DSE - kræver blod, sved og tårer

DSE – kræver blod, sved og tårer

Kapitel 6: Bestyrelsen

§16: Bestyrelsen består af formanden, næstformanden og 15 regionsvalgte (10 menige og 5 talsmænd fra regionerne).

stk. 2: Bestyrelsen er selvsupplerende

stk. 3: Såfremt et bestyrelsesmedlem vælger at opstille til en anden post, vil vedkommende træde af i samme øjeblik, som opstillingen træder i kraft.

§17: I bestyrelsen vedtages samtlige betydningsfulde beslutninger mellem stormøderne. Bestyrelsen står samtidig for planlægning og forberedelse af generalforsamlingen. Bestyrelsen står til ansvar over for generalforsamlingen. Bestyrelsen står for udarbejdelse af kommissorier for bestyrelsen. Bestyrelsen varetager i øvrigt den generelle ledelse af organisationen.

stk. 2: Bestyrelsen kan delegere ansvaret for ledelsen af sekretariatet til ansatte eller andre frivillige.

stk. 3: Bestyrelsen kan i løbet af året nedsætte arbejdsgruppet, men er ikke pålagt nogen bestemt arbejdsmetode.

stk. 4: Det er muligt at sidde som frivillig på Danske Skoleelever sekretariat. Bestyrelsen skal godkende frivillige, der ønsker at sidde på sekretariatet. De sekretariatsfrivillige indgår i det daglige arbejde og under den daglige ledelse af sekretariatet. De sekretariatsfrivillige deltager på bestyrelsesmøderne på lige fod med bestyrelsesmedlemmerne, dog kun med taleret.

Ændringsforslag:
Forslagsstiller.: Troels Boldt Rømer, Puk Rasmussen, Vera Rosenbeck og Trisse Dyrløv
§17 stk. 4 foreslås ændret til et nyt kapitel vedr. Sekretariatsfrivillige.:

Bestyrelsen kan i sin forretningsorden og løbende fastsætte nærmere regler for, hvem der kan deltage i DSEs bestyrelsesmøder, aktiviteter, stormøder mv.

Det var sådan, den første debat lød fredag aften, og det endte med at jeg selv måtte beherske mig for ikke at lade en tåre kravle ud af øjenkrogen. Sekretariatet følte, at de ved dette forslag vil blive tilsidesat og udelukket for møderne, hvilket satte mange følelser i gang i hele salen. Desuden følte jeg også, at mange af de delegerede deltagere fik et dårligere indtryk af Troels og de andre forslagsstillere, hvilket jeg var meget skuffet over. Jeg bryder mig ikke om at folk ikke kan styre forskellen mellem politisk debat og personligt forhold, og selvom sekretariatet efterfølgende sagde at deres personlige forhold til Troels, Puk, Vera, Trisse etc. var fint, kunne man stadig føle at noget havde ændret sig, fordi de andre i forsamlingen gjorde den politiske debat til deres personlige forhold til forslagsstillerne, eftersom at de jo ikke kendte dem. Det var deres eneste udgangspunkt de havde i hvordan personerne var, og egentlig kan jeg godt forstå det. Det ville jeg nok også selv have gjort, hvis jeg ikke vidste bedre.
I starten gik mit hjerte til de vrælende sekretariatsfrivillige, men da debatten skred frem og Lunas forslag kom i rampelyset begyndte jeg at forstå hvor de var Troels og de andre ville hen til at starte med. Jeg kan ikke finde DSE-referatet nogen steder, så det præcise ændringsforslag til ændringsforslag kan jeg ikke komme med. Dog lød det noget i stil med, at man i bestyrelsen skal have lov til at kunne udvælge øjeblikke, hvor de sekretariatsfrivillige ikke skulle deltage i bestyrelsesmøderne. Debatten, der efterfølgende opstod, viste hvor ringe jeg egentlig er til at vælge side. Personligt syntes jeg, at det da ikke kunne skade nogen, at give bestyrelsen muligheden for at bede sekretariatet om ikke at deltage i et møde? For hvis de sekretariatsfrivillige er så skide søde og fantastiske hele vejen igennem, ville bestyrelsen jo ikke bede dem om at blive hjemme.
Men så igen, de sekretariatsfrivillige har taget et helt år ud af deres kalender, de burde virkelig også have gratis entré til tivoli!

Efterfølgende kom der et ændringsforslag til ændringsforslag til ændringsforslag (fik jeg den rigtigt?) fra Mads Hedegaard, der lød sådan at de sekretariatsfrivillige kan deltage til landskonferencen, generalforsamlingen og bestyrelsesmøder som observatører. Flere og flere i forsamlingen stillede sig op på talerstolen for at sige, at folk skulle stemme for Mads’ forslag, og da talerlisten var lukket og færdig blev det vedtaget, at der skulle foregå skriftlig afstemning.

Mads Hedegaards forslag blev vedtaget, og min personlige gisning er, at det blev med stort flertal.

Trodsige Trip Trap Træsko Troels

Er det en hundehvalp? Er det en flyvemaskine? Er det en meteorregn ned over Afrika? Nej! Det er Troels Boldt Rømer, med kinder så bløde som en barnenumse og en stemme, der ruller ind over de knap 400 mennesker, som var det en Johnny Cash sang. Hans strålende kontur reflekterer sig i de glimtende øjne fra forsamlingen, og et øjeblik efter bryder salen ud i applaus. For at citere hvad en knap så klog kvinde i en debat engang sagde: ”Troels, Troels, Troels.” Intet under, at det var hendes eneste ord. Manden (eller drengen) er jo for helvedet på Wikipedia – han nærmer sig efterhånden gudestatus!
Senere på ugen (mandag d. 21. marts) havde jeg et morgenmøde med Troels, Thomas Banke, Klaus Hegnby og Vivi, hvor vi også spiste morgenmad sammen, og gennem hele mødet kunne jeg ikke tænke på andet end: ”Han har været i Tv. Han har været i Tv. Han har været i Tv.” At Thomas også har vist sig på danskernes skærme under kommunalvalget er ligegyldigt, han er gammel og har Lille Pers kølige øjne. Men virkelig, Troels har fået skabt sig mere respekt omkring sig end nogen anden 16-årig teenager i hele Danmark. Jeg bliver målløs hver gang han åbner munden for at sige noget, for ligegyldigt hvem han taler til, hvad tid af døgnet det er eller hvor mange mennesker det handler om, så er det gennemført perfektion.

Den sidste dag fangede jeg Troels og pumpede ham for noget hed gossip fra sin fortid:
”Heeej Troels.”
- ”Hej!”
”Må jeg stille dig nogle spørgsmål, til det der Børne- og unge B…”
- ”Ja selvfølgelig!” (ååh skræk åh ve, så venlig en sjæl kommer jeg nok aldrig til at møde igen)

Hvad synes du, har været DSEs absolutte højdepunkt mens du har siddet som formand?
Det var helt klart da vi fik sat en stopper for Regeringens Mega Klasser!
… føler du, at I også havde en finger med i spillet omkring Tina Nedergaard?
Altså hvis det var sådan, stemmer det i hvert fald ikke overens med hendes forklaring, men der har da været en del snak om, at organisationen også spillede en rolle.
Hvad skal du så nu?
Jeg skal på gymnasiet og samtidig være skribent på Jyllands-Postens hjemmeside.
Scorer man mange piger på at være formand?
Det har ikke været et problem i hvert fald!


Med et vindersmil okser jeg med 2 km/t ned til Rebecca Matthies Herskind.

Troels har været den største inspirationskilde, jeg har haft i forbindelse med elevrådsarbejde. Hans blotte tilstedeværelse er motiverende, og netop derfor ærgrer jeg mig over at han skal afskediges. Hele den verden, jeg kalder for DSE, var opbygget med Troels som jordens søjler, og selvom jeg er sikker på at Vera kan opretholde DSE må jeg lige bruge nogle dage på at vende mig til forandringerne. Lad os stole på Idé Møbler – Forandring Fryder!

DSE Formand:
Vera Rosenbeck
DSE Næstformand:
Trisse Dyrløv

Sejr
Jeg føler mig en smule egoistisk, når jeg sidder og brokker mig over forandringerne. For hvad med Vera og Trisse? Hvis det var mig, der var blevet valgt til Formand eller Næstformand ville jeg brække mig op ad væggene af lykke – nok derfor jeg ikke blev valgt. At jeg heller ikke stillede op, gjorde vidst også udslaget.
Men det lykkedes mig at finde Trisse oppe blandt Troels Lund Poulsen, Den Rigtige Troels, en gut fra Ballerup og Mark Larsen hvor jeg stillede hende det mest krævende spørgsmål jeg kunne finde på:
”Hvordan føltes det?”  Ligesom jeg selv ville have gjort, kom svaret i bidder bestående af tandsmil og adjektiver (bevares – tillægsord).
”Surrealistisk. Helt fantastisk! Åh.. ååhhhh. Ej men det var så vildt! Sejr!”  

Første del - GF'11

Danske Skoleelevers Generalforsamling 2011.

Eftermiddagssolen kradser sine lange stråler ind i mine sarte øjne, der ikke engang har smidt vinterpelsen endnu. Katrines smøger hørmer langt væk af mentol, Rebecca og Astrid er som sædvanligt forsinket og Vivi vælger ikke at kendes ved os ved at beslaglægge et andet busstoppested længere oppe på ruten. Takket være det faktum at vi er skide heldige, når vi da selvfølgelig både bussen og toget.
På banegården er folk som de plejer. Stedet er spækket med soldater – så mange, at jeg var sekunder fra at fremtrylle et hvidt lommetørklæde med blonder og duppe mine grædefærdige øjne mens de tapre krigere kørte bort – og alle de andre særlinge (kun med undtagelse for elefantmanden Laurids Bartling).
På perron 3 mødes vi - Rebecca, Astrid, Vivi, Katrine og jeg - med Rojan Cetinkaya og Patrick Hansen. Da de to Backstreet Boys medlemmer er blevet accepteret stiger vi på toget, der ifølge skærmen ankommer kl. 14:29, men kan man stole på DSB? Det tror jeg næppe.

Er det i øvrigt ikke også en rigtig dårlig idé af mig at skrive i nutid? Jo, det tror jeg da nok det er, så derfor vil jeg gøre det endnu mere forvirrende med at springe rundt i fortiden og fremtiden, som var jeg castet til Dr. Who. Derudover vil jeg gøre opmærksom på at: jo, jeg ved godt at dette bliver pisse pinligt at genlæse om nogle år, hvor jeg er blevet meget mere livserfaren (og med mere appelsinhud på lårene, strækmærker i panden og patter til sokkeholderne) og jeg vil krumme tæer hver nat over mig selv. Men for fanden, man er jo ikke folkeskoleelev hele livet?

Da vi ankommer til Søndermarkskolen, bliver vi selvfølgelig placeret i den skrækkeligste tilstand – ikke koma, men stand by, også kendt som ”ventetid” alias tænketid. Jeg har aldrig brudt mig om at skulle vente, at skulle gøre sådan noget bryder min lille perfekte idé om den perfekte verden med perfekte hverdage (weekender findes ikke, da jeg sover mine væk).
Og pludselig er det så hele ræset starter. Indskrivningen og sommerfuglene i maven presser på – kradser hul på min mavesæk. I starten var jeg den heldige ejer at nummer ”24”, men så valgte Fredericia Børne- og Ungebyråd at blande sig, og vupti blev jeg observatør nr. 98, og fik tilføjet et ”B” til mit efternavn. Lækkert.

Sluk musikken - Novelle

Ungdomsfest – Novelle

Sluk musikken
Folk havde allerede smidt sig i krogene, til trods for at musikkens hårde rytmer stadig boltede igennem lokalet, og omkring her måtte jeg erkende, at ensomheden tog til. Man behøvede ikke at være fuld for at danse vildt rundt med de andre oppe på bordene, nej man behøvede slet ikke at være fuld for at have det sjovt, men for at få adgang til de komiske sovepladser skulle man have brugt de sidste fire timer på at drikke sig hjernelam.  For fanden, jeg var den eneste, der overhovedet kunne stå op. Og mens jeg så stod der, som den eneste i lokalet, føltes det som om, at flere timer passerede over mit hoved. De samme, gale technosange kørte om og om igen, og de havde alle det samme støjende beat, der bestemt ikke supplerede til min tidsfornemmelse. I lang tid overvejede jeg at slukke for musikken, men det var et ret avanceret apparat, og da jeg jo ikke selv var vært, føltes det forkert at gå og pille ved ting, der ikke tilhørte mig. Skid hul i det, tænkte jeg og lod min tanker falde på de sovende mennesker, der i dagligdagen gik som værende mine venner. Jeg kunne jo også bare ved et uheld spilde en øl eller fire ud over højtalerne, så lydbølgerne kunne blive tilintetgjort? Nej, tre års erfaring med fysik og kemi havde lært mig at væske og elektricitet ikke var den bedste cocktail, specielt ikke når en stak bumsede teenagere lå på gulvet i pøle kun bestående af øl, sprut og pis, der var blevet dannet i løbet af aftenen. Om der virkelig var tale om urin på dansegulvet vidste jeg ikke, men det lugtede sært sådan.
Mine bare tæer klæbede sig ivrigt til gulvet, og ligegyldigt hvor meget jeg havde lyst til at slukke for den høje bas, ville det nok aldrig blive mig muligt. Gulvet og de mindst tredive spildte øl ville simpelthen ikke lade mig. Måske var det et slags tegn fra en højere magt? Var det Guds vilje at jeg bare skulle blive stående, lam i ryggen og glo indtil morgensolens stråler kunne kradse mig i øjnene? Jehovas? Jeg mærkede musklerne trække på sig i læggen, og lyden af hud, der langsomt blev løsrevet fra helvedets flammer dansede ind i min øregang.

Ungdomsfest – Novelle, slutning

Langsomme skridt, knurrende mave, bølgende krøller, klæbrige gulv, sorte kontakter, udstrakt hånd.

Årets første softice og kjole.

Datoen er d. 22. marts og heldigvis er foråret tidligt i år. De tre måneders ventetid har nærmest været ulidelige, og kampen for ikke at bare at blive under dynen, indtil at solstrålerne ville boltre igennem persiennerne, var benhård.  Af disse – samt en masse andre – årsager, så skal årets første softice selvfølgelig nydes med min bedre halvdel, Astrid Pedersen. Efterfølgende erobrede vi IM-genbrug, Fredericias bedste, hvor jeg købte 7 oldtidsbøger til 70 kroner.
Desuden fik vi shoppet DSE-kjoler til den årlige generalforsamling, og efter at have udnævnt os til Rojans bitches (på Facebook er alt officielt) er jeg så småt begyndt at se frem til weekenden. I morgen skal jeg spise morgenmad med Klaus Hegnby (min super flinke skoleinspektør), Borgmester Thomas Banke, Troels Boldt Rømer (DSE formand) og Vivi, som jeg sidder i elev- og byrådet med. Endnu en ting, jeg ser frem til.

Co2mer; Leopard/Black. 350,-
50 % rabat 175 ,-

Sorte ballerinaer, jeg fandt (:

IM-genbrug. 7 stk. 70,-

"Mares Magt" - Malerierne

Til mit digt malede jeg 6 malerier på nogle 40x50 lærreder (Der kostede 30 kr. pr. stk). Jeg forsøgte at tage udgangspunkt i nogle af de symboler, der skræmmer mig mest. Afmagt i naturen, moser, skove, himmel legemer og åbne fjælde samt meget mere.

Kontakt:
Mail: astrid.d.j@hotmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kagebarnet




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Mares Magt

Mares magt

Urskivens visere tikker hypnotiserende
jeg ved, at drømmeland venter forude
venter på at jeg skal deltage i dens lege i Eden
komme den i møde og omfavne den,
restituere dagligdagen og bearbejde virkeligheden
og vi skal danse, og vi skal grine, og vi skal slappe af

Men månelyset ebber ud med tidevandet
åh store fyldige røde måne
og pludselig begynder det at nærme sig da
noget tager form og hvisker sælsomt i mit øre
ikke en lyd; blot den vage fornemmelse af,
at man hørte nogen udtale ens navn i nærheden

Skal, skal ikke?
man kan jo for helvede ikke lade være
for hvis man siger A skal man sige B
også selvom mosen syder om ens ankler
og man ikke aner hvad der skal ske
længere ud, dybere ind. Jeg er som bundet.

Kvalme, ulmende fornemmelser presser på
presser svedperler frem på overlæben
presser hjertet til at slå dobbelte slag
Mare har fundet sig til rette
griber om forbudte følelser med et fast tag
og sammen skal vi nu ud at flyve.

Flyve, flyve, flyve.

Tanker vrider sig, følelser forgriber sig
ukontrollabelt, endeløst ævl og summen for mit øre
en arm, der griber fat og det brænder hvor jeg træder
men kun i min hjerne føler jeg smerter
og det er kun mit hjerte, der græder
trods blodige flænger og sår, der arrigt blusser op

Kulden ætser tværs igennem
føles brændende, som et flammehav
stiger højt op i himmelsvælget
mørket udvisker alt det sete
stjernerne døser hen og stopper med at blinke
kaos regere, hvor intet findes.

Det var så mit digt, som jeg præsenterede for klassen i dag. Det var mega meget pinligt, mine hænder rystede og foran mig sad 50 pubertetsforvirrede elever, delvis fra 7. og 8i. For at være ærlig, tror jeg, at jeg ’kun’ får 10. Hvilket er selvforskyldt, da jeg fuldstændigt glemte at gennemgå de tilsvarende malerier, som mine lærere åbenbart mente var kernen i hele mit projekt..

Hvedetoast mangler spice?

Hvedetoast:
Ikke tilsat konserveringsmiddel

Ingredienser:
Hvedemel (68 %), vand, gær, eddike, sukker, salt tilsat jod, rapsolie, emulgatorer (E 471, E472e (vegetabilske)), rugsigtemel, hvedemaltmel, melbehandlingsmiddel (E300)

Næringsindhold
pr. 100 g af varen:
Energi – 980 kJ (230 kcal)
Protein – 8,0 g
Kulhydrat – 44,0 g
heraf sukker – 2,0 g
Fedt – 2,0 g
heraf mættede fedtsyrer – 0,6 g
Kostfibre – 2,0 g
Natrium – 05, g

Nettovægt: 600 g

Kvalitetssikret af Coop Trading

Man skal aldrig dømme på udseendet – det har jeg altid lært, så det skal man da selvfølgelig heller ikke, når man går i Fakta for at købe sig en pakke hvedetoast. For der er jo ikke så meget at forlange af sin toast andet end den ikke er alt for tør og at antallet af forskellige slags svampe deri er minimal. Måden man tjekker det på, er ved at tage posen i sine hænder, vende den et par gange og give den et klem eller to.

Det er åbenbart også sådan Coop tjekker, og det er sikkert også udført af underbetalte barnearbejdere, for de har da i hvert fald ikke tænkt sig at kigge ind mellem skiverne og konstatere, at ”For fanden Berit, nu er den gal igen”.


Fødevarestyrelsen
Jeg mindes at have set et indslag i Tv-avisen omkring adskillige klager over den danske madproduktion, og jeg tog mig selv i at tænke ”Ej helt ærligt, hvorfor brokker folk sig så meget?” men nu har Vor Herre vist mig svaret! Synes ikke at det fremgår tydeligt nok på pakken at deres hvedetoast til tider også kan indeholde kraftige modermærker, hvilket er resultatet af et rugbrød, der forsøgte at snige sig ind i landet, fordi det ikke havde point nok.

Det er fandeme for klamt! 

Mean Girls Essay - English

Mean Girls

Main character: Cady Heron Supporting character: Janis Ian, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Damian  

Cady (Lindsay Lohan) grew up in Africa where she also was homeschooled by her American parents. At the age of 16, her family moves back to the US and she has to start in High School for the first time in her life. To begin with it’s hard for Cady to fit in and therefore she starts to hang out with Janis and Damian. These two are probably the only two at school who accept when people are different. Janis and Damian help her through the first few days; tell her about the school and suddenly all focus is on the three girls of the school, Regina, Gretchen and Karen. Janis calls them “The Plastics” and shows lot of hate to these girls. When Regina (leader of The Plastics) asks Cady if she want to join their table at lunch, Janis sees her change to make evil plans against them. She wants Cady to work as her spy so she can destroy the group, but evil books, boyfriends, secrets and drama comes up to the surface and make Mean Girls to another typical American movie.

About Cady...
On the outside Cady is one of those really pretty girls. Long, red hair, freckles and a pretty smile. To begin with, most of the school finds her a bit of a weirdo but then everything starts to change when she becomes one of “The Plastics”. In the story you don’t hear much about her parents and their opinion but as all her changes goes on and on and she becomes more and more plastic, they start to worry. In the beginning they were afraid if she wouldn’t fit in but now it has all gone too far.

About Janis and Damian...
They are the best friends in the world. Their relationship is really close and if it wasn’t because of Damian being gay you would think that they would hook up in the end. Nothing can get in between their strong friendship. Though they are helping Cady, Damian is fully truly to Janis and vice versa. When Janis gets pissed at Cady for being a too real plastic Damian stands by her side. It was Janis’ plan to make Cady a plastic – but just for spying! Cady gets sucked into this evil circle of aimlessness where she tries her hardest to get Regina and the others trust. Janis and Damian leave the brainwashed Cady. When she wants to make it up to the school again and apologize, Janis and Damian are of course there to help.

About the gay character...
In Mean Girls there appears a gay character that in many ways seems a bit overrated. Through the story, Damian appears as this loyal friend and has a hilarious character. He is therefore an important person in the movie because he refills it with energy in his scenes. In fact, I think that you could built any straight-character with the same values, but still it would have required a little more to send out the message. As a gay character, Damian gets a lot of opportunities in his behaviours,
About “The Plastics”...
This is a slang invented by Janis and is used for the little group with the members: Regina, Gretchen and Karen. Janis thinks they look like pure plastic, with their perfect hair, all their make-up, skirts and Barbie-style. Once, Janis was a part of The Plastics – she was even Regina’s best friend, but all this changed when Regina noticed how upset Janis got when she didn’t answered her calls and so she made up this conclusion that she was a lesbian. The rumour was spread all over the school and is a main factor in explaining why Janis hates them so much.
Regina George is the leader of the group, just as blonde as her mother and rich. She is the brain behind the mean book where The Plastics write all their evil gossip about other students and teachers.
Karen Smith is another rich, blonde girl. In the story she’s known for being really dumb. She also claims that she can predict the weather by touching her breast. It’s not fully explained in the movie whether this is false or true.
Gretchen Wieners is another rich but dark haired girl. She considers herself as Regina’s best friend and is therefore an easy target for Cady, since Regina shows more interest in her than Gretchen.

About how to destroy Regina (‘The Plastics’)...- Aaron Samuels is on/off dating Regina. When Cady starts in High School they’ve just broke up and is closed area for Cady! As Gretchen says: “Ex-boyfriends are just so off limits to friends!”
- “Hot” body. To look good is a very important thing for Regina therefore Cady starts to feed her with some snack-bars which make get fatter.
- “Army of skanks”
Quote: “We gotta crack Gretchen. Once we crack Gretchen, we crack the lock on Regina’s whole dirty story.”

About the genre...
Mean Girls is a movie that is broadly appealing to a teenage audience. It also has a lot of School picture in it, because it is set and revolved about teenagers at an American High School. The representations of these films are often stereotypes of the characters which have been made clearly in Mean Girls. Here they put the students into different labels. You meet the cheerleaders, the jocks, Asian nerds and so on. Therefore I would describe the film as a Teen Comedy/Romance.

About the moral...
Since the audience is the youth this movie is trying to reach out and touch our feelings in our own level. It shows how evil we can behave towards each other and in the end where the principal convene to a meeting in the gym hall he points out the moral very clearly: “I don’t know who wrote this book, but you all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores!”

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin var født under navnet Vladimir Iljiti Uljanov, i den sydøstlige by Simbirsk i Rusland, 22. april 1870 – 21. januar 1924. Nu hedder byen Uljanovsk, muligvis opkaldt efter Lenin. I stort set alle hensigter anses han for at være hovedmanden bag den Russiske Revolution og grundlæggeren af den sovjetiske stat. Efterfølgende var han forbillede for Stalins opbyggelse af Sovjetunionen, der havde sin storhedstid omkring 2. verdenskrig. Lenin var en marxistisk revolutionær teoretiker, og fik senere sin egen kategori, nemlig Leninisme. Marxisme er kort fortalt en række tanker og teorier fra Karl Marx’ analyse og kritik af kapitalen, og kan mere kendt betegnes som Socialisme eller Kommunisme. Lenins interesse inden for emnet startede da hans storebror i 1887 blev arresteret og hængt efter et attentatforsøg på landets dengang zar, Alexander 3. Det uforglemmelige indtryk af samfundet fik ham kastet ud i dybdegående studier af Karl Marx, og i 1917 stod han i spidsen for Februarrevolutionen, som var den første del af den russiske revolution. Den næste kom i oktober, hvor det med et statskup lykkedes bolsjevikkerne at styrte den russiske regering i sænk.



Science of Baking - science

Science of BakingBread science

You can get hundreds of different kind of bread! You can have one of the thinnest flatbreads to the fluffiest brioche¹. Some bread are really simple, some others are not.
Leaveners come in two main forms: baking powder or soda and yeast.
Baking powder or baking soda works quickly. That is caused by all the chemical reactions in acidic and alkaline. It compounds to produce the carbon dioxide² necessary to blow up the dough or batter. Baking powder and baking soda are used as well to leaven baked goods that have a slight structure, ones that blow up quickly as carbon dioxide is produced, such as quick breads like cornbread and biscuits.
Yeast³ is a living single-celled fungus⁴. There is more than 100 species of yeast, and many of them live around us. But most people are familiar with yeast in its form as this beige granules that come in little paper packets. This organism is starting chemical reactions being in contact with warm water. When it’s reactivated the yeast begins feeding on the sugars in flour and releases the carbon dioxide that makes the bread blow up (Rise, grow etc.), but in a much slower rate than baking powder or soda.

Gluten is a composite of the proteins ‘gliadin’ and ‘glutenin’. 80 percent of wheat seed is gliadin and glutenin; there is also gluten in rye and barley but not in soya beans, rice and maize. Gluten is also a Latin word which translated means ‘Glue’ – and that is how it works. It makes the kneaded dough its elasticity. It works like this:

1)      When you add water to wheat flour, water molecules combine with two proteins, Gliadin and Glutenin.

2)      To begin with, the protein molecules are really chaotic. But if you keep mixing the dough they line up with one another to form longer strands of gluten.

3)       During the kneading the molecules are getting closer and the gluten becomes stronger and more elastic.

4)      Now the dough will be able to hold the gases produced by the yeast and the bread will rise.

Did you know that?

Just one gram yeast contains 25 billion cells.
Yeast is an important ingredient in beer because it can produce alcohol.
Louis Pasteur was the first to discover that yeast was a living organism (1857).
Yeast is also known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
If you’ve got Aspergers (not ass-burgers) syndrome you can be allergic to gluten.
There is a bread museum in German.
Notes and references

1= Brioche is a French bread containing lots of egg and butter, but also milk, sugar, flour and yeast.
2= Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) is a chemical compound composed on two oxygen atoms bonded to a carbon atom. (Carbon= C. Oxygen= O.) Atoms consist of a core and several electron shells of negatively charged electrons in.
3= Yeast is the beige coloured stuff also known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. All information about that topic comes from http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/bread_science.html
4= Fungus is a member of a large group of organisms and microorganisms like yeast and moulds, as well as the more familiar mushroom.

Evolution - part 1

Myths and histories, there is lot of different explanations in every single culture.
For an example, Christian people believe that God the almighty created the whole fundament, plants, light, animals and human in just seven days. And that Adam and Eve were the first two human on earth. God made the man, Adam, first and then out of one of Adams ribbons he created the woman, Eve.
Did God made us blind?
Because, is the story about Adam and Eve just a story?
Some people would say that it was, but others would deny it.
One thing that you cannot deny is true facts. Science. 

Introduction

As kids we have all asked our parents: “Why?” and “How?”
And often put them in an awkward situation. We are born to be curious; we want to know how and why, actually in somehow we are all born as scientists.
With our curious brain and the willing to learn concluding our language this makes it possible to sum up our experiences and to share different kind of information.
Children do often ask: “Where do I come from?” The easiest answer to tell them is how humans reproduce themselves. But there is also question like: “Why are we here on earth?” and “How does the rabbit know that it is smart to be white at winter?” and the list goes on and on and on!
We do not know why we were created. Was there a cause, some kind of mission or purpose? We do not know why – but we do know how. The man who told us how, the man who answered lots of our questions is Charles Darwin. He told us about develop, about evolution. The word develop is a really general word for things that are changing

What is LSD? - biology

LSD

LSD is an abbreviation of the chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide and is a man-made (made by humans) synthetic drug. It was created in the 60’ies and it is categorized as a hallucinogen drug. This means that when you take the drug, after a few minutes (this can take up to 90 minutes depending on the dose) you will start to hallucinate. Things will pop up that aren’t really there, your hearing will be much better and the things you touch are feeling much, much better. People describe this as something divine. Your sight is getting brighter and you look at your surroundings in an entire new way. LSD is hard to get addicted to, the only thing is that people who take this drug constantly need a higher dose as time pass by because their body get used to it.

Health damages
for some people LSD help them feel better after a depression; it makes them come back to life because they see all these good things! LSD cannot create any physical damages but if you are having ‘a bad trip’ you can feel paranoid for the rest of your life or things like that. It is unpredictable to tell what the risks are because it is depending on the user’s personal mood. As I said before, some people will get paranoid after this trip, get extremely terrified, lose self-control or even die. It can give you long-lasting psychoses such as schizophrenia or severe depressions if you are taking LSD constant.

Legal or illegal
LSD is no longer legal. When it was created doctors were trying to find out what it did. They even tried it on soldiers to see if they could use it as some secret weapon, but when the British leader of the soldier team started to climb a tree – they realized that it was no good.
LSD is produced in crystalline form and then diluted as a liquid for production in ingestible forms. Pushers put two drops of the liquid on a sugar cube. That was the way to do it in the beginning but when the weight was the matter of the bill if you got caught by the police (if the drug cube weighted 25 grams the bill would be higher, or time in prison longer), pushers started to use something called blotter paper. It was sheets of absorbent paper soaked in or impregnated with LSD. The size is mostly one-quarter inch squared. 


Flashbacks
you have maybe heard of people telling about having ‘flashbacks’. In this case it is when a hidden amount of the drug is getting used of your body. Without knowing your body can starve some of the drug in your fat so when you start using the fat, the drug will be triggered. So, if you take two drops of LSD and starting your ‘trip’ after 30 minutes, you can be on this ‘trip’ for 12 hours. When your little ‘trip’ has finished and you are on your way back home on your bike, after a long day at work a few days after your trip, suddenly you feel a bit dizzy and your hallucinations will pop back in your mind.

Speed of sound - science

Speed of sound

for humans the audible frequency limits are normally somewhere between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (or 20 kHz). Since we are all different this number is not definite, also we damage our hearing through our lifetime which means that the upper limit decrease as we get older.  
Basically sound is a form of energy that travels through air, water and other matter in different waves. The matter that supports the sound is called a “Medium” and therefore, sound cannot travel through vacuum¹. The ear collects sound with the outer part of the ear all the folds are there to direct the sound into the ear canal. In the inner ear, the sound meets the temporal bone which is the densest bone of the body. Also, the hollow channels are filled with liquid and really sensory epithelium². This epithelium is studded with hair cells and when they get stimulated the brain perceives the vibrations.
Often we say that it is the ears that are hearing but we actually hear with our brains. Therefore damages on your ears can make you deaf but also brain damages can cause it.
Humans are also different from animals. I.e. a dog can hear vibrations higher than 20 kHz³.
The speed is depending on what the medium the sound is traveling through. In water it travels faster because there are more medium to carry the sound. In air (gases) the speed is also depended on the temperature. At 20 C° the speed of sound is 343 m/s (which is 1,230 km/h or 767 mph) so if this sound produces an echo within 2 seconds, the object (i.e. a wall) will have to be half that distance away. The distance for an object with a 2-second echo return would be 1 second times 343.

1)       Vacuum comes from the Latin word “Vacuus” and basically means “empty”.  A vacuum is a space that has no matter. If there is no matter, the sound has no medium to travel through.

2)       Epithelium is the tissue that covers the whole surface of our body and it contains really compacted cells that are ranged in one or more layers.

3)       KHz means kilohertz and is used to measure radio frequency radiation and is equal to 1000 hertz. You will always use MHz (Megahertz) and GHz (Gigahertz).

Extraction of Kiwi DNA - science

Extraction of Kiwi DNA

Kiwi
A kiwi is a fruit. Most people like kiwis, they are healthy and they contain lots of vitamins and fibers. Especially the skin – but people do not eat that, A. its brown. B. It is hairy.
The skin is really bitter, and I think this is the main reason why people do not eat it, but you can get these yellow kiwis and when I get them I eat the skin as well, because it is not as brown and not as hairy. When you eat kiwis you can eat it all, or you can cut it in half and eat the flesh with a spoon. This is why I decided to use this picture, because it illustrates 2 faces of a kiwi and also because I think the colors are pretty inside of it. I like green.

I said before that kiwi is a fruit, and it is – but it is also a plant (or at least not an animal). You know that, because of its cells and by the fact that it is not an animal. You also know it is not an animal because vegans eat them. But a plant cell is different from an animal (this include humans) cell, and its way more advanced.
It contains a cell wall (Dark green line) which surrounds the cell and keeps it in shape. The cell membrane (Lighter green inner line) is like a liquid plastic bag. I do know that it sounded a bit stupid, because plastic bags are not liquid, but in this case, it is. It surrounds the chloroplast (Dark green dots), vacuole (purple box), Nucleus and cytoplasm, including a bunch of stuff that we have not been taught yet like Raphide Crystals, Golgi apparatus and mitochondrion. None of these words are words that my computer is able to spell, so I do apologize if they somehow are wrong. In the Nucleus (The big blue circle) contains DNA, which gives instructions to the rest of the cell. To be able to see these DNAs you have to follow these easy steps, you are able to do this at home, because lots of the equipment is really common and easy to get. Apart from the microscope of course, but you only need that if you want to get a closer view.

All you need is:
 
A kiwifruit. If you are an allergic, to bad – no, you can use an onion instead, but that is not a fruit, and it smells bad.
5g washing up liquid OR hand soap. I would prefer hand soap, because in the moment I touch the washing up liquid my mum will think I will do the dishes – and I do not like giving her false hopes.
5g of Sodium Chloride, to be honest with you, this just means salt.
100ml H2O – this is water, it contains two hydrogen ( 1/1 H) atoms and oxygen (16/8 O) atom. 
100ml of ice cold alcohol. Try white rum or ethylated spirits, these are the best. Before use keep it in a freezer for half an hour (30 minutes).
A kettle, you will need this to boil water for a basin.
3 jars or beakers, you will use them to contain the mixtures
1 huge basin, for the boiled water from the kettle.
Spoon you may as well use different types of equipment, you just need something to monster mash kiwi, I use spoons because I like spoons.
Filter paper – that can be coffee or tea filter, just to separate the liquid from the kiwi bits.
A knife, or a scalpel, depending on your mood and how chirurgic you want to look.
 
Step 1
the kiwi’s skin does not contain much DNA, and it is all hairy and nasty, so peel that off and cut the green oval shaped, naked fruit into smaller chunks.

Step 2
put these green chunks into a jar (or beaker) and grab your spoon (or whatever you prefer). Mash the poor little fruit so you break up some of the cells. You break the cell wall doing this – the big dark green line, remember?

Step 3
grab another jar (or beaker) and start mix salt, tap water and washing up liquid (or hand soap). This cute little mixture is called Extraction Buffer – I must admit that I do not know why. To dissolve the salt you have to stir, but do it slowly – otherwise a bunch of bubbles will pop up and we do not like bubbles in this experiment.

Step 4
now add the Extraction Buffer with the mashed kiwi, and continue mashing, because if you mash it really good you get more DNA – which is the point of this experiment.

Step 5Incubate the kiwi and buffer mixture at 60 degrees Centigrade for 15 minutes. To make your own incubator, take a large basin and half fill it with boiling water from a kettle. To reduce the temperature, add about the same amount again of normal tap water. Using a thermometer will help you reach a more precise temperature. Carefully put the jar with the kiwi into the incubator and leave to stand for 15 minutes. Incubation helps to break up the cells further and starts to degrade some of the cell's proteins.

 Step 6
remove the jar from the incubator and filter the kiwi mixture through a coffee filter paper into another jar. This removes all the lumps and bits of kiwi fruit, we do not need that. When you have done this, you should end up with a green liquid, this is caused by the simple fact that the kiwifruit.

Step 7
now; pour the ice cold alcohol into the jar down the side. The alcohol will form a layer on top of the liquid, then you will start see a white jelly-like substance in the liquid, and this is the DNA. You can use a little hook to hook it up.

What is all this?
The cells are made of this really strong Cell Wall, and beneath them the cell got a fatty Cell Membrane. Inside of that, there is a nucleus containing the DNA. To get the DNA you have to break down these layers, and heating up the mixture breaks down the Cell Wall exposing the Cell Membrane.
The washing up liquid destroys the fatty Cell Membrane. The kiwifruit contains protease enzymes and this breaks up the proteins, this is also why it can hurt a bit in your mouth eating kiwifruit, because it breaks down the proteins in it.
Then the salt makes the DNA stick together and since the DNA does not dissolve in the alcohol, it turns out to these small jelly-like substances because it clumps up. The reason why you can see this so clearly is because the DNA comes from over a billion of kiwifruit cells, which is quite a lot.

Infrared in remote controls - science

Kelly bad os om at lave et projekt med en fjernbetjenings infrarøde styrke og notere hvordan eksperimentet gik - meeen det havde jeg helt glemt, så natten til deadlinen skrev jeg i stedet alt hvad jeg vidste om infrarød. Fik så det ubehageligeste svar tilbage nogensinde: "THIS IS NOT AN EXPERIMENT!" - like I didn't knew that already!

Infrared (IR) in remote controls
infrared is in between microwaves and the visible spectrum. This is why the wavelength is very long (compared to Gamma rays of course), more precisely it is 0.7 – 300 micrometers. The frequency range is somewhere around 1-400 THz (Terahertz-part corresponds the upper part of the microwave band and is called NIR, Near Infrared. The lower part is called FIR, Far Infrared).
Remote controls use IR as a data transmission. This only works in short-range communications, which is why you cannot stand in another room and turn on your television. The remote control uses light-emitting diodes to emit IR radiation and by a plastic lens, this is focused into a small beam. This beam is switched on or off to encode data and the receiver of this beam is a silicon photodiode (the photodiode is able to convert light into current or voltage) and convert the IR into an electric current, which basically is a flow of electric charge.  

Drengen ved stranden 1

Drengen ved stranden er en dansk tekst som jeg skulle skrive i skolen. Vi fik stukket 2 tørre sætninger i hånden som vi skulle trække handlingen ud af, så vi kunne skrive den samme handling, bare med beskrivende adjektiver (tillægsord). Først skulle vi skrive en historie med negativ energi, eftefølgende en positiv.


Her er min negative:


Bølgerne slog faretruende mod stranden. Brændingen brusede hvidt skum og udstødte raspende lyde, som næsten overdøvede den sarte hvisken, der nåede hans ører. Han kom langsomt gående med hvad, der skulle forestille adrenalin pumpende i årerne. End ikke en lyd; blot den vage fornemmelse af, at man hørte nogen i nærheden udtale ens navn. Meget tæt på, måske var det ved at nærme sig. Helt ordløst og blot en tør knitren af noget, der ikke var en stemme, et tonløst tonefald, tanken om et åndedrag. Han slog blikket ned og lod sine fødder gribe sig i et skridt. Han måtte konstatere, at alt hvad han oplevede forekom ham som en stor pærevælling af totalt ukontrollabelt, hadefuldt, utilsløret ævl. Nu ville der nok gå lang tid. Med dyriske bevægelser oksede han ud mod det gamle fyr, i håb om at det skulle give ham et bedre udsyn. Den salte vind skilte hans hår i strimler, udtørrede hans læber så fremtoningen blev til, af små sprækker og lukkede hans ansigts porer. Der hang en unaturlig tåge over vandet, nærmest som om det lå og dampede. Hornene tudede ude fra havet, men selve bådene var ikke til at få øje på. En båd nærmede sig, ikke som en plet i horisonten, men som en kolos, der tonede sig frem af tågen lige foran ham.

Seppuku, Hara-kiri

Seppuku
Seppuku is a Japanese word that refers to ritual suicide and literally means “Cutting the stomach”. In English, Seppuku is better known as Hara-kiri. It is one of the key parts of bushido, which is the code of conduct of the samurai warriors. This code, bushido, is a set of rules that is said to have virtues such as loyalty, honour, obedience, duty, filial piety and self-sacrifice.

Committing Seppuku is involved a detailed ritual. The samurai is dressed ceremonially, with his sword placed in front of him and sometimes seated on special cloths. Now, the warrior will prepare for death by writing a death poem.

A death poem written by Ota Dokan, minutes before his death in 1486 goes like this: Had I not known
that I was dead
already
I would have mourned
my loss of life.

For the ritual, the samurai has selected a second person to stand by his side called a kaizoe. This is usually but not always, a friend. It can also be the one that defeated the samurai if he thinks that he fought honourable and well but lost and wants to salute his bravery. Then the samurai opens his kimono and takes up his wakizashi and plunge it into his belly. First he cuts left-to-right and then a second slightly upward stroke. On the second stroke, the kaizoe will behead him with one stroke of his sword.
A wakizashi is a short sword and a part of the samurai’s uniform, mostly used for seppuku but also used in fights if needed.
After cutting the stomach, a trusted and skilled samurai is chosen to strike the blow from behind, leaving the head attached to the body by a flap of skin at the front of the neck.

A warrior named Takemata Hideshige wrote a poem for his Seppuku just after being defeated Shibata Katsuie in fight. Shall Ashura
subdue a man like me?
I shall be born again
and then I'll cut the head
off Katsuie...

I think Katsuie had been selected to do the last part of the ritual where you cut off the head for saluting his bravery he showed in their fight. Takemata wants to be reborn so he can return to Katsuie and win the fight so he can cut his head of instead.

Samurai women could also commit ritual suicide, but their rituals were nothing like the men. Usually it’s done by slashing the throat with a small knife.

There is a great deal of ritual associated with Seppuku mostly when it was done as a protest, or as and honourable punishment. In such cases it might be performed in a spiritually clean temple or similar location, but other locations, like on the field of battle, were also common.

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