http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/powell-obama.html
Colin L. Powell, the former mud soldier, hurled his political grenade in defense of Barack Obama, but the collateral damage hit the Bush White House.
To be sure, he was opting for Obama, but the undercurrent of his message was a strong rejection of the direction the Republican Party -- and the nation -- have taken under President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. We won't even get into his quiet dis of Sarah Palin.
And 24 hours after President Bush's former secretary of State said he would vote for the Democratic presidential nominee, he has been given a cold shoulder, so to speak, from the Bushies.
"He's not heard anything from the White House types," said a close friend who spoke with Powell before and after his appearance on "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
On the other hand, he's heard from just about everyone else, this Powell friend said, and response has been "overwhelmingly positive."
The friend added:
He feels very good about what he said yesterday. He's very comfortable with it.
The White House non-reaction, so far, is not too surprising when you consider what Powell was saying in this mildly worded but devastating sentence from Sunday's TV performance: "I have some concerns about the direction that the party has taken in recent years."
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Monday, October 20, 2008
myth of multi-tasking
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794&ft=1&f=1001
RESEARCH NEWS
Think You're Multitasking? Think Again
by Jon Hamilton
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Humans, they say, don't do lots of things simultaneously. Instead, we switch our attention from task to task extremely quickly.
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RESEARCH NEWS
Think You're Multitasking? Think Again
by Jon Hamilton
/.../
Humans, they say, don't do lots of things simultaneously. Instead, we switch our attention from task to task extremely quickly.
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olio post of quick catch up
jeez! been moving and its been a month since last post!
here a few teasers I encourage you to explore
Snip snip
10-15 NYT
Booker prize
Tajikistan cotton farmers
Bush signing statements
Science News (magazine)
from Science News
MILKY WAY'S BLACK HOLE SEEN IN NEW DETAIL
By Ron CowenSeptember 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #
Sagitarius A* black hole
Radio telescope image
milky way center
NPR 10/20
link to story
Los alamos eccentric museum
The black hole (?)
search google
At 85, 'Atomic Ed' Is Still Ticking Off Los Alamos
by John Burnett
[photo]
"Atomic Ed" at the Black Hole, his government surplus store and museum on a 5-acre compound in Los Alamos, N.M.
“One bomb is too many, no matter who has it. They have to think a different way. I don't know whether humanity can get out of this nuclear trap.”
Ed Grothus
[photo]
Ed Grothus, seen here with one of his "Doomsday Stones" — on which will sit a 32-foot granite obelisk inscribed with a screed against nuclear bombs, translated into 15 languages.
Morning Edition, October 20, 2008 · The most visited attraction in Los Alamos is the Bradbury Science Museum, where visitors find replicas of the two most famous bombs in history, Little Boy and Fat Man — dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.
The next most visited attraction is the Black Hole, a government surplus store and museum whose inventory comes from the nation's foremost nuclear weapons lab — the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Compared to the Bradbury Science Museum, the Black Hole's proprietor offers a very different presentation.
"My name is Ed Grothus, and I've been here almost 60 years in Los Alamos," he says. "The first 20 of those years, from 1949 to 1969, I worked in the laboratory. I came as a machinist. And I had a key role in making better — put that in quotes — 'better' atomic bombs."
here a few teasers I encourage you to explore
Snip snip
10-15 NYT
Booker prize
Tajikistan cotton farmers
Bush signing statements
Science News (magazine)
from Science News
MILKY WAY'S BLACK HOLE SEEN IN NEW DETAIL
By Ron CowenSeptember 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #
Sagitarius A* black hole
Radio telescope image
milky way center
NPR 10/20
link to story
Los alamos eccentric museum
The black hole (?)
search google
At 85, 'Atomic Ed' Is Still Ticking Off Los Alamos
by John Burnett
[photo]
"Atomic Ed" at the Black Hole, his government surplus store and museum on a 5-acre compound in Los Alamos, N.M.
“One bomb is too many, no matter who has it. They have to think a different way. I don't know whether humanity can get out of this nuclear trap.”
Ed Grothus
[photo]
Ed Grothus, seen here with one of his "Doomsday Stones" — on which will sit a 32-foot granite obelisk inscribed with a screed against nuclear bombs, translated into 15 languages.
Morning Edition, October 20, 2008 · The most visited attraction in Los Alamos is the Bradbury Science Museum, where visitors find replicas of the two most famous bombs in history, Little Boy and Fat Man — dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.
The next most visited attraction is the Black Hole, a government surplus store and museum whose inventory comes from the nation's foremost nuclear weapons lab — the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Compared to the Bradbury Science Museum, the Black Hole's proprietor offers a very different presentation.
"My name is Ed Grothus, and I've been here almost 60 years in Los Alamos," he says. "The first 20 of those years, from 1949 to 1969, I worked in the laboratory. I came as a machinist. And I had a key role in making better — put that in quotes — 'better' atomic bombs."
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I read the paper & see articles on issues I feel are important and want to share.. that's about it.
(First several posts will be out of chronological order. ...just me getting up to speed after an especially large and good batch of writing (and tragic events around the world)
