The Power of Love

It is true that when the Love of Power is replaced by the Power of Love, humanity will make a great leap. But Love without strength is incomplete. You must stand in your truth .

— Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn, Earth-Keeper Chronicles, Earth-Keeper.com

Elimination of Poverty through IT

The goal has always been to solve poverty. Eliminate it if possible – but there will always be people who choose to be poor, because for some reason they need to learn lessons that only poverty can provide.

Still, I believe many, many souls have learned the lessons of poverty, and we can now create a world where abundance and joy is the norm.

To create poverty on the outside world, we need to create poverty within our hearts. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. What you create in your heart will eventually become your reality. And this is our primary lesson. Conscious, intelligent creation of the world around you by consciously choosing and believing in abundance in your heart.

So how do you do that? I believe that the first step is to believe that GOD IS NOT POOR.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. — Malachi 3:10

It is important to share, to give at least a tenth of your income to share with the poor. A tenth of your skill, a tenth of your wisdom, a tenth of your experience. AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU BACK MORE THAN YOU CAN KEEP IN YOUR STOREHOUSE.

Students put out fire using sound

Check it out, here’s some technology that can find a lot of uses, especially in putting out fires.

http://rt.com/usa/244785-sound-based-fire-extinguisher/

There are cars in america that have these massive speakers that when you play bass on them, they make the windows in the nearby houses vibrate.

What if you took one of these cars and put it beside a burning house, could it put out the fire, without any firefighters having to go in and risking their lives?

 

Prosperity Course

Conscious Creation

We create this world with our thoughts, words and deeds. Through these, we manifest health or disease, prosperity or poverity, joy or sorrow. Consciously choosing our thoughts, words and deeds, choosing love instead of hate or anger or fear or mistrust, will make our world a better place, benefiting everyone in it, including ourselves.

Tools for Prosperity

NeuroLinguistic Programming – a kind of self hypnosis technique where you write down and say repeatedly an affirmation to program it into your belief system and subconscious mind

Dream Board – By having a visible reminder of what you wish to create, and placing these reminders all around your house and work area, you will promote thoughts of it, helping convert it into emotions and eventually actions, and helping you see opportunities to manifest it. Put it most especially in your bedroom, so that it will be the first and last thing you will see every day.

Gratitude – Say Thank You. FEEL it. REALLY REALLY MEAN IT. Gratitude is the energy of accepting. By creating more and more of this energy in your body and home, you will tell the Universe to give you more and more experiences of just that – accepting.

Use a “Magic Booklet” – make it part of your everyday habit to write into your magic booklet all the blessings you have received. Read and reread the booklet everyday, and thank God for the blessings. This will help you create the habit of Gratitude in your life. Say thank you for the smallest things, even the things you pay for.

IT Course Tentative Curriculum

Tentative Course curriculum:

This list will change and evolve as I learn more about the needs and learning ability of the students
Apps and App Management

  • how to use the various prepackaged apps
  • Installing apps from Google Play Store
  • Installing apps from downloaded APK file
  • Exercise: Downloading and Installing the Touch Typing app

Touch typing

  • Keep your forefingers on F and J
  • asdf
  • jkl;
  • the rest of the keyboard
  • numeric keyboard

Android System Configuration

  • Using a tablet with keyboard and mouse Current tablets can only support 2 plugin devices at a time
  • Enabling Ethernet
  • Changing Wallpaper
  • Adjusting Brightness
  • Adjusting Sleep Time
  • Etc.

Files and File Management

  • Introduction to the File Management App
  • Files and Folders
  • File Types
  • Accessing the USB Drive
  • Backups and zip files – what, what for and how

Text Editing

  • Saving and Loading
  • Copy, Cut and Paste
  • Caps Lock
  • Italics, Bold and Underline
  • Font color and size
  • Fonts

Slideshow Presentations

  • What is a slide show, and what is it for
  • Fonts
  • Embeded Audio, Images and Videos
  • Transitions

Basic Spreadsheets

  • What is a Spreadsheet, and what is it for
    Each cell is a small calculator
    Spreadsheets allow document editing with automatic calculations
  • Cell formatting (width, height, text color, background color, fonts and styles)
  • Data types and formatting
  • Layout, Margins and Print Preview
  • The $ symbol
  • Populating multiple cells by Dragging
    Copying a value
    Copying a formula (emphasis on effect of $)
    Using a pattern
  • Accessing variables on another spreadsheet

Advanced Spreadsheets (Introduction to Programming)

  • Cells as Variables
  • Formulas
  • Mathematical Functions
  • If statements
  • VLOOKUP statements
  • Exercise: create a spreadsheet to calculate income and expenses in a harvest season, with variables that can be set for different crops

Introduction to Web Apps

  • Blogs (WordPress)
  • Wikis (MediaWiki, Wikipedia)
  • CMS (Joomla and Drupal)

WordPress Management
HTML
Basic Documentation: Flowcharting
Basic PHP

  • Rock Paper Scissors Web App Demo (Tell students: “After this subject, you’ll be able to do this and more”)
  • Printing text to screen: Hello World
  • Calculations with number constants
  • Calculations with variables
  • Variable Types
  • Strings
  • String manipulation
  • Program Flow Structures (If, While, Do While, For loops)
  • Functions
  • Forms

Basic Database (MySQL and PHPMyAdmin)
PHP with Mysql
PHP Configuration
Structured Documentation

  • Real life examples of what happens without documentation
  • Documentation principles and values
    Some people are better at coding. Some people are better at documentation.
    Allow your head time to shift gears when moving from coding to documentation
    Document first, then code, then adjust documentation. This gives you a clearer picture of what you want to achieve.
    Why most programmers don’t document – real life conditions – faster development means more programs means more money, but the client is not happy. A happy gives you repeat projects.
    If you can do it in your head, you can do it on paper. If you can do it on paper, you can do it in the computer.
  • Documentation records the development of an idea as it grows from small and simple pieces to large complex systems. Communicating a complex system is difficult, time consuming and error prone. By allowing the idea to grow in other people’s heads the way they grew in yours, you help them understand the whole thing piece by piece, in a natural way. So document your program as if telling a story.
  • Number your documents as you produce them, to facilitate telling the story, like a story board. You can have simple versions of the program pieces / modules, then more complex ones, then more complex ones, as if taking pictures of a growing plant. You can even draw several design choices, list down their pros and cons, and then explain why you chose one of them.

Algorithms

  • Bubblesort
  • Quicksort
  • Introsort
  • etc

CSS
Object Oriented Concepts

  • Metaphor of the the car and the train
    The car is like a structured program where the driver (the main() function) controls everything. The train is like an object oriented program where employees and departments (objects and classes) work together to keep the train station functioning properly
  • Classes and Objects are like small programs that work together to create a bigger program
  • The main benefit of Object Oriented Programming is software reuse
    Learn to create programs that are meant to be reused
    API Documentation helps users reuse software

OOP Documentation: API Docs and UML Diagrams
PHP OOP
Data Structures

  • Queues and Stacks (first in first out, last in first out)
  • Trees

Javascript
JQuery
AJAX
Basic CSS3
Basic HTML5
Basic Java
Java OOP
Java with Mysql
Design Patterns

  • Singleton
  • Model Controller View
  • Factory
  • etc

Basic Android Development

Open Source Software

  • Concept of CopyLeft
  • Overview of the history of Linux and Open Source Software
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  • International Online Collaboration and how it works
  • Online open source tools (diff, git, bitbucket, google code, etc.)
  • How to profit from Open Source Software
  • ODesk

Web Services

  • Email
  • Forums (Yahoo Groups)
  • Maps (Google Earth)
  • Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter)
  • Chat and VideoChat (Skype)
  • eCommerce (Amazon, eBay)
  • etc.

Livelihood Project for Victims of Haiyan/Yolanda

Open Letter to Android Tablet suppliers in the Philippines

To whom it may concern

My name is Jasper Tomas. I am one of the creators of the Philippine Linux distribution KahelOS (see http://linuxday.org/index.php?entry=20120805160847). And I’d like to ask for your help in putting together a free vocational education / livelihood project for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda.

In India and Bangladesh, poor people, even those living in slum areas, need only a laptop, an internet connection, and their IT skills, to bring in dollars from the US and other first world nations. I wish to bring this to our country, specifically in the typhoon affected areas. But laptops are too expensive for what I’m planning.

I’ve figured out how to use android tablets to teach computer literacy. So I plan to buy 35 units of cheap android tablets plus accessories, and offer IT courses in Tacloban.

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For each android tablet I can acquire, 4 to 5 students will have the opportunity to study how to make a living out of the Internet. (I will offer 4 to 5 classes per day)

Shown: Student workstation layout:
Android tablet (Minimum android version: Jellybean)
USB Keyboard
USB Mouse
4 port USB hub
MicroUSB to USB Adapter
Flash Disk (not shown)

I asked God for an opportunity to serve, and I met the son of the director of Red Cross Tacloban. His name is Royce Balderian, and he and his family has a school near Tacloban, Colegio de Sta. Lourdes of Leyte (http://csllfi.wordpress.com/).

This school offers Nursing courses, and all I need to do to provide more livelihood opportunities for the locals is offer to teach Information Technology, and bring the android tablets and other equipment. I have talked to them. They are excited about the project, and have even announced it on their facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/CSLLFI?ref=hl)

I have enough money for the keyboards, mice, and other accessories. I was hoping that you could help me avail of the tablets, perhaps by giving me a wholesale price, and 12 months to pay for what I can’t afford right now.

All the information needed to learn IT is freely available on the internet – one only needs persistence, equipment, internet access, and somebody to show the way.

I’m successful, I could help generations of Visayans raise themselves from poverty.

Many victims of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda have had their livelihoods taken away from them. International aid can feed them only for so long. They need help to rebuild their livelihoods.

If I can find even a handful of good students and teach them what I know, they can teach others, and IT literacy can spread throughout the Visayas.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.

If interested, pls email me at tomas_jasper @ yahoo . com