Best Halloween Costume Ever

Shot by Claire Hanbing Lu
Break Diving Member and Volunteer in Canada

(c) 2017 by Claire Hanbing Lu, used with permission via a perpetual non-exclusive license to Break Diving, Inc. for any and all legal purposes.


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Français / French Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Je suis un étudiant de français et j’espère que ces ressources vous aideront.

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/applications

  • Larousse French Dictionary
  • Trivia Crack (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Living Language French (Beginner to Advanced)
  • Memrise
  • Brainscape
  • Audible French Audiobooks
  • Radios France
  • News in Slow French
  • Radio France
  • Busuu
  • Duolingo (good to get you started)
  • Larousse Dictons
  • Plango
  • Larousse Citations
  • Collins En-Fr
  • Le Journal – Le Figaro
  • 7 Jours Sur La Planète  (AWESOME — Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Setting Up Anki for Foreign Language Vocabulary Fluency – The Fluency Project Way

BOOKS/livres

  • Assimil French (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language French (beginner to advanced)
  • Collins Easy Learning French Conversation
  • Collins Easy Learning French Grammar
  • Collins Easy Learning French Vocabulary
  • Speaking Better French by Rosenthal
  • Any books by Frédéric Lenoir (Advanced)
  • Anything by CLE International

WEBSITES/sites

  • Yabla French at Yabla.com
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Italiano/Italian Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

Sono uno studente d’italiano e spero che troviate questi strumenti utili.

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/applicazioni

BOOKS/libri

  • Assimil Italian (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Living Language Italian (beginner to advanced)

WEBSITES/siti

  • Yabla Italian at Yabla.com
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More Inspiring Quotes, Chinese Fortunes, and Horoscopes

Compiled by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.

The following are real Chinese fortunes, newspaper horoscopes, and generally inspiring quotations I have encountered over the years.  This is Volume Two! 😀 I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me on my life’s journey:

“You will grow in awareness. 

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汉语/Chinese Language Resources

Compiled & recommended by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving’s Fluency Project

我是一个学习汉语的美国人。我用这些工具为了提高我的汉语。

An ever growing list of hand-picked tools tested and approved by Fluency Project founder Monroe Mann:

APPS/app

BOOKS/书

  • Developing Chinese listening, reading, and writing courses
  • Road to Success textbook series
  • Boya Chinese textbook series
  • Living Language Chinese (Great to start with)
  • Assimil Chinese (I ADORE THIS SERIES, FOR EVERY LANGUAGE)
  • Chinese Breeze Graded Readers
  • HSK Test Syllabi – HSK1 – 6 (The Commercial Press)
  • Learn Characters with Ms.
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Growing Up At RCA in NYC (Radio Corporation of America)

by Dan Manzano
Project Manager, Inventor, Artist, Actor, Acting Coach, Singer, Voice Over Artist, Comic, & Fitness Trainer, and… Break Diver!

My dad started working at RCA (Radio Corporation of America) shortly after I was born in 1955.  This was a time before everyone had the ability to produce professional quality music recordings at home with computers and sophisticated software.
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Lessons From Loved Ones: Monroe Mann Sr. (2/2/22 – 10/21/17)

by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.

What follows is the first LFLO or Leaflow, i.e. Lessons From Loved Ones.  This first one will be about my dad.  It starts with the actual obituary I wrote for the local newspaper, then moves on to some amusing specifics about how he died, and then some lessons I learned from him.… Read More

More Inspiring Quotes, Fortunes, & Horoscopes

Compiled by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.

The following are real Chinese fortunes, newspaper horoscopes, and generally inspiring quotations I have encountered over the years.  This is Volume One! 😀 I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me on my life’s journey:

“Be Patient! 

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Break Diving 2017 Fundraiser: $350 Raised of $13,250

Great News: 7 supporters have now donated to our recently launched not-for-profit fundraising campaign!

Would you too like to support our 501(c)(3) charitable and educational causes?

Read More & Make a Feel Good Donation!

Where would your donation go?

  • Our monthly bank fees
  • Our web domains and hosting fees
  • Our online educational platform
  • Our online community
  • Repay our corporate creation loans
  • Additional marketing to advertise our blog, websites, classes, and community
  • Hiring of part-time staff members
  • Seed our disaster relief fund
  • Seed our educational scholarship fund
  • And more!
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My Acorns Update: $122.15

By Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME

Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.

As promised, here is another of my Acorn Investment App updates.

I’m now up to $122.15 in just two months.

Specifically:

$39.56 in the last 30 days

$10.00 one time

$.34 in dividends

$5.00 in referrals

I suspect I’ll surpass $250.00 by the end of the year.… Read More

Another Thing I Learned From Not Killing Stephen King: Development Is Where Most Projects Get Stuck

by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Author, “The Theatrical Juggernaut – The Psyche of the Star” (now in its 2nd edition)

PHASE 1 – DEVELOPMENT  (Where most projects get stuck)

Before I even explain what development is, let me start by explaining that development is where most projects get stuck. … Read More

Heroku Tip Sheet

by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.

For you coders out there who are hosting your dynamic sites on Heroku, here are some helpful tips that you will likely use over and over that you may find helpful to have here in a central place.… Read More