I am exceedingly happy right now. Ever since high school I have been looking for a band/orchestra/symphony to play my flute in. Today I learned that I can play in the Lee County Orchestra which practices every Tuesday at the high school right around the corner from my college. I’M SO HAPPY!!!!!
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I realize that I have not posted anything since October. With the occurrence of the holidays, my grandmother passing, and starting at a college where I have to actually attend class, I have been kind of busy. Now that I am getting into the swing of things i want to post something at least every two weeks.
Lack of Pride
This is something that has been pissing me off since middle school. Do you remember having to say the Pledge of Allegiance before school each day? Do you remember learning the national anthem in elementary school music class? I sure do, but the other day I was asked by my nephew what they were and that the school would not teach them to him (note: he lives in California). SERIOUSLY!!! Has our once proud nation been degraded by sexual and religious immorality that we cant even have the Pledge of Allegiance in schools? Not to mention that the only time I ever hear the national anthem anymore is at sporting events. That’s another thing; I went to see a football game the other day and while they were doing the national anthem I realized that I was the only person in my area the actually KNEW the words. This is absolutely PATHETIC. We have let our forefathers down. This is just some of what has been going on. We can no longer have open prayer in classes. We can no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. People want to take the saying “In God We Trust” off our currency. I thought we had freedom of religion. That’s what our country was founded on. But we don’t. Some atheist can say that something is offensive and has the Pledge of Allegiance taken out of our schools simply because it says “One Nation Under GOD.” Which is one sided as hell. I find it offensive that I cant say it and that my children no longer get the opportunity to choose for themselves.
I could continue this rant but my hands are cold. so TO BE CONTINUED…..
sry
Sorry for the long wait, im really busy with life right now so my next post should be next week if all goes well.
update
there is a lot to review in gears of war 3 so this will take a little longer.sry.
Coming Soon — Gears of War 3 — Xbox 360 — Review
The title says it all.
Resistance 3 Review
To get started here are some trailers to watch.
I played through the game on the easiest setting so I could enjoy the designs and story line; I the replayed it on the hardest difficulty as to have a challenge.
When I first started up the game it had an almost 700Mb update. OK so they might have missed something, whatever. After the update was done doing its thing I had to install the disc to the HDD as with MGS4.
OK, OK NOW I can start playing 15mins after I had started. I watched the opening video and did the little tutorial. Then I was off to see the wizard or in this case the crazy scientist who lead you through the last 2 games.
So You go as an escort with Dr. Malikov after your wife tells you to (bitch). Here is where I quit with the spoilers for the most part. About 2/3 of the way through the game you finally get to NY and the frozen wasteland that it has become. One of the only problems that I had with the game occurred here. You are walking through town when you get ambushed by a bunch of chimera with rocket launchers, not much of a problem unless you are out of sniper ammunition. I almost always was as it is my favorite weapon. The other problem with this is that the game developers gave you no cover in which to hide and get some shots off. The only cover you get does not have a clear view of the enemy and once you are inside they start bombarding your exit with rockets.Other than that I only had one other problem with the game. Even on the hardest difficulty the bosses presented no challenge, especially after you found the little niches you could hide in and blast away at them.Lastly THERE WAS NO END BOSS. Now I realize this is somewhat of an old tactic to make a game overly hard but when the other bosses were easy please give me a final boss with a challenge. The game then ends with the usual cinematic and credits. Also to save you all 20 mins. There is no extra movie after the credits. Overall in the graphics section I give this game 7/10. The graphics were ok, if you compare them to the others when they started production they would be awesome but compared to what they could be they are just average. For game play I have to give it 6/10 for lack of challenge. If they had just made it harder or gave me a final boss it would have been much better. Story line is 8/10 great continuity but it seemed to lack details and it also seemed to make a clear decision weather there is gonna be a sequel or not. All in all it was a good game. I would however rent or just wait until the price goes down to buy it. *NOTE I did not test the online or co-op game play.
Coming soon – Review – PS3 — Resistance 3
Is resistance futile? apparently not since they have made 3 games.
I just got the new Resistance 3 game for PS3 and will be writing an in depth review.
I Think God is Mad at Japan
Yet another incident of Japan getting raped by the weather.
The landfall of Typhoon 12 (aka Tropical Cyclone Talas) has seen parts of Japan subject to severe flooding, with scenes of inundation reminiscent of the tsunami which devastated Fukushima earlier in the year – although at least this time there was fair warning and only two fatalities so far.
The top of a signpost:
A rather striking picture of a government river monitoring website’s efforts to cope with the water levels:
NHK provides details:
A severe tropical storm is heading north after making landfall on Japan’s southwestern island of Shikoku on Saturday morning.
The Meteorological Agency says tropical storm Talas is moving slowly north over Shikoku.
It has an atmospheric pressure of 982 hectopascals at its center and winds of up to 108 kilometers per hour.
The storm is bringing record heavy rain to western and eastern Japan.
In Kami-kitayama Village, Nara Prefecture, over 115 centimeters of rain has fallen since Tuesday.
Daisen in Tottori Prefecture has recorded more than 80 centimeters of rain and areas along mountains in Shikoku have received 80 centimeters.
Mountainous areas in Tokai and north of the Kanto region had more than 60 centimeters of rain.
Weather officials say the storm will retain strength and keep moving north, and is expected to reach the Sea of Japan coast late on Saturday night.
NHK has learned that Talas left two persons dead, 5 missing, and 47 others injured.
Authorities across the nation issued evacuation orders and advisories for more than 28,000 households, warning against swollen rivers and mudslides.
courtesy of sankakucomplex
Reactor Worker Leukemia Death “Nothing To Do With Us!”
The operators of the ruined reactors at Fukushima are under fire for claiming that the recent death of one of their reactor cleanup workers from cancer of the blood had “nothing to do with” his work amidst the radioactive ruins of the plant and that they have “no plans” to investigate it further.
Tepco recently announced the contract worker, in his forties and involved in radiation control work at the plant for a week in early August, died suddenly in the middle of the month from acute leukemia, shortly after finishing work at the plant.
Tepco claims that “according to a doctor’s diagnosis, his work had nothing to do with his cause of death” and states that “we have no plans to undertake any further investigation of his death.”
He was said to be exposed to 0.5 millisieverts of radiation during his work at the plant, 10% of the annual limit.
They say they have no idea what he had been doing before coming to work at the plant, and that they found no sign of the disease when they checked his health prior to sending him to work.
Leukemia normally develops over years rather than days, supporting Tepco’s assertions – although this would instead suggest Tepco sent a cancer sufferer in the terminal stages of the disease to work in a nuclear disaster area.
Japanese doctors have noted a much higher long-term incidence of leukemia amongst plant workers than chance would suggest likely.
Tepco has been criticised both before and during the crisis for using ultra short-term contract workers to undertake maintenance work at the plant, rotating them out of the plant as soon as their radiation exposure reaches legal limits.
Some have claimed this allowed them to maintain much laxer radiation safety standards than would have been the case if they were irradiating their own permanent employees.
Supposedly there have been no deaths directly caused by the events at Fukushima, although a number of indirect deaths (suicides by bankrupted farmers and so on) have been recorded, and the sheer amount of radiation released seems likely to at least cause many life-shortening illnesses.
Cited from http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/08/31/reactor-worker-leukemia-death-nothing-to-do-with-us/
So apparently radiation does one of two thing. It either causes cancer or cures cancer. I say if he stayed at work he would have at least had a better chance of survival.
