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Show COMMENTARY 2 TIMES July 16, 2009 >• ffites Woeklv Since 1948 Hilltop Times Editorial Staff: Lee Carter... Standard-Examiner publisher Mary Lou Gomy. Hilltop Times Editor Lee Anne Hensley Hilltop Times Writer Catherine Cornett Hilltop Times Correspondent Deadlines: Editorial and news items are due by noon on the Friday prior to the Thursday print date. To submit news items -e-mail hilrtoptimesOstandard.net or call 625-4273. For Classified Advertising, call 625-4300. For Retail Advertising, call 6254388. Hilltop Times is published by Ogden Publishing Corporation, a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under, and in compliance with, a Memorandum of Understanding with Hill Air Force Base. The content of the Hilltop Times does not necessarily represent the views of, nor is it endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force or Hill Air Force Base (collectively, the Government). 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A few simple changes in your daily routine can make an enormous difference and give you a new lease on life. Learn how easy it can be at the Lunch and Learn session on Tuesday, July 21, 11 a.m.-noon, at the Health and Wellness Center, Building 533. Call 777-1215 to sign up. THINK SAFETY Hill's Total 2009 DUIs: 22 Hill's Last DUI: fultf 11 Unit Involved: Security Airmen Against Drinking and Driving provide rides when designated drivers are unavailable. Call 777-1111 anytime to request a ride. A fortune cookie delivers some apt advice BY LT. COL. TONNEY T. KAW-UH 75th Contracting Squadron commander T here are two things I like about Chinese Buffet. First, it appeals to my "see"food diet with all of the variety I get to choose from. The second thing I like is cracking open the after-meal fortune cookie and comparing my reading with company. When I reward myself with a buffet meal after passing the PT test, and after successfully navigating the food aisles for which I will keep the number of visits to Lt. Col. Kaw-uh myself, I eagerly pop open the plastic bag that keeps me from my fortune. One fortune read, "Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe." We've all experienced the rush of fear in our lives. It's the feeling I get the moment the roller coaster pauses at the top of the drop before it plunges to certain death or when I have an opportunity to excel for some third-party interested action item. I don't know which is worse. I associate this common rush as "fight or flight." The body is preparing itself to either fight off the danger or to run to get away — "Run Forrest, run." This particular fortune, however, isn't referring to fear as a reaction to an actual danger. Instead, it tells us that the anticipation of future danger or something negative that could happen causes us to worry about the things we don't necessarily need to worry about — anxiety. I experience anxiety from time to time. It can be mild or intense or somewhere in between. Sometimes a little anxiety helps us her artwork not being good enough. After breaking this project into smaller steps, her action changed the entire situation as the accompanying photo demonstrates. The more we worry, the more we get anxiety, the less likely we will take positive action is a negative result of too much anxiety. Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago professor of law specializing in risk regulation, called this "probability neglect" in a recent Time article. Using that as an example, I want to encourage those reading this article to change your outcome by taking action. First, if Courtesy photo you're worried about something in Karese Kaw-uh, daughter of Lt. Col. Tonney Kawparticular, start by making a plan uh, 75th Contracting Squadron commander, is, congratulated by Jan Whimpey, Syracuse Arts Academy and break that seemingly daunting situation into smaller pieces Principal, for her winning artwork for the cover of the because productivity can create school yearbook — an example of not letting anxiety an atmosphere of positive change. get in the way of what you can accomplish. ' ; Second, I believe that laughter plays an important role in our lives Watching stay alert and pushes us to do our best. For a good comedic movie, making the best of a example, anxiety about the possibility of doing poorly on requirements can motivate me tough situation or hanging out with silly famto get the contracts awarded right the first ily and friends deflect our minds from worry. time. But, anxiety can affect us negatively as Third, seek professional help. Having a trained well, like when we worry about whether we as counselor to confide in may lessen the impact parents found the right school for our children of anxiety. Lastly, take a mental break and get even before the school year starts (ask me involved in physical activity. Maybe take up a more about my kids' awesome school). This new sport. I particularly enjoy team sports in past month we all have experienced some which you get a combination of physical activform of anxiety. There was Air Force Week, ity and hanging out with silly friends that you the Air Show and the American Recovery and may find someone to confide in. And, dependReinvestment Projects. Closer to my home, ing on the outcome of the game, you may be a family member procrastinated a bit when involved in a comedic "movie" yourself. deciding to enter a schoolwide yearbook art Bottom line; take care of yourself through contest. 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Sadly Kennedy did not live to see his dream come true when on July 16,1969, the Apollo 11 journey began with NASA's simply stated mission to t(Perform a manned lunar landing and return." The Apollo 11 mission was an extraordinary event in American and human history, and in many cases is interesting to view from a numerical standpoint. On that morning in July, history was about to be made when three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, were launched into the sky on top of a 363 foot tall Saturn V rocket. This rocket was made of 6 million parts, roaring at speeds well over 6,000 mph in Earth's atmosphere. Twelve minutes after takeoff the astronauts had reached Earth's orbit and were moving along at 17,400 mph. After 2 hours and 33 minutes in orbit the last stage of the rocket pushed the spacecraft onto its trajectory toward the moon with what is known as the Trans Lunar Injection burn. This burn is an intricate maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will cause it to intersect with the moon. So off these three men went into space now hoping to be the first men on the moon. After three days of traveling more than 220,000 miles, on July 19, the Apollo 11 spacecraft reached the moon's orbit 69 miles above its surface. The spacecraft itself was made of three modules which were crucial for this mission: the Command Module named Columbia, the Service Module, and the Lunar Module named Eagle. The CM was the crew compartment and main control center. It was also where Collins would stay while Armstrong and Aldrin would land on the lunar surface. The SM's primary purpose was propulsion and maneuvering. The LM would detach and take the two astronauts to the moon and then launch them back into orbit in order to dock with the CM. After a day of orbiting the moon, Armstrong and Aldrin undocked the NASA Eagle and then headed towards the Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon, as taken by moon's surface. Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission. The Eagle safely landed in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility. This spot was chosen because pictures liftoff, at least they would have collected taken from earlier unmanned spacecraft some of the moon for research. No emershowed a relatively flat surface ideal for gency liftoff was ever necessary and for a landing the Eagle. Immediately after short 2 172 hours the astronauts performed landing, Armstrong and Aldrin prepared a series of experiments, took photographs, the LM for liftoff just as a contingency planted the American flag, and collected 47 measure if something went wrong. After pounds of lunar surface material. Settled this point, it was scheduled by NASA to back in the LM, Armstrong and Aldrin have Armstrong and Aldrin rest for a few lifted off and docked with Collins in the * hours, but these astronauts were not going CM orbiting the moon and made their way to have that, they wanted to get out on the back to Earth. moon. They requested that NASA cancel On July 24, the astronauts entered the their rest time so that they could leave the Earth's atmosphere going 24,677 mph and module immediately. Their request was safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean granted. after being on their journey for eight days. On July 20,1969, at 9:56 p.m. (EST), Neil Many consider this mission the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century. AlArmstrong became the first man to walk though the numbers of this mission give it on the moon. Six hundred million people an interesting aspect, a poignant message around the globe watched and listened as was left behind that symbolized the imporhe uttered the timeless phrase, "That's tance of this trip to the lunar landscape. As one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." After Armstrong stepped on the Armstrong and Aldrin lifted off the moon, a plaque was left by them that read: surface, Aldrin came shortly after. They "Here Men from the Planet Earth first quickly took a sample of lunar surface set foot upon the moon, July 1969 A.D. We material and stowed it immediately so if they had to perform a quick emergency came in peace from the planet Earth." |