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Oral drug testing of saliva is a relatively new process of drug testing for work. Here is a breakdown of how, why, who,and what brought about oral drug testing.

What is oral drug testing?

Oral drug testing is an modern testing applied science utilizing saliva as a medium of drug metabolite detection. It is the latest discovery in drug testing.

What makes oral drug testing desirable?

Oral drug testing is extremely non intrusive, thus giving it clear from ethical and likely legal effects of illegal search that accompany work drug tests.

Is oral drug testing inexpensive?

Yes, it is a highly preferred choice to the privacy robbing, messy urine drug test, and is cheaper than hair drug testing. Unfortunately, urinalysis wins again handily in the pocket book department: there isn’t any other drug testing method thats cheaper than a urine drug test.

How does oral drug testing function?

Just like the oral HIV test, the oral drug test — created by Orasure — is rapidly swabbed by a delicate cotton tipped control stick, and the results are shot out an accompaning digital machine. The negative? Oral drug testing only detects drug metabolites within a short period of time from their intake.

Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive growth for which no successful remedy is around in spite of the finding of many probable molecular and genetic targets. The final stages of Malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosis and the period of time that exists between contacts and diagnosis have made it difficult to fully learn the role of risk factors and their downstream molecular effects.

Many health centres are witnessing more people with pleural cancer. This presents pathologists involved in making the diagnosis with a number of problems, that are divided into those encountered in distinguishing between mesothelioma and harmless changes and those experienced in setting apart malignant mesotheliomas from additional types of epithelial and tissue tumors that connect. Immunohistochemistry plays a major role in helping to make the diagnosis, but it must be taken into consideration with due regard to the scientific setting and radiological characteristics, and with an understanding of the broad morphological differentiations that exist in cancer of the mesothelium.

Mesothelioma is a primary cancer of the serosal cavities, an anatomical site that is often affected by metastasis, predominantly from primary carcinomas of the lung, breast, and ovary. Progression in immunohistochemistry have lead to enhanced diagnostic sensitivity and exactness in the differential diagnosis regarding cytological and histological material. Recently, the researchers employed a high level of throughput technology to the identification of new signs that might assist in telling the difference between cancer of the mesothelium from cancer in the peritoneum and ovaries, tumors with closely related histogenesis and antigenic profile. Together with the improved medical devices obtainable for serosal cancer diagnosis, knowledge regarding the biology of mesothelioma has been accruing recently.

The most damaging factor to our economy today is the Wage-Productivity gap. This refers to the increase in the hourly output of workers vs. the increase in hourly pay. This concept is described quite well in Chapter 6 of economist Ravi Batra’s book, “Greenspan’s Fraud.”

During times of true economic prosperity, wages have kept pace with productivity increases. Workers have shared in the benefits of their increased productivity. The result is that wages remained sufficient to purchase our nation’s industrial output. Borrowing, or debt-financed consumer spending, was unnecessary to maintain sufficient consumer spending to purchase our production. More production can be purchased because more wages are paid. Demand, created by wages, matches supply, which is created by productivity. This creates a balance that makes massive borrowing unnecessary. And such balance maximizes economic “growth.”

This balance has not been maintained, however, during recent years. It has worsened greatly under the Bush administration. Productivity has increased significantly during the Bush years. In contrast, wages have actually decreased. This trend started before Bush took office, but I’ll confine the time frame to December 2001 through March of 2005. These are years for which records are readily available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Below is a graph from the New York Times showing how productivity is outpacing wages

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/07/02/business/03cov1.graphic.gif

Starting in January of 2003, productivity (or output per hour) has increased 11.2% thru the 1st quarter of 2005. In contrast, hourly wages have declined 2.3% over the same time period, from an inflation-adjusted $8.32/hour in January, 2003, to $8.13/hour in June, 2005. Production has exceeded the ability of wage earners to purchase the production by 13.5%. This gap has been filled by consumer borrowing. The amount borrowed must steadily increase, in order to keep pace with our increasing industrial production. If it did not, our economy would sink into recession. However, maintaining demand through borrowing is not a sustainable path.

Statistics on Hourly Wages can be found at:
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=CES0500000049

Statistics on U.S. Productivity can be found at:
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=PRS85006092

Sometimes the effect of the wage-productivity gap can be seen better from a distance. An example of the effect of the wage-productivity gap can be seen with Japan’s economy. Again, this was described by economist Ravi Batra in Chapter 6 of his book, “Greenspan’s Fraud.” Dr. Batra makes a very compelling case that Japan’s economic problems resulted from the increasing gap between Japanese wages and productivity. I will paraphrase his explanation here.

Japan experienced extremely rapid growth between 1960 and 1975. During that time there was a 168% increase in per capita GDP. Their per capita GDP increased from $2,139 in 1960 to $5,750 in 1975. Real wages increased 217% during that time. Manufacturing productivity increased 264% during these 15 years. Japan prospered and its economy grew during this period because wages, which create demand, kept up with productivity, which creates supply. There was sufficient WAGE-FINANCED demand to stimulate production. And the necessary demand was maintained by consumer income, not consumer borrowing.

After 1975, productivity growth began to outpace wage growth. The result was a much slower growth in GDP. Between 1975 and 1990, productivity increased 3% more than wages per year. During that period, wages increased 27%, while productivity increased 86%. The per capita GDP increase was 64% from 1975 to 1990. Less of the wealth produced by Japanese workers was being shared with them. As a result, business profits soared, increasing money available for investment. This caused Japanese investors to over-invest in both the stock market and housing. Japanese stock markets and real estate values soared as a result of this over-investment. Meanwhile, there was insufficient wage-financed demand to keep up with this capital investment.This necessitated increased levels of borrowing to maintain the demand that wages could not maintain.

By 1990 there was a huge Japanese stock market bubble and real estate bubble. And in 1990 this overvaluation all came crashing down. The Japanese economy has still not recovered 15 years later. By 2003, the Japanese stock market was still 80% below its peak in 1990. From 1990 thru 2002, per capita GDP increased 13%. Compare that with the 168% increase between 1960 and 1975. Compare this latter 15-year increase with the 59% increase during the 27 years from 1975 to 2002. Japan’s per capita GDP increased 3 times as much during the 15 years prior to 1975, than it did during the 27 years after 1975. The pre-1975 rate of increase was 5 times faster than the post-1975 increase.

What caused this slowdown? The rise in the wage-productivity gap. Worker income that could have been put to good use buying Japanese goods was siphoned off as corporate profits. Since the benefits of investment capital are limited by consumer demand, the result was over-investment of Japanese stock and housing markets, and maintenance of consumer demand by borrowing.

Does this situation describe any other economy you can think of?

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Don’t let government build an obsolete stadium
by Kurt St. Angelo
@2005 Libertarian Writers’ Bureau

About 21 years ago I was one of the several thousand who publicly greeted then-owner Robert Irsay at the Hoosier Dome when he brought his Colts franchise to town.

It’s hard now to believe that the city of Indianapolis - with help of a county-wide hospitality tax granted by the state General Assembly and a generous $25 million grant from the Lilly Endowment - built an $82 million, 63,000-seat professional football stadium on pure speculation, without having a team to play in it.

Less than 13 years later, by the time it was politically acceptable to mention it, Colts’ owner Jim Irsay appeared on national television to call for a new publicly funded stadium. As then-chairman of the Libertarian Party of Marion County, I publicly denounced this idea. I asked how an $82 million public works project could become obsolete shortly more than a decade after it was built.

The straight and fundamental answer is that the RCA Dome was built by three entities that had no experience in the business of professional football: a local government, a state government and a tax-exempt foundation.

Why should we have expected anything but a no-frills building, one that had too few luxury suites and too few fancy club seats to turn an NFL team moderately profitable in the modern age?

Relying on the usual experts lacking imagination and foresight, government built a facility that was too small, and was neither expandable nor convertible. Worse, it tied the project to special interest groups, such as downtown parking-lot owners.

But the main problem with government-built stadiums like the RCA Dome is that no one is really accountable for the decisions once the stadiums turn out to be inappropriate. The William Hudnut administration, which built the Dome and brought the Colts to town, was long gone before the inadequacies of the facility become apparent.

For example, the RCA Dome has always been small by NFL standards. However, since adding extra luxury suites and club seats in 1998, the Dome is the NFL’s smallest with 57,500 seats.

Major League Baseball once considered Indianapolis in an expansion. However, due to lack of planning, it would have cost over $40 million to convert the RCA Dome to baseball. Later, MLB abandoned offering franchises to cities with indoor stadiums.

Game parking is inadequate and expensive around the RCA Dome. Event parking more than a mile from the Dome starts at $5. The Dome has no underground parking and very little parking revenue to share with an NFL team owner.

(To the credit of the Hudnut administration, the RCA Dome is modest. In real terms, it cost about as much as Conseco Fieldhouse, which holds over 17,000. Other than lacking adequate profit-enhancing amenities to keep NFL franchises happy, the Dome is a very functional stadium that is used 200-plus times per year, only 10 of which are for regularly-scheduled professional football games.)

Now Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson wants to relive the glory days of the Hudnut administration, but without that past administration’s modesty. If Peterson gets his way, taxpayers will spend over $500 million to build the NFL’s newest stadium, premiering in 2008.

In inflation-adjusted terms, that’s about three times the real expense of the ill-planned RCA Dome. The Colts have agreed to contribute only $100 million to the project, a third of which is in the form of a favorable NFL loan.

Indianapolis would be smarter to follow the recent lead of Washington. Last week by a 7-to-6 vote, Washington’s city council voted against the deal struck between Major League Baseball and Mayor Anthony Williams, which required the city to build a new $579 million stadium for the former Montreal Expos. Mayor Williams now has until June to find private financing for the other half of the stadium’s costs.

That’s the kind of deal the voters of Indianapolis should demand. Less government involvement in the city’s next stadium means less risk for taxpayers, better planning and less pressure to raise taxes. We should resist the temptation to let government build another obsolete stadium.

(Originally published December 21, 2004)

About the Author

Attorney, screenwriter and Libertarian Party activist in Indianapolis

In recent months we have engaged in many conversations with Americans and American Christians alike, on matters concerning the American Government, and its activities in the world today. On a universal level, those of the faith AND those who do not share our faith agree on one thing, and that is that none of what we have been saying here at 11th Hour for the last 24 months is actual fact, and that it is all “OUR opinion and OUR misinterpretation of George W’s policies and intentions”, purely speculation and our conjecture: no supportable facts”. The following article will summarily place that statement in the wastebasket… where it belongs. The document outlined in this article was inspired by the foreign policy guidance, drawn up by Dick Cheney and his colleagues in 1992, when he was secretary of defense for the Senior Bush’s administration. It is a documented fact that these men had sent letters to Bill Clinton and raved about these mandates that they felt were essential to America’s future. The Project for a New American Century, (so called), is an initiative of “The New Citizenship Project”, which is made up of a startling group of names, which will be mentioned here. It is absolutely sobering and even chilling when you read the process of world domination laid out in this document, when you consider the fact that the Men who wrote and endorse this document, are the very men who are in control of the White House, the Pentagon, and the Defense Dept! Let’s take a look at their motives and their intentions, how they have played out recently, and what we can expect from our government going forward…

The Project for a New American Century, henceforth designated PNAC, is for all intents and purposes, a foreign policy think tank. It’s Document, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” is, as the Declaration of Independence is to the existence of this country, The Declaration of the New World Order, which George Bush Sr. declared during his 1991 State of the Union Address. Any amount of time spent at their website will totally convince any honest reader, that the concepts and principles outlined in “Warfare Theology and the Coming 4th Reich”, “Patriotism in light of the Scriptures”, “The Gospel of Convenience” and “Just Lay it Down!” Articles on this site are true, and now verified, not buy OUR words, speculations, or assumptions, but right from the mouths of the men who NOW RUN THIS GOVERNMENT!

The PNAC’s Statement of Principles is written by, and bears the names of the following people: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Eliot A. Cohen, Dick Cheney, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz. You can also add to this list Richard Perle and Condoleezza Rice, who met with the core group about how to promote the principles of the War in Iraq - (the public version). When one considers that the names here, printed at the bottom of the “Statement of Principles” on the site reads like a who’s who in the George W. Bush Administration, and in American politics in the past decade, it makes complete sense that the current administration is carrying out the mandates of this document verbatim, to wit, an absolute adherence to every single feature in the document, the result being a conquest for world domination! I don’t care what anyone says, or how much criticism I take for it, the current activities of those in power, look more like the first horse of the apocalypse than anything ever witnessed on the world stage. (more on that later) There can no longer be any question in the heart of a Christian who reads this document, (Rebuilding America’s Defenses), about what the George W. Bush Administration is “up to”. This document was written by, and is supported by all those surrounding him, and make no mistake about it, THIS is the agenda of the George W. Bush administration, regardless of what idealistic or holy hat anyone may be trying to place on him, this document outlines a clear roadmap for the coming years! The fact that Cheney was ordered to re-write the document means little given the fact that Wolfowitz is here on this draft as well. The point being that what our leaders now say only became the case BECAUSE of the 911 attacks, we will prove here has been the case in this circle of men since 1992.

We will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the current American leadership had planned and prepared for the things that they would like us to believe they now had no choice but to do, in 1992!! The conquest of the middle east was planned and decided by these men over a decade ago, and they have waited patiently for the opertunity they now have, and you can bet they are going to SEIZE IT!

See the remainder of this Important Article here… http://www.11th-hour.info/Articles/Project_for_a_New_American_Century.html

About the author:

Frank is a writer for the 11th Hour web site. Our goal is to shed scriptural light on current events and world politics, as well as to stand up for the truth of God’s word in a time of Apostasy and betrayal of God’s word. The site url is http:/www.11th-hour.info