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Making concrete slab with footing in the ground.
Masterly Tail oven design (3G MTo) – 3G MTo Main Page
1. Post here (below) exact dimensions of your common cement blocks. Full size, half size and quarter size blocks – the large size that I used and 1/3 thin. In inches or millimeters units. This is to workout exact slab dimension for the ground slab for oven builders. It is easy and also fast to calculate the slab dimensions when the block size is known.
2. Otherwise, for those who do it on their own, the slab extends on each side 1″ – 25mm from the walls (read pointers on "Raising walls" page.) It looks much better, in my opinion, if the walls with the slab are not flush.
1. Making ground concrete slab
Backyard before oven
Approx. slab dimensions
Distant viewing
Digging started
Enjoying it immensely
Taking off the top soil
Looking at large picture again from a distance
Permanent temporarily set height level point
Back side view on the boxing framing
Back and right hand sides fit in perfectly now
Setting the boxing into precise slab dimensions
Making squared corners
Getting square slab measurements
Slab dimensions are set – work on footing is on
Starting to dig deeper for footing foundations
View on the working area from a short distance
*FROST locations? Ovens need good foundations
More than half way through in digging ft-ing
Nearly finished digging this rectangular footing
Last digging touches and improvements
Aligning boxing into horizontal / water level
Holding one plank in a water level
Securing the horizontal level for each side
Boxing is now set in place
Using earth to correct slab thickness
Cutting steel mesh to fit slab area
Now the space would be ready to pour concrete in
Close detail of on steel reinforcing mesh & bars
Corner view on steel reinforcing bars and mesh
Cutting off all popping out wooden pegs.
Cut off wood peg if you prefer
Concreting – filling footings first
Finishing concreting footings
More details on concreting foundation
Finishing making the footings
Concrete footing is now finished
The mesh is uplifted from the ground
Filling with concrete the actual slab surface
Using shovel to roughly spread soft concrete
Shovel and screed in making small concrete slabs
Half way through the slab concreting
Slab needs one more wheelbarrow of concrete
Only a couple more screeds with the screed
Mixing the last wheelbarrow of concrete
Screeding almost completed
Ending screeding
Smoothing setting concrete with metal trowel
Edging slab sides to round
Disassembling boxing 48 hours after concreting
Gentle knock separates framing from concrete
Leveling area all around the new slab
Part 1 "how to make a ground slab with footings" contains 59/140 photos. Total images 0001 – 0140 (out of 2,785 all up)
3G MTo main page.
There are also the Swishy oven and Original MTo designs to consider and to look at, full versions for download or on CD's. Brick work decorations from either of the two ovens can be easily adopted.


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In North American white and black folk music, an English-language folk hymn. White spirituals derived variously, notably from the "lining out" of psalms, dating from at least the mid-17th century. Where congregations could not read, a leader intoned the psalm one line at a time, alternating with the congregation's singing of each line to a familiar melody; the tune, sung slowly, was ornamented with passing notes, turns, and other graces. A second source was the singing of hymns set to borrowed melodies, often secular folk tunes. Themes included going home to the promised land and gaining ground against sin; typical refrains were "Roll, Jordan" and "Glory Hallelujah." The songs survive in oral tradition in isolated areas and also in the form of shape-note singings. African American spirituals developed in part from white rural folk hymnody but differ greatly in voice quality, vocal effects, rhythm, and type of rhythmic accompaniment. They were sung not only in worship but also as work songs, and the text imagery often reflects concrete tasks. Like the white gospel song, the modern African American gospel song derives from the spiritual.
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Modern synonyms in common use include the following:
It fell out of favor by the 1970s in the United States after the Civil Rights movement. However, older African Americans from the period when "Negro" was considered acceptable, initially found the term "Black" more offensive than "Negro". Evidence for this is in historical African-American organizations and institutions' use of the term--such as the United Negro College Fund. In current English language usage, "Negro" is generally considered acceptable in a historical context, such as baseball's Negro Leagues of the early and mid-20th century, or in the name of older organizations, as in Negro spirituals, the United Negro College Fund or the Journal of Negro Education. The U.S. Census now uses the grouping "Black or African American."
A specifically female form of the word—negress (sometimes capitalized) —was sometimes used; but, like another gender-specific word "Jewess", it has all but completely fallen from use. (An exception is its extremely unusual use in the titles of paintings, drawings and sculptures, largely as an allusion to the formerly common occurrence of the word in such titles, but such usage has dropped off dramatically.) Both are considered racist and sexist, although as with other racial, ethnic, and sexual words that are seen as pejoratives, some individuals have tried "reclaiming" the word. An example of this is artist Kara Walker.
The related word Negroid was used by 19th and 20th century racial anthropologists. The suffix -oid means "similar to" and is meant to designate a wider or more generalized category than the original word.
In Portuguese, negro is an adjective meaning the color black, as in 'black' person. However, preto is the most common antonym of branco (white), while negro can be condescending, since it is a word generally associated with higher registers. In Brazil the word is considered respectful and the appropriate manner to refer to the black race, though it is often considered impolite to take note of an individual's skin color in any context (which causes the word to be used only in reported speech or in third-person).
In Spain, negro (note that ethnonyms are generally not capitalized in Romance languages) means "black person" in colloquial situations, but it can be considered derogatory in other situations (for example, by French influence, negro is also the word for a ghost writer ). However, in Spanish-speaking countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay , negro (negra for females) is commonly used to refer to partners, close friends or people in general independent of skin color.
It is similar to the use of the word "nigga" in urban communities in the U.S. For example, one may say to a friend, "Negro ¿Como andas? (Literally, "Hey, black one, how are you doing?") In this case the diminutive negrito is used, as a term of endearment meaning "pal", or "buddy" or "friend." Negrito has come to be used to refer to a person of any ethnicity or color, and also can have a sentimental or romantic connotation similar to "sweetheart," or "dear" in English. (In the Philippines, Negrito was used for a local dark-skinned short person, living in the Negros islands among other places)
In other Spanish-speaking South American countries, the word negro can also be employed in a roughly equivalent form, though it is not usually considered to be as widespread as in Argentina or Uruguay (except perhaps in a limited regional and/or social context).
The popular Argentinian singer Mercedes Sosa is nicknamed "La Negra" by her fans, which in this case refers to the colour of her hair rather than of her skin.
Moreno can be used as a euphemism but it also means just "tanned" or brunette.
In Haitian Creole the word nèg, derived from the French "nègre", refers to a dark-skinned man; it can also be used for any man, regardless of skin color, roughly like "guy" or "dude" in American English.
The Dutch "neger" is generally (but not universally) considered as neutral, or at least less negative than "zwarte" (black one).
In German, Neger used to be considered a neutral term for black people, however gradually fell out of favour throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Nowadays it is largely considered a racist slur due to its phonetic similarity to nigger, and only used without racist connotation by members of the pre-baby boomer generation. Otherwise, the term Schwarzer (black person) is preferred or Farbiger (colored person). There is a candy traditionally called Negerkuss (literally "negro kiss"). Due to its arguably offensive character, the name is no longer used.
In Russia the term "негр" (negr) was commonly used in the Soviet period without any negative connotation, and its use continues in this neutral sense. In modern Russian media, the word is used somewhat less frequently "африканцы" ("Africans") or "афро-американцы"("Afro-Americans") are used instead, depending on the situation), but is still common in oral speech. The word "black" (чёрный) used as a form of address is pejorative, although it is primarily used with respect to peoples of the Caucasus, natives of Central Asia, and not black people.
In Italy negro was used as a neutral term until the end of the 60's. Nowadays the word is considered offensive in some contexts; if used with a clear negative intention it may be punished by law. Neutral words to define a black or dark skinned person without risking to result offensive are nero (arcaism of negro, literally "black") or di colore (coloured).
In Swedish neger used to be considered a neutral term for black people, but the term has gradually fell out of favour through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Today the neutral term to define a black person is svart (literally "black"). There is a Swedish pastry traditionally called negerboll (literally "negro ball"). Due to its arguably offensive character, the name has fallen out of favor in for example cooking books. It's still in use in less formal circumstances though.
In French, the positive concept of negritude was developed by the Senegalese politician Leopold Senghor.


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STATE OF TEXAS - Even though it's winter season right now and a bit chilly out it doesn't mean the drought of 2011 isn't lingering.
Forest officials want the public to know that dry conditions are on going. Since last year's drought was one of the worst in decades and many areas across the state are still recovering including many trees here in the Valley. Officials predict another El Nino year which means another dose of dry weather for 2012. Urban Forester Mark Kroeze says, "We are technically not in an extreme drought condition but moderate drought condition. So right now what I would recommend doing is plant native plants or trees, water them as they need it and at the right time of the day."
According to the Texas Forest Services, five hundred million trees died in this year's drought. Officials will continue to keep a close eye on trees this year as they expect another sweltering summer.


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Darwin Lawson was looking for a fast-growing forage to seed after cutting winter rye in late May. His seed supplier suggested teff. I had heard it could produce a fast and decent-quality forage crop
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Darwin Lawson was looking for a fast-growing forage to seed after cutting winter rye in late May. His seed supplier suggested teff.
"I had heard it could produce a fast and decent-quality forage crop, and since this was a relatively small field — just 8 acres — I thought I'd give it a try," says the Darlington, WI, farmer.
Although heavy rains and a family trip kept him from cutting the crop at the ideal time, he wasn't disappointed with the results.
"We got over 2½ tons/acre from the cutting we took in mid-August," he says. "The relative feed value was lower than I would have liked, but the grass had already seeded out by the time I cut it. What surprised me was how well the cattle liked it. They really cleaned it up."
Lawson's first experience with this somewhat exotic crop is typical of what farmers and researchers around the country report after a few years of working with teff. From irrigated fields in Oregon to the rolling hills of dairy country in upstate New York and lots of locations in between, forage experts are recounting generally positive results from their test plots and farm fields.
"We've had tremendous interest in the crop, from all over the country, since the first story about it ran two years ago ('Tons of Teff', Hay & Forage Grower, February 2005)," says Don Miller, alfalfa breeder for Target Seed, LLC. "We've supplied seed to researchers and farmers in vastly different geographic areas — California, Oregon, North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. And we've heard and seen that the crop has done well in a wide range of field conditions, so it's fairly adaptable. It even shows potential in the Southern states."
Sound too good to be true? There are a few key management considerations with teff, say researchers.
"The crop won't take frost," says Miller. "It handles heat just fine, and will even go into dormancy in drought conditions, then pop right out of it and start growing again the minute there's enough moisture. But once temperatures drop below freezing, the crop dies."
The other challenge is planting the tiny, dark seed at the proper depth and in a good seedbed.
"There are about 1.2 million seeds per pound, which can make planting a bit of a challenge," says Miller. "But we've seen success with broadcasting or drilling the seed. This summer, we even tried planting by plane, which actually worked okay."
It's better to plant too shallow than too deep, he adds.
"Ideally, you want to get that seed about ¼" down but no more; otherwise you risk poor emergence. It will even sprout and grow if it's just laying on top of the soil, without incorporating it. The roots tend to be a little more shallow that way, and you have to be more careful when you take the first cutting or you'll pull the whole plant out."
He says Target Seed is experimenting with coating teff seed, mainly to improve handling ease and make the dark seed more visible in the soil. "We can basically double the size of the seed with a coating, and it makes it much easier to handle."
Seeding recommendations range from 3 lbs/acre under irrigation to 6 lbs/acre in richer soils, says Laverne Hankins, owner of Hankins Seed, Bonanza, OR. His company sold one variety of teff seed to customers in 21 states this past year, charging $3.50/lb plus 75¢/lb for shipping.
Versatility and adaptability are what amazes him most about this unique crop native to Ethiopia.
"I've talked to people in Kansas who planted it behind wheat in early July and took their first cutting six weeks later," says Hankins. "On the East Coast, where they've had some fungus problems in orchardgrass, people have tried teff instead, and said its quality was comparable."
It's a very palatable forage, he notes.
"It's found a real niche market with horse owners, who say the quality is as good as timothy. But there's been a lot of interest from dairymen and cattle feeders, too. If it's cut in or just after the boot stage, it can have as high as 22% protein, but the average is 16-20%. In our part of the country, you can take a first cutting four to five weeks after planting, and a second cutting three weeks after that, when the crop is about 18" tall."
He says it's reasonable to expect teff will yield 6-8 tons/acre of dry matter over the course of a season, if the field has good fertility. "The crop seems to respond well to fertilizer, especially manure."
Teff's crude protein content appears to be heavily influenced by nitrogen, observes Mike Hunter, Cornell University extension dairy specialist.
"It looks like it will be a great crop to grow in complement with manure," says Hunter. "That's one of the reasons we think it could be a good fit as an emergency forage crop for dairy farmers in this area. It's also one of the only annual forage crops that is suitable for making dry bales from rather than having to ensile it."
Planting in early June, after a rye crop, could allow for three cuttings in that region with a little luck and planning, he says.
Lawson agrees that, with more careful timing of planting and cutting, teff could offer a little more forage flexibility for his Wisconsin beef cow-calf operation.
"I'm definitely going to try it again next season," he says. "With a little more attention to seedbed preparation and well-timed cuttings, I think it can become a convenient and good-quality forage that fits nicely into my crop rotation."
Teff Seed Sources
A number of teff varieties are available, with names such as VA-T1, Tiffany, Pharoah and Dessie summer lovegrass. Several companies are offering seed:
Hankins Seed, Bonanza, OR - 541-545-6649
Target Seed, Parma, ID - 866-400-6434
United Seed, DeGraff, MN - 208-454-1186
First Line Seeds, Guelph, Ontario - 509-765-1772
King's Agriseeds, Ronks, PA - 717-687-6224


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On text terminals, it is possible to suspend Emacs, which
means stopping Emacs temporarily and returning control to its superior
process, which is usually the shell. This allows you to resume
editing later in the same Emacs process, with the same buffers, the
same kill ring, the same undo history, and so on. To resume Emacs,
use the appropriate command in the parent shell—most likely
Suspending works only on a terminal device from which the Emacs session was started. We call that device the controlling terminal of the session. Suspending is not allowed if the controlling terminal is a graphical terminal. Suspending is usually not relevant in graphical environments, since you can simply switch to another application without doing anything special to Emacs.
Some operating systems (those without SIGTSTP
, or MS-DOS) do
not support suspension of jobs; on these systems, "suspension"
actually creates a new shell temporarily as a subprocess of Emacs.
Then you would exit the shell to return to Emacs.
This function stops Emacs and returns control to the superior process. If and when the superior process resumes Emacs,
to its caller in Lisp.This function works only on the controlling terminal of the Emacs session; to relinquish control of other tty devices, use
(see below). If the Emacs session uses more than one terminal, you must delete the frames on all the other terminals before suspending Emacs, or this function signals an error. See Multiple Terminals.If string is non-
, its characters are sent to Emacs's superior shell, to be read as terminal input. The characters in string are not echoed by the superior shell; only the results appear.Before suspending,
runs the normal hooksuspend-hook
. After the user resumes Emacs,suspend-emacs
runs the normal hooksuspend-resume-hook
. See Hooks.The next redisplay after resumption will redraw the entire screen, unless the variable
is non-nil
. See Refresh Screen.Here is an example of how you could use these hooks:
(add-hook 'suspend-hook (lambda () (or (y-or-n-p "Really suspend? ") (error "Suspend canceled")))) (add-hook 'suspend-resume-hook (lambda () (message "Resumed!") (sit-for 2)))Here is what you would see upon evaluating
(suspend-emacs "pwd")
:---------- Buffer: Minibuffer ---------- Really suspend? y ---------- Buffer: Minibuffer ---------- ---------- Parent Shell ---------- bash$ /home/username bash$ fg ---------- Echo Area ---------- Resumed!Note that 'pwd' is not echoed after Emacs is suspended. But it is read and executed by the shell.
This variable is a normal hook that Emacs runs on resuming after a suspension.
If tty specifies a terminal device used by Emacs, this function relinquishes the device and restores it to its prior state. Frames that used the device continue to exist, but are not updated and Emacs doesn't read input from them. tty can be a terminal object, a frame (meaning the terminal for that frame), or
(meaning the terminal for the selected frame). See Multiple Terminals.If tty is already suspended, this function does nothing.
This function runs the hook
, passing the terminal object as an argument to each function.
This function resumes the previously suspended terminal device tty; where tty has the same possible values as it does for
.This function reopens the terminal device, re-initializes it, and redraws it with that terminal's selected frame. It then runs the hook
, passing the terminal object as an argument to each function.If the same device is already used by another Emacs terminal, this function signals an error. If tty is not suspended, this function does nothing.
This function returns non-
if tty is the controlling terminal of the Emacs session; tty can be a terminal object, a frame (meaning the terminal for that frame), ornil
(meaning the terminal for the selected frame).
This command suspends a frame. For GUI frames, it calls
(see Visibility of Frames); for frames on text terminals, it calls eithersuspend-emacs
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say a plan to overhaul the public education system has been ratified by 18 of the country's 31 states, which will allow it to be enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The law was proposed by Pena Nieto and it was approved by Congress in December.
It calls for creation of a professional system for hiring, evaluating and promoting teachers without the "discretionary criteria" currently used in a system where teaching positions are often bought or inherited.


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So after our foray out to Edwards AFB, the Boeing pre-Farnborough media tour continued onto Portland, Oregon, where we visited Insitu. Technically, they're in Hood River… but close enough.
Insitu is a wholly-owned Boeing subsidiary that builds the ScanEagle, NightEagle and Integator drones. They started off as a tiny operation consisting of a couple of dozen folks, but then 9/11 and Iraq happened… The company grew exponentially–now they have a couple of thousand people. Also Boeing bought them. Despite this they maintain an independent streak–proudly declaring that a Boeing employee badge doesn't get you through the door at Insitu.
So as part of Boeing's PR efforts, they took us out to the eastern part of Oregon–allegedly the "high desert", which looks a lot more like the foothills of Alberta than say the Mojave or Sahara–to demonstrate the system to us in flight.
It was very impressive–my colleague Tim Robinson (he's the dude to the right of Laura in the last post–he's practically invisible sitting next to her, but if you look closely he's there), editor of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace International magazine actually got to launch the plane. So I was kinda jealous…
So here is a video I shot of the event using my trusty Blackberry… Given how incredibly windy it was–I estimate winds of at least 30 knots gusting to 50 knots or so– I was surprised they decided to fly.
So once it's in the air, it orbits about 800ft to 1200ft off the ground. They showed us the control trailer- operating the aircraft is mostly a fly-by-mouse affair. The control system software runs on–no kidding–Microsoft Windows… I would have preferred the Mac O/S myself, but to each his own. The sensor ball on the aircraft is controlled by a CH Flightstick–one of those old joysticks from back in the day when PC flight-sims were still popular (i.e. pre-X-box or Playstation). They also have a back-up radio controller similar (or more likely exactly the same as) to what R/C pilots use to control their model/toy aircraft.
The camera ball on the plane is pretty impressive too. We were able to track a truck quite easily as it moved down the road and track its human occupant once he left the vehicle. I could tell he had a rifle and that he was dressed in hunting gear. But unfortunately, while you can see the target, there is no way to kill the target… you have to call someone to do that part. Oh well, can't have everything…
The ScanEagle is way too small to carry weapons with its tiny one-cylinder 1.9hp engine.
Here is the landing apparatus. It basically catches the aircraft in flight by having these hooks on the aircraft catching the ropes on it.


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Magalloway Twelve
Pull back the curtains and see the awesome view of First Connecticut Lake from this one bedroom's living room and dining room windows. Magalloway Twelve is a one bedroom efficiency that sleeps up to four having one queen bed in the bedroom and a double pull-out sofa in the living room. This efficiency features a living room with satellite TV and DVD player; WiFi, a fully equipped kitchen; and an ample bathroom. All the linens and towels are provided with fresh towels are available daily. Magalloway Twelve is an end unit and a great vacation value!
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Our cabins are heated year round and controlled by thermostat. Situated in a motel-style building yet the interior is spacious, cabin style. A porch facing First Connecticut Lake makes Magalloway Twelve the perfect spot to escape the day to day and enjoy the Great North Woods of New Hampshire.
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What a beautiful place. Nice views, friendly staff, clean and comfortable.
The staff is always friendly and helpful. Our room is always very clean and all kitchen utensils are provided which is very convenient.
We are a smoke-free facility
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EdgeStar Stainless Steel Energy Star Fridge/Freezer
The EdgeStar 3.2 Cu Ft Two Door Compact Fridge/Freezer has all the features of a full sized refrigerator in the most compact space possible. The freezer is separate and goes to 0 degrees, meaning frozen products will remain frozen.
The EdgeStar 3.2 Cu Ft Two Door Compact Fridge/Freezer offers full functionality in a small package making it well suited for offices, dorms or anywhere else where space is limited. The interior is designed to make maximum use of minimum area. The space-saving can storage leaves space for a 2 liter bottle on the lower door. The refrigerator section includes a vegetable crisper with a glass shelf, and an additional adjustable wire shelf in the refrigerated section allowing for further flexibility.
- Temperature Control: An adjustable thermostat allows you to set the perfect temperature for the compact fridge and freezer. Auto defrost in the refrigerator section means there is no need to manually remove any ice buildup
- Perfect Size for an Office or Dorm: Provided you leave room for ventilation (1-2 inches on the top and sides, 3-4 inches in the back), the EdgeStar CRF320SS can fit into tight spaces while providing ample freezer and refrigerator storage
- Interior Lighting: The refrigerator compartment has an interior light that makes it easier to find stored food and drinks
- Energy Star Rated: This compact fridge freezer model is also Energy Star rated for maximum efficiency
- Capacity: 3.2 cubic feet
- True zero degree freezer
- Flush back design
- Can storage on refrigerator door
- Interior light
- True stainless steel doors with black cabinets
- Energy Star rated
- Reversible doors
- Warranty: 1 year parts, 90 days labor
- For freestanding installation
- Slide out shelves- one adjustable wire shelf; 1 glass (non-adjustable)
- Door bins in both refrigerator and freezer sections
- 2 liter bottle storage on refrigerator door
- Molded worktop
- Automatic defrost in refrigerator section; manual defrost in freezer section
- Internal Dimensions: Refrigerator: 18 7/8" H x 15 1/2" W x 14 1/2" Depth; Freezer: 7 7/8" H x 14" W x 14 3/4" Depth
- The freezer door has a shelf that extends 2 3/4" into the freezer for the full width and height of the freezer
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The Hawaii Performing Arts Festival will present "The Art of Strings," a multimedia show featuring the works of Hilo artist Christina Skaggs in collaboration with the HPAF String Program, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Palace Theater.
Director Iggy Jang, who is also the concertmaster of the Hawaii Symphony, will head a distinctive group of international faculty artists and 35 string students. Korean American violinist Chee Yun, who performs regularly with symphonies and festivals around the world, will be featured as well as Hilo's own Quack Moore.
"I have taken part in multi-media productions in the past, but beyond the mixed medium idea, this collaboration is also about assembling beautiful resources from the Big Island — Christina's body of work, the Hilo Palace Theater, pianist Quack Moore, and the music of the HPAF string program,"Jang said.
Pianist Moore will perform "A Suspended Liquid Veil" by University of Hawaii composer Donald Reid Womack. Jang describes it as very evocative, a "beautiful shroud of mist hanging magically in the air."
Also planned is an improvisation by UH Masters' piano student Grant Carvalho.
Skaggs will reveal a painting to the audience accompanied by Grant.
Chee-Yun's return to the Palace will feature Mendelssohn's Violin Concert, the music of Schumann, and Villa-Lobos' "Brasileiras Bachianas No. 5" as sung by soprano Angie Engelbart,
"The idea of presenting my paintings on a large screen as a backdrop to live music has been an inspiring notion to me for a while now…. Technology has made this so doable that the multi sensual experience is almost an expectation of the times," Skaggs said.
Tickets are $20 and are available at the Palace Theater at 934-7010, weekdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m.


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NFU 'committed' to badger cull despite badger number concerns
THE NFU has stressed that it remains 'committed' to the badger cull despite concerns raised by a Defra survey revealing far higher badger numbers in the two cull areas than initially estimated.
But NFU president Peter Kendall has acknowledged that the cull organisers now face a 'challenge' to get the policy up and running this autumn.
Culling was expected to begin in at least one of the two pilot areas – West Gloucestershire and West Somerset – as early as the end of this week or early next week.
However, the publication by Defra of its survey of badger numbers in the cull areas has thrown a spanner in the works and prompted intense discussions over the past few days about whether it is feasible to start this autumn.
Responding to a Parliamentary Question from Shadow Defra Secretary Mary Creagh, Farming Minister David Heath revealed on Wednesday that the 'best estimate' for the number of badgers within each pilot area was 3,600 in West Gloucestershire and 4,300 in West Somerset.
This is double the number originally estimated in the West Gloucestershire area and about 60 per cent above the original West Somerset estimate.
The badger survey is central to the policy as it will determine how many badgers need to be culled to ensure the target of removing 70 per cent of badgers from the 300sq.km pilot cull areas is met.
A key question now is - given the substantial increase in the numbers of badgers that will have to be removed - whether the companies feel confident they can meet their targets with the resources they currently have at their disposal, which were based on much lower estimates of badger numbers.
Mr Kendall said on Friday: "We are working bloody hard to make sure this is deliverable. The latest numbers are making this more challenging but, before this starts, we have got to be very confident that we are going to deliver."
The pilot culls are scheduled to last for six weeks and the timetable for an autumn cull was always going to be tight given the difficulties of culling once winter sets in.
Another potential complication is that the closed period for culling using cage traps starts on December 1, meaning the cull would have to start this weekend if cages are to be used alongside controlled shooting throughout the six-week period.
A Defra spokesman insisted there was 'no change in badger cull policy'. "We are still absolutely committed to the pilot culls and we hope they will go ahead as soon as possible."
He stressed that the pilot culls were examining the safety, efficiency and humaneness of controlled shooting, not caged trapping.
A Natural England spokeswoman confirmed on Friday that the agency was 'still not in a position to issue the final licences' as not all of the licence conditions had been met.
There had been feverish speculation in the media on Thursday over whether the cull will be shelved until next year, sparked initially when senior Defra Ministers and officials cancelled a series of interviews with journalists about the cull, then reinforced by the concerns over the Defra badger survey figures.
Commenting on Thursday, NFU director of policy Martin Haworth said: "The survey figures of badger numbers released this week shows how serious the badger problem is in the South West and they emphasise the need to tackle the problem of bovine TB as soon as possible.
"The NFU and the government have both made it clear they are committed to carrying out badger control culls as part of its TB eradication package."
He refuted the suggestion that NFU president Peter Kendall had said the cull was now 'too expensive' as a result of the extra workload.
Mrs Creagh said the 'last minute wobble' over the policy 'has all the signs of another Government shambles'. "Labour has always said the badger cull was bad for taxpayers, bad for farmers and bad for wildlife. This incompetent Government should listen to the scientists and stop the cull," she said.
Defra has today published the methodology that it used for estimating badger populations in the two areas on its website.
- This story was updated on Friday afternoon.
Readers' comments (21)
thats it then, we have won, will paterson now have the decency to admit defeat publicly?
I understand the cull has to remove 70% or it could make the bovine TB problem worse. Also, it is not to go ahead unless Natural England is sure the funding is in place to achieve that 70% figure for 4 years. So, presumably, the participating farmers will now have to pay up more which could take some time? It is looking more and more as if the farmers involved have been sold a really disastrous policy by an incompetent government and an equally incompetent NFU. Now, shall we get serious about vaccination and dealing with the EU??
2 counties invaded by the black and white rats if they were brown rentokil would have been deployed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well just goes to show how useless DEFRA really is. Between them and the NFU they couldn't organise a p**s-up in a brewery. This is just a feeble excuse to put off the cull for another year but I don't think farmers are going to put up with this.
If the anti cull think they have won then they need to realise that this is not finished by a long shot.Defra have not got a clue what they are doing. How can any sensible person have any faith in them.
TIME TO STOP THE CULL NOW!!!!!!60% more badgers than originally thought, and mass interruption of shooting from members of the public taking peacefully to the footpaths in the late evenings. Who on earth could ever have thought this would actually work?
So badgers numbers are so large that the protection order should be removed. EU countries have shoots during certain times of the year to reduce their numbers. This should now happen in this country.
I seriously hope this is not the attitude of many of the anonymice here I began to write and 5 more comments of the same twisted nature field in soon after. This isn't a game, this is about fighting a disease that's spreading. Never lose sight of that. Cattle and badgers do not win until this disease has been erradicated. TB does not care for what rules we apply onto ourselves in order to hinder our fight against it, it just does what disease does.This is the worrying thing Blake Jake....they still think this is a game when it quite clearly isn't. This has got to be sorted otherwise this disease is going to spread beyond our boundaries. This shouldn't have been held up just because there are MORE badgers than at first thought. They should have carried on this year taking the lower estimate and then they could have adjusted it later. The numbers are going to change anyway when the badgers produce young in January so this figure is going to keep on changing.
2ladybugsthose who are against the cull certainly do not see this as a game! the issue is serious. the concern from anti cull is the government sweeping this dreadful disease under a badger carpet, instead of finding a long term effective solution. if they go ahead with the cull the vaccine will take longer the btb will return and no effort will be made to seriously tackle this ongoing disease. ireland culled and it returned within 6 years and farmers stated that it did not work. if the government detract from really working on a solution by thinking a cull is enough then, badgers, livestock and farmers livelihoods will always be threatened by this disease. the real goal here is to find a positive and effective way forward and for us all to work together and encourage the government from making real attempts at getting a vaccine through. it really is not a case of you verses me here.
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Dairy manure can supply the potassium (K) needed by a 5 ton/acre alfalfa crop, says Douglas Beetle, Penn State University soil fertility specialist.
Due to high fertilizer prices, many farmers haven't been applying recommended rates of K fertilizer, and deficiencies have become common, says Beetle. Alfalfa removes 50 lbs of K2O per ton of dry hay equivalent, or about 250 lbs for a 5-ton yield, and silage corn removes a similar amount. That need can be met with 10,000 gallons of typical liquid dairy manure or 30 tons of solid manure.
Manure is also a good source of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). But in an alfalfa-corn rotation, cornfields are still the best place to spread manure because alfalfa can't use the N.
"The first priority economically is to apply the manure to the cornfields to get the value from all of the nutrients," he says. "Then, if there is more left over, this can then be applied to the alfalfa fields to supply P and K."
If you have the choice of which alfalfa fields to spread manure on, go to older fields and use fertilizer on newer seedings. Beetle lists several words of caution about spreading manure on alfalfa:
- Do not spread a large amount at one time to avoid smothering the alfalfa.
- During the growing season, spread as soon after harvest as possible to avoid burning the new growth or injuring the new growth by manure spreader traffic.
- Avoid spreading when the soil is wet to avoid compaction.
- Realize that spreading manure on alfalfa has the potential to introduce or encourage weed growth. So good weed control is essential.
The best nutrient utilization comes from applying the manure as close to the time of crop uptake as possible; therefore winter is not a good time. But if you must spread manure in winter, alfalfa fields may be the best place because the crop begins growing and taking up nutrients in early spring. Otherwise, choose fields with cover crops or at least good residue.
Here are some of Beetle's guidelines for winter manure application:
- Stay as far away from water as is practical.
- Select the most level fields available and especially avoid significant slopes.
- Avoid areas in fields were concentrated water-flow is likely.
- Avoid poorly drained fields.
- Don't spread on snow unless it's unavoidable.
- Try to avoid spreading when rain or melting conditions are expected.
- Stay away from roads and don't spread in road ditches.
- Keep application rates as low as practical – less than 5,000 gallons/acre of liquid manure, 20 tons/acre of solid manure or 5 tons/acre of poultry manure.


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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
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Tanzania Reflections by Kay EntrekinHome Service and Mission Tanzania Reflections
Our first week was spent in a Masai Village (one of many villages inhabited by the Masai tribe). We rode in huge all-terrain trucks to get to the village. I wasn't sure why the four-foot tire radius was necessary until we got closer to the village. We passed over a very deep trench in the dark of the night upon our arrival. I'm glad we couldn't see what we were traversing. The drive took about seven hours. We slept in tents, ate all of our meals at the camp (prepared by African Young Life staff), pottied in a hole in the ground, and had no showers for the entire week. Believe it or not, there were no complaints about the primitive nature of our living standards. We departed the Masai Village after many hugs and headed back to Arusha (our home base) and prepared our gear for Kilimanjaro. We each had to lay our gear out on our hotel bed and our lead guide came to our room and checked off a list of needed items. Any missing items were supplied by other volunteers or the guides. The next morning we got up early and drove to Kilimanjaro, which was about a two-hour drive. This was Day One (stats: climbed 5,000 to 9,000 feet, seven hours, seven miles). It was a long day but we were feeling no pain at this point in the trip. Many friendships were being made. Day Two (stats: 9,000 to 12,500 feet, 5 hours, 3 miles) we began to understand the system. The porters carried all of our tents, fifty-pound duffel bags, kitchenware and food (oh, and port-o-lets too) from camp to camp. These gentlemen (no ladies, sorry) were amazing. They would jog by us with a fifty-pound bag of goods balanced on their head and a forty-pound pack on their back (their personal gear). This was the limit on how much they were allowed to carry (ninety pounds) at one time. Every morning on the mountain we are greeted with knock-knock tea (usually 6:30am) followed by a bowl of hot water for washing up. Every evening we are greeted with a porter grabbing our pack off our backs and escorting us to our tent. We then go to the mess tent where they have popcorn, hot tea and cocoa waiting for us. Day Three (stats: 12,500 to 13,000 feet, five hours, four miles) was a major test of our group altitude tolerance. We all passed – unbelievable. We had a few headaches, loss of appetite, and lots of diarrhea (partly altitude and partly infection). We definitely celebrated passing this milestone. The guides were really in tune with EACH and EVERY climber. They constantly asked how are you, how did you sleep last night, how is your stomach. If anyone appeared weary, their pack was taken and the guide carried 2 packs the remainder of the hike. We took many breaks to hydrate and for long and short calls (the terms for restroom breaks). Many of us were taking diamox which is a water pill to help prevent altitude sickness. This also impacted our number of breaks (lots more short calls). Day Four (stats: no altitude change, five hours, three miles) may have seemed silly to an outsider. To hike just to hike may appear as a waste of energy but this provided us more opportunity to acclimate (which is why this route is so successful at getting climbers to the summit). Day Five (stats: 13,000 to 15,000 feet, four hours, two miles) was the BIG DAY leading up to the summit. After our hike, we ate lunch at 1:30, dinner at 5 pm, slept for four hours, ate breakfast at 10:30 pm and left camp at 11:20 PM (NOT AM). We reached the summit of Kilimanjaro at 6:20 am. Day Six (stats: 15,000 to 19,341 then back to 10,000 feet, fifteen hours, ten miles) we reached our goal of nineteen thousand three hundred and forty one feet. We had several hikers with abdominal pain, a few headaches, and just general fatigue. We had to leave one of our hikers at 15000 due to severe abdominal cramping – she did not get to the summit. My physiology lesson for the trip came when one of the hikers was in so much pain we were trying to decide whether to descend with her. The lead guide checked her oxygen in her blood. For a normal female in Atlanta (1,000 feet above sea level), the oxygen level should be 98% or higher. Her oxygen reading was 71%. The guide was quite happy with this as the take down (as in down the mountain) rate is 50%. WOW, our bodies can really tolerate conditions with very little oxygen. When the air carries little oxygen, the blood secondarily does too. Our bodies compensate in other ways (i.e., increased heart and respiratory rates). Day Seven (stats: 10,000 to 5,000 feet, four hours, six miles) we hiked to the entrance of Kilimanjaro in the slippery mud as it had rained the day before. At the park entrance, the porters had our lunch waiting for us. As a treat, we each received a soda drink. They have very different flavors in Africa and it was fun to try them out. We then rode back to our home base at the SG Hotel in Arusha. We had a celebratory dinner at the nicest hotel in Arusha and many tears were shed. On our last day in Arusha, we were allowed to shop in the African market. Our uniformly white skin made us really stand out, and the vendors worked very hard to sell us their merchandise. We then headed to the airport for our two-day journey home. As they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I am living proof that this is true. Thanks for all of your heartfelt prayers. I knew that I was not alone on my African Odyssey.


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A real-time high speed pulse-echo imaging system capable of parallel
processing multiple image lines is presented. The system uses
transmitter arrays with coded-excitation. Mathematically, it can be
formulated into a discretized linear image equation via a newly
introduced discrete spatio-temporal model of the received sampled
echo data. The implementation of the system is realized by a
transversal filter bank with each filter designed for processing
echoes from a specific direction in the region of interest.
The filter coefficients are derived from a pseudo-inverse image
operator obtained from the image equation. Preliminary results
show that, in addition to being well-suited for real-time
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before performing matched filtering. Thus, the proposed approach
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systems designed based only on matched filtering. Without
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Employees are working more efficiently today. In fact, labor productivity in the non-farm business sector grew at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Productivity in the durable manufacturing sector rate increased 4.3 percent in the same period. Many observers credit the advances to improved business processes and the use of technology.
The accounts payable department is one area in which these initiatives can help middle market businesses work smarter.
For example, "if your accounts payable and purchasing areas are working together to improve processes, then invoices will always match a purchase order and can be paid without any further approvals, which reduces cycle time and errors," suggests Bridgit Chayt, executive vice president and director of Treasury Management Services at Comerica Bank. "If you use that in concert with technology improvements such as electronic payments, you'll get the greatest return."
Chayt says by automating a company's accounts payable function, the often complex and time-consuming task of paying different vendors – by their different preferred methods – can be greatly simplified.
"Invoices are paid on our customers' behalf, in whatever way they designate," she says. "Where before you had somebody who had to prepare a separate file for a check run and a separate file to do commercial card transactions and a separate phone call or process to send out a wire transfer, now you simply provide a list of who must be paid, how much, and when, and the service executes the transactions."
Most automated payment services can be brought on-stream at any point and can grow as your organization is ready to take on more applications. "It doesn't have to be a massive conversion, and companies don't have to convince every single supplier to implement the changes," Chayt says, "but if they focus on the top 20 percent of their suppliers, which often generate 80 percent of the transactions, they can realize a really strong lift."
By using leading-edge on-line services, companies can have the option of paying vendors by check, ACH, wire transfer, or commercial card, depending on the vendor's requirements.
"Some suppliers prefer checks with all the information they need on the check or the stub, which makes it easy to reconcile on the receivables side," says Chayt. "A lot of people like ACH because it's right there in their account and they can see it; they don't have to wait for the mail to come, make out a deposit ticket, and go to the bank. Wire transfers are often preferred when sensitive, high-dollar payments are involved."
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Another growing payables method is using a bank-issued commercial card – typically a MasterCard® or Visa® product. Often, companies can receive rebates, just as individuals do with their personal cards. "This is very attractive because companies are looking for revenue streams wherever they might be," says Chayt. "If there's a chance to provide some dollars back into the company, they look to get their spends up as high as they can."
When using a commercial card to pay vendors, companies can create extended terms for themselves because the card settlement is typically not due for a period following month-end.
Companies can realize other benefits beyond productivity improvements when they apply technology to their payables function. "They can more accurately forecast their cash needs to improve cash flow," Chayt says. "They can improve their supplier relations because those people are paid on time and paid accurately. They might also be able to look at vendors of like kind and negotiate discounts.
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Here's a good essay about Powell and what some GOP McCainiacs are trying to do to undermine his Obama endorsement.
"GOP Pundits Racialize Powell's Endorsement" By Casey Gane-McCalla
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Irony of ironies for the racists, Colin Powell's endorsement may very well have been the loosening of the final lugnut on a wheel of the McCain Straight Talk Express bus, causing the campaign to go into the ditch.
There is no way McCain will say anything to imply that Powell's endorsement has anything to do with his being black. That would doom his candidacy.
As for loose nuts coming off rusty old wheels, I'm not surprised that the following came from Rush Limbaugh. It shows how scared he is of the impact of Powell's endorsement.
Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with. I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush making him a four-star [general] and secretary of state and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures. ( Email sent to Jonathan Martin of Politco)
I am disappointed in George Will however. This is what he said when asked on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos about the impact of Powell's endorsement:
Some impact. And I think this adds to my calculation — this is very hard to measure — but it seems to me if we had the tools to measure we'd find that Barack Obama gets two votes because he's black for every one he loses because he's black because so much of this country is so eager, a, to feel good about itself by doing this, but more than that to put paid to the whole Al Sharpton/Jessee Jackson game of political rhetoric. (Watch video here)
If anybody connected directly with the campaign says that Powell endorsed Obama because of his race I am certain they will be rebuked.
Obviously racist supporters of McCain/Palin are already dismissing the endorsement for this reason, but their votes were always solid. At least those that don't go to Palin rallies just to ogle her. I bet some of them won't vote at all, those that are even registered that is.
I thought Powell fired a not too subtle shot across the McCain/Palin bow implying that he might reconsider his decision not to get involved in campaigning if the negative personal attacks like the Ayers thing continue.
McCain does not want Powell actively involved in campaigning for Obama because he knows how popular he is with many moderate Republicans. McCain needs the votes of moderate Republicans and some Reagan Democrats to win. It is likely he just lost a few who were still wavering and who watched all seven minutes of the Powell endorsement. That's where the power came, not just the fact of the endorsement, but of the reasons laid out. (Photo, President Ronald Reagan and then National Security Adviser Powell in 1988.)
Some people have questioned whether Powell is really in touch with the black experience inasmuch as Democrats often consider that any African American who's a Republican has "sold out". I wondered about whether he grew up affluent and discovered the following:
"Powell was born in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan in 1937 to Jamaican immigrant parents and was raised in the South Bronx. He also has Scottish, and other ancestries. Powell attended Morris High School, a former public school in The Bronx, New York City, from which he graduated in 1954. While in school, he worked a local shop where he picked up Yiddish from the shopkeepers and some of the customers. He remembers some of his Yiddish to this day. He gained a bachelor's degree in geology from City College of New York attaining a "C" average… " (Wikipedia) City College is the free university open only to residents and considered on par with Harvard. It was there that he was in ROTC.
In another part of the interview Brokaw asked him about his role in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Of course many Democrats have been highly critical of him and view him as the only person who could have stopped the invasion of Iraq. I thought Powell's answers were evasive and defensive. You can read his answer here and judge for yourself.
It seems to me he'd rather not discuss his relationship with the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney. But he made it clear even before this interview, and again during it, that he is a moderate Republican and to me that means not a neocon. Here's a quote:
Powell was the subject of controversy in 2004 when, in a conversation with British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, he reportedly referred to neoconservatives within the Bush administration as "fucking crazies".. from Powell's political views on Wikipedia
I don't recall any evidence that he embraced any of the underlying neocon philosophy, although he did have to work with the likes of Wolfowitz and Cheney.
I think Obama can and should show he's willing to work with moderate Republicans currently in Congress*, and that if asked he shouldn't rule out asking Powell to have a role in the administration. Brokaw mentioned a few possibilities, one of them was as some kind of envoy to work on the Palestinian Israel conflicts. The Yiddish he learned as a child might come in handy. Can you see him teamed with Bill Clinton? Now that would be some star power to rival the Star of Bethlehem. If we can only find the third Magi…
Watch the Meet the Press broadcast and read the transcript here.
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Here's a good essay about Powell and what some GOP McCainiacs are trying to do to undermine his Obama endorsement.
"GOP Pundits Racialize Powell's Endorsement" By Casey Gane-McCalla
Casey Gane-McGalla is a new discovery for me. He writes for NewsOne for Black America which is part of BlackPlanet.com.
I commented on his website regarding the article I referenced above, and would love it if he posted comments here.
He has another piece of particular relevance because HuffPo just broke the news that Rick Davis, the McCain hackey puck, indicates "Campaign Rethinking Playing The Rev. Wright Card". Rick Davis is saying that John Lewis' horrible comparison of his (oh so classy) campaign with George Wallace's justifies their using Reverend Wright.
Gane-McCalla explains the truth of what John Lewis said:
Both (Wallace and the McCain campaign) have tried to link their opponents with enemies of America. Just as Palin has accused Obama of 'Pallin around with the terrorists,' Wallace would accuse Kennedy of wanting to 'surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-Communists who have instituted these demonstrations' While McCain rails against activist judges, the liberal media, socialists, intellectuals and elitists, Wallace would rail against 'liberals, Communists, the Eastern press, Federal judges, "pointy-headed intellectuals.'
Wallace would make it a point to make sure his crowds were fearful of integration and what 'foreign,' 'different' African Americans would do to the white way of life. Just as McCain makes it a point that the crowds are fearful of what an exotic, un-American Obama would do for this country.
I only disagree with one point in this article, that "what McCain doesn't get, is that Lewis was not comparing McCain to Wallace's 'segregationist policies…' " McCain isn't stupid. He gets it. He knows exactly what Lewis was comparing him to.
The McCain campaign sleaze influenced Colin Powell's decision to back Obama. All they have to do is start impugning Obama's character for his relationship with Rev. Wright and I can see Powell hitting the campaign trail.
That would reinforce the title of this column… more poetic justice exacted on these bitter, unethical sore losers.
The Republican party has clearly demonstrated that either you are with them or you are against them. This is why lifelong Republicans like Hagel & Powell are very careful in what they say.
It's not that people like Powell or Hagel are Democrats, it's just that they can't be a party to the politics of lies, hate and fear anymore that the Republican party is locked into for the last few decades.
So it is not surprising that they would attack Powell's endorsement. After all isn't that what attack dogs are trained to do? ATTACK!
On Chuck Hagel, quote without comment:
July. 25, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. – Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.
Hagel mentioned both candidates, but his comments seemed directed at Republican John McCain. McCain, while Obama traveled the Middle East, attacked Obama for opposing the military escalation last year that increased security in Iraq.
"Quit talking about, 'Did the surge work or not work,' or, 'Did you vote for this or support this,'" Hagel said Thursday on a conference call with reporters. LINK
Hagel also said after returning from that trip, that he was an American FIRST and what was important was what is good for America NOT what is good for the party.
This is essentially what I believe Colin Powell and others who have crossed party lines to support Obama are saying.
McCain says he puts country first, put I was taught actions speak louder than words. His actions in everything he has done during this campaign, including choosing Palin, clearly demonstrate that it's about putting what is good for getting John McCain elected FIRST. Like Bush, he doesn't have a clue what the country wants or needs which is reflected when he tries to talk substantively about issues like the economy.
Another major endorsement –
First Colin Powell, Now…
Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan's director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld's second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman's friendship with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their wives goes back to the sixties, and he introduced Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in.
More about the significance of this in The New York Times HERE
The real Conservatives, not republicans, are trying to stick to their ideals by endorsing Obama. He truly seems to represent the original ideas of conservativism from an intellectual standpoint.
The neocon movement that started with Reagan but was electrified by Newt Gingriches "contract for America" began an era of larger government, religious zealotry and emotional blackmail. Their mode of rule reduced intellect and research to some "liberal" ideal and even the far right radio pundits like Limbaugh and Hannity spoke of how glad they were that they didnt finish college. Its appalling that intellect and education were reduced to witchery by the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt.
The original ideals of conservatives had nothing to do with religious belief. Read Chris Buckley and Wick Allison's recent editorials
regarding their reasons for breaking with the current republican party ideology. They are not the only ones and that will most likely reflect in the polls come november 4th. I am thinking we will see a "reverse bradley effect". In public conservative republicans are telling their pals that they will vote for Mccain but hit the Obama button in the voting booth.
Finally, Gazelle, regarding that "comedian" beating Norm Coleman in the polls in Mn? Lets not forget that this comedian also has a Harvard education. Franken is smart and progressive- it would be nice to have a voice like his in the senate. oh, you betcha!
Speaking of Limbaugh, read Casey Gane-McCalla's blog.
This is my comment there:
Too many good points to respond to all of them Casey. I do want to say that there are times a writer can succumb to Godwin's Law and bring up the Nazis with ample justification. I think Limbaugh would fit right into the Reich's ministry of propaganda.
Your noticing how much Limbaugh looks like Gacy kind of – no racial insult intended – spooky. Both of them would be a horror to see approaching you in a dark alley.
Only since Olbermann started making him The Worst Person on many of his shows along with Sean Hannity and some others who vie for the dubious "honor" have I realized just how horribly racist this guy is.
Nice job in wading through his cesspool to put together these example.
To think Imus was kicked off the air for his racist remarks about the Rutger's women's basketball team. Compared to Limbaugh Imus was classy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Imus#Rutgers_women.27s_basketball_controversy
the ship is going down fast. Ken Adelman has stated that he too will vote for Obama.
Not just Adelman, the conservative who never voted for a Democrat (see story)
but 26 of the papers that have endorsed Obama endorsed Bush four years ago elections. Everyone knows about the Chicago Tribune which never endorsed a Democrat before Obama. But the smaller papers in total may have more influence on undecided voters than the larger ones.
"Lets not forget that this comedian also has a Harvard education."
Yes, I agree he's pretty smart, but somehow the idea of a comedian in the Senate brings to mind carrying coal to Newcastle.
And what about the current comedian in the Oval Office? He has a degree from Yale!
Based on my analysis, the NWO, CFR, Bilderberg players that have come forth to endorse Obama starting with Jay Rockefeller almost a year ago tells me that the they've decided that it's time to throw the neocon "Vulcans" under their globalist bus.
They have a world-changing agenda in mind, but not one that destabilizes their plans for a new world order and more importantly the global marketplace that they've been so feverishly trying to construct during the past 30 years.
With guys like Colin Powell, Ken Adelman and no doubt other esteemed personages of the republican party to come forth in the next few weeks, it represents John McCain's swan song concerning presidential politics.
Carl Nemo **==
Pat Buchanan's racist 2cents:
While I think Pat has pretty much gone round the bend in his ever more lame infatuation with Sarah Palin overriding his opinion of her qualifications, obvious to anyone who watches Morning Joe, his latest comments tarnish his reputation as a fair minded conservative talk show regular. This is from Hardball:
Buchanan: Alright, we gotta ask a question, look would Colin Powell be endorsing Obama if he were a white liberal democrat…
John Walsh: Oh, Pat, I'm really sorry you went there.
Buchanan: Look, General Powell Started off by saying it would be electrifying an African American and it is naive John to suggest it had nothing to do with his decision.
Chris Matthews: He said that if that were his driving motive he would have done it weeks ago because the guy looked African America weeks and months ago.
Walsh: And Obama's been courting him. He's been courting him for months.
Buchanan: This is why he threw in the whole kitchen sink. A lot fo things are silly and ridiculous. Economics and Supreme courts justices, it's…
Walsh; That's not silly…
Buchanan: All the motives except for the one everybody is wondering about.
I wonder whether Buchanan and a few others, both liberal and conservative (but mostly the later) take a more extreme position on the air than they believe because that's what the producers want. That's the subject of another column for a slow news week.
Great essay, Mr. Brown. But I wonder if McCain will at this point play the race card and try to stem the bleeding. After all, he's circling the toilet and has nothing to lose except his dignity, which may have died when he stuck his tongue out on national television.
If Powell's going to work with your list of moderate Republican senators he had better hurry. Hagel and Warner are not running for reelection, Smith looks to be a loser in Oregon, and Norm Coleman's trailing against a comedian!
Powell's endorsement was just another nail in the coffin. How appropriate. The former head of the Joint Chief of Staff, does not think McCain will make the best commander in chief. McCain loses on all fronts now.
With Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, John McCain is in DEEP political DOO-DOO.
And so is SILLY SARAH (Palin). OsiSpeaks.com
If McCain plays the race card against Powell it will kill him. Surely he's not that stupid. Others are doing it for him, all to no gain.
This certainly adds weight for Obama in the area of Commander-in-chief where he was not so strong. It fills my heart bursting with joy. I've always really liked Powell and think he is a giant among good and decent men and feel he was coerced by Bush/Cheney to go to the U.N. to give his speech. That damaged his standing and good record and I've never forgiven Bush for that action. He was a good soldier doing the bidding of his commander.
My guess is this will set McCain back some as many people are fond of Powell and it might sway quite a few votes of the undecided. I certainly hope so! McCain/Palin are
running such a dirty campaign they do not deserve to win.
colocritic wrote:
I've always really liked Powell and think he is a giant among good and decent men and feel he was coerced by Bush/Cheney to go to the U.N. to give his speech. That damaged his standing and good record and I've never forgiven Bush for that action. He was a good soldier doing the bidding of his commander.
And General Powell said as much in his autobiography. What's more, he has never forgiven President Bush for forcing him into doing so.
The sad truth is that General Powell genuinely believed that what he was sharing with the UN was actionable intelligence. And that intelligence clearly indicated that Hussein had WMDs and was preparing to use them.
We now know that General Powell was handed intelligence of dubious origin that had been "cherry picked" by a Cabal that had already decided to go to war. "W" and his cronies were simply looking for something (and someone) to provide the world with justification for their doing so.
In short, General Powell was set up.
Clearly, General Powell made the right call on Sunday to support Mr. Obama. For, like so many of the rest of us, General Powell has also now recognized that John McCain is simply George W. Bush on steroids.
Good additional information, Keith, do you know who the speech writer(s) were?
I think I've read that Powell and his aides spent several days writing the speech. Then Addington, with info from the CIA, wrote additions to the speech and Powell vehemently argued with him on those additions. Powell said he would refuse to say those "lies" and insisted they be removed. After the revised speech arrived and Powell was practicing, he realized they had put several of the disputed things back in the speech. I don't recall now what the conflict was over but Powell stood his ground, removed what he disagreed with and insisted Tenet sit behind him at the U.N. when he gave the speech. That did happen.
Will racism still help elect a president?
Consider what Paul Krugman writes today:
Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand. The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of the "silent majority," the regular guys — white guys, it went without saying — who didn't like the social changes taking place.
It was a winning formula. And the great thing was that the new packaging didn't require any change in the product's actual contents — in fact, the G.O.P. was able to keep winning elections even as its actual policies became more pro-plutocrat, and less favorable to working Americans, than ever.
John McCain's strategy, in this final stretch, is based on the belief that the old formula still has life in it. from The Real Plumbers of Ohio
Will the old formula still work? Good question.
Hal, it might work this time, but probably not much longer.
Ours is an ever-more diverse (and younger) nation. The old prejudices of race and ethnic origin that divided us in the Nixon era (and which Karl Rove and company have used to their advantage ever since) are now dying right along with that portion of our population that espoused them.
In fact, it may very well take another generation or two before a majority of people who have known nothing else but to perpetuate such bigotry and baseless dogma to completely disappear.
That's because, as Professor Doctor Max Planck, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics and one of the greatest physicists of the early 20th Century once said, "Innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and the growing generation is familiarized with the innovative ideas from the beginning."
I think we are already seeing this happening with Mr. Obama's growing popularity in this election.
However, what remains unknown at this point is how many of the bigots are still alive and willing to express their horrifically entrenched prejudices at the polls on election day.
Obama will use Powell as adviser…
Check this out: "Colin Powell To Have Role In Obama Administration Says Obama"
My comment:
The right wing blabbers are blathering in an attempt to minimize the impact this endorsement will have, and some like Limbaugh (no surprise), Pat Buchanan (a sad surprise) and George Will (a big surprise) are suggesting the endorsement was based on race.
I think this announcement from Obama will fuel bring out the hidden racism in many people, and lead them to use this as "proof" that "the fix was in" prior to the endorsement.
Of course these people were already supporting McCain, so it doesn't make any difference. What will make a difference is that this may persuade some moderate Republicans and Reagan Democrats to vote for Obama.
I thought Powell made it pretty clear that he really wasn't interested in public life anymore. I mean he did say he would consider anything that the POTUS would ask of him but really would prefer to remain in private life.
I can't say that I blame him, after the way Bush/Cheney used him.
I am not suprised at Limbaugh or Buchanan's statements. These were predictable. I am a bit surprised if Will insinuated that Powell's choice was race based. Even Will has had harsh words for McCain & Palin lately so why he would think that Powell's actions were anything but exactly what he said they were.
Overall, I don't think this endorsement is any great earth shattering news. It is just more of the snowball effect. The good things is that some people who may not consider voting for Obama might reconsider that train of thinking. Perhaps some people will feel validated by Powell's endorsement in voting for Obama.
And then I have a feeling there will be a lot of closet Obama voters…..white voters who will say they wont' vote or vote for McCain who will vote for Obama behind closed doors when no one is looking.
The right wing blabbers are blathering in an attempt to minimize the impact this endorsement will have, and some like Limbaugh (no surprise), Pat Buchanan (a sad surprise) and George Will (a big surprise) are suggesting the endorsement was based on race.
…all of which simply underscores these person's own racism.
Clearly, there is absolutely no way to "spin" General Powell's endorsement as being racially-based without also revealing one's own racist frame of mind.
Next century all Americans will be a shade of milk chocolate and have slightly oriental eyes. Too bad in a way that the diverse appearances we now have will fade away. Seeing Obama surrounded by people who vary in skin color from lily white to black as coal is inspiring.
All the bigots will be long dead and their genes will be in the DNA of descendants that look more like Barack Obama than John McCain.
My own view of innovation and change was influenced by Everett Rogers (LINK) who I took a course from when he was a young, not yet famous, professor of communications at Michigan State.