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Ebola Drug Made From Tobacco Plant Saves U.S. Aid Workers

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Ebola Drug Made From Tobacco Plant Saves U.S. Aid Workers

By Robert Langreth, Caroline Chen, James Nash and John Lauerman August 04, 2014

A tiny San Diego-based company provided an experimental Ebola treatment for two Americans infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. The biotechnology drug, produced with tobacco plants, appears to be working.

In an unusual twist of expedited drug access, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., which has nine employees, released its experimental ZMapp drug, until now only tested on infected animals, for the two health workers. Kentucky BioProcessing LLC, a subsidiary of tobacco giant Reynolds American Inc. (RAI:US), manufactures the treatment for Mapp from tobacco plants.

The first patient, Kent Brantly, a doctor, was flown from Liberia to Atlanta on Aug. 2, and is receiving treatment at Emory University Hospital. Nancy Writebol, an aid worker, is scheduled to arrive in Atlanta today and will be treated at the same hospital, according to the charity group she works with. Both are improving, according to relatives and supporters.

https://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-04/ebola-drug-made-from-tobacco-plant-saves-u-dot-s-dot-aid-workers

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CENSUS: Welfare Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Workers ..

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Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers

By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) – Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau.

They also out-numbered the total population of the Philippines.

There were 108,592,000 people in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2011 who were recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs, the Census Bureau said in data released this week. Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.

That means there were about 1.07 people getting some form of means-tested government benefit for every 1 person working full-time year round.

https://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/25/census-welfare-recipients-outnumber-full-time-workers

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DEREK HOUGH From Dancing with the Stars, will sign his new book: TAKING THE LEAD , August 5th at Bookends

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DEREK HOUGH From Dancing with the Stars, will sign his new book: TAKING THE LEAD ($24.99) : August 5th at Bookends 

Call Bookends at 201-445-0726 with additional questions.

Bookends is a legendary New Jersey Landmark! We are known for our incredible author events and have hosted well over 1,000 authors in the past 15 years!

All books MUST be purchased from BOOKENDS for any of our events and a valid Bookends receipt must be presented for entry.

Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt. Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change. Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.

While we try to ensure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.

Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726

Missed one of our events? We have Signed Books from some of our recent signings. Call the store to order 201-445-0726.

See Website for details at www.book-ends.com

Call Bookends at 201-445-0726 with additional questions.

Bookends is a legendary New Jersey Landmark! We are known for our incredible author events and have hosted well over 1,000 authors in the past 15 years!

All books MUST be purchased from BOOKENDS for any of our events and a valid Bookends receipt must be presented for entry.

Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt. Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change. Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.

While we try to ensure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.

Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726

Missed one of our events? We have Signed Books from some of our recent signings. Call the store to order 201-445-0726.

See Website for details at www.book-ends.com

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Obamacare: Will Mandates for Doctors Come Next?

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Obamacare: Will Mandates for Doctors Come Next?

Central planning is replacing individual choice.

A. Barton Hinkle | August 4, 2014
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Foust has slammed his opponent, Republican Del. Barbara Comstock, for her opposition to expansion. He has spoken of the need to “make health care available to 400,000 Virginians,” insisting it is “the right thing to do.”

Foust’s wife, Dr. Marilyn Jerome, practices with Foxhall OB/GYN in northwest Washington, D.C. Six of its physicians made Washingtonian magazine’s list of “Top Docs,” and one of them—Nichole Pardo—was featured on the cover. Not too shabby.

The practice is notable for another reason as well: It doesn’t accept Medicaid patients.

This draws attention to an under-covered aspect of the debate over Medicaid expansion. While advocates speak of it as “making health care available” to the needy, what it really does is make coverage, rather than care, available to them. A newly enrolled Medicaid patient can get the money to pay a doctor. But can she get the doctor to take it?

On his website, Foust blasts insurance companies that “hiked insurance premiums and gouged consumers. … Insurance companies denied care to those with pre-existing conditions … and refused coverage to those who needed it most. … We cannot go back to the days when insurance companies could arbitrarily … deny coverage.” In a commentary on the Foxhall practice’s website, Dr. Jerome praises the Affordable Care Act—particularly because now “women cannot be denied insurance” and because the plan’s standards mandate coverage for a wide variety of treatments.

Doctors, however, can operate under a much different set of standards. They can deny care all they want. Statewide, roughly one in five physicians will not accept new Medicaid patients—usually because Medicaid pays only two-thirds as much as private insurance does, on average.

https://reason.com/archives/2014/08/04/obamacare-will-mandates-for-doctors-come

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Over 200 Protest Harry Reid’s South Jersey Visit

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Over 200 Protest Harry Reid’s South Jersey Visit
Aug. 04  
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Garry Cobb chats with Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano

It was a coalition of the willing, Save Jerseyans, over 200 strong as they casually filtered in and out of the abandoned parking lot adjoining upscale Caffe Aldo Lamberti where Harry Reid and top New Jersey Democrat donors – led by George Norcross III – gathered to raise money for Norcross’s brother.

The police presence was strong (including some species of tactical command van) but relatively unaggressive and respectful as the cheerful protesters, deployed in an informal line snaking the distance of approximately 400 yards, paced up and down the sidewalk between the fundraiser site and busy Route 70 a/k/a Marlton Pike, drawing a steady chorus of honks from the rush hour crowd returning home from Philadelphia offices along the busy Southern New Jersey corridor and generating a significant gaper delay.

Everyone came together to stand among the abandon lot’s weeds and uneven soil for a brief time around 5:00 p.m. to hear from Garry Cobb, the former Eagles star who’s taking on Donald Norcross in NJ-01, as well as U.S. Senate nominee Jeff Bell, Philadelphia radio host Dom Giordano and an assortment of other activists led by chief event organizer Tom Crone.

– See more at: https://savejersey.com/2014/08/harry-reid-protest-photo-cherry-hill-norcross-senate/#sthash.Pmz2WBsK.dpuf

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Investigative reporters discuss their book ‘The Jersey Sting’

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Investigative reporters discuss their book ‘The Jersey Sting’

Five years ago, the Jersey Sting was the most shocking federal sting operation in New Jersey that caught 44 people, including mayors, political candidates and rabbis. At the time, Gov. Chris Christie was the attorney general and was in charge of the sting. Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman wrote The Jersey Sting about the federal operation and discussed it with NJTV News Anchor Mary Alice Williams. (Williams/NJTV)

https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/investigative-reporters-discuss-their-book-the-jersey-sting/

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Questions raised over care, education of immigrant children in Freehold

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Questions raised over care, education of immigrant children in Freehold

FREEHOLD BOROUGH – Government officials say as many as 1,500 of the unaccompanied immigrant children caught crossing America’s border have come to New Jersey. (News 12)

https://newjersey.news12.com/news/questions-raised-over-care-education-of-immigrant-children-in-freehold-1.8962727

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Obama’s FBI to hire firm to rate ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ stories about the agency

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Obama’s FBI to hire firm to rate ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ stories about the agency

Officials mum on need for and use of such info

The FBI is hiring a contractor to grade news stories about the agency as “positive” “neutral” or “negative,” but the agency won’t say why officials need the information or what they plan to do with it.

FBI officials wouldn’t even reveal how they will go about assigning the grades, which were laid out in a recent contract solicitation. The contract tells potential bidders to “use their judgment” in scoring news coverage as part of a new “daily news briefing” service the agency is seeking as part of a contract that could last up to five years.

The move is reminiscent of a similar effort the Obama administration made to grade media coverage of its response to the BP oil spill. A separate defense contract rating reporters’ work was scrapped in 2009.

In a statement of work, the agency says its public affairs office needs a contractor to help monitor “breaking news, editorials, long-form journalism projects and the larger public conversation about law enforcement.”

But the lack of clear public methods and goals raises “troubling questions,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University.

“You would certainly worry this could affect access,” he said. “It might affect the way they’re going to approach your questions, whether they’re going to be extra careful not to make news if you’re on the ‘bad list.’”

Mr. Kennedy also pointed out that journalism can be nuanced and complicated, raising questions about what sort of guidance the agency provides to contractors to fit stories into positive, neutral or negative boxes.

“If you’re rigorously fair about it and you’re getting the FBI’s point of view out there, they would probably write that as a negative story, but it strikes me as neutral,” he said.

Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/3/fbi-hires-firm-to-rate-news-stories-about-the-agen/#ixzz39WHAdr1E 

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Rats take up residence in Ridgewood neighborhood

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Rats take up residence in Ridgewood neighborhood

AUGUST 4, 2014, 6:58 PM    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2014, 6:58 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — Since the middle of last month, residents of Howard Road and Bennington Terrace say they have been living with a number of uninvited guests: rats.

Sizable rodents have been spotted throughout the neighborhood since before July 18, when the first rat complaints started rolling in to Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld’s office.

Village officials toured the neighborhood Monday afternoon with a professional exterminator in tow. Officials have since determined the pests are living in burrows, located on private land, Sonenfeld said.

“We examined all of the sewers in the neighborhood, as well as the [Saddle River’s] banks and the storm drains, and none of these contributed to the [rat] problem,” Sonenfeld offered.

But officials on Monday did manage to unearth evidence indicating the rats are holed up in burrows that have been dug beneath the deck of one private residence.

Sonenfeld did not specify the street on which that residence is located.

“For rats to thrive, they need food, water and shelter, and that is being provided to them,” Sonenfeld said. “The neighborhood needs to work together to alleviate this rat condition.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/rats-take-up-residence-in-ridgewood-neighborhood-1.1062176#sthash.J4xgUE67.dpuf

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Ridgewood teen Charlotte Samuels completes second leg of open water swimming Triple Crown

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Ridgewood teen Charlotte Samuels completes second leg of open water swimming Triple Crown

AUGUST 4, 2014, 11:08 PM    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2014, 11:49 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

Charlotte Samuels, a 16-year-old from Ridgewood, swam through powerful currents and multiple jellyfish bites to complete a 20.2-mile swim from Catalina Island to a Southern California beach in a little less than 20 hours Monday night.

Her arrival on the beach at Rancho Palos Verdes, about eight hours after she had anticipated, took her one giant step closer to her dream of becoming the youngest person ever to swim the so-called Triple Crown of open water swimming, leaving only an English Channel crossing. She completed her first leg when she swam around Manhattan in June.

At about 7:45 p.m. Pacific time, Charlotte staggered onto the beach, her arms red with welts from jellyfish bites, and made her way to touch dry rocks before an observer from the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation declared the crossing to be official. She had spent about 19 hours and 45 minutes in the water, almost twice as much time as her previous longest swim of 10 hours.

“It’s an overwhelming thing,” her mother, Suzanne Samuels, said in a telephone interview. “That’s incredible. That’s a long time in the water.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-teen-charlotte-samuels-completes-second-leg-of-open-water-swimming-triple-crown-1.1062199#sthash.tvHxovoT.dpuf

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Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border

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Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border

LUBBOCK, Texas — A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from more than 75 different countries. The report was obtained by a trusted source within the CBP agency who leaked the document and spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity. The report is labeled as “Unclassified//For Official Use Only” and indicates that the data should be handled as “Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU).”

The numbers provided are in graphics and are broken down into “OFO” and “OBP.” The Customs and Border Protection agency is divided into the Office of Field Operations (OFO) and the Office of Border Patrol (OBP). The OFO numbers reflect anyone either turning themselves in at official U.S. points of entry, or anyone caught while being smuggled at the points of entry. The OBP numbers reflect anyone being caught or turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents between the points of entry, or anyone caught at interior checkpoints by Border Patrol agents. The “OFO Inadmissible” designation to any individual from a nation other than Mexico or Canada means that U.S. authorities took the individuals into custody. Whether they were deported or given a Notice to Appear is unknown. It is important to note these numbers do not include data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unavailable ICE data are in addition to these numbers.

The report reveals the apprehension numbers ranging from 2010 through July 2014. It shows that most of the human smuggling from Syria and Albania into the U.S. comes through Central America. The report also indicates the routes individuals from North Africa and the Middle East take into the European Union, either to illegally migrate there or as a possible stop in their journey to the United States. The data are broken down further into the specific U.S. border sectors where the apprehensions and contact occurred.

Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014.

https://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/03/Leaked-CBP-Report-Shows-Entire-World-Exploiting-Open-US-Border

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Jeff Bell’s surging senate race against Cory Booker

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Jeff Bell’s surging senate race against Cory Booker

In his Senate run against Cory Booker, Republican Jeff Bell is doing nothing the experts tell you a candidate should do — and everything they say you shouldn’t. But here’s the extraordinary thing: He continues to close the gap against a man who is supposed to be “unbeatable.” (The New York Post)

https://nypost.com/2014/08/03/jeff-bells-surging-senate-race-against-cory-booker/

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2014 Kasschau Memorial Shell Entertainment Schedule

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2014 Kasschau Memorial Shell Entertainment Schedule

Free Summer Entertainment Under the Stars

August 5, 2014 Rio Clemente & Friends – Bishop of Jazz
Kasschau Shell – Sponsored by Columbia Bank and Ridgewood
Free concert at Kasschau Shell, Vets Field. Concert starts at 8:30PM. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy!

August 7, 2014 TREBLE – Popular Rock
Sponsored by Atlantic Medical Concepts, BRANDFOG, One Shop Wireless
Kasschau Shell on Vets Field. Show starts at 8:30PM. Bring a blanket or chair and enjoy this free concert under the stars!

You may contact the Kasschau Shell Memorial Committee by email at [email protected]

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Man Being Tested At Mount Sinai Hospital For Possible Ebola Virus

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Man Being Tested At Mount Sinai Hospital For Possible Ebola Virus
August 4, 2014 4:15 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – A patient at Mount Sinai Hospital was under treatment Monday afternoon, after being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.

The man arrived at the East Harlem medical center’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, the hospital said.

The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

“All necessary steps are being taken to ensure the safety of all patients, visitors and staff,” the hospital said in a statement. “We will continue to work closely with federal, state and city health officials to address and monitor this case, keep the community informed and provide the best quality care to all of our patients.”

The World Health Organization announced Monday that the death toll has increased from 729 to 887 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, CBS News reported. Most of the newly reported deaths occurred in Liberia.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/04/man-being-tested-at-mount-sinai-hospital-for-possible-ebola-virus/#.U9_xrnp21Dk.facebook