800 plus entries- from another blog

These blog entries are from Multiply, which in 2012 decided to end their blog in favor of relocation to Indonesia and becoming a online marketplace for Asia.
Before that, some of these entries were written on Yahoo 360, where I had gone after AOL Hometown bit the dust. So it seems Blogger is where these will reside. I have othe Blogger blogs, and will continue those, so that these remain archived.

Democrats

Multiply as we knew it going away Dec 1?

Really? I came to Multiply from Yahoo 360, which I came to before that from AOL...

What a bunch of crap....guess FB or some other site will be the "social networking site" ...

Whats been happening...a overview of my life lately

My life:  Apparently I have not posted anything here in several MONTHS...which is a circumstance I never envisioned, but then fighting cancer tends to change one's perspective.

Thankfully I can report I am so far over 6 months free of the cursed disease, after surgery, chemo and radiation. I managed to lose a lot of weight during those dark days, but then again not being able to eat does that for you.

Early on in my treatment, they said while the chemo/radiation would not cause my hair to fall out, I should consider cutting it because during the radiation, my head needed to be in the exact same place everyday, and my ponytail might interfere with that.  So I went had it cut really short, in a pixie.

Turns out I didn't need to do that, since the technicians doing my radiation said i could have simply not worn a ponytail and it would have been fine. Too late.

So now 7 months later my hair is barely over my ears, and looks better much crappy everyday.The good part is that I don't care that much, if at all. So what, big deal.

Work Life: I returned to work in late February, and at first it was tough, but eventually got back into the groove as it is. Now I am treated pretty much like I was before I took my little 3 month sabbatical. Which means that besides supervising my staff of 5, my boss delegates all the meeting proposals he gets to me, so he can fiddle around in his office doing who knows what. Mostly reading or watching videos on his laptop....there, i said it, he's a (bigger than me) goof off...BUT then again, if anything hits the fan, he catchs it.

Fortunately for him me and the staff are pretty good at our jobs.

Today, just a few minutes ago, I got another of what now must be 20 emails about the new CEO I have received in the last 2 weeks. You would think this woman is a miracle worker, the praise is so deep. I can only imagine how quickly that will fade if the directors don't see the expected improvements.

Unrelated events: Ever hear of a Assistant Secretary of Broadband and Digital Literacy? Well apparently the State of California appointed a woman to that job recently, according the the news on TechWire. Not sure what she will be doing for that $126,000 a year salary (btw, thats $10,500 a MONTH to you and me).

Thanks for reading this

Politics

I read a column today by Peggy Noonan. It was interesting to read what she thought of how our President has pretty much squandered any good will the people had towards him as a politician.

I remember back in December has I was wretching my guts out from chemotheraphy, and thinking about how someone with no health insurance would basically be out of luck in getting the extensive treatment I was getting....I know it crystalized in my head the idea that there must be a way to have comprehensive health care for all without sending us all to the poorhouse.

Now the Obamacare law is before the Supreme Court, and many speculate the law will be tossed...which is a shame since there ARE some good points in the law. I can't beleive Congress passed it without a clause that if part of the law is found unconstituional, that part gets tossed and the rest stays. So how does a Constituional law professor (Obama) push a law thru knowing that without the severability clause, the law might be unravelled???

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Mesquite bbq Prime rib, mashed potatoes & gravy, cranberry stuffing, green beans, yams, and fresh biscuits.

Pumpkin and/or apple pie and mountains of whip cream...

May all share time with friends and family to give thanks...

IRAN (probably) has nuclear weapons

Russia and China fear the publication now of the IAEA's findings could hurt any chance of diplomacy resolving the long-running nuclear row and they have lobbied against it, signaling opposition to any new punitive U.N. measures against Iran.

Iran rejects allegations of atomic weapons ambitions, saying its nuclear program is aimed at producing electricity.

The IAEA has declined to comment on the intelligence it has received from member states, including the United States, pending the release of its report.

But some of the highlights were described in a presentation by David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, at a private conference of intelligence professionals last week. PowerPoint slides from the presentation were obtained by The Washington Post, and details of Albright’s summary were confirmed by two European diplomats privy to the IAEA’s internal reports, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in keeping with diplomatic protocol.

Albright said IAEA officials, based on the totality of the evidence given to them, have concluded that Iran “has sufficient information to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device” using highly enriched uranium as its fissile core. In the presentation, he described intelligence that points to a formalized and rigorous process for gaining all the necessary skills for weapons-building, using native talent as well as a generous helping of foreign expertise.

According to the intelligence provided to the IAEA, key assistance in both areas was provided by Vyacheslav Danilenko, a former Soviet nuclear scientist who was contracted in the mid-1990s by Iran’s Physics Research Center, a facility linked to the country’s nuclear program. Documents provided to the U.N. officials showed that Danilenko offered assistance to the Iranians over at least five years, giving lectures and sharing research papers on developing and testing an explosives package that the Iranians apparently incorporated into their warhead design, according to two officials with access to the IAEA’s confidential files.

According to Albright, one key breakthrough that has not been publicly described was Iran’s success in obtaining design information for a device known as an R265 generator. The device is a hemispherical aluminum shell with an intricate array of high explosives that detonate with split-second precision. These charges compress a small sphere of enriched uranium or plutonium to trigger a nuclear chain reaction.

Additional help appears to have come from the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, whose design for a device known as a neutron initiator was found in Iran, the sources said. Khan is known to have provided nuclear blueprints to Libya that included a neutron initiator, a device that shoots a stream of atomic particles into a nuclear weapon’s fissile core at the start of the nuclear chain reaction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iaea-says-foreign-expertise-has-brought-iran-to-threshold-of-nuclear-capability/2011/11/05/gIQAc6hjtM_print.html