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is back for his senior year, hello FDU oh how i missed thee, my home of the past three years

is back for his senior year, hello FDU oh how i missed thee, my home of the past three years

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1 month, 2 weeks, 4 days ago, Iran went to the polls. The next morning the official results were announced. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the apparent winner. Yet today we are still talking about the Iranian election. As many know the Iran elections resulted in massive protest measured in at least the tens of thousand if not a magnitude or two larger, that were covered with great fanfare. Two weeks later Micheal Jackson died and the coverage of heroic fighters for democracy disappeared. Now Micheal Jackson death merited an extraordinary amount of coverage because his death was sudden and we has extraordinary man. Yet today when I find out thousands still chant our Marg bar dictator and Yaa Hossein, Mir Hossein in Tehran Our discussion in America is focused on what beer the president is going to have with two guests.

It was been nearly 50 days and yet the opposition forces still yield significant power, still Mir-Hossein Mousavi is able to travel and reach supporters. Today was the 40th Day of Mourning for the Death for Neda. Watch embedded video to figure out who she is.

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Part Two

See previous post for the random musing I wrote that I penned on Delta Connection Flight recently.

...Engines Roar and we roll down the runway, accelerating till the landmarks of our urban jungle become a blur of of the blacks and grey of asphalt and cement. Suddenly the jungle recedes from view as flight is archived.

The roar of the engine is quickly forgot as they seem to become a dull vibration in the distance, the business people that surround me feel these vibrations and they turn their heads to the windows as the vibrations rock them to sleep, like babies in a cradle.

Ashame that their eyes would be locked shut and not see the spectacular, majestic beauty of flight.

We ascend into realms for those with wings, be birds or angles. The angelic quality of clouds was supremely evident.

The majestic white billowing beauty that that cross the sky with the subtle force of a supreme power motions. Holes where seemingly god chose to view the beauty of the places of his world that was still green and blue in his creation not with the interstate signs.

Next time when you fly do not close your eyes so quickly tilt your head to the Plexiglas of the window and take a moment to admire the beauty of the natural earth since too many times we lavish praise on our own creations be the sweeping curves of the Burj Al Arab or the imposing nature of the Eiffel Tower.

Look next time for the sweep curves of the river slicing through the valley or the imposing nature of Nature be in the Victoria Falls or Mount Everest.

These posting started by asking where home is?
Home is where ever one is at peace, be a place of birth or school.
Home is where a hug or smile is given without asking
Home is when a parent is waiting for you at the airport with open arms

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DL 6202/ Home

An Urban Jungle of black pavement, brownstone buildings, and the ever present muttered buzz of progress. The screeching of brakes is the horns and the rhythm of cars roaring pass is the drums providing the orchestra of North New Jersey.
Today I would escape this jungle for Home. What is home? Is it a place, a building, a feeling. Home is something you know when it hits you & you know when it is around. Sometimes you find it somedays you do not I shall tell a story of when I found home.
It started with what unseemingly would be a routine quick flight back to my place of birth Ohio. Was Ohio or was now my family the one that fed and sustained me at school in Teaneck, NJ.
DL 6022 would be the modern mechanical beast that would take flight in getting me to Ohio, or so I thought...
For as I navigated my way through the urban jungle using bus routes as paths where former travelers had just down beaten paths of earth. I was aided in my journey with great green interstate signs where giant green trees use to stand.
Liberty Airport (Newark) was found to find that my beast was overburdened and some passengers would have to be left behind...DL 6022 would allow me to feel home.

Small Sleek Short was my metal bird. A common bird though in comparison to the stately hawks and eagles of Airbus and Boeing manufacture that stood beside.
No worreis though while small this bird was proud as the few rays of sun glinted off the metal that was apperciative of a recent polish.
The bird strained with anxiousness as the door was closed and we push and taxi our way in position for take-off.
People hushed as they little the rush of adrenaline to flow flew their views prior to see the rush of the plane going down the runway with the accompany roar of the engines.
The roar would not come as we sat and sat. The sound we did hear was that of the seat belt sign being turned off and the intercom bristling with a unseen voice informing us that the air had been closed in the direction we wanted to go and before you could fly we need to find a new way.
Businessmen, some in power suits surged to blackberries and laptops as the vocie said use of electronic devices would now be permitted, they all rushed to replug into the computerized cloud, as we sat in the epicenter of the urban jungle.
To the right the constant whir of the NJ Turnpike, the left the roar of the planes whose airspace was not closed touched down for landing and took flight, and behind us the great rhythmic mechanical dance of cranes unloading gigantic container ships in the Port of Elizabeth. All the while we sat motionless and engine less. While magicians locked in some distant tower would try to find some space and open a hole in the sky for us to fly through.
Frustrations of the business people mount as they can only go over Excel spreadsheets , Presentation Notes, and check email for so long. finally after a couple of false starts everyone is thrown into there seat as the roar of engines restarting is heard quickly follow by the ding of the seat belt sign and we are off, whizzing down the runway.

MORE TO COME

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 Just a couple of quick hits based on this I have read today.

DOPING
<a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=Amp3pR.dGIgcgmSg4sGkoMA5nYcB?slug=ap-nascar-mayfieldsuspension&prov=ap&type=lgns"></a>

Basically NASCAR wants to ban a driver Jermey Mayfield for testing positive for Meth. Now I am a big supporter of testing and banning people that get caught cheating. As an athlete myself I do not want those who dope to have an unfair advantage. Now driving cars some people might contend is not a sport but regardless NASCAR should test and make sure people are not drunk or high when driving since that could be disaster. Yet I find myself very much on the side of Mr. Mayfield, how is he suppose to pass a drug test when he does not know whats banned. Come on NASCAR keep testing but let people know what is banned and follow federal guidelines about testing.

Secondly Russia new gas/oil venture in Nigeria is called Nigaz, not a Public Relations pro but Russia you might want to change that name

June 2009 was a month that many in my field of International Relations looked to with greater intrigue as two of the most independent states. Independent in the sense of free from the control of the US alliance system in that the countries of Lebanon and Iran do not have the same entrenched uniformity of etrenched intretets in being US allies that some of the fellow middle east states do such as Oman or Egypt due. While in Lebanon the unexpected to some happen and the US backed March 14th coalition won the election narrowly over Hezbollah, though with Hezbollah in a strong oppostion postion which is probably best for all signs should be intersting if one a coalition goverment can be formed and two if it can do any good. Could this be the begining of Hezbollah being co-oped firmly into the political party and becoming one of the first really good examples of another group post Belfast Agreements giving up their arms and the military element of their struggle like the IRA did.

The more interesting news by far is that in Iran where this week the country held presidential elections. In Iran the president is not the chief wielder of power, instead power rests in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The lead up to the election though had fierce campaigning between Mir-Hossein Mousavi and the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The NY Times Lede blog http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/landslide-or-fraud-the-debate-online-over-irans-election-results/ has a good overview of the current controversy of if Mr Ahmadinejad won by the totals being reported by the Iranian Interior Ministry.

Personally I cannot make absolute sure without having hard intell, I find it very puzzling some of the results especially Mousavi doing so poorly in the Turkic sections of Iran since Mousavi is an ethnic cousin and Ahmadinejad is well hated. While I do think Western media do to there hate of Ahmadinejad played up the chance of Mousavi winning I think with the turnout numbers and the polling that Mousavi campaign did that would would expect a much closer result. This would lead one to conclude that Supreme Leader Khamenei authorized a massive fraud. If so there are a couple thing I find interesting that the next couple of days could be interesting to see how they pan out. Will the international observers declare the elections to be free and fair especially the observers from the Turkish Goverment since the Mousavi is closer ethnically to the Turks. Secondly with currently protesters in the streets protesting are we seeing the type of protests that started in Iran during the early 70's during the rule of the Shah. Where he had to constantly disenfranshise the people in order to keep a grasp on power did this government just make there fatal mistake and give the opposition reformist group the credibility they need to become truly viable and challenge the current power structure.

In other news Gordon Brown is seeming facing a new crisis over his leadership ever month and each time barley holding onto the job of PM.

Scientist around the world have yet to confirm solidly the claims of the second North Korean nuclear test. While most likely such a test did occur, the reaction of the world shows that if a rouge country wants to play brinkmanship claiming to have a successful test when not actually having one might not be a bad idea.

Ah as any reader of this blog knows my updates are much to rare and each time I say I am going to try to post more often. This time I am not going to make that promise but I do need to do more as the writing practice is something I need.

Well I finally have sign on and started to type a post and fully intend on hitting the post button when I am done. While one of the people in my life that has a lot of influence on what I do gave enough peer preassure to post, they did not give me something to post about.

Now I could post my thought on a dozen interesting things in the news and my own ideas and thoughts on many things. However at least to see my thoughts on the things in the news one can look at my Google Reader shared page, or my facebook page. Though I will say the fact that eight police officers in Scotland have listed Jedi as there religion is kind of cool. I mean the force using the force

So what to write about I could write about my idea of FDU's innovation challenge but I just do not I feel like I can articulate it well enough.

So what to write about???

I think I will just right a few random muses and thoughts I had over the past week.

Anyhow my life in college has been defined by some certain things that I have placed at certain priority levels, as I get closer and closer to graduation not sure if things that traditionally had been in certain places of priority deserve to be there. I think it may be because now I have began to think about a legacy not a legacy in something to make my ego larger. A legacy in the sense of something that I can be proud of, a legacy that even in ten years when I am gone that while people may or may not know who I am the same ideals will be still respected.

In the past week and some changes that have happen since my return from Wroxton I feel like some things that previously were things that brought me joy no longer do. If this is the case why should I continue to invest so much of myself into activities that are not bringing me the joy weather it be social, physical or mental when I have found new joys that replace them and many times at a higher plane than previously.

I guess I have some tough choices in terms changing some priorities the sad thing is somethings where I have given all 3 years to sometimes with little acknowlegment for I feel like quitting and it is not for the lack of acknowlegment it is for the lack of respect. oh wells good things to think about when enjoying the warm weather in the hammock...

This all gets to get coupled with the tough decisions that come with near graduation and that is of careers as in the next couple days I have to make a choice in career track that could define the rest of my life. I will get to maybe do my passion but will it be my true passion of trying to bring a a sense of justice to this world. We shall see.

As I have to do and more and more full adult things I am going to miss the times of being a college student as they really can be the best times of your lives. That is without even all the Animal House images one gets.

That is all for now folks, hopefully the next one is soon and maybe less cryptic.

As a student in New Jersey without a car many times in order to go from place to place I utilize NJ Transit. Now I am very glad that there is a viable public transit option to get from place to place unlike my hometown of Cincinnati. While over the past few years of being college I rarely had reason to complain about NJ Transit expect for some business decisions but as I do not actually see the financial details I cannot really complain loudly about that. However the other day I had an experience the revealed several flaws in NJ Transit that I think if they remain unfixed will prevent the United States from every having areas with highly functional statewide transit system.

Long Trips, Lack of Facilities
Yesterday when traveling from Madison, NJ and using Covent Station the station was closed which it is after dark on a weekend which is understandable however while some areas did have a sort of covering to protect passengers from inclement weather conditions. However only one direction actually had an interior that protected passengers from all weather conditions. I feel that that was on the wrong side but that is another story. What is the issue with this? Well one there should be an option for people on both sides to be protected from foul weather and secondly by closing the inside on side of the tracks they closed access to bathrooms. Also there are no bathrooms on NJ Transit trains. This is a an issue if you want people to ride those rails for significant journeys you at least need to provide bathrooms for people to use.

Give Students a Break
For mass transit to be successful you need people that use it. To get people to use it better to get them young when they have lack of other options for transit. College Students should be a Prime Target. They need to get home, classes, work and other social events. College Students should be able to save without having to buy an expensive monthly pass. NJ Transit is making a mistake by canceling Free Transit Week. This was at least an event where college students could see the connivance of mass transit and would consider using it during other times of the year. Understandably, tough economic times means you have to try to minimize costs, however this is a mistake because instead of minimizing cost you are minimizing potential profit

A Little Help
So if your train is late and causes you to miss your connecting train or bus then you should be able to get a refund on your ticket.
d causes you to miss your connecting train or bus then you should be able to get a refund on your ticket.