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From YouTube: Chesapeake H.S. Authors Series-Ming Diaz
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Geri A. Cvetic, Media Specialist Chesapeake High School introduces authors & storytellers to students.
A
Across
our
nation,
we'll
celebrate
Read
Across
America
with
guest
speakers
and
fun
activities
at
us,
Peak
High
School
in
Pasadena
Maryland,
we
celebrated
our
11th
annual
day
of
reading
with
authors,
artists
asked
if
physicists
and
even
a
former
NFL
football
player,
sit
back,
relax
and
enjoy
our
2018
Read
Across
America
event.
Hello,
I
am
amber.
B
B
C
C
Mandatory
reading
sucks
reading
for
pleasure
most
of
the
time
does
not
not
because
you're
the
one
who
ended
up
choosing
what
you
want
to
read,
but
because
you
get
surprised,
you
get
some
wicked
wicked
moments.
Picking
up
a
book
out
of
boredom
five
hours
later,
it's
2
o'clock
in
the
morning,
you're
still
not
ready
to
go
to
sleep,
and
the
book
is
about
three-quarters
done.
Oh.
B
C
C
C
C
The
person
who
reads
is
always
the
person
who
is
ready
in
the
job
market
I
have
spent
the
last
28
years
at
the
facility,
where
I,
just
retired
every
summer,
I
would
receive
high
school
and
college
level
interns,
usually
five,
maybe
seven
throughout
the
summer.
My
specialty
has
always
been
electronics,
microcircuit,
repair,
fiber,
optics
and
cable
design.
Would
you
be
surprised
to
know
that
the
cable
system
throughout,
for
instance,
a
aircraft
like
a
747
757,
is
designed
at
100%
scale
on
tables
they're
called
Pomona
tables?
C
You
have
to
know
the
exact
to
the
quarter-inch
position
of
every
single
connector
on
that
cable,
harness
where
they
go,
how
they're
distributed
the
way
they're
connected
the
function
of
that
connector.
All
this
stuff,
Donald
a
table
long
before
some
group
comes
along
disconnects.
The
cable
from
the
table
picks
it
up
on
their
shoulders
because
sometimes
the
center
of
the
harness
can
be
that
big
around
and
they
do
the
hi-ho
hi-ho
it's
off
to
the
aircraft.
We
go
to
install
it
within
the
fuselage.
Before
the
aircraft
starts
going
together,
the
cables
have
to
be
pre-designed.
C
Every
cable
ever
built
for
an
aircraft
is
built
on
a
table
layout.
The
only
way
you
will
ever
learn
that
particular
job
is
that
you
must,
without
fail,
spend
time
reading
the
specification
so
that
you
are
comfortable
we're
saying:
oh
okay,
as
I'm
designing
this
cable
building
it
along
in
this
direction.
I
get
to
this
one
connector
this
wire,
that's
supposed
to
go
in!
There
is
supposed
to
be
red,
and
it's
supposed
to
be
X
diameter,
oh
gee,
who
is
it's
not?
C
C
Someone
will
inevitably
come
along
and
say:
okay,
not
a
big
deal.
If
we
don't
have
to
mess
with
it,
because
if
you
take
out
that
wire
and
add
a
correction,
we're
going
to
have
to
walk
about
half
a
football
field
that
way
to
take
it
completely
out
of
the
harness
run
it
off
of
another
system,
yeah
you're,
the
one
taking
it
out
by
the
way
I'd.
Rather,
you
didn't
bring
up
the
subject.
C
C
If
you
ever
have
what
it
takes
to
walk
out
on
to
a
game
field
at
World,
Cup
level,
and
that's
your
professional
job,
the
job
that
you
will
someday
be
working
at
or
working
in
in
order
to
get
someplace
else,
you
don't
have
to
take
a
job
out
of
high
school
and
stick
with
it
for
the
next
55
years
till
you
reach
doddering
retirement.
Like
me,.
C
C
You
will
be
doing
your
very
best
every
single
moment
of
that
working
day.
I
tell
you
categorically
about
rule
number
two,
the
only
thing
that
ever
made
my
job
secure.
The
only
thing
that
ever
made
me
worthwhile
in
my
career
was
reading
after
graduating,
from
college
and
after
graduating,
from
active
duty
military
as
an
electronics
tech
I
have
spent
every
day
of
my
professional
career
going
to
professional
websites
when
the
internet
came
along.
C
C
Oh
my
especially
if
you're
an
IT
yeah
raise
your
hand,
because
if
you
have
been
exposed
to
if
you're
an
IT
in
your
future
career,
you
want
to
read
this
website,
because
it
will
tell
you
everything
there
is
to
know
about
the
very
worst
that
can
happen
to
you
in
your
future
lifetime.
As
a
working
professional,
someone,
who's
earning
income,
clients
from
hell
is
a
abject
and
exceedingly
clear
lesson
in
what
you
will
run
into
that
you
never
want
to
encounter.
It
will
wreck
your
life
if
you
have.
C
One
of
these
things
happen
to
you
on
a
single
day's
worth
of
work,
but
back
to
the
World
Cup
simile
I
have
taught
interns
for
28
years,
Spring
Break
throughout
the
entire
summer
employment
season
and
then
sometimes
during
Christmas
break
of
the
probably
250
to
270
interns.
I
have
had
over
the
years.
I
can
probably
count
on
the
fingers
of
two
hands:
young
people
who
have
come
in
with
what
I
call
politely,
the
I
care
attitude.
C
Because
they
know
they
have
been
taught,
or
they
have
read
about
the
things
that
go
into
the
professional
world,
what
they
have
done
is
started
showing
up
at
work,
15
minutes
early.
What
they
have
done
is
take
a
break
or
not
depending
on
what
they
have
to
do
to
get
the
job
done,
what
they
have
brought
with
their
eye
care
attitude.
Is
you
know
that
wire
I
was
just
talking
about
that?
Goes
to
that
connector?
That's,
not
the
proper
size
or
color
code.
C
You
don't
accept
good
enough
in
the
professional
world,
you
read,
you
learn
your
job.
You
are
involved
enough
that,
when
something
comes
along
that
is
not
right
or
if
you
know
that
you
can
do
it
better,
which
happens
to
be
known
as
a
beneficial
suggestion
and
in
most
companies
that
puts
money
in
your
pocket
as
a
bonus.
C
When
you
read-
and
you
know
your
job
better,
you
will
end
up
doing
the
things
that
makes
you
the
player
in
the
World
Cup
scene,
so
I,
just
given
you
in
less
than
12
minutes
a
synopsis
of
what
the
professional
world
is
like.
As
far
as
I'm
concerned,
you
care
you
bring
your
a-game
every
single
day
without
fail
by
the
way,
how
many
of
you
envision
doing
a
career
for
the
rest
of
your
professional
lives
that
is
boring
every
day.
Don't
hesitate,
raise
your
hand.
I
expect
you
to
have
the
best
of
all
possible
yeah.
C
Besides
that,
here
are
the
criteria.
What
turns
you
on?
What
have
you
done
so
far?
What
have
you
discovered
such
that
you
forget
to
get
up
from
the
chair
for
six
hours?
When
you
do
you
just
suddenly
realize
you
forgot
to
go
pee,
you
suddenly
realized.
You
did
not
go
get
a
drink
of
water.
You
suddenly
realized.
You
were
so
wound
up.
Doing
that
thing
that
you
just
discovered
is
very,
very
interesting
that
you
forgot
about
time.
C
What
turns
you
on
and
by
the
way,
if
the
answer
is
I,
don't
know
that's
perfectly
valid,
because
I
did
not
discover
my
passion
until
I
was
35
years
old
I
have
been
an
electronics
tech
for
55
years.
That
is
my
joy
and
my
pleasure
at
35,
I
discovered
my
passion
when
I
started
reading
and
tried
face
painting.
C
C
Face
painting
what
turns
you
on
I
was
reading
in
a
professional
clown
magazine
and
the
thought
occurred
to
me.
I
have
been
ballooning
for
22
years.
My
hands
were
tired:
I
was
physically
tired.
I
was
tired
of
getting
into
a
clown
outfit
that
took
me
two
hours
to
get
ready
before
I
drove
to
the
gig.
However
long
that
took,
and
then
I
did
the
gig
and
then
I
had
to
drive
home
in
the
make
up
another
hour
to
take
it
off.
C
So
I
tried
face
painting,
because
the
whole
time
I
was
sitting
in
a
chair
playing
real
close
to
the
child,
making
them
feel
good
because
I
was
performing
the
anthropological
function
called
grooming
by
the
way.
Look
it
up
when
you're
grooming,
someone,
you
are
enhancing
them,
you
are
making
them
feel
good.
You
are
telling
them
they
are
ferociously
important
I
was
enhancing
a
child's
life.
I
was
not
physically
wearing
myself
out
and
I
was
getting
eighty
five
bucks
an
hour
rough
life
and
all
that
from
reading.
C
C
C
And
then
get
turned
on
do
the
thing
that
turns
you
on
do
the
thing
that
is
by
the
way
the
modern
terms
are
either
you
are
involved
in
your
bliss
or
you
are
in
your
flow.
How
many
of
you
have
heard
those
terms
really
works,
find
that
thing
other
than
that.
You
end
up.
Looking
like
me,
a
decrepit
66
year
old,
slightly
overweight
who's
still
face
painting
as
a
career,
chi
rough
life.
C
C
Ever
in
my
life,
serious
every
single
day,
I
got
up
and
headed
out
the
door
with
an
attitude
of
oh,
oh,
oh,
oh,
oh
I
have
some
things
in
my
my
wife
hates
my
guts
because
of
that
because
she
wakes
up
looking
like
the
cat
dragged
in,
but
it
has
been
my
entire
working
career
for
those
of
you
who
have
known
me
that
I
have
been
here
at
Chesapeake
high
school
for
18
years.
That
has
been
my
entire
reason
for
existence.
C
C
C
Okay,
someone
will
get
it
to
you.
I
pay
off
for
smart
questions.
Oh
I
didn't
tell
you
that
did
I
G
watch
what's
gonna
happen.
Next,
okay
would
I
do
it
over
again.
The
answer
is
yes,
and
no
I
am
the
father
of
two
exceedingly
generative
young
people.
The
oldest
is
36.
Now
the
youngest
is
31.
I
am
lucky
to
have
simply
been
the
daddy
standing
behind
the
mommy.
Who
was
the
one
who
raised
our
children
reared
our
children
is
the
proper
term
it
worked.
It
worked.
Both
of
them
were
honor
students.
C
C
C
C
But
the
things
that
detracted
from
my
life,
due
to
my
own
actions
I,
would
really
really
like
to
go
back
and
do
again
with
an
understanding
just
how
stupid
I
was
fat
chance.
We
don't
get
do-overs
the
thing
by
the
way
that
bailed
me
and
again
sort
of
fits.
The
criteria
of
this
presentation.
I
have
had
in
my
life
an
inordinate
number
of
people,
both
young
and
adults
appear
and
older,
who
have
helped
me
do
better.
C
C
Keep
on
working,
oh
did
my
children
encouraged
me
to
keep
on
working
the
more
they
had
me
out
of
the
house,
the
happier
they
were
serious
because
otherwise
I
was
in
their
shirt
pockets,
especially
during
high
school.
Do
you
know
how
much
that
sucks
I
was
in
the
high
school
theatre
group,
helping
as
an
adult
tag?
I
was
in
the
communications
classes,
teaching
part-time
every
chance.
I
got
both
of
my
children
were
band.
Geeks
I
was
one
of
the
band
parents
cruising
around
with
them
going
to
the
different
band
before
they
did
now.
C
C
Okay,
the
question
from
Miss
C
was
why
his
communications
important
oh
boy
here,
I'll,
give
you
the
simple
and
then
I'll
give
you
the
complex
somebody
tell
me
to
shut
up,
but
by
the
time
I
overrun
it.
Here's
the
simple
rule.
If
you
failed
to
make
communications
the
most
important
priority
in
your
life,
everything
else
you
will
ever
do.
Personal
and
professional
will
be
at
risk.
C
C
Here's
the
long
version
before
I
was
helping
some
professional
level
communications
classes,
they're
called
effective
executive
speaking
with
a
PhD
who
taught
these
classes
for
twenty
years,
where
I
worked
at
Pax
River
I
was
his
assistant.
I
really
didn't
care,
whether
I,
communicated
or
not,
because
my
job
was
in
a
lab
with
a
fistful
of
guys
who
were
my
peers,
we
were
doing
the
job
finishing
at
the
end
of
the
day,
having
a
good
time
in
the
process.
Hey.
What
more
do
you
want?
C
Blue
collar
me
after
I
learned,
the
concept
of
communication
I
started
getting
across
little
problems
like
that
wiring
little
problems
like
needing
a
series
of
parts,
each
one
of
them
cost
something
like
$800.
They
were
not
coming
in,
I
had
to
be
the
one
to
communicate
to
not
only
the
vendor
but
to
a
national
distribution
center.
This
is
the
part
number.
This
is
what
we
need.
This
is
what
we
are
willing
to
do
to
get
it.
What
will
it
take
to
have
that
thing?
C
Fedexed
in
a
box
put
on
my
desk
Monday
morning,
people
who
can't
communicate
can't
do
that
kind
of
stuff.
My
communication
skills
were
sit,
still
shut
your
mouth
and
listen.
When
my
children
were
talking
to
me,
my
communication
skills
were
to
say
after
my
wife
lets
me
know.
What's
on
her
mind,
yes
dear,
and
it's
not
being
facetious,
it's
being
serious,
that
I
got
the
message
from
the
other
person
who
happens
to
be
the
most
important
person
in
my
life,
who
also
happens
to
be
the
mother
of
our
children.