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Exacerbation of hypertension may occur during treatment with AZILECT. Medication adjustment may be necessary if elevation of blood pressure is sustained. Monitor patients for new onset hypertension or hypertension that is not adequately controlled after starting AZILECT.
In Study 3, AZILECT (1 mg/day) given in conjunction with levodopa, produced an increased incidence of significant blood pressure elevation (systolic > 180 or diastolic > 100 mm Hg) of 4% compared to 3% for placebo [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
When used as an adjunct to levodopa (Studies 3 and 4), the risk for developing post-treatment high blood pressure (e.g., systolic > 180 or diastolic >100 mm Hg) combined with a significant increase from baseline (e.g., systolic > 30 or diastolic > 20 mm Hg) was higher for AZILECT (2%) compared to placebo (1%).
Dietary tyramine restriction is not required during treatment with recommended doses of AZILECT. However, certain foods that may contain very high amounts (i.e., more than 150 mg) of tyramine that could potentially cause severe hypertension because of tyramine interaction (including various clinical syndromes referred to as hypertensive urgency, crisis, or emergency) in patients taking AZILECT, even at the recommended doses, due to increased sensitivity to tyramine. Patients should be advised to avoid foods containing a very large amount of tyramine while taking recommended doses of AZILECT because of the potential for large increases in blood pressure including clinical syndromes referred to as hypertensive urgency, crisis, or emergency. AZILECT is a selective inhibitor of MAO-B at the recommended doses of 0.5 or 1 mg daily. Selectivity for inhibiting MAO-B diminishes in a dose-related manner as the dose is progressively increased above the recommended daily doses.
Serotonin Syndrome
Serotonin syndrome has been reported with concomitant use of an antidepressant (e.g., selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors-SSRIs, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors-SNRIs, tricyclic antidepressants, tetracyclic antidepressants, triazolopyridine antidepressants) and a nonselective MAOI (e.g., phenelzine, tranylcypromine) or selective MAO-B inhibitors, such as selegiline (Eldepryl) and rasagiline (AZILECT). Serotonin syndrome has also been reported with concomitant use of AZILECT with meperidine, tramadol, methadone, or propoxyphene. AZILECT is contraindicated for use with meperidine, tramadol, methadone, propoxyphene and MAO inhibitors (MAOIs), including other selective MAO-B inhibitors [see CONTRAINDICATIONS and DRUG INTERACTIONS].
In the postmarketing period, potentially life-threatening serotonin syndrome has been reported in patients treated with antidepressants concomitantly with AZILECT. Concomitant use of AZILECT with one of many classes of antidepressants (e.g., SSRIs, SNRIs, triazolopyridine, tricyclic or tetracyclic antidepressants) is not recommended [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
The symptoms of serotonin syndrome have included behavioral and cognitive/mental status changes (e.g., confusion, hypomania, hallucinations, agitation, delirium, headache, and coma), autonomic effects (e.g., syncope, shivering, sweating, high fever/hyperthermia, hypertension, tachycardia, nausea, diarrhea), and somatic effects (e.g., muscular rigidity, myoclonus, muscle twitching, hyperreflexia manifested by clonus, and tremor). Serotonin syndrome can result in death.
AZILECT clinical trials did not allow concomitant use of fluoxetine or fluvoxamine with AZILECT, and the potential drug interaction between AZILECT and antidepressants has not been studied systematically. Although a small number of AZILECT-treated patients were concomitantly exposed to antidepressants (tricyclics n=115; SSRIs n=141), the exposure, both in dose and number of subjects, was not adequate to rule out the possibility of an untoward reaction from combining these agents. At least 14 days should elapse between discontinuation of AZILECT and initiation of treatment with a SSRI, SNRI, tricyclic, tetracyclic, or triazolopyridine antidepressant. Because of the long half-lives of certain antidepressants (e.g., fluoxetine and its active metabolite), at least five weeks (perhaps longer, especially if fluoxetine has been prescribed chronically and/or at higher doses) should elapse between discontinuation of fluoxetine and initiation of AZILECT [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
Falling Asleep During Activities Of Daily Living And Somnolence
It has been reported that falling asleep while engaged in activities of daily living always occurs in a setting of preexisting somnolence, although patients may not give such a history. For this reason, prescribers should monitor patients for drowsiness or sleepiness, because some of the events occur well after initiation of treatment with dopaminergic medication. Prescribers should also be aware that patients may not acknowledge drowsiness or sleepiness until directly questioned about drowsiness or sleepiness during specific activities.
Cases of patients treated with AZILECT and other dopaminergic medications have reported falling asleep while engaged in activities of daily living including the operation of motor vehicles, which sometimes resulted in accidents. Although many of these patients reported somnolence while on AZILECT with other dopaminergic medications, some perceived that they had no warning signs, such as excessive drowsiness, and believed that they were alert immediately prior to the event. Some of these events have been reported more than 1-year after initiation of treatment.
In Study 3, somnolence was a common occurrence in patients receiving AZILECT and was more frequent in patients with Parkinson's disease receiving AZILECT than in respective patients receiving placebo (6% AZILECT compared to 4% Placebo) [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Before initiating treatment with AZILECT, patients should be advised of the potential to develop drowsiness and specifically asked about factors that may increase the risk with AZILECT such as concomitant sedating medications, the presence of sleep disorders, and concomitant medications that increase rasagiline plasma levels (e.g., ciprofloxacin) [see DRUG INTERACTIONS]. If a patient develops significant daytime sleepiness or episodes of falling asleep during activities that require active participation (e.g., driving a motor vehicle, conversations, eating), AZILECT should ordinarily be discontinued. If a decision is made to continue these patients on AZILECT, advise them to avoid driving and other potentially dangerous activities. There is insufficient information to establish that dose reduction will eliminate episodes of falling asleep while engaged in activities of daily living.
Ciprofloxacin Or Other CYP1A2 Inhibitors
Rasagiline plasma concentrations may increase up to 2 fold in patients using concomitant ciprofloxacin and other CYP1A2 inhibitors. Patients taking concomitant ciprofloxacin or other CYP1A2 inhibitors should not exceed a dose of AZILECT 0.5 mg once daily [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, DRUG INTERACTIONS, and CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].
Hepatic Impairment
Rasagiline plasma concentration may increase in patients with hepatic impairment. Patients with mild hepatic impairment should be given the dose of AZILECT 0.5 mg once daily. AZILECT should not be used in patients with moderate or severe hepatic impairment [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION and CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].
Hypotension / Orthostatic Hypotension
In Study 3, the incidence of orthostatic hypotension consisting of a systolic blood pressure decrease (≥ 30 mm Hg) or a diastolic blood pressure decrease (≥ 20 mm Hg) after standing was 13% with AZILECT (1 mg/day) compared to 9% with placebo [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
At the 1 mg dose, the frequency of orthostatic hypotension (at any time during the study) was approximately 44% for AZILECT vs 33% for placebo for mild to moderate systolic blood pressure decrements (≥ 20 mm Hg), 40% for AZILECT vs 33% for placebo for mild to moderate diastolic blood pressure decrements (≥10 mm Hg), 7% for AZILECT vs 3% for placebo for severe systolic blood pressure decrements (≥ 40 mm Hg), and 9% for AZILECT vs 6% for placebo for severe diastolic blood pressure decrements (≥ 20 mm Hg). There was also an increased risk for some of these abnormalities at the lower 0.5 mg daily dose and for an individual patient having mild to moderate or severe orthostatic hypotension for both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
In Study 2 where AZILECT was given as an adjunct therapy in patients not taking concomitant levodopa, there were 5 reports of orthostatic hypotension in patients taking AZILECT 1 mg (3.1%) and 1 report in patients taking placebo (0.6%) [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Clinical trial data further suggest that orthostatic hypotension occurs most frequently in the first two months of AZILECT treatment and tends to decrease over time.
Some patients treated with AZILECT experienced a mildly increased risk for significant decreases in blood pressure unrelated to standing but while supine.
The risk for post-treatment hypotension (e.g., systolic < 90 or diastolic < 50 mm Hg) combined with a significant decrease from baseline (e.g., systolic > 30 or diastolic > 20 mm Hg) was higher for AZILECT 1 mg (3.2%) compared to placebo (1.3%).
There was no clear increased risk for lowering of blood pressure or postural hypotension associated with AZILECT 1 mg/day as monotherapy.
When used as an adjunct to levodopa, postural hypotension was also reported as an adverse reaction in approximately 6% of patients treated with AZILECT 0.5 mg, 9% of patients treated with AZILECT 1 mg and 3% of patients treated with placebo. Postural hypotension led to drug discontinuation and premature withdrawal from clinical trials in one (0.7%) patient treated with AZILECT 1 mg/day, no patients treated with AZILECT 0.5 mg/day and no placebo-treated patients.
When used as an adjunct to levodopa, AZILECT may cause dyskinesia or potentiate dopaminergic side effects and exacerbate pre-existing dyskinesia. In Study 3, the incidence of dyskinesia was 18% for patients treated with 0.5 mg or 1 mg AZILECT as an adjunct to levodopa and 10% for patients treated with placebo as an adjunct to levodopa. Decreasing the dose of levodopa may mitigate this side effect [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Hallucinations / Psychotic-Like Behavior
In the monotherapy study (Study 1), the incidence of hallucinations reported as an adverse event was 1.3% in patients treated with AZILECT 1 mg and 0.7% in patients treated with placebo. In Study 1, the incidence of hallucinations reported as an adverse reaction and leading to drug discontinuation and premature withdrawal was 1.3% in patients treated with AZILECT 1 mg and 0% in placebo-treated patients.
When studied as an adjunct therapy without levodopa (Study 2), hallucinations were reported as an adverse reaction in 1.2% of patients treated with 1 mg/day AZILECT and 1.8% of patients treated with placebo. Hallucinations led to drug discontinuation and premature withdrawal from the clinical trial in 0.6% of patients treated with AZILECT 1 mg/day and in none of the placebo-treated patients.
When studied as an adjunct to levodopa (Study 3), the incidence of hallucinations was approximately 5% in patients treated with AZILECT 0.5 mg/day, 4% in patients treated with AZILECT 1 mg/day, and 3% in patients treated with placebo. The incidence of hallucinations leading to drug discontinuation and premature withdrawal was about 1% in patients treated with 0.5 mg AZILECT and 1 mg AZILECT/day, and 0% in placebo-treated patients [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Postmarketing reports indicate that patients may experience new or worsening mental status and behavioral changes, which may be severe, including psychotic-like behavior during treatment with AZILECT or after starting or increasing the dose of AZILECT. Other drugs prescribed to improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can have similar effects on thinking and behavior. This abnormal thinking and behavior can consist of one or more of a variety of manifestations including paranoid ideation, delusions, hallucinations, confusion, psychotic-like behavior, disorientation, aggressive behavior, agitation, and delirium.
Patients should be informed of the possibility of developing hallucinations and instructed to report them to their health care provider promptly should they develop.
Patients with a major psychotic disorder should ordinarily not be treated with AZILECT because of the risk of exacerbating the psychosis with an increase in central dopaminergic tone. In addition, many treatments for psychosis that decrease central dopaminergic tone may decrease the effectiveness of AZILECT [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
Consider dose reduction or stopping the medication if a patient develops hallucinations or psychotic like behaviors while taking AZILECT.
Impulse Control / Compulsive Behaviors
Case reports suggest that patients can experience intense urges to gamble, increased sexual urges, intense urges to spend money, binge eating, and/or other intense urges, and the inability to control these urges while taking one or more of the medications, including AZILECT, that increase central dopaminergic tone and that are generally used for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. In some cases, although not all, these urges were reported to have stopped when the dose was reduced or the medication was discontinued. Because patients may not recognize these behaviors as abnormal, it is important for prescribers to specifically ask patients or their caregivers about the development of new or increased gambling urges, sexual urges, uncontrolled spending or other urges while being treated with AZILECT. Consider dose reduction or stopping the medication if a patient develops such urges while taking AZILECT.
Withdrawal-Emergent Hyperpyrexia And Confusion
A symptom complex resembling neuroleptic malignant syndrome (characterized by elevated temperature, muscular rigidity, altered consciousness, and autonomic instability), with no other obvious etiology, has been reported in association with rapid dose reduction, withdrawal of, or changes in drugs that increase central dopaminergic tone.
Epidemiological studies have shown that patients with Parkinson's disease have a higher risk (2to approximately 6-fold higher) of developing melanoma than the general population. Whether the increased risk observed was due to Parkinson's disease or other factors, such as drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease, is unclear.
For the reasons stated above, patients and providers are advised to monitor for melanomas frequently and on a regular basis. Ideally, periodic skin examinations should be performed by appropriately qualified individuals (e.g., dermatologists).
Nonclinical Toxicology
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment Of Fertility
Two-year carcinogenicity studies were conducted in mice at oral doses of 1, 15, and 45 mg/kg/day and in rats at oral doses of 0.3, 1, and 3 mg/kg/day (males) or 0.5, 2, 5, and 17 mg/kg/day (females). In rats, there was no increase in tumors at any dose tested. Plasma exposures (AUC) at the highest dose tested were approximately 33 and 260 times, in male and female rats, respectively, that in humans at the maximum recommended human dose (MRHD) of 1 mg/day.
In mice, there was an increase in lung tumors (combined adenomas/carcinomas) at 15 and 45 mg/kg in males and females. At the lowest dose tested, plasma AUCs were approximately 5 times those expected in humans at the MRHD.
The carcinogenic potential of rasagiline administered in combination with levodopa/carbidopa has not been examined.
Rasagiline was reproducibly clastogenic in in vitro chromosomal aberration assays in human lymphocytes in the presence of metabolic activation and was mutagenic and clastogenic in the in vitro mouse lymphoma tk assay in the absence and presence of metabolic activation. Rasagiline was negative in the in vitro bacterial reverse mutation (Ames) assay and in the in vivo micronucleus assay in mice. Rasagiline was also negative in the in vivo micronucleus assay in mice when administered in combination with levodopa/carbidopa.
Impairment of Fertility
Rasagiline had no effect on mating performance or fertility in rats treated prior to and throughout the mating period and continuing in females through gestation day 17 at oral doses of up to 3 mg/kg/day (approximately 30 times the plasma AUC in humans at the MRHD). The effect of rasagiline administered in combination with levodopa/carbidopa on mating and fertility has not been examined.
Use In Specific Populations
Pregnancy Category C
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies of rasagiline in pregnant women. AZILECT should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
In a combined mating/fertility and embryo-fetal development study in pregnant rats, no effect on embryo-fetal development was observed at oral doses up to 3 mg/kg/day (approximately 30 times the plasma exposure (AUC) in humans at the maximum recommended human dose [MRHD, 1 mg/day]).
In pregnant rabbits administered rasagiline throughout the period of organogenesis at oral doses of up to 36 mg/kg/day, no developmental toxicity was observed. At the highest dose tested, the plasma AUC was approximately 800 times that in humans at the MRHD.
In pregnant rats administered rasagiline (0.1, 0.3, 1 mg/kg/day) orally during gestation and lactation, offspring survival was decreased and offspring body weight was reduced at 0.3 mg/kg/day and 1 mg/kg/day (10 and 16 times the plasma AUC in humans at the MRHD). No plasma data were available at the no-effect dose (0.1 mg/kg); however, that dose is similar to the MRHD on a mg/m² basis. The effect of rasagiline on physical and behavioral development was not adequately assessed in this study.
Rasagiline may be given as an adjunct therapy to levodopa/carbidopa treatment. In pregnant rats administered rasagiline (0.1, 0.3, 1 mg/kg/day) and levodopa/carbidopa (80/20 mg/kg/day) (alone and in combination) orally throughout the period of organogenesis, there was an increased incidence of wavy ribs in fetuses from rats treated with rasagiline in combination with levodopa/carbidopa at 1/80/20 mg/kg/day (approximately 8 times the rasagiline plasma AUC in humans at the MRHD and similar to the MRHD of levodopa/carbidopa [800/200 mg/day] on a mg/m² basis). In pregnant rabbits dosed orally throughout the period of organogenesis with rasagiline alone (3 mg/kg) or in combination with levodopa/carbidopa (rasagiline: 0.1, 0.6, 1.2 mg/kg, levodopa/carbidopa: 80/20 mg/kg/day), an increase in embryo-fetal death was noted at rasagiline doses of 0.6 and 1.2 mg/kg/day when administered in combination with levodopa/carbidopa (approximately 7 and 13 times, respectively, the rasagiline plasma AUC in humans at the MRHD). There was an increase in cardiovascular abnormalities with levodopa/carbidopa alone (similar to the MRHD on a mg/m² basis) and to a greater extent when rasagiline (at all doses; 1-13 times the rasagiline plasma AUC in humans at the MRHD) was administered in combination with levodopa/carbidopa.
Nursing Mothers
In rats rasagiline was shown to inhibit prolactin secretion and it may inhibit milk secretion in humans.
It is not known whether this drug is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when AZILECT is administered to a nursing woman.
Pediatric Use
The safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients have not been established.
Geriatric Use
Approximately half of patients in clinical trials were 65 years and over. There were no significant differences in the safety profile of the geriatric and nongeriatric patients.
Hepatic Impairment
Rasagiline plasma concentration may be increased in patients with mild (up to 2 fold, Child-Pugh score 5-6), moderate (up to 7 fold, Child-Pugh score 7-9), and severe (Child-Pugh score 10-15) hepatic impairment. Patients with mild hepatic impairment should not exceed a dose of 0.5 mg/day. AZILECT should not be used in patients with moderate or severe hepatic impairment [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS and CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].
Renal Impairment
Dose adjustment of AZILECT is not required for patients with mild or moderate renal impairment because AZILECT plasma concentrations are not increased in patients with moderate renal impairment. Rasagiline has not been studied in patients with severe renal impairment [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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Dishonest Money
Gerardo Leone, commercial director at Argentine cold meat supplier Paladini SA, knows he has to revise his price list that assumes an exchange rate of 1.4 pesos per dollar. He just doesn't know when to do that.
"It's impossible to set our prices," said Leone. "The country is such a mess." Without a believable peso rate, some companies are either delaying production forecasts for the year or stalling a revision in prices to match higher costs already charged by suppliers.
Although the unfortunate Argentines have allowed themselves to be put in the position of being a reductio ad absurdum for the rest of us, Senor Leone and his peers have encapsulated the Austrian theory of the business cycle in a few brief words.
Though we labor to exchange those goods and services which are our chosen specialty for those arising from another's métier, we have to do this by first exchanging them for money.
The swirling currents of supply and demand for the goods themselves are naturally difficult enough to navigate, without us having to do this in a craft of changing dimensions, using a paddle of indeterminate size, subject to governmental "water management" schemes of artificial drought and flood to affect the channel.
In less metaphorical terms, the inability to rely on a monetary yardstick as a reckoning for honest exchange, for any length of time, can only frustrate the business of wealth creation, as the Argentines are finding to their cost.
If every time we bring the results of the sweat of our brow to market, we are subject to an arbitrary assessment of their worth, either we are suffering from deliberate imposts on the part of the authorities, or we are partaking not in an entrepreneurial risk, but in a capricious lottery in which we have no knowledge of the odds involved.
If we are to take one lesson from the current state of the world economy--and the geopolitical stresses and ideological divides which reflect this--we should alter the (oft-misquoted) phrase from the second book of Timothy.
Rather than holding that "the love of money is the root of all evil," we should all fervently avow that "the existence of dishonest money is the root of all evil."
Consider the Telecom bubble's latest revelation, after the sound of hollow laughter rang around the transcontinental skeins of "dark fibre," as the SEC investigation of Global Crossing's finances focussed on "Indefeasable Rights of Use" agreements, or, more colloquially, "capacity swaps."
This scam seems to work as follows:
I run a small hotel in a mountain resort, as do you, my neighbor. Business has been bad this year since the recession hit our overseas clients, what with their accounting worries and all, so we both have lots of unbooked rooms and little prospect of a passing tour party to occupy them.
Then I have a bright idea: I will rent the ten spare rooms you have, for the next ten years, if you will return the favor to me. Moreover, I will recognize nine-tenths of the value of my multiyear "sale" to you now, but offset it with only one year's worth of costs. You will do likewise.
No cash will change hands, but you and I will have substantially increased both sales and profits, using these so-called "hollow" swaps
What's more, when next we meet in the local chamber of commerce, we will both be able to boast to our local bank manager how life in the hotel business has never been so good!
Recognizing that this is a widespread practice in that latter-day Canal Boom, the Telecoms industry has been late arriving, but, as Jim Crowe, chief executive of carrier Level 3 Communications, told the FT, "We're going to find instances of companies that kidded themselves, and kidded investors, with hollow swaps."
When you consider that some estimates reckon that $1 trillion has been spent by this industry in the past five years, funded by $750 billion of debt and equity issuance, and that anything up to half of the value has already disappeared, you can just begin to glimpse the tip of this very nasty iceberg, looming out of the moonlight under the White Star liner's bows.
You also get to understand what we Austrian School people mean when we say dishonest money always leads to monstrous amounts of wasted, or "malinvested," capital.
Moreover, look at the international situation, where after five years of whitening the graves--or papering over the cracks, if you prefer--the dysfunctional nature of the system has been brought home, even to the gates of Rome itself, amid rising unemployment, record bankruptcies, surging defaults and delinquencies, and falling output.
Testimony to this breakdown is the fact that the IMF, at a rough reckoning, is currently involved in the extra-constitutional direction of around one-third of the world's polities and is imposing its failed and destructive mix of "Black Ship" interventionism on them all.
It is thus employing dishonest money to impoverish the nascent middle classes and subsume national sovereignty around the globe, with a twofold aim.
The first aim is to bail out failed (dishonest money) credit expansions, to the ultimate benefit of the predatory lenders who instigate them and who are then rewarded by achieving higher returns on IMF-restructured, "socialized" debt, while having the debt service itself underwritten by taxpayers both at home and abroad.
The second aim is to impose economic colonization by carpetbagging industrial capital in the form of phony privatizations, held in devalued currencies. Further, it enforces what is laughingly called a market "liberalization," but which, in essence, means an osmosis under duress whereby Western goods and credit cannot be barred admission due to IMF loan "conditionalities," but where the return flow of goods has to surmount hefty tariff barriers, which in turn make the debt service less supportable and so promote a spiral into poverty.
The sheer Kafkaesque absurdities to which this gives rise were highlighted only lately when George W. Bush, keen to shore up his key Eurasian client, Pakistan's Musharraf, felt free to intimate that up to $600 million in purchasing power would be transferred from U.S. citizens in the form of aid, but that the U.S.--ostensible and vociferous champion of free trade--regrettably would not be able to lower tariffs or to increase the quotas currently limiting textile imports from the factories of Lahore and Islamabad.
The fact that the resultant influx of cheaper goods would have provided some offset to the poor U.S. taxpayer-as-consumer, as well as boosting the free-market portion of the Pakistan economy, was naturally nothing beside the howls of protest from Neanderthal Southern politicos, zealous advocates of their local textile-manufacturing, campaign contributors, who shelter behind such prosperity-sapping protectionism.
None of this IMF-supervised harm would ever take place if money were not dishonest--if it were not able to be conjured into existence by the central bank's willingness to foster the creation of what passes for "money" in this world by the mere granting of an electronic book entry at a fractional-reserve, fiat-currency, lending bank.
If tomorrow we foreswore this dishonest money, and we irrevocably fixed its quantity and form, we would make sure that the title to it had to be earned by fruitfully contributing labor, and thus we would forestall much prejudicial misalignment of ends and productive means.
We would we be able to separate the cornucopia that flows from free enterprise and private endeavor from the subtle toxins of the financial freebooters who use these honorable activities as a vector for the transmission of their pathogens.
We would be able to differentiate clearly between classical Manchester liberalism--of hard money and individual sovereignty--and modern IMF-imposed "neo-liberalism," which brings the corruption of value and, eventually, of morality, and which leads on from the inflationary exploitation to excess, waste, despair, and disaffection.
If capital were once more not an ephemeral demand liability from the banks, but a true, preservable token of that productive labor which was spared prior consumptive recompense, it would be the more closely guarded and better applied for the fact that it was scarcer and more hard-won. Economic growth--especially that measured by mere spending--might be slower, but it would be more steady, more equitable, and more sustainable as a result.
Moreover, the inarticulate rage of the dispossessed masses and the pot-banging cacerolazo of the Argentine middle classes, together with the metaphorical equivalent among many of the rest of us, would have no further cause to inflame it.
Thus, violent fundamentalism--whether from the Middle East or the Upper East Side, whether from collectivist Maoist guerillas or collectivist Monroe doctrine globalizers, whether from rogue states or a rogue State Department, whether from Medellin drug traffickers of meddling energy traders--would not be able to seed itself where its vicious thorns and fast-growing shoots could choke our liberties.
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Rockaway Beach Boulevard, between Beach 100 Street and Beach 95 Street, was renamed on Saturday in memory of Monsignor William Burke, a former priest at St. Camillus Church and the founder and long-time director of the church's band. Hundreds of residents and ex-band members showed up for the street renaming and many of the former band members played for the crowd one last time. Pictured, Burke, left, marching with the band at the 1952 Memorial Day Parade.


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Explore Oregon's North Willamette Valley at Annual Wine Trail Weekend April 13-14
Meet Winemakers, Cookbook authors, Artisan Food Producers and Craftspeople at this two-day wine-touring event in Oregon's North Willamette wine region.
"This is one of the North Willamette Vintners' signature wine touring events and a way to showcase this world-class wine region in Portland's backyard," said Juanita Lint, owner of Plum Hill Vineyards and President of the North Willamette Vintners. "Our member wineries are part of the northern gateway to the Willamette Valley, where entrepreneurial spirit endures and small, family-owned wineries contribute to the community fabric."
Wine Trail Partners – from Authors and Cheesemakers to Baby Goats
Wine Trail guests will learn to graft their own wine grapevine, explore the unique terroir of the North Willamette region and meet a baby goat or two. Home to the only domestic Sake producer in the country and a local goat cheese creamery, the North Willamette Valley showcases more than simply world-class wines. This year, two Portland area cookbook authors will sign copies of their latest cookbooks. Ashley Gartland, author of Dishing up Oregon (Storey 2011) will be at Montinore Estate, and Ivy Manning, author of Crackers & Dips (Chronicle Books, 2013) will sign at David Hill Vineyard and Winery.
TICKETS: (On Sale Now)
Saturday & Sunday, April 13-14, 2013 – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
o $45 per person includes the two-day Wine Trail weekend with activities, wine tastings, light food pairings, North Willamette Vintners wine glass, and canvas tote bag for wine purchases.
o $30 per person for Sunday only ticket from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ticket includes Willamette Vintners logo glass, activities, wine tastings, light food pairings and canvas tote bag for wine purchases.
o $10 for Designated Driver ticket includes a wine trail kit with a bottle of water, beverage bottle and snacks in a reusable tote bag.
Weekend Activities and Tastings:
• Mimi's French Market toffee and chair massages by Elixir Wellness and Spa and Haiku Organics at Garden Vineyards.
• Cookbook author Ashley Gartland will sign copies of Dishing up Oregon (Saturday only from 11-3 p.m.) with great pairings from her cookbook made from balsamic vinegar and verjus at Montinore Estate with Cooper Mountain Vineyard
• Apolloni Vineyards is offering an Italian theme with a Sangiovese tasting and local Italian pairings plus gelato!
• Wine marries art at Abbey Creek Vineyard's new tasting room with local artists.
• Quail Run Creamery will host J. Albin Winery with farm creamery tours and even some baby goats!
• Smith Berry Barn will host Provincial Vineyards with gourmet food pairings and the top 10 entertaining tips and tools.
• Elk Cove Vineyards will host neighboring winery Patton Valley Vineyard, Republic of Jam and local wine barrel art.
• David Hill Vineyard and Winery will host cookbook author Ivy Manning and serve culinary samples from her newly released cookbook Crackers & Dips (Sunday only from 11-3 p.m.)
• The Oregon Humane Society and Man Bite Dog will be at Tualatin Estate Vineyards.
• Shafer Vineyard Cellars will feature a Christmas-in-
• Smitten Artisan Truffles will offer customized truffles at SakeOne and Ardiri.
• Ponzi Vineyards will host Briar Rose Creamery and a local hazelnut producer while teaching about the benefits of the screwcap.
• Oak Knoll Winery will host Dion Vineyards and present a mini-winery trail concluding with a glass demonstration and pairings from local farm stands.
• Freja Cellars will partner with Wessles Family Honey.
• Helvetia will host local alpacas with knitting, spinning and felting demonstrations and a salmon food and wine pairing.
• A Blooming Hill Vineyards will show how port is made and host the Oregon Lavender Association.
• The Tasting Room at 1910 Main will serve pairings and wines from Gresser Vineyard and Provincial Vineyards.
• 1910 Main – An American Bistro will present a live cooking demonstration at Plum Hill Vineyard along with a grafting lesson.
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About North Willamette Vintners
Located near the northern boundary of Oregon's Willamette Valley wine region, North Willamette Vintners is a cluster of independent wineries crafting fine wines from the valley's most fertile land. Passionate, creative and diverse, this young industry association is made up of 43 members representing wineries, tasting rooms and wine tourism partners throughout the northern reaches of the valley. Most of the wineries are located just outside Portland, in the nearby communities of Beaverton, Cornelius, Forest Grove, Gaston, Helvetia, Hillsboro and Tigard. On the way to Oregon's scenic coast and to the heart of the Willamette Valley, the North Willamette Valley wine region is easily accessible for a day trip or weekend excursion. For more information or a list of member wineries, please call 503-941-0609. Follow North Willamette Vintners on Facebook and Twitter at @NWVintners.
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The University of Victoria's annual public Masterminds lecture series by UVic retirees launches tomorrow with the first of Wednesday night lectures through to April 25. Sponsored by UVic's Retirees Association, Centre on Aging and with support from the university, each lecture takes place in the Harry Hickman building starting at 7 p.m. in room 105. As seating is limited, attendees are asked to register by calling 250-721-6369.
April 4: The Climate of Victoria: Characteristics, Variations, and Controls
Dr. Stanton Tuller is a professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, where he taught climatology from 1969 until his recent retirement. He will discuss the key controls of our local climate and will explain why microclimates vary so markedly around the Capital Region.
April 11: The Emergence of Architectural Modernism in Greater Victoria
Prof. Martin Segger is the former director and curator of the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, and was a senior research associate in the Centre for Global Studies and adjunct professor in the Department of History in Art. He will discuss the development of a regional modernist aesthetic in the post-war Victoria urban landscape.
April 18: How Age-Friendly is BC?
Dr. Elaine Gallagher is professor emeritus in the School of Nursing and is the lead Canadian researcher for an international project on age-friendly communities. She is best known for her work on the epidemiology of senior slips, trips and falls in public places. She will discuss ways to enhance the activity level and independence of seniors through age-friendly initiatives.
April 25: Challenging Science Illiteracy: Canadian Successes and Building for the Future
Dr. Larry Yore is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and has been involved in research on teaching and learning science with a focus on literacy and language for over 40 years. He will discuss the success of Canadian and BC schools in promoting reading, mathematics and science literacy.
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It's the last weekend of July, in the midst of a mid-summer heatwave. After driving for miles up and down the green hills of the Catskills through tiny, non-descript towns, the signs welcoming baseball fans begin about 10 miles outside of Cooperstown, New York. Rolling farmland slowly turns more populated. Old barns house antiques instead of cows. New motels welcome young sluggers en route. There are ice cream stores, batting cages, miniature golf and a Corvette museum vying for visiting dollars.
The village of Cooperstown, population 2,000, has been invaded by hundreds of families -- dads in baseball hats, T-shirts, long denim shorts and sneakers walk with their dressed-alike sons. They wander along Main Street, past Shoeless Joe's and a cafe with a "Pete Rose for Commish" banner, toward giant Otsego Lake, stopping to buy souvenirs that mark why they're here: To celebrate the induction of the Baseball Hall of Fame's newest members, former Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt and Richie Ashburn.
It's not baseball that brings me to Cooperstown on the last day of Induction Weekend 1995. As the final event of the ceremony -- a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs -- is about to begin, a recording of the national anthem blasts out of the speakers from Doubleday Field, just down the road from the Hall.
I walk the few blocks between the stadium and Bassett Hospital, where I will meet Henry Nicols, Sr., who goes by the name Hank and is the father of the Henry with whom I have requested an interview.
Over the phone, Hank gave me somewhat detailed instructions on how to find him at the hospital where he works. "Just go to the information booth. They'll know how to contact me." A guard greets me and uses his walkie-talkie to contact Hank. I'm then directed to an office in another building. The whole procedure's a bit Mission Impossible for the country, but I'm curious.
When I finally meet Hank, he tells me the elaborate screening process is intentional. "My visiting with you first was just to make sure you weren't a nun," he says. A what? Hank explains that well-meaning people, nuns for example, as well as lunatics and other unsavory characters sometimes try and contact his son, Henry, who has AIDS. "We get threatening letters," he says, "from people who are well-meaning, but off-center." Hank's not crazy, but his statement is puzzling. Later, his wife explains: "There are people out there who believe that AIDS is a punishment from God," says Joan Nicols. The family tries to protect Henry from the lunatics. And the nuns.
What's clear is that I've traveled the distance between baseball, the most American of pastimes, to AIDS, the most American of diseases. They coexist in Cooperstown in the form of Henry Nicols.
Henry, a lanky kid with a loping gait, walks into his Dad's office a few minutes later. Henry is a youthful-looking 22-year-old with bright brown eyes, straight light brown hair that is parted on the side, cut short, and hangs over one of his eyes. He's stylish, not a slacker, and if I were a 22-year-old woman (not 33), I'd think he was a cute boy. Like almost everyone in Cooperstown, he wears long denim shorts, a T-shirt with a Drew University symbol on it and sneakers.
Henry is friendly, warm and smiles easily, but he's a funny contradiction. If he's talking about AIDS, the topic is so familiar the information just flows out of him. Some of it sounds almost rehearsed, like a politician with an agenda, but he knows what he's saying. He's got the AIDS speeches down pat.
On the other hand, he's got the shy, geeky, post-teenager thing going on, like Keanu Reeves in those stimulating Bill and Ted films. He's worried about whether he should look me in the eye, or look away, volunteer information, or be quiet. Later, when we're alone, he talks about the weather, slightly nervously, staring at the mountains. It's charming in a way that reminds me of my own awkward years.
AIDS arrived in bucolic Cooperstown with a sonic boom in 1991 via Henry, who was then a 17-year-old high school student, a hemophiliac and a Boy Scout. Henry came from a God-fearing, hardworking, close-knit, community-oriented family that fit in so perfectly with the small town ideal that if they didn't live here already, they'd have to move.
As a hemophiliac, Henry had his share of physical challenges and mishaps growing up, many of which resulted in blood transfusions. From the hundreds of transfusions came HIV and now AIDS. Henry has known he is HIV positive since he was 11 years old, a fact the Nicols family, as a unit, decided to keep a secret.
Henry says that until he was 17, he lived in fear. He listened to the news reports when Indiana teenager Ryan White, who had AIDS, was thrown out of school because other parents didn't want their children exposed to him, and when the Ray brothers, the three HIV positive hemophiliacs from Florida, had their house burned down and their dog killed. Henry hoped that by keeping AIDS a family secret, he would avoid such heartbreak.
"For so many years we had been hiding it. We'd been biting our tongues, and paranoid every time anybody made a stupid AIDS comment because we were afraid someone would find out," says Henry spitting out the word "stupid," and squirming a bit when he talks.
More often than not, secrets breed fear. Did the family suffer psychologically and seek help? Hank says that indeed he found a shrink for the family, but, "he told me to leave Henry alone." Joan says that "because he was infected, Henry grew up a little faster and was more of a loner than most kids."
It certainly wasn't doom and gloom in the Nicols household. Henry had as normal an adolescence as possible, reveling in such things as girls and partying.
"How's dating?" I ask Henry.
"Well, I am partial to blondes," he says to me, a proudly bottle-blonde reporter, flirting.
"I'm too old for you," I say.
Henry laughs.
A bit later, Hank casually mentions that Henry is "dame bramaged" in that nerdy way that fathers everywhere talk, just to embarrass their children. But Henry's game. This is how the Nicols talk about sex.
Henry: "It sounds kind of sick to say this, but we're kind of lucky I was infected when I was about 10."
Hank: "We had him neutered."
Henry: "My family is kind of strict, so I wasn't having unprotected sex or using IV drugs at age 10," Henry says, smiling. "It wasn't a problem with me infecting anybody." But AIDS educator Henry quickly eclipses playful Henry as he continues. "It's very easy to avoid behaviors that put people at risk. This made me and everybody I've ever dated realize that there's more to dating than sex. There are a lot of ways to show someone that you love them without putting them at risk. It's not as bad as most people think." Henry finishes on automatic pilot.
As a child, Henry wasn't rebellious. Nor were his two sisters, says Joan -- mainly because when they were growing up, Hank was a police officer. But Henry did get drunk once. "At about two in the morning, I heard Henry and his best friend Chris being really loud in the hot tub," remembers Joan, who got out of bed to check out the commotion. "Chris couldn't get out of the tub, and there was Henry barfing pink barf on the deck." They'd been drinking a concoction, sex on the beach, with a red tint. The event, says Joan, "was hilarious."
Henry giggles a bit at the memory, and defends himself. "That was the hot tub's fault." Then he turns serious. "Alcohol is bad for an immune system. I do sometimes drink," he says, "but I don't get smashed every night."
Anyway, drinking doesn't fit in with Henry's other passion -- Scouting. Joan calls Hank "Mr. Boy Scout" and since Henry was a child, he's been encouraged as a Scout. Out of that archaic -- some would even say reactionary -- organization came an AIDS evangelist, a poster child and preacher for the AIDS movement.
Henry achieved Scouting's highest honor, the rank of Eagle Scout. First, he earned 21 merit badges, and then proposed a project demonstrating leadership and serving a community. Says lifelong Scouter and Nicols family friend Bob Hildebrand, "Typically, it involves cleaning up a local park or painting furniture in a community center." Henry isn't typical and his project was simple and courageous: To tell the world about his life with AIDS.
It was a brave move. "Most of the courage came from anger," Henry says, "because I was so tired of having to keep this secret. It's like having to hide the fact that you're Jewish or something totally stupid that you should never have to hide. I was angry at having to keep this secret. Basically, if anyone has a problem with that, then it's their problem. It's not my problem because I am not going to deal with it anymore."
Henry took control of his AIDS destiny in a modern way. He planned a press conference. "We figured it was best to get it out and then it would be old news," says Henry. "But it didn't work out that way. It became huge news, like, instantly." Then Henry's life changed.
First came relief: "After this, it was sort of like you could be yourself now, you could stop living a lie and stop pretending and let people know who you really were," says Henry.
The second part of Henry's Eagle Scout project involved visiting schools and meeting with kids to explain to them what he knew about AIDS in a non-judgmental way. It was so successful that Henry and his sister Jennifer still travel together to colleges, Japan and anywhere else they're asked to go spreading the safer sex gospel. "It makes him feel like he's doing something worthwhile," says Joan. "It keeps him fired up."
"We have a presentation that lasts about 30 minutes and then we do questions and answers. That's the most important part. That's when people ask what they need to know. A lot of high school and college age students think that, basically, you get AIDS and then you just die and that's it. They don't realize that you're still living. A lot of them don't believe that you can get AIDS from someone who looks healthy. We try and blow that out of the water and I think we usually do a pretty good job," says Henry.
He admits that frustration gets to him. "Nobody ever believes they'll get killed in a car accident or by drunk driving and nobody ever believes they'll get AIDS. It's this teenage and young adult sense of invulnerability that is so frustrating because they don't believe that AIDS is where they are. They don't realize that AIDS is everywhere."
I can't help thinking that other than the fact that Henry has AIDS (his T-cell count is zero but when it was a high four, he named them, two boys and two girls, so if they reproduced he could explain it), he's so normal, another kid growing up in a small town anywhere in America.
Although Henry has full-blown AIDS, his health has been remarkably stable with no ongoing opportunistic conditions; he's avoided being hospitalized since Thanksgiving 1994. "He's a bit of an anomoly because he really looks good," says his father. "He's averaged one hospital stay a year for the last three years. In 1991, he had multiple system failures, and one time we were told he wouldn't make it through the night. It scared the shit out of us. But he bounced back quickly." So how does Henry cope physically? Lots of sleep, says his dad -- up to 16 hours a day.
He's healthy enough to mountain climb and water-ski and babysit for his toddler niece, after all. But Henry reminds me what it's like to be terminally ill. "I've never known anything different," he says. "I've never known what it's like not to be a hemophiliac. I can't remember what it was like not to be HIV positive. It's always been there and it's part of me. There's never a day that goes by that I don't think about it. Almost as long as I can remember, it's been there."
From his pragmatic point of view comes a wise AIDS statesman who has grown increasingly aware of his ability to capitalize on his camera-ready appeal. "People look at me as an innocent victim who wasn't doing anything wrong, who doesn't deserve this. Well, that's frustrating as well: No one deserves this," he says.
Henry is spreading the word beyond mere speaking engagements. After the press conference, the writer Michael Ryan heard about Henry and decided to make a documentary about his life. "I had done magazine articles on AIDS and had friends who had died," says Ryan. "Part of me looked at Henry and said this is propaganda, a way to tell middle America about AIDS." Ryan produced and directed Eagle Scout, which aired on HBO this past summer. Within 30 seconds of its first airing, the phone at the Nicols home was ringing with strangers wishing the family well. The film captures the essence of Henry, a good Eagle Scout with a handsome face who just wants to tell people about AIDS. He's a role model.
"I never really thought of myself becoming a role model. It's not something I said as a little kid -- one day I am going to be a role model. It's just something that happened."
A kid with AIDS teaching compassion is a great role model, maybe even better than a baseball player. Maybe Cooperstown really is home to heroes after all.


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Property Location
With a stay at Country Inn & Suites, Rochester Airport-University Area in Rochester, you'll be near the airport and convenient to Sports Centre at MCC and University of Rochester. This hotel is within close proximity of Bill Gray's Regional Iceplex and Cinemark Movies 10.
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New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff Has 'Terrible Taste In Music'
"I don't like music," Bob Mankoff said at the beginning of our taping on Soundcheck. "Which is probably not a good place to start."
The longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker did, however, come up with three songs for his Pick Three playlist -- even though he never listens to music while he draws. "I don't have anything on when I get ideas," he told Soundcheck host John Schaefer. "I just want to be in my own head. Music is very intrusive to me. I can't get any ideas when I have music [on]."
Mankoff recently published an illustrated memoir called How About Never – Is Never Good For You? My Life In Cartoons. The title takes its name from his famous 1993 cartoon (which hung on host John Schaefer's wall for years). He shares his three musical picks with us -- but don't blame us if you don't like his choices. As he told us, "I have terrible taste in music. I like the absolute worst things."
Bob Mankoff's Pick Three Playlist:
Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody" (from Slow Train Coming, 1979)
"I love the message behind this song. 'You gotta serve somebody.' We're in a hierarchy. I know that from being at Conde Nast. In the end, there's somebody that you're gonna have to serve, no matter where you are. Every once in awhile, everybody's gotta eat s---. And maybe sometimes it's a double-decker sandwich as well."
Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" (from I'm Your Man, 1988)
"This is a good song. This song relates to me like the Dylan song in a way. 'Everybody knows that the dice are loaded...' -- it's trying to get to a gritty reality about life. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but Flash Boys is all about this. The game is somewhat rigged."
The Tornados' "Telstar" (1962)
"Telstar was the first communications satellite. I was in college at the time. It enabled you to watch TV live from Europe or vice versa. Somehow this song became a number one song -- this very tinny song, which I guess is supposed to sound like it's coming from the satellite itself up there."


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Treetop Adventure Park
Your place for California zip lining and an adventure ropes course!
Open Year-round and operated by North Tahoe Adventures.
North Tahoe Adventures, in partnership with Granlibakken Tahoe, is pleased to offer the first Aerial Adventure Park in California. Started in Europe, Aerial Adventure Parks are comprised of a series of courses linking tree platform to tree platform with a variety of bridges and zip lines. Ascend to an initial tree platform and then travel through the forest on an aerial trek anywhere from 15 to 50 feet in the air! The Treetop Adventure Park offers a variety of courses, from kids' zip lining to a thrilling adventure ropes courses. Our Treetop Adventure Park is suitable for ages 5+, at least 4'8" tall, and all levels of athleticism.
All Treetop Adventure Park participants will be outfitted in climbing harnesses and helmets and be connected to a belay system making it virtually impossible to completely disconnect from the safety cable.
In addition to the 50+ platforms and bridges comprising the monkey courses, our treetop adventure park is family friendly! Our Flying Squirrel zone caters to the young adventurers, ages 5+ and beginning climbers. The Flying Squirrel zone consists of 3 different kids' courses and includes a variety of bridges and zip lines, some almost 300 feet long!
Flying Squirrel Courses
Experience treetop family adventures that you'll always remember with our Flying Squirrel Zone! The Flying Squirrel zone consists of 3 difference courses for beginners and kids age 5+.
Green Course – Similar to the rating system at ski areas, the Green course is easiest and includes 8 different events approximately 8 – 10 ft. off the ground.
Blue Course – is intermediate and includes 8 different events that are slightly more difficult than the green. Two of the 8 events are zip lines! This is the introductory course to zip lining!
Black Course – is the Advanced course is for the most adventurous of kids and beginning adults. Similar to a Canopy Tour, the black course involves 3 different zip lines and two bridges with most tree platforms and bridges over 40 feet in the air. The zip lines total almost 1000' in length.
Monkey Courses
In order to participate on the Monkey Courses (Older Kids, Adult Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Zone), the participant must be 4'8″ (56 inches) tall. No exceptions. This zone requires the participant to repeatedly switch his/her own SMART Belay "claws" to the new safety cable at every tree. (approx. 200 times)
Maximum participant weight is 260 lbs.
Fuzzy Bunny – is designed to be a beginning course or the next step or transition from the easier Green & Blue Flying Squirrel courses. Eight different bridges including a zip line finish will ease you into this zone and prepare you for the intermediate courses.
Snowboard – formerly Bike Ride, this course offers a rotating signature "event" and is an intermediate course that has many of the most fun and exciting events you'll ever find in an Aerial Adventure park. Check it out!
Twins – is the Canopy Tour course in this Zone. It contains eight different events with four zip lines totaling over 500'. You will also walk across a 120' suspension bridge between "The Twins", two gorgeous twin Cedars estimated to be 500+ years old.
Spiral – starts with a zip line and finishes with a zip line. Designed to be interactive and within view of other participants, the spiral course is great with friends and family.
Windchimes – is the advanced course for those looking for the most challenging bridges and events. Comprised of 9 different events including two 100' zip lines and a 300' zip line, this course should challenge even the most adventurous.
Group Bonding & Team Building at Treetop Adventure Park
At Granlibakken, we realize that team building exercises are important. This is why we have placed a strong focus on improving our offerings with the latest facility design by using state-of-the-art technology. If your group is interested in team building programs, consider spending an afternoon exploring our adventure park. The adventure park has courses anywhere from 15 feet to 50 feet in the air. Add "Team Building" to your Treetop session. Pricing varies, contact North Tahoe Adventures at 530 581-7563 to book. Come and enjoy our wide range of activities…literally!
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Sessions are 2.5 hours in length.
Please plan to arrive a minimum of 15 minutes before your reserved session time.
The first 30 minutes of every session is to get all participants outfitted in gear and through the "ground schools". The climbing and zipping fun may not start until 30 minutes into the session.
ONLINE RESERVATIONS ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Only the session times that can accommodate the number of participants in your group will be shown.
Reserve Online and select location: Treetop Adventure Park - Tahoe City
Call 530 581-7563 with questions and we will return your call as soon as possible, in the order it was received. (24 hours or more notice is best for phone reservations, same day reservations are sometimes difficult)
$50 - Ages 13+ (per 2.5 hour session)
$40 - Ages 5-12 (per session)
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In order to participate on the Monkey Courses (Older Kids, Adult Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Zone), the participant must be 4'8" (56 inches) tall. No exceptions. This zone requires the participant to repeatedly switch his/her own SMART Belay "claws" to the new safety cable at every tree (approx. 200 times). Maximum participant weight is 260 lbs.
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I've tried tp look-up "dry tattooing" online, and haven't found much. Is it done the same way as regular tattooing, just without the ink? How does it work? Thanks!
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Try looking up "dry needling". It is similar to tattooing without the ink, but depending upon what you are trying to treat, the depth can be different. It's used to damage the area of skin and thereby forcing it to regrow new skin in its place.
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Fishing the Delaware Valley
€ 23,99
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August 1998
BeschreibungThe Delaware River is the last major free-flowing river in the eastern United States. Drawing on their cumulative century of angling experience, the authors range through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed, with offshore visits for saltwater fishing along the New Jersey coast.
InhaltsverzeichnisForeword Introduction 1. Some Basic Principals 2. Freshwater Fishing in Northeastern Pennsylvania 3. Freshwater Fishing in Northern New Jersey 4. Freshwater Fishing in South Jersey 5. The Delaware Bay 6. Coastal Saltwater 7. Crabbing Appendix Index
Pressestimmen"A well-written guide to sandwich joints in Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with almost as much information about nearby fishing holes." --Philadelphia Magazine "This book, written by a Temple University administrator and two retired colleagues, has a little bit of everything: commentary on the authors' favorite fishing spots, evaluations of tackle shops, advice on nearby attractions where nonfishing family and friends can pass the time, and restaurant recommendations in case you don't get any keepers." --New York Times
Untertitel: Revised. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: TEMPLE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: August 1998
Seitenanzahl: 248 Seiten
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We always think we'll never move back to our parents' house. Graduate from school, find work, support ourselves and live independently. That's how it's supposed to work.
Of course, it never works perfectly for everyone. That's true especially in this economy.
We've been asking people in our Public Insight Network for months now about how their households are faring. Every few weeks, we hear from an adult who lost his job and contemplates moving home. We've heard from parents, too, about making room for their young adult children.
Mary Piontek of Stillwater told us this week her daughter and son, both college graduates, are home. The story's complicated, too, because Mary says she'll be losing her job by the end of the year as her company moves work overseas. She writes:
Our 24-year-old son who provided computer support for a small company lost his job two weeks ago. Our 22-year-old daugher works part time at a tanning salon making $7/hr….she completed her degree in marketing communications at UWRF but cannot find a job. The few openings she finds want 3-5 years of experience… After years of conservative living and aggressive savings, my husband hoped to retire at 56 … now he is planning on working longer.
A recent AARP survey reveals the struggles some have in this economy.
Most adults 18 and older told AARP that it was still unlikely they'd need to move in with a family or friend. But among those who said it was possible, a third of those blamed an income drop and about 20 percent said it would be due to a change in their jobs or health.
There are upsides. Having extra time with your kids or parents that you didn't expect or that wouldn't have happened without the lousy economy can be a good thing. But it's also hard at any age to see your kids struggle.
Are you in a similar situation? Drop me a line or post below and tell us. It may lead to a story on Minnesota Public Radio News.


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It's a chili lover's dream—the folks behind this fiery annual feast will erect a 500-foot concourse of the spicy stew, packed with entries from some of the city's best pot-stirrers. More than 20 restaurants—including Delaney Barbecue, Perla, Salvation Taco and Talde—duke it out for the coveted 2013 Golden Chili Mug. Exercise your taste buds with samples of the hearty bowls and unlimited Sam Adams (Boston Lager and Alpine Spring), while tapping a toe to a honky-tonk set from country band the Dixons. Ticket proceeds will fund Food Systems Network NYC, an organization working to prevent hunger.
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Bruno's far from the dream man that Martine wants in her life. Sure, he's dashingly attractive and a banking whiz, but he's also arrogant and bullheaded. The most important man in her life is Charles, a widower coworker who's slowly losing his drive to make it through each day. A night of regrets and unintended events leaves Bruno in Martine's company, but when they "merge their businesses," Martine walks away with a lifetime of debt…and a new child on the way. Bruno may have won her body, but can he win her soul?
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Date of Stay: September, 2009
This is a very well kept campground with friendly staff. The bathrooms near the pool have been newly renovated and are fully tiled. We were a bit surprised by the number of trains that we heard. We would definitely visit this campground again. Easy off and on I-57.
Date of Stay: September, 2009
This is a very clean well run campground. The bathrooms are exceptionally clean. Campers should be aware that the Kansas City International Airport is close by so you have all that traffic noise and the camp sites are very close together. We were only traveling through so for the one night it was acceptable.


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Discussion in 'Chevy C/K Truck Forum' started by JTWard, Aug 9, 2014.
I've heard lots of good reviews on Steel Braided brake lines... I can't comment for myself though.
1. Upgrade to the NBS Master Cylinder:
2. Upgrade to the NBS Front Brakes:
Yea, there is a procedure that takes about 20 minutes
these might help , a brake upgrade with callipers and proper rotors and pads will make a huge difference, i used to deal a lot with the Jap rice rockets and wilwood make excellent brakes.
Hawk Ceramic pads and smoothrotors are going to be your bast bet. I for one prefer slotted rotors (NOT Drilled) and ceramic pads for towing. Its all going to boil down to your personal preference though
I forget to mention, the top photograph is fresh from the field way out in western PA, The second or lower is or was taken last spring just about all done, you can tell because it sits much higher on the bumper to bumper 'New" suspension. I even replaced the body mounts. If anyone out there hasn't done this, I assure you it makes the truck feel brand new.
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Yeah, But I don't like the "Break in procedure" with ceramics. Front end is smoking and you can smell the overheated grease. I don't know. Maybe with a better pad manufacture it won't be so bad, but you don't like slotted ?
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What kind of 'Break-in' procedure did you have to go through ?
I do like slotted, I do not like drilled because of rust. I use the same break in procedure as any other brake pad material. For no noise, no dust, and more stopping power I'll deal with the smell lol
HAWK makes a LOT of brake pads. What ones am I looking for ? Thank you !
Most front rotors on vehicles already have vents through the center for cooling. Drilled rotors accomplishes next to nothing other than "they look cool". I guess for some, if it "looks cool", they imagine their vehicle stops faster. Slotting does have some benefit, as it acts as a scraper for the pads and will remove some surface contaminants from them. It is primarily designed to waft away vapor from heat buildup on braking. So if you have a choice, order slotted with no drilling.
I use Cryogenically treated rotors from Frozen Rotors. They are treated cryogenically, which makes them virtually "warp proof", and I had warping issues with the stock rotors on this an my M6, so I have the Frozen Rotors on both vehicles, and I have not had any warping problems since. They are costly, so if you are not having a warp issue, you don't need them.
As far as brake pads, the choice does matter as far as brakes grabbing. But on a pickup truck, I think you are talking about very little return on using a soft compound pad, which is going to grab faster and better. It also wears out faster, and on a truck, especially like mine where it is used for towing, a soft pad is not a good choice.
The other issue to be aware of is the valve on some models that proportions the braking between the front and rear to avoid the rear brakes locking up. You may find, if you have this feature (called "anti-lock" on my truck), that if you have a qualified technician adjust the deflection arm on the rear axle (this is what proportions the brakes - more weight on the back, the more the rear brakes engage) such that the rear brakes are used more, the truck will stop faster. As long as they don't overdo it and cause the rear brakes to lock up. I have had mine adjusted for this reason, and it worked great.
The only other thing I have done to my brakes is install Stainless Braided hoses on front and rear. It imparts a slightly mor firm feel at the pedal. But a truck is what it is: a truck. It is not going to accelerate particularly fast compared to fast car, nor will it stop fast compared to most cars.
I've always used ceramic pads on my tow rigs with no complaints. They do wear a little faster, but not significantly. I use the brake best ceramics from Oreillys.
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Someplace close, possibly, maybe, having public transportation to the cities but it's not a deal breaker. We will have a car.
Tent camping and would love a campground that allows campfires.
Prefer state parks but private parks are okay as well.
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Campgrounds near Philadelphia and New York City
Someplace close, possibly, maybe, having public transportation to the cities but it's not a deal breaker. We will have a car.
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PA has excellent camping facilities, though many might be seasonal.
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I am not aware of any campgrounds within reasonable reach of NYC. there is a place in NJ where you can park an RV - I believe it costs about $60 per night - but don;t think they allow tent camping. I believe it has a couple of buses per day that connect to regular public transit - but it would still take about an hour to get to the city. For tent camping you should look at the web site of NY State Parks - but I don't know of anyplace (potential campgrounds) - closer than about 1.5/2 hours from the city).
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www.rv.net/forums has lots of friendly people talking about anything camping/RVing related.
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Well if you want to drive to the end of Long Island NYC you can camp out at "Hither Hills" right on the ocean! I think you need to make a reservation in advance however.
I spent a day with a friend who had rented a spot for the week. Beautiful location, with many facilities for comfort.
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How close do you want?
Here's the website for NYS parks.
nysparks.com/ and the state wide camping guide here http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/nysparks/ny_campingguide2011/
The Taconic Region is the stretch north of NYC. Fahnestock State is a nice park about a 1.25hr drive north of NYC, and about 15min drive to Cold Spring (with a few good restaurants). It's in the Hudson Highlands, and the Appalachian Trail passes through there.
From CS you can catch the RR into Grand Central.
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While Hither Hills does have camping - and is in a nice area - it's not a day trip to Manhattan. You would have to take the LIRR or the Hampton Jitney - and it's at least 2 hours from NYC - except on weekends when it;s ore like 3 hours. OK if you want to see the Hamptons but useless for the city.
As for Fahnstock - I don;t know how far in advance you have to make reservations. The park is a $20 taxi ride from the train station - $40 RT plus all the train fares. Or - you could drive into the city and park the car - for a whole day a garage will be about $30. In terms of time - I don;t think there is any way to get into the city 1 1/4 hours - unless you do it at off hours - which would give you very little time in Manhattan (rush hour is 7 to 9:30 am and 4 to 7 pm).
Certainly look up the details - but expect to spend a lot of time and/or money getting in and out of the city - leaving yoursefl time to do little there.
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When moving to Philly I didn't want to spend money for a motel room, so I resolved to just camp in a tent each night. The last night I saw that I would staying just outside the city, so I checked out what was the closest campground.
The nearest campground is the one described as the "Philadelphia" KOA.
It's actually 33 miles away, but a station for a commuter train that goes direct into Philly is ten miles away in Downingtown.
The nearest public campground is in NJ, at Atsion Recreation Area in Wharton State Forest -- about 30 miles away.
It is less than ten miles from a commuter train station in Hammonton NJ.
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I've driven from Fahnestock to Manhattan many, many times. The 1.25 hrs is drive time to midtown, off hrs.
If you're going in during rush hour I'd recommend the train from Cold Spring. Since you'll have a car you won't be paying the taxi fare, but you will have the RR ticket.
Peak fares are $32.50 per person, round trip
Off peak is $24.5
If you're doing it once it'd be far, but you could certainly do a day trip. I do. Multiple days it'd be a real drag.
There is a NYS park closer to Manhattan - the FD Roosevelt park in Westchester co, but I think it's only a day use park. It draws huge crowds from the city in the summer - metal detectors at the pool. Not my favorite park.
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There is a campground for RVs in Jersey city close to the ferry to NYC. Check it at:
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Sorry - IMHO 1.5 hours on train - plus time to get to the train station - is NOT near NYC. This would be a 4 hour commute - tied to the train schedule and finding rare taxis to get to to/fro campground.
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nyt -- this is a 3+yo thread (which you responded to back then). It was topped by an advertiser.
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Regular readers may remember Zepto. Just over a year ago we reviewed the Znote 6214W, and it walked away with the coveted Recommended Award thanks to its combination of fast components at a superb price. One of its benefits was that it provided a modicum of gaming performance inside a moderately portable 14.1 chassis, and the Znote 6224W we're looking at today is more or less a complete update of that model.
I say complete update; it's more of a refresh than anything else, with the internals upgraded to the latest mobile technology while the chassis receives little more than the smallest of tweaks. On the outside this is no bad thing. Fine, it isn't eye-catching like the Sony VAIO CR, but the matte black combined with the pleasing curves on the lid create a sleek, almost low profile look that's quite pleasing to behold. Zepto's classy logo lettering certainly helps too, and is certainly an improvement over the garish bold lettering found on Toshiba notebooks or massive badges on Dell machines.
Another particular bonus is the size. Fine, a 14.1in notebook isn't ultra-portable or anything, but weighing 2.4kg and measuring 341mm wide, 247mm deep and only 27mm high it's perfectly portable, and once you read what's inside the relative size and weight is all the more impressive.
Unfortunately, though the outside is perfectly palatable, opening up the lid reveals a rather less attractive state of affairs. First to draw ire is the speakers, which are situated in a gap just below the screen. This is actually quite neat since the speakers are projecting toward you rather than into the desk or upward into nothingness, but the plastic moulded grill that accompanies them is nothing but an eye sore and really upsets one's overall impression of the machine.
Similarly the silver accenting, one of the few visual changes, isn't an especially good one. It just looks rather cheap, as does the glossy black panel just above the keyboard and the buttons that are set into it. Overall there's a definite lack of finesse in the some of the design, though it is at least solidly put together and inspires some confidence in this respect.
At the core of our sample was an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, which runs at a breezy 2GHz with 4MB L2 Cache on a 800MHz front-side bus. This is backed up by a single stick of 2GB 667MHz DRR2 RAM, and most impressively a 512MB nVidia GeForce 8600M GT. This is a very powerful set up, especially for a notebook of this size, and should allow for a good deal of gaming performance.
Slightly disappointingly our sample came with an 80GB SATA HDD, though it was a 7200rpm Hitachi drive so it was at least nippy. Thankfully, you can specify a 160GB 5400rpm drive for as little as £13.18 more, with options going all the way up to 250GB for 5400rpm drives and 200GB for the 7200rpm versions. This is a very comprehensive selection, and even compared to other built-to-order companies Zepto provides a massive range of options - more on which shortly.
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