Tuesday 24 April 2012

Line/square dancing.


^ Line dance term picture I found.
Square dancing:
ACTIVE COUPLES (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Couples One, Three, Five and Seven at the start of the dance. These Couples exchange positions with each other. They remain as Active Couples until they have danced with all the In-Active Couples in the Set and have reached the Foot of the Set. They cross back to own position and become Inactive after the next sequence of the Dance.
ALLEMANDE LEFT - Corners face and take left hands. Walk around each other to own position.
ALLEMANDE RIGHT - Partners face and take right hands. Walk around each other to own position.
BACK BY THE LEFT - Exchange right hands to left hands in a Right Hand Star and walk back to position.
BALANCE - Partners, or those designated by Caller, take right hands. Hop on the left foot and cross the right, hop on the right foot and cross the left. Repeat once.
CAST OFF (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Returning from Down the Center and Back Gent places his right arm around the Lady he has Balanced and Swung and they turn clockwise. Lady (Active) places her left arm around the Gent she has Balanced and Swung and they turn counter-clockwise. Both lines should now be facing the other again. Each Active person has moved one position to the Foot of the Set and each Inactive one position to the Head of the Set.
CHASSÉ - Slide step.
CIRCLE LEFT - Dancers designated by Caller join hands in a circle and walk to the left.
CIRCLE RIGHT - Same as Circle Left going to the right.
CORNER - Lady on Gent's left, Gent on Lady's right.
DOWN THE CENTER AND BACK (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Actives walk to the center of the lines and walk six steps to the Fool of the Set with Partners. On the call And Back Dancers turn individually and walk back to the Head of the Set on the same side they walked down.
DO-SI-DO - Partners, or those designated by Caller, face. Walk around each other passing right and then left shoulders back to own position.
FORWARD AND BACK - Three steps forward. Honor, and back to position.
FOOT - End of a line farthest away from Caller or record player.
HEAD - End of a line nearest the Caller or record player.
HONOR - Partners, or those designated by Caller, face- Ladies Curtsy, Gents Bow.
INACTIVE COUPLES (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Couples Two, Four, Six and Eight to start the Dance. They remain Inactive until they reach the Head of the Set and wait out one sequence of the Dance. During this sequence they cross over and exchange positions. On the next sequence they follow the calls for the Active Couples and remain Active until they reach the Foot of the Set when they again become Inactive. Cross back to their original positions.
LADIES CHAIN - Ladies designated by Caller walk to each other and take right hands. Pass by, dropping hands, and give left hands to that Lady's Partner in his left hand. Gents place their right arm around the Lady's waist and turns her counter-clockwise to face the other Couple. Ladies Chain back the same way.
LADIES GRAND CHAIN - The four Ladies walk to the center of the Set and join right hands in a Star formation. Walk around to the Opposite Gent, giving him their left hand in his. Gents place their right arm around the Lady's waist and turns her counter-clockwise to face the center of the Set. Ladies Grand Chain back the same way.
ONE BELOW - After crossing to Opposite position, exchanging positions with Partners in Lady Walpole's Reel Actives face to the Foot of the Set and are facing the ONE Below.
OPPOSITE - Dancer directly opposite (In Introduction, Chorus and Ending of the Honor Your Partner Dance Opposite refers to the Lady the Gents have at that moment for the Swing or Do-si-do). PARTNER - Lady on Gent's right. Gent on Lady's left.
PROMENADE - Partners, or those designated by Caller, cross hands in skating position and walk counter-clockwise to position. Right arm should be over left.
HALF PROMENADE (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Couples facing walk to opposite sides of the line and turn to face the other line again. Couples keep to the other Couples right in passing.
RIGHT AND LEFT - Each dancer takes the right hand of the dancer directly opposite. Pass by, dropping hands. Partners, or as directed by Caller, face and join left hands. Gents place their right hand under Lady's left forearm. Gent backs around. Lady walks around. Right and Left Back the same way.
HALF RIGHT AND LEFT (Lady Walpole's Reel) Same as Right and Left without returning to starting position.
SET (Lady Walpole's Reel) - Two lines of dancers facing. Ladies in one line. Gents in the other. Usually six to eight Couples in each Set. HEAD of the Set is nearest Caller or record player.
SET (SQUARE) Four Couples - Each Couple having their backs to one of the four walls. Couples with their backs to the Caller or record player are Couples No. 1, Couples on Couple One's right are No. 2. Facing Couple One's position Couple No. 3, facing Couple Two's position Couple No. 4. Couples One and Three are HEAD Couples. Couples Two and Four are SIDE Couples. Distance between facing Couples: about six feet.
STAR BY THE RIGHT (Right Hand Star) - Couples, or those designated by Caller, walk to each other and join right hands in a star formation and walk in the direction they are facing (clockwise).
SWING - Partners, or those designated by Caller, face. Gents take one step to the center and walk alongside Lady. (If with Corner or One Below Gent takes one step to his left and walks alongside Lady). The outside of the right feet should touch to start. The left foot is about six inches to the side with the toe of the left foot in line with the heel of the right. Take a regular dance arm position, leaning back a bit so as to obtain leverage. With a slight pivot step on the ball of the right foot keep shoving around on the left as if on a scooter.

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Skyrim: FUS RO DAH!

I just got Skyrim and I think it's an epic game and the main character "Dovahkiin" which means Dragonborn has the ability to use Thu'um or shout with power. The main famous shout is "FUS RO DAH!" A shout you unlock early in the game when used it shoves enemies far back damaging them. I use it alot because I find it just funny to watch enemies flying everywhere. It's usefull in the game for alot of moments and it caught peoples in the trailer for the game when Dovahkiin yelled it at a dragon. Afterwards it became famouse and used in the game more then any other ability. I find that the game would be still fun even without it but sincei  does have it, the game just becomes 20% cooler.

Monday 19 March 2012

Pros and cons of social media websites.http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/facebook-follies.html <---
Document on social media issues. Look at it.
Social media is websites such as twitter,facebook,myspace and various other ones. They keep you in touch with other people around the world. At sometimes it can be good and others it can be bad because a lot of drama comes from these websites causing problems worldwide and in people cities.
 
Pros: You can keep in touch with family and friends and enjoy yourself on the internet. You can share pictures and videos to friends and you can also do lots of stuff like chat and just talk. Its also good for keeping in touch with school or jobs. You can see when you have to be somewhere. You can set up schedules for stuff and you can meet lots of people. You could be in touch with the latest technology in the world and seeing what could be going on in the world and you can order and buy stuff from social media sites.
Cons: You can be harassed and made fun of, and people can make up rumors about you and post them all over the internet thinking it’s funny. They can also make fun of your culture or being racist to you on the internet. The #1 source of bullying is on facebook and more and more drama appears on facebook every single day.
It can also lead to kidnaping and rape. Lots of pedophiles are on facebook acting like they are friends to people on facebook. Getting there trust then kidnaping them.
You could waste a lot of time that you could be using for outside and with family. But some people insist on being on facebook all day and doing nothing.
People could make fun of you enough to make you go into depression.
 
My Thoughts: Facebook is a neat thing yet it can be bad too, I seen bad things happen and good things. It can be good by connecting you to your family that may of lost you or it could be used to notify people of events. Some bad things could be it could ruin someone’s life or It could annoy people and other bad things, It could ruin someone’s work life making them not trustable for a job, and it could make people not want to be around you.
I also think it could be well used for good things, like finding good friends or finding criminals. It could even be used for petitions and other stuff. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family and I don’t use it very often. So far nothing bad has happened to me through facebook and I don’t intend it to. I hope people around the world learn to use facebook maturely and responsibly and hopefully nothing bad happens to them and they enjoy Facebook responsibly.
The facebook newsfeed. This is where all the new information is posted or the profiles that have status updates with a lot of comments. The newsfeed can be nice but it can also become really annoying. This is where you will end up blocking a lot of status updates and other things because they do become simply too annoying. The newsfeed is where a lot of information is shared and you may be thinking to yourself "who cares that your neighbor’s dog barks?" There are a lot of people that just want to talk and they use Facebook as that outlet.
Spam is another problem with facebook because it seems like everyone will send you invitations to games and things that they like. Farmville invitations will get old along with other invitations like "which celebrity are you like" and so on.

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Black Violin Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRYeTDW6Yg Black Violin- Fanfare a good song by Blavk Violin and it's a popular song. I think the Black violin concert was good and I would like to see it again. It was very impressive and made me think different about violins and maybe one day I could try it.

Thursday 9 February 2012

My Minecraft Server

I recently made my own server on minecraft on hamachi and i plan on making it a good server and make money from it. Its epic because i controll the whole thing and i do whatever i want. I am jesus on it. Muwahahhah. My post about Minecraft

Thursday 26 January 2012

Zoo rules

Zoo rules.Hello annoying kids who watch us every day. If you are to continue to watch us we have to lay down some new rules. So listen up if you want to stay here.
One: Do not throw food at us, its really annoying, if we wanted food we would ask for it, ok? We have our own food given to us and the zoo keepers don’t like it when you throw food at us. It can make us sick and it costs money to heal us.
Two: Do not make annoying noises, it makes us want to knock you out to shut you up, save it for later or do it to people who care. We certainly do not care about what you try to do to talk to us it wont work, we were not made to talk.
Three: Please do not take flash photo’s its just stupid since you take them in the middle of the day which doesn’t help what so ever. Also it hurts our eyes a lot, I got a friend next door who is blind now because of it. Yet you still take them! So stop!
Four: do not stick your body parts in our cages and caves some of us just want to be away from you. Go do it to some other animal like the cheetah, im sure he will be glad to shake your hand. And one last thing, your hands smell disgusting.... go wash those things!
Five: quit throwing trash at us! It mess’s up our homes and the garbage rots and then it has to be cleaned up. You can throw all your garbage at the trash can exhibit, im sure they will take it happily.
Six: Please do not spit at us. It is gross and it annoys us. Go spit at your parents and see what happens. We do NOT like it at all.
Seven: Do not scream at us, it hurts our ears which are more sensitive then yours. It also annoys us like the noises you make. We ask that you stop. Other then that everything else is fine and you can enjoy your stay.