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I have diabetes, and so do other members of my family. I walk daily for my health, and it does keep me quite healthy, along with a healthy, low-carb diet. I like to be an example of how one can remain healthy, even after a diabetes diagnosis. Diabetes isn't the end of the world! Yes, we MUST continue to seek an end to this disease, but in the meantime, we can still be healthy and enjoy life. We must encourage each other to do so.
I walk because the American Diabetes Association's Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes is so much more than a fundraising event to me. It is my opportunity to change the future and make a positive impact in the lives of those who are affected by diabetes. I am committed to walk and raise money in this inspirational event not because 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, but because I personally know some of them, and I want to do something about it.
I am now inviting you to join me in my quest to prevent and cure diabetes once and for all. Chances are, you also know someone who has been affected by diabetes and you already know how important it is to stop this disease. By making a donation on my behalf, you will be helping the Association provide community-based education programs, protect the rights of people with diabetes and fund critical research for a cure.
With your help, we will fight for a future where a parent does not have to hear that their child has diabetes. A future where an adult does not have to face the uncertain times ahead after receiving a diabetes diagnosis. A future where you and I will know that we had a part in making this possible.
To help support my efforts, please click here: http://tonyb.us/adawalk2013 .
I truly appreciate your support. Together we can Stop Diabetes!
#diabetes
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May. 13th, 2013 09:03 am
How did I get lumped in with Skrillex and Linkin Park?
https://soundcloud.com/tonybaldwin-1/set
#elektronika #alternative #ambient #music
http://music.tonybaldwin.me
Russia Warns Obama: Global War Over “Bee Apocalypse” Coming Soon
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.
According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.
At the center of this dispute between Russia and the US, this MNRE report says, is the “undisputed evidence” that a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically related to nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, are destroying our planets bee population, and which if left unchecked could destroy our world’s ability to grow enough food to feed its population.
#bees #monsanto #gmo #worldwar #agriculture #russia #eu #usa
After his victory in the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA: At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center. As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.
The United Space Alliance has decided to stop using all Windows computers aboard the ISS, in favour of Linux — to ensure it’s systems are “stable and reliable”. Ouch.
The decision will see “dozens of laptops” change from running Windows XP to Debian 6, reports Extreme Tech. There are already Linux systems aboard the ISS, but from this point on Microsoft is banned. Keith Chuvala of the United Space Alliance has explained that the move to Linux will provide “in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could.”
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/the-is
@Linux Group @The Final Frontier
Congress = Monkeys
May. 7th, 2013 09:41 pmPsychology 101
If you start with a cage containing five #monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.
Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how #Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time:
ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
If you start with a cage containing five #monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.
Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how #Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time:
ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
calories burned per pound per mile
May. 7th, 2013 09:16 pmI need a #physicist and/or a #physician here.
I want to be able to calculate #calories burned in a running #workout .
Now, there are all kinds of "calorie calculators" online, but I don't want to use those. I need to know what math they employ to derive their answers.
But searching online just keeps giving me these "calorie calculators".
No where am I finding a mathematical formula, which is what I was hoping to find.
If I try to work backwards from the answers they give me:
The three factors most commonly asked for are
My #weight: 145 lbs
Time: 30 mins
Activity: #running 10 min/mile
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Response: 330 calories
Seems to imply that moving 145 lbs 3 miles burns 330 calories,
thus, 110 calories/mile to move my carcass.
(actuall, I've lost c. 5lbs, and am now down to 140, but just working from past workouts).
I think this gives me 110/145=calories/pound/1mile
This gives me roughly 0.7586 calories/lb/mile
So, if I weighed, theoretically, 160 and ran 5 miles
0.7586X160X5, I burn 606.9 calories?
One of the online calorie calculators gives me 608, so I can't be too far off (-1.1 difference).
So I've come up with (for English measures, lbs., miles).
Because a #calorie is simply a measure of heat or kinetic energy, thus, work,
and, work, as I understand it (high school physics, my friends)
is a matter of moving a certain mass a certain distance.
My understanding is that the speed or time is irrelevant.
It shouldn't matter whether I walk or run.
(although, I'm aware that resistance/friction probably do have an influence).
Moving 145 lbs 1 mile, apparently expends 110 calories.
So why do they ask me my pace or the time in these calculators?
(of course, they didn't ask for distance, but with the time+pace, the math is simple).
Shouldn't they just ask for my weight and the distance?
These calculators seem to imply that if I were running faster or slower, that would make a difference,
but, I'm guessing that's because they don't ask for distance, and are calculating that with the time and pace data, as did I.
I'm looking to incorporate this as a feature in runlog, calculation of calories burned.
Now, since I allow the user to choose what units for distances, of course, I'm also going to have to get the math for calories per kg per km, or something, too (anyone?).
But anyone who knows this shite, does it look like I'm on the right track here?
@Runner #fitness #math
I want to be able to calculate #calories burned in a running #workout .
Now, there are all kinds of "calorie calculators" online, but I don't want to use those. I need to know what math they employ to derive their answers.
But searching online just keeps giving me these "calorie calculators".
No where am I finding a mathematical formula, which is what I was hoping to find.
If I try to work backwards from the answers they give me:
The three factors most commonly asked for are
My #weight: 145 lbs
Time: 30 mins
Activity: #running 10 min/mile
-----------------------------
Response: 330 calories
Seems to imply that moving 145 lbs 3 miles burns 330 calories,
thus, 110 calories/mile to move my carcass.
(actuall, I've lost c. 5lbs, and am now down to 140, but just working from past workouts).
I think this gives me 110/145=calories/pound/1mile
This gives me roughly 0.7586 calories/lb/mile
So, if I weighed, theoretically, 160 and ran 5 miles
0.7586X160X5, I burn 606.9 calories?
One of the online calorie calculators gives me 608, so I can't be too far off (-1.1 difference).
So I've come up with (for English measures, lbs., miles).
calsburned=`echo "0.7568 * $weight * $distance" | bc -l`Because a #calorie is simply a measure of heat or kinetic energy, thus, work,
and, work, as I understand it (high school physics, my friends)
is a matter of moving a certain mass a certain distance.
My understanding is that the speed or time is irrelevant.
It shouldn't matter whether I walk or run.
(although, I'm aware that resistance/friction probably do have an influence).
Moving 145 lbs 1 mile, apparently expends 110 calories.
So why do they ask me my pace or the time in these calculators?
(of course, they didn't ask for distance, but with the time+pace, the math is simple).
Shouldn't they just ask for my weight and the distance?
These calculators seem to imply that if I were running faster or slower, that would make a difference,
but, I'm guessing that's because they don't ask for distance, and are calculating that with the time and pace data, as did I.
I'm looking to incorporate this as a feature in runlog, calculation of calories burned.
Now, since I allow the user to choose what units for distances, of course, I'm also going to have to get the math for calories per kg per km, or something, too (anyone?).
But anyone who knows this shite, does it look like I'm on the right track here?
@Runner #fitness #math
Monsanto OWNS Blackwater
May. 7th, 2013 04:49 pm
Monsanto OWNS Blackwater
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto.
#monsanto #blackwater #badnews
Cycling today.
May. 7th, 2013 02:54 pmNo running today, but I cycled, c. 6.6 miles.
Here's my route:
I <3 LOVE <3 riding my bicycle!
Here it is:
It is a used Fuji hybrid (handlebar came from a Trek, though). I bought it used at The Devil's Gear for $300 in summer of 2011 (photo is from 2011, which is why it says "My New Bike", even though I've had it for nearly 2 years now). Now that I am without a car, that $300 is proving a very worthy investment.
I find I can get around the city faster on my bicycle that in a car, in most cases. Plus, of course, it's healthier.
There are many bike lanes and paths in my city. We need more bike racks, though. You can get around okay, but you can't always find somewhere to lock your bike. Also, they need to clean the broken glass and stuff out of the streets better/more often (and people need to litter less).
@Cyclists #cycling #newhaven #ct
Here's my route:
I <3 LOVE <3 riding my bicycle!
Here it is:
It is a used Fuji hybrid (handlebar came from a Trek, though). I bought it used at The Devil's Gear for $300 in summer of 2011 (photo is from 2011, which is why it says "My New Bike", even though I've had it for nearly 2 years now). Now that I am without a car, that $300 is proving a very worthy investment.
I find I can get around the city faster on my bicycle that in a car, in most cases. Plus, of course, it's healthier.
There are many bike lanes and paths in my city. We need more bike racks, though. You can get around okay, but you can't always find somewhere to lock your bike. Also, they need to clean the broken glass and stuff out of the streets better/more often (and people need to litter less).
@Cyclists #cycling #newhaven #ct
Tony's Runlog
May. 4th, 2013 04:24 pmSat May 4 16:22:12 EDT 2013
Distance: 3.77 miles
Time: 40 minutes
Pace: 10:37 min/mile
BG: 79
Weight: 141 lbs.
east shore park and back
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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Distance: 3.77 miles
Time: 40 minutes
Pace: 10:37 min/mile
BG: 79
Weight: 141 lbs.
east shore park and back
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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Tony's Runlog
May. 1st, 2013 10:24 amWed May 1 10:20:29 EDT 2013
Distance: 3.2
Time: 33
Pace: 10:19 min/mile
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BG: 80
Weight: 141
Ben Jepson to East Shore Park,
back home.
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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Distance: 3.2
Time: 33
Pace: 10:19 min/mile
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BG: 80
Weight: 141
Ben Jepson to East Shore Park,
back home.
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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Tony's Runlog
Apr. 29th, 2013 10:14 amMon Apr 29 10:11:37 EDT 2013
2.73 miles in 25 minutes,
Pace: 9.16 (9:09) min/mile
Weight: 141 (lost 4 lbs.!)
BG: 102
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Route: Ben Jepson, Russel to Clifton,
Grand to Front, Ferry Bridge to home.
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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2.73 miles in 25 minutes,
Pace: 9.16 (9:09) min/mile
Weight: 141 (lost 4 lbs.!)
BG: 102
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Route: Ben Jepson, Russel to Clifton,
Grand to Front, Ferry Bridge to home.
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@Runner #running
posted with runlog - http://tonyb.us/runlog
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ATL- Lost in the Stereo - LIVE - BestBuy Theatre, NYC - 04/25/2013 by Tony Baldwin on YouTube
#atl #alltimelow #nyc #springfevertour
You Me At Six, Live, BestBuy Theatre, NYC, 04/25/2013 by Tony Baldwin on YouTube
You Me at Six take the stage at BestBuy Theatre, NYC, 04/25/2013
#youmeatsix #live #nyc #springfevertour #yma6
All Time Low - NYC - 04/25/2013
Apr. 26th, 2013 08:58 am
All Time Low, Live, Bestbuy Theatre, 04/25/2013, Spring Fever Tour by Tony Baldwin on YouTube
All Time Low - Live - New York City, Best Buy Theatre - 04/25/2013
shot with motorola droid3 phone
#atl #alltimelow #live #nyc
