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J.R. Martinez on Anderson: My Scars Are My Uniform
J.R. Martinez’s victory tour brought him to Anderson this week.
There, he talked about his experience in Iraq as well as winning Dancing With the Stars, and being included in People magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive issue.
“After 33 surgeries, I better be!” Martinez joked, referring to the burn treatments and skin graft operations he’s endured since being badly hurt in Iraq.
Since 2003, his life story has been one of triumph over adversity.
Martinez began counseling other wounded veterans, then working as a motivational speaker all across the country before landing a role on All My Children.
Now, he’s one of 2011′s big breakout stars, winning DWTS, being honored by the Defense Department, Grand Marshaling the Rose Parade and so forth.
Martinez said he embraces the opportunities he has, with his newfound fame, to be an advocate for veterans, and says he will always serve our country.
“You can take away my camouflage, you can take away my M16, which is my weapon, but I look at it now… my new weapons are my words and my new uniform is my scars,” he explained. “I’m going to continue to serve in a bigger way.”
“I feel this is going to be needed with the talks of pulling our guys out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bringing them home … it’s important for me to be that voice.”
After driving over a landmine, he spent the next “two and a half years in and out of the hospital” undergoing the never-ending procedures to restore his person, adding details about the journey of self-discovery he embarked on in his recovery.
“It was a tough road at 19 years old, to look at your body and your face, and say, ‘What am I going to do about this now? How am I going to move forward?’” he said.
“Thinking you’re completely alone and no one in the world understands or can relate to you, but luckily, I was able to see a side that I can use my second chance at life as an opportunity to help people with their first chance at life.”
It’s not often you look at a celebrity and see a true hero among us, but J.R. may be that person. We wish him the best in all of his continuing endeavors.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/jr-martinez-on-anderson-my-scars-are-my-uniform/
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NASA rover launched to seek out life clues on Mars (Reuters)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) ? An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Saturday, launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for clues on what could sustain life on the Red Planet.
The 20-story-tall booster built by United Launch Alliance lifted off from its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:02 a.m. EST (3:02 p.m. GMT).
It soared through partly cloudy skies into space, carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory on a 354-million mile (556 million km), nearly nine-month journey to the planet.
“I think this mission is an important next step in NASA’s overall goal to address the issue of life in the universe,” lead scientist John Grotzinger, with the California Institute of Technology, told reporters shortly after the launch.
The car-sized rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is expected to touch down on August 6, 2012, to begin two years of detailed analysis of a 96-mile (154-km) wide impact basin near the Martian equator called Gale Crater.
The goal is to determine if Mars has or ever had environments to support life. It is the first astrobiology mission to Mars since the 1970s-era Viking probes.
Scientists chose the landing site because it has a three-mile-high (4.8-km high) mountain of what appears from orbital imagery and mineral analysis to be layers of rock piled up like the Grand Canyon, each layer testifying to a different period in Mars’ history.
The rover has 17 cameras and 10 science instruments, including chemistry labs, to identify elements in soil and rock samples to be dug up by the probe’s drill-tipped robotic arm.
‘LONG SHOT’
The base of the crater’s mountain has clays, evidence of a prolonged wet environment, and what appears to be minerals such as sulfates that likely were deposited as water evaporated.
Water is considered to be a key element for life, but not the only one.
Previous Mars probes, including the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, searched for signs of past surface water.
“We are not a life-detection mission,” Grotzinger said. “We have no ability to detect life present on the surface of Mars. It’s an intermediate mission between the search for water and future missions, which may undertake life detection.”
With Curiosity, which is twice as long and three times heavier than its predecessors, NASA shifts its focus to look for other ingredients for life, including possibly organic carbon, the building block for life on Earth.
“It’s a long shot, but we’re going to try,” Grotzinger said.
Launch is generally considered the riskiest part of a mission, but Curiosity’s landing on Mars will not be without drama.
The 1,980-pound (898 kg) rover is too big for the airbag or thruster-rocket landings used on previous Mars probes, so engineers designed a rocket-powered “sky-crane” to gently lower Curiosity to the crater floor via a 43-foot (13-meter) cable.
“We call it the ‘six-minutes of terror,’” said Doug McCuistion, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, referring to the landing. “It is pretty scary, but my confidence level is really high.”
Curiosity is powered by heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium. It is designed to last one Martian year, or 687 Earth days.
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Free Christian Online Dating Opens the Door for Positive Relationships
Back in the day, you were very limited in how many people you could meet and date. The actual number pales in comparison to exactly how many people we can connect with every day with the advent of the Internet. It is amazing just how small the relationship world has become. Many people feel that this is a bad thing. They believe that it is not natural. Why would anyone want to meet someone on a machine as opposed to the real life meeting by chance? You would have to admit that some of these folks make a great case when you consider how much fraud and actual danger that can be involved in meeting someone over the net. It eliminates the human intuitive warnings we can sometimes have in the physical world.
The Lunge Forward
Others will tell you that the risk is manageable and well worth it. Let?s face it, the world is lunging forward in technology, and if we do not lunge with it, we will be left behind. So how do we avoid the potential danger and find a way to meet real people that are compatible with who we are? Enter the age of the online dating service. These profitable companies are making the connections possible and there is some good evidence that they work fairly well. A crazy person would have to jump through a great many hoops to get to the point of an actual meeting and more often then not, their lies give them away long before it gets that far.
Being Christ-like is Good
Free Christian online dating services are one way to meet quality Christians. The Christian dating scene has always been very different from a regular dating environment. For one thing, a fundamental belief in Jesus as Lord and Savior is a very strong thing to have in common with someone. This is especially true if you are striving to be Christ-like in all of your affairs. I personally thank God everyday for putting a good Christian woman in my life. I met her before there were services (or the Internet, for that matter) but had I not, I would have. We were destined from the start.
Faith IS Happiness
As a Christian, I am particularly fond of witty and wise quotes about love, faith, and hope. I post the positive affirmations all over the house. I also love those pictures with frames that you can purchase that have the cute sayings with a very apt picture. This is something that I have found I have in common with many of my Christian friends. I believe it has to do with the positive outlook that we share about life. Let?s face it; it is much easier to be happy when you know that God loves you. When you have all the faith in the world that you will live forever in praise and worship, it frees your soul to enjoy life and accomplish things that others cannot. That is probably why are so popular among Christians; they simply apply!
The Christian Caf? for Singles
The Christian Caf? is the premier Christian dating site and has been since its conception in 1999. If you enjoy meeting Christian men and women of all ages than Christian Caf? singles are waiting for you right now. I know that this sounds like a commercial but believe me; it is not. I can remember how hard it used to be to approach someone and try to get to know him or her. Often times, to mention that you are a Christian would mean an end to the newfound relationship. As Christians, we know this and we accept it because we do not hide who we are. That is why it is so comforting to know that you already have something in common with like yourself. Having something in common is the basis of all great friendships, especially when that something is Jesus Christ.
Source: http://www.fstreet.net/?p=1101
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