I want to write that I am still a living and kicking but it is getting harder for me to stay connected to the Internet because I am out there chasing love,
Love for music, art, life and love.
Get out there and let your heart pour out onto the things and people that love you back. Ciao.

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My Review of Vibram FiveFingers Speed Shoes - Men's

Originally submitted at REI

Vibram FiveFingers Speed shoes offer casual, sporty appeal thanks to a classic look and lace-up design, all aboard the natural FiveFingers platform. Airy polyester and nylon mesh uppers ensure great breathability and comfort while keeping debris out; Lycra� nylon flex panels stretch to provide a pe...

Vibram FiveFingers Speed Shoes - Men's

Shoes the Flash would wear.

By The other Navigator from La Puente, Southern California, U.S. on 12/15/2011

 

5out of 5

Sizing: Feels true to size

Width: Feels true to width

Pros: Lightweight, Stylish, Breathes Well, Cushions Impact, Comfortable, Makes you FASTER, Durable, Great with Jeans, Good Arch Support

Cons: Wears Out Quickly, Maybe I'm too fast

Best Uses: Work, School, Travel, parkour, Going Out, Casual Wear, Business Casual

October 29, 2011: me and my other half traveled by bus and walked through three cities to reach the REI used good sale in Arcadia. There is where she found these shoes. She tried them on, but they were too big and asked me if they would fit. I slipped them in and I felt like Cinderella.

The next day I wore them around campus. And the rest is history; I am now Hermes, deliverer of messages.

I run fast now, really fast. People get out of my way, waving their arms franticly in the air, dodging my sonic-the-hedgehog speed as I race past them at Mount San Antonio College. I want to sprint all the time. I beat cars sometimes as I blast past intersections. I wear these baby everywhere, and they are beginning to customly aquire my aroma into its fabric.

Yes, I might be over exhaggerating,
and yes, I might be fictional.
But, these shoes are real,
I am glad not everyone has these
because then I would really have to run
to beat everyone.

Don't get them if you want to be cool and hip
Get them if you want to be a free runner.
And maybe one day,
we will see each other at the finish line.
Ciao.

O yeah, these are my first pair of Vibrams
I got them for $40
brand new
returned due to sizing problems.

Try to find them used first
to reduce our carbon footprint

VIBRAM PLEASE START USING ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIALS
I would buy a brand new pair if you do.
If not I'm going to keep buying them off of people.

Thanks for your read.

-The Navigators.

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Nuclear Inspection, This Time, America

Introduction.

            Climate change has reached critical levels.  Increasing temperatures along with the melting of polar ice caps indicate global temperatures are on the rise.  Every year an average of 2 parts per million of carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.¹ In 2008, some 7.9 billion tons of carbon were emitted from the burning of fossil fuels and 1.5 billion tons were emitted as a result of deforestation, for a total of 9.4 billion tons of carbon that have been added into the atmosphere three years ago.² Carbon is an element classified as a greenhouse gas, that when present in the atmosphere, trap in heat, disrupts the hydrologic cycle, thus creating climatic change.

American political science and environmentalism seem to be at the crossroads for the moment, as we enter into 2012.  Germany is moving further away from nuclear fission, as Japan is moving closer to stabilizing their nuclear crisis.  America seems to be right in the middle, unsure of what action to take in this political and environmental, energy game.  Activist groups oppose the use of nuclear technology; meanwhile, politicians are promoting it.  Both sides are heated in this resource issue: how will we fuel the American energy consumption without the use of coal? Nuclear energy and renewable energy are being scrutinized and push to the theological limit with every new book published on environmental politics.  Time for picking and choosing is now over as we move beyond the threshold for carbon-dioxide emissions.  In this paper we will be discussing potential energy plans with and without nuclear energy.

             To understand this topic we must visit the reactor to see what really goes on behind closed doors.  A nuclear reactor is a highly complex and costly stem designed to perform a relatively simple ask: to boil water to produce steam that spins a turbine and generates electricity.⁴ Currently the United States operate the most common type of nuclear reactors, light-water reactors (LWR).  LWR produce 85% of the worlds’ nuclear-generated electricity (100% in the U.S.). ⁵ Environmental scientists G. Tyler Miller, Jr. and Scott E. Spoolman explain the inefficiency of light-water reactors.

LWRs are highly inefficient, losing about 75% of the energy available in their nuclear fuel as waste heat to the environment, just in generating electricity.  Before that point, 9% of the energy content of the fuel is lost when the fuel is mined, upgraded, and transported to the plant.  At least another 8% is lost in dealing with the radioactive wastes produced by a plant, brining the net energy loss to about 92%. ⁶

Miller continues explaining the light-water reactor’s costly externalities:

If we add the enormous amount of energy need to dismantle a plant at the end of its life and store its highly radioactive materials for thousands of years, some scientists estimate that using nuclear power will eventually require more energy than it will ever produce.⁷

With such negative costs, it is a surprise that 19% of the United States energy is derived from these nuclear sources.⁸  

Notes

1.     James Hansen, Target Caron Dioxide: Where Should Humanity Aim? (Poli 10: Instructor Handout), 161.

2.    Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: New York, 2009), 57.

3.    G. Tyler Miller, Jr., Scott E. Spoolman.  Environmental Science.  (California:Brooks/Colle, 2010).  p. 310 (Figure 13).

4.    Ibid. p. 309 

5.    Ibid. 

6.    Ibid., p. 309-310.

7. Ibid., p. 310.

    8. Schreurs, Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States

(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p

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