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Scientists Find Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Early Detection

Authored by Kenny Walter, Digital Reporter, R&D Magazine

A new early test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may soon be on the way.

Researchers from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have found a peptide in mice that could pave the way for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease for humans.

Read more: https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/11/scientists-find-biomarker-alzheimers-early-detection

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The bad behavior of the richest: what I learned from wealth managers

While those in poverty are called lazy, the idle rich are dubbed bon vivants

If nearly a decade interviewing the wealth managers for the 1% taught me anything, it is that the ultra-rich and the ultra-poor have a lot more in common than stereotypes might lead you to believe.

In conversation, wealth managers kept coming back to the flamboyant vices of their clients. It was quite unexpected, in the course of discussing tax avoidance, to hear professional service providers say things like:

“I’ve told my colleagues: ‘If I ever become like some of our clients, shoot me.’ Because they are really immoral people – too much time on their hands, and all the money means they have no limits. I was actually told by one client not to bring my wife on a trip to Monaco unless I wanted to see her get hit on by 10 guys. The local sport, he said, was picking up other men’s wives.”

The clients of this Geneva-based wealth manager also “believe that they are descended from the pharaohs, and that they were destined to inherit the earth”.

If a poor person voiced such beliefs, he or she might well be institutionalized; for those who work with the wealthy, however, such “eccentricities” are all in a day’s work. Indeed, an underappreciated irony of accelerating economic inequality has been the way it has exposed behaviors among the ultra-rich that mirror the supposed “pathologies” of the ultra-poor.

In fact, one of the London-based wealth managers I interviewed said that a willingness to accept with equanimity behavior that would be considered outrageous in others was an informal job requirement. Clients, he said, specifically chose wealth managers not just on technical competence, but on their ability to remain unscandalized by the private lives of the ultra-rich: “They [the clients] have to pick someone they want to know everything about them: about Mother’s lesbian affairs, Brother’s drug addiction, the spurned lovers bursting into the room.” Many of these clients are not employed and live off family largesse, but no one calls them lazy.

As Lane and Harburg put it in the libretto of the musical Finian’s Rainbow:

When a rich man doesn’t want to work

He’s a bon vivant, yes, he’s a bon vivant

But when a poor man doesn’t want to work

He’s a loafer, he’s a lounger

He’s a lazy good for nothing, he’s a jerk

When the wealthy are revealed to be drug addicts, philanderers, or work-shy, the response is – at most – a frisson of tabloid-level curiosity, followed by a collective shrug.

Behaviors indulged in the rich are not just condemned in the poor, but used as a justification to punish them, denying them access to resources that keep them alive, such as healthcare and food assistance. Discussion of poverty has become almost impossible without moral outrage directed at lazy “welfare queens”, “crackheads” and other drug addicts, and the “promiscuous poor” (a phrase that has cropped up again and again in discussions of public benefits over more than a century).

These disparate perceptions aren’t just evidence of hypocrisy; they are literally a matter of life and death. In the US, the widespread belief that the poor are simply lazy has led many states to impose work requirements on aid recipients –even those who have been medically classified as disabled. Limiting aid programs in this way has been shown to shorten recipients’ lives: rather than the intended consequence of pushing recipients into paid employment, the restrictions have simply left them without access to medical care or a sufficient food supply. Thus, in one of the richest counties in America, a boy living in poverty died of a toothache; there were no protests, and nothing changed.

Meanwhile, the “billionaire” in the White House starts his days at 11am – the rest of the morning is coyly termed “executive time” – and is known for his frequent holidays. “Nice work if you can get it,” quipped an opinion piece in the Washington Post.

We don’t hear much about laziness, drug addiction or promiscuity among the wealthiest members of society because – unlike Trump – most billionaires are not public figures and go to great lengths to seek privacy. Thus the motto of one London-based wealth management firm: “I want to be invisible.” This company, like many other service providers to the ultra-rich, specializes in preserving secrecy for clients. The wealthy people I studied not only had wealth managers but often dedicated staff members who killed negative stories about them in the media and kept their names off the Forbes “rich list”.

Many even present themselves as homeless – for tax purposes – despite owning multiple residences. For the ultra-rich, having no fixed residence provides major legal and financial advantages; this is exemplified by the case of the wealthy businessman who acquired eight different nationalities in order to avoid taxes on his fortune, and by the UK native I interviewed in his Dubai apartment building:

“I am not tax resident anywhere. The tax man says ‘show me a utility bill’, and the only utility bill I can present is for the house I own in Thailand, and it’s in a language that the European authorities aren’t familiar with. With all the mobility going on in the world, international marriages, governments can’t keep up with people.”

Meanwhile, the poor can end up being “resident nowhere” because no one will allow them to stay in one place for very long; as the sociologist Cristobal Young has shown, the majority of migrants are poor people. In addition, the poor are routinely evicted from housing on the slightest pretext, frequently driving them into homeless shelters – which are in turn forced to move when local homeowners engage in nimby (not in my back yard) protests. Even the design of public spaces is increasingly organized to deny the poor a place to alight, however temporarily.

It is as if the right to move around, to take up space, and to direct your own life as you see fit have become luxury goods, available to those who can pay instead of being human rights. For the rich, deviance from social norms is nearly consequence-free, to the point where outright criminality is tolerated: witness the collective shrug that greeted revelations of massive intergenerational tax fraud in the Trump family.

For the poor, however, even the most minor deviance from others’ expectations – like buying ice cream or soft drinks with food stamps – results in stigmatization, limits on their autonomy, and deprivation of basic human needs. This makes life far more nasty, brutish and short for those on the lowest rungs of the socio-economic ladder, creating a chasm of more than 20 years in life expectancy between rich and poor. This appears to some as a fully justified consequence of “personal responsibility” – the poor deserve to die because of their moral failings.

So while the behavior of the ultra-rich gets an ever-widening scope of social leeway, the lives of the poor are foreshortened in every sense. Once upon a time, they were urged to eat cake; now the cake earns them a public scolding.

Winnie Byanyima brought the hammer all the way DOWN!!

We Were Watching Tv…

Meanwhile… They Were Making The Earth Private.

This is about properties and volumes of money that go beyond your imagination, but even more importantly power to make the laws of countries private, and channeling even the population as every other resource. Right from the seats of school we’re getting ourselves in great debt for trying to get educated, the higher the education the greater the debt, so that the top students are forced to sign for private research and much needed money. With signing comes the privacy of any future discovery, even if some of it gets released, it comes at a very high cost, so that you’ll have to spend half of your life working to be able to afford it - talking about dollars hides the fact that the real cost for anything in this society is how much ‘life’ we spend on getting it! The human genome project was done with public funding, from taxpayers money - and, this is written on the official site:

“Who owns the human genome? 

Every part of the genome sequenced by the Human Genome Project was made public immediately - in fact, new data on the genome is posted every 24 hours. It is true that private companies have filed thousands of patents on human genes over the past several years. We don’t know how many such patents have been filed, whether the patents will be awarded or if they’re enforceable. Most of the patent applications have not been acted upon, so we really don’t know how much, if any, of the genome can be used freely for commercial purposes.”

So… any average Joe could of “immediately” benefited from the research, but with the ‘lack of public interest’, only big corporations (you know… the ones having the researchers and laboratories) were interested in profiting after all.  

Scientific research is private, art collections are private, all the greatest minds from statisticians to lawyers and experts in tax evasion (see panama papers), to the best medical doctors and medical research… even money are private but they don’t teach that in school, about the ownership of central banks, including the american FED. These private 1 percent interests make the global social agenda so it should come as no wonder that the big funding is allocated for searching evidence against global warming , and in the propaganda hiding global warming.

Again - the top 1% of the population owns as much as the rest 99% ! - even tho all that wealth… knowledge and patents, art and medicine, resources taken from the ground and energy, institutions and infrastructure, are all the fruit of all our combined work. If there is someone who did Not contribute… is those very ‘1 percent’!

Society should be about increasing people’s quality of life not burry them in taxes, propaganda and then debt. Hundreds of years of politics, governments and capitalism PROVED WITHOUT DOUBT what are they good for: making society a highly efficient conveyor-belt that gathers wealth from the bottom towards the top of the social pyramid. What end could this possibly have?

CNN failed to stress this? They’ve must of been covering ‘serious problems’. After all… they’re so professional if you’re looking at their involved faces and serious acting. They’ll surely inform you when you have to bail out the country from crisis or when you have to fight a war for oil.

images taken from NOAA