Fizz Boom Read Science Volunteering

July 26th, 2014

Fizz Boom Read Science Volunteering

Leon County Public Library Eastside Branch Library

Saturday, July 26, 2014, 12:45 – 2;45 PM

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As part of the Summer Reading program of the Leon County Public Library, we were volunteers helping the library staff conduct some science experiments that were fun while encouraging the kids to read.

We were both at the booth where we did a fake volcano using baking soda, vinegar, and detergent. Bhanu helped make the volcano and bought all the needed materials.

We were set-up the Meeting Room North side wall. VtS and I helped with the demonstrations. I had to run after about 1 hour of help. VtS did stay the whole time.

It was great helping the library staff and its partrons.

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Wallpaper Removal

July 2nd, 2014

Wallpaper Removal, Clean Wall, Paint the Wall

July 2, 2014 and July 3, 2014

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One of the rooms with wallpaper still in place. It has been more than a decade since the wallpaper was hung. It has started to peel-off.

After more than adjusting with the wallpaper in our kitchen and bathrooms we decided to remove them and replace with the painted walls.

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Wallpaper has been removed exposing the sheet rock. Allowed to dry for a day.

 

The work began this morning and will continue tomorrow and probably the day after. We have hired a trusted company to do the work. We have worked with this company before.

I will post the updates of before and after wallpaper in few days.

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The dried sheet rock has been painted with Behr Premium Plus Interior Satin Enamel paint. Morning Breeze color

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YSP IRP Starts

June 10th, 2014

YSP IRP Starts

Tuesday June, 10, 2014

Today we started the 2014 YSP IRP. Two people joined the lab to do their IRP for the summer term. We will explore the role of water in the lysozyme crystals.

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Get New Parking Decal

June 3rd, 2014

New Parking Decal

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Tuesday, June 03, 2014

I went to FSU Card Center and exchanged my old Faculty/Staff Parking Decal for a new one. Today was the second day they were doing the exchange but today’s location was closest to my work.

The process was quick and I spent probably few minutes. I took the old one off of my car and gave it to them. They gave a new one which I quickly put it on my car’s driver side lower left front glass.

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ACA 2014

May 25th, 2014

Attend ACA 2014 Meeting in ABQ

May 2014

Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM

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I attended the Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association’s at Albuquerque Convention Center at Albuquerque, NM between May 24 and 28, 2014. I participated in one Joint Workshop on Neutron and X-Ray Data Processing.

I was also one of the judges for the Taylor & Francis Biomolecular Crystallography Poster Prize. We judged several posters on Monday, May 26, 2014 evening between 5:30 and 7;30 PM during the M-Poster session. We awarded one poster as the prize winner.

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ACT Chain of Park Event

April 20th, 2014

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ACT Chain of Park Event

Saturday and Sunday, April 19 & 20, 2014, 10:00 AM to 5: 00 PM

Lewis Park, Downtown Tallahassee, FL

 

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Both on Saturday and Sunday members of the Asian Coalition of Tallahassee entertained the children and adults at the Children’sFestival for the Chain of Parks Event organized by Le Moyne. Chain of the Parks is the premier art event in Tallahassee and 2014 was the fourteenth such event.

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On Saturday morning, ACT members did free henna hand painting for the children and adults. On Saturday afternoon, themembers did origami paper folding art for the people attending the festival.

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On Sunday morning, ACT members wrote names of people in traditional Chinese using calligraphy brushes.

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International Bazaar

April 5th, 2014

International Bazaar

Saturday, Apr 5, 2014

FSU Ballrooms

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Today on behalf of Asian Coalition of Tallahassee (ACT) and India Association of Tallahassee (IATLH) we put two information tables at the 19th International Bazaar organized by the FSU’s Center for Global Engagement.

Myself and volunteer arrived at 1:15 PM and set up ACT table and reserved IATLH table. Soon IATLH volunteer arrived. We met with lots of people and handed out the Experience Asia Festival information prepared by the CGE.

Then by 3 PM VtS joined us and helped us until we closed the booth at about 5:15 PM. We also saw lots of cultural programs and ate some international food.

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Travel to Atlanta Hindu Temple

March 14th, 2014

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Travel to Atlanta Hindu Temple

Friday, March 14, 2014

Today VtS and I traveled to Atlanta, GA and visited the Atlanta Hindu Temples of Shri Balaji and Lord Shiva. We left town in the morning around 9:35 AM and took our regular route of US 319 and then we took I 75.

We stopped at Tifton around noon and had lunch at a fast food restaurant. We then drove in I 75 N toward Atlanta, GA. We arrived at Hindu Temple of Atlanta sometime around 3 PM. Since it was Friday afternoon there were only few devotees. We went inside both the Balaji temple and the Shive temple. The priest gave special pooja and we offered our donations and went around the sanctum sanctorum and took some prasad.

We spent about an hour and left to our place for stay.

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IAC Meeting

March 8th, 2014

IAC Meeting

Saturday, March 08, 2014

Today some members of the Interim Advisory Committee met at one of the volunteer’s office and spoke about the upcoming HTT Pooja  and other progress in the process. There were about six of us in the meeting. We discussed several items.

Then we traveled around town to see places for future site.

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Special Dinner

March 1st, 2014

Special Dinner @ Olive Garden

Saturday, Mar 1, 2014

We went out for special dinner at Olive Garden tonight. We ordered couple of pasta items and enjoyed the meal.

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