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when we commenced arriving near the coast of Singapore, we pulled the deliver proper up to the pier, and it was wonderful parking the ship there. It become similar to we were given the front row parking, right within the heart of metropolis, subsequent to a purchasing district, with a whole lot of best shops.

Singapore is one of the cleanest, prettiest, safest feeling countries, I suppose i have ever been to, and i was capable of see a whole lot of international locations, and journey around the world, in 1986. The sidewalks are so spic and span clean. The buildings, landscaping, and the whole thing else, is impeccably very clean.

I keep in mind before we pulled into Singapore, the navy offers you a short on what to do, and what no longer to do, earlier than you enter a port. one of the matters, turned into no spitting on the sidewalk turned into allowed. They said you may go to jail, for spitting in public. I may want to see maybe, how they maintain the town so beautiful, and easy looking, i might no longer want to spit on the sidewalk.

Singapore became tough for me to get used to, at the beginning, because maximum of the international locations i've been to, power on the equal side of the street, as inside the united states of america. In Singapore, not one of the guys had motors to power around. all the men from the ship generally stroll, take taxis, or lease a automobile. We had been usually going to downtown regions, and taking taxis, whilst we went out.

It appeared like, each time i was deliberating crossing the road, i might look and not see a automobile coming, after which start to go, after which all of a sudden, a automobile could seem to come out of nowhere, and i would almost get hit, because the car turned into coming from the exceptional path, than i used to be used to looking at. It took me loads of avenue crossings, earlier than I eventually were given used to, searching inside the opposite direction, than i used to be so used to at, to make sure I did no longer get hit by way of one of the cars.

I had grown up in a small city outdoor of Detroit, and most everybody who lived round us, worked for one form of commercial enterprise or some other, that had to do with either making motors, or offering components for vehicles. within the u.s., most limousines are both from Cadillac, Lincoln, or Chrysler. In Singapore, There have been heaps of Limousines, everywhere in the place, and most they all have been Mercedes Benz limousines. They regarded certainly first-rate, and that i nevertheless hardly ever see, Mercedes Benz limousines, here inside the united states, like there was, in Singapore.

you can inform with the aid of all the fine easy homes, and expensive looking automobiles anywhere, that there is a lot of cash in Singapore. big highly-priced looking homes, limousines in all instructions. we all went down city, to some of the neighborhood watering hole spots. They have been not like a number of the bars we had been used to overseas. right here, all of the humans have been dressed up, and it changed into all fancy and upscale looking. plenty of brass bars, and dancing poles.

It turned into for certain, the young, hip crowd. there was no purple light district, with seedy bars and free female, that me and all the men appeared to like, and go out looking for. those bars would possibly as well been in Las Vegas, traces to get in, and get dressed to impress.

We asked one of the taxi drivers, to take us to an area, in which we may want to pattern some of the lady of Singapore. He did no longer recognize what we were speakme about. one of the guys said, "Take us to get some pussy." He understood that, and he took us to a building that had a round cement force up type driveway, just like a touch palace could have.

interior, there have been plenty of Indian ladies, or i'm able to assume they had been Indian women. maximum all of them, had red jewelry pieces, proper in the center in their brow. The girls have been pretty for the most component, the vicinity become very easy and nicely stored, and anybody had an awesome time.

in case you ever need to realize, some of the great kept secret places, or hidden away spots, we had always discovered it's far continually fine to take the taxi cab motive force with us, if we can, so we continually have a automobile, and we consist of him with us.

I do not forget the first day we docked in Singapore, on account that i used to be there, more than one instances. The ship is normally divided up into four sections. each day, one phase become in charge of going for walks the ship, at the same time as anybody else went into metropolis on liberty name. So for each three nights you get to exit into city, and most guys went to bars and drank, and at the 4th night time, you had to live at the deliver, and the guys, could trap up on sleep, and stand their responsibility, and an eye, if they had to also do this.

the primary day we pulled in, it turned into my responsibility section, that had duty that day. all of the other sections should go out to metropolis, and our segment had obligation, so we had to live on the ship, due to the fact someone has to watch the deliver, while anyone else, goes into metropolis, to have fun. i used to be on watch at the sector deck, and the group plank, was simply down on the pier. I could see a dealer promoting some items down below the ship.

I desired to at the least get off the ship, and touch the floor, just to look what Singapore turned into like. in spite of everything, one of the fringe advantages of becoming a member of to the navy, was you have been alleged to journey, and go to other countries, and that's precisely what I wanted to do. i ended up happening the plank, and buying a few souvenirs from the vendor, at the same time as i used to be now not alleged to leave the deliver, however I did not cross a long way.

once I arrived in San Diego, i used to be figuring my new deliver might be there, tied as much as the pier, and i'd get on it. Little did I recognize, it might take me awhile, to seize up to it. I had used the U.S. mail, to mail my sea bag to the deliver, due to the fact at that time, the submit workplace, become mailing sea baggage, splendid cheap, for army employees. I mailed my sea bag to the deliver, and it became complete of all my uniforms, garments and the entirety. I mailed it, because they said it was the easiest manner to get my luggage to the ship, and i'd now not must bring it with me.

when I checked in at thirty second street Naval Station, San Diego, they told me, my ship turned into out to sea, and i'd have to stay inside the transit barracks. this is where all the humans stay, which can be in transit, from one responsibility station to any other, or for legal motives, like service separation, clinical discharges, and other reasons.

Out of the whole lot I did inside the navy, this have to of been the worst area to turn out to be. The barracks that we have been staying in, simplest required which you take a look at in each day, and they would let you recognise what changed into occurring inside the morning instances. the first few days, we'd check in at 7:00 a.m., and they would say, "Your deliver will no longer be back in San Diego until we don't know when." (The reason they might in no way inform us whatever, changed into because, it changed into categorized, I later found out).

After the morning muster, they might inform you that they're cleaning the barracks, and also you want to be gone for the complete day. I did now not realize all people in San Diego yet, so the primary day, I walked up to the corner, and there was a bus signal, with a bench, on the side of the road.

I had by no means been to San Diego, or everywhere else in California earlier than, and this changed into my first enjoy. whilst the bus stopped, I requested the driver if this bus will come again to this identical specific spot subsequently, and he said, "sure."

I got on the bus, and took my first excursion of San Diego. After about an hour or so, the bus came again to the equal spot. I ought to see lots of human beings, I could inform San Diego was going to be a huge city. At some intersections, there had been a whole lot of human beings, ready to go the street at every mild. After the bus journey became over, I walked back off to the base.

sooner or later, i found a string of bars now not some distance from the bottom, that had 5 numerous kind of bars, inside the couple of block distance from every other. we'd all move bar hoping in the ones bars, it become broadly speaking filled with Asian and American ladies, and they had been all well-known bars, to the men on the ship.

Me and most all the guys from the workplace, from the deliver, spent a variety of nights, in all those same bars all the time. They have been our cling outs for a long term even as stationed in San Diego.

I recall, there was now not an awful lot to devour, with no trouble to be had, with the aid of the transit barracks. i would become inside the bars at night time, but in the afternoon, and early evenings, i might walk around the base, and go to this one building, that had the maximum vending machines someone could see. They have been all located on this administrative constructing lounge. It had the whole thing, all constructed flush proper into the wall. it can of been an experiment for all I knew. Cake, Pie, Sandwiches, Novelties, and more, i've still by no means seen as many vending machines, with so many alternatives, as I did in that huge constructing, on the base.

one day, at muster inside the morning, one of the guys said my deliver was ultimately going to are available, in about  weeks. He stated I needed to report over to the prison office for obligation, until the deliver comes in. when I reported over to the prison workplace for obligation, a person there said, i'd be making copies all day long, of prison instances that had already long past to court docket. It became the army's felony office, and proper round the corner was the military brig. and they both, had been very effectively, placed round the corner to every other.

i might have to spend each day, making copies of instances, of court trials that have been already executed. And now the accused, had been spending their time, in the brig, normally ready to go to a greater everlasting brig, somewhere somewhere else.

i might ought to visit the brig numerous times a day, as my activity, to get a number of the defendants to sign their court papers. those guys had it quite hard in the brig. they'd to stroll on a instantly line, nonetheless do their military bearing, and that they needed to ask permission first, for the whole thing they did, and they needed to solution, both, "sure sir", or, "No sir", to everything that became asked of them.

the ones men that had been within the brig, truely did get handled higher, than any everyday army man could of been sorted. The guys from the brig, had been in no way over worked, or given not sufficient sleep, or not allowed to eat all their meals. They constantly got immediate medical, and dental treatment. They were served hot meals, 3 times a day, and that they were very cautious, that they did no longer destroy any policies, or impose to harsh of remedy, on any of the men locked up, due to the fact maximum they all, had attorneys.

well, wouldn't you comprehend it, it seems my ship changed into now not coming in in spite of everything, in order that they determined they have been going to fly me, to seize as much as it. i was given an aircraft ticket, to fly to the Philippines, to capture as much as it. I concept that turned into wonderful, a ways higher than sitting around any further, inside the transit barracks, ready to do some thing. I had a totally constrained deliver of uniforms and garments, and could not wait to have my things returned.

I flew back to the Philippines, and ended up taking a USNS oiler deliver, that changed into specially run with the aid of civilians, but had the navy running the boat. those have been the ships, that once in a while would come out and refuel our ship for us, and it commonly had civilians on board, and they usually took longer to work.

there was a yeoman on board the ship, and he confirmed us where he lived, and he had his very own stateroom. That turned into amazing for an enlisted guy. He has his very own rest room, his personal amusement middle, with tv, song, and recording gadgets. living at the reserve ship, should of been proper. I recognise the guys were given paid top, that had been civilians, and worked on the the ones kinds of ships. all of them wore civilian garb, and in the galley where we eat, the server added us menu's, just like in a restaurant, and there were some picks, you could pick from, and even ice cream desolate tract changed into at the menu.

There had been 6 people all together, that had been going to the u.s.DAVID R. RAY for our new responsibility station. We were berthed in the officials wardroom. we all slept in a nook of the wardroom. within the day, they asked us to live out, and just move about the ship as we wanted. So we spent a number of hours, just looking into the sea, and on a warm sunny day, that ain't so horrific absolutely. The officers wardroom, turned into an area wherein officers eat, watch their movies at night time time, and simply essentially front room around in consolation. we'd come returned within the evenings, and sit, and watch the films with the officers at the deliver.

one of the civilian ship workers came over to our desk, as we had been all consuming ice cream at the time, and after ingesting, he came over to our table and yelled. He said we higher not devour up all the ice cream, it became alleged to be for them. "What a jerk," I concept.

subsequently, we have been getting near the u.s.a.DAVID R. RAY, the destroyer everybody were going to be stationed on. We were advised to satisfy up on the helo deck, they'd us put on some existence vests, and we loaded up into the helicopter. that might be the primary time I rode in a helicopter, and that i suppose a primary for the alternative guys as well. I additionally departed the u.s.a.DAVID R. RAY with the aid of helicopter, sarcastically.

After the captain had us all aboard, we took off from the deck, and i used to be amazed at how much you can see, from the home windows inside the helicopter, as compared to an aircraft. On an plane, you may best just see out, the little window they provide you with to sit through. here, at the helicopter, we could see below us, in front people, beside us, and we were just out flying for a long term. The pilot could perform a little zig zags, and stuff like that, due to the fact he did it all the time. He knew the 6 folks never flew on a helicopter before, like that, and he desired us to have a great time.

I may want to see how these men who fly helicopters, might have the coolest process within the military. We flew without a doubt close to the water, and i puzzled what could happen if a wave simply regarded? we'd of been long gone, if that could of been the South China Sea. however, it turned into a pleasant day out of doors, and you could see, all of the flying fish, which might be out in the center of the ocean higher, and once in a while we might watch them, to see how a long way some of them could go, and a number of the ones fish, they might come out of the water, and they might go for 25 to 30 ft across the pinnacle of the water, and all the manner out.

We eventually approached the u.s.a.DAVID R. RAY, and that i may want to see this little grey deliver as we were given closer to it. Then I should see that it was zooming throughout the water, and we had been going to land on it, whilst it become nonetheless moving across the water and going up and down. I don't know how that pilot, changed into able to land a helicopter, on a deliver that changed into transferring across the ocean, and up and down, threw the waves, however he did, with no issues.

Vince Stead has thirteen books up on the market to date, and one called "military fun". He became within the navy for 8 years as a Yeoman, and he visited 16 international locations, and went round the sector in 1986. He changed into on a destroyer, a submarine smooth, a brief stint on an plane service, and four years shore obligation at a VAW squadron.

He has labored for himself for the closing twenty years, and lives in San Diego.

Now then what if we take all of the Nuclear Subs at Norfolk, VA that needed to be moved along side the whole fleet within the harbor to get out of the way of the hurricane Isabel and use them to defeat said Isabel. right here are some extra thoughts except towing an Ice Berg into the ocean and into the attention of the hurricane as mentioed a few posts down in this board. here is a notion.

We get the subs in parallel and down wherein the water is cool, they tow cool water with them and do a maximum climb to the floor bringing with them cool water therefore diffusion the hot floor water and slowing the hurricane. in the meantime the fleet zig zags in the front of the storm making the ocean very choppy and inflicting large swells, which will also sluggish the typhoon also it sturs up the chillier water beneath the floor and lowers the water temperature. If we gradual the hurricane it saves lives and destruction and if you are going to transport the fleet besides, why not do some right and exercise hurricane weather.

meanwhile if you want to cause a storm, heat up the water in the attention of a tropical hurricane and preserve heating the water in the path you ought to deliver the rain too. as an example a facet of the country with lakes and much less populations to fill up the lakes, including hitting the coast of China to replenish the brand new reservoir, but come onto land where there aren't human beings. the usa military and Laser research program gets the cash, China receives the water, we manipulate the weather and mankind gets the brand new technology. we are able to fee them big bucks for this carrier and therefore we will get a number of the cash float lower back from our outrageous exchange deficit.

Now if an enemy comes our manner, what a deterrent? in case you mess with US or allies, we mess along with your weather, all of a surprising no more challengers or wars?

Towing Icebergs Into typhoon Eye with an aircraft carrier can certainly be completed quite without difficulty. There were many break away ice bergs that scientists and coastal citizens have worried approximately as well as transport groups. GPS tracks those ice bergs, but we will be using them, with the aid of towing them behind aircraft companies during typhoon season and handing over sparkling water to the ones areas in need till which period the season had ended. There were so many thoughts on controlling climate and destroying Hurricanes and plenty of these are pretty interesting.

Collapsing the attention of a hurricane. Is there a way to disintegrate a typhoon? Is it viable to send out a laser beam. Or trap the air on the rims of the Hurricanes eye and cause them to disrupt their pattern and motive turbulence from within, slowing the viability of the storm’s force? should we detonate bombs in an opposite route of the Hurricanes travel in speedy collection, which would purpose the hurricane to deform and destroy aside? it has been calculated that a bomb within the center of a storm would not do a great deal due to the remarkable force of the typhoon. is that this authentic. And for the reason that we have in no way attempted it, how could we recognize this is accurate? by exceptional increasing the eye of a typhoon, it'd sluggish down the storm’s energy. The Researchers say that adding a thermo nuclear bomb to the storm ought to or may make it worse? however how do ? possibly we will try making a mini-hurricane in a Wind-tunnel after which throwing in an Hand Grenade? anyway it appears to me it might damage the hurricane version and the wind-tunnel too? perhaps i'm wrong:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/

we've formerly determined that this is probably a respectable concept if used at the proper scale:

[http://www.dynomat.com/storm.shtml]

Now then if we sit down round and do not anything we are silly. We must try each time the possibility comes forth. every experiment we do will lead to possible solution and remembering that necessity is the mom of Invention, i'd instead strive than permit mom Nature to deliver the daddy of all storms to assault a defenseless shoreline. definitely we will assault a hurricane with the same vengeance as we attack our enemies of the equal species. The power of a hurricane depends on many things. the warmth trade from the sea and it’s temperature. Temperature modifications within the herbal air waft. And one in every of the largest determinants of a hurricane is the initial intensity of the typhoon, before it grows into a big hurricane.

If we cannot kill a massive hurricane, could we gradual the initial typhoon or tropical depression by way of converting the differentials in temperatures among changes in air and ocean? So the problems are only warmth or loss of. So we are able to slow or wreck a typhoon by changing its additives wished for increase. changing or restricting its float or remove certainly one of it’s triangle sides. Ocean temp, Air Temp or initial storm energy. Cooler water in choppy seas deactivates a hurricane’s strength. So we create a Tsunami starting from the coastline and factor it to floor close to the middle touring trough the factor of the strongest wind.

If we tow an Ice Berg into the attention of a hurricane it'll change the water temperature of the sea waters floor by means of a whole lot greater than is needed to sluggish or crumble a typhoon. So we genuinely tow an Ice cube, Ice Berg into the Atlantic prior to the season and if we've a large typhoon technique tow the ice berg into the hurricane with something that can't be sunk, like the u.s.Ronald Reagan plane service that is designed to go through a storm. Piece of cake.

definitely i am accurate, it'd be alternatively easy to do. may additionally as nicely show to the sector we will manage hurricanes and rent out our navy to shop the Pacific Rim, talk approximately a PR pass to build alliances? And the cash could be charged to those governments and offset the cost of our army. Sounds crazy? well maximum things on this board do, but many of those ideas aren't impossible. technology Fiction sounds peculiar the first time you right here it. here is a few extra information in this concern;

[http://iri.columbia.edu/~suzana/papers/cs_tropwk.pdf]

i might please like more records on my loopy idea theory of towing an iceberg into a storm Eye to slow or destroy it. i have advanced drawings of proper placement. if you have loopy ideas, allow's here them, let's open our minds and get some out of the field thinking right here, because our subsequent hurricane season, that of 2005 is already predicting thirteen Hurricanes. if you have an concept or an answer to the warfare on Hurricanes, alert the media.

China has experienced unprecedented economic growth within the remaining two a long time. This boom has surely earned China the position of a chief economic energy in Asia. China ranks barely in the back of Japan in financial electricity and marginally at the back of the usa in purchasing power. In international rankings, China is the sixth largest vending nation inside the world, the twelfth largest exporter of industrial services, and the biggest beneficiary of overseas direct investments. China's ascendancy has been furthered with the aid of its entry into the world exchange agency in late 2001. although there is some argument that the real increase of China's economic status is not as high as the chinese language government offers, however there may be little question that China has formally entered the global stage as a first-rate economic player.

Many professionals are so inspired by means of the exponential increase of China's financial system in latest years that they have got mentioned the nation as "the worlds manufacturing middle". in reality, as China has grow to be a prime exporter of world goods, this description, although exaggerated, is largely descriptive of China's function inside the global economic system. however, this boom has been puzzled through some specialists and has concerned other Asian international locations. China's boom inside the Asian marketplace itself has improved regularly in the remaining two many years; a phenomenon in large part unequaled by using any other nation within the international.

With other nations within Asia, in addition to with nations out of doors of the geographic region, China's exports have a long way handed their imports. This growth has excited the funding sector and resulted in the influx of world capital into the nation's economic system. despite the fact that China's exports are nevertheless a fantastically small part of the Southeast Asian totals, maximum professionals insist that China could be the areas biggest exporter of products in the decade. experts have also referred to a regular alternate surplus with western international locations together with america and the eu Union which can be in all likelihood to sustain and encourage China's economic increase.

a part of this monetary increase has been fueled by way of China's attraction as a tourist destination. The beyond  many years has seen a rise inside the inflow of travelers in addition to the boom in each inbound and outbound enterprise travel. just like the rise in China's financial boom, its tourism marketplace has additionally skilled full-size will increase. currently, China has the world's fastest growing tourism marketplace with over  million site visitors each 12 months in recent years. and as the country continues to develop in a business experience, increasingly people can be traveling into and out of the state. there has been some situation that China's increase as an exporter of purchaser goods can also render other exporters really impotent within the worldwide consumer goods market.

but, some experts argue that this will no longer occur because the growing globalization of the sector consumer items marketplace is possibly to render other countries similarly aggressive within the manufacturing and exportation of such items as communique technology and electronics and that the manufacturing chain that exists all through nations, particularly inside the case of Southeast Asia, will simplest be enhanced via the increase of such international locations as China and their ascendancy as a international monetary player. but, experts additionally are expecting that, especially in the regions of apparel and textiles, China's growth may additionally result in improved competition inside the Southeast Asian market which can render competing markets not able to keep up. despite the fact that this will genuinely keep market costs low, it'll also provide China a distinct benefit over its Southeast Asian neighbors and feature an undesired impact at the wages and earnings margins of industries in those different nations.

there's additionally a few situation over the quantity of price range which might be flowing into China in preference to the investments which might be coming into other Southeast Asian international locations. China has a decidedly large proportion of foreign investment funds than its acquaintances. specifically in Southeast Asia, the opposition for foreign buyers is intense with nearly half of these price range now going to China and the rest of the nations of the region figuring out an almost 50% reduction in foreign funding budget. Many experts note that the general public of China's increase has been a result of the outlet of China's markets to foreign investors. although doing commercial enterprise in China remains tough in a few feel, the hole of the financial system has been a boon not simplest to traders, but, manifestly to China as well. earlier than China's monetary upward push, Japan changed into the most effective country in Southeast Asia to be diagnosed as a prime global financial participant and they were additionally the recipient of the majority of overseas investment price range.

but, as can be imagined, Japan has suffered financially due to China's boom in that as foreign buyers understand China's monetary capacity, the bulk of foreign investments funds have shifted away from Japan and into China. moreover, Japan has had to determine whether or not to invest a number of their very own finances into China's financial market and increase. despite the fact that they have been reluctant to invest in China's increase inside the beyond, there may additionally now be a growing fashion in the direction of eastern investments in China with the deliberate relocation of numerous eastern groups. some experts predict that China's growth will benefit its friends as China starts to put money into different Southeast Asian international locations. In truth, China herself has asserted that her monetary growth have to now not make the encircling nations fearful however should instead be a welcomed part of the entire location's increase as China guarantees to share the wealth.

even though a few individuals see China's explosive growth as a current event, it has in reality been a long term coming. on account that China opened its economic and physical borders to buyers inside the early 1990's, the state has been the beneficiary of lots of the arena's investors who had been trying to find new markets in which to invest. but, a few specialists expect that the overall political instability of the area may well be the downfall of China's financial boom as those professionals wonder how long such growth may be sustained especially to the downside of the rest of the vicinity. those same experts are expecting that the handiest manner for different Southeast Asian nations to compete can be to broaden in addition effective alternate regulations as has China. but, those nations, bogged down through internal political issues and negative leadership may not be able to maintain up. China's upward thrust in latest many years from a negative united states of america with a stagnant economy has been cited as a massive success story.

China has been one of the few countries to recognise consistent financial boom even at some point of periods of monetary melancholy. some analysts insist that this boom has put China at the back of only america as a total global power and a few even assert that the following couple of years may also indeed see China overtake the usa as a primary global energy in every respect, no longer just economically. genuinely, China's upward push as a world player in economics as well as politics has opened communications among China and the U.S. in addition to with the rest of the sector. China is now the usa' second biggest buying and selling supply and lots of U.S. traders have flooded China with U.S. funding finances. but, as a few analysts predict that China will overtake the U.S. as the world's largest financial system within the subsequent decade, different analysts argue that, even if China keeps to recognise sustained financial growth, it does no longer have the political shape to overtake the U.S. as a world superpower.

Almost all of these recent H7N9 infections are attributed to contact with infected poultry; human to human transmission is apparently very rare. There is very little public information about the distribution of low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) H7N9 among domestic poultry in China. However, we can deduce from the extensive geographic distribution of human H7N9 in China this past season, that H7N9 is wide spread and perhaps endemic in poultry flocks in China.