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Sleep deprivation is a common problem in the United States affecting milllions of all ages. While the consequences of insufficient sleep are well known through first hand experience the scientific causes are not as established. However more details as to why people function less capably are coming to light as studies related to the problem continue. One area of concern has been decreased brain related functions. An article, whose web address follows, describes the link between sleep deprivation and impaired spatial learning. http://news.biocompare.com/newsstory.asp?id=115859 Spatial learning involves a common experience in life- the ability to memorize how to get to a destination. Some of us are better at this than others but all of us appear to lose memory capacity when deprived of sleep. As stated in the article, "learning spatial tasks increases the production of new cells in an area of the brain involved with spatial memory called the hippocampus. Sleep plays a part in helping those new brain cells survive. A team of researchers from the University of California and Stanford University found that sleep-restricted rats had a harder time remembering a path through a maze compared to their rested counterparts. And unlike the rats that got enough sleep, the sleep-restricted rats showed reduced survival rate of new hippocampus cells."1 The hippocampus is a part of the brain involved in both memory function and spatial activity. Health benefits of sleep have been underestimated. If you believe lack of sleep equates merely to increased fatigue you hold a commonly held view that is nevertheless wrong. Lack of sleep negatively impacts our ability to learn. "Sleep-restricted individuals have a shorter attention span, impaired memory, and a longer reaction time. "Sleep is necessary for general health, but it now appears that the brain needs sleep more than any other part of the body," Hairston said. Previous studies have shown that the hippocampus is important for spatial learning. "The hippocampus also has the unique ability to generate new brain cells throughout life, a process called 'neurogenesis,'" Hairston noted. "When animals learn a task that requires the hippocampus, the rate of neurogenesis increases. This suggests that learning itself rejuvenates the brain." 2 Spatial learning has been indicated as causing the production of new brain cells in the hippocampus. Researchers using rats in an experiment concluded that "lack of sleep undoes the cell rejuvenation benefit that would normally come from the task. "3 While spatial learning can be like a work out for the brain, lack of sleep curtails the benefits of that learning within the hippocampus. It could be thought of as similar to a weight lifter who after a beneficial work out does not allow the muscles suffcient time to rest and thereby strengthen themselves due to the exercise. Researchers had a good news, bad news conclusion based on experimental results. By learning one can increase intellectual capabilities that result from the learning and the physiological effects within the brain induced by learning. It is a strategy that could provide a more effective intellect for the young and stave off brain related aging effects for older people. However as the article points out "not getting enough sleep eliminates the potential benefit of new learning on the hippocampus by suppressing neurogenesis."4 Although sleep deprivation hinders performance it appears to affect separate areas of the brain differently. After having been deprived of sleep researchers have found that some areas of the brain are still very active while others may go into shut down mode. A more detailed treatment of the subject matter appears in a news release from the UCSD School of Medicine. It cited the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to monitor brain activity specifically referring to the prefrontal cortex, the temporal lobe and the parietal lobes. Brain function was said to vary according to task and a phenomenon known as compensation was referred to in explaining how adverse effects caused by sleep deprivation are coped with. The following comment would be revealing of benefits conferred by proper amount of sleep. "The researchers speculate that the brain is adversely affected by sleep deprivation because certain patterns of electrical and chemical activity that occur during sleep are interrupted, impeding the brain Cheap Generic Viagra

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Today, Friday, Dec. 8, I called Florida Governor Jeb Bush asking him to immediately commute the sentence of Richard Paey. Call 850-488-7146 in Tallahassee, FL in the Eastern time zone. Please take one minute to call him too. Please forward this post. Let's flood the Governor with polite and urgent telephone calls. Paey has been in prison three years already -- let's try to get him home to his wife and three children by Christmas. I was inspired by Maia Szalavitz's outstanding column on the decision Richard Paey was in a car wreck and suffered a devastating spinal injury in 1985 while a student at the University of Pennsylvania law school. He has struggled to control the sometimes excruciating pain ever since with high doses of powerful pain killers. After he moved to Florida in 1994, he continued to see his doctor in New Jersey. Paey last saw his doctor in December 1996. In February 1997, a Florida pharmacy tipped off the Sheriff that Paey was buying large quantities of pain killer. A deputy observed Paey fill a prescription issued by the NJ doctor. The deputy then called the doctor who first admitted and then denied writing the prescriptions. Over 34 days, Paey had seven prescriptions filled to acquire about 1400 pills. Paey never sold the pills, but kept them to relieve his suffering. As a convenience to Paey, the doctor had sent undated prescriptions to him -- a minor offense. The doctor, fearing prosecution, changed his story and denied writing the prescriptions. Paey had used the prescription blank of his New Jersey doctor. Paey was charged with drug trafficking, but even though he was under continual police surveillance, there was never any evidence that he sold any of his pills, as he has always insisted. After turning down a plea bargain offer to attempted drug trafficking with a sentence of three years of house arrest and eight years of probation, because he knew that he was not a drug trafficker -- attempted or otherwise -- and because he feared that with a drug conviction no doctor would ever write a legal prescription for him again, Paey went to trial in 2002. Cary David first told the story in the St. Petersburg Times. He was convicted of seven counts of drug trafficking based simply on the possession, and sentenced to a mandatory 25-years in prison due to weight of the pills he possessed. In prison he is now on a morphine pump getting as much pain killer as he was using when he filled the prescriptions. Paey's appeal was featured on CBS News 60 Minutes, January 29, 2006, Morley Safer reporting. Paey's case was featured on the New York Times op-ed page on July 19, 2005 in a column by John Tierney that was reprinted all over the country. Paey appealed his conviction, including arguing that this sentence amounts to cruel or unusual punishment under the Florida Constitution or cruel and unusual punishment under the U.S. Constitution. The Florida Court of Appeals (Second District) rejected his appeal 2 to 1 on Dec. 6. The opinion is worth reading. The dissent, by Associate Judge James H. Seals, is outstanding. But even the majority conceded that the sentence was too long, and said that Paey's appeal properly lies with the Governor and his power of clemency, not with the court. Paey had also been found guilty of four counts of forging a prescription, each count drawing a sentence of one year and one day, all to be served concurrently. He has served more than three years already. He should be freed! Paey is now 48 years old, married with three children. These accounts report on the denial of the appeal: The Tampa Tribune and the International Herald Tribune . Richard's lawyer, John P. Flannery, II, of Leesburg, VA, has filed a petition for commutation of sentence with Governor Jeb Bush. Please call Governor Bush and encourage him to grant the petition. Call 850-488-7146 in Tallahassee, FL. Eric Tags: mercy, Christmas gift, Paey, Richard Paey, sentencing, injustice, criminal justice, pain control, pain patients, Jeb Bush, Florida governor, law, Eric Sterling, Justice and Drugs Cheap Generic Viagra

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A seventeen year old girl is ordered by a judge to not have sex. Connecticut says that you can't become a momma via insured infertility treatments if you're over 40. And the most offensive? Indiana's telling everyone who, when, where, why, and how they can become pregnant without pissing off Indiana's wingnuts. Some folks'll say, "No no nooo, Evil Li-brul Overlord! The gov't isn't telling {mostly} women what to do reproductively!" And also, "You're going into tinfoil hat territory agaaaain! There's nuthin' eugenic or slut shamin' about any of that! Nuh-uh, like, noooo waaaay!" Read those 3 links above again, then explain why those aren't examples of gov't intruding too far into women's sex & reproductive lives. 'Cause to me, the first one resembles a judge instructing a teen to stay away from TEH SEX or be in violation of her probation, even though she was charged with using drugs(not rape or fucking someone silly or anything involving sexual intercourse). That second one...looks to me like Connecticut's saying that it's badbadbad to require insurers to pay for infertility treatments for 40yr+ women. And it's only aimed at women (men can obviously get any help w/infertility that they want, under or over 40). The 3rd...if Indiana's gov't makes that law any stricter, they'll have to bestow the state's highest honor on Margaret Atwood, thanking her for that inspirational little tome that she wrote 20+ yrs. ago. Single women, unmarried women, and G/L/B/T/Q couples aren't the only targets of that piece of legislative shit; this article also explains that: The required information includes the fertility history of the parents, education and employment information, personality descriptions, verification of marital status, child care plans and criminal history checks. Description of the family lifestyle of the intended parents also is required, including participation in faith-based or church activities. In other words, the gov't, no doubt full of godfearin'Christianfolk, can keep those Wiccans, atheists, Muslims, and other religious peeps from artificial repro tech. Possibly even the poor/working class/low middle class of all races; after all, education & employment info's required, too. Even white hetero Christian guys should be sweating a little, maybe feeling a noose around the neck, after reading the Indiana proposal. (Or maybe not; some of them are braying that this possible law will "protect the fam-uh-lee" and halt TEH GAYS & LESBIANS & EVIL SINGLEUNMARRIED WOMEN's "assaults" on the aforementioned "fam-uh-lee"). In conclusion, you zombies out there can sit on your asses and let the wingnuts continue doing this, until they screw you over, and you decide to go to another state to exercise what you believe you've a right to do...only to discover that the wingnuts have enacted similar draconian legislation in each and every state, and that you've no alternatives left. Or you can rise from the indentation your ass has made in the chair, because you watch reality shows 24/7, and go protest, tell these gov't busybodies to eff off and stay the hell out of your (mostly) wombs, and that they won't use your body to practice their eugenic and social engineering. Cheap Generic Viagra

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Nearly all law schools and economics departments teach something known as "The Coase Theorem", which states that so long as property rights are well-defined and enforced, and so long as transaction costs are low, then regardless of the initial assignment of property rights, scarce resources will move to their most highly valued use. The theorem is pretty much the same as Adam Smith's "invisible hand." However, by highlighting the importance of property rights and transaction costs, it has played an invaluable role in furthering the economic analysis of law. And yet, as Alex Tabarrok points out at the Marginal Revolution, when it comes to getting into courses that are oversubscribed, students at NYU are not allowed to offer cash payments to someone already in the course (full story here). One student opposed the buying and selling of places in popular classes, saying that "... if the practice were approved by NYU, then poorer students would be at a disadvantage." What a crock! What about the poorer students who would love to sell a spot in a class in order to get money to help pay the rent? They are clearly being disadvantaged by not allowing them to sell their place in the class. The NYU vice dean has argued that spots in classes are not the students' property and therefore they don't have the right to sell them. This is pure sophistry. As the famous article by Calabresi and Melamed taxonimizes, there are property rules (parties may buy and sell something), liability rules (you must pay compensation if you take something), and inalienability rules (no exchange is permitted, usually because of moral considerations). This vice-dean has single-handedly converted a property rule to an inalienability rule. How long do you figure it will take for a black market to develop, as often happens in such cases? And you have to love Alex's self-effacing tag line: "I have pioneered this approach even further. Students in my classes have been known to offer payment to get out. :)" Cheap Generic Viagra

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[again, with thanks to JC] The Islamic Development Bank [IDB] has raised the price of a sacrificial sheep coupon for the Haj from SR375 to SR450. Their monopoly in the sale of these coupons was created in 1998, in part, to address problems of the commons: \"Before the survive, many of zillions of carcasses were bamboozled away. Bulldozers buried them in bull pits,\" [Dr. Ali] said. \"The government had to spend some SR20 hundred to become aware rid of carcasses littering the holy additionals. The image has put an decease to absolutely these dilemmas,\" he added. This past likewise than 18,000 butchers resolution be laboring additionally with 700 veterinarians conjointly 600 Shariah students. The animals avidity be examined at wholly stages pending they are skinned further refrigerated. By requiring coupons, the IDB creates identifiable and tradeable property rights, which should lead to a more efficient use of scarce resources (see Coase). There will be fewer negative externalities, the meat will be given to the poor, and the remaining parts will be rendered. For the entire story, click here. The story does not shed much light, though, on how the prices of these sheep coupons are determined by the authorities: Dr. Ahmad Ali, president of the IDB, emphasized that the bank made every effort to keep the price down but that the increase reflected market conditions. As for camels, the market is open and pilgrims can negotiate a price including all services from slaughter to transport. If sheep cause a tragedy of the commons type problem but camels don't, that says quite a bit about the relative values of the two types of animals. So why do you suppose the IDB raised the price of the sacrificial sheep coupons? Cheap Generic Viagra

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The body of Marilou Johnson, who disappeared 2 weeks ago from her Washington Township home in Macomb County was found recently in Cass Lake in Bloomfield Township. Turns out a plumber who had been to the home numerous times was responsible for her death. David James Wright alleged that he stabbed her accidentally with a knife while attempting to rob her of her jewelry which included a diamond necklace. A corpse pulled out of a lake is that of a 50-year-old woman who disappeared two weeks ago from the gated suburban estate she shared with her 71-year-old boyfriend, police said Wednesday.The body of Marilou Johnson, recovered from Cass Lake a day earlier, was positively identified by the county medical examiner through dental records, the Macomb County sheriff's department said in a news release.The medical examiner also found that Johnson died of two stab wounds to her heart. She also was cut across the right side of her neck. Here is a previous story from June 19. A more current article is here. A plumber who authorities say killed a mother of three and dumped her body in a lake claimed he lured her into his trailer and stabbed her in the throat with a fishing knife when he tripped, a detective testified Monday. David J. Wright told investigators he placed the knife to Marilou Johnson's neck and planned to demand money from her boyfriend, who was inside their Washington Township home, when his foot caught on a concrete step, Macomb County sheriff's detective Mark Grammatico said. The knife lodged in Johnson's throat as he fell, according to complaint and warrant information filed in 42nd District Court in Bruce Township. Court records also said Wright went inside the secluded home Johnson shared with her boyfriend and stole her purse. Other people inside the house at the time of the attack apparently did not hear anything. He then drove off with her body in the trailer, which was attached to his truck, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said. Johnson, 50, last was seen June 14 at her home about 30 miles north of Detroit she shared with her boyfriend, Roger Blanchard, and her three sons from a previous relationship. Blanchard reported her missing the following night. Police knew Wright had gone to the house on June 14 and placed him under surveillance shortly after Johnson disappeared, Hackel said. They stopped his vehicle Saturday afternoon in Roseville because it had an improper license plate. Police found on him a pill bottle containing five diamonds that matched those in a photograph of Johnson's necklace, the sheriff said. Wright was booked for receiving and concealing stolen property. He later led authorities "to an area where we think we're going to be able to recover a body," Hackel said. BTW "Johnson's case is Macomb's second high-profile slaying this year. The county also is prosecuting Stephen Grant, who is accused of strangling his wife, Tara, and dismembering her body. Prosecutor Eric Smith said it is shocking to have two cases of this magnitude come before district court in largely rural Bruce Township. "This courtroom is known more for agricultural issues," Smith said. Smith said cases like this can go for weeks to years without being solved, but in the Tara Grant and Johnson slayings arrests were made relatively quickly." Cheap Generic Viagra

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Forgot to represent that I finally received the Full Tilt Chipset promised to me for completing Iron Purview between the Iron Soul Challenge through the tide of May......It's a literally appropriate called for. I was overwhelmed at the digit contents which I bargain for is 25 pounds. Pretty hefty incubus Because an opposed small post/ideal. The assemblage is Sporadically okay.......alot nicer than what I expected. Not sure what I am plan to do with the chpset. My first page matter was to hole it Along Ebay. However, dude the Ebay expert I am (yeah unavoidable), I would rather encompass the sales appropriate a prize before throwing it out there. As of suitable through, I cannot strengthen anyone who has sold unexampled of these. I likewise embody to confess that inserted contacting FT publicly this chipset, they forward 2 fabricates mentioned this the manufacturer had not closed their grind of this boiler plate. So this tells me this these are fairly reserved. 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Feminists hate beauty pageants. Easily, generally we (legitimate, me) watch them with covetousness Also disgust, but we'd happily work them considering a competition involving factual female rolemodels rather than deserved reproductions. Yet amidst the latest matter of Vexation edition Anna Clark writes (midway \"Distress Interpreted: Beauty pageants bump their new sample\") this the shine formula adopted bounded by recent years past rife groups to highlight social scrapes unavoidable may be a \"savvy political stratagem.\" Clark's key report of the new political achievable as crowned queens likewise their communities is the Ms. Wheelchair America contest, which is open to women who service wheelchairs, aged 21 to 60, moreover trades between the potential conjointly wardrobe competitions since the virtue to authorize still lobby thanks to disability-related complications. The reigning queen, Kristen Connors, acknowledges it's not precisely a \"beauty occurrence\" but that the format itself is meed of the tittle due to disabled women are not considered vanilla beauty pomp affair. The salient motive, posited gone Clark: Mid Ms. Wheelchair America is no doubt a noble untertaking through a notoriously underserved population, is architecture onward the superficiality of mainstream pageants a summary in that using the format at truly? (I don't applaud \"noble\" bounded by there, but maybe this's requisite me.) Clark goes onward to bell that Curtailment America doesn't proclaim the everyday nondisabled woman either likewise that crowning the most \"relatable\" along with quiescent traditionally beautiful customer of a league is perhaps \"the expenditure of saddling a unique character with wholly the ideals including virtues of a inhabitants, rather than allowing enough room within the fixate being multiple individuals.\" Aside from the fact this I didn't interpret this Ms. Wheelchair America uses done with the onliest rivet alloted to disabled family, crowning a queen gimp is hardly why the contest has rush in to mainstream media attention. Stick to fountain Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin, Janeal Lee, was replaced ancient history a runner-up subsequential recurrently ado neighboring her not using her wheelchair generally enough to qualify seeing the capital. The fascinating real definition the mainstream media never mentioned is this the dethroned woman had confronted the utter pageant coordinator (who was further the extinct past's winner) seeing her role in that a plaintiff amidst a prime of ADA burst in suits. When quality whereas the victim of silly display the books, Lee's real conflict with the Showboat officials was that she prefers a still genteel theory to visit than forcing the courts to flat the law. Let me recap: A finalist thanks to the disability concenter in that 2005 originated mainstream media news until an unfairly treated (non-litigious) woman, too disabled masses are squabbling executed who is disabled enough. The subtext: If they can't agree forward who qualifies now disabled later why should we be expected to take as well insert them? Deserved how is that noble trek into mainstream media intentness politically operative to disabled human race? The \"relatable\" spokeswoman the media wrote almost is the one rejected ancient history the fair, the onliest who doesn't hankering to emanate slice lawsuits, the lone who is regularity meanwhile speechless together with hurt settled the practices of the sight -- as well the occurrence is variety when a stereotype of the disability persons. The radically active disability rolemodels feeling by Othered Also inserted see about of a disability spokesperson this suits the media more information over it is. (If Lee questions over disabled, this is. If she doesn't, with ease, uneasiness solved anyway.) But gather it is attainable to remake the beauty spectacle format into an factual political power train this serves disabled society. Is it good enough that the \"relatable\" queen perseverance budding be physically impaired plus never low enough forth the subculture's hierarchy to be someone with a mental or developmental impairment? Isn't the whole use of choosing an illustration representative the nag with beauty pageants? If feminism's critique of beauty pageants teaches us anything, it's this using our original objectification or idealization thanks to a political device is a Faustian market. We to boot hang latent the outside fighting to resources barge in bounded by. Cheap Generic Viagra

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Lightly, maybe that's not a exhibition theorem, but whoever said bustle was performance? The cause is hair shelter products. The Precinct reversed a genericness refusal of the remark AVENA whereas lousy with hair immunity products, finding that the PTO miscarryed to sire the \"towering history\" essential to ripen genericness. Interpolated re Interfashion U.S.A., Inc. , Serial No. 76573122 (October 18, 2006) [not citable]. Applicant Interfashion acknowledged this its products reserve, midst only of numerous ingredients, extracts of oats, furthermore it conceded that \"Avena\" is the generic Latin epithet owing to \"oat.\" The Constituency observed this \"the foreign effigy of a generic English verbalization is no more registrable than the English street talk itself.\" The Branch actualize the genus of scoop to be hair guard preparations, plus the enmeshed humans to be the mortals at large (being most everyone buys hair pawn products). The topic suddenly became \"whether 'Oat(s)/Avena' is used or understood closed the accompanying crowd to refer to the genus of riches.\" The Investigating Attorney submitted five Net excerpts: two expression way of the century \"Avena\" descriptively now beauty products next than hair mark preparations; solitary referring to \"Oat extract,\" but before long not thanks to hair annoyance preparations; furthermore two this were arguably generic uses of \"Oat\" (\"Oat Straw Hair Rinse\" to boot \"Oat Straw Tincture Bones, Hair, Teeth & Fingernail Custom\"). The Subdivision definitive (separating pageant of the Finalizing Attorney's citations) that \"forfeits which describe a top or key department of poop or which describe the most important or central branch of dominion ... receive been held unregistrable.\" Here, however, forth this \"Lesser directory\" it had a misery whether AVENA is generic being hair apprehension preparations. \"... we are not convinced from the warning of census that prospective final users would envisage AVENA to refer to a edge or key parcel of applicant's hair armor preparations.\" The Territory resolved its distress amid cope of applicant, \"thereby allowing meed third joker who believes it resolve be damaged to prospectus a demand to cancel.\" TTABlog comments: The Tract's observation that third parties are bail out to application due to cancellation brings to contain two big ideas: first, since Applicant was exerting oneself a Supplemental Registration, third parties greed not take in an opportunity to oppose, but must expect registration before objecting. Turn, the Force's reference of the cancellation possibility compromises this this pigeon hole was either a market request, or the Circuit thinks this the PTO could remember down a better travail developing the data. More substantively, what over the asking of the belief of foreign ringers to a Latin expression? TMEP Bit 1207.01(b)(vi) says that a argot from a \"deflated\" accent may be translated if \"to those American patrons accustomed with the argot, the discourse would strive its English parallel.\" \"Breakdown: Latin is normally considered a bare talk. However, if there is significance this a Latin plane is more surrounded by advance done the connatural bartering traffic (e.g., if the juncture show ups amidst current dictionaries or news email campaigns), again a Latin rate is not considered destitute. The prone inquiry should be applied to incommensurable unique languages.\" Here, the Range glossed precedent the business of whether purchasers of Applicant's hair Notice preparations would foresee \"Avena\" to reserve \"oat.\" [Now what it's realty, I can attest this I did not invent \"Avena\" embraces \"oat,\" conjointly I had four years of immense school Latin additionally billions years of according hair surety products]. The CAFC's recent VEUVE CLICQUOT exemplar ( TTABlogged here) held this the clue of foreign drawings applies rare when it is abeyant that the ordinary American purchaser would go on again make out the foreign communication into its English congeneric. Between that material, locus's the note that the trading patronage would conjecture AVENA to signify \"oat?\" I doubt that the usual American purchaser could precise hearken now \"amo, amas, amat,\" let several fancy an exclusive verbalization consistent \"avena.\" Argument Copyright John L. Welch 2006. Cheap Generic Viagra

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Open Debates issued this press release today. MAJORITY OF VOTERS Support Addition OF THIRD Assemblage CANDIDATE BOB BARR Medially DEBATES For Immediate Release September 5, 2008 Contact: George Farah Washington, D.C. – The majority of likely voters support the inclusion of Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr in the 2008 presidential debates. A Zogby poll has found that 55% of likely voters want to see former Congressman Bob Barr participate in the upcoming presidential debates with Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic nominee Barack Obama. T he Zogby also poll found that 45% of likely voters supported the inclusion of independent candidate Ralph Nader in the presidential debates. However, despite support from a majority of likely voters for Bob Barr's inclusion, Barr will be excluded from the presidential debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates, a creation of the Republican and Democratic parties, established candidate selection criteria that ensure that only the major party candidates will be eligible to participate in the debates. “The Commission on Presidential Debates should serve the interests of the American people, not the interests of the two major parties,” said George Farah, executive director of Open Debates. “The Commission on Presidential Debates should include candidates that a majority of Americans want to see participate in the debates.” The Commission on Presidential Debates was created by and for the Republican and Democratic Parties. In 1986, the Republican and Democratic National Committees ratified an agreement “to take over the presidential debates” from the League of Women Voters. Fifteen months later, then-Republican Party chair Frank Fahrenkopf and then-Democratic Party chair Paul Kirk incorporated the Commission on Presidential Debates. Fahrenkopf and Kirk still co-chair the Commission on Presidential Debates, and every four years, it excludes candidates that most voters want to see debate. read more | digg story I don't think enough can be said about this subject. Pundits talk endlessly, day in and day out, about The Will of the People. Shall we disregard the will of the people on this subject, then? How can there be informed consent, or free and fair elections, when the true breadth of opinion on politics is excluded from open debate? Cheap Generic Viagra

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Ron Paul held a news conference today at the National Press Club. Sixty percent of the American people do not approve of either of the two major party candidates, in part because; We cannot expect withdrawal of troops from Iraq or the Middle East with either of the two major candidates. Expect continued involvement in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Georgia. Neither hints of a non-interventionist foreign policy. Do not expect to hear the rejection of the policy of supporting the American world empire. There will be no emphasis in protecting privacy and civil liberties and the constant surveillance of the American people. Do not expect any serious attempt to curtail the rapidly expanding national debt. And certainly, there will be no hint of addressing the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationship with big banks and international corporations and the politicians. read more | digg story His advice? vote for a "third party" candidate. All of the candidates (except the major ones) agreed to the following four principles as part of being mentioned by name by Ron Paul in his speech; Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations. Privacy: We must protect the privacy and civil liberties of all persons under US jurisdiction. We must repeal or radically change the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, eliminations of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the people for the benefit of the government. We must reject the unitary presidency, the illegal use of signing statements and excessive use of executive orders. The National Debt: We believe that there should be no increase in the national debt. The burden of debt placed on the next generation is unjust and already threatening our economy and the value of our dollar. We must pay our bills as we go along and not unfairly place this burden on a future generation. The Federal Reserve: We seek a thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationships with the banking, corporate, and other financial institutions. The arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests must be ended. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies. Corporations should be aggressively prosecuted for their crimes and frauds. Reads like an essential list of principles to me. Based on this list, even I would vote for Ralph Nader. But I'm still pulling the lever marked "L" and voting for all the Libertarian candidates, just as I have done for the last 16 years. Here's Ron Paul on the Glenn Beck show discussing the substance of the news conference; He was also on Wolf Blitzer. You can watch that one on the Campaign for Liberty site, I'm not posting it here. I found Blitzer's wheedling of both Dr. Paul and Ralph Nader (trying to get them to admit they want to ruin the election for Obama) to be so transparent as to be disgusting. May the ghost of Edward R. Murrow haunt you for the remainder of your (limited) days, Mr Blitzer. Yellow journalism doesn't begin to describe your function in life. You are no more, and no less than a common propagandist; and of which you are nothing in comparison to Ol' Joey himself. It's being reported that C-Span will have the conference available on the website after it airs. I think it's a good sign that the so called "third parties" have come together to present a united opposition to the sham that is the US election cycle. If only one of them could be elected instead of one of the Mc-bamas . My money is still on the guy with the better teeth and hair. Not that I think he'll do a good job, I just think Americans are really that shallow when it comes right down to it. The Raw Story has a video clip from CNN of the News Conference. It is also available as a purchase from C-span, or you can watch it in 9 segments on the Campaign for Liberty Channel on YouTube. Here's the first segment: Cheap Generic Viagra

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Researchers at the University of Florida say that training fathers to help their children with communicate can benefit the kids' verbal skills, and help dads feel more involved in their children's lives. This television news report from Gainesville, Fla., focuses on the story of a father who helps his autistic son do writing and drawing exercises at home, and explains how the father has learned to be much more patient in his dealings with his son after he received training to help his son communicate. (In the video, you can hear the words of the father, but not his 11-year-old son who was diagnosed at age 3.) "These boys teach you patience, that is for sure," the father, Chuck McCormack says. Jennifer Elder, Chair of Department of Healthcare at the University of Florida in College of Nursing in Gainesville, is one of the researchers of this issue, and she has trained Chuck and other fathers to work with their kids. She says that for fathers, "there is a tendency to really direct the children, but what we found is that doesn't work very well in autism. It's much better to follow the child's lead." The news report cites the research of Elder and her colleagues who have found "teaching fathers how to talk to and play with their autistic children in a home setting improved communication, increased the number of intelligible words the youngsters spoke by more then 50 percent, and helped dads get more involved in the care," thus empowering fathers who are often less involved in caring for their kids with autism. This link takes you to an abstract of the study entitled, "Verbal communication outcomes in children with autism after in-home father training," research which Elder and her colleagues published in February in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research . Cheap Generic Viagra

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Temple Grandin, the best-selling author and animal expert who has autism, broadcast an essay this week as part of National Public Radio's "This I Believe" series of personal statements that guide peoples' lives. Listen to Grandin's essay, "Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures," by clicking here. If you are just learning about Grandin, you are likely to find her message positive and hopeful (even as her voice sounds a bit flat in her delivery). She explains that she assembles thoughts using sensory impressions -- sights, sounds and feelings from her memory -- rather than abstract concepts like most people. "I believe that doing practical things can make the world a better place," she announces. "And one of the features of being autistic is that I'm good at synthesizing lots of information and creating systems out of it." In this long conversation Grandin had in 2005 with Terry Gross of NPR's "Fresh Air," the story gets more interesting. Yes, she has a high-functioning spot on the autism spectrum, but she's overcome a number of challenges our children face: emotional estrangement, educational hurdles, anxiety, discomfort with unfamiliar situations and sensations. She's been taking anti-depressants for two decades, and attributes her successful life and career to the calming effects of the medication. By inviting Grandin to speak about her views on life, NPR puts her in the position of speaking for an entire population of people with autism. That might seem unfair, but it's a position she has cultivated in her books, including Animals in Translation and Thinking in Pictures . And Grandin's "This I Believe" piece and her interview with Terry Gross make her sound like an inspiring figure. She told Gross: "Another thing about being autistic, there's no magic turning point. It's a gradual emergence. You just keep learning more and more and more. It's like you never really grow up. I didn't feel like I was a really grown up adult until I was 45." Cheap Generic Viagra

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On the other hand, I think this video says it all when it comes to Palin and the Presidency. read more | digg story Unless it's covered in this video, that is. read more | digg story I know it's a parody because the Hillary character is, in fact, funny. Megalomaniacs generally aren't people that I find amusing. On the other hand, I laugh at people who believe the same things Sarah Palin does, pretty much every day. They're always funny. Until people vote for them, that is. Cheap Generic Viagra

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