just take a look inside
Into these eyes that burn, come to these arms that yearn

I won’t die, if you leave me high
I won’t die if you’re not by my side

And the truth hurts because the truth is all there is
And the truth hurts because the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth, cause the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth
Because the truth is all there is
You can’t hide from the truth

Course Description

In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, students work in large teams of approximately 15-20 individuals to design and build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying engineering experience. The course is designed to emulate what engineers might experience as part of a design team in a modern product development firm. The effort spans the early phases of product development, including: opportunity identification; generating ideas; gathering customer and market data; selecting ideas, devising concepts and building sketch models; building and testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups; embodiment design; and construction of a high quality functioning alpha prototype. The large teams must work effectively to realize this task, so students also learn about group dynamics, team roles and management, consensus building, and the value of communication. Each year the teams work on projects unified by a theme. The theme gallery for themes of previous years.
At the end of the course, teams present their work to a live audience of ~1100 practicing product designers, entrepreneurs, academics, and classmates, as well as a significant webcast audience. In 2016 there were also over 15,000 unique viewers on-line. Examples of projects from previous years and project milestone presentations are available in the course gallery. Key Goals  2.009 is about experiencing the process of developing new product ideas, improving design skills, and learning strategies/processes for successful innovation. Some of the key goals follow.
•	Improve creative-thinking capability.
•	Improve ability to identify the significant product opportunities, and to develop appropriate solutions through a structured product development process.
•	Improve expertise in constructing models for reasoning about design alternatives. These include estimations, sketches, sketch models, spreadsheets, geometric models, mockups and prototypes.
•	Improve engineering expertise and proficiency in techniques for building high quality product models and prototypes.
•	Learn about and experience structured methods for working in large teams on a project that requires teamwork to be successful.
•	Improve presentation skills using a wide variety of media.
•	Develop an understanding of, and enthusiasm for, the engineering activities involved with designing a new product.
•	Develop an appreciation for the significance of societal contributions that can be made as a technological innovator.
Lectures
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 1-2 PM in room 10-250. See the class schedule for details. Lecture notes are posted on-line shortly after each class.
Labs
Tuesdays 2-5 PM, 7-10 PM; Wednesdays 2-5 PM, 7-10PM; Thursday 9 AM-noon, 2-5 PM. All lab meetings are in the Pappalardo Lab (3-069). The lab/team assignments are established after the first week of class (registrar section assignments are not used), and labs begin the second week of class. The course is organized around the team labs, which are used to define the product development process. See the lab schedulefor information about how the labs, lecture and project milestones are coordinated. Lab notes with recommended activities for each week are posted on the course website.
Grading
Lab instructors are responsible for grading students in their lab section. The grade allocation is primarily determined based upon: the team’s product design and prototype; design reviews and presentations; design notebooks; and peer reviews. Some components of the grade are individual, some are common to a lab section, and others are shared by an entire team. The project workflow illustrates how two lab sections are combined to make a single team.

1. I/Thou is a Harmonious state of creative energy used in balancing income.
2. Truth is One constant, ever present balanced flow of income and expense.
3. Desire is instantaneously universally solved by the powerful knowing presence of being touching being all.

Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet to Peter Petrelli played by Milo Ventimiglia:  “My destiny is not to shoot you, Peter. The universe cannot be that lame.”

I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!

By Antwon Rose (poem written for a 10th grade honors English class at Woodland Hills High School on May 16, 2016)

I am confused and afraid
I wonder what path I will take
I hear that there’s only two ways out
I see mothers bury their sons
I want my mom to never feel that pain
I am confused and afraid

I pretend all is fine
I feel like I’m suffocating
I touch nothing so I believe all is fine
I worry that it isn’t though
I cry no more
I am confused and afraid

I understand people believe I’m just a statistic
I say to them I’m different
I dream of life getting easier
I try my best to make my dream true
I hope that it does
I am confused and afraid

You were there for me
Through the struggle and the pain
Of a passion built so long ago, so deep.
A voice full of fear yet hope
That wanted to control but needed to let go.
I was at the mercy of it’s power,
Compelled to speak it out!

I needed you to listen,
To say, “Speak.”
To hear behind the anguish
In my heart to another cry:
“Be here with me in my alchemy
As I turn inward to find ‘home,’
Embody trustee, mentor, witness, friend.”

Elders, I called on you to be present and you were there
To burn against, to test, to trust,
To be the reflective mirror, the conscious flame.
So when the immediacy of passion burned out
I could finally hear and allow.
Allow the Soul to be, be heard,
Be lived, in the eternal cycle of Life living Itself.

Originally written August 1996
Re-worked September 2003 

–Zoë Robinson

Walter Robinson
Published on Jul 19, 2012
MOVE ON UP A LITTLE HIGHER-MAHALIA JACKSON