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Existing Drug, Riluzole, May Prevent Foggy 'Old Age' Brain, Research ShowsDec. 22, 2014 Forgetfulness, it turns out, is all in the head. Scientists have shown that fading memory and clouding judgment, the type that comes with advancing age, show up as lost and altered connections ... full story
Alternative for Pain Control After Knee Replacement SurgeryDec. 22, 2014 Injecting a newer long-acting numbing medicine called liposomal bupivacaine into the tissue surrounding the knee during surgery may provide a faster recovery and higher patient satisfaction, a new ... full story
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Autism, Intellectual Disability Studied in Quest for New Treatment ApproachesDec. 18, 2014 Collaboration on treatments of rare genetic syndromes could reveal a shared biology of autism spectrum disorders, scientists report in a new article. A new American-wide effort will link families and ... full story
Is There a Better Way to Treat Substance Use in Adolescents With Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders?Dec. 18, 2014 The majority (55-74%) of adolescents entering substance use treatment also have psychiatric disorders, such as depression, ADHD and trauma-related problems. Unfortunately, these youth face poorer ... full story
What Can Be Done to Prevent Hepatitis C Patients from Being Lost in the Healthcare System?Dec. 18, 2014 A new study shows that many patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are lost during different stages of health care to manage the disease. This real-life' view of the HCV patient care ... full story
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Research Shows Protective Effects of ExerciseDec. 16, 2014 One exercise session can improve the body's antioxidant system, researchers have found. "What we found is the young people got protection from this one bout of exercise, their response to ... full story
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First Real-Time Mri-Guided Brain Surgery for Parkinson's in Southern CaliforniaDec. 16, 2014 Neurosurgeons became the first in Southern California to implant a deep brain stimulator (DBS) in a patient with Parkinson's disease using real-time 3-D magnetic resonance image (MRI) ... full story
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- Existing drug, riluzole, may prevent foggy 'old age' brain, research shows
- Alternative for pain control after knee replacement surgery
- Less than half of UK prescriptions for antipsychotics issued for main licensed conditions
- Autism, intellectual disability studied in quest for new treatment approaches
- Is there a better way to treat substance use in adolescents with co-occurring mental health disorders?
- What can be done to prevent hepatitis c patients from being lost in the healthcare system?
- Using power of computers to harness human genome may provide clues into Ebola virus
- Life expectancy increases globally as death toll falls from major diseases
- Not just for the holidays, mistletoe could fight obesity-related liver disease
- Insomnia can predict the appearance of back pain in adults
- Research shows protective effects of exercise
- Mild memory, thinking issues: What works, what doesn't?
- First real-time mri-guided brain surgery for Parkinson's in southern California
- Meth users face substantially higher risk for getting Parkinson's disease
- Scientist finds genetic wrinkle to block sun-induced skin aging
- Women's age at first menstrual cycle linked to heart disease risk
- Researchers identify non-gluten proteins as targets of immune response to wheat in celiac disease
- Occasional heroin use may worsen HIV infection
- Discovery may hold clues to treatments that slow aging, prevent age-related chronic disease
- Novel agent decreases neuropathic pain in patients with type 2 diabetes
- Parkinson's disease: Study focuses on regulation of dopamine levels
- Geospatial study identifies hotspots in deaths from HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C in Massachusetts
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- Multiple sclerosis: First evidence of a rogue protein
- Identifying the cellular origin of fibrosis
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- Stem cells from deceased patients recreated to study present-day illnesses
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- Anticholesterol rosuvastatin not associated with reduced risk for fractures
- Supplemental co-enzyme Q may prevent heart disease in some individuals
- Cold-related asthma attacks predictable with new test
- Mental health inequalities in detection of breast cancer
- Leading medical experts call for an end to UK postcode lottery for liver disease treatment, detection
- 'Off switch' for pain discovered: Activating the adenosine A3 receptor subtype is key to powerful pain relief
- Saving ovaries does not help prevent prolapse for women after menopause
- New study examines effect of timing of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy
- New method helps doctors check pain drug compliance
- Does a yogurt a day keep diabetes away?
- El Niño stunts children's growth in Peru
- Obese children burdened by more than weight
- Excessive contact between cellular organelles disrupts metabolism in obesity
- Educating on sickle cell risk in sub-Saharan Africa
- Healthy gut microbiota can prevent metabolic syndrome, researchers say
- Adult survivors of childhood eye cancer experience few cognitive or social setbacks
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- Anti-HIV medicines can cause damage to fetal hearts, research shows
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Out of 26 million Texans, you may have an idea to change the world. You may have had several ideas to change the world. But only a tiny minority of you pushed through the U.S. Patent office from application to successful patent. We've seen Texans change the world many times over. Jack Kilby did it with Texas Instruments in 1958 with the integrated circuit, causing the start of the digital revolution, which, in part, is why you can read these words over your electronic device.
Over the last few years, Texas Business has brought its feature: Texas Business Patent of the Day. This list is of the ones that were either extremely clever, odd or strange. One thing becomes apparent from these patents and the patent that runs daily in Texas Business—Texans have a unique mind set.
Though the history of the Corn Dog is disputed, the State Fair of Texas claims to have introduced the Corny Dog sometime between 1938 and 1942. As a paean to that invention that now sits in the freezer section of every grocery store in the southwest, here are the fried foods the State Fair of Texas has introduced, or tried to introduce, in the last seven years.
Dead Texas musicians live on every time you hear their songs. Their songs play everywhere, so the dead Texas musicians appear to be immortal. Here's the short list.
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Texas Business reports: Austin—WhaleShark Media Inc., a marketplace for coupons and deals, announced that Jag Bath has joined the company as senior vice president of product.
In this new role, Bath will report directly to chief executive officer Cotter Cunningham.
"Jag is a terrific addition to our team," said Cunningham in a prepared statement. "His experience and passion for building exceptional online consumer experiences, together with his solid technology background, will be invaluable as we continue to define and develop our suite of products."
As senior vice president of product, Bath will be a member of the senior executive team and will set the company's product vision and strategy and oversee the company's product road map and its execution.
"WhaleShark Media is uniquely positioned to transform and disrupt the online coupon and deal space, and in less than a year the company has already made tremendous progress executing its roll-up strategy through acquisitions like the purchase of RetailMeNot.com," said Bath in a statement. "I am thrilled to be part of the team and look forward to participating in shaping the next phase of WhaleShark's future to innovate and create unparalleled experiences for its customers and merchants."
Bath brings more than 15 years of product and business development experience to WhaleShark Media. He held several senior executive positions at the online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe, Inc. Most recently, he served as Gilt's vice president of strategy and new business, where he was responsible for managing the company's new business category expansion. Prior to that, he managed the development and delivery of the company's product road map as the vice president of product management and engineering. He was also the acting chief information officer at the company for a year, heading up the technology function alongside Gilt Groupe's chief technology officer.
Before his work with Gilt, Bath was the director of global business development at WeightWatchers.com, where he launched the company's online business into China. He also held several executive positions at the company in product development, marketing and international expansion, focusing on the core product offering and the launch of the online business around the globe. In addition, Bath has worked in product and technology roles at Whichford Motor Group and Renault Retail Group in London, England.
Bath holds a bachelor of science (honors) in business information technology from Bournemouth University, England.
"We are confident that Jag will be instrumental in shaping the growth of WhaleShark Media, as he has already done at Gilt Groupe and WeightWatchers.com," said Cunningham.
WhaleShark Media Inc. is a marketplace for coupons and deals. The company's websites connect consumers seeking savings with discounts from more than 70,000 top merchants, stores and retailers, and claims more than 100 million unique visitors shop its sites every year. The WhaleShark Media portfolio of coupon and deal websites includes www.RetailMeNot.com, the largest online coupon site in the United States, www.Deals.com, www.Deals2Buy.com, www.CheapStingyBargains.com, www.CouponSeven.com and www.CouponShare.com. WhaleShark Media is funded by venture capital firms Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Adams Street Partners and is based in Austin.
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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------## LEFT ME A FOOL (Emily Saliers) ------------------------------ [Key of E (but actually in F#, so capo up 2 frets] [I'm a little unsure about some of these chords; the songbook has some mistakes, and I compiled these from the guitar part, the piano part, and my ear. Maybe there should be some (9)'s on some of those naked chords, and maybe some of those 6's should be 7's...] E/A B/A Asus A E(9) F#(9) A(9) B(11) Bsus [intro] E/A B/A E7/A A Everybody loves you, and they want to know your story E(9) F#(9) A(9) B You go riding out a mystery, concealed in all your glory C#m G#m A E But when it comes to flesh and bones, you remind me of Shallot B A/B B6 A6/B E - Esus E Only made of shadows, even though you're not I remember how I spent all my energy and time With affected conversation, trying to pry inside your mind You are as beautiful as truth, and as empty as a shell B A/B B6 A6/B And I came to you one night, and it made me feel like hell G#m C#m F#m A/B - B Ohhh, to reach through all your surface G#m C#m F#m A/B - B Just to find an empty pool C#m G#m A E And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side B6 A/B B6 A/B And you swallowed up my heart, and left me a fool E/A B/A A(9) E F#(9) A(9) B(11) Bsus Left me a fool Everybody loves a hero, an image to create The antithesis of everything inside ourselves we hate But you better close your eyes when it's time for them to die 'Cause you'd hate to think the life you'd built upon them was a lie Ohhh, to reach through all your surface Just to find an empty pool And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side And you swallowed up my heart, and left me a fool Left me a fool I resign myself to silence, I will never blow your cover No one ever has to know who the hero took for lover But it comes to mind as you blaze on, as brilliant as a star How many you've left behind, how many casualties there are Ohhh, to reach through all your surface Just to find an empty pool And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side And you swallowed up my heart, and left me a fool E/A B/A A(9) E F#(9) A(9) B(11) E. Left me a fool = hammer-on or pull-off between two notes This is the tab for the introduction. The rest of the song follows a similar pattern. E/A B/A Asus A E ----------------|----------7-----|----------5-----|------5---------| B 9---------9-----|7---------------|6=7---5---------|----------5-----| G ------9-----9---|------8---------|----7---------6-|----6-------6---| D ----9---------9-|----9-----------|------------7---|--7-----------7-| A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------| E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . E(9) F#(9) A(9) B(11) Bsus E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------0-----|0---|| B ----------------|----------------|------0---5-----|------0---------|----|| G ----------4-----|--3-------3-----|--6---------6---|--8-----------8-|----|| D ------4-------0-|------6-------6-|----7---------7-|----9-------9---|----|| A ----2-------2---|----4-----------|0-------0-------|----------------|----|| E 0-------0-------|2-------2---2---|----------------|7-------7-------|7---|| ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ NOTE: These chords are hard. I usually play this song 3 half-steps above the way it's written here (i.e., in the key of G). You can't pick it correctly in G, but the chords are far easier.
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I'm in planning for the new year mode right now. New Year's Resolutions or New Year's Goals…which ever you choose… it's a good thing to set goals and strive to reach them. New Year's Resolutions aren't just for adults. The new year is a great time to help your kids set goals and teach them how to reach them.
This week our family focus is writing down our accomplishments from last year and preparing for the new year with new goal setting. Our entire family participates in goal setting. Those who don't know how to write yet… well, I write their goals down for them. Even if their only goal is "learning how to read this year" or "learning how to tie my shoes this year"… it's a goal worth setting and striving for!
Then, on New Years Eve, we have a party. We celebrate the year by letting each person share their accomplishments for the past year and tell their goals for the new year. It's a fun time.
Here are some tips for helping kids set goals:
- Make the goal specific.
Instead of writing down, "Save my money" – write down a specific amount of money you would like to save. Have your child think about ways that he is going to get the money he wants to save.
- Make the goal reasonable.
Help your child write down goals that are reasonable for his age and abilities, but also allow for challenge. Writing down realistic, attainable goals will help keep your child motivated. Think of reasonable goals that interest your child. Have your child think of chores or skills he might like to become more self-disciplined in. Set goals around those things.
- Make the goal accountable.
Keep accountable to one another by having regular goal meetings during the year. A monthly goal update meeting where you talk about your progress or your lack of progress is helpful to keep those New Year's resolutions in the forefront of your thinking. If you don't make your goal accountable, it will get lost in the busyness of life and you'll be sitting next year trying to remember what your goals were? Help your child reach his goals by having family get together times where you encourage each other to reach your New Year's goals.
- Write down your New Year's Resolutions and Goals…on paper or in electronic form.
Write your goals down and look at them often throughout the year! If your child can not write yet…write down their goals for them. Help them come up with just a few goals that they can be excited about working on. Older children should write down their own goals. Keep goals in a location where you are able to look at them often.
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AUSTIN - ERCOT, the manager of the states electric grid, issued a power use warning Monday morning as most of Texas experienced freezing temperatures.
Entergy hasn't issued any power use warnings and isn't part of ERCOT.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas asked customers to conserve power to avoid outages after some of the state's generators developed issues.
A spokesman for ERCOT told KHOU 11 News that as of 7:45 a.m. no rolling blackouts were in effect.
We have brought on all available electric generation and have deployed all demand response programs that have contracted with ERCOT to reduce electric use in emergency situations, said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT director of System Operations. Conditions appear to be improving at this time, and we do not expect to implement rotating outages this morning."
ERCOT asked Texas residents to help conserve power until the grid is running at restored levels.
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Keep your thermostat as low as is comfortable, preferably no higher than 68 degrees.
Turn off and unplug non-essential lights and appliances.
Avoid running large appliances such as washers, dryers and electric ovens during peak energy demand hours (6-9 a.m. and 4-8 p.m.).
Close shades and blinds at night to reduce the amount of heat lost through windows.
Businesses should minimize the use of electric lighting and electricity-consuming equipment as much as possible.
Large consumers of electricity should consider shutting down or reducing non-essential production processes.
Rotating outages primarily affect residential neighborhoods and small businesses and do not typically include critical-need customers such as hospitals and nursing homes.
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The Ducks' American Hockey League affiliate has brought back enforcer Jon Mirasty for the 2010-11 season.
Mirasty will return for his fourth season with the Syracuse Crunch. He has one goal and six assists and 677 penalty minutes in 166 games with the Crunch.
"Jon is a player we wanted to bring back as he is an important piece for the organization," David McNab, Ducks senior vice president of hockey operations, said in a release.
The 5-foot-10, 220pound Mirasty, 28, has led Syracuse in penalty minutes the past two seasons and is third on the team's all-time penalty minutes list.
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Those trickles and a host of other problems with the home launched Veldheer on a long and expensive trip through arbitration and court. She has won in both arenas – after racking up more than $20,000 in lawyer fees – but says the builder still won't pay, apparently out of fear of setting a precedent for neighbors with similar complaints.
Lawmakers in Olympia are considering several proposals to make it easier for homeowners faced with major construction defects to take builders, subcontractors and suppliers to court. Homeowners have little protection, proponents say, in a system that often requires buyers to sign away many rights as a condition for getting the home.
"We have to look out for the consumers who are obligating themselves to 30-year mortgages," said Rep. Brendan Williams, D-Olympia. The bills include HB 1045 and HB 1393.
Builders don't object to some of the ideas, like stricter contractor licensing or having the state track complaints to see how bad the problem is. But they're fighting hard against the idea of making it easier for homeowners to sue. That, they say, will spur lawsuits, drive up their insurance costs and hurt an already-struggling industry.
"Builders are not opposed to warranties," said Damon Doyle, former president of the Building Industry Association of Washington. "Builders are opposed to broad, vague and involuntary mandatory warranties."
There are numerous protections already, said BIAW general counsel Timothy Harris. "Existing law allows a number of ways for homeowners to sue," he said.
And the percentage of contractors who've had claims filed against them, Doyle said, is less than 1.5 percent.
"All of the evidence available indicates that the problems are limited to an extremely small percentage of my colleagues," Doyle told lawmakers. "… We can't allow the risk of huge cost increases to further hamper an industry that is hanging by a thread."
Rep. Dennis Flannigan, D-Tacoma, bristled at that.
"If lawyers only have 1 ½ percent of them that are crooks, we have laws about that," he said. "People are pissed. I'm pissed. … I didn't hear a single remedy from you about what the needs are for the people who can't afford the lawyers you so cavalierly tell them to run to."


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Brees sets mark, Chargers lead Saints after 3
NEW ORLEANS Drew Brees passed for a touchdown in an NFL-record 48th straight game, then watched as ex-teammate Robert Meachem caught his first two touchdown passes of the season to help the San Diego Chargers take a 24-21 lead over the New Orleans Saints after three quarters on Sunday night.
Brees' 40-yard touchdown pass to Devery Henderson tied the game at 7 late in the first quarter and surpassed the mark of 47 straight games with a touchdown that Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas set between 1956 and 1960.
After the completion, Brees galloped to the end zone to hug Henderson. The rest of New Orleans' offense pursued and swarmed around Brees in celebration.
Brees took the game ball to the sideline where he continued to accept congratulations. The scoring pass capped an 80-yard drive in which Brees completed all three of his third-down passes, including the touchdown connection with Henderson.
Brees had three scoring passes by the third quarter, including two to Marques Colston, giving the Saints' seventh-year receiver a franchise-record 51 touchdown catches. Colston's second TD late in the third quarter eclipsed a mark set by Joe Horn in 2006 and pulled the Saints back within a field goal shortly after the Chargers appeared to have gone ahead 31-14 on Demorrio Williams' interception return for a touchdown. Williams' TD was nullified, however, by Melvin Ingram's late hit on Brees' chin, which drew a roughing-the-passer flag and extended what wound up an 87-yard Saints scoring drive.
At Brees' request, the NFL allowed head coach Sean Payton, assistant head coach Joe Vitt and general manager Mickey Loomis - all serving various suspensions in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation - to attend the game, so long as they did not have contact with the team. It was the first time this season any of them were in attendance for a Saints game and they looked on from the suite level of the Superdome.
Unitas' son, Joe, was in attendance after sending a letter to Saints headquarters during the past week in which he wished Brees the best in the Saints quarterback's attempt to break his father's record.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, the one who suspended Saints personnel in the bounty matter but also granted Brees' request for Payton, Vitt and Loomis to attend the game, chimed in on social media to offer his own congratulations to Brees.
On his Twitter page, Goodell wrote: "Congrats to (at)drewbrees & his teammates on breaking Unitas' record. Amazing accomplishment by great QB & leader. We're proud of you, Drew."
Vitt is expected to take over the coaching staff when his six-game suspension ends. Loomis was docked eight games. With the Saints coming into the game at 0-4, the Saints desperately needed to win to salvage some faint hope of a playoff berth before Vitt and Loomis resumed their work.
Philip Rivers staked San Diego to a 7-0 lead with a 15-yard touchdown pass over the middle to Meachem, marking the former Saints receiver's first touchdown since signing with the Chargers as a free agent last winter.


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Who Will Be Our Modern Day Jefferson?Submitted by TexaslovesRonPaul on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 00:31
"There is a bigger, better crusade for Ron Paul to lead, however. It could be implemented NOW, rather than in 50 years. And it wouldn't diminish his effort to expose the Fed and eventually phase it out.
Ron Paul needs to think "Independent Crusade" in the manner of Ross Perot in 1992, which would get him into the National TV Presidential Debates. The importance of this is that it puts Congressman Paul in front of 70 million voters on the major networks. Getting into the Republican nomination debates in primary season (as he did in 2008) only puts him in front of 10 million voters on the cable stations. Running as a Republican nominee is small potatoes. The big prize is the fall Presidential Debates. But only an Independent run can bring this about because Paul is not going to get into those debates as the GOP nominee.
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Some farmer of officer
Some farmer or military officer who get screwed over for something really outlandish imo.
I think about the recent
I think about the recent elections, and I become hopeful, maybe people are getting a clue.
Then I think -- these same voters gave us McCain, Obama... sorry, not so hopeful
People still think it's a question of Republican vs Democrat, with no desire to seek the truth or listen to someone like Dr Paul.
I mean our little successes here and there are great news of course, but, still, just so many blank stares...
Sorry to be a downer, I hope it's just the weather
*** God bless Ron Paul ***
* Ron Paul For President *
Contingency tickets for POTUS 2012
With the next POTUS election season getting ready to start, the election of a President Paul would be the surest way to restore our Republic. Can we, however, rely on Republican primary voters to do the right thing . . . not necessarily. We need a Liberty plan B in the event plan A (Ron Paul) does not secure the GOP nomination.
Plan B would require that constitutional 3rd parties work together for a coalition ticket. Whomever currently has the best ballot access, and would accomodate such a venture, should be used to maximize campaign dollars (ballot access is very expensive to procure). This coalition ticket would also need to pre-select an executive cabinet. This would indicate to the American voter that the coalition's Presidential ticket will hit the ground running. This would also serve to duplicate the campaign's message over and over.
Imagine a roster of cabinet nominees like the following:
Defense Secretary . . . Jesse Ventura
Attorney General . . . Andrew Napolitano
Secretary of State . . . Pat Buchanon
Homeland Security . . . Chuck Baldwin
Education Secretary . . . John Taylor Gotto
FED Chairman . . . G. Edward Griffin
CIA Director . . . Bob Barr
. . . O.K., you get the idea.
As far as the top of the ticket for either plan A or B, I like Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Jim DeMint, or even William Weld.
You know, we could even have a plan C where the democratic incumbent is also challenged by the likes of Brian Schweitzer and Jim Webb in the democratic primary contest.
Hell Yes He Can Win
Ron Paul can win the republican nomination. Given whats happened since the last run and given the right campaign management backed by the most involved grass roots supporters ever, hell yes he can win. Last time Ron Paul was basically unknown to the majority of the voting public. The issues as I seem them are: the size and over reaching of federal government,the foolish foreign wars, (I have yet to find a republican who can justify 10 years in Afghanistan and Iraq)and the feds destructive money printing. Combine those issues with the lefts support of cival rights, the constitutional freedom message and we have a winning combination of issues that no other GOP candidate has. With some money, the right political commercials (the 08 youtube vids were brilliant) showing that RP has been well infront of everyone on these issues and the economy. Add the most active and enthused supporters of any candidate, Hell YES he can win. Now lets get Ron Paul elected in 2012.
Ask Ralph Nader about getting into Presidential debates.
Ross Perot was the last person to enter a debate as an independent. Because of his success, the committee that puts the debates togehter (a private company) no longer allows anyone other than a repub or dem to enter the debate. The premise of this article about the debates is misguided.
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Ron Paul is the Jefferson by FACT, not by platitude
Ron Paul is the Thomas Jefferson of our Day because of who he is, not because snotty-nosed children pretending to be analysts, bark empty words.
A true statesman, with 30 years of unflinching, principled defense of the Constitution of the United States, backed by every vote he has ever taken, fearlessly talked of American fascism, Nafta Super-Highway, US delusional foreign policy and warmongering, Blowback, ending the FED, sound money, bringing the troops home, The US Empire, the coming economic crash, the still coming currency crisis, loss of our sacred individual liberties, while ALL OTHER politicians of all parties cowered, pretended none of this was happening; cringing, hiding, lying, and blowing empty, meaningless words up the bungholes of the American sheeple.
FIND another statesman of Ron Paul's caliber and service-record. Then you can play your little games about who is the Thomas Jefferson of our day.
I agree that Ron Paul
is THE statesman of our time. I hope you aren't referring to me "playing games" as I only posted the article, I didn't write it or title it (obviously).
Sorry, I was not referring to you at all, or anyone but
talking heads on tv in general. I appologize. I wrote this in anger that some might toss the rubric "Thomas Jefferson of our day" around like they cheapened and co-opted Tea Party (Dec 16, 2007 original). My comment is really off the point of the article and I should not have written it here in this context. I was blinded my my fit of anger. Thank you for gently nudging me :)
I appreciate your post.
American Political "Parties" Are A Joke, IMHO !
MONEY is what is running the country, and how can the good Doctor compete against a regime that is currently authorized to print money out of thin air?
Here is a snip from history:
The origin and development of the American political parties stand entirely apart from the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in it are they mentioned or even anticipated. Throughout American history they have been instruments of the democratization of the Constitution as well as a result of that process. The parties and their system of loyalty transformed the electoral college and the entire process of electing an American president into something approaching a majoritarian decision.
LMFAO, here we go again,
LMFAO, here we go again,
Spout about things that Nolan Chart and most have no clue about and how the political game is played.
Ross Perot was able to get into debates because he was a Billionaire way back then yes billionaire. He spent tens of millions of his own money to make sure he was on the ballots in every state and I don't think he even got on all the ballots.
You people spouting this really have no clue do you?
How many national seats has the (L) or (I) party won in the last say 35 years? Answer : NONE Why is that?
I would explain it in detail but I am not going to waste any more time on this, go do the research yourself before spouting this nonsense.
No indy candidate is going to win ANY national seat unless they can raise a couple hundred million dollars to spend and even then it is a long shot.
You want Ron Paul to win? Go and become a delegate for him.
I'd rather have a bottle in front o' me than a frontal lobotomy
I will. Will you?
It is a savior self situation.
Do you think Franklin and Jefferson and Adams stood around and wondered which one of them would be the hero? NO. They took it upon themselves to STAND ON THEIR OWN.
STOP waiting for a hero! BE ONE. Just a little one, just in your life, but STAND UP. Stop bowing down to other men. You have been programmed your entire friggin' life that it is good to get on your knees and do as the man in the funny hat or dress tells you. STOP IT. GET UP. LIVE LIKE A FREE MAN TODAY. Yep, someone may shoot you for it eventually. But until then...
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
third party during primaries= disaster
running as an independent only marginalizes his run(that is if he does run again in 2012). The best thing for Dr. Paul would be to run on the republican ticket during the presidential primaries. Now hoping that Dr. Paul gets over 50 million dollars in donations (AT LEAST), then I think it would then, and only then, be appropriate to run as an independent. Dr. Paul has even stated himself that running as an independent would be the wrong move....don't you all remember the MSM trying to get Dr. Paul to run as an independent even before the primaries weren't even finished and there wasn't a Republican nominee.
- Brennan
Ron Paul = Thomas Paine
Ron Paul is our generation's Thomas Paine. Our Jefferson has yet to come..
I was going to post something
I was going to post something like that.
Yes, the new Jefferson will have to come later. We have some work to do first.
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels
Wit in the historic sense of the word.
"Brevity is the spice of wit." - common wisdom through the ages.
Disclaimer: Mark Twain (1835-1910-To be continued) is unlicensed. His river pilot's license went delinquent in 1862. Caution advised. Daily Paul ☑
Maybe we should look
in the mirror for a hero.
"We can see with our eyes, hear with our ears and feel with our touch, but we understand with our hearts."
We Don't Need A Jefferson
We need a Patrick Henry and a Sam Adams.
Sheldon Waxman
the french had plenty
the french had plenty
Big Shoes to fill..
Whatever happens it sure will be interesting.
I think the best quote is back in the GOP debates they asked Ron Paul about winning the GOP or something, with his different views. He replied "I am trying to become president of the United States, not the president of the Republican party."
No he wasn't
He was still running to spread the message. Now I want him to run to WIN.


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Play Trion's MMO Defiance and change the script of its Syfy show
Syfy — DVICE's shark-'n'-octopus-splicing parent company — has partnered with game publisher Trion Worlds to create a television-and-video game pairing that'll talk back and forth. Your actions in the game, for instance, will actually change the script of the show, and the game will change as the show progresses.
Called Defiance, Trion's game is a massively-multiplayer experience that promises all the action of a third-person shooter — say, Gears of War — with the scope, persistence and personalization of an MMO such as World of Warcraft. It's not the first time a game developer has blurred the lines between an FPS and an MMO. Probably the most well known is Planetside, which allows players to shoot it out over digital territory and gain experience to level up for access to better equipment.
That was back in 2003, though, and only the most die-hard Planetside fans remain (probably because the game also wants a monthly subscription). The game was never much of a success, and the few massively-multiplayer shooters that followed — most recently, All Points Bulletin — failed soon after launch.
What Planetside doesn't have — or in fact what any video game doesn't have, according to Syfy and Trion — is its own show that'll change and in turn influence the game world that players duke it out in. How far Syfy and Trion will evolve this concept has yet to be seen, but from the sounds of it you'll be able to interact characters introduced in the show and even influence their actions down the line.
That's also something that MMOs can't do very fluidly: evolve. It'll be interesting to see just how much the game world progresses as the show airs, and how that'll impact the player experience. In a game such as World of Warcraft completing an epic task such as killing a major character doesn't remove that character from the world. The dungeon will reset and the next set of adventurers go do the same — you could even kill said major character again if you want.
The implication here is that those kind of major player decisions would actually impact the television show and its canon, creating an ongoing and interactive storytelling experience. Pretty risky considering how widespread griefing is in the online scene, but we're sure Trion has something in place so a group of ne'er-do-wells couldn't just roll up and wipe out the show's cast.
We should know more when the game is officially announced next week at E3, but Trion has the game pegged for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Defiance, via HollywoodReporter


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Frank Morgan (73) jazz saxophonist whose promising career was derailed by drug problems in the '50s but whose triumphant comeback in the '80s led to an unexpected taste of midlife stardom. Morgan had battled health problems in recent years, including a stroke and kidney failure, but died of colon cancer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 14, 2007.
Tibor Paul (81) German-speaking host of a popular weekly radio program that featured European marches, waltzes, and polkas and was a longtime fixture on KPCC-FM (89.3) in southern California. By 2000, when his show left the air as Pasadena-based KPCC became an all-news and talk outlet, Paul's four-hour broadcast was known as the European Sunday Concert and had aired for more than 25 years. He died of pancreatic cancer and diabetes in San Diego, California on December 10, 2007.
(Philadelphia) Jerry Ricks (67) American blues guitarist who adopted and mastered the sound of the '30s Delta Blues. Born in Philadelphia, Ricks learned from and performed with blues greats such as Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Lightnin' Hopkins and was widely revered as a master of acoustic blues. He played throughout Europe in the '70s and '80s, recording albums in Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. He had moved to Croatia earlier in the year after performing in a concert there. He was hospitalized in August after a stroke and diagnosed with a brain tumor. He died in Kastav, Croatia on December 10, 2007.
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Floyd ("Red Crow") Westerman (71) American Indian activist, actor, and folk singer who appeared in the film Dances with Wolves (1990) and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians. Westerman appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, including in recurring roles as Uncle Ray Firewalker on Walker, Texas Ranger and George Littlefox on Dharma & Greg. He died of leukemia in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2007.
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Software:Camera Module V4L2 Usage
From BUGwiki
The bug 2.0 camera module (see Hardware:Camera_2.0_Specs) consists of a 3MP camera connected to the Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline embedded in the OMAP processor. The blocks diagram provides an overview of the system and Linux kernel drivers.
The Camera module contains a feature rich 3MP image sensor. The sensor can be configured to export various resolutions, framerates, and image formats. The sensor contains an ISP of its own that can produce color processed images. The image from the camera module is sent to the ISP embedded in the OMAP processor on the bug base. The OMAP ISP block is shown in blue above. It consists of two hardware modules:
- CCDC: The CCDC captures the raw images from the sensor, formats it appropriately in system memory, and performs basic image processing routines.
- RESIZER: The RESIZER, which can resize the image to make it larger or smaller. The RESIZER does its work in the hardware, so it requires no CPU usage to change an image size.
The ISP also contains a PREVIEW engine which is not depicted in the above block diagram that contains image processing functions that are not necessary with the bug 2.0 camera module because the image sensor itself integrates the same functionality.
The ISP can output either RAW data or RESIZER data through Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) device nodes as shown in the block diagram.
Video4Linux2 Support
The complexity of the OMAP ISP has spurned the need for features beyond the scope of the V4L2 (Video4Linux2) API. As such, a kernel media framework that supports the OMAP ISP is in active development as part of the V4L2 project (http://http://meego.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/omap3isp-rx51). The bug camera kernel module utilizes this new media framework. Because most V4L2 applications (such as gstreamer, mplayer, vlc, ffmpeg, etc) do not support this new media framework, to use the bug 2.0 camera module, you must first run a setup application that sets up the OMAP ISP pipeline to your desired configuration. After initializing the ISP pipeline, you can use traditional V4L2 applications. Alternatively,you can also write your own V4L2 application that integrates the media pipeline setup to avoid the necessity of running a precursor application. In other words, to use V4L2 applications, you must first configure the media kernel framework (blue box in block diagram).
There are two different ways to setup the ISP media pipeline from the command line prior to running tradional V4L2 applications. One is using a low level command line application called
media-ctl and the other is to use the more convenient
bug2v4l2 application.
For complete, fine-grained control over the ISP pipeline, use the
media-ctl application. You will need to compile this yourself after cloning it from
git://git.ideasonboard.org/media-ctl.git. Run
media-ctl -h to see how to use the this program to setup the media pipeline. This is not the recommended method for configuring the media pipeline on the bug, but is only mentioned for advanced users that need control beyond that provided by the
bug2v4l2 application.
bug2v4l2 application is a command line tool to setup the ISP via the Linux kernel media framework. It provides an interface to set most of the
option supported by the Bug and the camera module hardware configuration. Unless you need finer grained control, it is recommended that you use the
bug2v4l2 application for setting up the OMAP ISP and camera module as it is more simple and convenient.
Make sure the bug2v4l2 application is installed on your bug by performing the following commands at the command line:
opkg update opkg install bug2v4l2 bug2v4l2-examples
There are three basic configuration options that you must select to configure the ISP media pipeline. They include:
- The device output (e.g. /dev/video2) that you will capture from.
- The image format (e.g. YUV, Bayer GRBG, RGB555, etc.)
- The image resolution (e.g. 2048x1536, 640x480, etc.)
Device Output Selection
The three device outputs available on the ISP from which you can capture images are the
PREVIEW, and
RESIZER. The block diagram above shows the
RAW and
RESIZER optoins. If no other V4L2 devices are plugged in, these are typically assigned device nodes
/dev/video2 and
/dev/video6 respectively. The
RAW node corresponds to the
CCDC output as specified in the OMAP3530 TRM. It is the raw data as captured from the image sensor. The
PREVIEW node corresponds to the
output of the image processing pipeline. The
RESIZER output corresponds to the output of the hardware image resizer block.
-d option is used to select the desired output destination node of the ISP media pipeline.
bug2v4l2 -d <RAW|PREVIEW|RESIZER>
N.B. Given the bug 2.0 camera module contains a 3MP camera that also integrates an internal ISP, it is typically not necessary to use the
PREVIEW output as the image sensor itself can produce color processed images. Furthermore, it is not possible using
bug2v4l2 to pipe the
PREVIEW data through the
RESIZER. You will need to the
media-ctl application to setup the ISP media pipeline if this advanced feature is required.
Image Format Selection
-f option lets you specify the type or format the of image stream. For example:
bug2v4l2 -f <YUV|UYVY|BGGR|GRBG|RGB565|RGB555>
YUV and UYVY are YUV422 format with different endianess. The BGGR and GRBG are Bayer formats with different color phases. Typically you will want to capture in YUV mode if you are not familiar with these options as it is the color processed image and is supported by most V4L2 applications.
Image Resolution Selection
-g option selects the resolution of the image captured
from the image sensor.
bug2v4l2 -g WxH
W and H are the width and height respectively. So, for example, to capture a VGA image, you would do
bug2v4l2 -g 640x480
-g option specifies the size of the RAW image. If you
are using the RESIZER output, the resizer hardware will resize the
image to that specified by the
-r option. For example,
suppose you want to capture 1024x768 image and downsample it using the
resizer to 320x240.
bug2v4l2 -d RESIZER -g 1024x768 -r 320x240
The resizer can make it convenient for changing the resolution of the sensor without restarting the image stream and thus requiring the automatic exposure control on the image sensor to restart. Note the resizer can only downsample by 4x in each dimension. The resize can upsample your image as well if the
-r geometry is larger than the
-g geometry.
Selecting An Appropriate Configuration
The various hardware and software options available may seem daunting to setup, so below are some simple rules to follow to set up the video stream to your desired resolution and format.
- Select the resolution you desire of the output stream. If you are doing video, then you typically will want a smaller image resolution such as 320x240 (QVGA), 640x480 (VGA), or 1280x720 (HD 720p). Still captures are typically done at full resolution: 2048x1536 (3MP). There is a tradeoff between frame rate and resolution as discussed next.
- Select the raw image format. The image sensor driver supports three full field of view resolutions. They are 640x480, 1024x768, and 2048x1536. You can select raw image formats of any dimension lower than than these three geometries, but the driver will automatically start center cropping to achieve the resolution. This means, for example, if you selected a raw image resolution of 320x240, that would get the center crop of the 640x480. Alternatively, the 640x480, 1024x768, and 2048x1536 images are achieved by scaling the image via binning where appropriate. Of the 2048x1536 image resolution is the maximum resolution supported and correspondingly runs at the slowest framerate of 3fps. The 1024x768 is a downsample of 2x in each dimension and runs at 10fps. The 640x480 is a accomplished by a downsample of approximately 3x and runs at 14fps. For these reasons, it is recommended that you select a RAW image format that corresponds to the 640x480, 1024x768, or 2048x1536. Select the size that just larger than or equal to the final image resolution you picked in step #1. For example, if you want a 320x240 image stream, pick a raw resolution of 640x480. If you want to be able to switch between all available image resolution, then set your raw image format to full resolution 2048x1536. You will set the raw image format via the
-g WxH
- Select your output node. If your raw image format matched your desired image format and will never change, then use the RAW output (e.g.
-d RAW. If
you need to fine tune your image resolution or if you want to change it quickly, the select the RESIZER as your output (e.g.
-d RESIZER. If you select the RESIZER, then you will use the
-r WxH to specify the final output.
For example, suppose you want a 320x240 image stream, then set the raw format to 640x480 and use the resizer to drop it to 320x240:
bug2v4l2 -d RESIZER -g 640x480 -r 320x240
To setup a full resolution image that you will never need to change the size of:
bug2v4l2 -d RAW -g 2048x1536
To setup a full resolution image that you switch between full resolution and a lower resolution:
bug2v4l2 -d RESIZER -g 2048x1536 -r 2048x1536 # capture a full resolution image # now switch it back to low res for an LCD preview bug2v4l2 -d RESIZER -g 2048x1536 -r 320x240
All the above example default to YUV data. Suppose you want to test out some color interpolate algorithms and you want the raw Bayer data from the sensor. In that case, you would use the
-f option to select GRBG data as follows:
bug2v4l2 -f GRBG -d RAW -g 2048x1536
Or suppose you have an application that uses UYVY data, which is the same YUV data with a swapped endianess between the Y and U/V samples.
bug2v4l2 -f UYVY -d RAW -g 1024x768
You can use ffmpeg to directly transcode a video stream from the camera module.
First make sure you have the required packages installed:
opgk update opkg install libtheora libvorbis liboil ffmpeg
To use ffmpeg, you will need to specify the framerate of the input stream. The framerate is printed in the STDERR output of when running the bug2v4l2 program. Suppose you want to capture a QVGA (320x240) MPEG4 stream. First setup the ISP media pipeline:
root@bug20:~# bug2v4l2 -g 640x480 -f YUV -d RESIZER -r 320x240
This sets up the image sensor to output 640x480 YUV data. The resizer then resizes the image to 320x240. The output of this command is:
mt9t111_detect: Read MT9T111 CHIP ID = 0x2680 mt9t111_set_format applying 2048x1536 patch mt9t111_set_format applying YUV mode mt9t111_set_format applying 640x480 patch mt9t111_set_format applying YUV mode Subdev format set: YUYV 640x480 on pad bug_camera_subdev 3-0038/0 Subdev format set: YUYV 640x480 on pad OMAP3 ISP CCDC/0 Subdev format set: YUYV 640x479 on pad OMAP3 ISP CCDC/1 Subdev format set: YUYV 640x479 on pad OMAP3 ISP resizer/0 Subdev format set: YUYV 320x240 on pad OMAP3 ISP resizer/1 Framerate: 14/1 fps
The last line says the frame rate is 14 fps (frames-per-second). Now we
can run the
bug2v4l2 command to get the device node of
the resizer:
root@bug20:~# bug2v4l2 -p /dev/video6
So the device node of the RESIZER is
/dev/video6. With the deivce node and the framerate, we can now run the ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -r 14/1 -s 320x240 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video6 -f mp4 test1.mp4
-r option is where you specify the framerate and the
-i option is where you specify the device node. Press
'q' to stop recording. Now you have an mpeg4 video file called test1.mp4 saved to your disk.
Checkout the man page for ffmpeg to see your many transcoding options. For example, you can increase the bitrate by using the
-b option to get a better looking (but larger) video.
The above example can all be done is a single line:
ffmpeg -r 14/1 -s 320x240 -f video4linux2 -i $(bug2v4l2 -g 640x480 -f YUV -d RESIZER -r 320x240) -f mp4 test1.mp4
Gstreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. It contains a plugin to source data from Video4Linux2 devices and can be used from either the command line (using gst-launch) or as a dynamically linked shared library (including lots of language bindings).
There are lots of gstreamer plugins, but here are some you will likely want to install:
opkg update opkg install gstreamer gst-plugin-video4linux2 gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-plugin-ffmpegcolorspace gst-plugin-ximagesink gst-plugin-xvimagesink gst-plugin-autodetect
Setup the video stream:
bug2v4l2 -g 640x480 -f YUV -d RESIZER -r 320x240
Examples of using the
gst-launch to do various things:
If you have the bug video module installed, you can open a shell on the X terminal. Then you can stream live video to with the following command:
export DISPLAY=:0.0 gst-launch v4l2src device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! ffmpegcolorspace ! autovideosink
Then you will see the video stream on your monitor.
Now we can get fancy and add some text overlay (install the gst-plugin-cairo opkg package):
gst-launch v4l2src device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! ffmpegcolorspace ! cairotextoverlay text="Hello" ! ffmpegcolorspace ! autovideosink
Suppose you don't want to display the video but just want to transcode it and capture it to file for play back on another device. Here is how to capture a raw YUV video stream and wrap it in an avi file format:
gst-launch v4l2src num-buffers=100 device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! avimux ! filesink location=/var/volatile/test2.avi gst-launch filesrc location=/root/test2.avi ! avidemux ! autovideosink
The second line is how you would use gstreamer (potentially on a different machine) to play back the video.
vlc or any other video player will also play it back.
Here is a motion jpeg video (make sure you have
gst-plugin-jpeg installed):
gst-launch v4l2src num-buffers=100 device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! jpegenc ! avimux ! filesink location=/var/volatile/test1.avi gst-launch filesrc location=/var/volatile/test1.avi ! avidemux ! jpegdec ! autovideosink
Once again, the second line is what you use to play it back.
The processor doesn't seem to be able to keep up with theora/ogg vorbis encoding in real time:
gst-launch v4l2src num-buffers=500 device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=test1.ogg
So you can instead capture it as YUV or motion jpeg and then encode it in theora format.
Now imagine that you want to stream a video over wifi for instance: This example uses the udpsink to stream mjpeg images to the remote computer(192.168.1.178):
bug2v4l2 -g 640x480 gst-launch v4l2src device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! udpsink host=192.168.1.178 port=5000
which will have to tun a command to receive the video:
gst-launch-0.10 udpsrc port=5000 ! jpegdec ! autovideosink
Or use the foolowing commands instead(faster):
bug2v4l2 -g 640x480 gst-launch v4l2src device=$(bug2v4l2 -p) ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ffenc_mjpeg ! rtpjpegpay pt=96 ! udpsink host=192.168.2.112 port=5000
And to receive:
gst-launch-0.10 -v udpsrc port=5000 caps="application/x-rtp, media=(string)video, clock-rate=(int)90000, encoding-name=(string)JPEG, payload=(int)96, ssrc=(uint)389011018, clock-base=(uint)3589870568, seqnum-base=(uint)64941" ! rtpjpegdepay ! ffdec_mjpeg ! xvimagesink
opkg list gst-plugin-* to see all the various gstreamer plugins available on the bug.


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