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- Where to buy: Teruel cured ham is available in almost any speciality shop, supermarket, hypermarket, and butcher's on the Peninsula, but it is sold particularly in the Autonomous Community of Aragón.
- Recipes: Chicken 'chilindrón' (stew)

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It's good to have a sense of eagerness when you're in a race car. It's not so good when you're so eager to get out of the pit lane that you then proceed to destroy your race, everyone else's race, and probably the nearest three census-designated places.
In a way, it's understandable how quickly driver Kenny Bost would want to rejoin the pack, considering that the Bowman-Gray track is so small that the pitlane is actually outside the track. On the other hand, it is not understandable, whatsoever, at all, because this is easily the worst racing decision I've seen in at least the last 20 minutes.
The last time we heard from Bowman-Gray, by the way, was when one driver decided that dragging another one was probably a good idea.
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Retired blue-collar city employees are claiming the city has not lived up to its agreement to provide them fully paid health insurance because their carrier is requiring them to pay for Medicare, according to a recent lawsuit.
Some public employees who have retired from local governments in New York State have agreements with their employers that preserve their health care benefits at no cost to them when they retire. Buffalo has in the past negotiated similar agreements.
In a class-action lawsuit filed last month in State Supreme Court against the city and Mayor Byron W. Brown, 10 plaintiffs, formerly of the AFSCME Local 264 bargaining unit, say they represent between 300 and 500 of their former colleagues, all of whom retired before Jan. 1, 2009. The suit also includes the spouses of living retirees.
The suit says the plaintiffs retired with clear agreements with the city that they were to receive health insurance benefits "without any cost to them."
But a letter sent by health insurer BlueCross BlueShield on Aug. 1, 2008, states that the company would begin enforcing a provision of the policy that requires Medicare-eligible customers to enroll in the federal program. Medicare-eligible retirees and their eligible spouses were asked to enroll in Medicare Part B, which requires a premium of approximately $1,200 per person. The private insurer would cover whatever costs the government program did not cover, assuming that deductibles and co-payments had been met, according to the letter.
If the retiree did not enroll, the retiree would be responsible for paying what Medicare would have paid.
"The effect of this mandate is a clear diminution of the guaranteed lifetime retiree health insurance benefit contained within various [collective bargaining agreements] negotiated between the city and union," the suit states.
The effect of the change is that the city is no longer paying the policy's full bill, according to the suit.
Collective-bargaining agreements effective at the time the plaintiffs retired said that upon retirement and until they die, employees would receive the health plan in effect on the last day of their service to the city, according to the lawsuit.
The retirees are looking for compensation to make up for the health insurance payments they have made.
Buffalo firefighters have a similar complaint with the city pending, according to Thomas P. Barrett, vice president of the Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association.
A spokesman for the city declined to comment.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs did not return a telephone message Monday.
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- What other names is Valerian known by?
- What is Valerian?
- Is Valerian effective?
- How does Valerian work?
- Are there safety concerns?
- Are there any interactions with medications?
- Dosing considerations for Valerian.
Valerian is most commonly used for sleep disorders, especially the inability to sleep (insomnia). It is frequently combined with hops, lemon balm, or other herbs that also cause drowsiness. Some people who are trying to withdraw from the use of "sleeping pills" use valerian to help them sleep after they have tapered the dose of the sleeping pill. There is some scientific evidence that valerian works for sleep disorders, although not all studies are positive.
Valerian is also used for conditions connected to anxiety and psychological stress including nervous asthma, hysterical states, excitability, fear of illness (hypochondria), headaches, migraine, and stomach upset.
Some people use valerian for depression, mild tremors, epilepsy, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Valerian is used for muscle and joint pain. Some women use valerian for menstrual cramps and symptoms associated with menopause, including hot flashes and anxiety.
Sometimes, valerian is added to bath water to help with restlessness and sleep disorders.
In manufacturing, the extracts and oil made from valerian are used as flavoring in foods and beverages.
There is also some evidence that valerian can improve mood and the ability to concentrate.
There isn't enough information to know whether or not valerian is effective for the other conditions people use it for, including: depression, convulsions, mild tremors, epilepsy, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), muscle and joint pain, headache, stomach upset, menstrual pains, menopausal symptoms including hot flashes and anxiety, and many others. Do not use valerian for these conditions until more is known.
Possibly Effective for...
- Inability to sleep (insomnia). Some research suggests that valerian does not relieve insomnia as fast as "sleeping pills." Continuous use for several days, even up to four weeks, may be needed before an effect is noticeable. Valerian seems to improve the sleep quality of people who are withdrawing from the use of sleeping pills. Not all evidence is positive, however. Some studies have found that valerian doesn't improve insomnia any better than a "sugar pill" (placebo).
Insufficient Evidence to Rate Effectiveness for...
- Anxiety. There is contradictory evidence about the effectiveness of valerian for anxiety. Some people have reported that it seems to reduce stress in social situations. Yet, other studies have shown no effect.
- Depression. Some early research suggests that taking valerian plus St. John's wort improves symptoms of depression. Taking higher doses of valerian with St. John's wort improves depression symptoms faster than low doses.
- Restlessness. A specific combination product, providing valerian root extract 160 mg and lemon balm leaf extract 80 mg (Euvegal forte, Schwabe Pharmaceuticals), has been tried to reduce symptoms of serious restlessness (dyssomnia) in children under the age of 12. Early results show it might be effective, but more research is needed.
- Menstrual disorders (dysmenorrhea). Early research suggests that taking valerian three times daily for two menstrual cycles reduces pain and the need for other pain relievers during menstruation.
- Stress. Early research suggests that taking 600 mg of valerian for 7 days reduces blood pressure, heart rate and feelings of pressure when under stress. Other research found that taking 100 mg before speaking in front of an audience reduces feelings of anxiety. Another study found that taking a combination product containing valerian and lemon balm night lower anxiety caused by stress at low doses but increase anxiety when taken in larger doses.
- Convulsions.
- Mild tremors.
- Epilepsy.
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
- Muscle and joint pain.
- Headache.
- Stomach upset.
- Menopausal symptoms including hot flashes and anxiety.
- Other conditions.
Clinical studies have reported safe use of valerian for medicinal purposes in over 12,000 people in trials lasting up to 28 days. The safety of long-term use is unknown. Some information suggests that valerian might also be safe when taken by children for 4-8 weeks.
Valerian can cause some side effects such as headache, excitability, uneasiness, and even insomnia in some people. A few people feel sluggish in the morning after taking valerian, especially at higher doses. It's best not to drive or operate dangerous machinery after taking valerian. The long-term safety of valerian is unknown. To avoid possible side effects when discontinuing valerian after long-term use, it's best to reduce the dose slowly over a week or two before stopping completely.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy or breast-feeding: There isn't enough information about the safety of valerian during pregnancy or breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use.
Surgery: Valerian slows down the central nervous system. Anesthesia and other medications used during surgery also affect the central nervous system. The combined effects might be harmful. Stop taking valerian at least two weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Interaction Rating: Major Do not take this combination.
Alcohol can cause sleepiness and drowsiness. Valerian might also cause sleepiness and drowsiness. Taking large amounts of valerian along with alcohol might cause too much sleepiness. However, some research has found that combining valerian with alcohol does not increase sleepiness.
Alprazolam (Xanax)
Interaction Rating: Moderate Be cautious with this combination.
Talk with your health provider.
Valerian can decrease how quickly the liver breaks down alprazolam (Xanax). Taking valerian with alprazolam (Xanax) might increase the effects and side effects of alprazolam (Xanax) such as drowsiness.
Medications changed by the liver (Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) substrates)
Interaction Rating: Moderate Be cautious with this combination.
Talk with your health provider.
Some medications are changed and broken down by the liver. Valerian might decrease how quickly the liver breaks down some medications. Taking valerian along with some medications that are broken down by the liver can increase the effects and side effects of some medications. Before taking valerian, talk to your healthcare provider if you are taking any medications that are changed by the liver.
Some medications changed by the liver include lovastatin (Mevacor), ketoconazole (Nizoral), itraconazole (Sporanox), fexofenadine (Allegra), triazolam (Halcion), and many others.
Sedative medications (Benzodiazepines)
Interaction Rating: Moderate Be cautious with this combination.
Talk with your health provider.
Valerian might cause sleepiness and drowsiness. Drugs that cause sleepiness and drowsiness are called sedatives. Taking valerian along with sedative medications might cause too much sleepiness.
Some of these sedative medications include alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan), midazolam (Versed), temazepam (Restoril), triazolam (Halcion), and others.
Sedative medications (CNS depressants)
Interaction Rating: Moderate Be cautious with this combination.
Talk with your health provider.
Valerian might cause sleepiness and drowsiness. Medications that cause sleepiness are called sedatives. Taking valerian along with sedative medications might cause too much sleepiness. Taking valerian along with sedative medications used in surgery might cause prolonged sedation.
Some sedative medications include pentobarbital (Nembutal), phenobarbital (Luminal), secobarbital (Seconal), thiopental (Pentothal), fentanyl (Duragesic, Sublimaze), morphine, propofol (Diprivan), and others.
Medications changed by the liver (Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) substrates)
Interaction Rating: Minor Be cautious with this combination.
Talk with your health provider.
Some medications are changed and broken down by the liver. Valerian might decrease how quickly the liver breaks down some medications. Taking valerian along with some medications that are broken down by the liver can increase the effects and side effects of some medications. Before taking valerian, talk to your healthcare provider if you are taking any medications that are changed by the liver.
Some medications changed by the liver include amitriptyline (Elavil), clozapine (Clozaril), codeine, desipramine (Norpramin), donepezil (Aricept), fentanyl (Duragesic), flecainide (Tambocor), fluoxetine (Prozac), meperidine (Demerol), methadone (Dolophine), metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL), olanzapine (Zyprexa), ondansetron (Zofran), tramadol (Ultram), trazodone (Desyrel), and others.
- For inability to sleep (insomnia):
- 400-900 mg valerian extract up to 2 hours before bedtime for as long as 28 days, or
- Valerian extract 120 mg, with lemon balm extract 80 mg 3 times daily for up to 30 days, or
- A combination product containing valerian extract 187 mg plus hops extract 41.9 mg per tablet, 2 tablets at bedtime for 28 days.
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With Aaron Hernandez gone, the Patriots currently don't have four of their top five receivers from 2012. The other one, Rob Gronkowski, is recovering from having his spine adjusted with a scalpel.
So what should the Patriots do? We gave Shaun King the G.M. title in New England during Thursday's PFT Live, and he suggested that the Pats just be patient.
It's a great point. Other guys can and will step up.
It happens all the time in football. One guy gets hurt, another guy steps in.
Making it easier for the Patriots is the presence of a franchise quarterback who still remains at the top of the game, even if he isn't quite as great as he used to be. The perception of a receiver's skill depends in large part on the quality of his quarterback, and Brady has helped make a lot of receivers look better than they would have been elsewhere.
The challenge for Brady will be to establish familiarity with the receivers. How long it takes to get off the line, how they run their routes, placement of the ball, etc.
The best way to make that happen will be to get as many reps as possible. In practice, after practice, on days when there is no practice. King thinks we'll see the first-team offense more extensively in the preseason to aid Brady and the receivers in the process of getting ready to work together when the games count.
This doesn't mean the Pats won't try to find more players. Dallas Clark is still on the market. Brandon Lloyd, who had 911 receiving yards last year in New England, is still available. (And while some regard Lloyd as a guy who didn't fit in with the Pats, quirks and other personality glitches don't look quite as bad in light of the allegations made against Hernandez.) Randy Moss could be intrigued by a reunion. (Read the last parenthetical and replace "Lloyd" with "Moss.")
Still, the cupboard isn't completely bare. Gronk, is healthy, remains a force. King believes rookie Aaron Dobson could make an impact at receiver. And the decision to pilfer Jake Ballard from the Giants last year as they tried to slip him through to injured reserve suddenly looks brilliant.
Throughout the Belichick-Brady era, it has been presumed that the Patriots will remain contenders as long as both are around. They both are still there. Thus, it's safe to presume they will still be contenders.


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P85 or P85+
P85 or P85+
Could it be that a P85+ is a little bit faster than a P85?
Would you really need a P85+?
Ask yourself what you could do with $15,000?
You could save that money for future repair bills or your energy bill (maybe both)?
The suspension is firmer on the p85+. I personally like the more compliant ride of the p85. It is still quick but the airbags make driving really comfortable. Have test driven any models 's yet?
P85 feels a little bit "floaty" (as in not planted) during hard acceleration and cornering.
P85+ feels like you have the hand of God accelerating you with magnets on the wheels that keep you glued to the ground while cornering. If you have the money and are used to high-performance cars definitely go +. If you dont need super-car performance, but are content with almost-supercar performnce, the P85 is definitely sufficient.
@bnwdon: So the service center quoted you $15 to convert your P85 to a FULL P85+? or is it a retrofit?
I'm trying to get pricing here locally in the bay area and no one seems to know or will tell.
The P85+ has exceptional acceleration and cornering. By the way, I have a P85+ for sale in Denver, CO with less than 2K miles. I posted it a few days ago over at TMC website.
I have to ask. Why are you selling it?
@jpwe10: As a note, I didn't feel the 85 with the coil suspension felt anywhere near as disconnected (floaty) as the 85 w/ air. Indeed based on my somewhat limited drive time, I suspect the air is the main problem, and the + does a great job of correcting its faults. If I were to define a "floatiness scale" it'd go something like P85 w/ air > P85 w/ coil > P85+. This was the main reason I decided for forego air on my P85.
You're sacrificing adjustable ride height and smoothness in doing so, though, so probably depends what your priorities are.
I'd certainly not pay $15k to retrofit. You'd probably be better off following lolachampcar's exploits, lowering the car a bit further seems relatively easy and replacing the rear bushings/control arms with the P+ units. Sounds like he may also be in the process of converting his P+'s air suspension back to coil, so that'll be interesting to watch.
P85+ is the way to go if you had any kind of sportscar before. P85 is very floaty...Typically american. Still a great car but I can't deal since I have been driving ONLY performance cars for the last 11 years.
Can't wait for my P85+...and february is still sooo far.
Nope on the air to coil conversion. I just inherited some air parts and want to do some coil development so I am converting the air to coil. Doing this also makes sure the travel range is correct for the ride height I am targeting. Put differently, I've not put both coil and air dampers on a shock dyno to make sure the valving per stroke position is exactly the same so it is safer to do my initial work using air dampers.
WRT the differences, there are a good number. Most of the reduction in the disconnected feel of the rear comes from changing the inner lower rear a-arm bushings. Tesla changed all the bushings in the a-arm, torque links, toe links and upper camber arms but my experimentation tells me the lower a-arm bushings are the culprit. The P+ also has (very) slightly stiffer damper valving and MUCH stiffer anti-roll bars. The much stiffer roll resistance dramatically increases head snatch when you hit something like a pot hole or a speed bump with one wheel first. I find it unpleasant and really unnecessary given my P85 was just fine on roll resistance. The remainder of the difference is staggered wheel/tire sizes with slightly wider in the back to make up for the greater oversteer tendency of the stiffer rear bushings.
Is there a big difference? Yes. Is it worth it? It depends on your taste; I sold my P85 to get the full factory P+ but then I'm a bit of a nut. If you come from M5s and the like, it is a no brainer.
@lolachampcar: Thanks for the clarification. Too bad I can't edit the post :-/
I have a P85 and I love it. I don't go up into mountains and scream around corners but I do a helluva lot of 0-60 runs. In fact, I've become incredibly adroit at timing lights so that I end up first in line at every red light. Then a quick 0 to whatever the speed limit is and I'm a happy man.
I love the compliance of the ride. The air is great and the 19s are quiet and smooth. I don't want a car that feels like it runs on rails or is "connected" to the pavement. I can see why somebody would love the real-life equivalent of a kid's slot-car toy but it's not for me.
On top of that I get to save $10K, don't have to replace expensive tires every 8000 miles, don't have to hear the tire noise in the cabin and perhaps most importantly to me, don't have to walk out to my beautiful car each morning and see these massive 21" tires and wheels marring the look of my vehicle.
It's totally subjective, however, and that's why you have Escalades riding around on 22's with spinning hubcaps.
P85 for me.
+1 Thomas
P85 has aluminium pedals while the standard has rubber pedals.
@mrrjm- I have two Model S's. I decided to sell one and wait to buy a Model X. I also will buy Model E's for my daughters.
Roadtest difference between standard and performance suspensions.
I would go with the + because that + could save your life someday when you most need it.
I've been driving sports/sporty cars almost entire my adult life so my taste may be different than yours. The is no way that I would go for the P without the +. To me handling is way more important than straight line acceleration. You can use the acceleration once in a while but the handling is with you all the time while you're driving.
The only difference is that the "Plus" has the $6,500 suspension/wheel/tire package.
I drove both the P85+ and the P85 with air suspension and went with the latter. It's true that the "+" does an amazing job of shepherding 4,700 pounds of heavy metal around corners, but:
1. I already have other, sports-oriented vehicles for this, and
2. Since I live in Reno, I'd have needed a new set of wheels and tires for winter, and I already have that for two other cars, and it's a pain.
I'm quite happy with the P85 and air suspension. It's definitely the softest ride of any car I have, but having some experience with American sedans in the 70s, I wouldn't describe it as "floaty"!
I would go either P85+ or S85 w/19". Why order the extra power of the P85 and not have tires and suspension to put it to good use? Better save that money and get the S85 then IMHO, if one doesn't want the plus package.
I ordered the P without the +. Didn't want to spent the extra 13,000$ it would cost me to get the + (air, wheels and the +). I probably would have gotten it if it wasn't tied to the air suspension and 21" wheels. I am going to see what the aftermarket can come up with if the standard S suspension is lacking. Could buy a lot of suspension upgrades for 13K$
It would be interesting to see the geographic breakdown of who went with P85 vs. P85+.....I've only seen 19" tires on Teslas so far in the Northeast. In fact, the KOP Tesla store told me I was one of very few who opted for 21" wheels. For those who don't know, Northeast roads are horrible, with salt, potholes, bumps, and snow in the winter that cause all sorts of issues for low-profile tires.
I had the P85+ for the weekend and it was one bone-jarring, teeth-chattering ride up here....Great handling, sure, but so did the P85....Considering the amount of time I spend in traffic, and the 100 miles a day commute, I opted for the softer ride/cheaper tires, with most of the handling.
@jcaspar1: Same thing in my case. I'm going to change to sticky tires on the 19"s ASAP and decide where to go from there. Keep an eye on lolachampcar's testing over on TMC.
Regarding 19" vs. 21" tires. 19" is already low profile by historical standards. The 21"
for my taste will have a more bumpy, less comfortable ride, it will cost more to re-
place and will wear out faster than 19". All you gain with 21" is that you can go a little faster making 90 degree turns into a side street and shave off a few seconds on a race track. So take your pick: comfort vs. more money and bumps for pretending to be a race car driver. :-)


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Jan. 30, 2013 08:08 AM
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/30/13 -- During his distinguished career, Dr. Daniel G. Chain, Ph.D. discovered various novel therapeutics to treat Alzheimer's disease which were licensed to multiple Big Pharma giants.
Dr. Chain trained as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Chain obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Institute of Biology in London and obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
He currently serves as Chairman of Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. (OTCQB: ILNS), where he has also been Chief Executive Officer since October 2005.
In an exclusive interview with BioMedReports, Chain says that biotech investors should remain undeterred by the challenges currently being faced by those trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease and other age-related cognitive impairments.
BioMedReports: How would you characterize the mood among Alzheimer's researchers after the phase 3 results for Bapineuzumab and Solanezumab?
Dr. Daniel G. Chain, Ph.D.: Obviously, people were very disappointed by the results from the two sets of major Alzheimer's Phase 3 trials, but there were also glimmers of light that renewed hope and even strengthened the prevailing belief that beta amyloid (Aβ) plays a central and causative role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Few now doubt that immunotherapy represents a realistic path forward pending improvements in drug design and the way we conduct clinical trials. Ely Lilly's drug solanezumab showed modest improvement in clinical outcomes when data was pooled from two clinical trials. The drug is to be further tested in a third phase 3 trial by the company and two independent trials conducted by leading academic groups. While bapineuzumab failed to show clinical benefit, the use of biomarkers clearly demonstrated the drug had engaged the target, reduced the amount of plaque and slowed neurodegeneration based upon the decrease in the amount of tau protein measured in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). Unfortunately, the drug also caused a significant incidence of vasogenic edema and microhemorrhages, especially in patients that carried the APOE4 gene. A Phase 2 trial is ongoing using a subcutaneous formulation that may avoid these side effects. There is a feeling of optimism among researchers that next generation drugs will have an improved probability of success because of the lessons we have learned from these results and other important recent developments in the field. I experienced this first-hand when I was invited as a Distinguished Speaker to the 6th Annual Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Summit in December and had the opportunity to listen to foremost leaders in the field including academic researchers and industry experts.
Among the themes that have become prevalent is that there is a compelling case for early intervention in the treatment of the disease in which relevant biochemical and neuropathological changes in the brain start many years -- in some case two decades or more -- before symptoms occur! Moreover, the rate of change is far greater before the appearance of symptoms such that the stage we commonly refer to as "Mild," is in fact relatively far advanced, reflecting significant damage to the brain, which is probably beyond repair.
Q: What are the main areas of progress in Alzheimer's research?
Dr. Daniel G. Chain: The development of sensitive brain imaging techniques such as structural MRI to measure brain atrophy, FDG-PET to measure glucose metabolism, and PET amyloid imaging agents represent some of the most important recent advances in the field laying the foundation for studies such as by the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network (DIAN) that provided extremely valuable information regarding the sequence of changes preceding and leading to AD. In fact, these studies led to a new way to think about the disease in which presymptomatic AD is just as much a disease state as symptomatic disease.
Q: Describe the main programs at Intellect Neurosciences.
Dr. Daniel G. Chain: Intellect has four main programs underway at the moment: CONJUMAB-A, TAUC3, TOC-1 and RVO3.
We are pioneering the use of antibody-drug conjugates and bi-specific vaccines for the treatment and prevention of multifactorial neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and age-related macular degeneration. Increasingly we hear researchers emphasizing the need to target more than one disease component where, for example, Aβ, tau protein and oxidative stress act in concert and synergistically causing irreversible damage to nerve cells. The use of combination therapies may even allow intervention after symptoms have begun in contrast to monotherapies, targeting only Aβ, for example. However, regulators are averse to the idea of combining two independent investigational drugs before testing each one singly in human clinical trials and demonstrating clinical benefit. That issue is circumvented by the use of antibody drug conjugates in which two different molecules are combined chemically into a single entity as is the case with our CONJUMAB platform.
I am excited about the therapeutic potential of CONJUMAB-A, our lead preclinical program which I believe offers important advantages to other Aβ antibodies currently in clinical development. All the other antibodies e.g. solanezumab, bapineuzumab, gantenerumab and crenzeumab are designed for a single purpose, namely to clear Aβ from the brain. None of these antibodies act on secondary neurotoxic mechanisms such as oxidative stress which causes most of the damage from Aβ. By contrast, CONJUMAB-A, an antibody drug conjugate, is empowered with additional neuroprotective properties to alleviate the damage while also potentially enhancing the clearance of Aβ. In principle our approach could be applied to improve many different types of antibodies including those that previously disappointed in clinical trials. However, we are currently focused on optimizing CONJUMAB-A using our own antibody IN-N01 which targets the N-terminus of Aβ. We believe IN-N01 to be superior to bapineuzumab because of its reduced potential to cause inflammation which results from our reengineering of the originally produced IG1 class antibody into an IgG4 class antibody. We believe this safety feature is particularly important for antibodies that bind Aβ aggregates and not just soluble single monomeric Aβ. Among several potential indications, we have decided to focus on age related macular degeneration (AMD) for proof of concept studies since AMD and AD share several similarities while the eye offers less challenge for delivering the drug.
Over the past two years, Intellect has established its position as a leader in tau immunotherapy using funds from our deal with ViroPharma to support new patent filings by the company, in-license new technologies and initiate an important collaboration with leading Alzheimer's research groups led by Dr. Frank LaFerla and Dr. Kim Green at the University of California, Irvine. Tau immunotherapy is rapidly gaining traction in the Alzheimer's field and has potential applications for many orphan indications as well, such as frontotemporal dementia. However, in contrast to other approaches that have targeted tangles, Intellect is targeting the earliest steps in tau pathology focused on two different pathogenic forms, a truncated form known as delta tau and an aggregated from known as oligomeric tau -- each of which occurs before filaments leading to tangle formation. Over the next several months we expect to generate important in vivo data in relation to the two monoclonal antibodies, TauC3 and TOC-1, that we acquired from Northwestern University under an exclusive license agreement.
Finally, we continue our development of our RECALL-VAX platform focusing on a bi-specific chimeric peptide vaccine approach that targets both Aβ and delta tau in a flu-shot like vaccine approach. Vaccines against multiple antigens have precedent so this is another approach for combination therapies. Disease-modification itself is becoming less attractive as an approach for treating Alzheimer's disease for two main reasons. First, as evidenced by the Phase 3 clinical trials results, patients who are symptomatic probably have disease that is too far advanced to benefit significantly from treatments that slow the degenerative process. Second, treating very early stage or presymptomatic patients will be extremely expensive and prove too costly a burden for healthcare systems. An article by scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, published in the October issue of Current Alzheimer's Research, indicated the economic cost of treatment with a chronically and frequently administered disease-modifying drug would outweigh the cost of palliative care, including full-time nursing care of patients with advanced disease. This economic model leads one to conclude that a vaccination given on an annual or semi-annual basis may be the only economically feasible approach to prevent and manage Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, a vaccine such as RV03 being developed by Intellect Neurosciences offers a promising prophylactic approach that could potentially be administered to tens of millions of people around the world. Although still at an early stage, we are confident about our ability to produce a high value asset.
Q: Do you feel confident regarding Intellect's pipeline?
Dr. Daniel G. Chain: We are very confident in the science behind our pipeline, and are encouraged by the interest shown in our programs by several global pharmaceutical companies some of which have already signed confidentiality agreements. In addition, many independent papers have been published recently that support many of our hypotheses for the development of these assets. Further, we are beginning to see encouraging early stage results that we hope to share soon regarding each of our pipeline programs.
Q: What challenges do you face?
Dr. Daniel G. Chain: The biggest challenge is the funding needed to support our R&D activities and also to grow and maintain our substantial global patent portfolio, which is the heart of Intellect's business model. We need to dispel the skepticism that pervades among many stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry resulting from previous disappointments in the AD field, or at least separate ourselves from it.
One of Intellect's strengths is its diversified portfolio, which provides us "multiple shots on goal." We are extremely cost-efficient as the result of effective outsourcing R&D to highly specialized contract research organizations. Even so, as a small company, maintaining adequate funding to continue all of our programs concurrently is quite challenging. We are currently in talks with potential licensing and co-marketing partners to help maintain the pace of our research, but in this environment, we are facing the same challenges as all other companies of our relative size. We, therefore, have to choose which programs to push forward at any given moment, which often disrupts the momentum of other programs, all based upon the funding we receive and the goals of potential partners who continue nevertheless to show considerable interest and have expressed an eagerness to see validation in preclinical models.
Q: Do you have anything you wish to add?
Dr. Daniel G. Chain: It is imperative that the company and its investors remain undeterred by the challenges currently being faced both by the industry and within Intellect itself. Intellect has continued to grow and develop new strategies to continue on regardless of what the market has done. We wish to communicate to our current and potential investors that significant advances have been made in the Alzheimer's area and express our confidence in our ability to prevail where others have failed. While one set of compounds for which we hold licenses has met with challenges, that is not the entirety of Intellect Neurosciences. Intellect has never relied solely on one program to sustain it, and we have continuously executed on our plans to license our programs, and anticipate being able to do so again as we generate new data and advance our earlier-stage programs through proof of concept.
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text: Loyola history professor wins Fulbright to study Italy's honor killing law April 15, 2014 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland history professor Steven Hughes, Ph.D., in the Cantonal Archive of Ticino Switzerland. Steven Hughes, Ph.D., professor and chair of history at Loyola University Maryland, is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Grant to study the 19th and 20th century evolution of an Italian law that drastically lessened the punishment for honor killings. Hughes will conduct his research in Rome during the 2014-15 academic year, with a focus on what's known in Italy as delitto d'onore ("crime of honor"). "Under the law, when you found your wife 'in flagrante' you could kill her, and the other man too, and receive grossly mitigated penalties," said Hughes. "Your likelihood of getting a year in jail was pretty thin." Approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2014-15, but Hughes is one of only two who received a Senior Research Grant for Italy. His research will be the first historical study of delitto d'onore theory, legislation, and practice in modern Italy. The penalties for violence against female family members for sexual – or supposed sexual – transgressions were weakened in the early 1800s, and the law gradually became wider in its application from Napoleonic Code to Fascist regimes in the 1930s. Women could kill an erring husband; past affairs or discovered love letters also became delitto d'onore fodder. Surprisingly, the law was on the books in Italy until 1981. Hughes will examine how the legal concept was finally abolished, with an eye on current problems of honor killings in other parts of the world. "I'm very interested in how these people talked about delitto d'onore – why is it important that a law like this be maintained or even broadened?" said Hughes. Hughes first became interested in delitto d'onore when he spent time at the Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma to research dueling for his book Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy (2007). He'll return to that library this time around, along with the Biblioteca della Camera – Italy's equivalent of the Library of Congress – where he'll have access to records of parliamentary debates. Hughes will also be a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, affording him the opportunity to network with world-renowned experts and tap more historical resources. Once his research is complete, he will begin writing a monograph. This Fulbright award is Hughes' second. The first, which also took him to Rome in 1992, was the beginning of his study of dueling and questions of criminality, policing, and masculinity in modern Italy that led to numerous presentations and publications over the following two decades, including his first book Crime, Disorder, and the Risorgimento: The Politics of Policing in Bologna (1994). In all he has spent nearly four years in Italy including when he first studied abroad in Bologna in 1969. At Loyola, Hughes helped set up the international program in Leuven, Belgium, and served as director for six years. He received Loyola's Nachbar Award for Scholarship in 2010 and won a National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant in summer 1998. He also invented "Faculty Friday." Hughes has taught history at Loyola since 1985. About the Fulbright program: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a division of the Institute of International Education. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Program operates in over 155 countries worldwide. Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given over 318,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, scientists and other professionals the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. More information is available at http://eca.state.gov/fulbright.


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Parkinson's Disease, brought to public awareness by figures such as Michael J. Fox, is not just difficult to diagnose. It's also difficult to accurately estimate how many people actually suffer from the disease. Current statistics come from small-scale studies, usually based on information from hospital clinics, and no registries or formal databases exist to track how many people have the disease.
Dr. Chava Peretz of Tel Aviv University's School of Public Health at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Ph.D. student Orly Chillag-Talmor from Haifa University and researchers from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Maccabi Healthcare Services have devised a unique algorithm to more precisely determine the size of a population that suffers from the disease. This will permit researchers to better prepare for the consequences to public health, and provide more realistic estimates on how much it will cost to treat this growing number of patients.
The researchers have developed a refined drug-tracer algorithm. Based upon a patient's medication history, it assigns them to one of three potential categories of Parkinson's sufferers: those who definitely have the disease, those who probably have it, and those who only possibly have it. The algorithm identifies patients in each of these categories with 95 percent accuracy. The results of the research recently appeared in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
Sifting through a decade of prescriptions
It has been estimated that one percent of the population over the age of 60 suffers from Parkinson's, but Dr. Peretz questioned this estimate, believing that the numbers might be far greater.
Their algorithm is based on four factors: the kind of anti-Parkinson drug prescribed; the age at which the patient was first entered into the system; the length of the follow-up period; and the number and continuity of drug purchases. They then compared her results to the database of purchased pharmaceuticals from Israel's second largest HMO, Maccabi Health Care. This database comprises ten years' worth of prescriptions, representing about 25 percent of the population.
Researchers were searching for both prevalent cases (the number of people currently living with Parkinson's) and incident cases (the number of people each year newly diagnosed with the disease). "Based on this algorithm," Dr. Peretz explains, "we identified about 7,000 Parkinson's disease prevalent cases and about 5,000 incident cases in the study period."
These results, notes Dr. Peretz, represented a departure from previously accepted statistics and confirmed her suspicions. The team determined that the prevalence rate for the population was one percent for patients over 50 years of age, two percent for those over 60, and three percent for ages 70 and above — twice the previous estimation. In addition, the mean age at time of first diagnosis was found to be around 70 years, rather than 60 years.
To confirm the results, Dr. Peretz and her fellow researchers carried out a validity test with Maccabi patients at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center's Movement Disorder Clinic. The algorithm managed to accurately identify 95 percent of the patients, she says.
A warning for public health professionals
Dr. Peretz points to misdiagnoses as one of the causes of poor information on Parkinson's. Not only is the prevalence rate of Parkinson's higher than previously thought, but the rate is growing by six percent yearly. There are on average 33 new cases for every 100,000 people per year. This spells trouble for governmental public health agencies, which will shoulder a heavier burden than they expected in the coming years. "It's a disease that costs a lot, the expectation of life is growing, and we have to prepare," warns Dr. Peretz. "Public health institutions have a responsibility to be aware that these needs will arise."
However, these results also bring good news for those who research the causes of the disease. With more accurate statistics, explains Dr. Peretz, other researchers can explore various determinates of the disease and possible risk factors, such as those related to environmental exposure, occupation and lifestyle
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California could soon establish a state olive oil commission, an entity intended to fund research and set quality and grading standards for California's emerging olive oil industry.
California could soon establish a state olive oil commission, an entity intended to fund research and set quality and grading standards for California's emerging olive oil industry.
Under legislation authored by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, and recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, the commission would be funded by an assessment on oil producers making 5,000 gallons or more a year and directed by a 10-member board of oil producers and wholesale sellers or "handlers."
It still requires the approval of a supermajority of California olive oil producers or a majority of producers representing a supermajority share of oil output.
Corto Olive Co. in Lodi is one producer that supports creation of such a commission, said the company's president, Brady Whitlow.
In particular, Whitlow applauded the commission's appointed mission to fund research and help set new quality standards.
"Our group was focused on making sure we were focusing on developing food standards and the science of developing those standards," he said. "This is not about promotion; it is not about putting California on the map from a promotional standpoint."
Dan Flynn, executive director of the University of California, Davis, Olive Center, expects the new commission to provide new resources, as well as some clout, to the state's olive oil industry.
"What this commission brings to the table that hasn't existed before is a mechanism for the olive oil sector in California to assess themselves ... to fund research projects," he said. "In addition, this commission has some standing and the authority under this legislation to make recommendations to the (state agricultural) secretary to establish a quality standard for California producers."
The focus on standards is part of an effort to maintain the value of California olive oil despite fierce global completion. About 97 percent of olive oil consumed in the United States is imported.
UC Davis Olive Center researchers have found that many popular brands of imported oils fail to meet taste and chemical tests for extra virgin oil, despite being labeled as such.
A report released earlier this month from the U.S. International Trade Commission said international standards for olive oil are loose and poorly enforced.
"Broad and unforced standards lead to adulterated and mislabeled products, weakening the competitiveness of high-quality producers, such as those in the United States," the report said.
Mike Coldani, who oversees growing operations at Coldani Olive Ranch in Lodi, said he's ambivalent about the need for the new commission. But he'd like to see some mechanism for setting and maintaining quality standards.
"If the intent is to keep the entire olive oil industry on a level playing field, we're all for it," he said.
Wolk, in a statement, said that was exactly her aim in drafting the commission legislation.
"Establishing this commission is a vital first step toward protecting consumers and providing California's olive oil industry a fair playing field where they can grow and thrive," she said.
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A colony of cliff swallows have gathered and built an intricate cluster of mud nests underneath the arched bridge that spans Clear Creek north of Marion near U.S. 56.
Marion resident and ornithology enthusiast Lloyd Davies actively seeks out birds in the area and always keeps an eye out for new flying friends.
"Birding is like a scavenger hunt," he said. "When you get into it, you start going through your check list."
In his time as a birder, Davies has observed unusual species in the area such as whooping cranes, rufous hummingbirds, and red crossbills, to name a few. Although the cliff sparrows are not rare for the area, he still enjoys watching them.
Davies has observed cliff swallows nesting under bridges near Marion Reservoir and on the highways before.
However, he first noticed cliff swallows under the arched bridge at the beginning of May while he and his wife, Robin, were jogging.
He said cliff swallows tend to mix in with other swallows and area birds so they can be hard to identify.
However, their gourd shaped nests that are scattered in clusters on the underbelly of the arched bridge are unmistakable, he said.
According to www.allaboutbirds.org, cliff swallows make their nests out of 900 to 1,200 individual mud pellets they mold into place with their beak in a shaking motion.
Typical nests measure about 8 inches long by 6 inches wide and the entrance is sometimes elongated into a tub that connects to the main structure.
Pairs line their nests with dry grass and patch any holes up throughout breeding season.
Davies said he likes knowing they have arrived because they help keep mosquito swarms at bay and he enjoys watching their aerial acrobatics.
"Cliff swallows are all over concrete bridges but they don't come through until they can feed," Davies said. "You just see big clouds of them swooping out from underneath bridges to feed on flying insects."
The arched bridge is an ideal and picturesque place for the cliff swallows to congregate because it is situated near water, open grass, and farmland, as well as wooded areas. According to www.allabout birds.com these bird often take advantage of thermal air currents that bring together dense swarms of insects and feed in groups of two to more than 1,000.
The arched bridge: age and builder?
The bridge the cliff swallows have taken up under is somewhat of a historical mystery to some that have investigated it.
Kansas Department of Transportation area engineer Joe Palic said bridges usually have a plate on them that identifies who built them by and in what year they were constructed.
However, the arched bridge has no such plate.
"I was looking because our secretary's grandfather was part of King Construction, which was a major bridge builder," Palic said. "It seems like 1900 to 1905 is what I kept hearing but I could never validate that."
Since the arched bridge is not on a state highway, Palic said, he inquired of Bud Druse with the county road department.
"There are no markings on it," Druse said. "I looked everywhere on the bridge."
Druse has been searching on and off in his spare time for the last six months and has yet to find any definitive date or specific builder for it.
"I was looking hot and heavy for a while, and everyone I talked to seemed to think it was between 1914 and 1937," Druse said. "One licensed surveyor said he thought it probably wouldn't have been built until after World War I because that's when he said they started using concrete in bridges. But I don't know."
Palic said he also looked in old county newspapers at Marion City Library but gave up after search two years worth of newspapers because of scattered way in which information was presented from week to week back then.
"I've been also been digging around in the old county commission minutes," Druse said. "It's got to be there somewhere but you'd be surprised how people wrote back then. It's like every other word is something different."
Both Druse and Palic said they would be glad to hear from anyone who can pinpoint a date and builder for the arched bridge.


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Notre Dame Team Auctioning Items For Shore Sandy Relief
The Notre Dame basketball team is going to auction off game-worn jerseys, tickets to upcoming games and other items to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in New Jersey.
The school says the online auction will be held through Jan. 17 at und.cstvauctions.com/gallery.cfm . Among the items being auctioned are black uniforms worn by Irish starters during Notre Dame's 64-50 win over Kentucky on Nov. 29; the game ball from the win over Kentucky; four courtside seats to the game against Georgetown on Jan. 21; and part of the net and rim used during the second half of Notre Dame's upset of top-ranked Syracuse last year.
Proceeds will be presented to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Christie is a longtime friend of Irish coach Mike Brey. Christie will attend the Notre Dame-Rutgers game in South Bend on Saturday, January 19 where he will be presented with a check for the proceeds according to the team website.
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I recently received a registered letter to my house, I'm really not sure how they found me, but they did. I opened it and much to my surprise I'm being sued! Apparently Ikros infringes on the copyright on some guy in Holland, I certainly don't recognize the book. I swear I've never read his work, I hardly ready, period. But a quick, and rather nasty phone call later I'm told that I have a week to take the site down or else.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Kim Jong Il officially died yesterday, according to mainstream news reports. Perhaps he did. Or maybe they finally decided to end their charade of pretending he was still alive by propping up his corpse at public events or parading around a body double.
Either way, his death is official now, which means that hundreds (if not thousands) of North Korean citizens will be committing suicide this week. Their "illustrious great leader" has died, you see. Yeah, the one who ran North Korea as a police state, who maintained a huge array of secret prisons filled with political enemies, and who routinely kidnapped young women to use as sex slaves. North Koreans are "the most enslaved people on Earth," writes Paul Joseph Watson (http://www.prisonplanet.com/north-k…), and even their public display of crying and wailing over Kim's death is conducted under threat of arrest and imprisonment.
If you want to see a video of some of the most mind-numbed brainwashed zombies on the planet, watch this jaw-dropping compilation of North Koreanscryingover the death of the very leader who imprisoned their family members, stole their wealth and raped their daughters:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWN…
Delusional worship of big government
I cannot think of a more stunning example ofmass delusional thinkingby human beings. North Korea's citizens will no doubt soon be told some mythological fairy tale such as "a thousand cranes descended from the sky to carry away Kim Jong Il's body and raise it to the heavens" or some other such nonsense. The North Korean people have no way to know whether it's true or not, of course, since the entire North Korean media is completely controlled by the state, and it tells people whatever lies and myths it wants them to believe.
Of course, every nation has its own fairytales — and its own gullible zombies who believe it. In North Korea, the nonsense is centered around the god figure Kim Jong Il (and now his son). In America, the nonsense is centered around false flag terrorist attacks like 9/11 or Oklahoma City, both of which are just as fabricated and silly as the claim that a thousand cranes will descend to carry Kim's body to the heavens.
Americans who believe in their false government are just as self-deluded as the North Koreans who now moan and weep over the death of Kim Jong Il. The one thing that's universal about modern human beings is thatmost of them are ridiculously gullibleand will fall for almost anything if it's stated by an "official" source. Very few people have the courage and wisdom to question their government and think for themselves.
Do America's political leaders also worship Kim Jong Il?
As it turns out, there may be more in common between North Korea and the United States than you ever imagined. One of Kim Jong Il's great admirers must be, of course, U.S. President Barack Obama who has:
1) Advocated an "indefinite detention" bill that allows the U.S. military to secretly kidnap and "disappear" citizens just like they do in North Korea (http://www.naturalnews.com/034414_N…).
2) In doing this, he has therebyexpandedthe role of Gitmo and other secret prisons in the USA, even after he promised to shut them down.
3) His administration has modeled the TSA's "reach down your pants" police state searches after Kim Jong Il's illustrious sexual escapades involving the young women of his choice.
4) His administration plots false flag attacks against his own countrymen with hare-brained schemes such asOperation Fast & Furious, a failed government gun-running setup that was designed to cause escalating gun violence and a reactionary call for abolishing the Second Amendment (http://www.naturalnews.com/033628_O…).
North Korea would be proud… these are tactics right out of Kim's playbook! And in terms of making Obama look like a god, check out all the incredible propaganda found across mainstream media photos that try to place a "halo" around Obama's head, just like this Associated Press photo:
(Search Google images for "Obama halo" to find hundreds more…)
In fact, watch this hilarious parody video showing North Koreans weeping in the streets over Obama's delayed Hawaiian vacation:
Dear glorious leader of our righteous nation, we worship your great dictatorial power over the universe!
North Korea is, by any reasonable definition, a cultist state. It really is a nationalistic cult of worshipping Kim Jong Il, their "dear leader" who presided over a government which instructs all citizens how to run their lives. If we continue on our current path in America, we'll look a lot like North Korea in a few years, by the way.
If you've never actually seen videos of everyday citizens in North Korea running around kissing Kim's picture on their wall, uttering phrases of blind obedience to their "illustrious leader," and crying over his every move, then you don't know what fun you're missing. Watch some of these videos to witness the utterly bizarre depth of government brainwashing North Korean citizens have been subjected to:
Welcome to North Korea
Undercover In North Korea
Life in North Korea
North Korea is a dictator love fest orgy of mindless obedience, carried out by a nation of total zombies who have lost any semblance of individuality or non-conformist ideas. That nation is the ultimate expression of fitting in and "going along." It's the status quo, expressed to the political extreme, and it's perhaps the world's best example of what happens when the People let their government lie to them, generation after generation, until the whole nation becomes some sort of pathetic mass of deluded worker slaves who are wholly incapable of standing up against tyranny. (At the same time, a FEW of the North Koreans actually realize they're living in The Matrix and they try to resist the system. Kudos to all those who have tried to resist government tyranny in North Korea. Real revolution may soon be within your reach…)
Many leftist Americans would love Kim Jong Il's policies
Here in America, some of the more extreme leftist "we want government to run everything" people would absolutely love to see Kim Jong Il's socialist policies rolled out across the USA. These Americans, you see, are acting more and more like North Korean every day: Mindlessly allowing themselves to be hypnotized by the state, spying on their own neighbors and family members ("if you see something, say something!"), and even worshipping some disingenuous political leader while he's stealing all their wealth. Get on your knees and kiss the photograph of our illustrious, glorious leader, you pathetic slave!
As America's freedoms are being stripped away by tyrants, the economy is imploding and unemployment is now approaching Great Depression numbers. We're inching closer and closer to a North Korea-style economy with each passing day, especially as nearly all industry has been moved to Mexico or China. Before long, all we'll be left with is a landscape of McDonald's, Walgreens, CVS Pharmacies and hospitals, where half the population works for the Department of Homeland Security, spying on the other half who serve up genetically modified cheeseburgers and doll out mind-numbing pharmaceuticals at the corner store. That's corporate-run police state socialism for ya!
Many Americans also seem to love Kim's economic policies, which were based onequality for everyone!This was achieved by making sure that every citizen was equally destitute and lacking in basics such as food, running water and even primitive health care. It's all about equality, right? We can achieve that in America, too: Just steal all the money from the people and give it to the wealthy banksters!
That's already been done, of course, with the banker bailout programs and the total takeover of the U.S. money supply by the Federal Reserve, a private institution run and owned by globalist bankers. All these globalist Goldman Sachs operators and Jon "the Don" Corzine wannabe crooks must look up to North Korea with great admiration. What a wonderful nation! No need to worry about pesky voters or rigging the electronic voting machines, since there are no elections in the first place. No need to deal with political opponents or free speech advocates — you just arrest them and toss 'em in the state-run prisons under "indefinite detention" provisions (sound familiar?). And best of all, there's no worry about dealing with a population that might overthrow your government since all you have to do is cause a few crop failures andstarve ten percent of your population to deathevery year. Keep 'em weak, and they won't march against you.
North Korea is every American tyrant's ultimate fantasy land! Toss in a tractor trailer rig full of cocaine brought in across the Mexico border or heroin grown by U.S. troops in Afghanistan (http://www.naturalnews.com/034289_A…), and you've got yourself a dictatorial socialist military police state extravaganza!
U.S. tyrants secretly admire the power of Kim
It's so sad that our illustrious great leader of the world has suddenly died, but have no fear, my fellow citizens: There are many ready to take his place! Newt Gingrich, for example, thinks we should crank up the War on Drugs in America, turning every U.S. city and town into a reefer madness battleground that would require hiring one million more drug enforcement officers (job creation!) and unleashing them with TSA-style powers to molest innocent people over a couple of rolled-at-home whacky tobbacky smokes.
Newt also wants to arrest federal court judges who disagree with his illustrious great wisdom, as he has brazenly admitted in recent interviews (http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?i…). Add in a few secret prisons and a mandatory cultist worship of the President, and New Gingrich could actually pass for a white Kim Jong Il! And if Newt isn't elected to the presidency, there are always other tyrants willing to step in and get the job done, like Rick "Gardasil" Perry who thinks mandatory vaccine injections should be administered at gunpoint.
Kim Jong Il's illustrious soul must be in heaven now, looking down upon Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama and others with a sense of self disappointment. "Why didn't I think of that?" he must be asking himself. "If I had only used false flag staged terror events, I could have achieved even greater power and control because my citizens would have enslaved themselves!"
Perhaps his illustrious "great leader" son, Kim Jong Un, will yet discover even greater tactics of total government mind control over gullible authority worshippers. He was officially declared "a great person born of heaven" by the North Korean mainstream media, which operates almost exactly like the United States mainstream media by lying to the People while parroting government propaganda. Kim Jong Un has been described as "the spiritual pillar and the lighthouse of hope" with the operative keyword being, of course, "Hope." Ring a bell? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack…) That's the word Obama ran on while being described as a "savior" by the government-worshipping press (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar…). Every nation of zombies, it turns out, needs to be presented with a god-like figure to believe in while they're being looted blind by their own government.
What's next for the great heavenly nation of North Korea?
Observers are closely monitoring the situation in North Korea, in the expectation that Kim's death may stir up strategic military trouble. North Korea has an army of 1.2 million half-starved soldiers, and they're armed with paintball air guns featuring Kim Jong Il's smiling face hand-painted on every paintball by the nation's 2+ million political prisoners. The soldiers have so far refused to fire their paintball ammo, claiming they do not wish to see an image of their "great leader" hurled across the battlefield at high velocity and splattered upon impact.
Is there a lesson in all this? Only that North Korea proves how cowardly and pathetic human beings can be in kow-towing to tyranny. Notice how North Korea has no Bill of Rights? No Free Speech rights? No Second Amendment? No protection of due process? Eliminating the rights of the people is the first step to enslaving them. No wonder the USA is currently following in the footsteps of North Korea by eliminating individual freedoms while ramping up the power and belligerence of Big Government.
Take a good, hard look at North Korea and its secret prisons, folks. It's all gonna look mighty familiar in the years ahead right here in the USA. Where did you think the "indefinite detention" NDAA bill was leading us to, anyway? …Some sort of utopia?
Stop kidding yourself. Open your eyes and look around. What North Korea is today, the USA is headed toward at breakneck speed. Only a trulyprincipled leader— not some cultist false messiah — can put us back on course to a future of economic abundance and individual liberty.
There is a person like that in our world today. He's not a god and he has no interest in being worshipped. His name is Ron Paul, and he's the total antithesis of Kim Jong Il.
If you want America to head inthe opposite directionof North Korean, where we can restore our liberties, shrink the size of tyrannical government, and avoid the enslavement and "disappearing" of Americans into secret military prisons, there's only one person to even consider for the next U.S. President.www.RonPaul2012.com
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San Diego >> College channel mtvU hosted its first ever Fandom Awards featuring a closing performance by Linkin Park for Comic-Con International badge holders only at Petco Park on July 24.
Winners of the awards were based on fan voting in the weeks leading up to Comic-Con 2014.
The "Harry Potter" franchise took home the coveted Best Fandom Forever Award. Matthew Lewis, known for his role as Neville in the films/books, accepted the award.
But "Veronica Mars" scored the largest prize of the night, winning the Fandom of the Year.
Other winners included "Game of Thrones" for OMG Moment of the Year, "Teen Wolf" for Fandom Feat of the Year, "Hannibal" for Breakout Fandom of the Year and "The Vampire Diaries" stars Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder accepted the award with a taped acceptance speech for best "Ship of the Year."
After the awards ceremony, rapper G-Eazy and rock group Linkin Park both performed.
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By Rob Glidden
Staff Writer
The Charter Revision Commission has dismissed a handful of ideas from a previous public hearing, including longer terms for certain municipal boards and changing the requirements for a referendum on town expenditures.
The referendum issue was discussed by several residents at the public hearing, many of whom claimed that the costs of major projects that didn't go to referendum (such as the turf field) were close to the $1 million threshold that triggers a vote but still just under it. A lower threshold was suggested, but several commissioners noted that this scenario was possible regardless of what amount of money triggered a referendum.
Commissioner William Della Vecchia said the threshold had risen over the years because of inflation, particularly the rising costs of construction. He and other commissioners felt it would make it more difficult to address the town's needs if the amount were lowered.
"You'll be having referendums on many more items because the costs keep rising," Della Vecchia said.
Commissioner Dennis Conroy echoed the statements of some residents when he proposed to alter the charter in a way that would keep the "lease-buyback" scenario that created the new municipal center from happening again.
"The North Center project was over a million and it didn't go to referendum," he said. "There's something wrong with that. If something is a legitimate need, it's our responsibility as elected officials to persuade the people of that need."
Town Attorney Mark Sciota explained how difficult it would be to accomplish such a goal without severely limiting the council's budget process, since the annual lease payments on the new building are included in the budget each year. The commission was swayed by this discussion and opted not to pursue the matter.
At the commission's previous meeting, Board of Education Chairman Brian Goralski and Board of Finance member Sandra Feld had both expressed support for four-year terms rather than two-year terms for their boards, citing the difficult learning curve for new members.
The commission was wary of the idea of reversing a change to the charter that is only a few years old and that was approved overwhelmingly by voters when originally proposed.
"I think it's a good idea," said Commissioner Bruce "Zeke" Zalaski, a former state representative who said this debate often came up at the state level. "The people should be able to speak every two years."
During the meeting, the commission also made some progress on its primary objective – evaluating the oversight of the Police and Fire Commissions. Currently, these commissions do not answer to the Town Manager but this charter revision process will likely end with a proposal to change this. To give some perspective from an area where this is already the norm, Meriden City Manager Lawrence Kendzior was invited to speak at length about the issue.
"It's a very cooperative arrangement," he said of his authority over Meriden's public safety boards. "I think it gives me a certain degree of responsiveness from them. If I'm reflecting the will of the council and council is reflecting the will of the people, then I think the system is working well."
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This is The Greek Group In ModDb. A small taste of home for every greek in the huge website of moddb. all greek friendly and greek members of moddb can join in! purpose: The main purpose of this group is to gather knowledge for moding share resources,combine work,share tutorials and a friendly chat. all that of course with a color of greek culture. Rules: 1)every member must speak greek or English but mostly greek for better communication between greek members. 2)no hate messages or racism. 3)Good Sense Of Humor 4)no hate words about god
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Few months ago I came across a video that was going viral on internet. I saw countless number of people post the same video on their Facebook and I believe countless people admired it too. A lot of people felt "Wow" watching the video and may be few like me just didn't like it. The video was unseen footage of Harmandir Sahib and it showed the cleaning process of the diwan(main) hall. This is the cleaning process that is said to be followed every morning. Since it was "unseen footage" I was really curious to see it. But when I saw the video I ended up questioning the process and I couldn't believe it was happening. Basically part of the process is to clean the hall with Milk. Buckets and buckets full of milk are thrown onto the floor of hall for cleaning all in the name of purity and then floor is cleaned again with water. Thereby making floor pure and holly. The pity is that in a world where so many people die of hunger everyday, there are buckets and buckets of milk drained in the name of holiness, cleanliness and faith. As I watched the video I felt like as if we haven't really learned to live our Guru's teachings. As uncomfortable and displeased I was watching the video, I didn't know what to do about it.
Obviously the reason I wrote this blog is that somewhere I still hope that one day this will change. The least I can do is at least share and try to bring awareness among us. I beg to remind us that Guru taught us against blind faith and myths and if we still continue to perform such acts then are we really obeying our Guru? It's like we worship, we listen and do all the other nine hundred and ninety nine things but we forget the most important thing, that is acting on it.
I will end this blog with a Shabad by Bhagat Ravidas Ji, where He talks about the various methods that were being used to clean and please God during those times. Let's introspect if we are caught up in such acts even today or did we really learn to listen and practice what our Guru taught? I do want to thank Sarabjit Singh Dhunda (gem of a Sikh preacher) for enlightening with this Shabad in his katha and guiding us Guru's way:
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I have a theory about escapist storytelling; trains make everything better. The evidence is present in everything from Paper Mario – The Thousand-Year Door to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There's just a romance about old locomotives chuffing their way through breath-taking landscape that elevates the sense of adventure and transports the reader/viewer/player just as effectively as the passengers. Nintendo evidently feels the same as evidenced by The Legend of Zelda – Spirit Tracks, a DS follow-up to Phantom Hourglass built around the romance of trains. Continue reading


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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Dec. 6 will begin paring back the first draft of a 2012-2013 municipal budget that would require a 3.4-cent increase in the local tax rate in order to maintain existing services and capital improvement priorities.
The draft $8,504,690 spending plan, reviewed by the selectboard for the first time at a meeting last Tuesday, represents a $230,825 increase compared to this year's municipal budget. One penny on Middlebury's tax rate raises roughly $72,000.