John A Perazzo

Brief Bio Since College

jplvnv — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:57:00 +0000

Immediately after finishing my course work in Mathematics in December of 1981, I attended the class, “Cultural Dimensions in International Development” at the William Carey International University in Pasadena. What shocked me was here was history presented in an interesting and engaging way that I never got at college. From there, I returned to Las Vegas and began knocking on the doors of voluntary associations to share the good news. The news was too new. Most people had never heard of what I had to say and I had no credibility on my own.
By November of ‘82, one assembly opened their doors to me and I was able to come back to college for Vocational Emphasis Week as a representative of the publication I was so excited about. Eventually I signed on with the voluntary association that produced the class that gave me a new look at history and the role of second decision communities (sodalities) and their role in directed culture change. While there, I learned the importance of family in such change and took time off during the time our father was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma.
When my father’s cancer had reached a point where he needed my help again, I returned to Las Vegas in 1985 to help him recover from his brain surgery. Here my life changed. Although I was able to help our family set up a bookkeeping system for their property management and work with another architect who took over Dad’s projects, my main focus was helping Dad feel loved and appreciated. After he died in ‘87, I was never the same.
I tried to get back into my vocation, but my heart was not into it. In 1991, I went back to school and got my teaching credential for secondary mathematics because I enjoyed tutoring statistics so much. In the middle of this, my friend who had worked in Malaysia in the 1960’s was putting together a summer team for Indonesia that year and invited me to come along. We found the people warm and welcoming.
In Las Vegas though, I managed to substitute teach for a while, but there was no contract for a full time appointment. The next fall, my former roommate from Pasadena looked me up and invited me to help him on a project re-engineering a Masters Degree for Global Civilization. Again, why had my college not used some of these texts? They are very inspiring!

Insanity makes no sense

jplvnv — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:22:12 +0000

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Notice the question assumes there is an answer. The mind, given a question, will search and search and search until it finds one. If what it finds is not satisfying, it will search and search and search again.

Notice when you are hungry. You eat a good meal and are satisfied. If you ate imaginary food, like in a dream, you would still be hungry.

So it is with truth. An answer to a well formed question is satisfying.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk.htm

Runaway Stars Go Ballistic | Space.com

jplvnv — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:15:54 +0000

Runaway Stars Go Ballistic | Space.com.

Runaway Stars

jplvnv — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:10:32 +0000

Astronomy in the infrared is opening up new aspects to the stars I never knew!

http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_zeta_ophiuchi.html

Lunar Orbit

jplvnv — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:05:07 +0000

The path of the moon in space is an epicycloid, a cycloid on the circumference of a circle. A similar partial curve is the line of light in a cup of coffee or tea known as a cardioid, or a type of caustic. In my search, I came across this comet path around Jupiter. It is much more erratic than a lunar orbit, but it does show characteristics of the loop.

The difference in time from one new moon to the next.

Good Morning.

jplvnv — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:00:05 +0000

Good Morning,

Sunshine!

Come join my learning community.

“Hello.

My name is _______.

I am learning _______.

I know _______.

Goodbye.”

Hello. My name is John. I am learning how to make a web site. I know what I want. Now, I have to figure out how to do it.

Your turn. Click “leave a comment” at the top of the page and introduce yourself, what you’re learning and what you know.

Compost test result

jplvnv — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:47:05 +0000

Perazzo109068 (And I wrote all that caption for it to be hidden in the link!)

Soil health, people health

jplvnv — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:41:09 +0000

1. http://ga3.org/campaign/alfalfaEIS

USDA is claiming that there is no evidence that consumers care about genetically engineered contamination of organic food!

2. http://farmandranchfreedom.org/content/GMO-Vlieger-Dust-Study

“…a decrease in the beneficial fungi in soil, including loss of mycorrhizal fungi and mycorrhizal fungal colonization of root system following glyphosate herbicide (the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide) application. When the beneficial fungi are reduced, then an increase in disease-causing fungi, such as Fusarium and other opportunistic fungi (Pythium, Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotium, Sclerotinia) in the soil and fields where Roundup Ready (RR) crops are raised and crops are sprayed with glyphosate were observed. This has been validated by a few scientific studies related to increases in Fusarium following glyphosate use. “

3. “Does glyphosate cause fusarium?”

http://www.ars.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/Place/36221500/cswq-0210-170287.pdf

4. Stop. Breathe dust free, Fusarium free air. Thank you.

EARNEST OPPOSITION

jplvnv — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:19:21 +0000

There are NO bloggers with links to this article? I found it through PBS’ Frontline “The Warning.” What is the value of the goal to endure such unrepresented risk?

Harmony appendix.

jplvnv — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:13:53 +0000

Reuben J. Swanson’s Horizontal Line Synopsis has been made that much more useful for me with http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/harmony.txt printed booklet style in the back. Three sheets, center folded, double-sided is still readable. Investigate your printer options. Mine were manual two-sided printing, two pages per side, booklet printing, down then left, left margin, portrait orientation. My brother’s presentation in New York used a teacher whose index is the above web link.