homeless japenese lady lived in a mans closet for a year

A homeless Japanese woman broke into a mans house and lived undetected for be was arrested when food started to disappear. Police found the 58 year old woman Thursday night hiding in the mans top closet compartment, she was then arrested for trespassing. The owner of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after being puzzled by food disappearing.One camera caught someone moving inside his house after he left on Thursday, the owner then called the police believing that it was a buglar but when the police got there they found all the doors and windows shut. The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.Police were investigating how she managed to go in and out of the house unnoticed, as well as details of her life inside the closet and whether she had taken anything else besides food.She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and apparently even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean."

Researchers say,Stonehenge was a place of burial.

It appears that researchers have found one of the many uses for Stonehenge was burials. Researchers say that Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its beginning and for some hundred years after that. Cremated remains show that the burials began as early as 3000 B.C., research has also found that the first ditches were being built around the landmark at this time. It is now clear to archaeologists that burials at Stonehenge were a major part of its early life.

At first many archaeologists thought that burials at Stonehenge only took place for about a century. The archaeologists also excavated a small village nearby at Durrington walls, which they found to be seasonal homes related to Stonehenge. The village appeared to be a place of the living and Stonehenge a place of the ancestors. In the middle of the village the archaeologists found a circle of wooden pillars which was given the name the Southern circle. It is facing the midwinter sunrise. The archaeologists found that the earliest cremation burial was a small group of bones and teeth found in one of the ditches, and they dated to 3030B.C. to 2880B.C.

The actual building and purpose of Stonehenge still remain a mystery.

I find this all very interesting in fact i find anything that has to do with early history and life very interesting. I think it is amazing for how long Stonehenge has been around and we are only now unraveling its mysteries.

City Dwellers produce less co2 than country folk

A recent study at the Brookings Institution, has found that per person city people produce less co2 than people who live in the country. One scientist says this is mainly because of the mass transit systems and the population density reduce the per person average. While metropolitan area emissions are some of the highest in the eastern U.S., where people rely more on coal power for electricity. Researchers have found that in the western U.S. the metropolitan area emissions are less than the emissions in the eastern U.S.. The study examined use of residential electricity, home heating and cooling, and transportation in 2005 in the largest 100 metropolitan where two-thirds of the people in the U.S. live. Lexington, Kentucky, had the largest per capita carbon footprint:on average each resident accounted for 3.81 tons of carbon dioxide in their energy use.

I was a little surprised when I read this article because I thought that no matter the case large cities would have the highest per capita co2 emissions. But I was wrong I can see why more city people are "greener" than country people. I think it is because in the country you are raised to conserve to begin with so you are already aware of the environment, but in the city you become more aware because of water restrictions and air quality and stuff like that. And finally there are the high gas prices which make city people use public transportation where in the country you don't really have public transportation.

On Tuesday NASA gave the orders to the most recent mars lander top extend its eight foot robotic arm and start digging for ice, but they couldn't get through to the robot because one of the orbiters UHF radio had shut off causing a delay in the message. NASA used the second mars orbiter odyssey to relay the command to phoenix. However they couldn't get the orders to extend the arm until Wednesday and even then it was a two day process, making the arm ready for extending on Thursday. The arm will eventually dig the soil around it, looking for ice that is believed to be within inches to a foot below the surface. As well as digging the robot well look for traces of organic life in the ice.

This is amazing now not only do we have the two mars rovers on mars but we also have a construction bot to dig for ice for us. If they do find organic traces of life in the ice what then? Are we supposed to pack up and start colonizing mars?

Polaroid memories

So is this sad or what? Polaroid is going to stop making its trademark magic photo film next year because of the growth in digital photos. For years people have watched the "magic" photo develop instantly right in front of their eyes.

I believe that we,(the people) should do something to keep this revolutionary film around,because while it may end up being an exhibit in the Smithsonian museum i feel that it should stay in circulation and still be in use, because the Polaroid film is better for some things than digital film.

This French sky diver named Michel Fournier,almost made a record breaking parachute jump from the earths stratosphere on Tuesday but the balloon that was supposed to carry him slipped away from his crew. The ex-paratrooper had hoped to set some new records for the highest jump, fastest free fall, longest free fall and the highest altitude reached by a man in a balloon.Fournier planned his big jump at 25 miles above the earth surface and then land safely.

A Big Oil Billionair that Supports Wind Energy?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.html#cnnSTCText

So there is this billionaire oil man named T. Boone Pickens says he supports wind energy. He is investing millions of dollars to make a new wind farm in Texas. It is said to likely become the biggest wind farm in the world, making enough a power for 1.3 billion homes. T. Boone Pickens says he supports wind energy because it's renewable and is a good start for an alternative source of energy instead of oil. The location is in the central part of the United States well be the best location from a safety standpoint. Pickens says we need to get "caught" up with our neighbors like Spain and Germany as far as wind. I mean who wants to spend $600 billion a year for oil?

I agree with Pickens on the fact that we do need another source of energy, but I wonder if he is doing this just to make more money. Research says that one turbine well generate 20,000 dollars a year in royalty income, and on a plot of land with 640 acres you can put about ten turbines so you do the math that's about 200,000 more dollars a year in income for Pickens.

Have you ever wanted to visit a foreign country but haven't been able to haven't had the money to well now an under ground telescope lets people in New York see people in France its actually just two giant web cam like devices you are able to see the people but not talk to them for now that seems to be fine for most people. Think about it though you could put these things all over the world and given an audio adjustment could easily conduct conversations, reunions, weddings, and so much more. The idea came when British artist Paul St George was rummaging through his great grandpa Alexander's personal affects and found the design on paper in some box.

I think this would be a great way to see the world at home i mean yeah you won't feel the effects of the beach or anything like that but it still gives the feeling like you are there. Whats next transatlantic subways? Who knows? If they can drill a tunnel across the ocean for this device then I'm sure a subway won't be far behind.

Yay Biofuel

Are you tired of high gas prices? Well have you ever thought about using grease to power your car or what ever monstrosity you happen to drive. All you need is some grease like bacon grease or pretty much any kind to turn it in to bio fuel. So here is how you do it you convert grease it a fuel using a process called Transesterification, which the glycerin from the grease and replaces it with methanol making the grease thin enough to power a diesel engine. Bio diesel can also be blended with regular diesel to create a cleaner burning diesel as well as a fuel that is better for your vehicle. Blends of the alternative fuel are currently sold in 1,400 different stations across the country. But as you can guess as gas prices increase so does the value of grease, in the last three years soy bean oil which is the base for bio diesel has tripled in price. One week ago a gallon of crude soy bean oil was 66 cents on the bio fuel market.

I believe that bio fuel is promising as an alternative to regular gas if we can produce enough and people stop stealing it, if we can achieve this we well have created a small safe guard against completely having to make new engines as well as having to find a new fuel source right away.

Say Goodbye to Coney Island

Coney Island the ever so famous amusement park is to be closed down at the end of this summer. Did you ever get to go there? what memories do you have from there? I am disappointed because i have never been and now won't ever be able to go.

I wonder who is to blame for this because i would have liked to go at least once and now i can't. Why can't they just leave the land alone and make it a historical land mark? I'm sure a lot of other Americans feel the same way right? I can't be the only one who wants Coney island to stay open so that we don't forget the great pastimes of old.

Robotic suit that enhances strength Thing of future?

There is a suit called the "Exoskeleton" that is robotic and can amplify your strength and endurance by up to 20 times. Rex Jameson a 5 foot 11 180 pound engineer for the company Sarcos inc. in Salt Lake City is lucky if he presses 200 pounds but once when he tried it in the suit he easily did 500!The company is currently under contract with the army. The army believes that soldiers may one day wear suits similar to this one in combat.
But right now the suit is being used for such as loading or unloading cargo or repairing heavy equipment. Sarcos has a two-year contract with the army worth up to $10 million. But before soldiers can even test the suit Sarcos must first work out some last minuet bugs such as the sort battery life which only lasts thirty minuets.

I think that this is a great start to the world of robotics and A.I because it shows that metal can improve a humans physical attributes such as strength and endurance. I hope that they can get this suit in somewhat of a working order because the uses for it are endless you could use it for almost anything even the army, lets first use for good then if need be use it against evil.

19 year old mayor elected in Muskogee Oklahoma

So is this crazy or what?A nineteen year old college freshman gets elected mayor and we can't even choose who we want for president. Now what do you think that says about the rest of us?Anyways nineteen year old John Tyler Hammons won the election for mayor in Muskogee Oklahoma with seventy percent of the votes out of a city of 38,000 people. Hammons claims the reason he won was because his basic platform idea is keep the people more informed about government activities. Hammons leads a nine-member city council and well be able to vote on ideas and bills. Hammons says he still plans to attend college but is going to find one closer than the one he currently attending, The University in Norman.

I think this cool because it just shows that the youth of America are getting more involved in every day politics.

PETA requests that Eight Belles jockey Gabriel Saez be suspended

Do we have any Kentucky derby fans out there? Well if not we probably do have a few animal rights activists so this blog is for all of you.On Saturday in Norfolk, Va. A horse named Eight Belles was euthanized following her race because she had broken her two front legs she had gotten second place. Gabriel Saez was the jockey riding her when it happened. no one is sure on why or how both of her front legs got broken but the organization of PETA wants Gabriel Saez to be investigated as well as the death of eight Belles. If Gabriel Saez is found guilty then he well loose the 400,000 dollar prize for winning second place. PETA just wants to know if Gabriel Saez felt anything while he was riding the young filly.

I hope that Gabriel Saez and the rest of the jockeys learn from now on to treat their horses a little more fairly.

Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers

Are our civil liberties being taken away from us? Well, I think that in one case, yes. That case would be the invention of a new device called the Mosquito. What this device does is emit a high-frequency sound that can be heard by most teens and people in their early twenties. The device is to ward off that unwanted teen loitering from places like malls and grocery stores etc.

There is a debate of about whether or not this device infringes our civil liberties? Does it? I think it does because if you are like me and hardly ever hang out at the mall and just go there to waste time and aren't bugging anyone then where else am I supposed to go? I only go there if i have no place else to go while I'm waiting to be picked up by my parents.

I believe that you can say that this device was created with the "all teens are the same" stereotype. This makes me kind of mad because not all teens are the same, not all of us are trouble makers. I mean a good majority of us are but we've all been there right? Wrong. It's a different time than when our parents were teenagers and the economy and culture is different now too. It's not the same and never is the same. Ten years from now It'll all be different again.

Election 08

So for any of you Obama fans out there don't worry about Hillary winning the Pennsylvania primaries. Obama stills leads and is projected to come out on top in the end. Obama's loss in another big state and the numbers by which he lost by among the blue-collar and rural voters, yesterday, may raise questions about his electability. Some polls showed that Clinton won with a double digit lead in Pennsylvania. But in the weeks before the Pennsylvania primaries Obama was crushing Clinton' advantage. Clinton's ten point margin of victory was larger than recent polls had shown, and all of them showed that Clinton had won, but some of them showed only a 4 to 5% change between candidates.

I am a hard core Obama fan because I don't think America, let alone the world, is ready for the world's super power to have that big of a change right now by having a woman president. I mean, yeah, it would be great to have a female president, but I think we need to transistion in to it a little slower than just, "Bang, you're the new president. Have fun! Bye!"

Land By HollyWood Sign For Sale

From what I hear there's some land next to the Hollywood sign that's for sale. This is creating lots of controversy in the community. Apparently an investment group that owns 138 bush- covered acres above the Los Angeles landmark. The investment group put the land up for sale last month for $22 million. Some residents are afraid that the mansions that will be built there will spoil the sign's uncluttered, postcard backdrop. Some also are worrying that the land will no longer be available to hikers, sightseers, and romantics who often climb the hill for peace and quiet as well as a panoramic view of the Los Angeles basin.
Councilman Tom LaBonge said "That is our Eiffel Tower". "There is the Hollywood sign, there is the open space, and that's all there is, this is ours and it should remain ours."

I think that the city of Los Angeles should get together and make the sign a historical landmark, because if you think about all the people who travel from all around the world each year just to see the Hollywood sign it is definitely worth keeping the look that it has always had.