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  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100566/Scientists-create-security-recognises-users-heartbeats.html

    The computer which uses your pulse rate as a password – and unlocks the moment you touch it

    By Rob Waugh

    Last updated at 6:28 PM on 13th February 2012

    Researchers have created a security system where a person's heartbeat IS their password - offering hope of electronics which people could simply pick up to unlock them.

    Human heartbeats never quite repeat themselves, and each person's heartbeat is unique.

    Chinese researchers found a way to mathematically identify a person's beat in an instant and use it as a password.

    ECG: The researchers take ECG readings from a computer user's palms, then use the readings as passwords

    ECG: The researchers take ECG readings from a computer user's palms, then use the readings as passwords

    'Because electrocardiogram signals vary from person to person, and can be used as a new tool for biometric recognition,' say the researchers at the National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan.
    Lead researcher Chun-Liang Lin used two ECG readings from people's palms to determine the unique mathematical properties of their heartbeat.

    They found that the number could be used as a password, and that the system is highly secure.

     

    More...

    Previous 'biometric' security systems using fingerprints can sometimes be tricked using photographs.

    Lin's system currently takes the user's ECG reading from each palm once, and a key based on that reading is stored and used for all later decryptions.

    The simplicity of the system could make it popular. Microsoft is currently researching less cumbersome password systems for its upcoming Windows 8 system

    The simplicity of the system could make it popular. Microsoft is currently researching less cumbersome password systems for its upcoming Windows 8 system

    Lin says the goal is to build the system into external hard drives and other devices that can be decrypted and encrypted simply by touching them, New Scientist reports.

    The idea could be popular.

    Microsoft is currently testing less cumbersome password systems for its upcoming Windows 8 software - using pictures where users have to identify people they know, rather than clumsy passwords filled with numbers and letters.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100566/Scientists-create-security-recognises-users-heartbeats.html#ixzz1mIipk3VN



    whats intresting is this

    Human heartbeats never quite repeat themselves, and each person's heartbeat is unique.

    Chinese researchers found a way to mathematically identify a person's beat in an instant and use it as a password.


  • A rare few of us suffer from a total body vibration, like our nervous systems are out of whack.  Perhaps, sonic weapons are to blame - not really sure.  It's not a stress/shaking vibration - really, quite different.  I had it for years without pause and still get it time to time.  Vibrating is unstoppable and often accompanied with long bouts of vomiting.  Rather like living in a paint shaker.
    Are there any vibrating ti's who are willing to discuss this problem?
    Thanks,
    Mary Lamont
    604 629 9885  Pacific Standard Time
    windintrees1@gmail.com

  • Has anyone ever heard of this person?? Selling an ebook for $100. Anyone tried it? Or heard of anyone who has??

    http://www.free-targeted-individuals.com/

  • With today being a prep/down day for me, and tomorrow being Valentines Day, what better gift than to pick this year's candidates for the death pool!?
      Got a few friends playing along on Facebook, and thought we could have some giggles on who you think will leave us all this year.  Now mind you, this ISN'T a wish list, or else I'd HAVE TO ADD a huge number of locals to the list.  Besides, this is a REAL CELEBRITY list, not "paperback novelists" or alleged media darlings.

    MY PICKS FOR 2012:
    1) Clint Eastwood
    2) Betty White
    3) Ernest Bourgnine
    4) Nick Nolte
    5) Zsa Zsa Gabor
    6) Bob Barker
    7) Bobby Deniro
    8) William Shatner
    9) Daniel Radcliff
    10) Mary Tyler Moore

    And there's some likely ones too, like Fidel Castro, Muhammed Ali or George Bush I.  But wanted to stay with entertainment celebrities.

    http://www.deathlist.net/

    Your top ten:


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  • That VW is considering Mexico suggests that they are not looking at Detroit.  This subject of a VW looking at Anderson County previously came up.  Think we will do any better this time?

    VW to decide on North American Audi plant this summer 
    http://europe.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120212/ANE/120219973/1193
    (Excerpt)
    Volkswagen AG expects to choose a site for Audi's North American plant by the summer, and locations in Mexico and the United States are in the running, according to Michael Macht, VW's head of manufacturing.

    After picking a site it will take about 2½ years to begin production, Macht said in an interview with Automotive News Europe.

    VW has yet to determine which Audi model it will assemble there, he added. But the decision on where to locate the factory is closely linked with the company's desire to bring another Volkswagen SUV, larger than the Tiguan, to the United States, he said.

    "The two decisions are closely related, and we expect to make them by the summer," Macht said.

    The ability to source parts locally also is a factor, but at this point, VW has no "clear preference," he added.
    JK

  • Se vc e um petista(tucano) que chegou irritado do trabalho e tudo que deseja era matar um tucano(petista), o spam politico e a terapia que vc sempre sonhou!" 
    Vale (quase) tudo. Só nao vale xingar pai e mãe, desde que a sua mãe/pai não seja Dilma Roussef/Fernando Henrique!!!

    Palavras Chaves: política/humor/violencia/conteudo sexual/palavras inadequadas....

  • I'm amazed at how fast and sometimes how incorrect the news is today.

    Here's one example of how a rumor takes flight:

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/120210/kim-jong-un-dead-or-alive

    And the opposite when the news is true:

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/whitney-houston-death-mourning-questions.html

  • Panorama - Hunting The Internet Bullies Part 1


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  • This didn't get accepted in January when I attempted submitting it as commentary about the "forum sham" switch but I noticed that the "perp patrol" managed to attempt making
    ME look deranged by STILL accepting submittal of my LAST "WHY" that I had forgotten
    to include with the rather lengthy list. I think I will print this out as far as possible BEFORE submitting it just to show how the sham of FREEDOMFROMCOVERTHARASSMENTANDSURVEILLANCE perping program works, as far as this is possible to do with the TRUE Organizations I am contacting.  I notice that this one does NOT allow printing of the posting WITH identifying "address" like your "flaming world" logo in the original format. THAT peculiarity can constitute my first "WHY?":

    I was also shocked to discover when I checked into the "new old" website at "hotblack's
    myfreeforum" that a NEW one had been set up BACK on GOOGLE as apparently the
    GENUINE deal intended for frequent use! I don't know WHO Derrick though he was
    fooling with claiming he was switching from GOOGLE to a totally obscure forum address
    (on MOZILLA) but obviously members (such as myself) would find out about tthis one and
    I did in fact by reading one member's answer to another apparently confused member
    about the move and where his posts went. So THIS begs the question WHY Derrick did
    you move your GENUINE "forum" BACK to GOOGLE, which you had claimed couldn't be
    trusted?
     
    WHY do you keep the "sham forum" still operative which obviously VERY few are fooled
    into frequently using??
     
    WHY are STILL operating censorship of members postings???
     
    WHY didn't you at least do ALL the members the courtesy of transferring the full archive
    of their postings (some of which were interestingly useful) to the "old old fourm" when
    you switched to it at the beginning of this year so that they weren't lost on EITHER of these (including THIS that you apparently switched to ONLY WITHIN the FIRST month!)??? Instead you pulled an AREYOUTARGETED.COM ploy of COMPLETELY
    revamping the "forum" by erasing ALL the postings of the original one BUT STILL
    and NOT even including them in your main webpage but STILL foolishly leaving
    a history of the postings titles on GOOGLE though the posts themselves cannot be
    access!!!!!!

    IF ALL this doesn't DEMONstrate that your "organization" is a sham and NOT worth relying on or posting to anymore (which is WHY I don't) then NOTHING does! WHY
    rely on a "harassment log" of a "perpsite"????!!!!
     
    By the way, I see that though listed as a "rookie" AFTER HALF a YEAR'S worth of posting 
    activity I am ALSO listed with ONLY TWO posts on THIS format as ONE of the "TOP TEN"
    posters on the "FORUM ROAMONUM"!! 


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  • Did your broker receive a kickback on your mortgage?  Please report the dollar amount of Yield Spread Premium in your loan documents.
     
    You can find YSP on the settlement statement in your mortgage documents. It will be listed as P.O.C. or paid "outside of closing." This shows the dollar amount of the kickback your broker received for inflating your interest rate.
     
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  • http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/lonely-shy-sad-well-now-youre-mentally-ill-too-6699884.html


    Lonely? Shy? Sad? Well now you're 'mentally ill', too

    Expanded psychiatric 'bible' will see more people needlessly medicated, experts warn

    Jeremy Laurance Author Biography

    Friday 10 February 2012

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    Mild eccentrics, oddball romantics and the lonely, shy and sad could find themselves diagnosed with a mental disorder if proposals to add new conditions to the world's most widely used psychiatric bible go ahead, experts have warned.
    A major revision of the the 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, whose fifth edition is due for publication next year, threatens to extend psychiatric diagnoses to millions of people currently regarded as normal, they say. Among the diagnostic labels are "oppositional defiance disorder" for challenging adolescents, "gambling disorder" for those compelled to have a flutter, and "hypersexual disorder" for those who think about sex at least once every 20 minutes. People crippled by shyness or suffering from loneliness could be diagnosed with "dysthymia", defined as "feeling depressed for most of the day".
    More worrying, according to some experts, are attempts to redefine crimes as illnesses, such as "paraphilic coercive disorder", applied to men engaged in sexual relationships involving the use of force. They are more commonly known as rapists.
    The revised DSM 5, which is in draft form and subject to review, is produced and used in the US but its influence extends to Europe and beyond. Critics fear it could increase the numbers diagnosed with mental illness and treated with powerful drugs when their problems should be addressed by social, educational or political initiatives.
    More than 11,000 mental health researchers and experts have called for the draft version of the manual to be abandoned and the review rethought.
    Peter Kinderman, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool, said that in addition to pathologising behaviour that would otherwise be counted as a crime, such as rape, it also pathologised behaviour that did not cause harm to others even though it might be regarded as eccentric, such as dressing up in rubber. "Many people have huge concerns that if a person's sexual history involves repeated episodes of coercion and that is regarded as an illness it gives people an excuse for their disorder," he said.
    But other behaviours, such as spending hours on the internet, could be regarded as "making life more interesting and fun". "Many people who are shy, bereaved, eccentric, or have unconventional romantic lives will suddenly find themselves labelled as 'mentally ill'," he said. "This isn't valid, isn't true, isn't humane. And it won't help decide what help a person needs."
    Nick Craddock, professor of psychiatry at the University of Liverpool, said the expansionist tendencies of the manual were pulling in more aspects of behaviour and cognition. "That means medicalising normal human behaviour," he said. "It risks labelling people who are otherwise normal."
    Psychiatric Bible: New disorders
    Gambling disorder Preoccupied with gambling, needing increasing amounts of money for the same level of excitement.
    Attenuated psychosis syndrome Delusions, hallucinations, mildly disorganised speech at least once a week.
    Hypersexual disorder Recurrent and intense sexual fantasies and urges over at least six months which are unsuccessfully controlled.
    Dysthymia A low, dark, or sad mood on most days for at least two years in adults or one year in children.
    Paraphilic coercive disorder Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from sexual coercion, as manifested by fantasies, urges, or behaviours.

  • During Anderson County Finance Committee Meeting, 2-10-2012, Elliott Davis, an auditing firm, issued unqualified opinion related to audit of the financial statements for fiscal year ended June 30, 2011. In other words, no wrong doing was found. However, the presentation made by Elliott Davis auditors Laurie Smith and Lee Wagner was vague and limited. Only financial professionals could appreciate what they attempted to communicate. In addition, after the presentation was over, both auditors seemed very reluctant to answer questions by Councilmen, and even more reluctant to respond to questions by residents who attended the meeting.

    Most interesting was a confrontation between Ms. Cindy Wilson and Ms. Laurie Smith concerning auditing work by Elliott Davis for Anderson County in prior years. Apparently, Ms. Cindy Wilson in past years expressed her concerns to Elliott Davis concerning much of the financial dealing of Anderson County under the previous Administration, espcially in dealing with County credit cards, advance payments, and contracts. And apparently, Elliott Davis refused to respond to Ms. Wilson's concerns. Ms. Laurie Smith explained that Elliott Davis only answers to the Council as a whole, not to an individual Council member. In addition, she stated that the issues that Ms. Wilson had raised in the past dealt with dollar amounts that were below the threshold of their auditing responsibility. On the other hand, Ms. Cindy Wilson expressed her disappointment that an auditing firm would simply ignore her concers, which were proven latter to be very serious and legitimate.

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  • State could take cut of city fees, fines 
    http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/10/2147458/state-could-take-cut-of-city-fees.html
    (Excerpt)
    You may have to pay more money to park in city-owned parking spaces because of a proposal lawmakers inserted into the state budget on Thursday.


    The proposal, sponsored by state Rep. Chip Limehouse, R-Charleston, would require S.C. cities to give 35 percent of the money that they collect from parking tickets and meters on state-owned roads to the state government.
    JK


  • Jesse Ventura - Sleeper Assassins (Conspiracy Theory, S1 Ep 6)


    Conspiracy Theory, Season 1, Episode 6)
    In this episode, Jesse Ventura and his team learn about the "Manchurian Candidate" program - the Government's use of ordinary citizens as super soldiers to carry-out Government black ops, like assassinations. Governor Ventura learns how candidates are chosen, subjected to intense psychological stress and trauma, hypnotized, given microchip implants, and given keywords that when activated instruct them to kill on command without any recollection of the events. Jesse and the team interview an author and experts on the subject, and Jesse meets a man who claims to be a member of the Manchurian Candidate program.

  • this is good and informative ..don`t be put of by the wacky colours or theme


    Frankenstein Teaches You About Brainwashing

    In this video Frankenstein gives you a serious class on Brainwashing. The source for most of this information is the research of psychologist Alfred D. Biderman, who studied brainwashing tactics used by North Koreans on US prisoners of war in the 50s. You can find out more about his work by reading Amnesty International's "Report on Torture" published in 1973.

    For those of you waiting for more funny videos, please be patient. My content is part of an overall effort called "The Fictional Universe Project" and will cover a broad range in terms of content. This particular series is serious and inspired by 50s era fiction, edutainment, and imagery such as appeared in early James Bond and monster movies as well as early 60s comics drawn by Jim Steranko.

    Also, since I can't sing, I express myself this way. The Frankenstein series is kind of like me singing the blues. I don't intend to bore you guys with my real life problems (at least not much), but I just haven't been feeling very jokey lately.

    Finally, sound quality is an issue with my vids. I'm aware of the problem and working on it.

    Also, this is machinima using iClone combined with video editing, chroma keying, and an animated spiral... just in case anyone was wondering.

  • These are surreal and incredible photos.
    Take a moment to look at them, and see the resilience of a nation.

    http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/02/photos-japan-nearly-one-year-after-deadly-tsunami/29106/comment-page-1/#comment-155082

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  • Now that the redistricting matter has been decided, the lines redrawn, and the dust settled, I am curious as to how the faces in seats will change?  The rumblings from rightwing Radio are they are not too pleased with those they supported/installed.  Similar to how they reacted when Mike Thompson was under their thumb, until he rejected their leverage and became "the waterboy". Or how Allen was their go-to guy, until he rebuked Wilson and became "Gracie's pawn".  Same for Ron Wilson.  Funny, a pattern develops with these guys!  Do as we say or you get a new nickname.

    Having talked to at least two possible candidates for two districts, they are pleased with the new outlines.  It gives them areas which representation has been less than stellar in the past.  The two we've spoken to are eager to add their names to the slate.  Both are successful businesspeople, and of course BOTH of them are completely computer literate and proficient.  So it should be a cinch for them to utilize social media to get the words out.  Not everyone NEEDS to listen to fascist AM to get their news or political choices ( besides "please DON'T VOTE" from Dicky-D).

      I've also talked to a candidate running for Sheriff.  I know that person is definitely NOT PLEASED with the activities undertaken by the current Sheriff and his henchman Taylor Jones.  The direction that the ACSD has taken has left a bad taste in the mouths of many. And suspicious spending, hinky personnel shuffling & hiring practices and possible misappropriations of E-911 tariff monies have not sat well either. 
    I'm curious as to how the campaign will progress, if information is re-released about said activities and characters under the ACSD.  Will anyone remember?

    Has anyone spoken to their neighbors about their new districts?  How about any possible candidates who plan on getting into the fray?  I know many are playing it close to their vests, so avoid the character slaughtering performed by the tax-dodgers, felons, wife beaters and rasslers.
     Most likely we'll see the return of the repeatedly-failed candidate clan.  Which is fine, so their opposition will have an easier win! 


  • http://fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/02/faa_drones.html 

    Plan to cover USA with more drones by 2015, will they carry weapons?  What kind of weapons? 

    If they can see into our homes now, why do they need more?  Will they carry Electronic Harassment weapons or just killing weapons?  What new experiment is in store for us?   dot

  • Mr. Francis Crowder, Anderson County District One Councilman, plans to hold a Town Hall Meeting, Thursday, February 9, 2012, 6:00 pm, at Anderson County Historical Courthouse, Council Chamber.

    The purpose of the meeting is to allow residents to express their concerns, wants, and needs from County Government and Council. Among the topics that are expected to be discussed are the following:

    - Progress report on the East/West Connector, which includes timetable, present plans, and possible future modifications of these plans.

    - Budget concerns, especially on how to finance Storm Water, which is a State and Federal unfunded mandate.

    - Future recreation and tourism projects and how to finance them. Some are calling for 2% Hospitality Tax on prepared food and beverages in the unincorporated areas of Anderson County.

    - How to repair and upgrade County's roads and bridges. Some are calling for One Cent Capital Project Sales Tax, with limited duration, and a specific list of roads and bridges to be repaired and paved.

    - How to improve cooperation and collaboration between County Government, County Municipalities, and private entities.

  • When I first saw the video of the girl's and their movements I could not help recognizing that they may have been attacked through their nervous system as TI's are.  Then I told myself they will find they have some infection or other.  They are still in the news and I watched more carefully and these look just like the twitches or jerks that happen to me during an attack.  It is not a whole body thing and you never know when it will happen or what appendage will be affected. It can be painful if it is in your core body but it is just shocking when it happens to an arm or a leg.  It can be both legs or one.  There is no precipatating thought or even a little warning.  It just comes out of the blue and not controllable at all.  Sometimes it is when I am trying to write and my arm will take off sideways. This ruins whatever I am trying to write.

    Is it possible that they all are being controlled?  Why all in one place?  Could crime gangs who have stolen or were given the weapons are using it them to get even with a union or a political group in that town and they are using the girls.  I know this sounds way out but if you watch it and then watch the video of the TI's on  YouTube you might see what I mean.   dot

  •  I am wondering if the song- Imagine- by the Beatles  was part of the start to a new world order.

  • I watched a movie called Endgame..a blueprint for global enslavement.(Alex Jones) You can get it through netflix.. it's .kind of depressing though

  •  I was wondering if anyones experience of rape has changed. It used to be I felt poked in the vaginal area. The last few months it has been more like heated up. More like being microwaved. It is such a torture to have your body touched when you don't want to be touched. I know this is not from my own body but of course I cannot prove it. To make it even more difficult is that these attacks are almost always followed by gas...so anyone I would tell would say that must be the cause.    I sometimes think often when I am sad (which tends to be often since I have no freedom)that he does this to make me so angry I scream. I think in his screwed up mind it is a 'cure' for depression to "shout" it out.  I hate this..if anyone is getting raped please share your experience and maybe there is a pattern we can figure out.
       also I have wondered if it could be a female pretending to be a male that is useing me in somekind of war between males and females.

  • State Of The Nation - In Cornwall & Concerned


    Uploaded by ukcolumn on 4 Feb 2012

    Brian Gerrish speaks in Penzance, Cornwall on the state of the nation.

  • I am interested in devices that block ELF, RF, MW, Laser attacks.  Also devices that substantiate our claims that we are targeted.  And there must be devices or gadgets that disable the perps activity. 

    The violation of our persons and movements needs to be thwarted.  My guess is that since the attacks are being done electronically, electronics could be used to disable or interfere with the perps devices. 

     Measuring devices, protective devices, and other devices must exist that would be helpful.  A discussion of devices and techniques that can be used would be appreciated.     





  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097559/Leave-area-Council-installs-CCTV-camera-barks-orders-like-Robocop-residents-communal-garden.html


    ‘Robocop’ CCTV cameras which tell people to leave the area have their voices switched off after being blasted as machines of a ‘police state’

    By Amy Oliver

    Last updated at 3:17 PM on 7th February 2012

    Camera

    You're being watched: The cameras, like above, were placed at a flat block in Camden, north London and included a voice function to warn residents

    A council has been forced to deactivate the voice function from CCTV cameras after residents complained about 'machines of the police state' ordering them out of the area'.
    One of the offending cameras, situated outside a block of flats in Camden, North London, was filmed barking orders at a resident, ordering him to leave in a 'Robocop-style voice'.

    Jim Jepps, who lives in the block, filmed the camera which was heard saying: ''Stop, this is a restricted area and your photograph is being taken.It will be sent for processing if you don't leave the area now.'
    His video became a YouTube hit, racking up 50,000 views.
    Mr Jepps, 41, told MailOnline the temporary flash camera had been installed in September, but he had been alerted to its sinister message last week by a neighbour walking her dog.
    'It started barking orders at me in an American accent,' Mr Jepps said.

     

    More...

    'But this is a residential area, 10 feet from our front door, 99 per cent of people who get snapped and shouted at by this thing are residents going about their business, having a smoke or walking their dogs,' he added.
    Camden Council said it had installed the camera in response to complaints of anti-social behaviour on the estate.
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    Big Brother: Jim Jepps, resident of Walker House in Camden, north London, filmed this CCTV camera in his communal garden barking orders at him

    Big Brother: Jim Jepps, resident of Walker House in Camden, north London, filmed this CCTV camera in his communal garden barking orders at him

    Stern: The camera issued a pre-recorded statement in a 'Robocop' type American accent

    Stern: The camera issued a pre-recorded statement in a 'Robocop' type American accent

    Come quietly or there will be trouble: The camera's voice has been likened to that of Robocop's by residents

    Come quietly or there will be trouble: The camera's voice has been likened to that of Robocop by residents

    But Home Office crime maps show no crimes were recorded on the estate in 2011.

    The council also revealed that all flash cameras 'have the capacity to deliver voice messages when activated'.
    It said the voice function of the Walker House camera must have been 'inadvertently activated' when the batteries were replaced 'four to five weeks ago'.
    'We do not want to stop residents from enjoying their open spaces and communal areas and under no circumstances would we want voice messages to be used in areas where they may be disturbed,' the council said.
    A spokesman for the council said the camera was 'deactivated first thing this morning.'

    Nick Pickles of pressure group Big Brother Watch said: 'This kind of technology may be acceptable in a police state or a science fiction film, but it is absolutely not in modern Britain.
    'The idea that a Robocop recording will tackle anti-social behaviour and crime is as laughable as it is a total invasion of privacy.

    'Who knew councils had the authority to take your photograph simply because you walked into a communal garden?'
    Around two million CCTV camera are believed to be installed across the country.

    Models like the Walker House camera with voice functions were first used in Middlesbrough in 2007.

     

    YouTube: jimjay1

    Camden Council Robocop

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  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/07/neuroscience-soldiers-control-weapons-mind


    Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds

    Neuroscience breakthroughs could be harnessed by military and law enforcers, says Royal Society report

    American 451st Air Expeditionary Wing
    Medevac troops from the American 451st air expeditionary wing look out from their Pavehawk helicopter while heading to pick up casualties in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
    Soldiers could have their minds plugged directly into weapons systems, undergo brain scans during recruitment and take courses of neural stimulation to boost their learning, if the armed forces embrace the latest developments in neuroscience to hone the performance of their troops.
    These scenarios are described in a report into the military and law enforcement uses of neuroscience, published on Tuesday, which also highlights a raft of legal and ethical concerns that innovations in the field may bring.
    The report by the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, says that while the rapid advance of neuroscience is expected to benefit society and improve treatments for brain disease and mental illness, it also has substantial security applications that should be carefully analysed.
    The report's authors also anticipate new designer drugs that boost performance, make captives more talkative and make enemy troops fall asleep.
    "Neuroscience will have more of an impact in the future," said Rod Flower, chair of the report's working group.
    "People can see a lot of possibilities, but so far very few have made their way through to actual use.
    "All leaps forward start out this way. You have a groundswell of ideas and suddenly you get a step change."
    The authors argue that while hostile uses of neuroscience and related technologies are ever more likely, scientists remain almost oblivious to the dual uses of their research.
    The report calls for a fresh effort to educate neuroscientists about such uses of the work early in their careers.
    Some techniques used widely in neuroscience are on the brink of being adopted by the military to improve the training of soldiers, pilots and other personnel.
    A growing body of research suggests that passing weak electrical signals through the skull, using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), can improve people's performance in some tasks.
    One study cited by the report described how US neuroscientists employed tDCS to improve people's ability to spot roadside bombs, snipers and other hidden threats in a virtual reality training programme used by US troops bound for the Middle East.
    "Those who had tDCS learned to spot the targets much quicker," said Vince Clark, a cognitive neuroscientist and lead author on the study at the University of New Mexico. "Their accuracy increased twice as fast as those who had minimal brain stimulation. I was shocked that the effect was so large."
    Clark, whose wider research on tDCS could lead to radical therapies for those with dementia, psychiatric disorders and learning difficulties, admits to a tension in knowing that neuroscience will be used by the military.
    "As a scientist I dislike that someone might be hurt by my work. I want to reduce suffering, to make the world a better place, but there are people in the world with different intentions, and I don't know how to deal with that.
    "If I stop my work, the people who might be helped won't be helped. Almost any technology has a defence application."
    Research with tDCS is in its infancy, but work so far suggests it might help people by boosting their attention and memory. According to the Royal Society report, when used with brain imaging systems, tDCS "may prove to be the much sought-after tool to enhance learning in a military context".
    One of the report's most striking scenarios involves the use of devices called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) to connect people's brains directly to military technology, including drones and other weapons systems.
    The work builds on research that has enabled people to control cursors and artificial limbs through BMIs that read their brain signals.
    "Since the human brain can process images, such as targets, much faster than the subject is consciously aware of, a neurally interfaced weapons system could provide significant advantages over other system control methods in terms of speed and accuracy," the report states.
    The authors go on to stress the ethical and legal concerns that surround the use of BMIs by the military. Flower, a professor of pharmacology at the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London hospital, said: "If you are controlling a drone and you shoot the wrong target or bomb a wedding party, who is responsible for that action? Is it you or the BMI?
    "There's a blurring of the line between individual responsibility and the functioning of the machine. Where do you stop and the machine begin?"
    Another tool expected to enter military use is the EEG (electroencephalogram), which uses a hairnet of electrodes to record brainwaves through the skull. Used with a system called "neurofeedback", people can learn to control their brainwaves and improve their skills.
    According to the report, the technique has been shown to improve training in golfers and archers.
    The US military research organisation, Darpa, has already used EEG to help spot targets in satellite images that were missed by the person screening them. The EEG traces revealed that the brain sometimes noticed targets but failed to make them conscious thoughts. Staff used the EEG traces to select a group of images for closer inspection and improved their target detection threefold, the report notes.
    Work on brain connectivity has already raised the prospect of using scans to select fast learners during recruitment drives.
    Research last year by Scott Grafton at the University of California, Santa Barbara, drew on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to measure the flexibility of brain networks. They found that a person's flexibility helped predict how quickly they would learn a new task.
    Other studies suggest neuroscience could help distinguish risk-takers from more conservative decision-makers, and so help with assessments of whether they are better suited to peacekeeping missions or special forces, the report states.
    "Informal assessment occurs routinely throughout the military community. The issue is whether adopting more formal techniques based on the results of research in neuroeconomics, neuropsychology and other neuroscience disciplines confers an advantage in decision-making."

  • Well, its now official. It is Michelin (what a shock).

    But, that part of the story not being told, is that the only reason we are under consideration is because.......

    of Michelin Blvd and the associated work which resulted ni the huge investment that they made there 10 years ago.

    Im sure rick driver and stan welch (among others) remember that project...because for years they have used it as an example of how misguided preston was.

    yup..a possible $1.5 BILLION in total investment in 10 years thanks to that project.....

    another example of joeys legacy paying off for this county if it comes to fruition.


  • Bill: Require USC-Clemson tilt
    http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/07/2143100/bill-require-usc-clemson-tilt.html
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    USC and Clemson will be required – by state law – to continue their annual football matchup in perpetuity if one lawmaker has his way.

    State Rep. Nathan Ballentine, R-Lexington, has introduced a proposal, to be considered by a panel of House members Wednesday, to require the two teams to continue their annual face-off, college football’s second-longest consecutively played rivalry in the nation. The teams have met 103 consecutive years.



    With both the Southeastern Conference, to which USC belongs, and the Atlantic Coast Conference, to which Clemson belongs, adding teams this year, Ballentine and some other fans are worried that scheduling conflicts could mean no more USC-Clemson matchups.
    JK

  • Sue the government officials and you pay the fine


    Lawsuit against Cheney, Rumsfeld: Going after Powerful People Who Think they’re Above the Law is “Frivolous”
    Sanctions in Gallop 9/11 lawsuit send a message: seek justice at your own risk
    by Craig McKee
    Global Research, February 5, 2012
    truthandshadows.wordpress.com
    The message is loud and clear. Go after justice for 9/11 in the courts, and not only will you lose, you’ll be punished.
    That’s what April Gallop and her lawyer, William Veale, found out as their lawsuit against former vice-president Dick Cheney, former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard Myers concluded with a final slap in the face. This came in the form of a $15,000 fine levied against Veale for filing a “frivolous” appeal (the appeal had already been turned down in April of last year).
    The decision was handed down by a three-judge panel headed by Justice John M. Walker, who just happens to be George W. Bush’s cousin – proving that the American justice system has a twisted sense of humour at times.
    In March 2010, a lower court threw the original case out, stating that it was based on “cynical delusion and fantasy.”
    Gallop, a former U.S. Army executive administrative assistant and her then two-month-old son were injured in the Pentagon event on 9/11 when an explosion in her office brought the ceiling down on them. Gallop’s desk was in the Pentagon’s E Ring, the outermost of the building’s five rings. Her desk was reported to be just 40 feet from where Flight 77 is supposed to have hit the building shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 11.
    Gallop reports she carried her child to safety through the hole in the building where the plane was supposed to have entered. She says she saw no evidence of a plane having hit: no wreckage, no bodies, no jet fuel, nothing. She says she thought her computer had triggered the explosion, reporting that there were “flames coming out of the computers.”
    Gallop’s original suit pointed to the fact that no alarm was ever sounded at the Pentagon even though it appeared that Cheney and others were tracking a plane’s progress towards the Pentagon. She has stated that there were frequent alarm drills in the Pentagon in the days leading up to 9/11 but none on that day.
    The case laid out by Veale addressed the 9/11 official story and why the evidence points to it being false. It dealt with events at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and in Shanksville, Penn. The complaint pointed to a number of areas where the defendants clearly lied about where they were on the morning of 9/11 and what they were doing. It also looked at the evidence that neither Flight 77 nor any other 757 hit the Pentagon:
    “One of those possibilities is that there was a plane substituted for Flight 77, possibly while flying over West Virginia, that was fitted and painted to look like Flight 77, which plane actually flew over the building while some other plane or missile exploded into the building on a slightly different flight path. There is the further possibility that no flying object hit the building at all, that the damage there was done by pre-placed explosives. Parts of an aircraft found in the rubble could have been planted in the building before the attacks so they could be found afterward. It will take an honest investigation and subpoena power to learn the truth.”
    I guess lawyers and their clients will think twice before using the courts to go after very powerful people who think they’re above the law – that’s because it appears they ARE above the law.
    But why should the court system be any different from all the other corrupted institutions in the country? Law enforcement won’t do its job, the media won’t do theirs, the politicians are bought and paid for, and much of the population is looking the other way while it all happens.
    It seems that with every new attack on civil liberties and Constitutional freedoms in America, the enemies of truth get bolder. The corporate media continue steering the public away from what’s really being done to them and to their country with the deft use of fear and distraction.
    Fortunately, there is a determined minority that continues to fight for truth. But it’s up against a population that is complacent and obedient and a powerful elite that feels invincible. It’s up to the sincere members of the 9/11 Truth movement to find a way to prove that they aren’t.
    Global Research Articles by Craig McKee

  • It is very hard to discern where legal and medical cross over but they do. I related what happened to me with the Sonic Weapon and I just got the statement from our insurance company. The hospital bill came to $12,00.00. that did not include ambulance, fire department or other doctor's bills which have not arrived.

    What way can we let the medical insurance companies or the people that arrange payments for the damage that is done to our bodies, know that they are being used to finance this experiment.  Are the people running this torture so blind that they don't realize one day the insurance companies will wake up to this.  How many of the hospital bills they pay along with the patient are a result of them using us for free.  What legal way can we let them know they are being taken. 

    I still ask, if these can be catagorized as gangs and they work in concert for a common cause, they are a gang, why are we not studying the RICO law?  Money does not have to be involved to invoke that law.  They communicate with each other, they hurt us, they destroy our reputations, they keep us in constant fear for our lives, and they beat us up physically and mentally.  Is that not a gang?   dot







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  • http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120203-027.pdf

    Long read, but informative.

    In a word, ouch.  We're giving up a lot of capability there, but at least we're going about it in an intelligent manner.  There are parts of the plan I disagree with--but, then, it's not my plan. 

    Parts I like: 

    Getting rid of older, hard to maintain hardware.  C-5A have horrible reliability rates.  Older C-130s, too.  The E-model last rolled off the production line in 1973.  Most are far older than that.  great maintenance or no, forty years is a long time to fly an airplane in a tactical airlift enviroment.  Really such to start losing crews due to structural failure, never mind the mission they were supporting.  I imagine the same is the case with regard to the A-model F-15s and older F-16s. 

    Increased ISR.  ISR is huge boon to combatant situational awareness.  Critical to success, in my book.

    Concentration on newer assets.  We've proven we can build machines that last.  We've proven they are extremely successful in combat.  But our fighters are early fourth generation at best.  Time to move ahead so we stay ahead. 

    Things I don't like:

    Too much reliance on platforms we don't know will work yet (specifically, F-35). 

    Getting rid of too much CAS.  Cruise missiles and fighters are great, ISR is great, but none of that is worth a damn if we can't win the ground fight.  A-10s are the very best, most survivable asset, most combat-proven asset ever created for close air support.  Cutting so much before the F-35 has even finished operational testing is a risky move, epsecially in such a dangerous time.

    No stated effort to get rid of unnecessary training requirements and the resultant overhead.  Why is there a military office of drug control?  Why is this not a civilian position?  There is no deployment requirement.  The testing is contracted out.  Any needed testing done overseas is done by th etheatre hospital with test sample sent back to labs in the US.  There's not need for it, why was this office not done away with?  And that's just the first example that comes to mind.  There are literally dozens of others.  Voting officers for stateside installations?  Overseas, sure.  Why stateside?  Equal employment?  Why is this not a civialian position?  Enormous amount of resources wasted on offices that can be handled by civilians and that provide little to no impact on mission accompiishment.

    Cutting a lot of tactical airlift without a plan to replace it. Sure, older, less reliable assets should be purged from the system. But we're always short on airlift. Especially the 'last tactical mile' the Amry bitches about so much. We're cutting 65 admittedly older 130s out of the mix--30% of our fleet, mind you--with no plans on replacing the lost airlift. We're terminating the C-27 program altogether without any plans to replace them other than using the very C-130 fleet we're cutting back on.  The C-5s we can replace with contract airlift--but contractor make money flying cargo back and forth all over the world, re-using the same airplane over and over again.  They're not going to fly into Bagdad at 0200 in the middle of April in 2003.  Waaaaayyyy too fuckng hot.  We were there, in C-130s, hacking the mission.

    No comments made on space operations or on strategic strike command.  Both are not cheap.  Are they not cutting?  Are the cuts classified?  No information there whatsoever.  I can tell you AFSOC is not getting by unscathed, but it's not so bad as the rest of the Air Force is getting.  All things considered, we're getting off light down here.

    I know money has to be cut.  I know the Air Force is going to take hits.  The entire DoD is.  There's no sense denying that.  And it's necessary to save out collective financial asses.  There's no reason to deny that, either. 

    But we'd damned sure better be cutting back on what we're asking those kids to go and do or we're going to be losing a lot more of them.

  • Mr. Ken Waters, Anderson County District 6 Councilman, has conducted a series of public forums concerning topics that require political courage to discuss. These forums included residents from the Powdersville area, Innovate Anderson, the County Administrator, and County staff members from Roads and Bridges. Among the topics discussed are the following:

    - A 2% Hospitality Tax on prepared foods and beverages in the unincorporated areas of the County. The total revenue of this tax, if approved, is expected to exceed $3 million annually. These funds can be used for tourism and recreational events and projects, including facilities, infrastructure, and roads to improve access to these facilities.

    - Mr. Rusty Burns, the County Administrator, informed the attendees that a $245,000 grant has been received from the State that could be used for water related recreation projects. Mr. Burns explained that Dolly Cooper Park can be an excellent access point to the Saluda River, which could make it qualify for this grant.

    - The attendees selected the Old Saluda River Bridge as their top priority. This project will improve the old bridge to accommodate foot and bicycle traffic, build connecting trails to the trails of Dolly Cooper Park, and possibly, in the future, connect to a trail leading to the new high school.