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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

 

  • Bruce A. McHenry
    Swimming for Fitness
    I started swimming a mile a day last week and sometimes do timed 250 yard sprints. My first one was 3'58 which after a few days dropped to 3'53. Then the lifeguard suggested reaching at far forward as possible before starting the downstroke...
    May 20 at 12:57am · · · ·
    • Elizabeth Terry, Anne Stone and Shannon Clarke like this.
      • Araz Inguilizian Awesome Bruce. So happy for you - must be feeling good for sure.
        May 20 at 3:44am · · 1 person
      • Anne Stone Swimming is where it's at. Lalanne did it--didn't hurt him any!
        May 20 at 7:11am ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry Anne, But Jack did not make 100, did he?
        May 20 at 9:17am ·
      • Bob Phillips OMG, the dude is training. Wot's next? A Garmin Edge wrist GPS, Training Center software, training logs, Trithlons? You Go, Kid!
        May 20 at 9:28pm ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry Thanks for the encouragement. Instantiating roadtrains will preclude getting serious about triathlons. However, some training is not incompatible with being a real professional. Shouldn't I be focusing on that challenge, Bob?
        Saturday at 12:33am ·
      • Bob Phillips People don't get me! I pick up about 1500 aerobic points/week and do all the things I mentioned above. Obsessed, it could be called. I think it's cool, you've added another state-vector to being "one of us."
        Saturday at 8:29am ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry State-vector. I like it. That seems roughly equivalent to what Marvin Minsky calls a K-line. It's like a tree off of which branch all the associations with the memory/motor-skill. As for being one of the gang, I am honored. (((However, Ron Paul still owes me an email! Have you been in touch with him lately?)))
        Saturday at 3:47pm ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry State-vector. I like it. That seems roughly equivalent to what Marvin Minsky calls a K-line. It's like a tree off of which branch all the associations with the memory/motor-skill. As for being one of the gang, I am honored. (((However, Ron Paul still owes me an email! Have you been in touch with him lately?)))
        Saturday at 3:47pm ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry State-vector. I like it. That seems roughly equivalent to what Marvin Minsky calls a K-line. It's like a tree off of which branch all the associations with the memory/motor-skill. As for being one of the gang, I am honored. (((However, Ron Paul still owes me an email! Have you been in touch with him lately?)))
        Saturday at 3:47pm ·
      • Bob Phillips Nothin' from those guys in months.
        Saturday at 3:50pm ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry Could you ping the most esteemed Dr. Paul for me and find out what he is up to? Same-o for Ed?
        Saturday at 3:53pm ·
      • Bob Phillips yup,
        I'll do that
        Saturday at 5:35pm via ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry Thanks.
        Saturday at 5:37pm ·
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  • Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
    This report of the death toll in Iraq - approaching that in Cambodia under Pol Pot - is apparently survey based and appears to corroborate the survey reported in Lancet that surfaced briefly in 2006. These surveys are pretty simple to do but they have not been undertaken by the military or the major American news outlets. They would only need to take very small samples to determine whether the US military estimates
    #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored
    www.projectcensored.org
    Sources: After Downing Street, July 6, 2007 Title: “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?” Author: Michael
    May 19 at 11:05pm · · · ·
      • Barry Kort World-wide, state-sponsored military and political violence claims some 2 million lives a year. The Holocaust was not a one-off event in the middle of the 20th Century. An estimated 200 million people lost their lives to state-sponsored violence in the 20th Century.
        May 20 at 4:40am · · 2 people
      • Bruce A. McHenry ‎... to determine whether the military estimates or the independent surveys are most accurate. Americans seem not to care. That indifference is really very troubling.
        May 20 at 9:09am ·
      • Bob Phillips Yup, it appears that Geo W is one of history's worst war criminals.
        May 20 at 9:27pm · · 1 person
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  • Bruce A. McHenry via Peter Rothman
    ‎"What about multi-tasking? Isn't this the new superhuman-internet-enabled trait? Study after study shows that multi-tasking is a myth for the vast majority of the population. Multi-tasking fractures thinking, divides focus and even creates a multi-tasking hangover that prevents concentrated work for up to 15 minutes. Multi-tasking also helps highlight how the internet pushes users towards completing processes rather
    The Net Hijacks the Subconscious Mind | AdAge China: Viewpoint - Advertising Age
    adage.com
    The internet has been an amazing revolution in opening the access to knowledge, but its design fundamentally distracts and interrupts our thinking.
    May 18 at 4:42pm · · · ·
      • Anne Stone Depends on your brain. I always did math better when I could listen to rock music. Different people have different levels of tolerance for noise across the Corpus. Females have so much more noise across the Corpus Callosum that they're supposed to be better at distraction. Or maybe it's just a myth to help us recover from the kid syndrome! ;)
        May 19 at 7:25am · · 1 person
      • Laura Kelleher Neal I dislike multi-tasking. But listening to music while working, that works.
        May 19 at 8:31pm · · 1 person
  • Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
    However, time-of-day pricing could be used to eliminate traffic jams as we know them. When highways fill beyond capacity, the flow breaks down and throughput declines by as much as 50%. That harms everyone and should be prevented.

    On demand ridesharing also has tremendous potential to bust up congestion (AND HELP TO RECREATE A LOST SOCIAL COHESION BY PROVIDING MANY NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL INTERACTION) but it
    Activist Post: Insanity Rampant in the District of Criminals: now they want to tax us per mile
    www.activistpost.com
    May 18 at 11:12am · · · ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry Of course, it would make it very hard for alpha breeders who now operate clandestinely to keep up appearances. Society could use a whole new set of mores as well.
        May 18 at 6:15pm ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry I, for one, would be glad for a whole new set of mores. When it gets hot, I find the fashion restrictions to be wholly illiberal.

        I'm not saying fuck the kids but I do not deny that would happen. BFD?!?
        May 20 at 9:49am ·
  • Bruce A. McHenry via Ann Tulintseff
    ‎"Honeybees possess magnetite crystals in their fat body cells and they present magnetic remanence (Gould et al. 1978; Keim et al. 2002). These magnetite structures are active parts of the magnetoreception system in honeybees (Hsu and Li 1994; Hsu et al. 2007). Honeybees can be trained to respond to very small changes in the constant local geomagnetic field intensity"
    Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse
    www.naturalnews.com
    Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse
    May 18 at 10:12am · · · ·
    • Anne Stone and David Pike like this.
      • Bruce A. McHenry Natural News being prone to ringing the fire alarm, here is the link to the actual research that I would recommend: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf
        May 18 at 10:14am · · 1 person
      • Bruce A. McHenry
        Regardless of whether this is true, we should hurry up and dis-empower the mobile providers whose key assets are now those powerful cell phone towers.

        Instead, we will build a mobile infrastructure with much lower power, local transmitters located in offices, apartments and suburban homes. This will inevitably happen as the smart phones operating systems add WiFi then WiMax based calling capability. It will be a war between Apple-Google-Microsoft against ATT-Verizon-TMobile.

        In my opinion, the FCC missed the main opportunity twenty years ago to start creating such a widely distributed low power mobile phone transmission system based on microcells. Home and business owners would have choosen to operate them for small payments, in effect for a discount on their phone/data plan.

        Such a mobile phone antenna network should have been designed to be open to any mobile operator on equal terms. It would have allowed the entire mobile system to provide far higher quality with much lower radiated power.

        That alternative type of network is probably inevitable and could happen quickly if the FCC ran more on brains than payola. (I can dream, can't I?) Our cell phone bills would become much lower and, if cell towers are indeed responsible for CCD, then the bees should also recover.

        As a B myself, I'd be delighted about that!
        May 18 at 11:26am ·
      • Anne Stone Very interesting!
        May 19 at 7:26am ·
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  • Bruce A. McHenry
    ‎"... the proposed authorization of a worldwide war goes much further, however, allowing war wherever there are terrorism suspects in any country around the world without an expiration date, geographical boundaries or connection to the 9/11 attacks or any other specific harm or threat to the United States."
    Unchecked Executive War Power Could Slip Through the House :
    theintelhub.com
    Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasn’t been getting a lot of attention — a brand new authorization for a worldwide war.
    May 18 at 9:49am · · · ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry
        ‎"... the proposed authorization of a worldwide war goes much further, however, allowing war wherever there are terrorism suspects in any country around the world without an expiration date, geographical boundaries or connection to the 9/11attacks or any other specific harm or threat to the United States." -ACLU

        Essentially, this is an expansion of the powers of the Imperial Presidency.

        Being a political opponent who agrees (with bin Laden) that the US has no business propping up deeply hypocritical and corrupt feudal monarchies in the Gulf could get you branded a terrorist whom the President can then have assassinated... as an American, on US soil no less.

        Click here to write your representatives: https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3195&s_subsrc=110511_aumf_bor
        May 18 at 9:59am ·
  • Bruce A. McHenry
    Dogs and humans have remarkably plastic genomes. Unlike most other animals, there is great variety within a single species.
    World's Tallest Man, Sultan Kosen, Meets One Of The World's Shortest, He Pingping (PICTURES)
    www.huffingtonpost.com
    The world's tallest man met one of the world's smallest men last week as part of an event organized by the Guinness World Records. Adding another superlative to the encounter was its location, Forum Istanbul, Europe's largest mall.
    May 16 at 10:38pm · · · ·
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  • Bruce A. McHenry via Gregg Blanchard
    Obama disses the ad hoc legal framework used by W's administration then goes on to promise that he will construct legal grounds for "preventive detention" for an untold number of years... all in the same speech. He's been assimilated.
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  • Abhishek Sinha
    Never Change....:)
    Melissa Polinar "Never Change" (original)
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    DOWNLOAD: http://mpolinar.bandcamp.com/ To those who love passionately and selflessly. Thank you. ...and I actually did a little talkin' after I sang. lyrics ...
    May 13 at 10:00am · · · · See Friendship
  • Bruce A. McHenry via Gregg Blanchard
    If watching this does not make you sick, and furious about what America has become then you must be a... real American!
    U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story
    www.youtube.com
    U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 video disclosure of Apache helicopter footage of a New Ba...
    May 12 at 10:17pm · · · ·
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      • Biddle Duke OK Bruce, got it. So what's the strategy for Americans who aren't real Americans? Where to go, what to do, how to do it? Thought about moving to Vermont and joining the Vt secession movement?
        May 13 at 4:27am ·
      • Biddle Duke BTW not trying to trivialize this story nor any of the other many examples of terrible things done in the name of our country. I'm in the news business and every day I read this or that and think... this is not my America...
        May 13 at 4:49am ·
      • Gregg Blanchard
        To add to this story, an earlier clip of this footage shows a little blond haired girl about 5 years old getting OUT of the van to see what her daddy is doing. While the helicopter crew is filming the action in plain sight, they go ahead and blow her away with all of the adults. These more recent clips have ALL been photo-shopped and the child standing OUTSIDE in plain sight has been edited out ! She was definitely blown to bits with everyone else, no mercy, no hesitation. It is the work of sick minds which have been spoon fed the warrier mentality through our media and 'video games' DON'T allow these games in your childrens hands. This is ONE proactive step that we as parents, or grandparents can take to stem the tide of evil.
        May 13 at 5:14am ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry
        Hi Biddle,
        Vermont? Secession? I am in favor if that brings the problems with the Federal government into sharper focus.

        Gregg,
        The original video from Wikileaks must be all over the web. I do not really have the time/stomach to substantiate your claim but that would not be hard to do. We agree that the kids running the weapons systems had become murderers. While violent video games play a role, I put the blame far more on the system. The same kinds of atrocities occur in any war. They happened in Vietnam, Korea, WWII...
        May 13 at 10:00am ·
      • Marc Fox
        If you distill the ocean into two grains of salt, there are arguably two motivators in life: fear and hope. Look only to the history of the Catholic church for validation of this view. This may be naive to think, but one can argue that as long as (American) politicians leverage fear, and fuel the flames of fear, their ill conceived plans will always have public support. As a non-American, observing (and previously living in) America, I can also recall when America was ironically "the land of hope". Until America gets out of its funk, until hope returns as the dominant view, one person at a time, until hope is a better "sell" than fear, alas the future is somewhat predictable. Of course, as I write this, I am struck by one irony, an expression I have lived by in business... "hope is not a strategy". This may be the exception. My 2 cents. Marc
        May 13 at 10:38am · · 1 person
      • Gregg Blanchard The scary thing is, I have searched everywhere, and somehow, that original footage has been suppressed. I don't know how that is possible with the internet freedom we believe that we have evolved into. Anyone else remember the original footage?
        May 13 at 10:58am ·
      • Bruce A. McHenry
        Marc, It is more usual of course to twin fear with greed as the biggest motivators. 9/11 provoked fear and the resulting opportunities were greedily seized. However, I do have hope in the long view of human progress. Judging by Obama's having been elected with a message of Hope, it is fair to say that it's a message people want to hear. Unfortunately, Obama, is proving far too inexperienced to grill the bankers and strategists. Or, worse, he is happy to be co-opted. In the area where I am most expert, transportation technology, Obama's vision of regional High Speed Rail systems does not stand up to the simplest quantitative analysis.

        Gregg, The link I found in November is still there.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
        This appears to be the original from Wikileaks. There is no sign that the kids got out of the van. The helicopter gunner probably did not see them.
        May 13 at 9:18pm ·
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  • Bruce A. McHenry via Parijata D. Mackey
    Just in case anyone disputes the assertion that the military is causing the US to bleed out...
    For the cost of a single US soldier in Iraq, we can send 35-40 to college
    www.reddit.com
    US in decline: For the cost of a single US soldier in Iraq, we can send between 35 and 40 college students to full-time university. But it's the education that we're cutting, while military spending grows unchecked. Is it any wonder?
    May 9 at 10:19pm · · · ·
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      • Bruce A. McHenry Here's my back of the envelope cost calculation for our soldiers over there: $100 billion to support 100,000 troops = 1 million each per year.
        May 10 at 7:42pm ·
      • Bob Phillips Yup, I neglected the overhead costs. Spectacular delta.
        May 10 at 8:09pm · · 1 person
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  • Bruce A. McHenry via Alex Lightman
    Encouraging for entrepreneurs, this article points out that 99% of the growth of 80's and 90's tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and eBay, came after the IPO since their valuation at offering was sub $1 billion. Now with pre-IPO valuations at companies like Facebook in the tens of billions, a fundamental shift appears to have taken place, one that will allow the founders and initial investors to capture most of
    The Next 10 Years Will Be Great For Both Founders And VCs
    techcrunch.com
    Earlier this week I issued a report about the positive changes that have recently taken place in the venture capital industry. These changes are profound and will have a lasting effect on both the venture capital asset class as well as today’s start-ups. Much has been written about the so-called
    May 9 at 10:14pm · · · ·
  • Bruce A. McHenry
    As the official explanation of Osama's killing goes unquestioned, it is sobering to reflect on the extent to which military leaders have conspired not only to keep secrets from the public but to target innocent Americans.

    My feeling is that Obama agreed to have Osama killed in order to prevent him from becoming a star witness who causes an outcry for an honest investigation of 9/11. I just watched the whole 60 Mi
    U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
    abcnews.go.com
    U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
    May 8 at 10:02pm · · · ·
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      • Bruce A. McHenry I just watched the whole 60 Minutes with all three segments devoted to an interview with Obama? Do you think that Steve Kroft would once ask the president about Osama's value as a witness or whether he had put a priority on capturing Osama alive? If so, you would be wrong.
        May 8 at 11:35pm ·

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