Multi-Talented Musician: Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars - 2011 TIME Top 100

Bwuno Maws....er Bruno Mars. My bad (long story). anyhow, onward and upward. He was a pick for Time's 2011 Top 100 Most Influential People, which you can read here. He's a singer-songwriter, and he plays everything live.

Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he always had music with him. Since he lived in such a diverse community, he learned a lot of different music styles, from the reggae and rock on the streets to the '50s classics his dad listened too in his house. His dad was a Latin percussionist who made a Vegas style venue that included all of his family. This included his mother, who was a talented singer, and Mars, who got one chance being on stage in his childhood, sung an Elvis Presley song.

After he graduated high school in Hawaii, He moved to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a performer. Those dreams were put on hold however, when The Smeezingtons, the songwriting/production team he founded with Phillip Lawrence and Ari Levine, took off. The pair have written major hits in a variety of areas, like Flo Rida's "Right Round", Travie McCoy's "Billionare", K'Naan's "Waving Flags" (Which was used as a theme for the 2010 World Cup), and Brandy's "Long Distance".

After recording "Nothin' on You" and "Billionare" with them as a preview of what Mars has in store, he's released a 4-song EP with Elektrica called "It's Better If You Don't Understand", A lyric to "The Other Side" A song that teams Mars up with B.o.B. an Cee-Lo Green. He explained that The EP is a various collection of real-life experiences.

Bruno Mars is a cool guy with lots going for him, and I think he'll be a great man.

See you around,
Woody

NUCON

NUCON's a little nook in the wall (not really) which recieves my blog post because it looked like an awesome place. Now NUCON is a place over on Huntley Road inbetween Shrock Road and Worthington Galena Road (exact adress is 7000 Huntley Road, Columbus, OH, 43229-1022).

NUCON manufactures in specialty absorbents; site systems and instruments for testing HVAC abd filtration systems for leaks, system integrity, and airflow balance; engineering, designing, fabrication and testing of systems using absorbtion technology; Tracer Gas and Particle Size based migration and mapping; and the supply of activated carbon.

NUCON seems like an interesting place. Though I've never been there, I'm thinking about going there for Interim next year. Anyhow, onward to my other topics!

With pleasure,
Woody

Major General Margaret H. Woodward

Major General Margaret H. Woodward

The first woman to command an air combat campaign, Major General Margaret H. Woodward, started off in the military as a combat instructor. After graduating from Arizona State University, she earned advanced degrees at the National War College in Washington and at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. When she entered the U.S. Air Force in 1983, women weren't allowed to fly. So instead, she trained other pilots after earning her own pilot wings.

Soon however, she moved on. After being a trainer, she worked on a KC-135 tanker, refueling other planes. She accumulated around 4,000 hours of flight time working as a refueler in the 1989 invasion of Panama, the 1999 in combat against Serbian forces in Kosovo and commanded the refueling missions during Iraq and Afghanistan.

For a time she was the Secretary of Defense, commanding the pilots of Air Force One. but anyhow, another topic for another day. Now she's the leading commander of the air strike force over Libya. In the 11 days after the she was positioned, U.S. aircraft in Libya have flown 1,400 sorties. They've only lost 1 plane to equipment issues, and they ejected and returned safely. For being the first woman to command an air strike force, she's doing spectacular.

oh and I got my information from here.

Space Having Dimmed Effects on Drugs?

So i read an article today about space and drugs (the legal kind) which you can read here.

Anyhow, So after reading this (being one of the very few articles that ever interest me) I thought about blogging about. so i did and here it is. So if you're to lazy to follow the link and read it, i'll sum it up for you. Basically what went down was that A research team (didn't say where it was from, so i'm going to assume it was from the Johnson Space Center) sent four boxes of drugs containing 35 different medications up to the ISS (International Space Station). They also kept four identical boxes of the same drugs at the Johnson Space Center. Then at periodic times, people on the ISS sent them back. One stayed only 13 days, another stayed for 28 months. That's 2 years! well. technically 2 years and 4 months, but whose counting? Anyway the peeps doing the research found that the drugs had a varying decrease in effectiveness. Most by the end didn't pass the potency requirement given by the US's Pharmaceutic group. But there is one upside to this. the drugs that are prone to oxidation, like adrenaline, vitamin c and vitamin a, would do well in the carbon dioxide rich environment. which i believe i failed to mention why the drugs were even degrading in the first place. So there are multiple reasons why these drugs are degrading as they are, varying from radiation to microgravity to changes in humidity and temperature. I hope you enjoyed this! if not then shenanigians.

~W

Racism and stuff like that

Hell it's a very broad topic. but i watched a video that got me thinking (check it out here), why is there racism. Just in general? I dunno but I thought the video was kinda funny... oh well. Until Next Time!

~W

Fake Money

Oh fake money... the world wouldn't be complete about it.
Any how, in the news, some people from BBC stated that there are 566,000 fake bank notes in the UK today. 95% of them are in 20 pound notes. and some rather intellegent people from some place in the UK said that our government should totally become cashless... seriously? wow. ok but i thought it was always a good idea to have a 20 on you just in case. but apparently that's bad for you? how? but you know just the usual shenanigans. but what're you gonna do? also it might cost the government some dough up front to get this program started