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Nearly 200 employees of the Crown II mine in Macoupin County have been laid off following the sale of the Freeman United Coal Mining Co., headquartered in Springfield.
Nearly 200 employees of the Crown II mine in Macoupin County have been laid off following the sale of the Freeman United Coal Mining Co., headquartered in Springfield.
The new owners say they plan to close Crown II, which is near Girard about 20 miles south of Springfield.
A new entity, the Springfield Coal Co., bought Crown II, along with the Crown III mine near Farmersville, from General Dynamics in a sale expected to be completed today (Friday). Freeman was a subsidiary of General Dynamics.
Terms of the sale, including the purchase price, are confidential, said Rob Dolittle, a General Dynamics spokesman.
Springfield Coal officials told United Mine Workers of America representatives Thursday that the coal market doesn't warrant keeping the Crown II mine open, so it will be closed today (Friday), according to Greg Mahan, president of the Crown II Local 1969 of the UMWA.
The layoffs include 175 miners and 17 other employees, he said.
Fewer than 25 miners will continue to be employed at Crown II for a limited time, moving equipment to nearby Crown III and doing other work, Mahan said. It's also possible, he said, that some Crown II miners could be called to work at Crown III.
"About 60 percent of the miners at Crown II are 50 years or older, and about 20 percent are between 35 and 45. The rest are between 19 and 24," said Mahan, who worked at Crown II for more than 30 years.
Crown III employs about 200 miners.
Springfield Coal Co. was apparently formed by a group of upper-level managers at Freeman. The company lists the same address and phone number as Freeman. A spokesman for Springfield Coal, Tom Austin, could not be reached for comment late Thursday.
As part of the transition of ownership, operations at both Crown II and Crown III were immediately suspended.
"Springfield Coal Co. will begin operations at the Crown III mine on Sept. 4. The Crown II mine will remain idle due to market conditions. Springfield Coal Co. will be headquartered in Springfield," a company press release said.
Saying it wanted to leave the coal mining business and focus on other operations, General Dynamics, a major defense contractor, put Crown II and Crown III on the market in December 2006. The two mines each produce about 2 million tons of coal annually, according to the Freeman Web site.
Mahan said members of Local 1969 will meet at 10 a.m. today (Friday) at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Virden to discuss the Crown II closure.
Debra Landis can be reached at (217) 483-4352.


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Noun that describes how much of an effective ingredient is contained in a dose of homeopathic medicine. An antonym to
megadose. If a megadose contains a billion molecules, a negadose contains one molecule. Contrary to certain claims, taking a negadose cannot consist of taking less than nothing.
There is no way that homeopathic remedy can work because the active ingredient has been diluted down to only one molecule, and such a negadose cannot possibly be effective.

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MRI, brain differences, and autism
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You may have read the news reports blaring the finding of an "autism test" that could lead to early and definitive diagnosis of autism. The new evaluation, which has proved worthy of its own name, the Lange-Lainhart test, uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to image brain areas to detect changes associated with autism.
I've been unable to find the complete paper, reported to have been published in Autism Research on Nov. 29; the journal has only papers through October available on its Website as of this writing. According to reports, however, the authors state that the new test was 94% accurate in identifying who was autistic and who wasn't among 60 males tested. The participants in the study were ages 8 to 26; 30 were diagnosed with what the researchers call "high-functioning autism," and 30 were typically developing.
The imaging technique the authors used involves tracing water diffusion along axons, the long connectors that link neurons to other neurons or tissues. This diffusion tensor imaging process yields an image that can highlight variations in the patterns of these connective pathways in different areas of the brain. This study focused on six brain areas associated with language, social, and emotional functioning, all of which are traditionally considered to be problematic among people with autism.
In the brains of non-autistic participants, the flow patterns were organized in a typical way that indicated connectivity among the brain regions. In the participants diagnosed with high-functioning autism, the flow was disorganized in a pattern common to the autistic group, indicating less connectivity and interaction and thus less exchange of information in the network. The researchers repeated the test on another, smaller set of participants, 12 with autism and 7 without, and produced similar results.
These findings imply that autistic brains may operate like a set of computer hardware components that cannot communicate very well with each other while still functioning perfectly well separately. There may be camera that captures a visual image without trouble or a microphone that captures a voice clearly, but the system lacks the network necessary to integrate the two inputs into a unified perception.
The news reports I've read on the study make a big deal out the prospect that this imaging breakthrough could lead to earlier diagnosis of autism, something that most experts believe is key to ameliorating some of its negative manifestations. But experts also urge the standard cautious optimism, and rightfully so.
For one thing, the participants in this study were ages 8 to 26, not within the time frame for early diagnosis of autism, and all of them were male. The study findings can't tell us whether their brains present with these differences as a result of developing with autism, or whether they have autism because their brains are built this way. Before there can be talk of "early diagnosis" and linking these changes to manifestations of autism, we'd need studies showing these differences in much younger children. Further, given the frequent findings of differences between males and females on the spectrum, investigations involving autistic girls and women are necessary.
This study is not the first to use imaging to identify distinctions between autistic and non-autistic people. Other studies have also done so, finding pattern variations in the neuronal tracts of children with autism compared to children without it, in critical areas relevant to the clinical symptoms of autism.
While I find these results intriguing, I note one thing that no one seems to have commented on. In the reports I've read about this study, the researchers observe that currently, the only way to diagnose autism is based on a symptom checklist, questionnaires, screenings, and so on—any autism parents reading this will know that drill—and the ultimate call relies on the expertise of the medical professional conducting the evaluations. The implication of these comments is that we need some better, more unequivocal, less-subjective methods of identifying autistic people.
Yet, presumably the autistic boys and men they used for this study were diagnosed using just such subjective evaluation, and their autism diagnoses appear to have been confirmed in 94% of cases by similarities of MRI findings. In my mind, this outcome suggests that the process of subjective evaluation seems to be working pretty well. Of course, we're a visual species and like our decisions to be given literally in black and white. Such MRI results may fulfill a need that has less to do with correct outcomes than it does with a dose of visual confirmation–and satisfaction.


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WASHINGTON — A leader of the group of Catholic nuns who are facing a crackdown from the Vatican said on Thursday that her members have no plans or desire to leave the church, or reconstitute their group beyond Vatican control.
Sister Mary Hughes, who ended a three-year term as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on Aug. 11, said there is little-to-no support to withdraw the LCWR from the church, where it could avoid a Vatican-order makeover.
"It is the deep desire of the membership to stay within the church and not move away from it," Hughes said at a luncheon at the National Press Club. "We derive our strength from the sacramental life of the church."
The Vatican has accused the LCWR, which represents about 80 percent of the nation's 56,000 Catholic sisters, of embracing strains of "radical feminism" and focusing on social justice at the expense of abortion and same-sex marriage. Hughes said her group is a leadership support group, not a "theological society."
"We don't see ourselves as a teaching arm of the church, nor is it our role to discuss church documents at our conferences," said Hughes, the prioress of the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville, N.Y.
When the LCWR met in St. Louis last week, the sisters said they wanted more dialogue with Rome, and Hughes said true dialogue is a two-way street. The sisters said they would reconsider their options if the LCWR "is forced to compromise the integrity of its mission." Hughes said it would be "premature" to speculate on the outcome of fresh talks between the LCWR and a panel of bishops headed by Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain.
Hughes said the nuns would resist any "effort to change us, to change the nature of who we are" by making them a mouthpiece for the bishops. The sisters, she said, are not interested in any attempts at "blind obedience" to the hierarchy.
"Real dialogue does not involve winners and losers; it's about a way in which we both get stretched," she said. "It's not defiance, it's wanting the church to be all that it can be. That prophetic voice will continue."
Kevin Eckstrom is Editor-in-Chief of Religion News Service. VIa RNS.
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There is a serious problem in the firewall in FREESCO v0.4.3 that only effects PPP connections. This bug allows world wide access to the web control panel, web server, FTP server, Print server, and SSH server even when set in "s" secure mode.
To repair this problem go into the setup package menu and check for patches. Then install "patches-043-1"
This bug ONLY effects dial-up and DSL connections where FREESCO is the primary login source.


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Cerverizzo Sets School Record in Conference Win
Farmingdale State - 12, Yeshiva - 0
New York, N.Y. - Farmingdale State freshman forward Katrina Cerverizzo (Center Moriches, N.Y./Center Moriches) set a school record with five goals in the Rams first conference game of the season against Yeshiva (. Farmingdale came away with a 12-0 shutout victory to improve to 2-2, 1-0 in the Skyline.
Cerverizzo opened the scoring in the 15th minute of play with the eventual game-winner, her second game-winning goal of the season, before teammates junior Jennifer Jung, Anna-Marie Rivera, Kelly LaRose each added goals in the first for a 4-0 lead at halftime. Freshman forward RoseMarie Petrofsky scored just 17 seconds into the second half, before Cerverizzo scored four of the Rams next seven goals, to lead her team to the 12-0 win.
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The highest judicial body in the United Arab Emirates, which has the seventh largest oil reserves in the world, borders on Saudi Arabia, and includes Dubai, says it's okay to beat your wife and young children…just don't leave a mark. Here's the short article about it from the Huffington Post:
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The UAE's highest judicial body says a man can beat his wife and young children as long as the beating leaves no physical marks.
The decision by the Federal Supreme Court shows the strong influence of Islamic law in the Emirates despite its international appeal in which foreign residents greatly outnumber the local population.
The court made the ruling earlier this month in the case of a man who left cuts and bruises on his wife and adult daughter after a beating.
It says the man was guilty of harming the women but noted that Islamic codes allow for "discipline" if no marks are left. It also says children who have reached "adulthood" – approximately puberty – cannot be struck.
The ruling was reported Monday in the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National.
You're probably feeling outraged, right? Of course. We live in a "civilized" society and can't imagine our Supreme Court saying it's okay for men to beat their wives and children as long as no physical mark is left on them. It is outrageous. Men are allowed to treat women and children in the UAE and in so many countries in the world however they please and women have few rights. And this is a RELIGION saying it is okay to "discipline" them if you don't leave marks. Is this really the way that God wants women and children to be treated?
We can sit here in moral outrage because this is Islam and somewhere far away, but these things happen right here in the United States and are sanctioned by Christianity (remember the verse about spare the rod, spoil the child?). I wrote a post called Kids in School: Getting an Education Plus a Beating about how school children in the United States are beaten with barbaric looking paddles in schools…and often for things as benign as being late to class or chewing gum. Corporal punishment of children by parents has been banned in 29 countries, including 22 in Europe, but is still legal in all 50 states in the United States. In our country, if a child has physical marks from being beaten and someone alerts social services, the parents may suffer some consequences, but if the parents are able to cover it up, they may get away with it.
So are we any better than the United Arab Emirates? We still legally condone children being beaten in schools in 21 states and at home in all 50 states and often these beatings leave horrible marks (even from school beatings) and cause children to be aggressive and to have psychological problems. This is legally-condoned assault on children. We have a culture where people are becoming more aware of the horrors that women suffer when they are beaten by husbands or boyfriends, but still men crack jokes about "slapping her around" to friends.
When will women and children in the United States and around the world really be treated equally? Why aren't they now? Men overwhelmingly make and enforce laws in our country and in other countries. We need more men to stand for and with women and children and protect them. No schoolteacher, husband, boyfriend, father, or any man has a right to hit a child or woman. Women and children don't need to be "disciplined" through hitting; they need to be loved.


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Found! Tucked-away Aromas worth the hunt
Dish just returned from a weekend on the Northern Neck (that little sliver of land between the Rappahannock and Potomoc rivers), where it took a lot more than a good map to find the best crab cakes, fried oysters, or barbecue sandwich. Eager to keep the hunt alive and exercise my developing navigational skills, I set out this week to finally find Aroma's Café.
Friends have been urging me to visit this mysterious Mediterranean café located in the cafeteria of a Department of Forestry building somewhere deep in the Fontaine Research Park. A few (pathetic, I admit) attempts over the years proved futile. This time, however, I wouldn't take no for an answer. Besides, it was lunchtime, and my stomach was already on the growl.
Since it's in a state-owned building in a UVA-owned medical park, Aroma's can display no signs. To get there, you must enter the Fontaine Research Park (off Fontaine Ave), turn right, and follow Natural Resources Drive up the hill until you see a sizeable one-story brick building on your left. On the day of my hunt, the visitors' parking lot out front was eerily empty. This doesn't look right, I thought to myself. But an "Aroma's" sandwich board near the door gave me the confidence to park and go inside.
Turning left down the silent entry corridor, I discovered a basic cafeteria– with an almost surreal Moroccan twist. Instead of meatloaf and macaroni, the glass case in the self-service line revealed platters of blackened eggplant, mounds of golden couscous, piles of pita, and triangles of glistening baklava. Presiding over the scene– which included a half-dozen people in the order line and about 15-20 in-the-know others scattered about the seemingly vast dining room– was chef-owner Hassan Kaisoum.
"My pleasure, it's a pleasure to have you here," he kept repeating as he quickly moved from table to table, pouring iced tea and serving and clearing plates of chicken schwarma with spicy habiba sauce, sandwiches like his famous El Morocco, feta-dressed salads, and bowls of homemade soup.
I spotted Christian Tamm, owner of Christian's Pizza, at a nearby table.
"This place is an example of how the owner's personality is the business," he observed. "People come here for Hassan as much as for his food."
"Hassan is open and demonstrative," says new sous-chef Keahi Lum Ho. "You know his principles right up front– plus he's a wizard with spices."
Born in Morocco and trained in France and San Francisco, Kaisoum moved to Charlottesville– via Morocco, France, San Francisco, Portland and Maui– with his family eight years ago.
"I vowed to my family to never work full-time restaurant hours again," he said. The cafeteria, which had been closed down for weeks when he discovered it by accident one day, turned out to be an ideal location.
"Everyone thought I was crazy opening here," he said, "but then people tasted my food, and they came back."
Adding to its allure, Aroma's opens only for weekday lunches from 11:30-2. But the kitchen stays busy all week as the home base for Aroma's Catering.
Secrets can stay hidden for only so long– especially when there's good food and a vibrant personality involved. In fact, Kaisoum told Dish he has already found a higher-profile location for Aroma's Café #2. He wasn't able to reveal the exact location, but confirmed that it's not on the Downtown Mall or The Corner.
Though it will have the same Mediterranean menu, the new café will have more generous hours– 8am-5pm– and will be reminiscent of a Parisian café with house-made breakfast pastries and coffees. Kaisoum is also in the final phases of bottling and going wholesale with his all-natural sauces and dressings.
"This isn't work, it's play," he says.
Hassan Kaisoum and Keahi Lum Ho at Aroma's Café


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Connecting to any available USB port, the CoolFan acts as a laptop stand with a difference. When your laptop is sat on top, the concave design allows air to freely circulate beneath the chassis and push warm air out to the sides, while the angled stand puts your keyboard at a more natural typing position.
Rubber grips keep your laptop fixed firmly to the stand but, unfortunately, no such support fixes the stand to your desktop. Although some users may be put off by the slight noise that the fan generates, this is nevertheless a unique and functional cooling system.


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The Chicago-based band Smith Westerns was on stage when the structure collapsed around them during a storm as they performed at the Pukkelpop Festival in Hasselt, Belgium on Thursday.
The five members of the band were not injured in the collapse, but published reports indicate that at least 3 people were killed and 70 injured.
"Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the tress. I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our [expletive] is broke," Smith Westerns frontman Cullen Omori said on Twitter, according to Billboard.com.
Omori quickly deleted the message when the extent of the damage began to emerge.
"Apologize to anyone who mistook tweet. Wrote direclty [sic] after running off stage. Just found out the extent of damage. All of prays go out," the band wrote.
Paige James, the mother of 20-year-old drummer Hal James, said she was told the band was back in their hotel and "considerably shaken."
"Their equipment was destroyed," she said, but added she was "very, very grateful that our children weren't hurt."
She said she was feeling a great deal of compassion for those who were injured and killed in the accident.
The stage collapse comes less than one week after a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during a storm, killing five people.
A little more than a month ago, another stage collapsed during the Ottawa Bluesfest in Ontario while Cheap Trick was performing.
The frequency of the incidents were not lost on James.
"Obviously I'm concerned in general, especially after Indiana. It all just seems ridiculous," she said. "Something's going wrong somewhere."
Smith Westerns recently performed during Lollapalooza and were in the midst of a European tour.
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I have been wanting to make this for months. I have put it off and put if off either because I was homeless or because I didn't have all the ingredients or because the apartment fire alarm got pulled.
But I finally did the damn thang.
I was inspired by a mix of Heather's mac and cheese and Mae's humnut sauce, but I took it to the next level.
I mixed vegan with cheese.
I blended vegetarian with beef.
I dumped truffled salt upon healthy.
I crumbled carb onto low carb.
And it was good.
This might just be my favorite dinner. And it is healthy, despite all the jokes I am making about it. Two people could split the entire pan and walk away without a tinge of guilt. We certainly did…
"I had no idea healthy food could taste this good." – Emily's father
"OMG, Im sending a mass text out to the girls about this dinner." – Emily
Recipe: Serves 2-3
Bake 1 medium spaghetti squash at 390 for 35 minutes.
In the mean time, mix together 1/4 cup hummus with 2 heaping tbsps of nutritional yeast. Thin with 2 tbsps water and stir. Then add about 1 to 1.5 ounces of fontina cheese and a large splash of milk. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, and microwave again. Sprinkle in some truffled sea salt and stir until it is mostly smooth. This is your cheese sauce.
Saute 6 ounces of extra lean ground beef in a skillet until it is just thoroughly cooked. Set aside.
When the squash is done, scrape out the noodles into a large mixing bowl. Add in half a can of drained peas and the beef. Stir in lots of truffle salt. Pour in half of the cheese sauce and stir again.
Grease a casserole dish and pour in the squash mixture. Evenly spread the top with the rest of the cheese mixture.
Sprinkle 1/4 cup whole wheat breadcrumbs over the top and bake at 400 for a couple minutes. Turn up the heat to broil for 2 minutes to finish it off. To serve, sprinkle with more truffled sea salt!
Please make this soon, I promise you will not regret it. And you can easily vegetarianize or veganize it! Just nix the obvious ingredients and double up on the others.
Spaghetti squash * Contains vitamin C, thiamin, niacin, B6, and lots of fiber!
Lean beef * A lot of people look down upon beef because they think it is bad for their health. However, beef is actually very good for you as long as you buy lean cuts (I buy 95% lean) and limit your consumption to a couple times a week. I didn't used to eat red meat very often, but when I found out I was iron deficient, I started eating it at least 1-2 times a week. I have felt much better since! Lean beef is a great source of iron, B vitamins, and protein.


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Using and Creating GoLive Text Macros
- Using and Creating Text Macros
- Inserting a Text Macro into Your Source Code
- Defining Text Macros
- Creating New Macros
- Calling a Macro from Within a Macro
- Modifications
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
-Albert Einstein
Using and Creating Text Macros
Did you know that GoLive has built-in text macros for automating repetitive text entry? Did you know that you can also create your own customized text macros in GoLive? This is one of the best timesaving features in GoLive and definitely one of my favorites. You'll be amazed at all this functionality sitting there deep inside the program. This project shows you how to use, create, and get the most out of your text macros.
Project 1: Using and Creating Text Macros
by Paul Vachier
Getting Started
This project illustrates the use, creation, and advanced customization of text macros that automatically enter repetitive info, in this case company e-mail addresses. I've worked for a couple of large companies where I was constantly inputting employees' email addresses into the web site. In addition to having to look them up all the time, typing them all out was a time waster. Setting up some macros to automatically enter the information can be a great time saver. After finishing this project, you'll have some even better ideas on what to do with text macros; this project is just the tip of the iceberg.


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Red Sox - 101 100 000 - 3 8 0 Yankees - 301 200 04x - 10 10 0The Red Sox's offense was limited to three solo home runs, which was not nearly enough firepower to offset the Yankees' team attack. Seven of the nine Yankees collected a hit, and six of them either scored or drove in a run.
Raul Ibanez's two-run homer capped a three-run first. Mark Teixeira's sacrifice fly in the third brought home Derek Jeter, who began the inning with a single. Russell Martin hit a two-run bomb in the fourth, closing the book on Cook (4-7-6-1-1, 65).
Curtis Granderson belted a grand slam in the eighth off Mark Melancon. Granderson ended the night 3-for-5; he also doubled and scored in the first inning.
Dustin Pedroia went deep with two outs in the first inning, giving Boston a short-lived 1-0 lead. Adrian Gonzalez singled and Cody Ross hit a ground-rule double to right center, but Jarrod Saltalamacchia struck out on three pitches to end the threat.
Carl Crawford hit his first dong of the year in the third, and Salty went deep in the fourth. Except for those two home runs, Boston had only one baserunner advance past first over the final eight innings - and that happened with two outs in the ninth.
Aaron Cook / Phil Hughes
Ellsbury, CFHughes faced Boston in the second game of the July 7 doubleheader, going 5.1 innings and allowing 10 hits and five runs. In each of his last two outings, Hughes has pitched at least seven innings and allowed only two runs. In nine starts since the beginning of June, he has a 2.77 ERA. In his last five starts, it's 2.25.
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After a dismal debut against the Orioles, and since coming off the disabled list, Cook has put up a sterling 2.16 ERA in five starts.
This will be Ichiro Suzuki's first home game as a Yankee. Speaking about the rivalry, he said:
Just a few days ago, I wouldn't even think about being in that situation, that I would be wearing this uniform, playing against the Red Sox. ... When I watch it, sometimes I thought it's like a fight -- not in the real sense of them actually fighting, but really, a physical, fighting atmosphere.The Yankees will be without Alex Rodriguez, who suffered a non-displaced fracture on his left hand on Tuesday night, thanks to a Felix Hernandez pitch.
The Red Sox are 49-50, 10.5 GB the Yankees in the East and 4.5 GB in the wild cards race. (Boston is 1-5 against the Yankees this season.) Dustin Pedroia: "Every game is crucial. We're at a point now where we need to win. That's basically it. It doesn't matter who we're playing."


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|Przeklęte Pieczęcie Czwórki Dźwięku
|Sound Four's Cursed Seals
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Each member of the Sound Four uses a cursed seal. Their seals, however, are not as powerful as the Heaven and Earth seals, although they have similar end results.
Like all cursed seals, each of them forcefully draws the user's chakra while feeding back senjutsu chakra in return, giving each individual a unique transformation and attribute boost, and receives increased chakra levels, physical capabilities and their ninjutsu skills become more effective when the seal is active. Jirobo stated that utilsing the second stage of the Cursed Seal makes them ten times more powerful than before. However, Sakon comments that after using their cursed seal's second level and coming out of it, they lose a lot of energy.
Later, in Part II of the anime, it was revealed that Orochimaru enhanced the power of their cursed seals, giving them the ability to use the Space–Time Technique Formula: Underworld Turnover, a technique capable of trapping the souls of the user and the victim within an untraceable barrier, to fight with little to no interference. The technique however, would result in the user's death. In the cases of the Sound Four, who were reincarnated, they were able to survive the usage of this technique, though their souls returned to the Pure Land when the barrier was broken.
Jirōbō's cursed seal is the only one not seen before it is activated. However, the pattern that spreads during its first state are like chains of triangular arrows. When the second level of his seal is active, his skin turns maroon, his hair grows longer, and he also grows warts on his forehead and shoulders. He most greatly resembles an ogre in this form. He claims his strength increases ten times, to the point where he can single-handedly lift a gigantic Chōji Akimichi.
Kidōmaru's cursed seal, seen only in the anime, is formed like a hook (placed with the sharp end down) with two tags at the end of the upper part. When the second level of his seal is active, his skin turns deep red, his hair grows longer and turns a light greyish colour, and he grows horns on his forehead and his elbows. He becomes more spider-like, almost oni-like in appearance in this form. By opening the third eye on his forehead, his accuracy increases to the point of pinpointing Neji's Byakugan blind spot from a distance of over 50 metres. This increase in strength and precision allowed him to use the destructive archery technique, Spider War Bow: Terrible Split.
Sakon i Ukon
Sakon and Ukon both have the same type of cursed seal, which consists of three circular dots placed like a triangular shape on their foreheads. When the second level of their seals are active, they resemble goblins with red skin, longer hair, a single horn (on opposite sides for each brother), and can grow black armour from their bodies (from the side where they separate). They can also extend their fusing abilities to someone other than each other, and tear their opponents apart on a cellular level.
Tayuya's cursed seal consists of three hooks, similar to a triskelion on the back of her neck. When the second level of her seal is active, her hair grows longer, she grows five oddly-placed horns on her head, slightly resembling a crown, and her skin turns dark brown. The horns grow when she exerts herself. Her strength increases, to the point of breaking free of the Shadow Imitation Technique.
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- The Sound Four are playable characters in Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4, but they only appear with the Second Stage of the Cursed Seal.
- The Sound Four are playable in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4, and Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5 with both their normal and cursed seal forms.


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LEE — Voters will have the opportunity to decide on the addition of a race car driving school, the purchase of a new police cruiser and the development of a general purpose recreational field at Little River Park at Town Meeting in March after warrant articles were amended and approved for the voting ballot during Saturday's deliberative session.
Drawing most discussion and deliberation was Article 3, an ordinance pertaining to the operation of a race car driving school at Lee Speedway, whom throughout the discussion, Board of Selectmen chair John LaCourse described as being a good partner with the town and a business with the right to try to enhance and expand its operations.
Concern over noise, which is not to exceed 97 decibels at property lines of residences near the track, was the priority that prompted four proposed amendments. Included now in the language of the article is regulation 21B which gives the town the right to make noise measurements of the track during races, which are considered an "event" under the ordinance.
Article 3 petitioned voters to amend the ordinance so as to allow for the school without considering the driving school sessions an "event." Currently, Lee Speedway is allowed 23 events between April and October. The driving school would allow 28 sessions no more than four times per month between those same months and allow no more than four NASCAR-like stock vehicles on the track between the hours of 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Another amendment that did pass for the operation of the driving school in addition to being able to monitor the noise level is wording to prohibit the school from operating on weekends.
To bring the race car driving school under the requirements of the original ordinance, counting the driving school sessions as events and essentially making the amendment a moot point, Anne Wright proposed an amendment followed by a revised version that was ultimately denied by those at the deliberative session.
Lee Speedway owner John MacDonald said the driving school would not come anywhere near the level of noise making created by the 70 to 100 cars operating during Friday night races and that this option is a way to generate revenue with the business in order to be able to pay taxes on the property.
"We're just looking for more income, which we've never been able to have except for 23 days per year," he said, emphasizing that the goal is not to create more noise in the area.
"We just need a little bit of help here," he said.
Speaking on behalf of article 7 asking voters whether they are in favor of raising and appropriating $27,964 for a new police cruiser and change over of radio and safety equipment, Police Chief Chet Murch said a new cruiser would help ensure the safe and efficient response of officers in the department.
He said one of the biggest liabilities for the town is the operation of a police cruiser and the 2008 Crown Victoria that would be auctioned off and replaced is due to go.
"These cars are beat by the time they're done," he said, noting that they aren't used in the best situations and are in use 24/7.
Asked how much a recently auctioned off 2007 Crown Victoria from the department sold for, he said the amount was just $751.
Growing a grassy field at Little River Park for recreational use by the towns residents and their children drew nearly as much deliberation as the race car driving school with speakers debating over whether the amount requested through Article 6, $80,000, should be amended to $183,000 for the development of a more competitive and professional field spanning 100,000 square feet. This proposed amendment was ultimately declined.
LaCourse argued that a more competitive type field would be not only more money to develop, but also to maintain and that what was needed in the town now is somewhere "our children can get out there to throw a ball around" without suiting up for a competitive game.
The $80,000 includes a finished field with an irrigation system in place.
With so many farmers and growers already calling the town home, Selectman David Cedarholm said those resources would be tapped as well.
"The Board of Selectmen feel pretty confident that we can grow some grass," he said.
Currently, there is no definite plan in place for any field, but Cedarholm said that perhaps a more competitive field would be something the town does after this one.
Recreation Commission chairman Bill Sanborn said he was concerned with no competitive field being built the commission would get negative feedback for the creation of a lesser-quality field.
Article 4, which increased the town's operating budget by 1.8 percent to $3,525,365 from last year's $3,495,183, was amended and sent to ballot to include cost of living allotments for all full time and regular part time employees and elected officials except for the selectmen and town administrator totaling $30,387.
"Our people do a fine job, they come in rain or shine," LaCourse said, adding that the town has been "stingy" in this department for some time.
That amendment was met with wide support.
To review a list of the seven warrant articles that will be presented on the March 12 ballot on Town Meeting day, visit, www.leenh.org. Voting will take place at the Public Safety Complex on George Bennett Road from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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Perhaps sensing that this year's Comic-Con lacked a breakout, "this once friendly festival now teeters on the edge of chaos" story like last year's stabbing incident, The Amazing Spider-Man star Rhys Ifans did his best to bring some danger to the proceedings by getting himself arrested over the weekend. Or rather, getting himself briefly detained and then cited with a ticket, an amelioration that speaks to just how boringly safe and well-organized and fun Comic-Con seemed to be this year.
The Wrap at least tried to make the incident sound interesting in its initial report, which said that when Ifans arrived for the Spider-Man panel, he "smelled of alcohol," and that later he "became irate when a member of his entourage was unable to enter the hall for lack of proper credentialing" after they stepped out for a smoke. Ifans then reportedly shoved aside a female security guard, acted "aggressive and belligerent," and also, apparently, insulted the United States of America: "According to him, the U.S. sucks and he doesn't want to come back," a member of the security staff said, as Ifans clearly hates our freedom to limit smoking to designated areas, and require badges for backstage entry at conventions.
But before this story of Ifans' charges of misdemeanor battery and felonious America-bashing could escalate into an international incident, Sony issued a statement denying that Ifans was arrested, clarifying that he was simply issued a citation, and saying that Ifans "deeply regrets this incident." Notably, there was no mention of Ifans' opinion on America's suckitude, which just seems like viral marketing for his Spider-Man role anyway.


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For those readers who have previously not seen Andrew's writing on my case, I reprint below those sections of the Mitrokhin Archive (1999) that refer to me.
Cold war operations against Britain
[page 550]
The most important British S&T agent recruited during the decade after operation FOOT was, almost certainly, Michael John Smith (codenamed BORG), a Communist electronics engineer. (35) The secretary of the Surrey Communist Party in the early 1970s, Richard Geldart, recalls Smith as an 'out-and-out Tankie' - a hardline supporter of the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks: 'Not to put too fine a point on it, he was the total nerd. There was socializing going on, but he was not part of it.' (36) A Line X officer at the London residency, Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko (codenamed OZEROV), made initial contact with Smith in a pub near Smith's flat at Kingston upon Thames after a trade union meeting held in May 1975 before the referendum on British membership of the EEC. On instructions from Oshchenko, Smith left the Communist Party, ceased trade union activity, became a regular reader of the Daily Telegraph, joined a local tennis club and - as his operational file quaintly puts it - 'endeavoured to display his loyalty to the authorities'.
35. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.
36. John Steele, '25 Years for the Spy Who Stayed in the Cold', Daily Telegraph (18 November 1993).
In July 1976, helped by bureaucratic confusion in MI5, caused by the remarkable coincidence that the Surrey Communist Party contained another Michael John Smith, he gained a job as a test engineer in the quality assurance department of Thorn-EMI Defence Electronics at Feltham, Middlesex. Within a year he was working on the top secret project XN-7I5, developing and testing radar fuses for Britain's freefall nuclear bomb. (37) The KGB passed the documents on project XN-7I5 provided by Smith to N. V. Serebrov and other nuclear weapons specialists at a secret Soviet military research institute codenamed Enterprise G-4598, who succeeded in building a replica of the British radar fuse. Smith's intelligence, however, seemed too good to be true. Serebrov and his colleagues were puzzled as to how Smith had been able to obtain the radio frequency on which the detonator was to
[page 551]
operate. This information, they believed, was so sensitive that it should not have appeared even in the top secret documents on the design and operation of the detonator to which Smith had access. Armed with a knowledge of the radio frequency, Soviet forces would be able to create radio interference which could prevent the detonator from operating. One possibility which occurred to the specialists was that the frequency supplied by Smith might be merely a test frequency which would not be used in actual military operations. But they remained suspicious of the extent of the detailed highly classified information which Smith had been able to supply. (38)
37. Report of the Security Commission (Cmnd 2930) (July 1995), chs. 2-4.
38. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.
The Centre also seems to have been suspicious of the ease and speed with which a well-known pro-Soviet Communist had been able to gain access to one of Britain's most highly classified nuclear secrets so soon after going through the motions of leaving the Party and switching from the Morning Star to the Daily Telegraph. Its suspicions that Smith's intelligence on the radar fuse might have been a sophisticated deception seem to have strengthened when he told his controller in 1978 that he had lost his security clearance and, for the time being, could no longer provide classified information. (Though Smith did not realize it at the time, MI5 had discovered its earlier error and secretly informed Thorn-EMI of Smith's Communist past.) (39)
39. On the information about Smith passed by Ml5 to EMI in 1978, see 'Phone Call that Trapped a Spy', Independent (19 November 1993).
To try to resolve its doubts the Centre devised a series of tests to check Smith's reliability. The first test, which Smith seems to have passed, was to remove two packets of secret material from a dead letter-box in Spain. The second, more elaborate check on Smith, personally approved by Andropov and termed in KGB jargon 'a psycho-physiological test using a non-contact polygraph', was conducted in Vienna in August 1979 by Boris Konstantinovich Stalnov and two OT (operational-technical support) officers. Stalnov began with a brief prepared speech, duly entered in Smith's file:
I am personally satisfied with the way things are going and with our mutual relations and I am therefore extremely glad to congratulate you. From today you are a full member of our organization. This means that the organization will take care of you. Believe me, you will have gained friends who are ready to come to your help in any circumstances. Your participation and help to the organization will be duly recognized. The organization is based on two principles: voluntary participation and sincerity.
The first means that, having joined the organization of your own free will,
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you may leave it at any time if you think it necessary, without any [adverse] consequences for yourself, provided you give prior notice.
As for the second principle, sincerity, you must inform us of all details which directly or indirectly affect the interests of our organization. This is understandable as the security of both sides depends on it. Joining the organization is also in a certain sense a formal act. In connection with this I am required to put a number of questions to you. I regard this as a pure formality. You should do the same.
It will simplify the task and save time if you simply answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Smith was then asked over 120 questions and his replies secretly recorded. Subsequent analysis of the recording and Smith's response to each question persuaded the Centre - doubtless to its immense relief - that he was not, as it had thought possible, engaged in a grand deception orchestrated by British intelligence. Though Smith had been led to suppose that the 'psycho-physiological test' was a routine formality, it had never been used before by the KGB outside the Soviet Union. The Centre was so pleased with its success that it decided to use the same method to check other agents. It none the less decided to give Smith a third (and apparently final) test of his 'sincerity' by instructing him to remove a container holding two rolls of film from a DLB in the Paris suburbs and to deliver it to a KGB officer in Lisbon. (40) The KGB would doubtless have been able to detect any attempt by Smith or another intelligence agency to open the container.
40. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.
From 1979 onwards Smith was paid a 3oo-pound monthly retainer by the KGB. His file also records additional payments for documents supplied by him of 1,600 pounds, 750 pounds, 400 pounds and 2,000 pounds. Though Mitrokhin's notes do not record the dates of these payments, they probably relate chiefly to Smith's two years in Thorn-EMI Defence Electronics. (41) The excitement of working for the KGB, copying highly classified documents, emptying DLBs and going to secret assignations with his case officers in foreign capitals seems to have rescued Smith from his earlier existence as a 'total nerd'. A hint of the exotic began to enliven a previously drab lifestyle. In 1979 he got married, took up flamenco dancing, began experimenting with Spanish and Mexican cuisine, and gave dinner parties at which guests were served his home-made wine. (42)
41. The Security Commission later concluded that Smith had held on to some of the classified documents he had obtained at Thorn-EMI and given them to the KGB some time after he lost his security access in 1978. One or more of the payments recorded in his file may thus refer to a period after his loss of access. Since Mitrokhin's notes end in 1984, the details of KGB payments to Smith cannot refer to his later years as a Soviet agent.
42. ' "Boring" Idealist Who Spied for Russia Gets 25 Years', The Times (19 November 1993).
Smith was so taken with his life as a secret agent that he made strenuous efforts to recover the security clearance he had lost in 1978,
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even drafting a personal appeal two years later to Margaret Thatcher to intercede on his behalf. 'There is a cloud over me which I cannot dispel,' he complained to the Prime Minister. 'I have been wrongly suspected and have lost my position most unjustly.' Though Smith seems never to have posted his letter to Mrs Thatcher, in June 1980 he succeeded in putting his case to an MI5 officer. Smith began by denying that he had ever been a Communist, was confronted with evidence that he had, then apologized for lying and said he had joined the Party only to find a girlfriend. (43) Amazingly, Smith's campaign to recover his security clearance survived even this setback. More amazingly still, a few years later it succeeded. (44)
43. Report of the Security Commission (Cmnd 2930) (July 1995), pp. 8-9. 'Dear Maggie, Please Let Me Spy for the KGB!', Daily Mirror (21 September 1993). Laurence Donegan and Richard Norton-Taylor, 'Spy Who Slipped Through the Net', Guardian (19 November 1993).
44. See below, p. 568.
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The greatest known success of KGB operations in Britain during the Gorbachev era was the reactivation of Michael Smith, probably the most important British Line X agent since the retirement of Norwood.
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When Mitrokhin last saw Smith's file in 1984, he had been trying for six years without success to recover the security clearance which had made him such a valuable agent in the Thorn-EMI Weapons Division in 1976-8. By now, the Centre was close to writing him off. The last contact with Smith noted on his file was in March 1983. In 1984 it was decided to put him 'on ice' for the next three years. (111) In December 1985, however, Smith was taken on as a quality assurance engineer by the GEC Hirst Research Centre at Wembley, in north-west London, where seven months later he was given limited security clearance for defence contracts on a need-to-know basis. (112)
111. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 12.
112. Report of the Security Commission (Cmnd 2930) (July 1995), p. 10.
In 1990 Line X at the London residency renewed contact with Smith, arranging meetings either in the graveyard of the church of St Mary at Harrow on the Hill or in the nearby Roxeth recreation park at South Harrow. Security procedures were devised at each site to warn Smith if it was under surveillance. At St Mary's church he was told to look for a white chalk line on the vicarage wall near a fire hydrant. If the line was uncrossed, it was safe for him to enter the graveyard. He was also told to look at the church noticeboard. A small green dot, usually on a drawing pin, indicated that the meeting with his case officer was still on; a red dot was a warning to leave immediately. Though Smith had originally been an ideological agent, his motives had become increasingly mercenary. At meetings between 1990 and 1992 he was given a total of over 20,000 pounds for material from GEC defence projects, some of which he spent on an expensive flamenco guitar, a musical keyboard and computer equipment. Smith became increasingly confident and careless. When he was arrested in August 1992, the police found documents on the Rapier ground-to-air missile system and Surface Acoustic Wave military radar technology in a Sainsbury's carrier bag in the boot of his Datsun. (113)
113. Report of the Security Commission (Cmnd 2930) (July 1995), pp. 13-14, 32-3. 'Phone Call Hoax that Trapped a Spy', Independent (19 November 1993); 'Vital Clues to a Traitor', Daily Mail (19 November 1993).
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The conclusion of the Cold War, so far from ending Russian S&T operations in the West, created new Line X opportunities through the expansion of East-West scientific exchanges and business joint ventures, which the SVR was eager to exploit. The reactivation in the early 1990s of the leading British Line X agent Michael Smith was one sign among many of the continued priority given to S&T collection in the Yeltsin era. (49)
49. vol. 7, ch. 14, item 14.


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first off, who did you vote for today!? did you vote? if you didn't here's my pole:
I had an incredibly awesome experience as an American voter in these last couple days. Last night, I had the chance to sit down on go over all of the candidates, all of the props and all of the issues. It has been a simply fantastic time, personally, to regain a love for this country and it's possibilities. It's been awesome to discuss with friends, families, pastors, right, left, moderates and more on what it means to be American.
The thing that I've most appreciated are the dialogues I've been able to have on what it means to be Kingdom Agents in America. I've sensed that a fundamental responsibility I have as a Christ follower is to vote through a Kingdom lens and to be a Kingdom agent with how I struck the ballot today.
I've personally had HUNDREDS of dialogues on this stuff and some of my favorite ones with Promise, Chip and Amy Neal, my brother, my co-workers and those of you who read my blog. As Chip and I prayed this morning, after we voted, at the end of the day God is still God and His sovereign plan is still coming regardless of who's gonna sleep in The White House for the next 4 years. What a hope we have in Jesus and we do have a responsibility to reflect Him well, if we claim to be following Him, as we go to the Polls today.
The last thing is that I, honestly, for the first time in awhile, just felt so proud to be an American (can you hear the song just caressing your ears…hahahah?!). The above picture is of the line I stood in at 5:45am this morning with a bunch of excited Americans that were ready to vote. It was awesome! I love that we can actually be a voice for the Kingdom in how we vote. I love that I can discuss, agree and disagree openly and honestly. I love that we are FREE. How liberating. Be proud today and high five someone and just say 'WOO-HOO, America'. hahaha. Is anyone else feeling me on this one?! It is such a blessing to live in this country!!??
Thanks to all of you that read this blog and interact on it and I hope to further be a source of great dialogue that challenges us to think deeply and respond carefully! it's a lot of fun. I'd love to hear your experience through this process and how you felt today.


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Kleiner Perkins partner, Matt Murphy, who now sits on the board of Westboro's SimpliVity after leading a September 2012 $25 million investment in the company, says its CEO, Doron Kempel, is "an execution machine."
In an October 25 interview, Mr. Kempel described a complex system he has created to make sure SimpliVity can turn its mission into effective action. Without getting into all the details – some of which will appear in a November 4 column – Mr. Kempel operates on six key principles of effective execution.
1. Match the company's strengths to its mission.
It is crucial that what a company is good at doing matches its mission. For example, if a company's mission is to win in a highly competitive market, it must be able to build, sell and support a technologically superior product and persuade customers and the market of that superiority.
The lesson from this principle is that your company must have a clear mission and unless you have the skills needed to turn that mission into effective action – the mission is not worth a hill of beans.
2. Hire people who buy into a company's norms.
A company should hire people who are good at those skills and who must act in a way that is consistent with the company's norms. SimpliVity seeks people with self-discipline, who are process-driven, results-oriented, and imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit – traits Mr. Kempel defines in much greater detail.
This means that your company must hire people with skills and style. The skills should be specific functional abilities that they have developed through training and work experience. But beyond that, hire people who have proven that they behave according to the values that you think are important. Otherwise, you'll end up having to manage those misfits out of your company.
3. Let the best ideas win.
Managers must encourage debates about ideas and let the best, fact-supported thinking win. Mr. Kempel makes roles and responsibilities clear, but minimizes hierarchy, a value he reinforces by occupying a cube, rather than an office.
When Mr. Kempel gives a presentation to his people, he expects them to share their skepticism and voice their opinions. If not, he encourages them to do that afterwards during a Post Activity Review (PAR). His goal is to reinforce risk taking and to depersonalize failure – using it as an opportunity to learn and improve.
For your company, this means that unless you are seriously committed to the best ideas – rather than turning your organization into an echo chamber for the CEO's pronouncements – your company will fall ever further behind competitors who commit to continuous improvement.
4. Motivate the right operating style.
Mr. Kempel uses a quarterly Alignment By Objective (ABO) process to reinforce behavioral norms that can account for 10 percent to 15 percent of a person's bonus. For example, a manager might have an ABO related to communication.
Mr. Kempel gave the example of a team member who wanted to learn how to disagree with her manager. He influenced her and her manager to assume ABO quarterly goals – for his part, "the manager would encourage her and she would express at least three unpopular views per quarter."
The lesson here is that a company will get more out of its people if it respects their views. If you want to change the way managers interact with team members, the ABO process that Mr. Kempel described can be a powerful tool for developing managers who bring out the best in their people.
5. Make action item tracking the company's life blood.
Mr. Kempel believes that Simplivity must keep track of the tasks people must complete to achieve the company's mission -- what he calls "action item accountability."
An action item is a team member's specific, measurable, time-stamped goal that she agrees on with her manager. SimpliVity trains managers how to define and track them. After all "if action items are not recorded, tracked and measured, our whole spirit of execution will be undermined," explained Mr. Kempel.
He and his managers use an "action item log" to keep track of whether the goal was achieved, on time and as specified – and what the company "learned from deviations."
Without such an obsessive focus on tracking the achievement of goals, your company is likely to slip behind those that do.
6. Lead by example.
Despite all the processes, nothing is more compelling than the power of leaders to influence others through their actions. "In 35 years of leadership and management -- in sports, military and business - I have seen no substitute for leadership by example. If the managers and leaders do not live, breathe and exemplify the norms, then the execution system will fail," Mr. Kempel said.
The lesson here is that if the formal execution process constrains common sense, leaders should scrap it and do what they think is right. If your CEO says one thing and does the opposite, that disconnect will demoralize your people. So remember to lead by example.
These six principles make sense to me and if they work, Mr. Murphy and his fellow investors are going to end up even richer than they are today.


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The preservative-free lie is being perpetuated for concerned parents and health enthusiasts, so you will still go to the school, clinic, pharmacy, grocery store, or whatever other "jab shop" that administers flu shots, and get injected with toxins, even though they may have "left out" one or two of the toxins you heard or read bad things about. Maybe preservative-free means you still get the toxic preservatives, but its only trace amounts that are being injecting into your blood. Let's take the food toxin metaphor, as an example of what is going on in the "preservative-free" vaccine world. (http://vaxtruth.org/2011/08/vaccine-ingredients/)
Consider this: would you eat a meal if you knew it contained 10 toxins, but the cook said they left out the one you are allergic to? Is that enough for you to opt out of your "opt out" and go ahead and eat some cancer causing, neurological impairing toxic meal? People who are allergic to peanuts, soy, fish, and other common foods can have a deathly allergic reaction to even the smallest amounts of these ingredients, and that's just when it touches their skin or they eat a "trace" amount, so then we delve into injecting toxins in trace amounts. People who are allergic to penicillin cannot have even a trace amount of it, or they could die. So where's the logic? There is none. It's just bad business as usual for Big Pharma. (http://vaxtruth.org)
Injecting "trace amounts" of toxins
How different is it if you eat a lot of mercury, or you inject just a little? This is the argument which comes from most vaccine enthusiasts; "if it's just a trace amount, it doesn't matter." The same advice would come from the FDA, except for the fact that they consider trace amounts non-existent and they still label trace amounts of mercury as thimerosal-free. So let's do the math now. Let's add up all the heavy metals in the routine "consumption" process most go through, including flu shots, vaccines, boosters, food, water, lotions, cosmetics, deodorants and so on, and you have a major problem. Injecting mercury, aluminum, monosodium glutamate and formaldehyde sends a massive shock wave through your system, and jolts your central nervous system. Your immune system basically "freaks out" as the toxic injection completely bypasses the digestive system all together. Add in the fact that most shots are combination shots and given in close succession, especially to children and infants, and the problems are compounded exponentially. (http://www.3aw.com.au)
The big cover up
Make no mistakes here, thimerosal is the preservative of choice for vaccine manufacturers. This practice dates back to the 1920s. Thimerosal contains nearly 50 percent mercury by weight. Mercury, or more precisely, ethylmercury, is used to kill the contaminants that can damage the vaccine; unfortunately, it kills a whole lot more when it gets in your blood and brain. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
Flu vaccines contain mercury! This is the big preservative-free lie, and it is documented. The following is from court house news (Courthouse News Service is a nationwide news service for lawyers and the news media):
Friday, March 23, 2012: "The Food and Drug Administration is not liable for approving a mercury-based vaccine preservative because more expensive, mercury-free vaccines are available upon request, a federal judge ruled. Thimerosal is a mercury-based compound that is FDA-approved as a vaccine preservative. Organizations such as the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs; however, have expressed concern about the preservative. As a precautionary measure, most vaccines administered to children or pregnant women do not include thimersosal, but the flu vaccine is a significant exception. Thimerosal-preserved flu vaccines are necessary to ensure sufficient supply at a reasonable price," according to the judgment." (http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/23/44979.htm)
An inside look at the main ingredients of "multi-jabs" (combo vaccines) One major problem with the multi-jabs, even preservative-free ones, is that several vaccines at once enables the chance of the tiny amounts of viruses introduced by these vaccines and their genetic material to meet and "mingle." You see, then the recombination of such strains are super viruses, and can rise up later and attack the system. Still only worried about the preservatives?
Measles and Mumps Live Virus Vaccine: (M-M-Rvax) Made by Merck. Injected into one-year-old babies and contains gelatin, sorbitol, sodium chloride, bovine cow serum, and human albumin.
Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Vaccine: Five injections given between two and six years of age, plus boosters "recommended" every 10 years. This monster jab contains formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol and aluminum phosphate.
DTaP, IPV, HBV and Hib: (Diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B) Given to infants from two to 12 months old with boosters less than a year later. This beast of a shot contains aluminum hydroxide, formaldehyde, and bovine cow serum. (http://news.softpedia.com)
Attention all humans, are you allergic to injecting any of the following ingredients directly into your blood? Okay, so you request the "preservative-free" flu shot or vaccine and you think you're better off than everyone else? Think again. What do all of the following "ingredients" do and why are they in the vaccines?
Bovine cow serum: Extracted from cow skin. When injected causes connective tissue disorders, arthritis and lupus; also shortness of breath, low blood pressure, chest pain and skin reactions. Sorbitol: Synthetic sweetener which metabolizes very slowly and aggravates IBS and gastrointestinal issues.
Gelatin: Derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones. Injecting gelatin poses the risk of infection from synthetic growth hormones and BSE infectivity (mad cow disease).
Sodium chloride: Raises blood pressure and inhibits muscle contraction and growth.
Egg protein: Vaccines are prepared in eggs (certainly not organic). May contain growth hormones, antibiotics, and salmonella bacteria.
Thimerosal: A neurotoxic mercury which causes autism: There are 25 mcg in one average flu vaccine, and the EPA safety limit is five micrograms, so children who are vaccinated simultaneously with multiple* vaccines receive over 10 times the safety limit of mercury in one day.
Human albumin: The protein portion of blood from pooled human venous plasma; when injected causes fever, chills, hives, rash, headache, nausea, breathing difficulty, and rapid heart rate. Injecting "pooled blood" can result in a loss of body cell mass and cause immunodeficiency virus infection, or contain SV40, AIDS, cancer or Hepatitis B from drug addicts.
Formaldehyde: Highly carcinogenic fluid used to embalm corpses. Ranked one of the most hazardous compounds to human health; can cause liver damage, gastrointestinal issues, reproductive deformation, respiratory distress and cancer. Plus, formaldehyde has been known to fail to deactivate the virus the vaccine is intended to cure, thus enabling a live virus to enter your blood and infect your system.
Phenoxyethanol: A glycol ether/chemical; highly toxic to the nervous system, kidneys, and liver. The FDA warns "can cause shut down of the central nervous system (CNS), vomiting and contact dermatitis" in cosmetics; imagine when injected into your blood.
Aluminum phosphate: Greatly increases toxicity of mercury, so caution about minimum mercury tolerance is therefore severely underestimated. CDC scientists and all doctors are well aware of this.
MSG (monosodium glutamate): When injected becomes a neurotoxin, causing CNS disorders and brain damage in children. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030868_vaccines_autism.html)
"Preservative-free" still gives you a 150 percent dose of FDA/EPA maximum
According to the CDC, vaccines labeled "thimerosal-free" often have a little asterisk to warn you: "This vaccine has 'trace' amounts of thimerosal, which the FDA says is equivalent to thimerosal-free products." There are basically two kinds of flu shots given: one contains 25 mcg of mercury and is often given as the "regular" flu shot to those with no special circumstances, and the other is labeled "thimerasol-free" (containing fewer than 3mcg of mercury) and is given to young children and pregnant women.
Take a look at "safe" and "un-safe" levels of mercury, per the FDA/EPA: Two part per billion is the maximum amount of mercury that deems water "safe" for drinking. Anything over 200 ppb mercury is considered TOXIC. But guess what?
There is up to 300 ppb mercury in the "thimerosal-free" flu vaccine. There is 25,000 ppb mercury given in the regular flu shot. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
The Department of Defense classifies mercury as a hazardous material that could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Studies indicate that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines. Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular disease, autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and many other nervous system conditions. (http://www.matchdoctor.com)
Want to protect your immune system? Leave out all the toxins. That's step number one. Especially leave out GMO, mercury, MSG and Aspartame. Step two? Look into Colloidal silver, Superfoods, mushroom powders, licorice root, garlic supplements, oil of oregano, cinnamon and much more. (http://store.naturalnews.com/Immunity-Response_c_11.html)
Sources for this article include:
http://vaxtruth.org http://www.matchdoctor.com
http://news.softpedia.com http://www.naturalnews.com
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