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A better month for us all... or, is it? Find out by reading your entry below.
Someone very close to you is feeling pain. Use your empathic powers to feel his discomfort. Use your ears to hear his anguished cries. Use your eyes to see that you are standing on his foot. Then use your brain to move away as fast as you can before he decides to retaliate. I know that you haven't used it in a while, but try. On Tuesday, a bluebottle will fly into your ear and drive you insane with its constant buzzing. You will continue to receive a lot of pointless spam emails. Someone who you thought was a friend has signed you up to every mailing list in existance, in revenge for something that you did. Trying to work out what that was will keep you busy for the rest of this month. Warning: Every rose has its thorn.
A beard is not a hairdo, but we hope you'll love the new chop! Whether a man or a woman, this month you may find yourself growing, styling and nurturing a beard. Your new look will finally net you the attention that you crave. On Monday, a raincloud will follow you around whereever you go, and rain only on you. Your umbrella has a hole in it, and your raincoat has been eaten by a swarm of locusts. Try not to take it too personally. Old guests are leaving; new guests are to be expected. There is a face that will bring you trouble. The face will remain a burden, a strain to your memory for life. Do you even know what the face looks like? Here's a clue for you; it is someone you thought you knew very well, but do not know at all, and yet, will get to know in the space of one week. The stars do not bode well for you this month.
You probably feel that you live in a perfectly blended world of reality and illusion. That's nice, but you are slightly delusional. One day you will wake up. Once awake, you will continue to invent all kinds of theories to prove the realty of your world. Everyone will listen to your mental theories. However, the fact will remain that your world is non-existent for us. In actual fact, no-one really cares what you think. They only pretend that they do, cuz it's better than the alternative, which is you moaning about how no-one listens to you. For goodness sake, find a hobby and join a club so that you can talk to other likeminded people rather than boring everyone around you into a stupor. Pro-tip: Foam is an unlucky substance for you this month, so try and avoid touching it.
You have much more on your plate than you can comfortably accommodate. Start a food fight. Just try not to hit your bank manager, or he may decide to call in your overdraft. Just a hint; in more civilised society, it is not considered to be a good idea to headbutt someone when you disagree with what they are saying. Bizarre rumours are circulating of a dilapidated figure with hypnotic red eyes terrorising passers-by. It is said the figure is a Taurus. Stay away from TVs, computers, and late night debaucheries and get rid of those bloodshot eyes! The received wisdom will prevent onlookers from declaring you a vampire. Tip: Eat lots of garlic. While it's true that it will give you bad breath, it will help you.
Something horrifically strange is in the air as there is a lot of false information around this month. Evil-intentioned individuals manufacture it to serve their own purposes; the rest is just plain ignorance. It's not funny; it can block your acceptance of true information. Don't be blinded, filter it, reject it and only accept it if you're an idiot. Avoid Librans. They will attempt to talk you into financing their shopping sprees for an entire month. If you agree, you will be forced to declare yourself bankrupt. On Thursday, do not cook anything which contains cheese. It will give you a nightmare where you dream that you are a figment of a Taurus' limited imagination, and you will wake up screaming. Two faced you may be, but you are not doubly blessed with intelligence. Somewhere out there is a village that is missing its idiot. Only if you go there, will you find true fufillment.
July isn't really a good month for you. You feel a bit flat after the excitement of last month and decide to drown your sorrows in alcohol. You are very good at holding your drink, however, you are one mean drunk when you've had a skinfull. You will get into at least one fight next week; altho you will be the eventual victor, it does not reflect well on you when you pound the living daylights out of someone who is half your height and a quarter of your weight. But then, you're so self absorbed anyway that you probably won't even notice. On Wednesday you will indulge in a game of Monopoly and reduce at least one good friend to tears when you bankrupt them and take away their last few pounds. You are good at this game cuz you are self serving, arrogant and don't care about others' feelings. With these qualities, you will make an excellent Mafia boss. Pro-tip: Drink more coffee.
What does this button do? Mess up everything, that's what! Don't touch it! You have to tamper with every button, knob, handle, etc. Much like the destroyer ant, you reduce everything that lands in your path to zero. Just sit still in one place, do not move at all and if that proves to be difficult ask someone to tape you to a chair. This month, you are unable to resist the temptation to touch a wall with a "Wet Paint" sign; only to find that, due to an application of Super Glue left there by a mischievous Scorpio moments before, you are uncomfortably stuck. You really should have used your hand to touch the wall. Let this be a lesson to you. You are in some ways like an impulsive child; this was just about bearable when you actually were a child, now it's just irritating and makes people want to stab you.
Your happiness will be turned to tragedy when you realise you are no longer important to people, you are no longer listened to and you cannot influence others. It's funny how during this month we'll be hearing you screech like a drowning cat! You insist that the hideous noise you are making is called singing, but others at the kareoke beg to differ. Either get lessons or stop putting the other people at the bar thru torture, just cuz you think that a particular song means something to you. On Friday, you will have to roll up your sleeves, put on some rubber gloves and dig deep into the rubbish bin of life. Avoid the flies and try to reach the bottom, as not doing so will be detrimental to your mental health. Warning: All colours are unlucky for you, so wear black.
Shallow tho you are, you at least remember to give a good friend a hug this week. The good karma generated from this act of friendship will save you from a disaster in two weeks time. Remember this next time you decide that you can't be bothered to give your best friend a call. You swore that your love would last until the seas run dry, the mountains crumbled, and the sun grew cold, so you'll be single again as of Thursday. Don't cry for your love; they are not worth it and are already badmouthing you round the town. Get your own back by going out and finding a replacement. You're finally entering that period of your life when the things that you want to do greatly outnumber the things that you are capable of doing. Rather than spend hours thinking this over, you will give up and go to your second home, the mall. Do not buy the pink dress; it goes see thru in wet weather and shows off more than you would ever want to reveal.
You're starting to develop a sneaking suspicion that other people are having more parties and all round fun than you are, which just proves that it takes a while for you to catch on sometimes. A family member will apologise this month for a birthday catastrophe or the catastrophe of your birth. Accept with a smile, then turn them in for food stamp fraud. All your friends are plotting against you, so don't trust anyone this month. Your strong opinions are interpreted as "being a jerk" by others around you. You have been on this Earth for many years, yet you still haven't learned when to keep your trap shut. Scorpios are best known for ending up in prison serving life sentences. You may yet avoid this fate, but only if you strive to drink a different fizzy drink every single day of this month. Tip: Change your shampoo.
You have no idea what you want to say. You will give confusing directions, and you will explain things poorly and be misunderstood. Your quiet voice will gather like dust in corners. Yes, this month will be just like all the ones before. You will try and lose weight, and yet gain it. Here's a tip; when you sneak down at midnight and grab a snack out of the fridge, it still counts on your day's total. Put a lock on your fridge or invest in some sleeping pills. For some reason, friends are always asking for your opinion. You are arrogant and oblivious of the dangerous nature of your own advice. Yet somehow, your stupidity is applied more often than you know or are credited for. Today you may spend more time with someone that you love just as much as flies love swatters. If you were a Cancer or a Scorpio, you'd slap them. Sadly, however, as a Sagittarius, you will be doomed to listen to them ramble on for half an hour which you will never regain.
It's more frustrating to lose your keys than it is to lose your mind because most people that lose their mind don't know it's gone. This doesn't apply to you, cuz you have no mind. Your keys are probably behind the cistern, for some unknown reason that we don't want to go into now. The next time someone starts a sentence with, "The least you can do," in an effort to reprimand you, stop them in their tracks and remind them that the least you can do is nothing. You do not usually win verbal battles, so that's a real plus for you. Cherish it. You might want to try something new this week, like showering and maybe even brushing your teeth. And while you're off the couch, perhaps you might want to look into purchasing some dignity and self respect? You can't live like a student all your life, you know. Warning: Cut down on the sweets, you'll rot your teeth.


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Topic Title: Grilling with Holland for 35 years
Created on March 18, 2013 at 04:42 PM
Scott Skillman
I have been grilling with the Holland Epic for over 35 years. I think it's funny the people I have barbecued for and have loved my always great smoky cooked meat say how do you cook meat like that? I always say the same thing "I barbecue on a Holland Grille"! I tell them it will out barbecue any pit you put up against it! Thank you all for making the most easy to use barbecue that always adds the most incredible flavor to any meat you grille.
@Scott When you do a Butt on the Holland how many times do you usually have to refill the water in the pan? I have 3 smokers I use but I want to use the Holland and try one. Thanks for any info you may have or provide..
@jm--try this method. Season the butt with your favorite rub; Grill on the Holland (no water in pan) for 2 hours; Then double-wrap butt very tight in heavy duty foil, grill for 2 more hours or until meat reaches 180 degrees. When they're done, leave in foil and put in cooler for another 2 hours where they'll steam in their own juices. Fall off the bone buddy and delicious.
@Carl I will give it a try this weekend. Thanks...

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UNDP invests in livelihoods to ease tensions in northern Kenya
With the famine in Somalia sparking an increased flow of refugees into neighbouring Kenya, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is scaling up its programmes to help improve the living conditions in the northern part of the country.
More than 360,000 refugees from different neighbouring countries are hosted in two camps – Kakuma in the northwest and Dadaab in the northeast. While the refugees receive some international assistance in the camps, the shortfall is met with resources shared with the host communities, sparking conflict between the residents and the refugees over commodities such as water, pasture, firewood and vegetables.
Northern Kenya is arid, and prone to drought and flash floods. Local host communities – predominantly nomadic pastoralists – lack basic infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, and struggle to find enough food and water. For the past four years, UNDP and other UN agencies have been working with the Kenyan government to increase access to work, and services like water and education for local residents.
The Japan-supported Joint Host Community Project improves living conditions for the local residents, lays the foundation for their ability to cope in the face of future droughts, and eases tensions with the refugees. This is even more urgent given that some 3.8 million Kenyans have also been affected by drought during 2011.
For the scale-up, the UN is working to engage approximately 300,000 people in activities related to rain water harvesting for domestic and agricultural purposes, micro credit loans for youth and women groups, and improvement of water and sanitation facilities, particularly around Kakuma.
"We have no time to lose," said UNDP Resident Representative Aeneas C. Chuma. "We must invest more in drought-resistant farming, improved livestock management, and more efficient water management so people are better prepared to cope, now and in the future."
Since the programme began in 2007, some 18,000 people living outside the camps have had better access to water, through new shallow wells and other water harvesting and storage means. Ebrahim Hussein Sheikh is a local herder close to the mainly Somali-populated Dadaab refugee camp. He says that life changed once the water ponds were set up.
"Before, we used to rely on a community borehole five kilometeres away that could only accommodate 1,000 animals. We frequently fought among ourselves to ensure our animals could drink the little water available."
To improve access to food and income generation activities, 15,000 people were provided tools and seeds to engage in specialist farming activities suited to the arid conditions. Now, communities around the refugee camps grow diverse crops such as tomatoes, sweet potatoes and kale, with enough left over to sell.
Local Agricultural Officer Alvas Lusweti says some in the pastoralist communities were initially resistant to changing their means of livelihood, but were quick to change their minds when they saw the benefits that crop farming can bring. "People have realized that agriculture is more predictable, less risky and can provide a steady flow of income," says Lusweti.
The two-year scale-up programme will also focus on strengthening local institutions responsible for recovery and disaster risk reduction initiatives. The aim is to work with communities so they can initiate and manage their own recovery processes, while improving the ability of local governments to support these efforts and the communities' longer term development goals.
The Joint Host Community Programme (JHCP) started in 2007 and is supported by Japan and the United Nations. It works to improve resources for poor communities in and around northern Kenya's Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps.
The programme supports sustainable livelihoods and reduces pressures that exacerbate conflict by helping host communities use natural resources and specialist farming techniques to make the most of the arid conditions.


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Left hand placement for special commands/spells in an online game that is from a third person-ish view, where you control a hero/champion in a person to person battle within a contained map that has an element of base/tower defense and attack with NPC (non-player character) minions. All this happens in a real time, multi-player map/environment and is considered an adventure, real-time strategy & role playing game like LOL (League Of Legends) or DOTA (Defender Of The Ancients).
As a summoner, I'll use the mouse to control my champions movement and target and then QWER POWER...*press Q* mega damage powers! *press W* Suck it monkeys! *press E* Boo-ya! *press R* How do you like them apples?! *frustrated keyboard smash* Why did I die?
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asdf and qwer had lots of children, such as zxcv, tyui, and iop. And together we shall rule the universe using our qwerty keyboard configuration!
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A way to say queer when it has been used up, a way to put in
variety in your insults that usually mean Gay, even if the victim is not.
variety in your insults that usually mean Gay, even if the victim is not.
by Artifishalfish July 31, 2006
thought up in about the year 2002 by retarded "preps" who can't talk. most of them have speech impetiments. means "queer" or "gay" or "fag", anything along that line. typically used after someone's name. it is used quite often so i wonder if there isn't a sign of homosexual tendecies.
"Pensak, QWER!" or "Jordan Pensak, QWER!" in order to complete it you have to have a lisp on the S's
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Just moved out to Burbank, Looking to hit with players in the north Hollywood area. 4.5 +. Getting back into the gam after a long break.
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Yo..I live in Hollywood but don't mind making the trip up to Noho if you want to hit sometime. I'm in a similar situation, 4.0+ and been a while.
I'm between gigs right now so I can make just about anything work, so whenever is good for you...
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Argentina debt talks deadlocked as default looms
NEW YORK (AP) — Argentina's negotiations with creditors to resolve a dispute over $1.5 billion in unpaid debts remained deadlocked following talks Friday, setting it on a course for a possible catastrophic default next week.
Argentina will default for the second time in 13 years if it cannot reach a deal with the U.S. hedge funds before July 30. Daniel Pollack, the court-appointed mediator in the dispute, met with Argentine officials and in a statement released after the talks said that progress had not been reached. Pollack also said the Argentines were returning to Buenos Aires Friday night, but he expects more talks before the deadline.
Following a U.S. judge's order, Argentina can't pay investors who accepted lower-valued bonds after its record $100 billion default in 2001 unless it also pays off creditors who didn't participate in previous bond swaps.
President Cristina Fernandez has long refused to negotiate with the plaintiffs led by New York billionaire Paul Singer's NML Capital Ltd., who spent more than a decade litigating for payment in full rather than agreeing to provide Argentina with debt relief. But Fernandez has been backed into a corner by NML Capital's payment plan and has been sending a delegation to meet the negotiator in New York in hopes of averting a default.
"Argentina is being attacked by speculative interests in a totally undeserved way," Fernandez said in a speech Friday night.
"The ones involved in this suit never loaned a single cent to the Republic of Argentina but instead bought defaulted bonds in 2008 - in other words they bought worthless bonds on the cheap," she said.
The holdout creditors accuse Fernandez's government of refusing to negotiate to provoke a default.
"Argentina's government made clear that it will be choosing to default next week. Creditors arrived at the (debt mediator's) office this afternoon prepared to negotiate and willing to be flexible in forging a solution," Stephen Spruiell, an NML spokesman, said in a statement Thursday. "Argentina again refused to negotiate any aspect of the dispute."
Paying the hedge funds that Fernandez often calls "vultures" in full would likely trigger lawsuits from other bondholders demanding to be paid on similar terms. Argentina's government estimates that the liability could run up to $15 billion.
With nearly $29 billion in foreign reserves, Argentina appears to have the money to pay its bills. But those reserves include loans to other countries, deposits with the IMF and other assets that aren't easily used. Take those away, and Argentina has roughly $16 billion on hand.
Troubled countries often find bond investors willing to lend to them to pay other creditors. But Argentina has been locked out of the bond markets for more than a decade. Some investors would probably step up to lend it money, but at high interest rates — and at high political cost for the leftist government.
Fernandez and her husband, the late President Nestor Kirchner, used much of the Central Bank's reserves to pay down Argentina's debts, provide energy subsidies and fund social programs, weakening its ability to control one of the world's highest inflation rates and manage the money supply.
"It is crunch time in Argentina where the authorities seem to be running out of grace, and literally also of the 'grace period' to make the missed coupon payment by July 30 in order to avoid another default," said Alberto Ramos, Latin America analyst at Goldman Sachs.
"One can only infer from the innumerous press releases by the parties involved that the court-assisted negotiations (or the lack thereof) do not seem to have generated any tangible progress," Ramos said. "Hence, a midnight-hour settlement agreement with the holdouts seems increasingly less probable."
Associated Press writers Luis Andres Henao and Marianela Jarroud in Santiago, Chile contributed to this report.


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DANENBERGER FAMILY VINEYARDS in New Berlin is hosting a four-session wine-making course this spring.
Registration is currently being accepted for the class, which is offered through Lincoln Land Community College�s Culinary Institute.
Enologist Brad Beam and Susan Danenberger will lead the sessions, which run from March 4 through May 6. Participants will receive hands-on training in wine production and leave the course with several bottles of their own vintage.
Class size is limited. Participants must be 21 to register, and the cost is $225. To register, call 786-2292 or visit www.llcc.edu/commed.
* MANGIA was tapped by Downtown Springfield Inc. as the best new downtown business in the restaurant category.
The eatery at 518 E. Adams Street opened in the spring of 2013.
Other downtown eating establishments recognized at the organization�s annual awards banquet included SUGAR JAR BAKERY, 319 E. Monroe St., for facade renovation and OBED & ISAACS MICROBREWERY AND EATERY, 500 S. Sixth St., for its beer garden and bocce ball and bags court expansion.
* NICK & NINO�S PENTHOUSE STEAKHOUSE in the Hilton Springfield was ranked among the top 100 most romantic restaurants in America by OpenTable.
OpenTable is a global restaurant reservation service. The 2014 list was culled from more than 5 million user submissions.
* The KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 364 is serving an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 9 at 2200 Meadowbrook Road.
Proceeds benefit the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children 6 to 12 years old. Children 5 and younger eat free.
* Beer from ROLLING MEADOWS BREWERY is the theme for the Feb. 6 BISTRO VERDE DINNER.
Each course in the five-course meal will be paired with a selection from the Cantrall brewery. The gourmet meal features lamb chops as the entree with other courses including scallop cauliflower puree, escarole salad, mussels-fennel-chorizo-tomato broth and mousse for dessert.
The meal, which begins at 5:30 p.m., is one of five offered this season at Bistro Verde in Lincoln Land Community College�s Workforce Career Center. The cost is $59 per person and includes wine.
For reservations, call 786-2432.
* Condolences to the family of Adam Mrozowski on his death this past week.
Mrozowski, who died Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla., opened AUGIE�S FRONT BURNER with his younger brother, Augie Mrozowski. The siblings� history with Springfield�s dining scene, however, began much earlier at such famed kitchens as the ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, FORUM 30 and BAUR�S.
Mrozowski relocated to Branson, Mo., in 1997 to work for the DEVIL�S POOL RESTAURANT at Big Cedar Lodge.
* Area restaurants offering Valentine�s Day specials will be featured in the Feb. 9 column. Businesses interested in participating should submit information by Tuesday.
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Brain Songs by Roger Day
People write songs about love and sunsets, but not too many people write catchy lyrics about the brain. Yes, we're talking about that gray, twisty dome inside your head that's in charge of everything — from breathing to doing long division in math class.
So it may not be the prettiest body part, but Roger Day decided that the brain needed its own musical tribute. He's a longtime musician who has been performing for grown-ups and young people for more than 20 years. You might have heard his music on Sirius Radio and Radio Disney. We interviewed him to ask why he wanted to sing about the brain.
Let's start with a listen. Each song explains something about that wonderful machine in your head.
Listen to the Left Brain/Right Brain song
Did you figure it out? Your whole brain is important and works together in amazingly complex ways. But each side of the brain specializes in different kind of tasks. The left brain helps you buckle down and figure things out in a sensible way. And the right brain — your punk rock side — is all about being creative, freewheeling, and rocking the house.
Listen to the Brain Train Song
If your brain and nervous system were an actual train, they'd be a high-speed train. Thoughts travel at a nanosecond. That's fast! Don't worry, we'll ask Roger about some of those lyrics. For instance, what the heck is the corpus callosum?
Listen to Brain Food
OK, there's no magic food that makes you smart. But some foods are believed to help your brain work at its best. Which ones do you like — blueberries, tomatoes, or salmon?
Q&A With Roger Day
Why did you decide to devote so many songs to the brain?
I wanted to motivate and encourage kids to feel that they can do incredible, amazing things in this world. All the inventions you can imagine — from the pyramids to the peanut butter and jelly sandwich — all started out with a simple idea in someone's head.
Did you have to do research to write the lyrics?
Oh, yes! That was actually one of the really fun things about this whole project. I got to learn lots of facts about the brain.
I went to lots of websites, of course. But the biggest help was a friend from college, Dr. John-Paul Bouffard. He's a real-life neuropathologist. That's a doctor who looks at pictures of the brain. He gave me lots of ideas and helped me understand what different parts of the brain do. When I finished a song, I would send it to Dr. Bouffard so he could check the lyrics and make sure my facts were right.
Did you learn anything that surprised you?
Yes! I didn't know that chocolate was considered a brain food. Makes me wonder why I'm not smarter considering how much I've eaten over the years.
What is the corpus callosum mentioned in "Brain Train"?
The corpus callosum is the "brain bridge." It connects the left side of your brain to the right side of your brain and allows ideas to travel back and forth.
Were you worried these songs would seem like school to kids?
Yes, a little bit. The trick is to write songs that are musically fun but still educational. That's where working with great musicians is a huge help. The right musicians playing the right instruments will make a song really come to life. Then my job is to write lyrics (words) that have as much useful information and as many fun facts as possible. If all of us do our jobs right, we wind up with songs that are fun to listen to and help you learn, too.
What have kids' reactions been to the music?
Great! The "hit" so far has been the "The Left Brain/Right Brain Song." Kids love the musical contrast between the classical music of the left brain and the punk rock of the right.
They also seem to relate really well to "Brain Freeze." That one is maybe not as educational but it's certainly fun! Everyone can relate to drinking a slushy, icy drink and getting a case of "brain freeze."
What do you hope kids will take away from the music?
My greatest hope is these songs will inspire kids to realize that they already have all the tools they will ever need, right now, to make a difference and build a better world. There's no secret recipe, no magic formula. There's just this incredible, amazing, complicated thing called the brain.
What's next — an ode to the digestive system?
Now, that's an idea that gets my juices flowing!


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The T3RU test measures the level of proteins that carry thyroid hormone in the blood. This can help your health care provider interpret the results of
Alternative Names
Resin T3 uptake; T3 resin uptake; Thyroid hormone-binding ratio
How the test is performed
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see:
How to prepare for the test
Your health care provider will tell you, if needed, to stop taking drugs that may interfere with the test.
Drugs that can increase T3RU levels include:
- Anabolic steroids
- Heparin
- Phenytoin
- Salicylates (high dose)
- Warfarin
The following can increase thyroxin binding globulin (TBG) levels:
- Male hormones (androgens)
- Serious illness
- Kidney disease
Drugs that can decrease T3RU levels include:
- Antithyroid medications
- Birth control pills
- Clofibrate
- Estrogen
- Thiazides
Pregnancy can also decrease T3RU levels.
How the test will feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
Why the test is performed
This test is done to check your thyroid function. Thyroid function is complex and depends on the action of many different hormones, including thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), T3, and T4.
This test helps see how much thyroxin binding globulin (TBG) is available. TBG is a protein that carries most of the T3 and T4 in the blood.
The higher the level of TBG, the lower thelevel of T3RU. A higher T3RUlevel means less TBG is available. This may be caused by
Your doctor may order this test if you have signs of a thyroid disorder, including:
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- Hypothyroidism - secondary
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
Normal Values
Normal values range from 24 - 37%.
The examples above are common measurements for resultsof these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples.Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What abnormal results mean
Higher-than-normal levels may indicate:
Kidney failure
- Overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism)
Nephrotic syndrome Protein malnutrition
Lower-than-normal levels may indicate:
- Acute
- Pregnancy
- Underactive thyroid (
hypothyroidism, primary hypothyroidism, or secondary hypothyroidism)
- Use of estrogen
Abnormal results may also be due to an inherited condition of high TBG levels. Usually thyroid function is normal in people with this condition.
This test may also be done for:
Chronic thyroiditis (Hashimotos disease)
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Just in case you didn't really get how much I love being a part of the Greek life here at William Woods, I want to take this week's blog to talk about another great thing that the sororities here offer: Greek families!
If you have older siblings, chances are that you have a "big sister" back home that you might feel sad about leaving. Well, when you join a sorority at WWU, you get another one! Every new girl in the house sorority gets paired up with an older member (sophomore or above) who becomes your "big sis" or simply your "big". Your big sis is someone you really hit it off with during your first few weeks of school. She is your go-to person in the house, she plays a special role in your initiation ceremony, and she generally ends up being someone you maintain a special connection with for the rest of your college career (and potentially the rest of your life!). When you come back to campus to begin your second year at WWU, you have the chance to experience the relationship from the other side by taking one of the new freshmen as your "little."
Some people become so close to their bigs/littles that they adopt another term for it: "mom" and "dot" (short for "daughter"). Using these terms helps illustrate the family trees that grow within the sorority—your big's big sis becomes your "grandbig," just like your little's little sis becomes your "grand-little" or "granddot"! Sometimes, a family tree will grow to include aunts, siblings, and great-grandbigs! The fraternities develop similar family trees; every new freshman (or transfer student) gets a "pledge dad", as an older member you have a chance to get a "pledge son", and so on.
I know it sounds really complicated at first, but once you join a Greek organization and actually become a part of a family, I promise it starts to make sense! If you're utterly confused at this point, though, just know that joining a sorority or a fraternity gives you the opportunity to become a part of another family at WWU!
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Juventus are keen to seal a deal to take full ownership of midfielder Kwawdo Asamoah at the end of the season, Goal.com understands.
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Wild Asia announces the winners for the 5th Responsible Tourism Awards 2010 from Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka at ITB Asia. After months of short-listing the finalists and making site visits to the final six properties and tour operators, Wild Asia's judging panel has finally selected its 2010 RT Awards winners.
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New York City is energizing. For me, being there is like being plugged in to recharge, and recharge I did. The weekend was filled with goings on but nothing compared with dining with my old friends.
For those familiar with the citys layout, you might find it impressive that on my way to meet my friends for that Friday night dinner, I walked from 92nd Street and 3rd Avenue to 42nd Street and 12th Avenue, through Central Park, inside of one hour and ten minutes. Like I said, the city is energizing!
I met one of my friends, John, who Ive known since fourth grade and who is just fifteen minutes older than I, at his apartment on 42nd Street and then we drove in his car to the restaurant, Savore, located at the southeast corner of Spring and Sullivan Streets, in Soho.
Savore has been at that location since 1995. I discovered the restaurant in 1996, and loved it from the start. Both menu and wine list offered a healthy dose of Northeastern Italy.
When I first ate at Savore, it was populated with Italians. These days, the front of the house, the wait staff, and probably the kitchen staff too, represent places like Mexico, Honduras, and Guatamala. The place has changed a little, with a wider offering that includes more universal dishes. But the influence is, as it should be, simplicity in preparation and mainly Italian. I can tell that the wait staff loves to work there, too, by the way that they serve and by the fact that a few of them have been serving for many years.
There were eight of us at the table, each planning to order a separate meal. Once again, I had to call upon my appeasing instincts as the wine list made its way to my spot in the group. It was a bitterly cold night in the city and because of that no one felt like drinking white wine. A good look at the list and then in a flash I decided on a Caldaro Pinot Nero (Alto Adige) and il Puntone Morellino di Scansano Riserva (Maremma).
I didnt take wine notes that nightno geeks aroundbut as I remember them, the Pinot Nero was beautifully round and fruity with a velvety finish. The Morellino (which is the Maremmas version of the Sangiovese grape, or is it?) was solidly leathery, lean but flavorful, with truly integrated acidity.
I could tell that everyone liked the wine because no one complained and we ordered more bottles.
The dishes at our table represented quite a range, from artichoke stuffed pasta to branzino over root vegetables and all kinds in between. Mine was an order of lentils and mussels soup to start, a soup so unusual that it called to me, and I was glad that I answered the call. Hard to explain how the salty sea-like flavor of mussels offset the earthy lushness of lentils, but it happened. I followed with a seared salmon over crisp vegetables on a soft bed of pureed cauliflower (Im eating more omega3 foods these days).
The evening went longfour hoursand the conversation went even longer. Once again, we talked of our youthful indiscretions, like the time we broke into the basement of a neighborhood bar and stole two kegs of beer.
We broke the kegs open with a screwdriver and a hammer in a hallway without thinking about the consequences of having just finished rolling them more than two blocksthe beer spray and foam filled three floors of hallway.
The caper was such a spur-of-the-moment thing that we also didnt consider what we would serve the beer in. A few of us wound up with a case of trench mouth from the old coffee cans that we used as beer glasses.
Ours was a mobster neighborhood. Tough guys were everywhere, as was violence. One of them was a particularly nasty prick, a loan shark that we knew was responsible for breaking a few legs.
A long time ago, there was such a thing as a small kitchen table with a metal top. On one snowy night, after we had downed pints of Tbird and were feeling mischievous, one of my friends saw such a tabletop lying in a pile of garbage. He wondered aloud: what would happen if we buried that tabletop in snow right in someones walking path?
That someone turned out to be the loan shark, and it was such fun to watch him unknowingly walk onto the slick, wet metal top, glide up into the air and then come down with a pleasingly, to us, hard thump, cursing all the way up and all the way down.
It was all we could do to hold in our laughter from our perch behind a car across the street.
Finally, there was the teacher whose arm we brokeinadvertently, of course.
It was a Friday afternoon fire drill. The class was made to line up along one wall before filing out. The wall happened to be the one that included the coat closets, which were fronted with sliding doors. It so happened that the chairs in the classroom fit snugly in the closets and so we stacked a bunch of them in there and slid the doors closed.
The following Monday, as the teacher prepared the classroom she opened one of the closets and out came a stack of chairs right on her!
We have recounted these and many other stories more than a few times over the years but we never tire of telling them once again and we always seem to find them as funny as they were when the events took place.
Ill be seeing this group again soon, as each one of my friends has offered to make the 300-mile trip to visit me and to take turns relieving my wife from the responsibility of driving me five days a week for about nine weeks of daily radiation treatments of my prostate cancer.
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Isaac and I got up early this morning and drove to Louisville for a meeting with his study-abroad group. (He is going to Berlin for about a month after school gets out and will take two German history classes there.)
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It was a gorgeous spring morning. People got out of their cars, walked their dogs, took pictures, and struck up conversations. One kid played with his skateboard. Isaac was wishing for a kite to fly.
The girls in the car beside us were driving back to Ohio after spending spring break in Florida. The couple in the car behind us was headed for Chicago.
Rumors were passed by people walking by. One lady said that someone had read on the internet that a family of six had been killed. Another time we heard that a tractor-trailer was on top of two cars. We also heard that two separate accidents were being cleared.
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|2009-11-16, 13:34
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And you forgot another important detail and one more reason why Hatfield has to be defeated. If he isn't, they can't escape.
It's kill or be killed.
|2009-11-16, 14:03
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Look they dont have to kill him they can incapacitate him or someone like Blade could keep him ocupied so the others can escape. Numerous options. Also i said it could be im not saying it will be.
So if Hatfield survives. Btw he could also flee the area. If he survives the killer girls will be exposed. This can create different chains of events like them being made renagades as well. Bounty on Mios head for example.
|2009-11-16, 14:07
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|2009-11-16, 15:22
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|2009-11-16, 15:42
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eh parallelism would be 2 things that share a unique thing thats the same. so if you say nothing is the same and then say parallelism your contradicting yourself...what are you on about?
The only thing you can realy taste from these chapters is there is something new going to happen soon. Either Cruz gains some kick ass power and defeats this Hatfield or another character shows up to defeat him.
Also the fact his sister left him a window of opertunity is interesting along with the girls that aid him ( wich could lead to their death) so kuddos for the commitment they made.
There is no more parralel with Kafka then with Uten or any other battle. The only thing thats the same is Blade comming to the rescue tho i dont see him win it since it would be cliché.
|2009-11-16, 16:02
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And no, even the thing about Blade is not the same.
The thing is, in the current arc is happening all the opposite of what happened in the prologue:
-Resistance got slaughtered -> This time resistance will survive.
-Cruz unaware of Aruka's true identity, and was helped by her to escape -> Cruz knows everything about her, and this time Aruka just opens a path leaving the issue of surviving to Cruz.
-Blade came to the rescue -> Blade? comes to the rescue.
-Kafka -> Hatfield. The later is lots of times stronger than the former.
-Cruz powerless with no fragment -> And you know the rest.
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|2009-11-16, 17:24
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But if it's true that Cruz is facing a missing link, that's something to be taken in count.
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|2009-11-16, 18:33
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Hmm yes well Mio is a diff typ of character to any ive seen before, if anyone knows similar typ characters plz say so ^ ^.
That small that strong, friendly with everyone and a killer loli to add to it. Specialy how she took care of that other killer girl with a smile and smashed her brains out, wicked.
|2009-11-16, 22:12
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Spoiler for needless aruka's strength:
Something else ive been thinking about. If Cruz does get a version of Zero (as some people on this forum have suggested) its going to have to work differently than Blade's. The whole motto with Blade is that if two powers are the same the winner will be the one with the stronger fist. If Cruz and Teruyama both had "little boy" with their difference in strength Teruyama would be where Blade was and Cruz would be where Teruyama was.
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Little Boy uses the fragment power and physical strength as we know Blade has almost the same strength as Mio, but Cruz doesn't have that kind of strength which Blade and Teruyama has, since Teruyama can lift/block one leg of a testament, but Cruz if ever he's gonna get a Zero ability he'll be "FRAGMENT" dependent as for the moment until he gets stronger physically later on.
|2009-11-17, 06:20
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You dont have to be strong to win battles you need brains and he has plenty of that. Also Aruka isnt physicaly the strongest among those and still she took m all out.
cruz is perhaps a lot more inteligent and if/when he gets his powers he will benifit from those.
Also note that fragments are a fictive creation after the 2nd died. (people had a single ability of the entire set of abilities the 2nd had)
So the 2nd never had ...fragments. He had the complete power equal to a God and used it only for good.
Having said that and asuming Cruz is the new 2nd or the 3rd he wont have a fragment he will have the power.
The only danger is that Arclights artificial fragment can amplify the powers of any fragment he learns. So if Cruz has the full powers of the 2nd and awakens those Arclight will want it and then even Cruz couldnt stop him (well that would be Arclights thoughts) Since Arclight amplifies the powers he gains and Cruz should not. But the outcome would still be in Cruzes favor since he would be a God and you cant beat a God if you arnt one lol. so Arclight will never win.
Well thats my vision on the entire matter. So you can think all you want bout fragments but Cruz will never have fragments he will be the whole ^^.
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All the hints point Cruz's fragment will be of the same class of both Blade and Arclight. In other words, a Zero.
Of course, I don't expect the fragment to have that name but a different one. Maybe Genesis? Who knows, but the functions of the fragment are expected too to differ from Zero.
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Ehm you dont get what im saying. Nobody refered to the 2nd to have a fragment since its not fragmented wich means the full power of the 2nd.
Cruz if hes to be stronger then both Arclight or Blade has to be the one who stands above all else.
Kinda like when Goku went supersayin...? Well he will reach a power that nobody has seen in their lives.
So you cant call it a fragment since fragment is already a inferior word. He wont have Zero since Zero is imperfect. Zero is a made fragment. Its design is to learn abilities and Arclights already has an extra power that amplifies the regular moves. Im asuming thats why all those experiments went wrong. They tried to put to much power in a human clone and it starts to deform and explode. Rejecting the powers.
Only the real 2nd can handle that much power thus Cruz. And it wont be a fragment for real saying it will be a fragment is silly since a fragment is always a part of the 2nds power. And if Cruz will be the new messiah then he needs all powers.
Thus no longer fragmented. I think when this will happen they will re-name him but wont describe a single fragment power.
|2009-11-17, 08:34
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Wich justifies Arclight's greatest ambition. He desires to become equal as God as the Lucifer he is, and in order to do that, he needs to copy all the fragments, and he knows how to acomplish that purpose, just like Saten knows too.
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Since I started my quest a few years ago searching for the ultimate knowledge management tool, I've discovered a number of interesting applications that help people efficiently organize information. There certainly is no shortage of solutions for this problem domain. Many tools exist that offer the ability to discover, save, organize, search, and retrieve information. However, I've noticed a trend in recent years, and some newer applications are focusing more on the visual representation and relationship of knowledge. I believe this is in part due to the wider adoption of mind mapping (and concept mapping), and leveraging concepts and advances in the semantic web community.
Most traditional personal knowledge management (PKM) or personal information management (PIM) applications offer the same basic set of features:
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These are essential features, however don't offer too much to the more visually-inclined knowledge junkies. For visual learners and information visualization fans, having a graphical representation of knowledge and seeing how things relate is a must have feature. Luckily, in the past few years there has been a rise in the number of knowledge management applications that offer this capability. The following is a list of interesting /unique / effective tools for knowledge management and information visualization (not listed in any particular order):
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DeepaMehta is a "networked semantic desktop" that replaces the traditional computer desktop. DeepaMehta rids the user from dealing with applications, files and directories. Instead, the DeepaMehta user arranges information of any kind and origin into supportive topic maps. Topics may be e.g. projects, emails, webpages, notes, articles, contacts, or meetings. Users define their own topic types. Old-fashioned applications, windows and files are no longer in the sight of the user, but the meaningful relationships between real world topics.
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Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs. Tinderbox maps your notes as you make them. Build relationships by arranging notes, organizing them with shape and color, linking them. Tinderbox lets you record ideas quickly and keep them where you'll find them again when you need them.
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Link: http://vue.tufts.edu/
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At its core, the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application, developed to support teaching, learning and research and for anyone who needs to organize, contextualize, and access digital information. Using a simple set of tools and a basic visual grammar consisting of nodes and links, faculty and students can map relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content.
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EyePlorer allows you to explore and process knowledge. Search engines help you find links and documents – they require you to follow these links and open the respective document in order to access information. eyePlorer.com, powered by vionto, provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes facts as well as relationships between facts. Furthermore, eyePlorer.com allows you to collect, process and publish interesting bits of information. eyePlorer.com is a visual knowledge workbench.
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Back when it was becoming clear that the time of the BeOS had come and gone, enthusiasts immediately set up the OpenBeOS project, an attempt to recreate the Be operating system from scratch, using a MIT-like license. The project faced difficult odds, and numerous times progress seemed quite slow. Still, persistence pays off, and the first alpha release is drawing ever closer. We decided to take a look at where Haiku currently stands.
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MT. HERMON � Up until the closing minutes of the first half, both defenses were dominating. Neither team could get much of anything going in the right direction. That�s when Southern Alamance junior quarterback Jonathan Lloyd took over the game.
With a less than two minutes left in the first half, Lloyd got loose on a quarterback keeper up the middle that he broke for 62 yards, breaking a scoreless tie and jumpstarting Lloyd�s big second half that would propel Southern Alamance to a 27-20 non-league victory past Eastern Randolph.
�The last couple of weeks we�ve been airing it out but (this game) we just had to adjust, make some last- minute adjustments, and we did what it took to win,� Lloyd said.
After starting the season 3-0, Eastern Randolph came into the game looking to rebound from a 30-7 loss against rival Asheboro the week before.
�We battled at the end, but we never should�ve been in that situation,� Eastern Randolph coach Seth Baxter said. �We didn�t execute defensively, I mean we knew Lloyd was the real deal, and we talked all week about keying in on him in the game. It�s disappointing. I don�t know if last Friday losing to arch-rival Asheboro made us lose two games or not. We had a good week at practice but I just don�t know.�
Baxter�s Wildcats got on the scoreboard with less than a minute to play in the second half thanks to a 45-yard kick return from senior running back Paris Martin that set up a 28-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Sam Whitley to receiver Dalton Smith.
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Southern Alamance responded with 28-yard field goal from kicker Dylan Crusan, but the Patriots left points on the field. Three plays prior, Lloyd found the end zone for a third time on the ground, but the play was called back due to a holding penalty.
On the ensuing kickoff, Southern Alamance squibbed the kick up the middle that was misplayed by the Wildcats� special teams squad. Southern Alamance fell on the loose ball, and just a play later, Lloyd scrambled up the middle for a 30-yard touchdown run � this time without any flags to give the Patriots a 24-14 lead.
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U.S. Using Terrorist Group in Covert War on Iran
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MEK soldier in IraqAs part of its ongoing covert war against Iran, the U.S. government has for years been providing training — some of it on American soil — and other material support to a State Department-designated "foreign terrorist organization," the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), the New Yorker's Seymour M. Hersh reports.
The MEK, wrote The New American's Alex Newman, is "a notorious Islamic-Communist terror group" whose "history ... includes assassinations of more than a few senior U.S. military personnel, terror attacks on American installations, murder of civilians, and much more." Despite public renunciations of violence and intense lobbying efforts, some involving former high U.S. officials, the group remains on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. As such, it is a crime for Americans "to knowingly provide 'material support or resources' " to the MEK; yet that is precisely what the U.S. government has been doing with impunity for many years. And while current and former officials may never pay the price for their flouting of the law, average Americans may suffer as a result of it.
According to Hersh, from 2005 to at least 2007, the Defense Department's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted training sessions for MEK members at the Energy Department's Nevada National Security Site. The training included lessons "in commo [communications], crypto [cryptography], small-unit tactics, and weaponry," a "retired four-star general, who has advised the Bush and Obama Administrations on national-security issues" told Hersh, saying he had been privately briefed on the training program in 2005. He also said that the site was being used simultaneously "for advanced training of élite Iraqi combat units."
The Pentagon used Energy Department facilities for MEK training because it feared getting caught helping terrorists. "We did train them here, and washed them through the Energy Department because the D.O.E. owns all this land in southern Nevada," a former senior American intelligence official told Hersh. "We were deploying them over long distances in the desert and mountains, and building their capacity in communications — coördinating commo is a big deal." (A JSOC spokesman, naturally, denied the allegations of MEK training.)
MEK defector Massoud Khodabandeh, who now lives in England, told Hersh that he was also aware of the training in Nevada and that it went far beyond intergroup communication. "The U.S. provided M.E.K. operatives with the ability to intercept telephone calls and text messages inside Iran — which M.E.K. operatives translated and shared with American signals intelligence experts," writes Hersh.
Why has the U.S. government, which denounces other governments' involvement with terrorism, been supporting the MEK? Essentially it's because the MEK is an enemy of the current Iranian regime. Such was not always the case, however. Initially the group opposed the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran and participated in the 1979 revolution that brought to power the Ayatollah Khomeini, who established the Islamic state that continues to rule Iran. Soon, though, the MEK turned on the new regime and began launching terrorist attacks against it. The government was successful in countering the MEK, and most of the group fled to France. In 1986 it relocated to Iraq, where it assisted Saddam Hussein in waging war on Iran; it also helped Saddam crush the 1991 Kurdish and Shiite uprisings.
In 2002 the MEK revealed that Iran was secretly enriching uranium — information that Mohamed ElBaradei, then head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Hersh had been supplied by Israeli intelligence. JSOC began operating inside Iran in 2003. "Funds were covertly passed to a number of dissident organizations, for intelligence collection and, ultimately, for anti-regime terrorist activities," Hersh writes. "Directly, or indirectly, the M.E.K. ended up with resources like arms and intelligence."
In 2004 retired CIA officer Robert Baer, who had spent much of his career in the Middle East, was recruited by a private American company to return to Iraq "to help the M.E.K. collect intelligence on Iran's nuclear program," Baer told Hersh. Baer, Hersh adds, "recalled that it was made clear to him at the time that the operation was "a long-term thing — not just a one-shot deal."
Indeed it was. According to Hersh, the former intelligence official "said that he was aware of training that went on through 2007," though he also claimed it "ended sometime before President Obama took office."
Obama's inauguration, unfortunately, was not the end of the United States' relationship with the MEK.
"The U.S. government is, among other support measures, currently helping to relocate members of the MEK to a former American military base in Iraq," TNA's Newman reported. "It is also assisting the group to settle around the world as refugees in a controversial deal brokered with help from the new Iraqi regime and the United Nations."
In addition, writes Hersh, there is strong evidence to suggest that the MEK, with financing and training from Israel and intelligence from America, is responsible for the recent rash of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists as well as other attacks in Iran. Hersh: "An adviser to the special-operations community told me that the links between the United States and M.E.K. activities inside Iran had been long-standing. 'Everything being done inside Iran now is being done with surrogates,' he said."
In short, the U.S. and Israeli governments are, at the very least, using the MEK to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. It is quite possible, however, that the MEK is also being used to set the stage for — or even to effect — regime change.
In either case, the dangers to Iran's neighbors and to Americans are immense. U.S. intelligence believes Iran stopped working toward building nuclear bombs a decade ago and has not yet decided to resume. If Tehran obtains clear evidence that the Americans and the Israelis are trying to throw its nuclear program into disarray or — worse still — are trying to overthrow the regime, it may very well conclude it has nothing to lose and proceed toward making a bomb or launch retaliatory terrorist attacks against the United States or Israel.
But even if Iran chooses to keep its cool in the face of covert foreign aggression, the "freedom fighters" — as Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) referred to the MEK — the United States helps build up today may turn out to be the terrorists flying planes into our skyscrapers tomorrow. The Mujahedeen — remember, that's what the M in MEK stands for — that the U.S. trained and armed to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan later morphed into al-Qaeda. As for the current Mujahedeen on Uncle Sam's nice list, a senior Pentagon official told Hersh: "The M.E.K. was a total joke, and now it's a real network inside Iran. How did the M.E.K. get so much more efficient? Part of it is the training in Nevada. Part of it is logistical support in Kurdistan, and part of it is inside Iran. M.E.K. now has a capacity for efficient operations that it never had before."
How it chooses to use that capacity, especially if and when it has a falling out with Washington — "America and capitalism have historically been the organization's primary enemies," according to Newman — could prove once again, in the most horrific way possible, that foreign intervention is an exceedingly dangerous game.


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