Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
I STILL AM UNBELIEVABLY SATISFIED...
I kept telling people over and over and over and over for 4 miserable years that Japan was nothing but complete "HELL ON EARTH"...now maybe everyone will believe me based on these real-life photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I made this text green cause that place to me was putrid and I was at the emergency room every month, or every other month...the very last day that I was there, I got out of the car, and threw up everywhere...let the truth be known...
OKINAWA, JAPAN...TYPHOON..AND WOULDN'T YA KNOW IT...I USED TO LIVE THERE!!!!!!!!!
Powerful typhoon approaches Japan's Okinawa island
By MALCOLM FOSTER | Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — The strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years was bearing down on the southern Japanese island on Sunday as residents were told to stay indoors and warned its strong gusts could overturn cars and cause waves of up to 12 meters (40 feet).Slow-moving Typhoon Bolaven was centered about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Okinawa and was expected to pass over the island Sunday evening, dumping as much as 500 millimeters (20 inches) of rain over a 24-hour period, weather officials said. The Japan Meteorological Agency said wind speeds near the center of the typhoon were about 180 kph (112 mph), with extremely strong gusts reaching 252 kilometers per hour (155 mph).Those gusts could knock over telephone poles and even overturn cars, while waves around the island could top 12 meters (40 feet), public broadcaster NHK warned. NHK reported two injuries, including a 78-year-old man who was knocked over by winds and cut his forehead. There were no reports of major damage, but some 200 households were without electricity and some 300 people had taken shelter in public buildings, said disaster officials in Okinawa, which has a population of 1.4 million. All domestic and international flights in and out of Naha Airport, serving the island's capital, were cancelled. Gusts from the typhoon could equal or surpass the previous record for Naha of 265 kph (165 mph) winds in a 1956 typhoon, said Tsukasa Uezu, an official with the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory Weather Information Center.The storm's relatively slow movement — 15 kph (9 mph) to the northwest — means "exposure to wind and rain will be that much longer," and raises the possibility of serious damage, said Shun Miygai, an official with the Okinawa Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Center.The Japan Meteorological Agency issued storm and storm surge warnings in Okinawa prefecture and for high waves in the waters around the island.More than half the 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan are stationed in Okinawa. At Kadena Air Base, one of the biggest bases on the island, all shops and service facilities were ordered closed and movement around the base was to be kept to a minimum. All entry into the ocean was prohibited.The typhoon, the 15th of the season, was expected to continue into the East China Sea and then into the Yellow Sea, possibly affecting southern coastal areas of South Korea by Tuesday, Japanese weather officials said.Bolaven comes on the heels of Typhoon Tembin, which soaked southern Taiwan on Friday, largelysparing populated areas before blowing out to sea again. ***WOW!!! I mean WTH FTW....I used to live at this *****hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know every single one of those place that they are talking about from the Naha Airport, to Kadena Air Base where I lived...we had typhoons every single year, but they never ever lasted long, and it didn't scare me much, cause I simply didn't care...Typhoons are just like hurricanes, it just rains and the wind blows like crazy and messes up like tree and roofs and buildings, maybe scares some people half to death, but I didn't flinch, and didn't care at all what happened to that rotten place...yes I know that I will be bashed for my sarcastic hateful attitude about that dump, but I really don't care about that either, cause I really HATED Japan sooo much...it is an instant recipe for disaster,and never-ending suicides...they would be missing someone, and walk into their room, and found them hanging by a rope attached to the ceiling...so I don't need anyone telling me how "great' and how "beautiful such a miserable medicating island is..You complain about it, ( like I did every single minute), and no one else cares what you say, and just keep pumping you with pills to shut you up...I'm really sooo glad to be out of there soo much..I still say it every single day of my life, and thank God every minute, every hour, and every second, and before I go to sleep, and even in my sleep, when I get up in the morning, and even when going somewhere in town here in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska...never again will I step foot on a stupid miserable island, cause I"m used to seeing the big city lights, and the enormous downtown with everything...not trash infested places like Okinawa...(I really can't believe that I"m sayin that because I used to live there, and it just seems so weird it's world-wide news)....If anyone hasn't noticed, I'M NOT AN ISLAND PERSON, SO DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT GOING TO AN ISLAND!!!!!!!! now that I'm done with my rant about Japan, I think that I'll finally go to bed since it's after 3am...
Saturday, August 25, 2012
VERY SAD NEWS!!!
Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the moon, dies
CINCINNATI (AP) — Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, a statement Saturday from his family said. It didn't say where he died.
Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century's scientific expeditions. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.
"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said.
In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called "a tender moment" and left a patch commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
"It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do," Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer this year.
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.
"The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to," Armstrong once said.
The moonwalk marked America's victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.
Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA's forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamor of the space program.
"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer," he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. "And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession."
A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama's space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had "substantial reservations," and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a "misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future."
Armstrong's modesty and self-effacing manner never faded.
When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.
He later joined former astronaut and Sen. John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day that Armstrong had walked on the moon.
"Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?" Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn't given it a thought.
At another joint appearance, the two embraced and Glenn commented: "To this day, he's the one person on Earth, I'm truly, truly envious of."
Armstrong's moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.
In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm. Aldrin said in his book "Men from Earth" that Armstrong was one of the quietest, most private men he had ever met.
In the Australian interview, Armstrong acknowledged that "now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things."
At the time of the flight's 40th anniversary, Armstrong again was low-key, telling a gathering that the space race was "the ultimate peaceful competition: USA versus U.S.S.R. It did allow both sides to take the high road with the objectives of science and learning and exploration."
Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program, described him as "exceptionally brilliant" with technical matters but "rather retiring, doesn't like to be thrust into the limelight much."
Derek Elliott, curator of the Smithsonian Institution's U.S. Air and Space Museum from 1982 to 1992, said the moonwalk probably marked the high point of space exploration.
The manned lunar landing was a boon to the prestige of the United States, which had been locked in a space race with the former Soviet Union, and re-established U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology, Elliott said.
"The fact that we were able to see it and be a part of it means that we are in our own way witnesses to history," he said.
The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)
"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth," Kennedy had said. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. "Houston: Tranquility Base here," Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. "The Eagle has landed."
"Roger, Tranquility," the Houston staffer radioed back. "We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot."
The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon's surface.
In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and the last moon mission in 1972.
For Americans, reaching the moon provided uplift and respite from the Vietnam War, from strife in the Middle East, from the startling news just a few days earlier that a young woman had drowned in a car driven off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The landing occurred as organizers were gearing up for Woodstock, the legendary three-day rock festival on a farm in the Catskills of New York.
Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver's license.
Armstrong enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.
After the war, Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.
Armstrong was accepted into NASA's second astronaut class in 1962 — the first, including Glenn, was chosen in 1959 — and commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. After the first space docking, he brought the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.
Armstrong was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.
Aldrin said he and Armstrong were not prone to free exchanges of sentiment.
"But there was that moment on the moon, a brief moment, in which we sort of looked at each other and slapped each other on the shoulder ... and said, 'We made it. Good show,' or something like that," Aldrin said.
An estimated 600 million people — a fifth of the world's population — watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.
Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.
Television-less campers in California ran to their cars to catch the word on the radio. Boy Scouts at a camp in Michigan watched on a generator-powered television supplied by a parent.Afterward, people walked out of their homes and gazed at the moon, in awe of what they had just seen. Others peeked through telescopes in hopes of spotting the astronauts.
In Wapakoneta, media and souvenir frenzy was swirling around the home of Armstrong's parents.
"You couldn't see the house for the news media," recalled John Zwez, former manager of the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum. "People were pulling grass out of their front yard."
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were given ticker tape parades in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and later made a 22-nation world tour. A homecoming in Wapakoneta drew 50,000 people to the city of 9,000.
In 1970, Armstrong was appointed deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at NASA but left the following year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
He remained there until 1979 and during that time bought a 310-acre farm near Lebanon, where he raised cattle and corn. He stayed out of public view, accepting few requests for interviews or speeches.
"He didn't give interviews, but he wasn't a strange person or hard to talk to," said Ron Huston, a colleague at the University of Cincinnati. "He just didn't like being a novelty."Those who knew him said he enjoyed golfing with friends, was active in the local YMCA and frequently ate lunch at the same restaurant in Lebanon.
In 2000, when he agreed to announce the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century as voted by the National Academy of Engineering, Armstrong said there was one disappointment relating to his moonwalk.
"I can honestly say — and it's a big surprise to me — that I have never had a dream about being on the moon," he said.
From 1982 to 1992, Armstrong was chairman of Charlottesville, Va.-based Computing Technologies for Aviation Inc., a company that supplies computer information management systems for business aircraft.
He then became chairman of AIL Systems Inc., an electronic systems company in Deer Park, N.Y.
Armstrong married Carol Knight in 1999, and the couple lived in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb. He had two adult sons from a previous marriage.
At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Saturday, visitors held a minute of silence in memory of Armstrong.
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Borenstein reported from Washington. AP Science Writer Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Yesterday was our "legal" anniversary...That is when we had to get legally married and get the certificate so that I would also be on the orders to move to Italy...it was in the middle of the week so we couldn't do very much, and don't do very much on the "legal" one anyways...the one where we had the actual "wedding ceremony" is the "bigger celebration" and more recognized...We always go for Italian on both these days, and once again the place totally ruined my lunch altogether again...I just wanted to cry it looked sooo disgusting...I said "plain" not to put anything on it...(ravioli), and instead they put some kind of brown pured (pure rayed" for those who aren't familiar with that word) it was a mush looking stuff..just like if you got canned dog food that is brown with chunks in it, only this was a lighter brown mush...I seriously wanted to cry I was so disgusted and furious out of my mind...I have noooo idea who the h-ll could eat complete garbage that looked like that...and also they dumped some kind of whitish gunk sauce mess all over it whenever I said "PLAIN EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! " It's awful me having to deal with such stupid people who deliberately do this kind of stuff to me when I really don't like anything and just have like plain bread and water and fruit at times...If I can find the pic on here I will post it for everyone so you all can see how disgusting it is...but then there are those kind of people who will eat absolutely anything that is put in front of them...I had to sit there and scrap out all that brown mess just so that I could have it plain, and also scrap off all that white gunky sauce mess which I know was made with milk and some sort of heavy cream and I hate both...I went outdoors the rest of the day and listened to my ipod and did my artwork on the hill..I get to be up there and look at all the mountains in the distance..I have never in my life lived around mountains and can't stop looking at them here...I'm trying to spend more and more time outdoors while the weather is as gorgeous as it's been...we get rain here every week, every 2 or 3 days, and we'll be getting snow end of next month already..Summers are so short here it's sad cause
it's such nice weather and it's not scalding hot desert temps...The Alaska State Fair is coming here next weekend in downtown Anchorage, and I can't waaaaaaaaaaaitttttt to go!!!! It will be my first one, and most definitely won't be my last!!! I love Alaska too much to miss anything going on here!!! (that is what I had to look at yesterday, and I seriously just wanted to throw up..that stuff looks like already digested dog food...what is that stuff anyways!?! :p
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I AM UNDER "MORNING STARRE" >;)
I comment and make remarks on EVERYTHING on here, so not sure where all my comments will turn up at, but I always make sure that they are as sarcastic as I can make them... have a good laugh everyone cause I'm all over here saying somethin' about everything...
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/now/nicole-richie-bears-uncanny-resemblance-daughter-harlow-childhood-180844357.html
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/now/nicole-richie-bears-uncanny-resemblance-daughter-harlow-childhood-180844357.html
Sunday, August 19, 2012
We are in fall time here already in Alaska...Every day I wake up to rain rain and more rain or cloudy skies and it's freezing out...Every one else is talking about end of the summer activities, and we are already discussing what to get for winter clothes...fine with me...I am never in my life dealing with 113 degree temperatures again...I got to go to downtown Anchorage again here today..where I live anymore when I'm not here or at classes....I am there every weekend now, and love every minute of it...and best part about it is that EVERYTHING IS IN ENGLISH..We went to the Anchorage Museum and I loved it and was in that place for at least 2-3 hours...It is all art work based on Alaska, before they settled here, what life in Alaska was like for early settlers here, how they hunted, more paintings of the sky with the sun being out very very bright since it was in the middle of the night...more paintings of the Northern Lights, a huge display of the world that had my attention at first glance with Alaska highlighted on the very very top of the globe with the North Pole and the rest was covered in ice...and this was just the first floor...we didn't even make it to the 2nd floor...It looked more like Alaska inventions, and I couldn't tell what else...I loved all of it and can't wait to go back to see the rest of it...I now have a ton of literature from there, that is all going in a scrapbook for Alaska cause I've already got a ton of stuff to fill up an entire bookshelf here...I believe this is the website to the Anchorage museum here... www.anchoragemuseum.com...I will post some pics of that on here...I was great until dinner, and some idiot female nearby said something about me, and had her dope smuggling nothing boyfriend turn his neck around like an ostrich to get a good look at me, and I wasn't going to put up with their stupid high school games, so I just got up and moved to the complete opposite side of the restaurant so that I wouldn't have to put up with kids who what just graduated high school like 3 months ago or last year...(and just a reminder to myself and everyone else... say no to h---s... not sure what I can say on here anymore without being censored outta my mind but anyways...I have my class again and can't wait...it's getting soooo cold here, and I can't stand the fact that I'm not able to go outside as much now...next month we will already be getting snow and that lasts until April...summers here only last about 3 months cause after July it's like the end of October for most...hope everyone enjoys the pics from the Anchorage Museum...They have artwork there that is almost as long as a car...so yeah I really really can't waaaaiiiiittttttt to go back!!!!!!!!!!!! there's like thousand of pics on the Anchorage Museum so I will just post the link and add a few on here cause I really can't decide, and I love them all!!!!!! http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Aq2kL95iM8s2mu02XvcEJLubvZx4?p=anchorage+museum&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701-1 (Anchorage Museum of Natural History pics )
Saturday, August 18, 2012
hi all...I still plan to post on here, but I am staying off of facebook for the rest of this month...I responded to a blog on here with about 20 different of my smart-aleck comments, and I'm sure that most people will take high offense to that, and I don't want to hear the insults or deal with trying to defend myself to complete idiots arguing with me on how I'm wrong about this and that, and how they are right, trying to get me to agree with them, when I don't even know them, and we have never met...I throw out my opinions on everything, and some agree, others don't..so what...once it dies down, I'm deleting everything so I don't have to see or hear how much they hate me on what all I said, because I"m not going to listen to whoever it is anyways...everything I respond to comes up on my page, so I just leave it..if it offends others...great...life goes on...
Friday, August 17, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
One of my friends is trying to break into the music world being a singer/songwriter, so go and check out his page/links/videos and anything else that follows it!! I think it's incredible, and already having 2 different albums out is a pretty big deal to me!! so happy though to see this happening cause I know how it eats you up alive inside when you want to do something..Me and my traveling habit won't ever leave me no matter how hard I try...Before I'm even finished with the country I'm visiting, I"m already thinking of the next one to go to...so best of luck to anyone who is trying to do bigger and better things in life other rather than what the rest of society thinks that they should do!! I"m the most hard headed and stubborn person ever, so I definetly don't have a problem with what I really want to do, and not what others want, and then me doing it just to get them to like me!!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hold-on/id500741525
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lovely-lonely-place/id534127330
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hold-on/id500741525
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lovely-lonely-place/id534127330
If anyone else tried that little trick that I put on here the other day... (sorry that I wasn't on here at all yesterday because of my allllll daaaaayyyyy art class, and then me coming home and crashing for the next 5 hours...) the answer to that one is you are supposed to see a heart in the palm of your hand...I was so shocked that I thought I was seeing things...it's just an outline of a heart in the lines of your palm, but it stands out very clearly...so clearly that I even traced one of mine with a pen, and it was perfect shape between all the lines...I did on both of mine, and saw the same thing on both of my palms...so it was actually kind of scary because it was so real..for me at least since I saw hearts appearing on me which happens to be my most favourite shape in the entire world by the way... :)
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