Come Normal

A L O H A !

" Only some people 

get what they want.

Those are the people

who show up

to get it. "

Dianne Houston

" Genius

is the recovery of childhood

at will. "

Arthur Rimbaud

" I'm always looking for sounds

that are pleasing at the time.

The sound of a helicopter

is really annoying

until you're drowning

and it's there to rescue you.

Then it sounds like

music. "

Tom Waits

“ This is the final test of a gentleman:

his respect for those 

who can be of no possible service

to him ”

 William Lyon Phelps

" Beauty is everywhere 

a welcome guest.  "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They Were Professional, Friendly & Polite.
Made us proud

 " What is there more kindly 

than the feeling between host 

and guest?  "

Aeschylus

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Truthfully, 

Waikiki is always hosting

visitors

from all over the world.

But having world-leader

security 

has been stressful.

(see recent posts

if you don't know what I'm talking about) 

When to leave-

How to go-

How to get home-

How to complete mundane tasks-

The road closures

& motorcades-

It will be SO nice

to be "just us & visitors"

again!

Thanks for looking in.

YOUr comment is valued.

                                                            Warmly, cloudia

Aloha From the Security Zone

Your ID Papers Please-

This is What Normal

Looks Like

This is What President Obama

& Other Heads of State

Staying/Meeting Nearby Looks Like

Neighborhood Streets

We Walk Every Day 

Now Have Barriers &

Check Points.

Look at this 

Cool Portable Observation Tower

Overlooking Our Boats!

Just A Day at the Beach

for Baby & US Coast Guard.
The President played at this beach
as a child too.

" A well-ordered life

is like climbing a tower;

the view halfway up

is better than the view from the base,

and it steadily becomes finer

as the horizon expands. "

William Lyon Phelps

But Visitors Don't Stay Forever

Next Week Will Be Lazy & Quiet Again . . .

     =^.^=

Thanks for Stopping by!  

    YOUr Comments are always welcome

Below is a Security Slide Show YOU can watch.   

                                                              Warmly, cloudia

Rainbow Saturday

A L O H A !

 

Hope YOU are not bored yet with Rainbows

" The first study

of the one who wishes to be a poet

is complete knowledge of himself. "

Rimbaud

Perhaps something grittier?

That's what I love about Honolulu:

it is a real city

set on a lovely island!

" The city is not a concrete jungle,

it is a human zoo.  "

Desmond Morris

 

Your daily necessities most likely reached you in a truck/lorry;

  Here on the Hawaiian Isles, ours travel by sea.

"The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance."
Annie Van De Wiele

" If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board ."

Lin and Larry Pardey

"Ships are the nearest thing

to dreams 

that hands have ever made."

Robert N. Rose

Here's my new slideshow!
                                                Thanks for visiting- Warmly, cloudia

World Meets Hawaii

A L O H A Warms World Press
Notice how many say that Hawaii reminds them of home!

Hu Jintao in Waikiki 歡迎胡錦濤

Nihau      歡迎胡錦濤       ALOHA!

Mornings in Waikiki 

are usually peaceful.

But my walk to the post office

yesterday morning

was very different.

Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State,

was speaking at my alma mater

University of Hawaii;
Treasury Secretary Geithner
was holding a meeting nearby.
But this was 
BIGGER!

The BIG show

was heading right for Waikiki.

Vacationers/holiday makers

looked on with interest.

Honolulu Police Officers

in their APEC Aloha finery 

were there:
President of the People's Republic of China
HU JINTAO
was on his way!

Local Chinese-Americans 

were present for the big day

The pride of this young couple

was evident!

Motorcades are always a quick let-down.

  The cheers of the crowd were exciting.

Now:

How To Get To the Post Office!

 True!

Below

is a slide-show

of events.

Thanks for visiting.

YOU
are a dignitary

here!

Comment for the record?

                                      Warmly, cloudia

AURA

A L O H A !

" The aura given out

by a person or object

is as much a part of them 

as their flesh.  "

  Lucian Freud  

" You have to defeat a great player's

aura

more than his game.  "

Pat Riley

“ Words were never invented

to fully explain the peaceful aura

that surrounds us

when we are in communion

with minds of the same thoughts. ”

 

 

Eddie Myers

" Sexy is kind of like

an aura

around someone. "

Shane West

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 Thank YOU

for visiting.

YOUr aura

is invited

to glow in comments-

                                                Warmly, cloudia

 

ASTEROID! Did You Duck?

ALOHA !

Rest in Peace 

Philly Joe Frazier,

Neighborhood Hero, Role Model,

Nurturer of Children & Youth

 

" People who cannot find time

for recreation

are obliged sooner or later

to find time

for illness. "

John Wanamaker

" A puppy's eyes

are the windows to

your soul. "

My Blog-Invisible Husband

" This is one of those views 

which are so absolutely absurd
 that only very learned men 

could possibly adopt them. "

Bertrand Russell

" The best and most beautiful

things in this world

cannot be seen
 or even heard,

but must be felt

with the heart. "

       Helen Keller

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That breeze you felt 

was Asteroid 2005 YU55 rushing past us

last night

at 6:28 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 8.

That's 1:28 in my Tuesday afternoon,

Hawaiian Standard Time.

The 1,300-foot wide space object, 

(Bigger than a massive aircraft carrier)

traveling at about 29,000 mph  (8 miles a second!)

"just missed" our Earth

in the closest such interplanetary encounter

  in more than three decades.

It just happens to be (reportedly)

the largest object on record

to pass this close to us

with our foreknowledge.

  Italics mine and a little scared!

 

This visitor traveled light years to reach us, 

coming as near as 201,700 miles to our Earth.

  She was even closer

than the moon at one point! 

The moon felt a bit insecure for a moment.

So what keeps this thing moving, inertia?

Nope, it's YORP: 


" The … reflection and ... re-emission of sunlight from an asteroid's surface acting as a propulsion engine, " 

according to Finnish researcher

Mikko Kaasalainen of the University of Helsinki. 

The 'Yarkovsky-O'Keefe- Radzievskii-Paddack effect'

works like this:

 1) The asteroid turns
2) sunlight slightly warms each side,
3) which causes it to spin away 
and lose this heat to the chill of space.



Believe it or not,
that tiny spin really accumulates
over the course of trillions of miles or so!



“It’s a small effect on human time scales.
It’s an enormous effect on geological time scales.”
Jean-Luc Margot, a professor of astronomy at Cornell
told the New York Times.



The "feel good" part of the story: 
This thing has flown by the Earth

many times before,

but this is the first time we even noticed it!

Wait;

Does that make me feel  more or less
apprehensive?




So, as the children say:
"Nyah Nyah Nyah,
(with tongue out)
You MISSED ME!"




Glad YOU didn't miss today's vist,
Warmly, cloudia