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30 July 2012 | Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau
TB diagnosis needs effective regulatory approach
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death worldwide. According to the WHO, India accounts for the one-fifth of global TB problem with about 800,000 lakh of new infectious cases each year, resulting in two deaths-per-three minutes. With the advent of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB), HIV and MDR-TB the situation has worsened. In most of the developing countries, including India, sputum smear microscopy is still a backbone of TB diagnosis. It is less sensitive and can miss half of the pulmonary TB cases, which otherwise proves to be a potential reservoir for transmitting the infection from individual-to-individual. There is an overwhelming need for improving TB diagnostics in India through the use of cost-effective and patient-friendly methods owing to large genetic diversity among the target population.
Improved diagnostic tests such as rapid mycobacterial culture and nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests are available in high-income countries but are often too expensive and complex for routine use by TB control programs in resource-constrained TB-endemic regions. The Xpert MTB/RIF (by Cepheid, US), recently endorsed by the WHO, is rapid and highly sensitive for detection of TB and drug resistance. However, this new technology is costly, preventing its use in many areas. Accurate, rapid, inexpensive, simple diagnostic tests are urgently needed for TB care and control.
In India, serological tests to detect antigens or antibodies to M. tuberculosis specific components by using cocktails of excretory or secretory protein antigens, Ag 85 complex antigens, Hsp 65 antigen, RD1 antigens have also been developed. These groups have been extensively working on over the past couple of decades and showed promise of these tests to diagnose TB through various literatures. Several biomolecules are available at our doorstep worth capable of delivering the diagnostics from concepts to the deliveries. Over the past decade, the involvement of agencies, such as stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics working group, the WHO, TDR, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), has led to the resurgence of interest in the development of new diagnostics. However, breakthrough on development of simple, rapid and cost effective diagnostic kit for mass is still evading the health administrators for effective TB control.
While serological tests work well for several infectious diseases, existing serological tests for TB (both ELISA and rapid lateral flow tests) are not accurate or consistent enough to be useful, as shown by a 2007 meta-analysis1 and confirmed by an independent evaluation of 19 commercial rapid tests by the WHO the following year2. However, evidence from these studies was not translated into policy at that time. In 2010, the WHO recognized this widespread problem and convened an expert group to formulate a policy. The expert group considered an updated meta-analysis of test and concluded that commercial serological tests remain inconsistent and inaccurate. The WHO in its first-ever negative policy recommendation called on governments to immediately ban on commercial tests to detect pulmonary TB and extra pulmonary TB.
Research and deliverables: The Indian scenario
Tuberculosis infection is a complex one. Pulmonary tuberculosis is categorized as latent, fresh, chronic, relapse and resistant and EPTB affecting other organs. Different hosts have shown variable immune response to the different antigens. Hospital-based evaluated studies by Harinath and others have shown TB ES-31 antigen in chronic PTB cases, ES-43 antigen in relapse cases, ES-41 antigen in bone and joint TB and elevated ES-20 antigen in weak immune response TB lymphadenitis patients. The antigen detection has been found to be a better marker than antibody in TB with HIV, further proving adjunct markers for increased sensitivity for TB detection.
A cocktail of antigens ES-31, ES-43 and ES-41 detecting antibody showed improved sensitivity (96 percent) in PTB cases. A cocktail of purified antibodies to ES-31, ES-43 andEST-6 (ES-41+ ES-38) showed a sensitivity of 91 percent for detection of antigen and 97 percent for immune complexed antigen with specificity of 95 percent and 99 percent respectively3,4. In prospective study, the in-house developed SEVA TB ELISA analyzed for nine months in tuberculosis suspected patients showed 100 percent correlation (42 cases) with AFB positivity but were not ATT treated. This can make an important contribution in confirming TB and correlating with clinical decision in smear negative TB cases in PTB and EPTB as studied on hospital patients.
In one of the study explored by Kashyap and others reported ELISA for the detection of Ag 85 complex (30kDa protein) in CSF samples of TB meningitis with a sensitivity and specificity 89 percent and 92 percent . Mukherjee and others have explored the sero-diagnostic potential of a panel of RD1 antigens and culture filtrate proteins for diagnosis of PTB and EPTB. Among the antigens Rv 3872, Rv 3878, ESAT-6, CFP-10 and CFP-11, CFP-31, Ag85A and Ag 85B tested, Rv 3872 and its antigenic epitopes have emerged as promising antigens4.
Time to change thinking
However such tests are excluded from these systematic reviews in spite of decades of research performed to identify these target markers and assess their immunogenic and diagnostic potential. Although, the Government measures to ban certain serological tests is the well-come initiative due to lack of consistency in sensitivity and specificity but imposition of harsh policies through banning the serological immunodiagnostic kits are hampering promising molecules, which would otherwise aid in clinical decision making for diagnosis and proper management of TB patients.
Our approach to immunodiagnostics cannot be mathematical in terms of percentage sensitivity and specificity but needs to be pragmatic to make it useful to the clinicians in diagnosis, monitoring and management of patients for continued patronage. Another reason for failure of serology is the expectation that it should be similar to sputum smear or culture, the gold standard, in spite of associated limitations. We must understand that serological tests cannot replace the culture and sputum smear microscopy but can certainly be proved the valuable adjunct in clinical decision making wherein we face the clinician with his or her clinical judgment, adding to the complexity of diagnosis.
Need regulatory support and task force
Despite increasing emphasis on strengthening infrastructure for healthcare, the Indian government has overlooked the need to chalk out a well defined regulatory pathway for diagnostic products, leaving many domestic industries lurching in the dark. The Indian diagnostics market witnessed a growth of 22 percent from 2,000 crore to 2,440 crore in 2010-11. Despite the prime significance of this sector, a well-defined regulatory pathway for diagnostic products is awaited. We understand that the independent validation of a diagnostic kit is an important process as an in-house team can sometimes be biased. However, there is no clear pathway described by the government on what-and-how exactly should the validation process be carried out.
Companies and research organizations have to scout around for institutes or hospitals to test and validate their tools. Without strong support of the WHO, FIND, other organizations and regulatory task force, the vision 2020 to eliminate TB looks gloomy. Instead of imposing harsh decisions like banning the tests, international organizations must empower the national implementation program to undertake such diagnostic kits for proper validation studies. We desperately need the tests that use a cocktail of antigens to cover the entire spectrum of tuberculosis for diagnosis irrespective of the HIV status, owing large genetic diversity among Indian population.
Possible measures for bringing TB tests into market
Regulation of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) is weak in India. The central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) classified IVDs as "critical" or "non-critical" with only a few test like HIV, Hepatitis B &C being considered "critical". TB tests are not classified as "critical tests" by the DCGI, and this allows the entry of sale of suboptimal sero-diagnostics without proper validation. Quality council of India, which is an autonomous body of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India, must address this by establishing and improving national accreditation structures, including National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), and National Accreditation Board for hospital and Healthcare Providers (NABH).
Creation of an "Indian Standards for TB Care" along the lines of the "International Standard for TB Care" for both public and private sectors might help in overcoming the reluctance about accepting the current ELISA-based leads for diagnosing TB, following complete validation of test kit. Owing to the large genetic diversity in the country, importing and usage of foreign kits by the doctors would again prove dangerous leading to mismanagement of TB. A significant contribution by India in the field of in-house PCR assays and cost effective immunodiagnostic serological kits with better sensitivity and specificity; judicial use of cocktail antigens to detect antibody along side of antigen; and immune complex antigen detection would help in developing a successful immunodiagnostic profile for tuberculosis.
Using these leads, an attempt to develop rapid point-of-care technology to detect TB would be a nice initiative in the direction of giving better serological tests with approved validation. In practice, it requires the political will at the level of DCGI, high level support from agencies such as RNTCP and the ICMR. Without such measures the "vision 2020" of "Global TB Elimination" will eliminate itself and TB microbes will keep evading the human habitat, adding to the suffering of humans.
1. Steingart KR, Henry M, Laal S, and others . Commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review. PloS Med 2007; 4;e202.
2. World Health Organization. Diagnostics Evaluation Series No.2. Laboratory-based evaluation of 19 commercially available rapid diagnsotic tests for tuberculosis. Geneva: World Health, Organization; 2008.
3. Harinath B.C. Immunodiagnostics for tuberculosis-Problems and Progress. Indian J Tuberculosis 2010; 57:I23-I27.
4. Haldar S, BoseM, Chakrabarti P, and others . Improved laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis- The Indian experience. Tuberculosis. 2011;91:414-426.


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Among friends: little magazines, friendship and networks
- Article written by: Richard Price
- Theme: Art, music and popular culture
- Published: 25 May 2016
Among friends: little magazines, friendship and networks
A 'little magazine' is a literary magazine which, typically, attracts only a small number of readers. Circulation can be numbered in the low thousands, or, as likely, in hundreds or even in tens.
Characteristically, little magazines last only a few years, or even less. Looking back, this can seem surprising because in classic magazines those they publish have since become so famous, influential or popular – or their ideas have.
One good example of this is The Germ, published in 1850, and whose title is used in the sense of a 'seed' germinating rather than anything biologically aggressive. A little magazine called The Germ today would be more likely to use the term with a dystopian frisson but The Germ of the 19th century celebrated nature. It was the magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites. They looked back, controversially, to medieval approaches in painting as a way, they hoped, of renewing English contemporary art. If you think of the 15th-century artist Botticelli's painting Primavera, you can see some of the co-ordinates the Pre-Raphaelites took their bearings from. It is a mythological painting – the fertility of spring is embodied in the pregnant figure of Primavera – but it also attempts an almost scientific exactitude in the intricate flowers on the forest floor and the fruits in the forest canopy. The Pre-Raphaelites wanted to go back to such an approach, which stressed mythical, even religious storytelling at the same time as keen observation of the natural world.
Pre-Raphaelite journal, The Germ
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This was far from a consensus view in their day, but in time the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists – such as William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti – became very popular. Public perspective on their work has moved from perceiving them as in an almost experimental position, even if a backward-looking one, to what is sometimes criticised today for technical shortcomings and, for example, troubled gender politics.
Their little magazine, The Germ, was published to promote their ideas and poetry. It only lasted four issues, all published in the single year of 1850. Since then, books, articles and exhibitions about their work have been legion, a measure of how the public's imagination took time to catch alight. Today, who hasn't heard of Pre-Raphaelite art?
The best little magazines inspire others to think and read differently, to write in new ways and in turn to make their own magazines.
'Some Notes on Auden's Early Poetry' in New Verse, 1937
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Shock value?
More usually, little magazines champion particular styles of writing as well as art; for example in Britain in the 1930s, the Contemporary Prose and Poetry championed literary surrealism at a time when the experimental, or the continental, was hardly encouraged. The attention to the internal workings of the mind, and a sensitivity to the animal in humankind, was at times shocking.
Visual poetry – concrete poetry and its related forms – is another example of aesthetic 'shock' brought about by little magazines. Wyndham Lewis's Blast, first published in 1914, borrowed techniques from the Italian Futurists and the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to offer striking 'list poems', poster-like tallies of who and what the magazine regarded as 'blessed' and 'blasted' (cursed). These were a firm departure from the polite conventions of literary magazines, a fact signalled by the large size of the magazine, a use of modern sans serif typography, and even its bright pink cover. If Europe had the Futurists, Blast would have the Vorticists – fascinated by the energy of the whirpool.
BLAST no. 1, the Vorticist magazine
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Although blessing and blasting sounds like a sheep and goats exercise – drawing firm lines between the 'good' and the 'bad' – in fact Blast was ambiguous and contradictory in its judgements, almost as if sending up the idea of judgement in the first place. Blessed by Blast were, poetically, 'all seafarers', 'Shakespeare' ('for his bitter Northern rhetoric of humour') and nationalistically, 'ENGLAND' (but England was, however, also blasted ('from politeness')). Cursed were, poetically, 'the flabby sky that can manufacture no snow'; the Post Office, the entire span of years Victoria reigned and, nationalistically, 'FRANCE' (which was also, however, blessed ('for its bushels of vitality')).
Later, in the 1960s, visual poetry became not only a means but a theme of little magazines, including the magazine Arlington and Bob Cobbing's And. Each issue of Arlington was associated with an actual exhibition of concrete poetry at a gallery at Arlington Mill in Gloucestershire. The tone of concrete poetry in the 1960s was seldom that of shock but rather of play, of celebration and even abstraction. As with The Germ and the Pre-Raphaelites, the idea of art is often hovering close to the idea of a little magazine, as if the magazine is itself a series of 'group shows'.
Rhythm: art, music, literature, No. IV
'The Woman at the Store', a short story by Katherine Mansfield published in Rhythm, a little magazine that promoted both literature and the visual arts. Many of the artists it featured were later associated with Vorticism.View images from this item (5)
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Representing the under-represented
Sometimes little magazines, adding to their particular aesthetic take, concentrate on cultures or territories deemed hitherto under-represented in the literary and political environment at large. In the 1960s, when there was a general flowering of little magazines, Ian Hamilton Finlay's title Poor. Old. Tired. Horse didn't only champion visual poetry, it had a distinct penchant for underground American poetry as well. Its title, after all, is named after a line in the Robert Creeley poem, 'Please'. Creeley was one of the more subversive American poets of his day.
At the same time, Modern Poetry in Translation, founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, particularly focussed on 'importing' Central and Eastern European poetry. A long-standing exception to the rule that little magazines tend to be shortlived, MPT, as it is affectionately abbreviated, continues to celebrate poetry from around the world.
Instalment of Ulysses (episode XIII, Nausicaa) in The Little Review, April 1920
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A common purpose
Little magazines are not just about their content, though. It is significant that The Germ styled itself as the magazine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This is something which an anonymous article in The Guardian newspaper picked up on at the time, when it lamented that The Germ was coming to an end:
It is a pity that the publication is to stop. English artists have hitherto worked each one by himself, with too little of common purpose, too little of mutual support, too little of distinct and steadily one whit more jealous than the followers of other professions. But they are less forced to be together, and the little jealousies which deform the natures of us all have in their case, for this reason, freer scope, and tend more to isolation. Here, at last, we have a school, ignorant it may be, conceited possibly, as yet with but vague and unrealised objects, but working together with a common purpose, according to 15 certain admitted principles, and looking to one another for help and sympathy. (The Guardian, 20 August 1850)
The assertion of the magazine as a collective activity – even, in extreme cases, of friendship as close as family – can be very important to these magazines. This is not to say they are all purely progressive in outlook. For example, The Germ's use of the word 'brotherhood' in a way suppresses the idea of 'sisterhood' and, despite the masculine label, it is notable that some of the earliest poetry of Christina Rossetti, arguably the finest Pre-Raphaelite poet, was actually published in The Germ (the magazine was, after all, edited by her real brother, William).
World War One patients at Craiglockhart
Sometimes it is through publication that friendship prospers, and this is the case with Hydra, a little magazine in a way. Hydra was edited and written by World War One patients at a Scottish hospital in Craiglockhart, just outside Edinburgh. The hospital had formerly been a 'hydropathic' institution, offering various kinds of water-centred therapies for the ill, and so 'Hydra' is a play on the hospital's origins. Hydra was itself envisaged as a kind of therapy – traumatised servicemen could find their way back out of shell shock, it was felt, by writing and collaborating in the process of publication. By working on Hydra the poet Wilfred Owen, a patient there, further developed his poetry, mentored by Siegfried Sassoon, a fellow patient. It is difficult to imagine that poems as powerful as 'Dulce et Decorum Est' could have emerged without the friendship catalysed by Hydra.
Front cover of The Hydra, November 1917
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Even if there is not real friendship among contributors – and the literary world can be as spiky a place as any – simply by being the collaborative and selectively distributed objects they are, little magazines advance positive ideas of community and specialised networks (sometimes as a corrective to and attack on the specialised network of the Establishment). Today's world of printed and online 'zines' are the inheritors of the little magazine ethos of network-building, sometimes politicised as with feminist zines. Little magazines and zines alike offer publicly the idea that editors, contributors and readers, in various exhilarating configurations, can develop through the 'conversation' of publication a new vision of art and literature, and even of society – the conversation is itself the idea.
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text: By Carla NaumburgMarch 16, 2016 at 7:00 AM EDT I don't do well with tantrums. I know there isn't a parent alive who enjoys it when their child ends up face-down on the grocery store floor because they can't have CocoCrunch, but my daughters' meltdowns leave me feeling angry and depleted as I desperately scour the kitchen for a handful of chocolate to shove in my face. My husband, in-laws, and friends all seem to have a way of staying calm through the freak-outs that I just don't have, even though I've written two books on mindfulness and parenting. I've worked hard over the years to learn how to breathe my way through stressful moments, and I've gotten a bit better at keeping my own Mommy meltdowns at bay. But as they say, a good defense is the best offense, so my husband and I have spent a lot of time figuring out how to maintain peace in our home as often as possible. Here are a few practices that have been helpful with our girls (ages 7 and 5): 1. Self-Care Comes First. I've figured out what I need to do to keep myself mostly sane, and I do it as often as I can. Although I would love to blame my daughters, and my daughters alone, for their behavior, the reality is that my reactions to them undoubtedly set the stage for what comes next. When I am calm and flexible, able to distract and deflect rather than reacting from a place of rigidity or annoyance, my girls generally respond in kind. But I need sleep, time alone, long walks, and a decent amount of caffeine on a daily basis in order to do that with any regularity. When I don't take care of myself, I'm like a big, red, glowing button just waiting to be pushed, but a long walk around the block with a stop at Dunkin Donuts has a way of making that button just a little smaller and a little less sensitive, which almost always has a pleasing ripple effect throughout my family. 2. Accept Reality. I've learned to acknowledge and accept my daughter's quirks, needs, and triggers, and adjust my parenting style accordingly. When my big girl gets too hungry, she turns into a hell-beast, so making sure she gets enough food on a regular basis is a big part of my job as her mother. When my little one tells me her ear hurts, I know that I need to get her to urgent care ASAP unless I want to stay awake all night with a tormented child. Weeks of dinnertime tantrums led me to drop their after-school swim lessons, even after all the time and energy I spent trying to find a class that worked with our schedule. By paying attention to my daughters' complaints and challenges and the outcome of my interventions (or lack thereof), I've learned to discern which issues can be dismissed with a kiss and a suggestion to play it off, and which ones require action, regardless of how inconvenient or annoying it may be. 3. Talk and Teach Before Tantrums. I teach my girls about their thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and behaviors. We talk about what helps us think clearly, feel calm, and make good choices, and what sets us off. They know that Mommy is grumpy when she's hungry (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree), that they're more likely to throw tantrums when they're tired, and that all of our tummies hurt when we're anxious. These conversations take the blame out of difficult moments and help my daughters recognize and understand their experiences and the connections between what they feel and think and how they behave, especially when we're all on the edge of a meltdown. 4. Make Sleep a Priority. Over the past seven years of parenthood, my husband and I have learned that when our daughters don't get enough sleep, they turn into little demons (at best) and they get sick with croup, asthma, or ear infections (at worst). When I don't get enough sleep, I'm slow and bleary, rigid and reactive, and prone to snapping at my kids over even the most minor irritation. Life isn't perfect when we're well rested, but it's a whole lot better. 5. Breathe. A lot. Intentional breathing helps me get out of my swirling, anxious thoughts and back into the present moment, to what is actually happening right in front of me. It calms me down and helps me see clearly and make better decisions. My girls and I talk about why I breathe, and we read books about it (our current favorite is Charlotte and the Quiet Place by Deborah Sosin). We practice taking three magic breaths in tense moments, and we count our breaths on our fingers at bedtime. All of this helps, to be sure. But meltdowns still happen, and sometimes the best we can do is call the day a wash and turn on an episode of Paw Patrol before heading off to bed. And that's my final trick for keeping peace in our house: accepting that chaos is part of the deal. I've found that once I accept the madness, it's not nearly as stressful as when I try to control it. Carla Naumburg, PhD is a clinical social worker and the author of Ready, Set, Breathe: Practicing Mindfulness with Your Children for Fewer Meltdowns and a More Peaceful Family. Join On Parenting on Facebook for more essays, news and advice. You can sign up here for our e-newsletter and can find us at washingtonpost.com/onparenting. We also Tweet @OnParenting. You might also be interested in: The lessons I learned from my daughter's night monsters Life can be stormy. Here's how to help kids weather the ups and downs. How letting go of anger has helped me be a better mom Today's HeadlinesThe most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy PolicyComments are not available on this story.Share your feedback by emailing the author. Have a question about our comment policies? 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I just checked the Dow. Down 44.44, .44%.
Just interesting to numbers freaks.
Dori has just reported on his show that a Georgian luger apparently was killed this a.m. at the Vancouver Olympics luge track in Whistler. Wow! God Bless.
Monson has tastelessly and insensitively posted the video of the death of the luger on his showpage. Nice one Dori. yahoo sports didnt feel it necessary to post the video. it's been pulled off youtube.
My whereabouts on any given day will always remain a mystery Oafmann.
Yo peeroy, you related to T008?
Dori will be speaking at approximately 10:30 on Monday a.m. in Olympia. [And remember according to our coordinating group I should be the only one holding the two signs I've previously described, so say Hi]
"Dori will be speaking...." bwahahahahahahahahahahah hoooo hhho wwwooohhaaheeeehwwwehhhhhhwwwwwhhhhhwheeeeeeeeeeehhhaaawwwwhheeeee
yeah KS,
Lawrence O'Donnell's blow up is classic. When facts escape ya, go for the yell-down. I guess he got cut off before he could play the 'you must be racist' card...kind of reminds you of our usual suspects. they seem quiet.
must be they got orders to remain silent until talking points are developed.
O'Donnell is just another wack-job on MSLSD along with Fatso Ed Schultz, Bathtub Boy, Spittle Motormouth Matthews, Contessa Brewer. No small wonder that their ratings are in the shitter.
The progressive/regressives all need to develop new talking points, because the masses are waking up and getting hip to this sour propaganda. They are now being perceived by a plurality as the enemy with the voracity of the Taliban - the end justifies the means..
Rachel Maddow, really? Since when did government money, i.e. our money, being given to other government projects or the companies that contract with the government, amount to economic stimulus? Those are temporary handouts and not sustainable jobs. Why didn't some of that money go to private small businesses who are the economic engine that made this country the greatest ever on the face of the earth? Because the Marxists in charge spit on and hate capitolism. And oh yes, progressivism has infiltrated both the democrat and republican parties and most other areas of our broken society. So, to point out the hypocracy of those republicans for accepting this dirty money is pointless. And we know that the progressive democrats are never hypocrites now don't we? The list of examples is so long and obvious that I wouldn't even care to point it out. Besides, you brainwashed progressives will never get it until you yourselves are pushed into a government reeducational center. Yes, history does repeat itself. Do you know what I am reffering to? C'mon Joanie, your a scholar. I will be in Olympia Monday morning at 10AM. We will show you people what kind of fight you're up against. Your day has come and gone.
So what sign will YOU be holding. Just so I can pick you out of the anti group.
First of all, you're the hypocrit: And oh yes, progressivism has infiltrated both the democrat and republican parties
otherwise, you'd be writing democrat and republic parties. But you didn't.
Second, how many bridges will small businesses build? Our infrastructure is falling apart. Tell me a list of small business to whom you'd trust building bridges and freeways. And small businesses aren't being eliminated due to taxes or lack of small loans; they are being wiped out because of outsourcing and high-volume buying from corporations like Walmart. And small businesses rely on customers. When customers do not have money, they don't spend. People need jobs and if it takes government to give them jobs, then I'm fine with it. They will spend and small businesses may thrive depending on what business it is. It worked under FDR who did a much better job of getting it done. It takes time. I'm not pleased with the job Obama is doing as you well know, but it is better than the raping of our economy under the Bush administration. Now if we could just get some of that money out of Afghanistan . . . and a higher tax rate on the American kings and queens, we might start our economy moving again.
That is my "scholarly" response.
vg joanie
"Second, how many bridges will small businesses build? Our infrastructure is falling apart. Tell me a list of small business to whom you'd trust building bridges and freeways."
you really have no idea how business works do you? i am going to introduce a new word to you: sub contractor.
and, get this, often these 'sub contractors' will purchase materials or sublet their work out to others.
if you don't think taxes impact small businesses go to your local tavern and ask the owner what he or she thinks of the B&O (business and occupancy) tax.
too funny at the 1.43 mark. then Senator Feinstein caught in violation of the debate rules with words written on the palm of her hand.
here ya go, sparkles an earlier palm pilot
O nice to meet ya, 'Bjorn.' Any chance you can say hi to 'Tad' and 'Coiler?'
But it's a nice device to use. Care to cite those 'explanations' that Sparkles has listed on the RFK Jr no more snow for DC due to Global Warming? Sounds like RFK Jr doesn't get it either.
I'll wait. This should be fun.
What is killing Global Warming, is bad science and bad politics. People like RFK Jr, Al Gore, etc. Many of their 'claims' are being shown to be erroneous or lies. Don't believe me, just read a bit from the NY Times on how the claim of losing the rain forest due to climate change is bogus. As is the other claim that the Himalayan Mtns would melt by 2035. It was in that spirit of bad science/politics that I deride RFK Jr. ridiculous article 15 months ago saying that DC would have no more snow. Of course, in an effort to have it both ways the massive snows are now being used to show that it is exactly because of Global Warming...can't wait to see RFK Jr's article on that one.
So yeah, Bjorn aka Tad aka Coiler aka whomever...go ahead. Address the bad science claims that were used for political purposes.
If you want to make a claim that the climate is changing. Yeah, I will agree with you. The climate is changing. What I can't take is the bad science that is used for political purposes.
You know, someone on this blog actually thinks RFK Jr is a fount of wisdom on this...you know, this same Kennedy that went full NIMBY when environmentalist wanted to put some windfarms off his shoreline. What a phony.
Why would anyone go into a local tavern and ask questions that are above their head like taxes and profit margin? The owners are easy pickings since most of them don't know how gubmint works. Most I have seen get nailed by the state for over serving or are shut down by the IRS. Putz will probably tell us how profitable pizza parlors are.
Small business owners who do not understand the impact of taxes rarely stay in business long. I used the B&O tax as an example of a particularly regressive tax.
Who in the hell is Bjorn Lonborg ? It's Bjorn Lomborg, you wingnut ! The author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
Bjorn believes in global warming, but also believes that Cap and Trade is the height of economic retardation.
spot on. likely one of the usual suspects was DWI...drinking whilst internetting...
Hey, noted 'conservative writer' from the WA Post, Dana Milbank calls it right here. Global Warming Alarmist that argued by anecdote ie polar bear, sheep shrinkage, et al are hoisted by their own petard.
that's why i am ragging on the RFK article. people can't have it both ways.
lets get back to the scientific method and take out the politics and the dough.
Small business thrives on customers. If you don't know that, then it just completes my case about you're being too dumb to be anything but a bean counter. B&O taxes are too high. But B&O taxes aren't killing well-managed small businesses.
Nor is a whine about B&O taxes an answer to the quote shown. That's what we call "circle talk." Your constant ability to answer one point by using a different one. Try to stay focused.
And as for you, klueless, I'll make shortshrift of your nonsense: lundborg made a suggestion to the bean counter that he learn a little about which he tries to be authoritative. Maybe he'd sound smarter if he took it.
"Small business thrives on customers."
Wow. What a concept. And wouldn't some of those customers that they serve be large general contractors?
Errr, the answer would be yes.
What a ditz.
Puget Sound repeatedly defeats you with solid facts and references, if you can't see that you are blind and too full of yourself, cause the rest of us see it clearly.
Ph(J)oanie - so you are the faker that used the psedo-name of Lomborg. If you believe that Cap and Trade is fair and efficient, you are economically retarded, a globalist corporatist as well as a wingnut (that may occur on both the far left and far right)
There you guys go again. Bloviating about nothing. Try to include some substance sometime. cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep
And next time, try to read better. Nobody ever asks you a question. They never have time for the answer.
Klueless, you're still klueless.
LMAO - Is that all you've got ?
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January 31, 2007
And here's an additional tip I just picked up. If you close a tab that you didn't mean to close, type Ctrl Shift T to get it back.
F6 (or Alt-D or Alt-L) = switch focus to the address bar and highlight address. So you can hit F6 and then start typing the address immediately
Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown = move to next or previous tab. You might find it easier than Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab
Hold Alt while scrolling a page to scroll one line at a time instead of three.
Cool stuff. And if you're interested in something other than a pricey upgrade to Vista and Office 2007, you really need to check out this blog. However, if you're related to Bill Gates, I understand your dilemna.
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Maybe I don't like slapstick humor. I like my jokes subtle. Low key. I like humor that makes me think. Slapping someone upside the head forty times in half an hour only makes me think "Who the fuck is lauging at this and when did he get that lobotomy?"
There was an old episode of Mad About You where Paul Reiser's character had run to his studio to avoid a squabble with his wife, played by the yummy Helen Hunt. Anyway, she shows up and sees that Paul is watching old Stooges videos and exclaims, "They're not even funny!" Paul immediately replies, "We're not going to have this argument again."
Am I going somewhere with this? Not really. I was trying to figure out a way to work the lyrics to some other piece of disco crap into this post, but I couldn't quite swing it.
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January 30, 2007
Michele correctly notes that disco got what it deserved. Unfortunately, the rest of us have horrid, horrid lyrics seared- seard, I tell you- into our memories from that thankfully gone era.
How badly seared? Check out what I can do without using a search engine. And then weep for me.
I'm glad you're home.
Well, did you really miss me?
I guess you did by the look in your eye (look in your eye, look in your eye)
Well lay back and relax while I put away the dishes.
Then you and me can rock a bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
The night is young and full of possibilities.
Well come on and let yourself be free.
My love for you, so long I've been savin'
Tonight was made for me and you
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell .
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell .
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell .
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell .
You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell, ding, dong, ding, ah-ah, ring it!
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere, ring it, ring it, ring it, ring it, oww!
You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell, ding, dong, ding, ah-ah, ring it!
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere, ring it, ring it, ring it, ring it, oww!
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
You can ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell.
I would pay good money to have that erased from my brain.
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January 29, 2007
It should be enough to say that the job description for federal agents solemnly sworn to enforce the law does not include the commission of felonies like obstruction of justice and making false statements (in this case, quite intentional, highly material omissions on official government reports). But to state the obvious does not do this matter justice. Not even close.
Heres the dirty little secret the agents partisans never tell in their relentless media rounds. You want to be mad about a miscreant like Aldrete-Davila getting away with importing scads of marijuana into Estados Unidos? Then be mad at the heroes.
The rogue duo had two easy opportunities to arrest Aldrete-Davila: First, when he attempted to surrender and Compean decided it would be better to smash him with the butt of a shotgun than to put cuffs on him, as it was his duty to do; and then, when the heroes, having felled the unarmed, fleeing suspect with a bullet fired into his buttocks, decided to leave him there so they could tend to the more important business of covering up the shooting.
The preponderance of the evidence established that Aldrete-Davila was unarmed. Besides Compean and Ramos, there were several other agents on the scene. None of them believed Aldrete-Davila posed a threat to their safety; none, other than the two defendants drew their weapons; and Compean and Ramos neither took cover nor alerted their fellow agents to do so.
More to the point, Compean admitted to investigators early on that the smuggler had raised his hands, palms open, in an attempt to surrender. This jibed not only with Aldrete-Davilas account but with that of another Border Patrol agent. Compean opted not to take surrender, not to place the smuggler under arrest so he could be prosecuted.
On that score, for those over-heatedly analogizing the border to a battlefield, it is worth noting that even under the law of war, quarter must be given when it is sought. Compean, to the contrary, tried to strike Aldrete-Davila with the butt of his shotgun. But it turns out the agent was as hapless as he was malevolent. In the assault, he succeeded only in losing his own balance. The smuggler, naturally, took off again, whereupon Compean unleashed an incompetent fuselage missing Aldrete-Davila with all fourteen shots.
More significant than strategy, Americans need to know that there are not two justice systems: one for corrupt public officials and one for everybody else. Everybody else, especially upon declining a generous plea offer, gets hit with the most serious offense. Treating these agents differently would have been very difficult to justify.
Who will the people turn to if those sworn to uphold the law break it at their whim? No one, that's who. You would have societal breakdown, as the government would have broken faith in its social compact with the people. So I'm okay with these agents going to jail for their lawless behavior.
Then there's this part about the drug smuggler:
For what its worth, I believe the treatment of the smuggler is more disturbing than the sentences imposed on the agents. The agents got more time than they would have without the mandatory minimum, but what they did here patently merited imprisonment. The alien narcotics smuggler, to the contrary, gets off scot-free, plus, thanks to another congressional statute, he can actually sue the United States and is reportedly seeking $5 million in damages.
That is ludicrous. We can swallow hard and accept the cold reality that the government needed to make a strong case to get rid of bad agents who would otherwise still be on the job potentially endangering others, including their fellow agents. We can understand, even though we resent, that the only way to obtain the testimony of Aldrete-Davila, who was in Mexico, was to promise that his statements would not be used against him. We can perhaps even abide that the drug dealer was not prosecuted. He was, after all, shot and wounded (albeit while fleeing to escape justice); he could have stayed in Mexico rather than agreeing to return for the trial; and the agents misconduct had left the case against him nigh impossible: the government says that none of the agents could make a physical identification based on their fleeting and chaotic interaction with him, that the marijuana-laden van did not yield forensic evidence tying him to it, and therefore that the only way to establish guilt would have been a confession which the feds had to provide immunity to get.
Yes, all that is infuriating, but we regrettably realize thats the way things go sometimes. What cannot be countenanced, however, is that an illegal aliens criminality is not only excused but rewarded and rewarded based on the fiction that the trespasser has rights under our Constitution.
Extend the same rights to illegals as those of US citizens? Uh, no. I don't think so. Should some weenie judge make a ruling otherwise, I believe that the proper response by the US government would be to give the judge the finger.
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January 26, 2007
Ponder This...
Phil Mickelson bragged in the lead up to his season debut at last weekends Bob Hope Classic that he had dropped 25 pounds in the offseason. Little good it did him. He fired a final round 6-over 78 and finished in 45th place, 10 shots behind the leaders. Clearly Mickelson just doesnt get it. We dont watch him in hopes hell play great golf thanks to his physical fitness. Just like no one would like Pamela Anderson any more if she took acting classes or began wearing tasteful and conservative turtlenecks. Phil, we watch you because in the midst of a four or five hour broadcast in which dorky men stroll past our screen in khakis and polo shirts, you offer us delicious eye candy in the form of bouncy, voluptuous breasts. Once you lose those youre nothing but another shmoe in Dockers who loses to Tiger Woods every week.
Here is my Page 2 column from Monday. I should mention that Ive always had a certain perception about the average, rank-and-file Boston sports fan both from firsthand interaction and from observing them from afar through the media. And the perception is this: the average, rank-and-file Boston sports fan is an insufferable douche bag who leaves much to be desired in the intelligence department. But I have always been one who is willing to admit when I am wrong. So today I will do that, as the e-mails I received from Patriots fans in response to the column above showed me the error of my ways and I must apologize. The average, rank-and-file Boston sports fan is not an insufferable douche bag who leaves much to be desired in the intelligence department. Far from it. They are actually very nearly mentally retarded, if not legitimately disabled, and for that they should be helped, not vilified. (Seriously, Boston douchery you didnt pick up on that column being tongue-in-cheek? You honestly believed I really Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will never win a Super Bowl, even though they have won three already? Really? Wow. Just wow.)
This one's gonna become a weekly read, just like TMQ.
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Men Are Just Happier People-- What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can be President.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station rest-room because this one is
just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000.Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you are talking to them.
The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier.
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January 25, 2007
I know what you're thinking: you were a physics geek in college; you'd have hit anything. While that sounds reasonable because, umm, well, physics majors and girls are the twain that don't meet, you'd be wrong because logic is a physicist's forte. And logically speaking, I wouldn't hit something that makes the a $10 dollar crack whore on the street corner look reputable by comparison. PH reminds me of the girl who effed the entire football team in high school and then followed that up by humping the team mascot: a pot-bellied pig. Poor pig.
Let's face it: PH has the morals of an alley cat on Spanish fly, the muscle tone of a cadaver and enough creepy crawlies in and around her cooch to kill most of the first, second and third world. The fact that some people think she's sexy disturbs me quite a lot.
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January 23, 2007
Ehh, maybe I misread the topic. Anyway, Faster Than the World wants your nominations for the best horror movies of all time.
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Now I'll start checking Sitemeter every 10 minutes.
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January 18, 2007
Tired of paying $1.50 or $2 for every directory assistance phone call? Then don't. There truly is such a thing as free directory assistance, though it may cost you a little in time and patience. Jot this down:
A Boston-based company called Jingle Networks offers this free alternative to expensive 411 calls via your cell phone or land line. How and why do they do what they do for free? Just as radio and TV shows are supported by advertising, the directory assistance service is sponsored by companies advertising with the service. So, yes, that means you may hear a short, audio ad when requesting a phone number, but not every time.
When I tried it out, the automated system got the name I was requesting wrong, but a live operator quickly came on the line and found the phone number. I heard (and ignored) an ad for a credit card before I got my number, but it didn't drone on too long. Generally, you'll hear ads related to businesses you're requesting to contact and will be given the opportunity to connect to the advertised business. But an ad here and there seems worth saving $1.50 a pop.
Cool. May the Verizon and Sprint 411 operators rot in hell.
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January 12, 2007
According to prosecutors, Irenia "Lamb" Cotner, 34, managed to enlist four adults in rural Claremont, Ill., to help her murder a pregnant 16-year-old girl, by convincing them they all had hexes on them that could only be lifted by killing the girl before a candle with her name on it melted down. (They failed, but a man died fighting off the attackers.) One defendant said the hex was real because she got migraines every time Cotner came by. Another defendant said he learned about hexes and spells so that people would like him and said Cotner planned the murder for a remote location so that the gates of hell could open for the mother's and fetus's souls. In December, Cotner was sentenced to 57 years in prison, and two others go on trial soon.
Other bizarre crap:
I don't know what the class was about. but a student handed in a disc containing kiddie porn as his final examination.
If he ate the soup, then I want the special.
Today, January 12, is Feast of Fabulous Men Day. Apparently crack has become more ubiquitous than I thought.
The Restaurant At the End of the Universe is one step closer to reality.
No word on whether Cop Rock was on the air at the time.
A blowtorch is not an FDA approved insecticide.
When asked by reporters if Governor Crist found the typo embarrassing, he replied "Not at all" and then proceeded to feed the entire press corp with a pack of M&Ms and a can of Diet Coke.
And let me finish with this thought.
Hey, how did that get in here? More to the point, how can more get in here?
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European men are flocking to Bulgaria to buy 'breast-boosting beer' after EU accession led to customs duties on the drink being abolished.
The millet-ale called Boza which is made from fermented wheat flour and yeast is being snapped up by bar owners, shopkeepers and shoppers from across Europe.
They are said to be keen for their wives and girlfriends to benefit from its reported ability to make women's breasts grow.
Constantin Barbu crossed the Danube from Romania to buy Boza in the Bulgarian border town of Ruse.
He said: "I've bought a case for my wife to try out. I really hope I see an improvement."
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Anyway, I've followed Michael Graham's career since he had a radio show here in Richmond, VA. His current show isn't available for me to listen to, but his website is. Here are his determinations as to what will happen when the US bugs out of Iraq:
1--The Islamists get another country, and its one with lots of oil generating lots of money to fund lots more terror.
2--America is defeated in the Middle East. We lose, and we lose in a region where the brutal tribal culture values strength over all. People in the region looking to back a winner have yet another reason to back the whackjobs. More whackjobs who want to kill us will have more power, and the moderates will have less. Or be dead. Which brings up point #3:
3--Blood in the streets. LOTS of it. You think 1,000 Iraqis killed in a month is a lot? You're not paying attention. Rwandans died by the thousands per day, and they only had machetes. Imagine how ugly a real religious cleansing campaign would look. Are you prepared to say "Yep, 100,000 Iraqi women and children had to die in 2007 because we weren't sure we could win?"
Go read the rest.
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January 11, 2007
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I just received the ingredients to make two batches of beer. One will be a clone of Breckenridge Brewery's Christmas Ale which, I expect, many of you have not tried as yet. I highly recommend it. Hopefully, my batch will turn out alright; I have no desire for more Swimming Pool Ale. The other batch will be a Fosters Lager clone, albeit one brewed at ale temperatures because no lagering ability at my house. I think that I'll call it the Fosters Steamer, in reference to brewing lagers at ale temperatures, a method popularized by Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco in the production of its fabulous Anchor Steam Ale.
Which one will I brew first? It's hard to say, but I'm leaning towards the Steamer because it will become drinkable more quickly, giving me plenty of homebrew to drink while the Christmas Ale ages. Regardless, I'll post my recipes and brewing logs as I go along. Feedback and/or questions are welcome.
See y'all soon.
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January 10, 2007
Full disclosure: my first computer didn't even had a hard drive, as I couldn't afford one. I had two floppy drives and used one for my OS. I then stripped a lot of application software to their barest minimums to run on a 1.44Mb floppy. Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS worked great without a lot of the frills installed. Anyway, I might be looking at a new drive soon.
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Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g. in a dual-boot environment) and of external USB NTFS drives.
Some of the info is excessively geeky. However, you don't need to understand it much to be able to implement. Just read and follow the directions; you should be alright.
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St. Nicholas Abbey & Heritage RailwayBarbados Barbados
All aboard! Ease into a fun adventure immersed in the essence of Barbados beginning with a scenic drive up to St Nicholas Abbey. The great house is one of just three remaining Jacobean mansions in the Western hemisphere and has also been lovingly restored to depict the golden days of Barbados' Sugar Production. After gaining some insight into the rum making process and technique, your discovery begins onboard Barbados' newest attraction; The St Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway! Take in the panoramic views over the rugged Atlantic coastline as the train winds its way through the plantation fields and mahogany woods to Cherry Tree Hill. Once there you'll be able to enjoy the spectacular views over the east coast of the island. After making the most of this wonderful photo opportunity, you'll head back to St Nicholas Abbey before ending your journey with a scenic drive along the coast through the rolling countryside.
Call 1-877-768-8370 To Pre-Book This Tour
Tour Highlights
- Visit the St. Nicholas Abbey Great House
- Gain some insight into the rum making process
- Taste official St. Nicholas Abbey rums
- Take a train ride on the heritage railway
- Enjoy scenic views along the way
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- Confirmation will be sent within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability and minimum tour requirements
- Tour duration is not inclusive of travel time to tour location
- All tours are weather permitting
- Weight restrictions may apply
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3:30 hours approx.
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On Qualifying day, the tickets are tied to sections and seats (though it seems that some people don't care about that). The Saturday also seemed to be a day where many companies and government agencies gave away tickets. Even my immigration officer upon entry of the country told me that he will be at the race on Saturday.
While Formula One continues with the Pit Stop practice, medical inspection and the third practice session, there are also sessions for Malaysian Super Series and TCR International Series. The main focus however is on the Formula One Qualifying Session which happened an hour later than last year. I guess the strategy was to get the rain out of the way before the qualifying session starts, but it actually came right in the middle of the session and put it on hold for quite some time.
Luckily the rain eased off and the teams were able to continue with the qualifying session and finish it.
A year ago I was stuck on the bus for over 2 hours to get back to the city where it rained even harder with flooded streets. This years combined shuttle/train connection was the better option and brought me back to the city in less than an hour.
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Comments on: 2017 Ford Escape - In-Depth Review
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Ford's small crossover holds its own in a tough segment.
Where is the Forester?
"The Week-end Warrior"??? Really? It's more a soccer mom dream come true. I seriously miss the old generation that actually looked like a truck and was available with a V6 and a manual gearbox.4 Replies
To clarify, the V6 was never available with the manual gearbox, and 4WD/AWD with the manual gearbox was available with the 2.0L way back with the original version.
Not sure in what part of the world you live, but the 2.0 was never available in North America. We had the 2.3 that was later ungraded to 2.5 and it was available with the 5 speed manual in the fwd configuration. Which is more than i can say for the current generation with no transmission options.
The first gen Escapes were made with the 2.0 Zetec engine from the 00-04 Foci and sold in the US, also with manual transmissions.
Well, I stand corrected.
Looks fine - maybe a bit more mainstream and less unique but still looks OK. Not sure it can hold its own against the Kia, Honda and Mazda in terms of looks - at least in the USA.3 Replies
Man, this Escape needs a makeover badly. How long has this design been around, it seems like forever.
I like the Escape, even have a 2006 Hybrid with 140,000 miles still going strong. I've driven the current Escape as rental and not a huge fan. Staying within the Ford family I like the Edge, as it's a bit bigger, but the cost goes up a lot for the Edge.
The 1.5 is soooo slooooowwwwwwww! Even 2.0 is marginal once underway...... it is only quick off the line.3 Replies
Where does your "line" end, the 2.0L version being one of the quicker through the quarter mile in its class?
It is only quicker off the line. Look it it's trap speed. After the initial torque rush, virtually all the competitors are faster than it is.
Anyone that understands the relationship between 0 to 60, quarter mile times, and trap speeds went easily understand this.
Travel a lot and the Escape has historically been one of my favorites. And if you luck into one with the 2.0L it's a pretty spirited ride, with entertaining handling for a crossover. But... the new CR-V and CX-5 have really raised the bar, the new Tiguan will likely do the same. Ford seems a bit content with it's SUV lineup; Escape and Explorer are both coming up on 7 years with very minor refreshes, Expedition held on basically for 14 years, with just an engine transplant to it's credit. Edge was just updated but the new one breaks no new ground, although it is a very credible effort. And the great, but unloved Flex has basically seen nothing since introduction in 9 years. Ford has dumped a lot of $$$ into trucks, Mustang, GT, etc. Don't neglect the mainstream part of the market while polishing those corporate jewels.3 Replies
I agree,and recently read a new Explorer and Aviator are on the horizon for 2019 (meaning 2018) and hopefully will use lots of aluminum to save weight as we all know the current Explorer is HEAVY.
The Escape and especially the Explorer could use more involved updates, however, Ford has a new compact platform coming for the Escape and their new scalable FWD/RWD/AWD architecture for the Explorer/Aviator.
Ford has been pretty good about keeping its products updated. If there's a long wait it's usually worth it.
I don't think an Avaitor is coming. It wouldn't make sense for Ford to create the Platinum lineup just to put out a Lincoln. However, the Expo is doing just that so maybe I'm wrong.
Ford makes the best stuff.
Ford makes the best stuff.
I like it a lot, but the interior is not to my liking - looks a bit dated, and especially no longer appreciate automatic gear selectors. Much prefer a rotary dial, or push button (Lincoln) to free up space on the center consul. The color, headlights, and rims look especially nice.


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AJINEH Industrial Company, founded in 1982 is a family run company and has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing cable support systems in which ithas been grown to become a specialist and has become the leading Iranian company dealing mainly with ministries of Oil, Energy, and Mining. (see reference list).
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Ajineh's main policy is 100% customer satisfaction: "what the customer wants is what the customer gets". This meaning that Ajineh, defying the market rules ofmanufacturing; complies entirely with the customer specification without extraextravagant charges. The customer is not bound to use Ajineh's exact specification;but is guided to an optimum product by our engineers.
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Quality and safety are for Ajineh always the most important issues. Quality does not only mean measuring objective criteria and therefore it does not only end where the products or the erection are controlled.
Quality is one feature of our service and partnership with the customer. Security is guaranteed by respecting our technical data and by following the application examples given in the catalogue.


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Our kids are just like any other kid, they want to have fun and be celebrated.
Our birthday kids are children between the age of 5 and 12 and come from family situations where the families struggle to make ends-meet. It's our mission to celebrate the birthday boy or girl and provide them with a party that includes the kids that made it possible.
All of our Simon Says Give chapters support birthday celebrations and we have found this to be a great entry way into our organization. Many of our kids that we celebrate join our mission in providing their time and talent to give back!


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Screen Media Films has picked up North American rights to "Lifted," penned and directed by Lexi Alexander.
Gotham-based Screen Media aims to drum up support from spirituality-minded auds with pre-release screenings held in February at churches and spiritual centers around the U.S., prior to a March theatrical bow.
Pic follows an Alabama boy who enters a singing competish in an attempt to help his mother after his father ships off to military duty in Afghanistan. Dash Mihok, Nicki Aycox and Uriah Shelton are among the cast.
Deborah Del Prete produces "Lifted" under her new label Coronet.
Recent Screen Media releases include "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" and "City of Your Final Destination."


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Reggie Bush — known to reality TV fans as the on-again, off-again beau of Kim Kardashian — announced Tuesday he's giving back his Heisman trophy.
"The persistent media speculation regarding allegations dating back to my years at USC has been both painful and distracting," Bush said in a statement on his website. "For the rest of my days, I will continue to strive to demonstrate through my actions and words that I was deserving of the confidence placed in me by the Heisman Trophy Trust."
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Bush said he did not want the media coverage or the allegations against him to affect the integrity of the award.
"While this decision is heart-breaking, I find solace in knowing that the award was made possible by the support and love of so many," he said.
The 25-year-old two-time All-American received the Heisman trophy in 2005 after he helped lead his college team, the University of Southern California, to a national championship in 2004.
After receiving the Heisman, he was the No. 2 overall draft pick in 2006, when he was signed to the New Orleans Saints. Bush helped the Saints clinch the Super Bowl championship last February.
Source: Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush reconcile
Besides his time on the gridiron, Bush is known for going out with Kardashian. The two dated from mid-2007 to July 2009, before reuniting two months later. They split again in March.
Bush's announcement comes months after the NCAA deemed Bush ineligible for the 2005 season after it was determined that Bush had received improper benefits during his time at USC. The university was stripped of all 14 wins during the 2004-2005 season, and 30 football scholarships.
USC has already returned its copy of Bush's Heisman trophy. It's unknown whether the trophy will be re-awarded to another player from that year.


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Do Labor Law Posters Have to Be Visible?
State and federal laws require employers to post labor law posters and notices in the workplace. Regulations require employers to display the posters in a "conspicuous" place where employees and, with some posters, job applicants can see and read them. The U.S. Department of Labor enforces federal regulations for labor law posters, and provides the posters free of charge and in languages other than English. Each state has its own laws regulating labor law posters. Laws require some of the posters for all employers, while some posters are required only for specific businesses.
Federal Posters
Most businesses are required to display the "Fair Labor Standards Act" poster that lists the federal minimum wage, the "Family and Medical Leave Act" poster, the "Job Safety and Health Protection" poster from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the "Employee Polygraph Protection Act" notice. The "Equal Opportunity Employment is the Law" poster is required for employers involved in business with the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division requires the posting of several notices by federal contractors and employers of migrant workers. All employers must display the "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act" poster. Federal regulations require the display of several of the posters where they can be seen by job applicants: "Family and Medical Leave Act," "Employee Polygraph Protection Act," and "Equal Employment Opportunity."
Small Businesses
The Department of Labor exempts some small businesses from the requirement to post the "Family and Medical Leave Act" poster. Small businesses can find out about other requirements and exemptions by using the FirstStep Poster Advisor on the department's website. The Poster Advisor provides an interactive process to help employers determine which labor law posters they need. The department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization also assists small businesses with labor law poster requirements.
Size Requirements
Many of the labor law poster regulations don't include specific size requirements. The Wage and Hour Division requires the "Fair Labor Standards Act" poster to be "easily readable." The "Family and Medical Leave Act" poster must be legible and large enough to be read. The poster "Notification of Employee Rights under Federal Labor Laws" must be 11 by 17 inches. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires that copies of its workplace safety poster are at least 8 ½ by 14 inches, with a 10-point font.
Ordering Posters
Employers can download and print copies of the posters on the Department of Labor's website, and can request to receive in the mail up to five of each poster for no charge. Employers can also purchase labor law posters from businesses that specialize in selling the posters and related products.
State Requirements
State departments of labor have their own requirements for the display and sizing of labor law posters. New York State, for example, requires employers to display its state minimum wage poster and posters for unemployment insurance, worker's compensation, and disability benefits. Links to each state's poster requirements are provided on the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Department of Labor's website contains links to each state's department of labor.
- U.S. Department of Labor: Poster Page - Workplace Poster Requirements for Small Businesses and Other Employers
- U.S. Department of Labor: Which Posters Have To Be Posted Where "Applicants" As Well As Employees Can See Them?
- U.S. Department of Labor: What Are the Size Requirements for Federal Workplace Posters?
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|About this Recording
8.110841 - HAYDN / MOZART: Symphonies (Toscanini) (1929)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Symphony No.101 in D major (The Clock)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Symphony No.35 in D major, K.385 (Haffner)
Arturo Toscanini won himself an unassailable reputation as a conductor, respected and feared by musicians and revered by his public. Born in Parma in 1867, the son of a tailor, he studied the cello, piano and composition at the Parma Conservatory, which he entered at the age of nine. Completing his studies in 1885, he embarked on a career as a cellist and in the following year, during a visit to Brazil, he was able to take charge of a performance of Verdis Aida, conducting from memory, as he was always to do and achieving a success that ensured a future career as a conductor, at first pursued in various theatres in Italy. In 1895 he took charge as conductor of the Teatro Regio in Turin, following this with appointment to La Scala, Milan, in 1898. Here his continuing meticulous attention to every detail of performance, against existing traditions, won him praise and hostility.
Toscaninis period at La Scala was interrupted by tours abroad and work at other houses in Italy. In 1908 he was appointed artistic director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he had a liaison with the singer Geraldine Farrar, before resigning in 1915 to return to war-time Italy. It was only in 1920 that he returned to La Scala, where changes had been made and earlier causes of dissatisfaction removed. There were foreign tours with the orchestra and as great a degree of success as might be achieved in concert repertoire with an opera-house orchestra. It was a realisation of the limitations of such an ensemble and hostility to the régime of Mussolini that led to his resignation once more, in 1929, the year of tours to Berlin and Vienna. He conducted at Bayreuth for two seasons, but his objection to Hitlers policies of antisemitism in Germany led him to refuse further work in Germany and undertake concerts in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, with the newly formed Palestine Symphony, strengthened by the presence of refugees from Germany.
In 1928 Toscanini had been appointed conductor of the amalgamated New York Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held until 1936 and one that found him, now in his fifties, at the height of his powers. The mid-1930s, among other engagements, brought concerts with the BBC Orchestra in London, the rehearsals for which were vividly described by the principal viola of the orchestra, Bernard Shore (The Orchestra Speaks, London, 1938). Shore writes of Toscaninis careful attention to detail, his phenomenal memory, his organized and economical use of rehearsal time, his sudden flashes of anger, quickly dissipated, and the respect he inspired among players. He also remarks on Toscaninis short-sightedness, his use of a mixture of languages, reverting to pure Italian in moments of extreme stress, and, above all, his respect for the music itself, as written.
From 1937 until 1954 Toscanini worked principally with an orchestra created for him in New York, the NBC Orchestra. Many recordings are preserved from this period. He died in New York at the age of 89 in 1957.
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first concert in 1842, although during the nineteenth century it did not always occupy the place it now holds. It was in the 1920s that the New York Philharmonic Society began to absorb other orchestras, culminating in 1928 in a merger with the New York Symphony, founded in 1878 by Leopold Damrosch. After the merger, the orchestra became known as the Philharmonic-Symphony Society Orchestra, later to assume its present identity as the New York Philharmonic.
Fashions in performance of the Viennese classics have changed over the years, particular in matters of tempo. Haydns Clock Symphony, one of the set of six that he wrote for his second visit to London, was first performed at the Hanover Square Rooms on 3rd March 1794 in the second of the season of concerts presented by the violinist-impresario Salomon. The orchestra was presumably of much larger numbers than the chamber-orchestra proportions to which Haydn been accustomed during his many years of service of the Esterházy family at home. Toscanini, conducting the even larger ensemble of a modern symphony orchestra, takes the instruction Adagio very literally in the slow introduction to the first movement, as he does the rapidity of the following Presto. The nickname of the symphony, The Clock, was not Haydns but seems to have become current in London by the end of the century. It is derived from the repeated accompanying rhythm of the second movement, here taken as a particularly solid Andante, although later treated with greater delicacy, but suggesting Beethoven as much as Haydn in its dynamic range and tempo, an impression given by the following Minuet and Trio. In the Finale Toscaninis attention to details of the score is apparent, not least in the moulding of the answering cello figure in the second sentence of the movement. Alternative takes of the 1929 recording provide a complete version of the extant recordings from the sessions.
Mozart was busy in the summer of 1782 with his first significant stage work for Vienna, the Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He had broken with his and his fathers patron, the Archbishop of Salzburg, in the previous year, and now marriage, for which he had not sought his fathers previous consent, was imminent. Back in Salzburg music was demanded for the celebration of the ennoblement of his contemporary Sigmund Haffner. In reply Mozart pleaded the pressure of work, as he sought to make use of the success of his opera by issuing an arrangement for wind-band, before others seized the opportunity and took the consequent profit. He was only able to provide the necessary celebratory symphony movement by movement, sending the first Allegro on 27th July, as he asked his father to agree to his marriage. This took place on 4th August, before a reply to his request could be received.
Toscaninis performance of the Haffner Symphony is very much of its period. Particularly noticeable, however, is the treatment of seemingly insignificant inner parts, the singing tone of the first violin melody of the slow movement, and the fine balance of the bassoon accompaniment to what follows. The Minuet might seem more portentously monumental than now would be expected, but any undue weight here is counterbalanced by the brilliance of the Finale.
Keith Anderson


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Over the years, Sir David Attenborough has become synonymous with jaw dropping moments of nature being nature. And he has influenced how we view the natural world.
With more than 100 series behind him spanning over 7 decades, Attenborough has come face-to-face with some stunning scenes that have translated into unforgettable moments onscreen. (And don't get us started on those smooth-talking, dulcet tones that can turn even the weirdest viral video into something special).
Next year, the man himself is making his way down under with his live show, 'A Quest For Life'.
In the mean time, bask in a select few of his greatest moments -- from making friends with an orangutan to scouring the majestic Great Barrier Reef that once was.
Planet Earth II: The Snake Chase
Australians are currently being littered with tantalising teasers of the upcoming documentary, Planet Earth II, set to hit our screens in 2017.
Like this one -- an animal chase of epic proportions. Watch as a team of racer snakes fling themselves off rocks in pursuit of a lone iguana.
It is quite possibly the most gripping chase. Ever.
Planet Earth II comes one decade after the original documentary, Planet Earth. Attenborough, now 90, takes viewers on a whimsical journey, uncovering the red crabs of Christmas Island and the pygmy three-toed sloths off the coast of Panama.
No surprises here, but it is shaping up to be totally epic:
Sir David Makes Friends With An Orangutan
Let's wind back the clock a few decades. In 1956, a youthful Attenborough journeyed to Indonesia in search of the fearsome Komodo dragon. Taking specimens back to London Zoo, he befriends a rather cheeky orangutan named Charlie. Adorable stuff.
The Great Barrier Reef: What It Once Was
Attenborough labels it one of nature's most impressive creations. Now, it is on the brink of extinction.
First arriving on the reef in 1957, he filmed a scuba dive with a wind-and-crank camera. It was a trip that catapulted what has become a lifetime wonder with the reef -- and one that led to his 2016 series, 'David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef'.
Taking a look in time, and Attenborough has captured the diverse stretches of the reef -- before it was plagued by coral bleaching.
In its natural state, it is beautiful and, sadly, unrecognisable.
This one needs no introduction. Put Sir David and an adorable (albeit slightly creepy) sloth in the same sentence and you have a match made in heaven.


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April 28th, 2007
Come to Neo tonight
DJ Nurse Allison guest DJs TONIGHT at NEO
Bringing you hard EBM, new- and old-school industrial, electro, and more
Doors open at 10. My sets will be 10 – midnight, with another one later in the night.
2350 N Clark
$5 Cover
You don't want to miss this. See you there!
March 31st, 2007
NEO, Chicago
Me, DJing, this Saturday
Celebrate the end of your work week (and my birthday!) with me this Saturday at NEO! I'll be spinning from ten til midnight, and probably doing another set later on. You can expect to hear hard-edged electronic music that's fun to get stompy to. I would love to see you Chicago peeps there, even if you can only drop by for a bit!
2350 N. Clark St. (intersection of Clark and Fullerton)
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Neo Setlists
December 28th, 2006
Chronos at Club Five
This was my last DJ gig of the year and an incredible way to say goodbye to 2006! Many thanks to the Chronos team for inviting me.
Thursday, December 28
Chronos at Club Five, Washington D.C.
November 19th, 2006
WTII Showcase
This is tomorrow night! Here's a rough schedule for ya:
- 8:30 – 9:30 Allison
- 9:30 – 10:15 Jilt
- 10:15 – 10:35 Allison
- 10:35 – 11:20 Apocalypse Theatre
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- 11:35 – 12:30 Cyanotic
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November 6th, 2006
Tonight's the last night of Indoctrination! Don't miss Cacophony, The Operative, Pr0metheus Burning, Caustic, Victo Ecret, and scrap.edx.
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Optimus 45
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